The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 July 1936 — Page 1
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OK’FFNCASTLE. INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, .ILLY S,
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[E AT SEARS HOPS; RELIEF IS TOO LATE
[STERN FARM ( HOI’S A E ALREADY LOST AND Sli ATION IS GRAVE. DPLE AND STOCK DYING feat \V;iv«* Ui'K-as Second Mouth Of ■'.Nearly MM) Degrees Dally. Govenrment Sturts Action
BJICAGO. July 8 IIP' The great droui lit that already has became one (of the major catastrophes of Afltei ican history- JO rainless days ft 100-degree heat entered its seeipd month today with crops, liveand men dying in its grip It tOpr half the United States and t - ■ Troni Montana to the Carolinas •ndvrom northern Mississippi to beytftid the Canadian boundary, the Mpltii g sun burned the eountryCldeKto a desolation in which 200OMBaim families need immediate
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its of devastation by drought Insect plagues came from 27 In five of these crops are beyond hope. In the other ily rain in great quantities— lave the grains and cattle on hundreds of thousands of must depend for livelihood
the winter months.
the worst-stricken areas, ustldlly s, ,, 1 . |',l I ell. ,1 .ei.! enctyed Wheat and oats sown thi» ipting are brown, brittle stubble and Cot ii has withered and curled Pactv' 1 land has been seared into brown expanses of dry grass. The beat alone has taken 150 Mvee from prostration and drown-
ing die last five days.
dHlktlier forecasters predicted only dpless, scattered showers for at
laaatfthe next 24 hours.
^^^Jident Koosevelt denied perin Washington yesterday that th< re Is danger of a food shortago, gut price indices of the Bureau of Labor statistics showed that a •easAy airea.ty ia being felt in
hopp'ives’ pocketbooks.
HfcB draught area within the Uattgd States is a pear-shaped re« giOD reaching from tlie Rocky mountains to the Atlantic. Its J couiae lies in the traditionally bountiful grain regions of the
Northwest.
The drought lias struck hardest in the ffibakotas, eastern Montana, northeastern Wyoming, and parts of Minnesota. But scattered farm dis tricta in 22 other states have reported suffering from lack of rain and resultant plagues of grasshoppers crickets and chinch bugs. These 22 states, where rain if needed quickly to avoid damage which [may approach that of the northwest states, are Idaho Nebraska, Kansas. Okla homa, Iowa. Missouri, western Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, southern Kentucky, northern Tennessee northern Mississippi, central Michi gan, northern Indiana Ohio, New York, ' Virginia, West Virginia North .and South Carolina, and
Georgia.
The federal government, planning relief for destitute farmers
outlined an emergency region of 07
counties in the Dakotas. Montana
and Wyoming. Sigiiifirsntly. it announced that other counties would
be added from time to time.
I! V work will be concentrated In these counties. Fifty thousand k farmers, with nothing to do but pray for rain and pry at the parchytled soil in hopes of turning moist
earth to the roots of parched plants
were summoned to work on water conservation, rural road construcp tion, and well-digging projects They will be paid an average of $15 weekly, and may, by snowfall, have enough money to last them through
Ajjjtae winter.
President Roosevelt announced the government would aid livestock owners by helping them ship their ^Ijattle to more fertile grazdng land or by buying the cattle where nec-
essary.
Administrators of the federal soil conservation program relaxed regugfi lations to permit farmers to harvest soil-preset ving crops as emergency
feed.
Cash relief is planned for 204,000 fjl Impoverished families 170 000 later and 34,000 as soon as the program can be expanded. Farmers in the sweltering Middle pit#* West and South looked to the skies for their relief, and saw only disvt4 couraglng prospects. The U. S Weather Bureau at Chl- ^ cago, after a day of record temper- ® (Continued On Page T*ro)
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LAUD MEBU INK MANAS DROUGHT BREAKS OANADOD, Ariz., July 8 The wisdom of Beninie, the Navajo medicine man. was acclaimed today throughout the 15 000.000-acre reservation of the tribe. Their rain-prayres to the Great Spirit were followed by down-pours which drenched sections of the reservation and scattered showers over other parts of the parched area. The tribesmen spoke reverently of the age-old rain ritual, Najadaltinth. and the wisened medicine man who, perhaps alone of 50 000 Navajos, remembered it. Until last week, when Beninie revived it, the Najadaltinth had not been used for a generation. Strangely, the end of two days and nights of chanting and dancing came as splashes of rain started to fall on the painted dancers. Mercury Soars To I(W Decrees GREENCASTI.E SUFFERING FROM INTENSE HEAT WITH NO RELIEF PROMISED Putnam county citizens sweltered again today in one of the most intensive heat waves in the state’s history, and hardly any thermometer registered below the 100 mark and The Daily Banner thermometer went to an all time high at four o'clock Tuesday afternoon, when it reached 109 degrees. A half hour earlier it stood at 109 and at three o’clock stood at 106 The low mark for the night was 75, the same as for the night before. At nine o’clock this morning it was four degrees warmer than for the same hour Tuesday, when the mercury stood at 99 as against 95 yes terday. The sun's rays this week have beat unmercifully upon arid fields, curling and searing vegitation which has thus far survived the dry spell. Com, due to the intense heat, has )>egun to curl and flower and if the present continued heat and lack of rain fall continues another week, the crop may be damaged beyond help. Bloomfield was the hottest place in the state yesterday, with 111.5. Nearby towns, including Crawfordsville and Bloomington registered 106, Terre Haute 106 4; and Vincennes 107.
PLANS FOR CLUB CAMP COMPLETED
It’s “Harvest Time” for Pesky Grasshoppers b ’
New President Believed Chosen
TRUSTEES COMMITTEE MET IN CHICAGO TUESDAY AND NARROWED FIELD TO S The committee of 10, chosen frorr, the board of trustees of DePauw t< name a new president, met in Chieagt Tuesday afternoon, ami according t< reports, narrowed the field of candi dates to three men. Their names wen lot made public. The committee will hold anothei meeting in Indianapolis on July 27 at which time it is believed the field will be cleared and a candidate chos en, who will then be presented to th< entire board of ratification and elec tion.
TO FACE SLAYING CHARGES
BROOKVIDLE, Ind., July 8 ' UP — Heber L. Hicks. Cincinnati, O 38-year old former convict, was re turned here today to face charge. 1 in connection with the brutal slay ing of Harry Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain.
Campbell-Ogles Sell Elevator
MILLER GRAIN COMPANY OF BAINBHIDGK TAKES OVER BUSINESS
Announcement was made today by Walter S. Campbell that he and Gilbert Ogles had sold their south Greencastle elevator and grain business to the Miller Grain Company of Bainbridge. The new owners took aver the business at noon Wednesday. They will continue to operate the elevator. Mr. Campbell retains his implement business and will have his headquarters at the same elevator in south Greencastle.
TRI-COUNTY 4 H CLUB ENCAMPMENT TO BE HELD AT STATE PARK AUGUST 25T1I TO 29TH DATES
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More Thau 300 Club Members ExI>ected To Attend Camp At Mr- I Comiick’s Creek State Park
According to Guy Harris, county agent, and Wayne Branneman. club agent, the 1936 annual 4-H Club Camp for Clay Sullivan, and Putnam counties will be held at McCormick's Creek state park, August 25-29. The anonuncement came at the close of a recent meeting of extension workers and vocational teachers held at Brazil where the following officers were named: Eugene Akers of Purdue university was re-elerted Camp Director; L. C. Skelton, county agent of Sullivan county was chosen Camp Manager; and R. D. McHargue, county agent of Clay county was selected as Camp Secretary. Among the other camp officers are the following Putnam county 4-H Club leaders: Guy Harris will have charge of the Vesper programs and assist on the Commissary committee; Wayne Branneman was elected chairman of the Camp Fire Program committee; Charlotte Etter was appointed to, serve on the Commissary committee; Lucille McClain will assist with the Camp Fire programs; Olive Caywood was chosen Assistant Editor of the Camp paper; and C. B. Edmonson and Mary Berns will have charge of the Quarters and Sanitation. Representatives who investigated the possible camp sites report McCormick’s Creek to be one of the finest locations for a camp in the state. Recent improvements have been responsible for making it one of the most popular of Indiana state parks and 4-H Club members are very fortunate in being able to secure it for their annual outing The camp will accommodate about three hundred and seventy-five girls and boys. Although the program for camp has not been announced as yet. it is expected that an entirely new orogram will be put in effect which will be largely of a recreational nature. The Camp Director, in cooperation with Purdue university, has conducted a survey on club •amp programs and as a result is introducing a new type of program which should be of considerable interest to girls and boys. The definite nature of the program is expected to be announced early in August. It is very probable that some of the leading members of the Purdue university faculty will assist in the •xecution of the program. GOP PICNIC POSTPONED On account of the extreme heat ind drought In Putnam county, the tepublican Club picnic which was ‘o have been held Sunday. July 12 it Allendale, has been postponed indefinitely.
Latest lament of mldwestern farmers was the ravaging march of millions of grasshoppers which laid low huge fields of alfalfa and stripped corn fields which had promised the largest yield in years. Some conception of the destruction caused by the hoppers is given by the picture at top, taken near Wichita, Kas., after the ''black plague" had struck. This calamity followed on the heels of a»severe drouth which added to the farmers' plight.
Former Convict Returned Here
PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO ESCAPE CHARGE; PLACED UNDER $ 1,000 BOND John Petro, age 30, former state farm prisoner, was arraigned in Putnam circuit court before special judge J H. James Wednesday morning to face a charge of escaping from 'he Putnamville prison farm He entered a plea of not guilty to the ■barge and was placed under a $1,000 bond. He was returned to the custody if Sheriff Sutherlin. Petro was originally sentenced to the state farm from Hammond city court and served part of an imposed petit larceny tenn. The affidavit filed here charges Petro with escaping last Sunday. The allegedly escaped convict was captured by state police Monday on a farm one mile west of the Purdue University campus Traced to a barn, Petro held off three officers with a menacing pitcli fork before being overpowered by additional police. He was brought here Tuesday and placed in the Putnam county jail. Unless bond is made Petro will be forced to remain in the local Jail until court opens in September. The case cannot be heard during the summer court vacation.
Horse Show Dates Tentatively Set
FURTHER MEETING TO HE HELD FRIDAY KYKNING HERE Tentative dates of September 2426 were set at a meeting here Tuesday afternoon for the annual Putnam county horse show, which will he held in this city. A further meeting of all persons interested in horse show plans will he held in the office of the county agent Friday ni||lit at 8 o’clock The dates for the show will be finally approved at that time and othet plans will be made. Officers of the county horse show association have been elected and are as follows Gilbert Ogles, president; Robert Dills, vice-president and Ray Vaughn, secretary-treasur-er.
Benton Curtis Wei Lire Direetor
WENDELL SMITH WHO WAS FIRST NAMI D HAS RESIGNED EFFECTIVE AUGUST I Announcement was made today of
BIG TKU< K \\ HE< KI D ON PA YEMEN I I \ST OF MIA About midnight Tuesday the driv er of an R. A- M tiuek lost contro' of the vehicle just east of the Albin residence east of the city II struck the concrete bridge abutment and went off on the south side of the road. The driver escape I injury, but the truck and several tons of sewei tile were completely wrecked
’Dazed Woman Is Believed Better
MRS. PANSY ( \KKIUO. AGE BROUGHT HERE FROM GREEN!\STLE
The Linton Citizen Says:
After found wandering in a dazed condition in an old sugar camp 3 idles north of Greencastle, Mrs Pansy Carrico, 34 years old. was returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs John Padgett, in the Burris
Ora pel community near here
Although stdl somewhat dazed, Mrs Carrico today was reported to be recovering satisfactorily | this Mrs. Carrico was en route to the home of her parents near tills city when the car in which she was riding with tier son, I .eon, and his companion Frederick Furtaw from Detroit broke down. The two boys de-
EUGENE UGHT DIED SUDDENLY WEDNESDAY A. M.
WAN PREPARING FOR DAY’S MOHH AT NNIDEK HOME
WHEN STRICKEN
HEART ATTACK WAS < AUSE Hr. Light Had Been In Usual Health And Had Worked Almost Dully This Nil mane i Greencastle was greatly shocked early Wednesday morning when It became known that Eugene P Light hud died suddenly at the home of Mrs. L. D Snider on north Madison street, where he had gone to do some work He had taken some of his equipment to the second
floor when he was stricken with a heart attack He died before med-
ical aid could reach him.
STATE FAIR BOOSTER MEET IlFi.niNCITV
ONE Ol sl\ MEETINGS BEING HEED IN STATE TO BOOST 1936 ST VI E I AIK TOWNSEND ADDRESSES GROUP Board Members From Various Sections Oi State Tell Those Interested \lioat state Fair What the 1936 Indiana state fair will be and what past state fairs have been, were told to about 120 men and women who were the guest of the State Fair board at a dinner and meeting held in the Christian church Tuesday evening It was the largest of any meeting the board has ever held. The meeting was arranged by Guy T. Han is, Putnam county agent, cooperating with the Indiana State Fair Board Among the b ard members present were C. N Taylor, president, Booneville; Levi P Mo. re, Rochester; T N. Coleman, Purdue University; C. H. Beatty, state fair manager; Thomas Johnson, assistant publicity agent and others Mr. Taylor presided at the meeting, being introduced by County Agent,
Harris.
Among the guests were M Clifford Townsend, lieutenant governor an t Indiana commissioner of agriculture, in charge of the state fair He was late in arriving, but spoke briefly about nine o’clock. He told of the coming state fair and said Indiana should be proud of this institution as it is paying its way without state or other aid and is second of all state fairs Every effort is being made to make it the outstanding fair of the
nation.
The fair has grown by leaps and bounds dui mg the jiast fifteen years until today it stands second to Illinois among all fairs. Mr. Townsend and other speakers stressed wlial those in charge of the fair are trying to do They are making of it an educational institution j in oilier to help the citizens of the | stale This effort is also being quite | successful. Lust yem it probably was j the only fair of its kind operated at , a profit. A two reel movie of the 1936 fair i was shown, and the speakers all j stressed the educational value of the i fair. T. N. Coleman of Purdue, s^dd
tile registration of Wendell J Smith cided to hitch hike to Lmton to secure
as welfare director of Putnam county, effective tin first of August. The Welfare Board at its meeting Tuesday evening ejected Br uton Curtis to succeed Mi Smith. The latter will continue his teaching work at Fillmore, where he has been during the past ten years.
PAROLE AGENT IN (TTY; MADE INTERESTING REPORT
William Purdue, state parole agent, was in this city for a short time this week. While here he told Sheriff John Sutherlin thai within 2 1-2 days he had called on 93 men on parole from the state penal institutions at Michigan City and Pendleton and found only five without work Of the 88 working steadily there was none on federal relief projects of the WPA
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
Miss Gro.ce Burdette, north College Avenue, Is visiting Miss Ethel Chiisty, east of the city. E. B. Taylor was in Indianapolis cn business Four train loads of Indiana soldiers including Battery A passed through the city during the day enroute southwest for service on the Mexican border. Fred Jordan, a local boy, is a member of Battery A. Thirteen members of the class of 1904 of the Greencastie high school held a reunion at the College Inn The meeting was planned by Mrs Elmer Crawley, Mrs Alma Higert Helm, Mrs. George Huff and Edward Hamilton.
aid from Mrs. Carrico's parents and then go back to Greenenstle and return her here. After the young men left, Mrs Carrico n|i[>earcd dazed imd Sheriff John Sutherlin was notified. She was taken to the Putnam County hospital for treatment, later being released to members of her family who went to Greencastle to bring her to bet former home near this city. Mrs Carrico is the wife of Ed Carrico, both formerly of here, now of 2026 Elms street, Detroit. Today young Carrico and Furtaw stated that Mrs. Carvico apparently was in good condition when they left her at the farm home of Frank McBride on state road 4 3 near Greenrastle. THE HEAT CAUSED THIS! This morning while at the counter for breakfast, we heard this conversation: North wood resident I had a hard time getting to town, this morning. Greencastle resident How? NR Had to plow thlough the snow drifts. GcR. Were they bad this morning? NR "Were they bad"? The only way one could get through was by walking with a shovel. And the worst part of it was the noise a bob-sled made as he clattered past my home. And so far into the morning, we had to go to work. HEEL, Ml( II.. THAWED OUT MULL Mich July S Hundred de gree temperature roasted this little community in southern Livingston County yesterday. The hot weather lifted the mercury to a point 108 degrees above that of last January when Hell "froze over” in one of Michigan's coldest winters.
Mr Light was one of the best known lJusiness men in Greencastle Me was born and reared in Coium bus, Ind but had been a resident of city for nearly 40 years. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and the Odd Fellows lodge, having been a member of each for
many years.
Mr. Light is survived by tlie widow and one son. Amos who Is now in New York City, doing research chemical work and one sister. Mrs. George R Mill of Michi-
gan City.
The body was taken to the Rector Funeral Home and prepared for j burial, but the funeral arrangements were not completed today
Tourists Drive
the state fair educates I he leaders to be better in order that they may bo able to produce leaders In all lines of agriculture He said • very community must have two kinds of fanners, one, the leader to develop breedei stock and the other to lake this breeder stock and put it into quantity production He said the stale fair produces these leaders Levi P. Moore who has been in charge of tlie publicity for tlie fair for the past fouiteen years tol l of the 1936 program He said $122 000 In premiums are being offered and toM if some of the tilings the people will get to see in September Sam Gard. a guest, and editor of the Breeders Gazette, told of how the state fair had educated Indiana producers to the point where today the champion poik comes fioni Indiana and it is the center of tlie most profitable production inaiket in Ameri-
During Thu Nijjhl
HOT WEATHER TOURISTS TO OF DAY TIME
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Greencastle people who have been j driving on tlie country pavements luring the past few nights in an ef- j fort to find a cool spot or some cool- [ ing airwaves, have had their attention called to the large number of cars with foreign licenses on them, which are on the highways at night Of course there are the usual number during the day, but the number at night baa been greatly increased because of the intense heat during 1 tlie day time. People who have been caught away from home by the heat j wave, are remaining in the sliade at j some hotel or camp site or any place that is cooler during tlie day and driving at night in order to make better time and to avoid the terrific heat that beats down on the concrete pavements, which have been reported too hot for barefoot boys to walk
over.
The Boy Scouts of Troop 43 will hold a meeting tonight at 7 o'clock at the Methodist church. Robert Etter, scoutmaster, will be in charge.
INDIANA KAIEKO \D M AKES MOA K FOR GREAT! K SAFETY
Officials of lln* Indiana Railroad have announced that effective immediately both east and west bound
AVOID HI.AT j interuiban cars will be undei orders
! to make safety stojis at four prefer-
ential stieets in Greeneastle
j The cars will stop foi Hanna, Ixicust. Bloomington an I Ailington streets Ixical drivers are urged to | participate in tlie diive for gieater safety by co-operating with the tracl tion company to pi event auto-inter-
ui'gun collisions.
® Today’s Weather Gi ® and O 0 Local Temperature O Generally fair to hi hi and Thursday except unsettle I ex’reme south; somewhat warmer extreme southwest Thursday.
Minimum 6 a. ni. 7 a. m.
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