The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 May 1936 — Page 1

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THE DAILY BANNED “IT WAVES FOR ALL”

chairmen tRE ELECTED IN SATURDAY

| Hl |{ST OF JEKKEKSON ^v.vsHir CHOICE OF DEMOCRATS (X-EES RE-KI-ECTKU Officers Of Bofh I’ttrfit'n ^iid Completed OrKanizutioiiM iKor Fall Campaign ratic ami Republican i)renmitteemen and women of county met Saturday afterid elected county chairmen ■r officials for the fall politiipaiRTt. lemocrats, meeting in the law at the court house, elected irst, of Jefferson township, lan by one vote, 37 to 36, „.ier Morrison, county clerk, /st, a teacher in the Reelsjool the past winter, succeeds A Sigler, chairman for the years. Republicans met in the city rooms at the fire department Iciected Gilbert E. Ogles counIman by a unanimous vote. I Democratic county officials lare: vice-chairman, Mrs. Lillie Ln; secretary—J. L. . Hamillasurer- Chester Ruark, MarBiship. Republicans elected Mrs. Clara Is vice-chairman; Walter Cox; y, and R. P. Mullins, treas-

beror Is Said [To Be Siek Man

SELASSIE ON VERGE OF lEAKUOWN HI T KEEPS FIOHXOfO

ITSALEM, May 11, (UP) pr Haile Selassie is suffering a collapse, it was disclosed tolile hi souKht to win world aid feiit the absorption of his couni an Italian empire, itheless tne emperor continued R aud yesterday telephoned his Ir at Paris, Wolde Mariam, to the league council at Geneva iTend Ethiopia’s interests. (the afternoon he received a [of foreign newspaper corres|ts at tea. His secretary read lieh in the emperor’s name, a (nique which said that Haile le fled his country to save his I from extermination by Italian ■ gas ■■•'It Colson, American long in [Ababa as the emperor's chief r. arrived yesterday from Egypt He told the United that the only course for tho or to take was to retire from untry but to keep his claim to prone open by serving some country, interested in Ethioi a "nuisance value” and thus ding recognition of Italy’s

Nls WEEK’S WEATHER wers over west portion Monday '•i "ast portion Monday night lesday; showers again probable ] Friday. Cooler over west porilonday and over e.ast portion a.v. wanner Thursday; cooler at week Temperature will averP>ove normal. | Jl ITS COUNCIL TABLE Neva. May ~, (UP)—Baron eo Aloiai, chief Italian delegate. Tilt the League of Nations Hi table rather than sit with Mariam, Ethiopian delegate, council, despite Aloisi’s bolt, the Ethiopian, who is minister Ins. (cannot accept the presence of Wtes of the so-called Ethiopian Thment," Alois! said as he strode I the room. Today’s Weather <£■ and <*> Local Temperature @ Ottered thundershowers probable fcht and Tuesday; not much m trinperature.

HOOVER SEES -SO 1SSI Ks ” FOR THE FALL ( VWPAIUN CHICAGO. May 11 Former Presilent Herbert Hoover said Sunday he •mw “thirty issues” to be fought over in the presidential campaign this fall. He declined to name them, or to point out the leading one With customary reticence, he cut ihort interviewers who met him on ■lis arrival from California aboard the North Western’s Overland Limited. He is to leave for the east today. “There are thirty issues and you know how their relatives importance can change between now and November.” Mr. Hoover said The formar chief executive said he planned to spend his time here visiting personal friends, discussing the campaign with political advisers and working on the address he is scheduled to deliver at Philadelphia on Thursday.

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NO. 178

Mrs. Thad Jones Named Chief Usher

PUTNAM COUNTY REPUBLICAN VU E CHAIRWOMAN HONORED AT STATE CONVENTION Announcement has been made by Don Irwin. Republican state chairnan. of the appointment of Mrs. Thad Jones, vice chairwoman of the Putnam county Republican organization. as chief usher for the state convention to be held in the Manufacturer’s building at the state fair grounds in June.

DePauw Man May Be New Senator

FRANK SIIUTTS OF FLORIDA EXPECTED TO BE NAMED TO VACANCY IN U. S. SENATE.

Reports from Washington are to the effect that Frank B. Shulls, widely known publisher and lawyer of Miami, Florida will be named United States senator by Governor David Sholtz, to filf the vacancy caused by the recent death of Senator Trammell who died last Friday. Mr. Shutts a graduate of DePauw University with the class of 1892. is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and is quite well known in university circles. At one time recently he was slated to become a member of the Board of Trustees, but the plan went hay-wire because of some opposition. If named to the senate, Mr. Shutts will serve only the unexpired term.

1-H MEMBERS MAKE SHOWING AT ROUND-ll*

CONTESTANTS MADE GOOD SHOWING l\ \\\u \i. CLUB CONTESTS C APTURE TWO THIRD PEAC ES

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James Risk Of Koachdale And Mary Virginia Young Win Individual

Honors

Putnam county 4-H club members made an excellent showing in the! contests of the annual Purdue Ifni versity club round-up last Wednesday Thursday and Friday. Approximately 1800 club members from all over Indiana were in attendance at the meeting at Lafayette. James Risk. Truman Hays and Clifford Crosby of Roachdale. Putnam county representatives in the livestock judging contest, were awarded third place among teams representing 50 counties in the contest. Risk captured third individual honors from among 150 contestants. Mary Virginia Young, winner of third place in the baking contest, was named alternate in a baking team to represent Indiana in the national contest in December. Miss Young has been coached in baking projects by Miss McCutchan, home economies teacher in the Greencastle high school. Gerald Clodfelter of Clinton township made a very creditable showing in the leadership contest in which 21 outstanding junior leaders participated. The Putnam county youth was the youngest boy entered in the contest and was invited to compete again in 1937. Awards were made at the annual banquets held at the close of the round-up Friday night The Putnam county delegation, composed of 2t members and three chaperones, returned home late Friday night, h aving Lafayette following the banquets Wayne Branneman, assistant county club leader. Miss Marjorie McCutchan, Greencastle high school teacher, and Miss Olive Caywood, Bainbrhlge high school teacher, aceompaniecl the club members on the trip.

THREE W AY UOI.I.ISION Two trucks and a passenger car figured in a three-way auto crash at the cornel >1 Washington and College streets here Sntur lay night about 8 o’clock Mrs Kenneth Justice, driving north on College, attempted a left turn onto ' Washington street at a time when 1 two trucks, driven by Earl Lynch and Clyde Stanley, were both going east on Washington street near the inter- j section. Stanley failed to see Mrs. Justice make the turn and crashed into the left side of her machine. The j blow of the collision threw the Stan- ] ley truck into the path of the truck driven by Lynch and all three ma- | chines were damaged Damage to | Mrs. Justice’s car and Lynch's truck [ was confined to fenders hut the Stan- I ley truck was damaged more serious- J ly. None of the driven; was injured '

ACCIDENT \ I, DEATH TOLL 11 IN STATE

10 Arrested As Murder Sus(tertsj BRUTAL SLAYING OF C’HR AGO WOMAN IS PROBED BY POLICE CHICAGO. May 11. (UP) Police waited the arrival of Mrs Blanche Bloom from Attleboro, Mass , before scheduling an inquest today into the vicious slaying of her widowed sister. Mrs Lillian Guild, in the Y. W. C A

hotel.

They based their hopes for solution on: the stories of two dozen prison ers, the photograph of a still untden tjfied man. fingerprints on a plat iron found In Mrs Guild’s room, a few tufts of hair pried from the dead wo man's fingers. the bloodstained 1

Mrs. L F. Moore’s Fmirml Wnlnesdav WELL KNOWN RESIDENT OF NORTH MADISON STREET DIED MONDAY MORNING Mrs Catherine Ellen Moore, 60t north Madison street, died at the Putnam county hospital Monday morn ing at 1:30 o'clock, after a long illness. Mrs Moore was the widow of L. F. Moore, and is survived by one son, John E. Moore, a granddaughter, Mrs. Clifford Harr, Indianapolis; two sisters. Miss Rose Page and Mrs Charles W. Pfieffenherger, both of Greencastle. Mrs Moore was a Gold Star mother, her son. Corporal Harry R Moore, having been one of the first Putnam county young men to die. He was killed In action early in the World War in France Deceased was a lifelong member of the St Paul’s Catholic church, and was widely known in Greencastle. where she spent practically all her life The body was taken to the Rec tor funeral home, and friends may

call there.

The funeral servlro.q will be conducted from the St Paul's church at

mans fingers. ” . ,! (1 o’clock Wednesday morning Father brickbat used to crus er I Thomas McGrath will be in charge

a crude, long-bladed knife.

Police questioned 40 persons in ! their search for a clue to the identity and motives of the person who | apparently climbed a fire escape, leaped into Mrs. Guild’s room ami killed her Saturday morning. Sixteen I of them were released. One of the j ! first arrested was Nicholas Franzen,

i a hotel house man.

1 | 1 TUESDAY IS HOSPITAL DAI National Hospital Day will be ob-

Burial tery.

will be in Forest Hill ceme-

INDIANAPOEIS LIVESTCK li Hogs 7,000; holdovers 104. 160 lbs. up. 10 to 15 cents lower; light lights and pigs 25 cents lower; 160 to 225 lbs.. $9.55 to $9.65; 225 to 260 lbs . $9 40 to $9 50; 260 to 300 lbs. $9 20 to $0.30; 300 lbs. up. $8 90 to $9.10. 130 to 160 lbs . $9.00 to $9 50; 100 to

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peiraace. $10.50.

Ill TRAFFIC AM* I DEATHS FROM DROWNING ARE REPORTED INDIANAPOLIS, May 11 1 UP) Ideal weather conditions beckoned thousands of Hoosier motorists to the highways over the weekend and the heavy traffic caused accidents in which at least 10 persons were killed Four other Hoosior.s lost their lives by drowning. An early morning pleasure ride ended tragically for three Evansville youths Joan Haynes. 19. Miss Mary Lee Foster, 18; and Willard Haag, were killed when their automobile collided with a truck near Evansville Miss Nola Smith. 19. and Mrs Sylvia Austrcw, 29, driver of the truck, were injured Mrs. J. E. Laid law. 53. Bluffton, and Mrs. Homer Moutz, 55, Rock Creek township, ■ wen lulled when automobiles driven by their husbands collided three miles northwest of

Bluffton.

Mrs Roy Wagoner, 22. Lafayette, an expectant mother, was killed when when an ambulance in which she was enroute If. a hospital collided with an automobile. A post-mor-tem operation failed to save the child. Roy Wagner, husband of the victim, was injured critically. Four-year old Patty Lou Waggoner was injured fatally at Fort Wayne when she darted into the street in front of an automobile driven by Arthus H. Whomever, Indianapolis. Gerald Gloves. 19, drowned in St Mary’s river at Fort Wayne when he dived and apparently struck his head on a rock or log. Earlier. Charles Penrod, 13, drowned while wading In the same river The body of < ’layton Ganger. 50, was found floating in the hydraulic canal at Goshen. Deputy sheriffs searched for the body of Arnold Tay lor. who drowned near Washington. Melvin Havens 62, wealthy Shelby county farmei was killed and six others weie injured in a head-on eol lision of automobiles a mile north of

Carthage.

Henry Moore, ’.T, Colfax, died at a Lafayette hospital from injuries suffered last Monday in an automobile

collision.

Knights Templar Meel At Mum ir ANNT \L CONCLAVE OF GRAND UOMMANDARY ON \\ EDNENDAY Knights Templar of Boone, Mor- | gan. Putnam, Tipton and Howard counties are taking an active part in ' the plans for the eighty-second anj miftl conclave of the. Grand Com mandery of Indiana, which will be held for a one day session at Muncio, | Wednesday May 13. The occasion I will be marked by the usual colorful parade and the Muncie Star Knights arranged an attractive program of i entertainment for the visitors and I their ladies, Including luncheons, sightseeing trips, the annual banquet (Continued on Page Two)

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G-men rounded up the last of the notorious Karpi Barker gang of kidnapers and bank robbers when they staged an early morning raid on a Toledo, O., hideout, above, ami captured Harry Campbell and Sam Cokar Mrs. Genevieve Fosnaught, in ct, r> ident in the apartment ucro^o the hall from Campbell's hideout, w... onlv witm. 10

the raid.

MARRIAGE LICENSES lama V. Figg. Greencastle, press operator, and Hazel (' Tucker, also of Greencastle. Robert M Curtia. Guyiiion, Oklahoma. postal clerk, and Mildred M Hammond. Greencastle. Delmons Reed Murphy. Greencastle truck driver, and Katherine Irene Neely. Indianapolis. Leon M. Snyder. I’utnaniville teacher. and Anna Lorene Vaughn, also Putnainville tca< le 1

Local Bcslauranl Fnlrml By Thieves MOKE TH\N .yin IN < \sU u \s TAKEN I,ATE SUNDAY NIGHT Unknown thieves entered the Lin coin restaurant through a window late Sunday night and escaped with between $60 and $76 in cash without leaving any apparent clues as to their identity or numbers. Entrance was made through a window on Walnut street, probably known by the thieves to have h id a broken lock. The cash waa found in •1 box, which had been hidden by Glen Deem, manager of the restaurant. The money had been kept in the restaurant for the purpose of making '-liange during the last few minutes before closing biat. night. The theft was discovered about t .10 Monday morning when Deem arrived at the restaurant to open for Monday morning’s business. The window on the south side of the building, used by the thieves in gain ing enl ranee to the restaurant, waa standing open A light, had been burning in the front room of the establishment all night. The safe, con tain ing additional cash, was not din turbed. Manager Deem stated that the thief, or thieves, must have been in a hurry to escape with the cash, as several bills were found scattered 011 the sidewalk outside the window early Monday morning. Uominimisni Hit By Pojh* Pius

| COLUMBUS, O., May It The first | vote of the Methodist Episcopal gen1 etal conference for the election of lour new bishops was sealed and put in the hands of conference officers

Sunday.

Church leaders asserted that it j would prove, when counted tomorrow j no more than a nominating ballot. I Church spokesmen saw little likliI hood that the first votes would give any "candidate” the two-thirds vote necessary for election. Orion W. Fifer of Cincinnati, chairman of the committee on Episcopacy. which recommended the election of three white and one Negro bishops, said he believed the election might J require several days, j A separate election will be held for a missionary bishop to serve, in South i Africa, the others being name I to residences in the Unite I States. Sev1 en bishops of the church were otder- ’ ed retired Saturday. A pair of Methodist college presidents, Dr Daniel Marsh of Boston University and Dr. G. Bromley Ox- | nam of DePauw University at Greencastle, Ind, were among those frequently mentioned for election to the txiard of bishops. Liberals were supporting Dr. Lewis Oliver Hartman, editor of Zion's Herald in Boston and a former north Indiana lay leader. Dr Joseph M M. Gray, chancellor of the American University in Washington and former Detroit minister, was another likely

candidate.

Others were President Harry W. McPherson of Illinois \V leyun College at Bloomington, III . who in suppotted by the entire Illinois delegation. Dr. Harry E Wiolcver, Wash-

Rohhui was driving ,111 automobile mgton editor for the Methodist Pubwest on Sixteenth street which col- ijeations and a member of the cornicle I with a ear op-sat' d by William mission which drafted the Methodist Overton. Negro, .si 1113 Roach unification plan, and Dr. John Mastreet Overton was driving south on gee, Seattle, Wash., minister.

Harding street. Robbins suffered a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to the City Hospital. Mrs. Robbins was killed instantly.

Former hiliutm Womuii Is Killed

MRS. I (MS ROBBINS VICTIM OF \( TO < RASH IN S I A I E

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Mrs. I sits Robbins, age 31 years, formerly a resident of Roarhdale and Barnard, was killed in a collision of two automobiles Sunday in Indiana polls, hoi present home Her husband. Vei'lie Robbins, was critically in

pi rod.

Overton was anested on charge of having improper license plates and failure to have a driver’s license. Mr. and Mrs. Robbins came to Indianapolis recently from Roachdale, where Mrs. Robbins body has been taken for funeral service.s and burial She was a member of the Roachdale Christian Church .iuivivors of Mrs Robbins besides lie husband are eight

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MVS-. MEETING < U.I.ED IN SALON 1C A STREETS FOR TODAY ATHENS. May It 'UP' Strikingworkers of Saloniea ( 'lied a mass meeting in the streets of that city

children living In a Christian church today In defiance of an army threat home in Cleveland, <>. her mother, t° attack them with soldiers, tanks, Mrs John Davenport of Roachdale, airplanes, and warships, two hall broth* 1 1 1 Webb ol Hen The stril • rs trie 1 an iu<«essfully to rlrieks county and Walter Webb of occupy police stations. Colon and tin at whose A state ol ’ 1 the area home on Gale stieet she lived. Mrs H'i'l Uoops and warships were on the Robbins was a niece of W. M Suther- way to reinforce the Garrison.

Ten persons were wounded in a light between workers and police at Piraeus, the port of Athens, as disei'deia spread to the capital district. All workers in the Saloniea area were out. Workers at Larissa, in Thessaly, decided to walk out in

sympathy.

S’pke leaders at Baton tea ordered a mass meeting in Liberty square. Gen Nicholas Zeppos. commanding the Saloniea military district, aniiounced at once that If Hie order was obeyed he would attack the meeting

The twenty second annual Rotary with all forces at his command,

confiieiiee of the Twentieth district will lie held In I 1 f a yet te Tueaday and | Wednesday of this week The program as announced by District Gov-

Im of this city and laid a large mini tier ol relatives in Putnam county.

Liiliiyrllr To Be Hosi To Boiarv

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20 Years Ago IN OKEENrASTLE

Elmer Thomas, of Lawton. Okla., is the guest of relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen Jr. and Dr. and Mrs. W. M. McGaughey motored to Martinsville. Mrs. Lee Reeves was hostess to the Woman’s Bible Class of the College Avenue church.

|TEi:MEI> ‘TOMMON EM MV IN MEM8AGK TO HUNGARIAN PILGRIMS VATICAN CITY. May It. (UP) Pope Pius today attacked commun ism as a "common enemy” that "has already damaged family life.” Adressing Hungarian pilgrims escorted to the Vatican by Cardinal Seredi. primate of Hungary, the pontiff said: "A common enemy threatens everyone and everything today. It has already damaged family life ” TAKES OATH OF OFFICE MADRID. May 11. (UP)—Manuel Azana. four times premier of Spain, took the oath of office as president, of

ernor .1 Ralph Thompson is above the average and includes leaders in state and national life Col Willnd Chevalier. viie president of th M CrawHill Publishing Co., New York; Dr. Henry 11. Crane, Heranton. Pa . William W Emerson, Winnipeg. Canada. James E Green. N w York; Dr E C. Elliott. Purdue university, are among the spent-'r> Entertainment is being provided during the periods of recreation A special program Is available for all Rotsiy-Anns. The conference is bein'; hel l on the campus of Purdue. The Greencastle club will be rep resented officially by Frank Scboenman, delegate, and Jacob Ettel, alternate. Others who will attend from thin city are Mrs .Sehoeimian, Mrs. Ettel. C. H. Barnby, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Boston. J A Bam be: ger, Mr.

specify ng tanks, airplanes, and warships Strikers proceeded with their

plans.

Disorders at Saloniea began Friday among tobacco workers, striking f01 higher wages On Friday 123 prisons were wounded in clashes between strike! s and police. On Saturday, serious fighting occurred in the street* it was announced officially that eight were killed and right wounded. But reliable private reports have, the total as 15 killed and more than 60 wounded In a threa hour fight in which railway and street ear men joined the Tobacco workers against Gendarmes and reinforcing soldiers. Newspaper reports put the total as high as 38 kill-

ed snd 200 wounded.

Strikers occupied some churches and lang their bells to signal for a

massing of workers. LODGE NOTICE

Applegate Lodge No 155 F & A. M Fillmore, will confer the M. M.

jthe "panish republic In a simple hut [and Mra. Lois Arnold, Rex Thorlton,

I solemn ceremony before parliament Charles McGaughey a:v.l V. L. Ra- degree on two candidates Tuesday j at 3:35 p. m. today. | phael. ( night. May 12 at 8 oclock.