The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 July 1936 — Page 1

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VOLUME FORTY-FOUR iREENCASTLE MISSED RAIN ON THURSDAY NE RAIYS REPORTED IN VAKIOI S SECTIONS OF COUNTY, HOWEVER

(VATEK COOLED ATMOSPHERE fhursday Nl({ht was Most Enjoyable Following Rainfall in Nearby Communities

100 Degree temperature for Greencastle was recorded at 1 p. m today, marking the 14th consecutive day that the community has sweltered in intense heat, the mercury registering a daily maximum of from 100 to 111 degrees. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind„ July 17 Up, A return to abnormal temperLres was forecast today after only I hours relief from one of the most Cvere droughts in the history of the

I Farmers in all sections of Putnam Lnty except Greencastle township [d Madison township and other spots the western side of the county, ye received fine rains. Only these L places are still parched and dry. iving had no rain for more than i days. iThursday afternoon the eastern \rt of the county received a fine It was accompanied by some lit, but the benefits greatly exceodI the damages that might have been lie. jThe maximum temperature for kursday was 100 degrees and this a break for Greencastle as well [other sections of the county, as all [ve sweltered in temperatures rang- : up to 110 for the past two weeks, hus community was given a promof rain Thursday night when dangpus looking clouds rolled over, but Ih a few streaks of lightning, they pn scattered and that was the end the rain for the community. [Along with the threat of rain, came looling breeze from the south and W people enjoyed the night to the ^est extent, because it was by far i coolest night for the past thirteen

Indianapolis. July 17. (UP) — [two-inch rain, unaccompanied by electrical storm, broke the bught and heat wave in Posey bnty today. The rain offered great hifit to a promising coin crop, piers said. union Contest Will Not Be Held IMMITTEE WITHKAWS PRIZES ON ACCOUNT OF LACK OF INTEREST

Knnouneemont was made today by pmlttees in charge of the annual b ncastle beautification contest it the 10116 contest has been canf" 1 and the cash prizes amounting #50 will not be awarded. The reastor the action in calling off the Itesl was lack of public interest, P’at'ly resulting from intense heat ! lack of rain. foe contest was to have been psored by the Greencastle Cham°f Commerce and the local coun[°f clubs. A very small number of pies had been received by the junittees and it was believed not nh while to continue with the 1936 Rest.

Ihort funeral services for Owen a former resident of Green He, who died from heat prostraruesday in St. Louis. Mo., were il Thursday afternoon at 1 o’clock In the grave in Forest Hill cemeV- Rev. Robert T. Beck was in ^ge.

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COL. KNOX JUBILANT AT PARLEY’S RESULT CHICAGO. July 17. (UP)—Frahk Knox, Republican vice presidential candidate, left today for his Manchester, N. H., summer home where he will work on campaign speeches. Knox returned yesterday from a conference with Governor A if M. Landon of Kansas beaming witli confidence. “We found ourselves in complete accord on campaign issues and strategy,” he said. “X drn’t believe there ever was a candidate for the presidency and a candidate for the vice presidency who had a finer understanding than exists between us.” The speeches Knox prepares during his ten-day “solid work” period are to be delivered after notification ceremonies in Topeka, Kan., July 23. His tour will start about Sept. 1, he said.

Woman, Paramour Pay W ith Lives DIE IN ELECTRIC CHAIR AT MING SING FOR MURDER

OSSINING, N. Y„ July 17, (UP) Mrs. Mary Frances Creighton died in the electric chair last night without ever seeing the death chamber. The woman who had poisoned another woman and delivered her own 15 year old daughter to an elderly lover who had tired of her, fainted of fright 30 minutes before she was executed. She rode to death in a wheel chair, unconscious, and felt nothing when 2.000 volts of electricity ended her life. Nine minutes after two guards lifted her flabby body out of the. electric chair, her former lover, Everett Applegate, died in the same seat. The two were convicted of murdering Applegate’s wife, an unlovely woman of 300 pounds but Mrs. Creighton’s friend, so that Applegate might marry Mrs. Creighton’s daughter, Ruth. Applegate admitted that he seduced the child after a long intimacy with her mother. The Applegates and Creightons lived in the same house in Mineoua and Applegate often took Ruth to bed with him and his wife. The three of them slept nude. Applegate, who a year ago was the comander of an American Legion post and an employe of the federal veterans’ bureau, met his death in a fashion sharply contrasted to the terror that paralyzed Mrs. Creighton. His last words while seated in the electric chair were: “Before I die I say I am innocent of this crime. God have mercy on Martin Littleton of Nassau county.” Littleton is the district attorney who prosecuted him. Mrs. Creighton showed no life whatever when two guards rolled her wheel chair into the death chamber. Twenty-four official witnesses agreed that she was unconscious. Six guards in blue shirts rushed forward to surround the wheel chair as though deliberately to conceal the unconscious woman. Two guards lifted her into the electric chair. Warden Lewis E. I awes, an enemy of capital punishimnt, stood by silently. Executioner Robert Elliott whirled the switch, a dynamo hummed, and Mrs. Creighton was pronounced dead. it was the fifth woman New York has executed and the first person in htete history electrocuted when unmiiscious. Less than a minute after the body was rolled out, Applegate walked in. The executioner repeated his ritual. John Creighton, the executed woman’s mousey husband who seemed never to have suspected that his wile and daughter were being seduced in his own home and that his wife and her paramour had committed murder under his eyes, visited his wife yesterday afternoon. SAILS FOR NOVA SCOTIA ABOARD SCHOONER LIBERTY OFF THE MAINE COAST, July 17. —President Roosevelt was sailing toward Nova Scotia through rough seas today after his vacation yacht Sewanna unexpectedly changed its course to the east off Petit Manan Island, near New Brunswick. The Sewanna was following a 70mile course from tile Bay of Fundy to a point estimated to be somewhere between Yarmouth and Cape St. Mary. Observers guessed ten hours would be required for the trip for the Sewanna, Die Potomac, the official presidential yacht, and the navy boat Ilapkins. “I don’t know where we’re going today,” the president said earlier in the day.

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WELL KNOWN MORTON MAN PASSED AWAY DEATH SUMMONED C. A. STARK ON THURSDAY FOLLOWING EXTENDED ILLNESS OPERATED GENERAL STORE Funeral Services Will Be Conducted Saturday Afternoon. Burial la Mt. Moriah Cemetery C. A. Stark, age 69 years, who operated a general store at Morton passed away Thursday, following an illness of about six months. Mr. Stark had been a resident of Putnam county for about 42 years during which time he was in business at Russellville and Morton. He is a member of the Russellville Christian church and a member of the Masonic IxKlge. During his entire life he took an active interest in all civic matters and served his community and church in many ways. He is susvived by the widow, three sons, Paul of Fitchburg, Mass., John of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Rtlph at home and three daughters, Mrs. Wayne Bettis and Mrs. Carol Connerly of Morton and Mary at home. Four grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held at Moi-ton, Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Rev. I^ewis will have charge. Burial will be in Mt. Moriah cemetery. INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hogs 4,000; holdovers 167; market active; 15 cents higher on all weights; 160 to 250 lbs., $10.90 to $11.15; 250 to 280 lbs.. $10.60 to $10.90; 280 to 300 lbs.. $10.40 to $10.60; 300 lbs. up. $9.70 to $10.40; 130 to 160 lbs., $10.40 to $10.90; 100 to 130 lbs., $9.65 to $10 10; packing sows steady, mostly $8.25 to $9.25, top $9.50. Cattle 500; calves 500; market fairly active and firm market on all killing classes; ten loads bettei grade steers sold from $8.15 to $8.40; short load strictly choice yearling heifers $8.50; beef cows $4.00 to $4.75; cutter grades $3.00 to $3 75; vealers fully 50 cents lower; top $8.00; bulk better graes $7.00 to $7.50. Sheep 1.000; fat Iambs generally steady; slaughter sheep steady; practical lamb top $9.50; few head $9 75; bulk better grades $9.00 to $9.50; better grade fat ewes $3.00 to $3.25. Grasshoppers In Northern Pulnarn COUNTY AGENT GIVES FORMULA FOR COMBATING INSECT INVASION There have been reports during the past two weeks of an influx of grasshoppers In Putnam county The ’hoppers are of a variety usually not found in groat numbers in this vicinity. The severe drought has encouraged the pests, the typo that have ruined crops in Kansas and other middle western states. They have made their appearance in the northern parts of the county and have done noticeable damage to corn. The posts usually feed in clover and pasture fields as long as the vegetation remains, and after this is gone they migrate to corn fields. One farmer reported that after he cut his oat field the ’hoppers crossed to a ] corn field and immediately destroyed several rows. According to the county agent, Guy T. Harris, the host method of fighting the ’hoppers is hy poison bran bait. The formula is as follows: Bran 25 lbs. White arsenic 1',:, lbs. Cheap feeding grade molasses— 1 qt. Lemons or oranges 3 fruits. Water 1 to 2 gallons. The bran and white arsenic should be thoroughly mixed while dry ami then the juice of three fruits is then | squeezed into the water and the skin and pulp chopped up fine and added, after which the svrup is a bled. The poison mixture and the syrup mixture are added and mixed thoroughly | until the dry parts arc evenly wet. J The final mixture should be scattered j by hand at the rate of 7 to 10 lbs. [ per acre, early in the morning over ! the infested areas. Applications two | days apart usually bring good re- j suits. This new grasshopper threat is a 1 serious one, especially with corn in | the condition it is at the present I time. Farmers desiring additional ! information should call at the county agent’s office in the Putnam county courthouse.

SUGGESTS WAY WALLACE I CAN SAVE U. S. $750,000 CINCINNATI, July 17- City Coun- ' cilman Nicholas Klein suggested to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace yesterday that Wallace send him $6,000 for a trip to Europe, thereby saving the government $750,000. * j Klein wrote Wallace, noting that “you arc going to spend $756,000 for research into the marketing of farm products, through a study of co-op-erative systems in Europe.” That figure, he added, “is a lot of money” and “would buy a lot of miik for hungry babies. You send me $6,000 to take a trip abroad and I will bring you back enough reports, data, information, curves anil lines to keep you busy all winter.” STATE BOARD SETS COUNTY MILK PRICES EMERGENCY ORDER ISSUED BY STATE MILK CONTROL BOARD EFFECTIVE MONDAY, JULY 20

Retail And Wholesale Prices On Milk Fixed. Prices To Farmers Also Announced. An emergency order setting prices to be paid farmers an I distributors 1 in Putnam county was issued today in Indianapolis by the state milk control board. The order becomes effective July 20. | Farmers must be paid $2 per hundredweight for class one milk and the national evaporated code price for class two milk, the board decreed. The rctale price schedule, from distributors to consumers, was set as follows: Pasturized milk quarts, 10 cents retail and 8 cents wholesale. Buttermilk—quarts, 9 cents retail and 7 cents wholesale; pints, five cents retail and 4 cents wholesale. i FRANCIS LANE OVERCOME BY | SMOKE, HEAT OF GRASS FIRE While running a combine on the ’ farm of Albert O’Hair north of the ' city Friday afternoon Francis Lane was overcome by smoke and heat, when a fire started in some dry grass and spread rapidly into the wheat field. A local physician was callbd and reported his condition was not serious. The damage to the wheat, which is dead ripe, was confined to the minimum.

PACES CHAIR FOR SLAYING HUSBAND

HEAT LAYS NEW SIEGE ON MIDWEST

HIGH TEMPER.ATI'RES AND DROUGHT AGAIN SWEEP GREAT PLAIN ^

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Attornex Bachrach — Reversing two previous stories she told of her husband's death Mrs Mdilreo Bolton startled the Chicago court where she is on trial for murder by admitting firing the shots which fatally wounded her husband Joseph Bolton Jr insurance broker Her confession earns while silt was being questioned on the stand hy Public Detender Beniamin Bachrach. above

PREDICT III GF MEETING CONNERSVILLE Ind., July 17 Republican leaders predicted today one of the largest mee’ings of the campaign when Col. Frank Knox, vice presidential candidate, comes here Saturday, Aug. 8. to participate in a statewide rally hold in honor of Raymond S. Springer, candidate for

governor.

State Coni Crop Loss In Millions

INVESTIGATORS INVESTIGATE WASHINGTON, July 17, (UP) The nation’s capital bogged down today in confusion in attempting to figure out who was investigating and was being investigated in charges that G-men were being “ganged” by

other departments.

The treasury started an inquiry 1 into whether some of its secret service operators have been peeking unethically behind.closed doors at G-men activities in tagging big-time criminals. The criminals themselves were being investigated before being shot or cap-

tured by the FBI.

CITY BOND BIDS OPENED Bids for municipal bonds of the city of Greencastle in the amount of $9,000 were opened by Jessie M. Hawkins, city elerk-treasurer, in the presence of Mayor Charles F. Zeis and City Attorney Wilbur S. Donner , this afternoon at two o’clock. Five bids were received by the clerk-treasurer, the highest bid was that of McNurlon and Huncilman of Indianapolis, who bid for the bonds, offering accrued interest at 3 percent and a premium in the amount of $136 on the eighteen bonds in the denom-

ination of $500 each.

The bid of the high bidder figures to 2.70 per cent basis. I The First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company of this city submitted the

bid next highest.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Frank Thomas and son Gordon were visitors in Indianapolis. j Lightning struck a large barn on the Mack Jones farm, just south of the city. Hay and farming implements were destroyed along with the barn. The loss was estimated at

$1,500.

Edwin Strain suffered serious in-ju-y when he accidentally got his right hand caught in the mechanism of a mowing machine. The end of the third finger was cut off and the rest of the hand was badly lacerated.

SURVEY RY RUKDUK UNIVERSITY REVEALS CROPS NOT TOTAL FAILURE INDIANAPOLIS, July 17. A «urvey made at Purdue university today estimated the loss to the corn crop in Indiana from the drought at $12,000 000 but said the year’s crop is not a failure. The estimate came as the state death toll from the heat wave passed the 300 mark despite slightly lower temperatures throughout the state. Good growing weather for the rest of the season with immediate, plentiful rain would save most of the corn crop, the survey showed. In Indianapolis the maximum temperature yesterday was 95 the first day since July 6 that the 100 mark has not been passed. The 100 degree tempi iture continued to prevail in other parts of the state, however, with Bloomfield reporting 109; Vincennes 104; Evansville 106; Washington 100 and Frankfort 1Q5. The United States weather bureau forecast additional relief today with showers in the central and southern sections. J. H. Armington, meteorologist for the weather bureau, said, however, that the anticipated rains will not be sufficient to give material aid to crops, already damaged seriously by the long drought. CHICAGO. July 17 The corn belt finished two weeks of the hottest, driest weather it has known today, with no relief in prospect and fears growing that a crop disa .tor exceeding that of 1934 was in the making. Except for a few favored areas the millions of acres of middle west farm lands which produce the nation’s greatest cash crop baked on for the fifteenth day in temperatures which continued to top previous highs. Deaths ascribed to the long stay of the torrid wave decreased somewhat in number tint mounted upward o* 4,200 to maintain a 300 daily aver-

age.

A special agriculture department survey in Washington assured that despite the destruction of crops the forthcoming twelve months would see no actual scarcity in food supplies. The same report, however, es timated the domestic supplies would be about 1 per cent under the like June, 1934-June, 1935. period, also including a great drought period.

Crop Damage sine* une I -t At $600,(MM),000. Reftef Is PolWihle During Gonx-g Week

CHICAGO. July 17 UTP> Another hot week-end wan forecast today for the parched middlewest. Only a few scatter* 1 showers in the extreme northern frin ;e f the drought district will reliev ie blistering heat that his taken at least 4 200 lives and caused more than $600,000,000 damage to crops. Forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago weather bureau reported.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Walter L. Springer, Terre Haute engineer, and Grace G Edwards. Danville, 111., housekeeper.

Fares Chair For Slaving Husband MRS. MILDRED BOLTON IS FOUND GUILTY BY CHICAGO JURY CHICAGO, July 17 <UP>—Mrs Mildred Mary Bolton and Mrs. Pauline Drummond, who killed their husbands, faced opposite fates today. A jury of 11 married men and a widower ordered the death penalty for dry-eyed, hennaed Mrs. Bolton. A coroner’s jury set Mrs. Drummond free. Both women admitted the shootings. Their reactions were as different as their penalties. Mrs. Bolton earned the nickname "Marble Mildred” when she calmly proclaimed that “they don’t convict women in Cook county for killing their husbands,” She became, last night, the first woman in the county’s history to be sentenced to the electric chair. Mrs. Drummond sobbed tearfully that she wanted to die for her deed. A coroner’s jury decided that the death of her husband was "accidental.” Mrs. Bolton has refused to name her relatives, hoping frankly that she could keep them from knowing her predicament. In contrast, Mrs. Drummond’s fathcr-in-law, Geoige Drummond. attended the inquest and remarked that the jury's verdict was "just.” Said Mrs. Drummond: “My husband was good when he was sober, but he was so seldom that way. He beat me many times. Tuesday night I couldn't sleep b •cause of my injuries. I went into his bedroom while he was sleeping and the wind blew aside a closet curtain and I saw the shotgun standing there. On impulse. I took the gun. I didn’t aim at Herbert. I had no though of shooting him. But the gun went off accidentally.” She went home to care for her six children. Mrs. Bolton said she intended to kill herself, not her husband. She wont to his office to commit suicide, but when they argue ! and he called her a "vile name” she grabbed the gun and shot him. Prosecutor Wilbur F. Crowley recalled Mrs. Bolton's confidence in escaping conviction. "If you want to protect American manhood," he told the jury, "It you want to protect the lives of husbands and business men from nagging, contemptible, vicious creatures to whom they might be married, I implore you, gentlemen, to consider the case calmly and deliberately ami give her what she deserves the Electric Chair.” The jury spent 37 minutes in its chamber, casting three ballots. On tli first it decided Mrs. Bolton was guilty. On the second to voted 11 to I. according to a bailiff, for the death penalty. On the third, all agreed on the electric chair. The Judge set July 23 for motions for n now trial, and Mrs. Bolton returned to her cell for an evening meal of cocoa, vegetable soup, bread and coffee. Mrs. Biddie Funican of Marion Is here visiting Mrs. Elmer Stratton.

CHICAGO. July 17. (UP) Heat and drought laid a new siege across the suffering plains states today. The suffocating heat which has killed 3,715 persons in 14 days and destroyed more than a half billion dollars in farm crops ro'ie again in the Dakotas and spread across most of the great area bounded by Kansas on the west. Oklahoma in the south, Indiana in the cast and Wisconsin on the north. The temporary relief of cool air from Canada dropped the death rate from nearly 1,000 a day early this week to some 200 yesterday. Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio, and Kentucky, felt the effects But warmer weather was predicted today in northwestern Indiana, lower Michigan, northwestern upper Michigan, Wisconsin, eastern and southern Missouri, eastern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota. High temperatures persisted in the southwest, with Wichita, Kan., recording 110; Fort Scott, Kan , 113; Grand Island, Neb.. 108; Kansas Ctiy, 106; North Platte, Neb.. 104; and Omaha 102. Thunderstorms ami showers, too feeble to cool the steaming agricultural lands or city pavements spattered most of the heat zone yesterday but brought no lasting relief. There was a possibility that permanent relief may come next week, but it is too remote for forecasting, I. R. Lloyd of the Chicago weather bureau said. A mass of coo' air is forming over the north Pacific coast. It may be strong enough to break through the edges of the heat zone and spread across the middlewest. Dr. Lloyd warned it may evaporate like the other cool waves which reached into the Dakotas last week and stopped. Today's weather picture: Heat zone Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Nebraska, northern Illinois, northern Indiana, north western upper Michigan, Wisconsin, eastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota. Heat relief forecast today North DatokB, South Dakota, western Nebraska, northwestern Jowa. Drought zone (heavy rains needed) North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio, Nebraska. Showers predicted trday (inadequate to relieve heat or drought) — Southern Missouri, western and northern Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, western Nebraska, southern Illinois, southern Indiana. Total heat deaths since July 3 - 3,715. Crops destroyed by heat and drought since June 1 $000,000,000. Principal crops affected wheat, corn, small grains, vegetables, fruits, pasture, livestock feeds, cotton. Fast withering corn crops faced serious damage from continued heat and lack of rain. The intermittent showers of the last three days have been insufficient to revive them. Fred Austin. WPA director in Illinois, warned that unless substantial rains fall by July 24, a “successful crop of any kind will be impossible.” Grain traders speculated heavily on possibilities of inereteed drought damage. On the Chicngi exchange yesterday corn rose the full limit of four cents a bushel, ar d closed there. Wheat, oats and rye close.I one cent or more higher. In Washington, the agriculture department's economics bi’-eau promised there would be no foo I shortage, although the food supply for the present season will be about three per cent less than Inst year and one per cent less than for the season following the great drought Meat, bread, vegetables and diary products will feel the drought’s ef(Coaitinned on Page Two)