The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 July 1936 — Page 1

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PIFICATION KTV IS HKLD IR TOWNSEND

Denies Ix)ve Theft

)ATE FOR GOVERNOR DAKS BEFORE, J.AROK :ROWU AT 'MARION

LEADERS PRESENT tig

De.nocruU Join (irnnl Countn Honoring Party Standard Bea: er

ON. Ind., Ju'y 10 Adaption loosevelt "Good Neighbor’’ o the solution of public in Indiana, was advocated Clifford Townsend, Democratfor Governor, in retade here last night before kbreaking audience of Demo►m over the state who came fie Grant county jollification tification party at Matter

emocratic candidate for was honored by the preslarty leaders, state officia s by Gov. Paul V. McNutt, States Senator Sherman ,nd a number of Congresswas introduced by Alex f, Fifth District Demoirman, following addresses McNutt, Senator MinOmer S. Jackson, Demo-

te Chairman.

great President,” said Governor Townsend, our policy in international one of good neighbors, same policy which di-

in reeta MKi guides us at home in our solution : of the grave problems h,. created In a changing world, ruii "Good ®eighbors do not quarrel

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tibors do not kill each neighbors will aid othtlmes of distress. Good share their food. Good do not cheat each other ibors do not take advan-

family next door,

inly in the spirit of the tbor that we can permne any problem. If we we start back to the hate. It is so difficult to mountain heights. It is so

ip into the abyss.’’

to the political camTownsend said that critDemocratic state and nalinistration were offering sxcept to take over the begun by the present Jon and to wreck them, luhiican philosophy of and its attitude toward omen of the nation, he at aptly expressed in and for the common “Root, Hog, or die.’’ people of Indiana and Ion,” Mr. Townsend conitrusted the Democratic years ago with the responsibility of leadericed conditions bordering There was want and .every hand. There were Iking the streets seeking ^Work. The market places lancial centers were on Ine of bankruptcy. The the breadline for many had believed himself

very short.

'OUT ^H6rd in Indiana is onr

^hich needs no defense. The people

,t a

ng * now Changes that have come 0 f their own affairs. They know the

thst have come to the

Hlf*»and8 of our citizens who

the right to earn their and to support by labor ^families. Under Dcmo^dership, we submit, our more prosperous and

^^irtable. Hope has re* Ipnthe hopeless. In obeying

ids of the people, we * n day* of depression

OUT politic,-|| opponents fail. -i sjust* do in days of prosperity. What

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miril On I'fiite Tun I IE ESCAPE INJURY

icn and a small child leap-

Uf an automobile in which Iving, just before the car

he vns hit by a double header Pennsy •MWhfnr train at the Morgan cross, *»ll«east of Fillmore about 9:30

^hia morning

^ MMMS of the people could not be

btalned at the time of the narrow but they were said to be livagl on the Jesse Coffin farm near the

% L cene f the crash

» None of' the three passengers of he automobile was injured In the titr limp from the car but the machine! ontinued Into the path of the train -n.^nd was badly damaged in the col-

' -iaion.

'^ le could not be stopped be,il, l'® r * ^ reached Fillmore, a mile west.

Her desire to take her boy friend’s trip to Hollywood in hopes that he might crash the movies was given by police of Mineola. L. I., as the reason for the theft of $700 in theater tickets charged against pretty Loretta Rogers. above. She denied the theft and was held for trial.

Indiana Suffers From The Heat

ADDITIONAL DEATHS AND CROP DAMAGES BEING REPORTED DAILY OVER THE STATE

INDIANAPOLIS, July 10 (UP' Additional deaths ami crop damage today were attributed to a sizzling heat wave which has prostrated the state since July 4. Once again the mercury rose with the sun toward 100 degrees. Twenty deaths have been recorded in the state, excluding Marion ■ounty, during the record-breaking seven days of heat. Thirteen person* were drowned, six died from heat prostration, and one was killed by lightning. Accompanying the fatalities were reports of fires in rural areas, pavement explosions, death of livestock in the fields, and an ever-increasing amount of damage to crops.

KITES HELD FOR .MRS. LAFOK

Funeral services were held at Mt Olive church at Rockville Thursday afternoon for Mrs Adeline Cox I,aFoe 84. wife of Henry I^Foe, who died at her home south of Roachdale at noon Tuesday. Curia) was in the Mt. Olivet cemetery. Mrs. LaFoe is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Frank Haworth of Rockville, one son, Marshall Cottrell of near Roachdale, and one brother, Freeman Cox of Roachdale.

FORMER MAVOR DIES

INDIANAPOLIS, July 10 (UP)Thomas L. Sullivan, 89, former mayor of Indianapolis and the father of Reginald H. Sullivan, also a former city mayor, died last night at his iome here. He was mayor of the city two terms serving from 1890 to 1893. His son served from 1930 to 1935.

Col. Hay Hensel To Show Stunts

DARING HOLLYWOOD .STENT MAN IN EXHIBITION HERE SATFRDAY AT 4 P. „M.

Co). Ray Hensel, daring driver ind stunt man, who has thrilled hundreds of thousands of pepole hroughout the nation, will give an exhibition of his dare-devil stunts in the north side of the square here Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Col. Hensel has been exhibiting his safety driving and demonstra‘ion work in many Indiana cities ind has never yet failed to thrill his audiences by the sheer daring of his tricks. He will show here under the sponsorship of the L. & H Chevrolet Sales, and the time will he 4 o’clock, and the place will be the north side of the square. All are invited to see this dare-devil in action. Marshal Lawrence Graham said today that the block of west Frankin street north of the court house, will he clased to all traffic SaturJay until after the exhibition.

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FOOD PRICES MOVE UPWARD OVER NATION

DIES FOR TKII’l.i: BI RDER

GENERA!. s||\R|* I PTI KN IN COMMODITY PRICES LED BY FLOUR

I NITED PRESS MAKES SURVEY

Housewives, Grocers Contact) J Fi.tcen Pr ncipal Cities Of United States

KANSAS CITY Mo., July 10 <UP> The drought began to reach the pocket bock of the American housewife today. The increase in commodity prices at the corner grocery was

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Ju y 10 i UP' Delbert Green 28, died with four execullonens bullets in his heart today in the brick-walled yard at Utah state prison, paying for a triple slaying six years ago. Green was strapped to the chaii at 5:07 and shot to death at 5:10

a. m. MST.

Five civilian riflemen fired the fatal vo ley through liopholes cu' in a woo len door aero s Ih' 1 narrow yard from where Green, his head hooded in black and a paper target pinned over his heart, sat strapped

in a chair against a wall.

One of the five marksmen fire’ a blank cartridge. Which of thi five it was, together with identity of the volunteer marksmen who re ceived $25 each for their part in the

not gieat, but the threat of a sharp I execution, never will be known

upturn in the cost of table necessit-

ies is real and imminent.

Grocers in virtually all of 15 cities where a United Press survey was made today agreed that food prices are increasing, but they said the rise is seasonal and cannot bo laid to the drought. All warned, however, that tile full effect of the blight a blazing j

sun and seating wind is laying over farmers

the country will be noticed soon in

counter prices.

Already it is noted in the vegetable markets, where a scarcity of first grade produce is skyrocketing prices. Grocers of Birmingham, Ala., reported an acute shortage of corn, cabbage, beans, and tomatoes, and quoted prices for them 50 to 75 per cent above those of a year ago. Within 60 days, they said the increase may be

150 per cent.

In Abilene. Kan . prices for sugar, meats, potatoes, flour, butter, eggs have not increased greatly but vegetable quotations are "out of sight.” Contract buying by the big chains and organized independents explains wliy commodity prices have not advanced further, buyers say. They cite flour as an example. Despite the short prices where wheat crop and booming prices in the grain exchanges, flour prices were unchanged today from June 1 at Washington, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Cleveland, Boston, New Orleans, Des Moines, and Memphis. Flour was cheaper at Minneapolis, up a few cents at Kansas City. Portland, and Oklahoma City, and up 70 cents a barrel in New York City. All experts predicted increases, but there was no indication that retail bread prices were due for an immedi-

ate hike.

Ham and Bacon prices climbed. An interesting price variation was noted, with the Washington butcher getting 70 cents a pound for ham, a 10 cent increase, while in New York the price was just half that. In Boston a pound of ham cost 34 cents, but in Des Moines only 29 cents. The Chicago price, 54 cents, is a four cent hike over that of a month ago. Bacon prices were up in eight cities. Dallas topped the rise witli a 7 cent hike to 42 cents a pound. But in Boston the price was 35 cents, two cents less than on June 1. Round steak was mostly unchanged in price and lower in some places. Eggs and butter prices have spiraled upward and milk probably will follow unless rains restore pasture. Potatoes generally were cheaper today than six weeks ago, due to the new crop, hut it is short and a rise is anticipated. Sugar has shown an increase of a few cents on 10 pound lots it’s the canning season but grocers said there was no cause for a rise of sugar prices except in sympathy with n general trend. Briefly, this is how grocers believe the drought will affect kitchen bud-

gets.

Atlanta Drought prices in effect in 10 days, with a 10 to 15 percent increase to start the climb. Flour to lead the way. Chicago No increases yet but expect them noon. Denver Merely a seasonal upturn. Drought not responsible. Boston Effects of the drought won’t be felt in this section for another month. Memphis. Minneapolis, New Orleans No drought effect. Portland Hike in all prices anticipated. The Dun & Bradstreet food index went to $2.76 on July 7, a 10 cent rise from the preceding week and a new high since Jan. 7. The 10 cent gain was the greatest for a single week since April. 1933.

more than a handful of officials and tlie firing squad members them

selves.

2 Illinois l!;mk Rnmlils Killed

75.000 JOBS AI’TIIORI/ED

WASHINGTON, July 10 (UP) — A total of 75.000 WPA jobs already have been authorized in the drought areas, President Roosevelt said today.

IJEIM n SHERIFFS Ml KROIIND PAIR AFTER

$1.000 HOLDUP

DECATUR. 111., July 10 — Two men who robbed the Scott State Bank at nearby Bethany of $1000 yesterday afternoon were shot to death by officers last night on a dairy farm five miles southeast of

Decatur.

They engaged a force of eight men led by Sheriff Emery Thronell for fifteen minutes before rifle bullets and shotgun slugs ended theh

resistance.

G. \V. Hinds, a Decatur policeman. was shot in the jaw during the fight, but not seriously injured Identity of the robbers was not

established immediately.

One of the bandits was dead when officers reached him. The other was still breathing), with a bullet in his head. He died in St Mary’s Hospital at Decatur, where he was taken with Officer Hinds. After cleaning out the cash drawer of the bank and kidnaping Hugh Scott, the cashier, the robbers careened out of Bethany in a stolen car. A short time later they were cornered in a corn field by a posse of farmers and deputy sheriffs.

STATE POSTAL MEETING SET

LAFAYETTE, hid., July lO Indiana Postal Supervisors are to hold their annual meeting here Saturday

Postmaster Kheno M Isherwood

Mayor William M Teal and C. A Johnsn, Chamber of Commerce secretary, are to welcome the visitors Responses are to be given by Voughn Wilkinson, Newcastle, and Mrs

Ernest Stoner. Oieencastle.

10.000 Eiltle

Fish Are Saved

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POND ON I \ K.M OF WALTER REEVES IN MONROE TOWN-

SHIP SEINED.

It was estimated that 40,000 small cat fish, three to five incites long, were saved from deatli on Thursday when Game Warden Riley and members of the Putnam County Conservation Club seined a pond on the farm ot Walter Reeves in Monroe township and caught a wagon load of these small fisli and tiansferred them to

Big Walnut.

All the larger fish in the pond were dead, Warden Kiley said, and the small ones were on top of the water witli their heads out, when the work started. ’Hie water was thick with the fish and every time the seine was brought out, bushels of the fish were

captured.

The plight of the fish has come alxmt because of the continued hot* weather. Other ponds in the county which are rapidly drying up. are to l>e seined and an effort made to save the fish that are in them.

Lovu Trianuie Bereaves Family

HEAT WAVE SPREADS OVER THE COUNTRY

STIFLING \\\\i: OF INTENSE HEAT SPREADS EASTWARD FROM GREAT NORTH WEST

FIRES ADI* TO THE DAMAGE

Northern Mich'g in Suffering From Fun's! Fuet While Rest Of Central West Is Withering

Tragedy and pathos are symbolized bv tins graphic photo of Mrs. Gladys Hooverman 23. of Pittsburgh and her two tiny children who lost tetiii father when he wounded his sweetheart and then killed himself In poignant ci-ntrost to the dcspnn evident on tile face of pretty M.s Hooverman is the youthful innoci ncc of the two ch.ldiiu

POSTAL PICNIC WILL BE HELD SI NDAV .ILLY 2(j

The seventeenth annual picnic for oostal employes and their families will be held Sunday, Ju'y 26 at the park in Cloverdale The picnic is i large event and all postal emiloyes in Putnam county are expected to attend. Wi ham Morrison is president of the organization this year and Ray Herbert is chairman of the entertainment committee.

An Eye W ilness Tells Of Drouth

WRITER FOR UNITED PRESS VIS ITS WRECKED NORTHWEST COUNTRY.

20 Years Ago

IN GKEENCASTLE

home

"Babe” Conklin returned from a trip to St. Louis.

Mrs. Frances Cheek of Ullin, 111., is

here, the guest of her sisters.

Miss Irene Huestis, who has been teaching in Eugene, Ore., has return-

ed home.

Mrs. Luella Fry of Clayton is the guest of Mr .and Mrs Raymond Fry, on south Vine street.

(By Martin Kune. Copyright by the United Press.) DORAN, Minn., July 10 (UP' At the side of a country lane, hub-deep witli powdery dust, a small knot of lorny-handed farmers assembled. "These,” I was told, "are among 'he first of Minnesota’s drought harassed farmers to be given work under the emergency drought relief program.” Normally these men, and approxi■nately 55,000 like them in the Northwestern drought belt would be sharpening cutter bars of their binders; installing new wire netting in header barges, and tightening elevator canvases of their combines in preparation for an abundant harvest. Doran, located between the fertile valleys of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers, normally produces lush fields of wheat, oats, and barley. "But just look now,” said one of the farmers who identified himvelf as Nels Olson. “What’s a fellow to lo?” Olson laid aside an unaccustomed pick and his arm covered the horizon in a sweeping gesture. Everywhere were parched fields The grain, which a few weeks ago gave promise of an abundant harvest, rattled dryly on weakened stems. The heads there were few of them were small and only partially filled. ‘Tt’ll make back the seed, maybe,” Olson said. “And that is more than the poor devils will get in the Dakotas. If you’re out to get a first-hand view of the drought, there is where you will find it.” Supervising the work of this crew, and many others like it, was Victor Christgau. His task is to find work on road and water conservation projects for 7,500 men 800 of them a day until the task is done in Minnesota's 10 worst affected counties. In nearby South Dakota the task was greater, even as the destruction wrought by three rainless months, climaxed a week of recon’ shattering heat, also was greater With all crops a total loss in two thirds of the state, and all of its 6. counties hard hit, North Dakota’s (C’oiitI'hup Three)

NO RELIEF IS IN SIGHT FOR GKEENCASTLE

PUTNAM COl NTV BEING HELD IN WORST HEAT WAVES IN HISTORY OF RECORDS

The Daily Banner thermometer registered 109 degrees this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, the hottest period for this time of the day thus w during the extreme heat wave.

For the seventh consecutive day. temperatures in Ureencastle ranged above the 100-degree mark Friday. Starting on the Fourtli of Ju y, temperatures went to 100 or more In Greoncastle and hive ranged from that mark to as high as 109 daily since. The temperature Thursday was “cool” as compared to the day before. It was only 105 during the lute afternoon, when the peak was reached. This compared to 109 the afternoon before The minimum for Thursday night was 73 as against two degrees higher for previous nights. Friday morning felt warmer than Thursday. That is the sun came up hot and by 8 o'clock the mercury had climbed to 92 degrees, one degree higher than for the same period Thursday morning and another recoird-breaking day of heat was in sight for Putnam county citizens.

•I. T. REYNOLDS Dl \l>

BRAZIL, Ind, July 10 iltpi John T. Reynolds 85, who moved here recently from Greencastle, died | in tile C.ay county hospital today from heat prostration. He collapsed late yesterday. He is survived by the widow and one daughter, Mis Alva Boswell of Brazil. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at 604 Howard street in Greencastle.

.LIGHT FUNERAL FRIDAY Funeral services for Eugene p Light, who died suddenly Wednesday, were held from the Presbyterian church at 3:30 o’clock Friday af ternoon. The Rev. V. L. Raphael was in charge. Interment was 'n Forest Hill Abbey.

MRS. KATE ROBERTSON DIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON Mrs. Kate Robertson, age 82 years, died at her home on north College Avenue Friday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock. She is survived by one son. Holla Robertson with whom she made her home. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.

WEDDING TOMORROW RANDS POINT, N Y., July 10 (UP' Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen. United States Minister to Denmark, and Capt. Koerge Rohde, Jentleman-In-VVaiting to King Christian of Denmark will be married at 3 p. m. CST tomorrow at Hyde Park with President and Mrs ioosevelt in attendance.

SPARKS IONITE WHEAT FIELD Sparks from a passing locomotive gnlted a wheat field on the farm >f Mayor Charles F. Zeis, east of he city Thursday afternoon, but lamage was confined to only a few (hocks of w’heat standing in the field. Mayor Zeis reported that about fifteen shocks were destroyed. A second alarm from the farm was received by Mr. Zeis a short while after the first fire, but this proved to be only a false alarm.

CHICAGO. July 10 (UP) Five million drought-weary farmers looked to the skies for relief today but were blinded by the same relentle s sun that has destroye I $250 000 003 in crops and taken at least 239 lives. New destruction came in reports of forest fires raging over more than 1.000 acres of national woodland in Michigan. Reinforcements were rushed to aid men fighting a blaze sweeping through 800 acres in the Hiawatha unit of the Upper Michigan National Forest The second Michigan fire burned over 300 acres In the Huron National Forest with 250 fighters battling to bring it under control. The weather outlook for today was as bleak as yesterday, when thermometers shot to records all over the popu'us East and the sun blazed on over searing fields west to the Rockies. The area of killing heat extended from Montana to Maryland and from Louisiana to the Canadian wheat valleys. Occasional, tantalizing thunderstorms lusted just long enough to smash trees, wreck telephone lines, and crush growing crops. Temperatures rose to a record 102 3 degrees in New York City: a record 105.3 in Trenton, N J., 104 in Toronto, Can : 100 in Baltimore, Md . 105 in Columbus O. Temperatures of 100 were common in upper New York state. In the Middle West and Northwest, where 32 days of rainless heat wave destroyed $250,000 000 worth of crops, the saijj ■ temperatures Persia led. It was ibt; in Bismarck, N. D , 100 in Huron, S D., 96 in Miles City Mont niid a comparatively comfortable 95 in Chicago. At York Factory and Port Nelson, Canada, an the western side of Hudson Bay, the temperature was 76 Normally it is 60 there in July. At Churchill, still farther north, tin* rending was 69 Tuesday it was 50 In other ways besides heat the weather afflicted the country. Hail and wind tore down power lines and smashed trees in Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire A rain, wind ami hail storm put telephones out of commission in Versailles. Ky. Rain caused heavy damage in Effingham, 111. The heat started a celluloid fire which injured 14 persons In Newark, N. J. A few showers were forecast for today and tonight In northern North Dakota. Minnesota Wisconsin and Miehigan but not for the more important agricultural regions to the south. “Continued fair” was the discouraging central forecast for most of the Middle West, dying for lack of wafer. Tradesmen in the grain markets started selling with first reports of the showers yesterday and the market slumped When word came later that the drought was unbroken, prices revived. In the Chicago grain exchange Reptember wheat closed at $105 1-2 a bushel and September corn at 78 7 8.

PHYLLIS III NT DIES Phyllis Hunt, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Paul Hunt, died at the home east Anderson street Friday afternoon. She had been ill some time.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Ellsworth S. Lindsay Port Huron, Mich., retail coal dealei and Fern Olive Beck, Greencastle.

® ® ® ® ® 0 ® ® 0 Today’s Weather 0 0 and 0 0 Local Temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fair and continue] warm tonight and Saturday.

Minimum

.. 73

6 a. m

81

7 a. m.

88

8 a. m.

03

9 a. m.

99

10 a m.

102

11 a. m

103

11:30 a. m

105

12 noon

102

1 p. m.

106

1:05 p m.

107

1:30 p. m

.. 109