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Has . lade Splendid pi During Seven Yearn At ^LibridBe High School hi, VV. Clevenger who has been and coacMng in the BainHigh School mr the past seven fesigned his position there tosubmitted his resignation to , Charlie Hendrich stating that not be interested in the pofor another year because he had ted a position as Athletic Direcmd head basketball coach at n Central High School, Indianajlr Clevenger has both his A. B. Master’s degrees from Indiana S ity. Since coming to Bain;e seven years ago he has taught different subjects in that school besides having been athedirector. Since having taken over coaching duties there, Bainbridge a-onSS'l of its basketball games over 80' f of its home games. Mr. Clevenger was recently offered principalship of the Darlington School which position he rein order to accept the Indianaposition. Warren Cental is situin Irvington and is rated as one the outstanding schools of the 'e. They are now constructing 1200.000 building with a $50,000 ^asium to house their 800 high school pupils. Of their 25 teachers 19 live their Master’s degrees which is Ihe highest percentage of any high lehool in the state. Mr. Clevenger’s «iny friends in Putnam County wish ton great success in his new position. HEATHER VARIED The weather man has evidently been Buffering with a bad case of the jittera aa aeen by the erratic climatowidihons prevalent in this com•wity during the past 48 hours. Wednesday the thermometer soar8 to 100 degree mark although hin threatened during the day. Last light when most citizens retired it in hot and sultry and there were atitterings of thunder in the north«t Although no rain fell in Greencutle there was a decided drop in ittiperature during the night causing Italy covered sleepers surprise and Kroe diacomforture. Father Of Sk Killed By Bolt U|N AN,) ELEC TRICAL storms Reported in tarts or INDIANA
Legislator Second on Democratic Ticket
remonstrate TO TAX BOARD AGAINST BONDS
SEVENTY-FOCK citizens sign petition to block bond ISSCE
11 ItrilER HEARING TO RESULT
INDIANAPOLIS, June 18, (UP) — I * Ac *Millan. .'14, father of six tdren. was killed last night by a ' of lightning during an electrical
*orm,
Th< ‘ storm broke a heat grip which lJi n, ercury to 94 degrees, the N eat of the year, here yesterday. frop damages were reported and eral Persons were injured in Indi•ii last night as electrical stonns. 0 0 ''e , l in some sections by hail, e h drought of almost a week.
John Kelie
r, a farmer, was injured
HENRY F. SCHRICKER Pickets Fire On Strike Breakers SEND VOLLEY AFTER VOLLEY INTO TOOL PLANT AT KENT, OHIO KENT. O.. June 18. (UP) Sniping pickets, infuriated because 40 strike breakers crashed their lines and wounded seven of their number, today sent continuous volleys of bullets into the besieged Black and Decker Tool Company plant where strike breakers sought regfuge. Several hundred union machinists, striking because of wage difficulties, surrounded the plant on three sides and sent bullets crashing through windows whenever they saw anyone moving. The battle settled into a virtual siege. Workers from the nearby Twin GDach Co., ami the Lamson Session Co., hurried to join the picket
lines.
Police Chief S. C. West broadcast an appeal for ambulances from Akron and other nearby towns. Pickets at the main gate were taken by surprise as the two truckloads of strike breakers broke through their lines shortly after 6
a. ni.
The night picket shift had left for home a few minutes before. About 50 strikers and sympathizers strolled about near the main entrance. A heavy chain placed across the driveway during the night had been removed. The two mammoth trucks sped down Brady Lake road which runs in front of the plant and Into the drive. An armed guard leaped from the first van “If you boys want it, we’ll let you have it and we won’t use any scruples about doing it either." he shouted at the pickets. Two dozen more men piled from the trucks armed with shotguns and tear gas bombs. They swung the gates back. “Think we’re afraid, huh,” challenged a picket. “Come on boys, let’s take ’em.” Pickets pressed forward slowly. Their advance was halted by blasts from a dozen shotguns. Six fell to the grc\nd gasping and groaning. Forty strikebreakers rushed for the plant under cover of the teat gas smoke. They carried their injured with them. Four of the injured pickets were taken to a Ravenna hospital. Three others, blood streaming down their faces from the buckshot wounds, re-
ap-
^ hously when a barn in which he | fused to leave the picket lines. ^ working collapsed during a one- j Plant officials telephoned Sheriff "" nute storm near Seymour. Heavy ; James T. Flower at Akron and apan( l lightning accompanied pealed for aid. They said several
men were lying on the floor of the
plant critically wounded.
They asked that riot guns, rifles ami ammunition be sent into the
plant. A
told them to appeal
“le “blow.”
The Rev. R. g Wilson, pastor of ^ Central Christian church at SeyUf. was injured slightly when hick by a limb blown from a tree. ^ aliaaii. p ranklin and Logansport rp among other cities reporting
to crops by the hail.
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SUtte Tax Board Will Set Dale To Hear Signers of petition In
Further Objection
A remonstrance against the city’s $9.00n municipal bond issue, signed hy 74 citizens of Greencastle, was filed Thursday morning in the office | of W. A Cooper, county auditor, and I will be mailed immediately to the state hoard of tax commissioners, who will make an investigation into the necessity of the additional
propriation.
The board will set a date for hearing to he held here before a member of the board within Hfteen days after receipt of the remonstrance. ! that time the remonstrance will j be reviewed and the signers will be i given an opportunity to go further j into detail as to their reasons for ob- [ jecting to the bond issue. Following the hearing the tax board will rule finally on the necessity for the issue of bonds and either sustain or block the city’s action. Only one remonstrance was necessary for the bond issue to be brought further before the state tax board. The remonstrance filed today reads
as follows:
“To the representative of the state board of tax commissioners: “We the undersigned citizens of the city of Greencastle, Indiana, respectfully remonstrate against the issue of bonds to increase the bonded debt of the city of Greencastle, Indiana. that will increase the city taxes as we honestly feel that the present tax rate is high enough at present and further increase will place a burden upon the citizens that will be a burden upon the community and ie.,pectfully request that the increase of our city debt be denied by your honorable board.” Of the 74 names signed to the remonstrance approximately 50 were signatures of residents of the first
ward.
David Hostetler of Roachdale represented the board of tax commissioners here today in accepting the remonstrance.
POSTOFFICE ENDS BIG JOB The Greencastle postoffice has completed certification of all veterans' bonds received. It was learned today that there are still a few former soldiers who have not obtained their bonds but the major portion has been delivered and it is expected that the few remaining will soon be placed in veterans’ hands. Fred Porter, living near Portland Mills, has the distinction of being the first Putnam county veteran to have his bonds certified. Cecil Brown, city carrier, delivered the first bonds from this postofficc to Fred Pease, manager of the Indiana Loan Com-
pany.
The postoffice personnel started
work on their large order Monday, June 15, and have disposed of the
bonds efficiently and rapidly. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 6.000: holdovers 159: 5 to 10
cents higher; underweights steady: 160 to 225 lbs., $10,115 to $10 45: 225 to 260 lbs.. $10.00 to $10.!J5; 260 to liOO lbs., $9.70 to $10.00: H00 lbs. up. $9.25 to $9.70: 1H0 to 160 lbs.. $10.00 to $10.25; 100 to l.'SO lbs., $9.25 to
$9.75: packing sows $8.10 to $8.25. Cattle 700; calves 700; steers open-
ing steady, good and choice heifers fully steady; common and medium grades slow; cows slow and very steady; bulls unchanged; top steers ami heifers $8.00; bulk steers and
J Today’s Weather
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peaceful college town with only a ’ •
few factories on the outskirts.
^niners concentrated their fire on ' , , tampers cone _ I lower; sheep steady: spring lambs
$4.50
$8.50 to $9.00.
Sheep 800; lambs 50 cents or more
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^ e e r Il, l t y a fai t r t0 " ight and FHday: | tually without" fire protection. thnp ' S an< ^ flou ^ tonight: rising 1
t big wooden water tank on the factory roof. They sent a continuous fire at it and soon water began to leak down to the roof. Without the water tank, the factory will be vir-
niostly $11 down.
ture Friday afternoon.
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20 Years Ago IN GREENCA8TIJC
Gwinn Ensign and Jerome Welch
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motored to New Ross and visited Mr.
YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING SAN FRANCISCO. June 18, (UP)
-Albert Walter, Jr„ today led po-| and Mrs. George Ensign.
lice to the body of Miss Blanche Cou- | Mr. and Mrs Henry Runyan spent
sins tied to a bed post in her apart- the day in Gosport.
ment and calmly told how he killed j Miss Jane Farmer left for Boulder.
she resisted his ad- ; Colo , where she will spend the sum-
I mer.
after the ) Roy Hillis and Charles Zeis have
purchased Maxwell touring cars from
her because
vances.
The slaying occuned
couple had cocktails and dinner at
Miss Cousin’s apartment.
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LAST RITES HELD FOR TRAIN VICTIM Funeral services for Robert Eugene Thomas, who succumbed to injuries Tuesday morning at the county hospital which he suffered in the Monon freight wreck at Putnamville last Friday, were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock from the McCurry funeral home. The Rev. E. F. Singhurse was in charge. Interment was in Forest Hill cemetery. C. D. GOODMAN DIES I Word was received in Russellville Wednesday of the death of Claude Daniel Goodman, brother of Fred Goodman of Russellville. Mr. Goodman was superintendent of construction on the new National Guard! Armory at Darlington, and was 51 j years of age. The funeral will be held ! from the Goodman home in Wave- j land at ten o’clock Friday, with bur- ; ial in the Waveland cemetery. NEW DEALERS I TO CONTROL CONVENTION
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NATIONAL DEMOCRAT CONVENTION NEXT WEEK AT PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA. June 18. (UP) —New dealers head into their national convention next week in full control of the party, with dissatisfied Democrats either suppressed or busy or taking walks. All signs point to a brief, hard fight on whether the two-thirds rule shall be abolished, some wrangling in committee over a platform, and then harmony and good will among the
delegates.
Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia took his walk today, but in a tentative sort of way. A telegram cancelled the reservation he had made for an entire hotel floor during the convention. In Atlanta, he refused to say whether he would come to Philadelphia, but did say that he would support the party's nominee and its platform. Two months ago Talmadge was stumping across Veorgia, threatening to fight the renomination of President Roosevelt on the convention floor. He even won the endorsement of the “grass roots” Democrats in Macon, Ga., for the presidential nomination, and was expected to march into Philadelphia with red suspenders snapping and breathe brimstone at the new dealers. A Georgia delegation pledged to President Roosevelt was certified last night by the state Democratic committee. Sen, Royal S. Copeland of New York already had started his walk. Former Gov. Joseph Ely of Massachusetts, friend and ally of Alfred E. Smith, is cold on the convention. Smith himself sits in his office in New York trying to decide whether to stay away or come down here and make his walk a dramatic, spectacular protest against the Roosevelt
policies.
Dixie’s delegates headed toward the convention city ready for a hard fight to retain the rule under which a cadidate must receive two-thirds of the 1.100 votes before the wins the nomination. The southerners feel that the rule gives them a louder voice in party affairs because they can block any nomination distasteful
to them.
Postmaster General James A. Earley wants to iibolish the two-thirds rule, believing such action will prevent recurrences of the Madison Square battle when more than 100 ballots were taken before Democrats could get a candidate. In a flying trip through the city yesterday he said the issue undoubtedly would go to the convention floor and that there was much sentiment in favor
of retaining the rule.
Once that issue is settled and the platform is adopted, the convention i will settle back to the business of re- | nominating Mr. Roosevelt and Vice i President John N. Garner. Both will j be put across on the first ballot, and the high point of the convention will | oome Saturday night when the presi- | dent steps under the floodlights at j Franklin Field to deliver his acceptance speech an address that will
pitch
campaign against the Landon-Knox
ticket.
The advance guard of the new dealers professed to be unworried over threats of Father Charles E. Coughlin, Dr. Francis E. Townsend and the Rev. Gerald L. K Smith to form a third party. They said they considered such a coalition to be impossible because all of the persons involved are individualists and are un-
Where News Will Flash to World
U.S. HOSPITAL . PARALYZED BY FRENCH STRIKE
AMERICAN COLONY AT PARIS MOBILIZES TO ASSIST DOCTORS, NURSES
From this telegraph headquarters in the basement of the huge Philadelphia auditorium which will house the Democratic national convention will flash millions of words relating to the world event* of the big political show.
willing to sacrifice their own ideas for a united attack on the old-line
parties.
Democratic platform makers, headed by Sen. Robert F. Wagner of New York, labored in Washington and probably will bring to Philadelphia a finished product, bearing the "o. k.” stamp of Mr. Roosevelt. MRS. HUNTER PASSES AWAY AT FILLMORE WIDOW OF JOHN W. HUNTER WAS WIDELY KNOWN IN EAST PUTNAM
FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY Mrs. Hunter Had Iteen Seriously III For Some Time. Leaves Three Sons Mrs. Elizabeth Hunter, widow of John W. Hunter, passed away at her home in Fillmore Wednesday evening, at the age of 73 years. Mrs. Hunter had been seriously ill for some time. She was widely known in Marion township as well as much of the eastern section of the county. Deceased is survived by three sons, James C. Hunter, Amos H. Hunter and Maynard Hunter two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Oliver and Mrs. Louie Sinclair, both of Fillmore and one brother. John B. Smythe, also of Fill-
more.
The funeral services will lie held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from the Fillmore Methodist church of which Mrs. Hunter had been a faithful member for the past fifty-five years. The services will be conducted by Rev. Wilbur Day and Rev. Edmpnd Warne, with burial in the Fillmore cemetery. G. O. P. WOMEN MEET Republican women of the north third precinct held their second meetj ing Wednesday night. The president, Mrs. Ross Tustison, presided at a short business session. It is planned to have a picnic for the July meeting which will be held July 15, the place to be announced later. Albert Williams discussed the new Republican platform in a most interesting way. A number cf guests from outside the precinct attended the meeting. MAXIM GORKI DIES LONDON. June 18, (UP) - The Moscow Exchange Telegraph correspondent reported Maxim Gorki, famous Russian writer and dramatist, ilied today.
VISITS PURDUE
LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 18. (UP) An inspection tour of Purdue university’s housing researcii project and an address before the science and
the tune for the Democratic j leadership institute featured the visit
of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the preisdent, to the university
yesterday.
More than 6,000 persons filled the armory to hear the first lady of the land discuss the problems of housing in America and urge the women of the nation to “learn all they can about living conditions and work to
Grasshoppers Take Midwest
SEVERAL STATES < OMBATTING WORST PLAGUE IN PAST FEW YEARS DES MOINES. Iowa, June 18. The worst grasshopper infestation since the “plague” of 1931 and 1932 threatens midwestem crops, an agricultural survey disclosed today. With newly-hatched ’hoppers already swarming over grain fields in sections of Iowa, Nebraska Kansas.
Oklahoma,
STRIKERS REFUSE TO MOVE French Government Declines To Order Police To Intervene In Hospital Crisis. PARIS, June 18 (UP) The American colony mobilized today to help tired doctors and nurses, swabbing floors and stoking furnaces in the American hospital, after the French j foreign office refused a request of I U. S Ambassador Jesse Isidor Straus that the government force the eva- \ cuation of striking employes barricaded in the hospital laundry. Refusing Straus’ request that the government expel strikers from the hospital tne foreign office said it could not interfere in the strike and could not issue orders to the police. Meanwhile a strike was threatened at the British hospital where workers threatened to walk out if their demands were refused. The ministry of labor offered to conduct negotiations with the hospital strikers, hoping to compiomisc. The strike spread to swank Paris dress shops. Gabrielle Chanel, one of the city’s most famous dress makers, announced she was closing her doors voluntarily rather than meet union demands. Strikers prevented delivery of her finished dresses, one of which represented a 500.000 francs order for a Greek woman. When Chanel announced she was closing. Lillian Gish. American actress, was trying on gowns. A union organizer entered the a hop and Miss Gish was forced to break off her
shopping.
The hospital board appealed to the American colony to help maintain
Missouri and Montana. I ho8 P llal ^rvices and succor 25 paspotted infestations were reported ticnts 1" an'* 60 others who
may be transferred to other institu-
tions.
The strike of 100 workers, 60 of whom are occupying parts of the hospital, forced the hospital to refuse new patients. Theodore Rousseau, president of the American club, appealed for volunteers at a luncheon. At once the American Legion, the American Women’s club, the Junior Guild, church groups, and students met to draft plans and divide emergency hospital work. Assistance in Straus’ efforts to relieve the situation at the hospital was offered by M. Salengro, minister of
the interior.
He left an important cabinet meeting and ordered labor leaders to proceed to Neuilly immediately and attempt to terminate the stiike. Among the Americans turning to unaccustomed tasks to keep the institution going were Dr. Edmond L». I Gros. head of the medical staff. He was aide* I by Doctors Edward I Hartmann. A W Collinson, Law- ’ rence D. Fuller, and the famous | French physicians, Thierrc de Martel
and J. M. Le Mee
I Dr. J. L. McF.lroy is manager of I the hospital Miss Perry Handley directs the nurses who volunteered to stoke the fires to assure sterillza-
also in parts of Illinois. Wisconsin and Colorado. Recalling the devastation to corn ami small grain by the insect hordes four years ago, H. C. Aaberg, assistant Iowa secretary of agriculture, asked that state’s congressmen join other midwestern legislators in demanding a $2,500,000 federal appropriation. Nebraska lias also besought
assistance.
Aaberg proposed the funds be used over a two year period to pro- , vide farmers with poison bran mash. It is spread over the fields to kill the pests and is the only effective control measure, according to entomo-
logists.
Iowa’s supply of mash, purchased
with funds from a previous appropriation, is exhausted, and authorities estimated from 50 to 75 carloads would be needed this year to control ihe swarms spreading over the south
western section of the state. fn other infested areas the threat
was equally serious. O S Bare, University of Nebraska entomologist. predicted Nebraska was in for a disastrous season unless control measures were quickly adopted. He added that ’hoppers were reported
”hy the millions” over the state.
The infestation extended over the: eastern two-thirds of Kansas with I
early crops and alfalfa suffering tion an,1 hrHt Dr ’ Morri8 B « a n^crs from the ’hoppers voracious appe-! is thc hospital’s resident physmian. tiles. Chinch bugs also were causing i damage to small grain and moving I , » ATKS SKT into thc corn fields in the east ami The annual P icnlc an<l homecoming couth-central counties. i at Cloverdalo will bo held July 30-31 7n Oklahoma the ’hoppers were > n,t Au R ust l ' il waa announced tosweeping over pastures, grain Hor-''' la y PIa »w f<» this affair are already 1 nums, corn, alfalfa and some cotton, underway and a large crowd of forSome damaged alfalfa fields, eaten ,ner Cloverdale ami south Putnam here, have been plowed up. I county residents are expected to reA. J. Surratt. Illinois agricultural turn for the occasion
statistician, said thc infestation was VTUTIMS ARE RELATIVES GOREVILLE, 111.. June 18, (UP) Thomas Kelly, engineer on a fast C. & E. I. passenger train, dropped swiftly from his cal) today and ran
WARSAW. Ind., June 18. (UP) ' ,0 examine the tangled wreckage of Swanns of grasshoppers cut swaths an automobile caught on his train, through fields of eorn and alfalfa in A child was dead and a man lay north central Indiana today, presag-j ncal ’h.V writhing in agony, ing what farmers feared would be Kelly paled and stooped to give the worst insect plague this section | what aid he could. Ihe injured man, has seen in years , Cheltsey Kelly. 39. was his brother. Thousands of dollars’ damage al- anf * *hc dead child, Melba Kelly. 14, ready had been done and I lie greedy his niece.
more widespread than for several years in parts of that state. Missouri and Wisconsin also have encountered the crop destroyers in quantity.
’hoppers grew steadly in numbers.
AGREEMENT SOUGHT
WASHINGTON. June IS, (UP) Senate and house conferees sought today to cement a tentative agreement on the new deal's corporation tax bill and to speed congress to ad-
ORGANS REVERSED VINCENNES. Ind.. June 18 <UP> Martha Davis 17, of Bicknell, today ! was recovering from an operation performed after surgeons operating for appendicitis found her vital organs were on the wrong side of her body. Her heart was on the right side, her appendix on the left and
make the mation's housing something | jourmnent before next week’s Demo- other organs were in opposite post-
of which we may all be proud.”
cratic national convention.
tions.