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GREENGASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1936.

NO. 2-22

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persons' \ seriously injured frec-for> j « fi;:ht about lO iJO lay night 1 * ;e. grounds of a

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county hospital today.

yBioi'ding to Deputy Sheriff WilUam Ashworth the iiot started when Oorl Taylor, one armed south end boylal.’ushcd a carnival employee in

the ba' k with a razor.

Tile < losed for tin and employes were pulling preparing to move to a schedfetand in Illinois when the started. It wan said today

in group of about twenty local BtuHlongregated at the entrancto4th' grounds, iH'lieve<l infuriated over the loss of a sum of money by 4W)e lot their number. Jack Dotty. I^H^Wgi r of the show, attempted tc hhvcl them leave but they remained •i the gate, throwing gibes at the

onrntval employes.

HPpjf'n James Daniels, who works about the rides when the show is in progress, went near the entrance to drive a truck further into the grounds for loading, Taylor is said to have broken from the crowd at the gate and slashed Daniels across the

back with a razor.

According to a statement from Dotty,} the manager, attempting to prevent further injuries, caught tfn arm 0f Tayloi but could not prevent hia Arowing the razor over a nearby

fence.

Calruival employes then rushed the local men and the gang fighl Started stopped only on arrival of When officers arrived the scattered and no arfwere made. Daniels anti Tay>th very badly injured were to the Putnam county hos-

pltalpy ambulance.

Officers Ashworth and Oraham locate!} the razor used in the fraca* underneath a truck just outside thi

ul grounds. The weapon, showeral blood stains, is being held in the office of the sheriff.

Wwk of moving show equipment was for.tinned after the trouble war quieted and the carnival left town

early 1 this morning.

Although the fighting occurred outside the city limits, three local offidtaihssisted the sheriff and deputy in quieting the disturbance. Ta^lci, suffering from multiple was released from the hoste Friday morning and war ately placed in jail by Deputy h. Charges of vagrancy were lodged against him when h* was booked An assault and battery chbrgfttnny be filed later by Daniels who will be confined to the hospital

for several days.

Serious trouble of the nature o( last night’s fight can he easily avert cd by refusal to permit carnivals tc show in or near the city. Many persons have expressed the hope that thi trouble will go far toward putting ai end toi exhibits of such shown here

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'Prank ’ash of near Cloverdale wa« arraigneH in Putnam circuit court Friday morning on a petit larceny charge brought by Hoy Newgent state policeman. Th»Affidavit charges Cash with the theft Of five bushels of corn from William Query. Cash entered a plea of not guilty when arraigned this morning and war released under a $500 Ixmd. No defin Kl date was set.

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Albert Zautner Cl Because he “lost his head and became excited over fear of losing his job", Albert Zautner, below, night watchman at the Lincoln Storage Co., of Cleveland, shot and killed George Rutherford, top, his employer and a nationally known contractor Police said Zautner had apparently developed • fit of homicidal rage when upbraided for his conduct on the job and had turned his gun on Rutherford, later wounding another company official.

Mayor Ban^s; 10 Eniployos Fined ‘PAY OK GO TO JAIL" IS OKDEK OF JI DOE IN GRANTING DAMAGES HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 3 (UP> Clare William Hobart Dangs, militint editor-lawyer-Mayor of Huntington, and 10 employes of his utilitybaiting administration were fined $3,155 in Huntington circuit court today for their fight against the Northern Indiana Power Company. "Pay or go to jail," ruled special Judge Huber M. DeVoss, Decatur. The fines were assessed as damages for the power company against which he 46-year-old baldish mayor has waged a vigorous and ingenious bat:le for more than four years. In granting the damages, the court found Bangs and his ides guilty of contempt of court in violation of a rerinanent injunction prohibiting sale ■f electric'current generated by the ity's tiny municipal plant. Bangs spent 101 days in jail last lummer before posting $1,500 bond ind appealing to the state supreme •01111 a contempt conviction in the lame case. Three former city employees who lave resigned as result of quarrels with the stormy Mayor were exonerited of blame, as was the city gov•rnment itself. Those exonerated were Claude C. Jline, former city attorney who handled legal aspecLs of the fight during he first Ik months of Bangs' adminstration; James P. Adams, former mperintendent of the City water and light departments, and Earl Yost, 'ormer city engineer. The court ruled that Bangs, Saylor and Vernon, as members of the city board of works, and Hill, as superintendent of the light plant, "be held in jail until they and each of them cease generating electric current to ■ngage and attempt to engage the city of Huntington in domestic and commercial lighting." In finding them guilty of the contempt citation, the court held: "The evidence in the case shows conclusively violation of the court’s order and damage to the plaintiff." A hurried conference of the defendants and their counsel was called immediately after the ruling to discuss possibility of a new appeal to the state supreme court.

TWO AUTOS IN COLLISION AT INTERSECTION

$5,000 DAMAGE SIIT FILED EARLY TODAY BY PFTNAM M \N FRANK HATH V\V\Y INJURED Driver of Illinois Car Held In Local Jail on Charge of Reckless Driving A man was held in the Putnam | county jail today us a result of an j automobile accident at the junction of state roads 43 and 38, nine miles | north of Greeneastle, Thursday. Frank Hathaway of Fineastle was painfully cut and bruised when the auto he was driving was struck by I one owned and driven by John Hitter, i Georgetown, 111. The accident occurred just a few feet east of the intersection on road 36. it was learned from Sheriff John Sutherlin. Hathaway was approaching the intersection in a Model T. Ford when the automobile driven by Hitter with Murko Stiener, Georgetown, 111., a passenger, attempted to pass. Ritter’s machine struck the right rear end of Hathaway's auto and both cars overturned. The Fineastle car came to rest against the large “stop’’ sign erected east of the intersection. Ritter’s Ford was badly damaged and showed marks of sliding for some distance on the pavement. After state police investigated Hitter was brought to Greeneastle by the sheriff and placed m jail on a charge of reckless driving. A suit, asking $5 000 damages as a result of the collision, was filed in Putnam circuit court Friday morning | by Hathaway. The victim alleges In the complaint that he received injuries about the body and head that will have a permanent effect, upon his spine and brain. John Hitter and Murko Stiener are named as defendants in the ease. Charles McGaughey and M. J. Murphy are attorneys for the plain tiff.

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Indictment ol ilx lards at the State Training and Vi cultural school near Nashville, Tenn folloiwed a grand jury invcxtlgation into alleged brutalities suffered by youthful inmates. Witnesses told of 1 loggings with a brad-studded whip which was lashed se i offenders ns many as 95 tunes Members ei the grand jury are shown at right as they que 1 U n< 1 u yeral < i the young in n ites G N< wt Choate

left, is superintiMident of the school.

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SIAMESE TWINS DEAD MEDFORD, Mass. July 3 iDP’ The second Siamese twin died at Lawrence Memorial hospital today alter surgeons were forced to abandon plans for a severance operation to free her from her sister who succumbed 37 hours earlier. "I was unable to operate because the child failed to respond to special treatments given after she took a turn for the worse during the night," explained Dr. John B. Vernaglia, who delivered the twins late Wednesday and who was at the bedside when death came. Dr. Vernaglia said that the chances were 100 to 1 against the infant surviving and that even if she had lived, the chances were 1000 to 1 against her being normal. "She’s better off dead," he added. Rusuued Miner Dies 01 Injury DYNAMITE “HOME MADE" PITS, KOI RUE OF “BOOTLEGGED” COAL, AFTER TRAGEDY

A 12 / 'l I NOME, Alaska, July Nome is \t ti. I j. i m iiren j ° n, - v a o * i,: 'onic' 1 dw the

arctic circle, hut whites and n it ves plunged into Bering Sea yesterday and today to escape the |i> at an I the mosquitoes which followe I a week

of almost constant rain.

The mercury b niched 81 1 degrees above zero yesterday, hottest in the thirty years of weather re.-ords here, and the natives started turning their fur parkas inside out. In cold weather Eskimos wear the parkas with fur

icxt to their bodies.

Whites went hatless and rootless and many even worke.l shit tics. Luaj'ur Dulrjmlus \\ itiiuss Suiridu

SERMFES TO BE HELD EARLIER

DURING JI I Y AND

AUGUST

Beginning Sunday. July 5. and continuing through August, the Gobin Memorial church will advance church schol and woiship schedule in order to enable members to attend services during the cool part of the day. The church school will begin at 9:15 a. m. and last 45 minutes. The worship service will begin at 10 a. m. The new schedule will enable members to attend services before leaving town for homecoming*:; and reunions. Sunday services will be as follows: church school, 9:15 a. m., classes and teachers for all ages; morning worsiiip 10 o’clock. Rev. McClure will have for his sermon topic, “Fellow-

i ship With

SHAMOKIN, Ha., July 3. Enoch Klinsky, Jr., 23 years old, who was

trapped for twenty-two hours by a i amount. McKinney filed personal cx fall of rock in an abandoned coal j pentitures of S927

Christ ” The choir under

the direction of Mrs. Hen Riley will sing, “Now Our Morning Hymn As cendeth.’’ Miss Elaine Showaltor will play special oryan numbers and there will be a violin solo by John

Showaltor.

Epworth League 6 p. m. Leaguers Will meet at the i ’lurch and then go to Rosy Bower I r an outdoor meet ing with La Verne Riley in charge. The leaguers last Sunday held a retreat at Mi Corinick’8 Creek with more than forty in attendance. Choir rehe.ii il this evening in church sanctuary at 7 o’clock. Persons desiring to sing in the chi h during July and Au ust are invited to the rehearsal this evening. FILE EXPENSE REPORTS INDIANAPOLIS, July 3, (UP) - Campaign expenditure totaling $12.399 were listed today by E. Kiik Mc Kinney, deieali I candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination In a report fil' d with the county election bureau. The McKinney for Governor Club reported expenditures totaling $11,472 with receipts of the same

CASHIER ROBBED INDIANAPOLIS, July 3, (UP) — A neatly dressed bandit robbed the sashier of the fashionable Marott hotel of $429 early today.

working, died last night, twelve hours after his rescue. Internal injuries and a fractured vertebra caused his death, physicians said. Oxygen was administered late in the day and everyone had been barred from the hospital room except doctors and nurses. His rescue from a coal hole in North Mountain was a signal foi dynamiting of every “home-made mine” in the district, including the one from which he was taken. Klinsky, one of the hundreds of unhired workers selling fuel from make-shift holes, was brought to the surface of a 30-foot pit yesterday morning. Shouts went up from the crowd j that spent the night alxiut the hole, as the pitiful figure, swathed in blankets, crusted with black mud and strapped to a plank, was brought into the sunlight. LAN DON PLANS SPEECH ESTES PARK, Colo., July 3— Governor A If M. Landon worked with aids on his opening campaign blast at the new deal his speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, to be delivered in Topeka, July 23.

Raymond S. Springer. Republican nominee for "nvcrnor listed expenditures of $3,229 and contributions of the same amount. COMPROMISE FAILS CHICAGO, July 3, (UP) A lawyers' attempt at a compromise settlement of Carol Frink’s $100,000 alien at ion of affections suit against Helen Hayen of the stage and screen coL lapsed today and eager courtroom listeners breathed a sigh of relief and expectation as .Mr s Frink continued her story of Charles MacArthur’s tempestuous love life.

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WOMAN SUSPECT IN SHOOTING REPORTER FOUND BY AUTHORITIES CHICAGO, July 3, (UP) - Mrs. Ruth Freed, attractive 35-year old hi uiu tte. wanted for questioning in connection with the slaying of beautiful Annabelle Blake, was reported found today at the apartment of friends. The Chicago Times,said she would sin render to police as soon as the recovered from hysteria.

20 Years Ago IN GKEENCASTLE

Mrs Fred Good wine and son James visited friends in Plainfield. Robert Newgent returned home from Kentland where he visited several days. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hunt and children of Indianapolis are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Gautier. Raymond Cox Is reported ill of typhoid fever at his parents’ home in Limedale.

CZECHOSLOVAK N EWSPAPEKMAN SHOOTS SELF IN \SSEMBI.Y HALL AT GEN E\ \ GENEVA, July 3, (UP) Shouting "It is the last blow: this is the death >f the League of Nation';.'’ Stefan Lux, Czechoslovak journalist-photo-grapher, shot himself in the assembly hall today while deb ;al s wt i burying tlie Italo Ethiopian dispute Found in Lux's pocket a we . litters to King Edward VIII British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, the Manchester (En | Guardian, and Joseph A C. Avnol, league sec retary general. ’ He shouted Avenol’s name as he was carried to the hospital, a vert wound in his chest. “I did it as a gesture," he sobbed. The letters wire turn* I over to Averjol anil Belgian I’leinic* Paul Vi*i) Zorkin I president of the i.i ,‘m bly. Police said he him wiiDr) also to the Times of London. After J.ux was carried out the assembly continued to lit en to the English translation of a speech by Spanish Foreign Minister Augunto Ba reiu. He declared the league covenant does not need reforming but that a better manner of applying it should be found. Meanwhile Van Zeeland read the letters found in Lux’s pockets. He Informed the assembly that Lux’s act appeared to have no political sig nlficance. He then asked that the assembly continue Its work. < (>l I’l.E ROBBED WABASH, Ind., July 3, (UP) Two bandits who shot through the windshield to stop an automobile containing J D. Bryant It), ajel Mins Marguerite Kenkin, 19, bnui of Detroit, robbed the couple of $60 an I their car today ami left the young man at a lonely roadside suffering gunshot wounds. Bryant was brought to the hospital here suffering wounds in Ins abdomen hut physicians did not believe they were serious. The girl was unharmed. Bryant and Miss Renkin said they were enroute to Kentucky for an In dependence day celebration wher. two gunmen shot through the windshield of their car to stop them, entered the rear seat and forced Bryant to drive to a lonely road. After taking $45 from Bryant and $15 from the girl they stole the car. Bryant and Miss Renkin walked to a nearby farm home and were brought to the hospital here.

A woman resembling the suspect wife of Edward Freed, part owner of a night club, was reported by police to have fled in an automobile from the near north side apartment where M is Blake was shot to death yester-

day.

License number of the car was traced to Freed, who was reported ready to tnlk to police. Police believed Freed was one of the many men in Miss Blake’s life. She had entertained scores of men in her apartment and had accepted expensive gifts. The 31-year old blonde’s real name was Audryr- Valletta Schroeder. Her father is E. Perry Valletta, of the Illinois Steel Company at Gary, Ind Her great-grandfather was Col. Henry Vallette, pioneer Wheaton, Ilk, settler and civil wai officer. Colonel Vallette’r :Uster was the mother of the late Elbert H. Gary, head of the United States Steel Cor-

poration.

Police learned that shortly after Miss Blake reached her- apartment telephone and told the clerk, "Im j ilrot,” Mrs. Freed appeared at her husband's club and ripped several pictures of herself from the walk Miss Blake kept a diary replete with references to extra marital affairs. One “Eddie” was her favorite, the diary revealed. An entry on Jan.

23 read:

“Awakened at noon today alongside by Eddie. Was it sweet having him with me like that. I think he is one swell guy, and 1 wish he belonged

to me."

On Juno 4. she wrote that she had .pent her last dollar for beer,.anti called a friend to ask him for more

money.

Among her effects were pictures i of M"x Baer, former heavyweight champion and Harry Kichmun entertainer. They were inscribed “To Annahelle a grand fellow may we always he friends Max Baer” ■urd “To Annabelle my best al-

ways sincerely

man.”

CHICAGO, July 3 'UP) — Tho $100 000 000 drou'bt and pest plague held the great agricultural northwest in an unrelenting grip today as countv officials appealed desperately for additional Federal aid. and farmers spent their waking hours praying for

rain.

Scattered summer showers of the j k nd Hint irt norma) years pass un- | noticed became headline n'wn, but , were ineffectual. Thousands of farmers faced povi erty under the scorching mid summer ! nun and the added pestilence of ! Chinch bugs and Grasshoppers. I Only an occasional oasis of fertil- ! Ity spotted the huge agricultural area ; in the district bounded by the Ohio ! and Missouri rivers and forests of i northern Canada. Grain markets re-acted to the prosi poets ( f scarcity with booming prices. Reports that 100 000,000 bushels of spring wheat burned up in June sent I wheat futures up the full limit of five cents on American markets yesterj day. Winnipeg prices rose three

cents.

The scorched plains of the Dakotas and V/yoming Montana, and Iowa were in the heart of the drought district and hardest hit. "There is actual want on many farms," Mayor Eric Wallin of Steele, N. D . told the United Press. "The I farmers have no produce to sell. The I chickens aren’t laying The pigs and sheep look like gho sts they are so

thin.”

He said many fanners are penniless. and relief funds fir** exhausted. Livestock owners in the cattle regions appealed for Fe lend money to buy fee I. an 1 for reduction of railroad rates to ship fit r itarving cattle to greener fields Pastui eland was

I burned.

"Cattle are dying of thirst." William said. "Many farmers have ; shipped their cal tic hut they lost money on the deal, for the poor I beasts were so lean yen could count

their ribs at 10 pace !.”

Grain growers suffered from both I drought an I insect plagues. The drought was general Insect invasions were ecattered. In some districts farmers had to hide their woodenhandled implements to protect them from the grasshoppers Other fanners remarked grimly that the ’hoppers’ would starve to death if they

entered their districts

j Wallin said the ground in his section was hard, and "great cracks i trip you as you walk along.” Tho 1 wheat fields, he said, "look like a desert with the fence posts llirowm

If in for scenic effect "

In those districts, rain even today would be too late to save the crops. Tho grains are burned to a dry stubble, beyond resuscitation In Iowa however a general drenching ruin might help. At least it might drown out the Chinch bugs and

i Grasshoppers.

Fanners in Iowa re planted when the insects first destroyixl their fields. Some of thes<* crops now are a few Inches high and a heavy rain might i produce a small crop But potatoes, gardens, and small fruits have definitely failed for tha year, Mayor Roy Haney of Clenwood,

la., reported.

Pastures are dried up entirely, thr second cutting of Alfalfa is all dried up, and the oats ie nearly a total failure. Corn crops {tie badly stunt-

ed.”

The sudden d* aan I for poison to scatter over fields iu the path of in-

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Harry Rich- vai l* n K insect armies has exhausted

! thi' supply In most sections.

Police said names of men high in * * u ‘ ivk'ral government has orderpolitics, the theater, and business I r< * emergency employment of 40,000

farmers on non-agriculaural projects. Available supplies of arsenic and lead poison are promised the Insect-ravag-ed districts. Farmers who can use neither, pray for a great drenching rain, and watch weather reports which for two months have offered

only small showers.

were found in hundreds of letters in the beauty’s apartment. Jealously seemed the most likely motive for

her murder, officers declared. CHILD MAY LOSE SIGHT

LINTON, Ind , July 3, (UP)-Doc-tors feared today that two-year-old Helen Morrison may lose her sight as result of a hath with carbolic acid. The ehild found a large bottle of

acid on the lawn of her home and Putnam circuit court Friday morning believing the liquid to be water, she , br j am es Moore 1175 south College, ■’I lashed the acid on her face anJ against Mary Eliza Moore. Fred V. coated her body and arms with it. | Thomas is the plaintiff's attorney.

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Suit for divorce charging cruet ami inhuman tn itiii'Mt was tiled in