The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 May 1936 — Page 1

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ERSITY l \KDS MADE ON THURSDAY

... v STI'DENTS honored R E(0( , M t, ON chapel exercises aKS HII>S, cups given rwiKHstlP Student-* In Group vins Awards From Vari. ous Honoraries

East

Seminary Univcrsi-

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nored in UePauw

ignition chapel service held in Mcharry hall, when awarded the Association of Students scholarship. “The ant is given annually to the who best deserves it,” ret Strickler. Detroit. Mich., i the time of presentation, all Booty. Greencastle. was of the DcPauw junior men to Blue Key in the chapel, men named to Blue Key. nalervice honorary, are Kennit Sioux City. Iowa; Owen Bethel. Ohio; Loyd Easton. Ill : Paul Freeland. Inis; Donald Vivian. NewJohn Hillis, Chicago, 111.; Johnson. Hammond; Robert Anderson, and Howard

Ft. Wayne.

Turner, Economy, sr-nior stuwas awarded the Walker cup. goes to the senior man who -* the most to further the •f DePauw. Turner has been in co-operative work on the. and recently was cited for on the socialized medical adopted at his home town. The was made by class president.

Wallace.

Theta Sigma Phi ct^ award e outstanding senior woman presented to Virgin**. Fowler, fort, daughter of Max Fowler, ■-er of die Frankfort Times, award was made by Mary Martin, president of the ry the past year. DePauw YWCA board proI the first scholarship from body when . President Ixmisc Dayton. Ohio, gave the J?.’ 1 to Helen Phillips. Beverly, Lenore Williams. Auburn, given the senior ring by MargaStrickler, While Louise Lindlcy, ille, HI., received the junior iliiam Kinnally, Gary senior, recipient of the Sigma Delta cup award for athletic and 'Stic prowess. This award was by Ralph Ulrich. Logansport. ent of the fraternity. Men's association received the Alpha Sigma scholarship trophy.

furniture PLANT BURNS Warsaw, in*i A May 15 iup« — The factory building of' the Mayfair Furniture Company was destroyed by fire early today. Damage will not exceed $10,000 officials said. Ralph Garber, a volunteer fireman, suffered an electric shock when he stepped on a fallen electric wire. His condition was not serious. SOME PARTY! NEW YORK. May 15 'UP' F lice dropped their search for St mour Dekoven. prominent in Cl cago Bohemian circles, today 1 returned to his hotel after having been “missing” for 2i hours. He had been on a party with friends, he explained, and had spent Wednesday and Thursday with them.

Kiwiiiiiuas V; in Meet In Rra/.il TO INSTALL NEW KIWAMS CLUB IN THAT CIT%’ THIS EVENING

G KEEN CASTLE, INDIANA, EH 1 DAY, MAY 15,

1936.

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W PAYMASTER DROWNS LON. Panama, May 15—Lieut. M P Richards, paymaster of the S. Ranger, drowned yesterday a navy amphibian plane fell the Panama canal north of Carnot fhonias M. Neal and Storer Henry Melville were rescued * police launch. Melville carried WO in cash which was recovered delivered to the flagship Pcnn'Inia. b<K| y 1,1 Richards, whose home to San Diego. Cal., was rccova nd placed aboard a hospital

MASONIC NOTICE

DIS.tBMM ItEIMWMIK

TENEMENT BUILDING BURNS; FIFTEEN FAMILIES HOMELESS AS RESULT

VINCENNES. Ind.. May 15. (UP) — One person was killed and fifteen families were made homeless early totiay when a fire destroyed a twostory tenement building. George Weber, 65. bedfast from paralysis, died from suffocation, despite rescue efforts. A second-hand furniture store, cafe and meat market on the ground floor suffered heavy losses. Officials estimated the total damage at $10,000. Only a few of the families were able to save pieces of furniture. Most of the families were on relief and welfare agencies faced the task of finding new homes for the

victims.

Firemen fought for three hours to save the building which was used as a food store for soldiers during the Civil war. SETS NEW AIR MARK

tod meeting Temple Lodge No. * A M. Friday at 7:00 p. m. E.

degree

11 L H. Lrcciilpaf w m j Uapetown-Englahd

Amy Johnson Mollison

ish f Her. landed here at lr07 p. m. today. Mrs. Mollison. who left Cape-

Om . town Monday, flew to Croydon from i ^Re 'ension blanks may br Vienna on the last lap of her trip

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I CROYDON AIRDROME. London, 'May 15 i UP i- Establishing a new

H. Greenleaf. W. M. Capetown-Englahd flight record E. E. Caldwell, Secy. Amy Johnson Mollison. famous Brit-

rf N!SI(J\ BLANKS READY

WELL KNOW N RUSSELLVILLE WOMAN DIES

MISS BELL LEONARD PASSED A WAV LATE THURSDAY Nt-iHT

SCHOOL TEACHER

40 YEARS

DIVORCE si 11 FILED

Suit for divorce, charging cruel and inhuman treatment, was fied in Put 1 nam circuit court Thursday afternoon ' by Alliene Thompson, Greencastle j route two. against Herber t Thomp- j

son . I ' • The couple was separated for a Sit RDER CHARGES RETURNED short while in October 19J5. but re- i BY MARION COUNTY

FOUR INDICTED IN DEATH OF TRUCK DRIVER

Members of the Greencastle and Terre Haute Kiwanis clubs will go to Brasil this evening where they will assist in installing a new Kiwanis club in that city. The dinner meeting will be held at the Davis Hotel. Members of the local club who will attend are Marshall Abrams, L. H. Dirks, O. H, Smith, Ernest Stoner, H. B. Walls. Lee Williams, Kev. C. M. McClure. Rev. J. E. Porter. Roy Christy. W. L. Denman, Bernard Handy, John Emshaw. Paul Fay, Charles Gardner and Roy Abrams.

Idist Kites Will Be Held Sattirdny; Was Seriously III Only a Few Days Miss Bell Leonard, age 71 years, died at her home in Russellville, Thursday night at 10:15 o'clock. She had been in failing health for about two years but became seriously ill only a few days ago. She was the daughter of George and Margaret Leonard. Miss Leonard was a member of the Russellville Christian church and had i been a teacher in and near Russellville for forty years. She had an A. B. degree from Central Normal college, four years correspondence at Chatauqua course, special primary work at Winona Lake. Blakers college at Indianapolis. Chicago Normal, Columbia university at New York, and a four years Bible training course. She is survived by two brothers, James B. Leonard of Russellville and Fred Leonard of College Corner, O.; and three sisters, Miss Lucy Leonard, with whom she made her home, Mrs. Gilbert Jones of Fulton, Mo, and Mrs, Margaret Fink of New York City. Funeral services will be hold Saturday afternoon at Russellville. Burial will be in the Hebron cemetery.

united to live together until May 9, at which they they separated !

and have not lived together since. j WERE

The plaintiff seeks a decree of absolute divorce and asks custody of two children, Leona May, age 11. and

Herbert, Jr., age G.

R. H. Newgent is the attorney for the plaintiff and Wilbur S. Donner represents the defendant.

VIENNA, May 15 <GP' Chancellor Kurt Schuaachnigg. whoa* bloodless coup d'etat ousted Prince Ernst Von Starhemberg, Fascist leader, from co-control of the Austrian government, today began disarming the Heimwehr to avert civil war.

Will Test Gross Income Tax Livv

GRAND .11 RY

TROUBLE HERE

Group Involved In Assault and Battery Cases In Putnam

Circuit Court

MARRIAGE 1JCKNME Charles A. Randall, Cloverdale, route one, mechanja, and Goldie NutherNn. ru-elavtllvr

Vincennes Scene Of Fatal Blaze

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MICHIGAN CITY GROCER SEEKS COURT DECISION ON CONSTITUTIONALITY MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. May 15, (UP) A test of Indiana’s gross in come tax law today was expected to result from a levy assessed against Clem Tomchak, grocer, for failing to pay $3X0 in taxes for 1935. Tomchak instituted court action to test constitutionulity of the measure. Deputy Sheriff James Powers seized the merchant’s car in executing the levy from the state gross income tax office.

Youth Executed In Gas Chamber

1 YEAR OLD ARIZONA SLAVER MAINTAINS INNOCENCE TO THE LAST ARIZONA STATE PRISON, Florence, Ariz., May 15, (UP) Jack Sullivan, illiterate, 23 year old youth, died at 5:01 a. m. (MST) today in Arizona's lethal gas chamber for the slaying of a railroad special agent

last year.

The curly-haired youth, in a final statement as he was led to the tiny, glass-fronted chamber, declared his innocence of charges that he had shot John Bradbury, Southern Pacific

railroad policeman,

"I didn’t get a fair trial,” be pro-

tested to Warden A. G. Walker.

The boy was dressed in shorts only. He had a cigar perched at a jaunty angle as he walked down the corridor

to the execution chamber.

RANSOM MONEY RE( OY EKED WASHINGTON, May 15, (UP) More than three-fourths of the $200.000 ransom paid for Hie safe return of kidnaped little Geo’ge Weyerhaeuser has been recovered for “ap

STTwh” ' waned propriate disposition'' by the federal

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@ « Guatemala Quits 1 ^ 101,11 of $5U74 - 47 has ,jt,rn re -

Today, w«,her » League Of Nations

L°cal Tempwature $ •

® ® @ ® ® ® ® $ GIVES REQUIRED TWO YEAR j agents ^tonight and Saturday; wanner) NOTICE TO- GENEVA ' *11.000

S' 1 excejit extreme northvwcst;!

finer

ORGANIZATION

Sol, tli Saturday.

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covered since the arrest of William Mahan in San Francisco a week ago, the federal bureau of investigation said. In Malian's possession

found $37,371.47. Another was foigid buried in a jar near Battle Mountain. Nev. » The bureau said this $14,000 was

made of up $50 and $100 bills obtained by Mahan in exchange for some of the actual ransom currency.

Previously $90,700 was recovered

OKEUON’S VOTE FRIDAY TO TEST TOWNSEND MEN

INTEREST CENTERS IN POLL FOR AGE PENMON PLAN; BORAH UNOPPOSED SALEM, Ore., May 15 iUP> There will be no doubt about Oregon's Presidential preferences in the primary election today. President Roosevelt and VicePresident Garner are unopposed on the Democratic ticket. Candidates for the 10 seats as delegates to the party's national convention in Philadelphia arc pledged to the administration. Sen. William E. Borah and William S. Bonnet, New York attorney, arc unopposed for President and Vice President on the Republican ballot, and the state’s 10 delegates to the convention in Cleveland will go instructed to vote for them on cl least the first ballot After that, the delegation is expected to switch to Sen Frederick Steiwer of Oregon, the convention’s keynote speaker, and support him if he shows any strength as a darkhorse candidate. Ralph E. Williams, dean of the Republican national committee, who sponsored Steiwer as keynoter, faces a fight for re-election against a younger Republican and a Townsend organizer. The voting strength of the thousands of adherents of the Townsend plan is unpredictable. Despite the congressional investigation and dissension among leaders, Oregon has remained a Townsend stronghold and membership is said to be increasing. Five of the 12 Republican congressional candidates and four of the 12 Democrats openly espouse the plan. Only one opposes it outright, and even he lists old age pension legislation as one of his aims. Sen. Charles L McNary. minority leader, with a record of 20 years continuous service, faces his first real battle for re-nomination. Sam H. Brown, farmer, and Theodore G. Nelson, realtor, both of McNary’s own home county, oppose him for the Republican nomination. Roth men are Townsenditcs. Brown is a former state senator and unsuccessful candidate for governor. Nelson has never before figured in Oregon politics. Candidates for the Democratic nomination for senator arc John A Jeffrey, Portland and Willis Mahoney, fiery mayor of Klamath Falls, southern Oregon city. Botli have endorsed the pension plan. Rep. James W. Mott is unopposed for rc-nOmination in the state’s Is! congressional district. Three men icek Democratic approval: Byron G Carney, E W. Kirkpatrick and Cortis I). Stringer, all members of the state legislature last year for the first time. In the 2nd district, five men are on the Republican ticket.' The In cumbent. Rep Walter M. Pierce of birth control legislation fame, is a Penmrrat, opposed by Clinton P. Haight, editor and endorsed Townsendite. # Rep. Willlmn A. Kkwall incumbent. has two Republican opponent* in the 3rd e.nngressionsl district Two women and three men are on the Democratic ballot, onlv one advocating the Townsend scheme.

GENEVA, May 15, (UP)—Guatemala tnduy withdrew from the League of Nations. ° A telegram from the Guatemala

government to the league secretariat | near Salt Lake City after the arrest gave the requfred two yews notice of of Mahan’s accomplices, Harmon and resignation from the Geneva organ-1 Margaret Walcy, and $15,155 was

.. ° iiOnitl in tin uulnin

ization.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

An explanation for Guatemala's [ resignation will be sent by air mall I to Geneva, the telegram said.

fdbnd in an automobile abandoned by Mahan in Butte, Mont., last year. The money recovered since Mahan's arrest brings the total to $i*57,319.47.

Mr. and Mrs. Ford Lucas and Mr. anil Mrs. Roy Abrams motored to Indianapolis in the Lucas car. Mrs. S. C. Sayers was hostess to the Alpha Chi Alumnae club. Wabash defeated DePauw, 3 to 2, in a college baseball game on McKcen field.

INDIANAPOLIS. May 15, (UP) Four leaders of the Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ union local N.i. 136 were held on murder charges today in connection with the death of John Penny. Kroger Grocery Company truck driver, in March 1935. Harry F. Peats, 40, union secretary; Emmett Joseph Williams, 16 organizer; Gerald Haygood, 27. union collector and Victor Crickmorc arc

those held.

According to the grand jury indictment the men allegedly stopped Penny's truck in Hendricks county near the Mai ion county line, and hurled rocks against the cab. One struck the driver, inflicting a fatal skull fracture. Penny died in Methodist hospital here, making it necessary that indictments be returned in Marion county Herbert M. Spencer, Marion county prosecutor, said, Spencer intimated that there might be other developments in the case, “We arc not through by any means. There may he other persons

indicted."

“Indianapolis has been comparatively free of racketeering of this kind and wc are doing all in our power to stop it.’’ A second grand jury indictment charged Peats, Williams, Haygood. and a fourth person not yet arrested, with malicious trespass in connection with the stoning of Kroger grocery stores in October, 1934.

OXN AM CONGRATt I. VI ED The following congratulatory message was sent to D>. 3. Bromley Oxnam at the Methodist General conference in Columbus, Ohio, this morning: “The City of Greencastle joins with the University in congratulating you on your election as a Bishop. “May your .new work he crowned with joy and Happiness to yourself and with success and glory to the church. “Charles F. Zeis. “Mayor of Greencastle.” The faculty and students, following their chapel today, sent Dr. Oxnam the following message : “Students and faculty of DoPauw in convocation assembled express our sincere regret that DePauw will lose you. We congratulate the church on its wise selection of leadership. We know your service to Methodism will be an outstanding contribution.”

DEPAUW HEAD BECOMES NEW M. E. BISHOP

ELECTION OF DR. OXNAM LAST NIGHT M AS SURPRISE TO GREENCASTLE HAD WITHDRAWN HIS NAME Accorded Tremetidnu* Ovation At General Conference In Columbus, Ohio, Following Election The election of Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of DePauw university, to the College of Bishops by the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in session at Columbus. O., Thursday night, came as a distinct surprise to the many friends and associates of Dr. Oxnam in DePauw university and in Greencastle.

Glass Gatrn By ( )l) I. U. Slmlrnls

PLACED ON SPECIAI DIET PIIYSICI \NS AT STATE I NIVEKSITY

P.Y

Three of the four men Indicted by the Marion county grand jury, and the father of one, were involved in assault and battery cases in the Put nam circuit court, May 10, 1935. E. William Peats, father of Harry Peats, was fined $25 and costs when he entered a plea of guilty to assault and battery on Fred Rcntschler, truck driver. Haygood waived ar raignment and upon his plea of guilty to the same charge filed by Wesley Riley, was also fined $25 and costs The alleged trouble occurred ai Pleasant Gardens, on the Nations road, southwest of here. Solution Ixx)ins In Murder Case SUSPECT HELD IN FATAL SHOOTING OF INTERNAL REVENUE AGENT CHICAGO. May 15 'UP' A con fessed bootlegger in whose car wen ound heavy caliber rifle shells ami !0() gallons of illicit alcohol was be'ieved to have “cracked" under Fed ■ ral agents’ questioning today, pro viding a solution to the slaying o lohn It. Foster, revenue agent. E. C. Yellowley, head of the alco hoi ax unit in Chicago, told th United Press he expected a "com plcte solution of the shooting with in 24 hours." Foster was killed when he and s fellow agent, Guy Goodin, pursue a suspected runner near St. John Ind. Heavy rifle bullets fired from tin fleeing machine smashed throng 1 the automobile and Foster wa wounded fatally. James Jacobs. Indianapolis, unde intensive grilling since his arrest r Chicago Heights a few hours afte the shooting, readily admitted hi identity as an alcohol peddler bu was hazy in his explanation of tin rifle cartridges. They were put in his machine, hsaid, by a companion who so far ha escaped the Federal agents' net. Hi name is known to the agents, how evr. . TWO MISSING IN MINE PITTSBURGH. May 15 -UP’ Two men who, went into an abandoned coal mine near here to dig coal during the night were reported by their companion today to be missing for more than 20 hours. Edwin Miller. 35, Pittsburgh, who said he turned baek after going with the two a few yards Into the mine Identified them as Arthur Tenner 35, Pittsburgh, father of three children; and Robert Dyer, 36 Beck's Run Road, unmarried.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. May 15, (UP) Ninety members of the Delta Chi and Delta Theta fraternities at Indiana university were on a diet of nashod potatoes and cotton today as physicians sought to counteract the effects of ground glass which the itudcnts ate in hamburger sandwiches

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Dr. E P. Holland, university phy- l lician. said no serious illness had rcmlted from the mishap, although two if the students were f lightened

badly.

R was believed the glass inadvert’Ully was chipped off into the meat when u young grocery employe used milk bottle to push the beef into a meat grinder.

On Tuesday. Dr. Oxnam withdrew his name from the balloting, when it wan apparent that he would he (lected to the bishopric on the next ballot, the third, if he remained in the. race. The fact that he withdrew on Tuesday and was elected on the thirteenth ballot Thursday evening, was the surprising action to those here who were out of touch with th<’ rituaiion at Columbus. Dr Oxnam said informally that the reasons which caused him to withdraw after the second ballot had changed and that while he would not formally push his candidacy he would not refuse the election. This information spread like wildfire through the conference which had been in a deadlock for some time and the supporters of Dr. Oxnam placed him in the contest after the twelfth ballet in what mounte I to a clear effort to draft him to the Episcopacy and he revived a total of 401 votes and was ■hosrn the last bishop of the confer*

nee for this session.

Two Prison Bivak Convicls Caujrli!

MX ARE STILL AT LARGE IN •MOUNTAIN ARE \ OF OKLAHOMA McALESTER, Okla May 15. (UP) Two of the eight convicts who led i bloody break from state prison verc recaptured early today, soon ifter they had released their three Postages. The six fugitives had separated nto two bands, and were believed biding in the mountainous southe ist 'rn section. One of the hostages Tuck Cope, a ruard who was seized when the convict!* escaped Wednesday after killng another guard, was shot in the neck. The other hostages were unharmed. They were Victor Conn, another guard, and Wilburn Doak. a farmer. The convicts. Archie Herring am 1 Bill Anderson, serving terms foi -obbery, were taken from their cat in a remote road in the southeastern lection without a shot being fired iccording to reports to pi iron anth orities. The guards (vere found by officers who were searching the .southeastern section. They were- sitting by the *ide of the road where they had been waiting an hour for ai I. Doak w!i ■ released near Antlers. Prison authorities were nol ecilnir whether Conn and Cope would r' lun immediately to the prison. Two of the fugitives. Julius Bohan non and Claude Beaver were said U have separated frpm th*ii compan ions. A strong cordon of officevas thrown around McCurtuin l ounty where Bohannon lorm'sly lived

Dr. Oxnam was given a tremendous ovation by the conference as he was ’aeorted to the platform to join the ithers who had been elected on

earlier ballots.

Dr. Oxnam is one of the youngest men to ever be elected a bishop and Die fourth president of DePauw university to be thus honored. In thi last twenty-seven years. The others being Edwin Holt Hughes, Francis J. McConnell and George R. Grose. Following his election as a bishop, Dr. Oxnam announced that his resignation as president of DePauw resulted automatically, and it is presumed be will leave Greencastle soon after •.omniencement, June 15. In a telephone me sage Frirlay afternoon. Dr. Oxnam stated that he will submit his resignation to the board of trustees at the June mecl-

mg.

There has always been speculation is to who the next president will be, md much has been said about it since 'here was a strong possibility that Dr. Oxnam might be elected a bishop his year. The most mentioned name s that of Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of ieranton. Pa., who was thought a kelv candidate for the presidency at he time Dr. Oxnam was chosen. Dr. 'nine is no stranger on the campus •.•I he has lectured and spoken here many times. The name of Dr. Oxnam has been lentioned prominently and repeutedV in connection with the election of bishops by the conference, but until "liursday, it was understood here hat he would decline the election nd the action of his withdrawal 1'iv.sdsy was in line with this infori.ition. and the turn Thursday night vs:; a tremendous surprise tn evoryne here when I be flush came that I ad been chosen. During the rcoainder of the evening and Friday, cores of congratulatory telegrams md messages wae sent l >r. and Mrs. )xnam. D' O-aiam was (torn in Sonora, 'aid August it. 1H91 and was edui >t I m i lie hi'hon!s lhero, graduating

Fred Daugherty, secretary tn tin

warden, returned to the penitcdisi' bom tlie University of Southern Cali-

early today aftie joining officer:; the hunt near Antlers. INDIANAPOLIS I l\ I.S'lOf H Hogs 3,500. Holdovers I lb SI# "G to 10 Higher. 100-225 lbs 9 7.V9.8r, 225-260 lbs., 9.60 0.70 200 lb - 0.20-9.50. 130-160 lbs. 9.15 9 05 100 130 lbs., 8.40-8 90. Packing r.ttwt

mostly 8.00-8.75.

Cattle 200. Calves 500 Slaughter classes mostly steady. Top steer* 8.10 Other down to 7 on Heifer.7 00-7.75. Beef cows 5.00-5.65. Cut ter grades 3.75-4 75. Vealcrs steady good to choice P.00-9.50. Sheep 500. Market steady Top and hulk of clipped lambs 10.50 A very few native soring lambs 11.00 Slaughter ewes 3.75-4.00. Top 4.25.

"Mi a in tori. Ur studied abroad *n I has Had degrees from many coif • :“H and .adversities. He was mar*'d to Ruth Fisher, also of Los Anp ii'v. on August $9. 1911. They have three children, Robert, Philip and Ruth. IV. Oxmmi came to DePauw uni""isity as piraident from Boston university to 1925 and some outstanding •(■eomplishmeiits have taken place at the university during the short time he has been hero. The campus lias been almost completely changed during Iris presidency and because of his outstanding ability as a speaker, attention to him ajid lo DePauw university has been at‘ructed throughout the middle west. During the past few years. Asbury (Continued on Page Two)