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VOLUME FOKTY-FOUB

TEMPERATURE DROPS DUE TO COOLING RAIN

CITY ENJOYS RELIEF FROM INTENSE HEAT WAVE , SATURDAY

100 ABOVE FRIDAY MAXIMUM

Mrrciiry Descend* With Overcast Skies Saturday Morninp. Citi■M>.u Weleome Raiiilall

There was a decided chanpe for tne better in the weather in Greencastle Saturday morning. Instead of tne sizzling sun and its heat there was a completely clouded sky and a decided drop in the temperature. Every indication pointed to rain for the day as it sprinkled a few drops now and then during the morning. Friday’s high mark of slightly more than 100 degrees, marked the fourteenth consecutive day that this community has suffered in heat ranging from that mark up to 111 degrees. Saturday’s outlook as we went to press was the best of any day in tne two weeks, for a break in tne continuation of the high temperatures. friday night’s minimum of 72 was probably the lowest mark for any night during the two weeks, and Saturday’s starting temperature was far below any other morning during that time. By ten o’clock the cloudy skies had opened up and a rain began falling, which was of the gentle type that, will do the most good. With continued over-cast skies, it looked as though there might be a rain through the day. At ten o’clock the mercury dropped to 67 degrees, the lowest it has , been during the past two weeks. 1 With the continued rainfall, it bids fair to remain low for the week-end in direct contrast to yesterday’s weatner forecast and decidedly different from the temperature of a week ago.

ROOSEVELTS YACHT ENDS 125 MILE SAIL FRIDAY P. M. ABOARD PRESS BOAT LIBERTY WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, July 18, (UP)—President Roosevelt ended his longest continu ous yacht trip in years at 4 p. m. Friday when his schooner yacht Sewanna was anchored in the lee of Cape Sable light. Nova Scotia, after a 12ri-mile cruise begun Thursday morning off the Maine coast. The cruise was made in the open sea in perfect weather. There was a slight ground swell and light wind yesterday in contrast to uncomfortable rolling and cold last night. The coast guard boat Pontchartrain joined the convoy at Petit Manan Island. Me., carrying a secret service detail. A boat from the destroyer Hopkins Friday morning took dispatches to the Sewanna, on which the president is skipper anil three of his sons the crew. The president ordered condolences sent to the family of United States Senator Louis Murphy of Iowa killed Thursday in an automobile assident. The president, who appears well sod sunburned, Tdans to cruise along the west coast of Nova Scotia until be beads for his summer home at Campo Bello, Nova Scotia.

SHIRLEY’S SAFE!

SANTA MONICA, Cal., July 18— Shirley Temple’s father accidentally demonstrated that the stories of complicated mechanical "bodyguards" for famous movie children have a real background of fact. Bells clanged, lights blazed and a uren whined when the little star’s father, George Temple, accidentally | set off the apparatus in the Temple I home while tripping the master switch this morning, j Shirley’s domicile is considered kid-

nap-proof.

® Today’s Weather ® ® and @ ® Local Temperature ® Unsettled, local thundershowers to

CARTER GLASS FLA % !s BUSINESS TAMPERING! ASHLAND, Va., July 18 -Senator^ Carter Glass, Democrat. Virginia, said, "We now have a system of government of privilege and discrimination,” in an extemporaneous speech late yesterday at the Pat-ick Henry celebration here. Looking out upon several thousand people gathered on the Randolph-Ma-con college campus, he continued by saying that this was such a government ns Henry denounced in the House of Burgesses when he made his brief speech that "it was not proper to take money off taxpayers of Virginia and appropriate it to pay off mortgages that had been made by thriftless and unwise individuals.” “That is just what we are doing in this country today. . . . The government’s nose is in all sorts of business now.” If Patrick Henry were living, said the etcran senator as he warmed up to Ins subject, “he would not cure one evil with a multitude of other

evils.

‘vVhen the Democratic party in convention assembled declared against high tariff and promised to i bohsh or modify it. it did not mean that we would institute another system 1 bat would rob 56.000 000 people out of both pockets at the same

time.”

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Improvement ^ork To Be Continued

PARK. STREET IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AGAIN OPENED BY (TTY

With the sale Friday of the city of Greencastle’s municipal bond issue of $9,000 Mayor Charles F. Zeis announced this morning that work cared for in the city’s additional appropriation would bo continued where it was stopped a short while ago. Park improvement will begin with construction work on a park shelter house just west of the softball diamond. The driveways into the park from Bloomington and Anderson streets will be hlacktopped and concrete walks will be constructed alongside the drives. City street improvement will be continued at a very early date with nearly a mile and a half of city streets to be black-topped under the proposed continuation program. A r> additional car of asphalt will be r.ntiicient to complete the project. BANKS COOPERATE INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., July 18,— “Where can I apply for a Federal Housing Administration Insured Mortgage Loan?” This is the most universal question which comes into the Federal Housing Administration office in Indianapolis. The answer is of course, at an approved lending insitution qualified to handle FHA loans in your county. Lending institutions which are cooperating with FHA and who are qualified to make insured mortgage loans under Title II In Putnam county are as follows: Central National Bank and the First-Citizens Bank and Trust Company. ATTEND I. U. BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 18— Seventeen Putnam county students are registered for the forty-seventh annual summer session at Indiana university. A total of 1766 students, which represents an increase of approximately 150 over last year’s figure, are enrolled for the summer term, according to figures announced here today by Registrar Thomas A. Cookson. The figure of 1766 will be increased by about 100 when registration is completed for the second terms of the school of law and the biological station and for the three weeks’ intensive course which follows the regular eight weeks session. The total registration for the 1935 summer term was 1723. The Putnam county students attending I. U. this summer are: Bainbridge: Irene South and Marjorie South, nurses’ training school. Indianapolis. Cloverdale: Cohn Morrison, Mary Morrison, nurses’ training school, Indianapolis; Virginia Williams, nurses’ training school, Indianapolis. Fillmore: Marcella Myers, nurses’

t ight or Sunday; not much change in

temperature.

training school, Indianapolis. Greencastle: Reese Hammond, Lloyd Messersmith, Donovan Moffett,

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Raymond Neal, Madonna O’Hair.

6 a. m

Virginia Porter, nurses’ training

7 a. m

school, Indianapolis; Meredith Reeves

8 a. m

nurses’ training school, Indianapolis;

9 a. m

Frank Ross, Ralph Ross.

10 a. m

Roachdale: I S. Hostetler, Lola

11 a. m

Stewart.

DROUGHTS ARE DESCRIBED IN TWO CLASSES TRANSITORY AND PF.RSISTING TV I’LS ARE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL DROUGHTS KI N IN "FAMILIES” Last (.eneral Drought Condition Of Sort Occurred In U. S. In l^ite 19th Century WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 18. — Droughts in the United States may be divided into two general classes. In one class are those of a transitory nature, affecting usually a relatively small area and of comparatively short duration, frequently lasting only a single year; in the other those general droughty conditions that have a tendency to persist for comparatively long periods. Smoothed weather records show long-time trends in precipitation, covering a good many years, alternately above and below normal. The short period droughts are not usually definitely related to the more general long time trends. When a minimum phase of precipitation obtains, such as is now being experienced, there occur at short intervals what may be called families of droughts, in contradistiiition to the transitory, or short period, ones that fall in the first group. Prior to the minimum phase of precipitation responsible for the present family of droughts, so to speak, the last general condition of this kind occurred in the latter part of the 80’s and the early 90’s of the last century. At that time, following a series of years with rather abundant rainfall, widespread scanty moisture began in 1886, and, while interrupted in 1892 by fairly abundant moisture, there was a marked tendency generally for subnormal rainfall from 1886 up to 1895. culminating in severe droughts in 1894 and 1895, the driest years of that minimum phase. The year 1896 had fairly good precipitation, hut 1897 was deficient in moisture between the Mississippi river and the Rocky mountains. Following this general long-time drought, there were several belonging to the transitory class shortlived and often affecting seriously only comparatively small areas. Among these may be mentioned that of 1901 in the interior valleys and the southwest. The following year. 1902. had plenty of moisture in most states. Another transitory drought occurred in 1910, principally in the central and northern states and the south, hut this again was largely a oneyear affair. Another one in 1917 affected principally the southwest ami northern plains, and still another, in 1925, was severe in th° south and southeast. Thus, for some 60 years up to 19.",0, there were a number of short-period droughts, but only one persistant and markedly dry phase of United States climate, that of 1886-1895, lasting, in general, about 10 years. Some years, of course, were better than others. The present dry phase began in 1930 and has continued, with a few interspersions of fairly good years, such as 1935, up to the present time. There have been in this period three extremely dry years 1930 1934, and

1936.

The few available precipitation records, covering 100 years or more, indicate that a general dry phase, somewhat comparable to that of 1886-95, and the more recent one of 1930 to date, obtained in the 30’s of the last century, or approximately 100 years ago. The outstanding wet phase of the United States climate in the last century was from about 1865 to 1885, with a secondary maximum during the first two decades of the present century, thougli several transitory droughts were interspersed. All of the foregoing statements refer specifically to that part of the country j east of the Rocky mountains. Some tree ring records of the far northwest indicate that there probably was a major precipitation phase, at least in that area, soon after the middle of the eighteenth century, within the period 1755-80, with a succeeding maximum phase culminating about the beginning of th r - nineteenth century. While study of long weather records has not as yet disclosed a law to justify a forecast of fufuro droughts, such study docs give an historical background, which warns us that droughts in futur? may be expected, just as severe as those of the past. For example, the records show that in the early 90’s, or some 40 years ago, there was a drought in

the so-called “dust bowl" just as severe as that recently experienced. Doubtless, when the present drought definitely comes to an end. there will be a period of years with comparatively heavy rainfall, just as before, and little will be heard about dust storms and the like. But. in planning a permanent farm program for such areas the basic considerations should include the practical certainty that dry climatic phases, at least as severe as in the past, will

reoccur.

There is much loose talk <hese days about changes in climate due to human activity, and various suggestions' that man should do this, that, or the other thing to prevent droughs. Most of such talk is utter nonsense. But here we must distinguish between preventing droughts ns such and doing certain things to modify the unfavorable conditions when the droughts do occur. These two things are separate and practically non-related. There are two basic peinciplcs in rain production getting moisture into the air through evaporation and getting it out ag’iin through condensation, in the form of cloud and rain drops. The first is important, but the latter is much more so as related to the matter or droughts. The only way to produce rain in appreciable amounts is by cooling the air containing the invisible vapor of water. The reason why cooling causes condensation is the fact that warm air can hold more moisture water vapor per unit volume than cool air. The capacity of air. or rather of space, for holding invisible moisture doubles with each increase of 20 degrees in temperature. Thus a cubic foot of air, saturated, at 80 degrees, if cooled down to 60 degrees, must lose, by condensation, half of its water con(Continued on Face Two)

, President Vacationing at Sea

" iwiilliil | President Roosevelt |

Deed Transfers Recorded Here

Responsibilities of office and campaign cares were set aside by President Roosevelt us he cruised up the New England coast at the tiller of the schooner-yacht Sewanna above accompanied by his three sons Franklin Jr standing midships. John and James The cruise will wind up at the Roosevelt summer home at Campobello Island, N B., on July 28

PROPERTY EXCHANGER OF PAST WEEK ARE LISTED BY MRS. O'NEAL Fifteen property transfers in Putnam county were recorded in the office of Mrs. W. T. O’Neal Putnam county recorder, during the past week. The list is as follows: Hettie E. Long to Chas. H. Burnaby, 119.8 acres in Russell twp., $1. Earle R. Evans to Carl Beck et ux, part lot in Bainbridge $1. First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co. to Kenneth F. Harris 30 acres in Greencastle, $1,000. George R. Cone et ux to Mary E. Peck, lot in Greencastle Commercial Place, $1. Mary E. Peck to George R. Cone i et ux, lot in Greencastle Commercial Place. $1. Robert A. Morgan et ux to William Sly et ux. lot in E. J. Peck’s addition, Greencastle, $1. Myrtle M. Dinkins to Harry Bond, lot in Forest Hill cemetery, Greencastle, $1. Ward Alliene Thompson to Stella Cotton,’ lot in Greencastle Commercial Place, *1. • . t George W. Ross et ux to Eslella Morgan. 18 acres in Washington twp., $400. First-Citizens Bank and Trust Co., Adm.. to Kloise A. Beck, part lot in Allen’s addition, Greencastle, $2,-

762 61.

Samuel R Pursell to John C. Wad- | die, two lots in Commercial Place, , Greencastle, $1. Forest Hill cemetery to Halhe Grismer, lot In cemetery. $80. Naomi F. Wendling et ai to Bessie Bullock, lot in Roachdale original plot. $150. John T. Sutherlin, sheriff, to Bankers Trust Co., 117 acres in Jackson twp.. $2,300. Joseph L Rogers et ux to Freni M. Lasley, 13 acres in Cloverdale twp., $1 I

GOV. OLSON CONVALESCES ROCHESTER. Minn., July 17 ' UP' — Governor Floyd B Olson’s condition continued satisfactory last night following an operation Thursday at Mayo Clinic to relieve a chronic stomach ailment. “The Governor’s general condition is satisfactory,'’ an official bulletin

said.

The operation was performed to relieve and reduce an obstruction of the esophagus into the stomach.

Bellboy Held hi Murder Of Coed

20 Years Ago IN GRERNCASTUE

Frank Cannon was a business visitor in Indianapolis. Frank Thomas has purchased a new five-passenger Oldsmohlle touring car. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Comstock returned home from their wedding trip. Mr. Comstock is manager of the Trick Bros. 5 and 10 cents store. Mrs. j Comstock was formerly Miss Eugenia Marshall. Donald McLean is taking the city mail route of Richard Whelan, who is taking his vacation from the postoffice. Fleming Lynch is here from Linton visiting his brothers. 1

Flamin<' Plane Crashes, 2 Die

PILOT AND UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN KILLED AT FAIR OAKS, IND. FAIR OAKS. Ind . July 18 'UPi - A pilot indentified from his license as William Leamon, Anaconda, Mont., and an unidentified woman were killed early yesterday when their private plane crashed in an oat field about two miles southeast of here. Papers founil on Leamon’s body saiil he was 41 years old and a consulting engineer for the Toro Mining Corporation of Anaconda. His companion was not identified immediately Witnesses to the accident said the motor in the plane apparently failed The occupants had time to throw one flare from the falling ship before it. struck the ground. The crash completely demolished the plane and the two bodies were found about fifty feet apart. The plane was described as a fourseater monoplane.

BANGS AGAIN VETOES OUSTER ORDINANCE HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 18 Maydr C. W. H. Bangs vetoed for a third time yesterday an ouster ordinance passeil by insurgent councilmen who have indicated a desire to n move him from office. Anticipating a veto the councilmen had already called a special session for Monday night, when an attempt | will be made to override the mayor’s | disapproval. In his veto message Bangs charged that the ordinance is inspired by the Northern Indiana Power Company. The utility, he declared, hopes to have him replaced by a mayor who will abandon the fight to establish the municipal electric plant as a competitor in the electrical distribution field here.

MERCHANT TRICK OVERTURNS

A trick operated by the GreeneasUe Merchant’s Truck line overturned in the Chadd valley east of the city today noon. Two men were only slightly hurt, but the truck and cargo were badly damaged.

DENIES CRIME ALTHOCGH tiCESTIONED FOR DOCKS BY POLICE ASHEVILLE, N C„ July 18 (UP) Police today accused a terrified negro bellboy arrqpteti gecretly last night of the rape and murder of blonde Helen Clevenger, 19 year old New York university honor student. The negro, who worked in the hotel where Miss Clevenger was attacked, slain, and mutilated Thursday morning. was arrested shortly before midnight. Police Capt. T. C. Robinson said detectives found a blood stained shirt in his home. State chemists began an examination of it. Through more than four hours of intensive questioning the negro denied knowledge of the crime, but he was locked up in Asheville's mob proof jail atop the 13-story courthouse for further Interrogation. REVOLUTION IN SPAIN MADRID, July 18, (UP) Rebel army units, rising against the left wing government, held important army centers of Spanish Morocco to

day.

The rebellion started lats night in Melilla, chief garrison town and spread to other bases. R. L. NEESE DIES FRIDAY Randsome Lee Neese. auto mechanic, died at 10:30 o’clock Friday morning at the home in Knightsville of complications, aged 32 years. Mr. Neese was first taken ill nearly a month ago from aboess of the brain He was born in PuLnam county but had resided at Knightsville for the pant ten years. The deceased had been a member of the Big Walnut Missionary Baptist etiurch in Putnam county since a boy. He is survived by the mother, Mrs. Carrie Neese; a brother anti sister, Arthur Neese. of Knightsville, and Mrs. Artie Marie Atkinson, of Evansville: also a half sister., anil four half brothers, Mrs. Stella Jones, Clem, Emanuel and Patrick Neese of Terre Haute, and Joseph Neese, of Putnam county.

HEAT WAVE IS MOVING SOI THW \RD

INTENSE HEAT EDGING INTO MIDDLE SOUTH FROM GREAT PLAINS DEATH TOLL SET AT 4,.fP2 Drought Damage To Crops In Middle Western Vrea KMhnateU at $300,00(1,000 CHICAGO. July IS 'UP' The MidAmerican heat wave, destroyer of 4 - 312 lives and $600,000,000 worth of crops .edged out of the northern plains states into the middle south

today.

The northern edge of the heat zone recedes! as far south as Chicago, while the southern edge spread over Kentucky and West Virginia. The central portion the southern plains states and the southwest continued to suffer. The heat zone moved south under impetus of cool air and thundershowers from Canada's northwest "weather factory,” which reduced temperatures just below the critical [Hi nt Ternperaturea will remain uncomfortably high over the week-end in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, the Dakotas, and Nebraska - probably between 90 and 100 weather forecasters said but they will be liveable. Physicians explained that tliisc residents who partook of the last three days of cooling winds probably have built up their resistance which approached a bi caking point earlier in the week. Today’s weather picture: Heat zone Southern Illinois, Southern Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma. Kentucky, West Virginia, Southern Kansas. Cooler weather forecast today — Iowa. Minnesota, South Dokato, North Dakota. Nebraska, Northwest and north central Kansas.

Merle Grimes, Greencastle, Route 3, entered the county hospital Saturday for medical treatment. Mr. and Mrs. John Cassidy of Coatesville are the parents of a son born Friday night at the Putnam county hospital. Ray Larkin of Jefferson township reports that after threshing 20 acres he had a yield of 630 bushels of wheat, making an average of SI 1 ., bushels to the acre.

KILLS WIFE AND SON ERIE. Pa . JuJV IS. iWP) Samuel C. Weed, 40, a heat-crazed clerk at the Erie works of the General Electric Company, hammei' l hi-^ wife, Irene, and son. David. 4, to death today, and inflicted critical wounds on his other son. Charles. 2. Weed, a Sunday school superintendent, was apprehended on the Buffalo road after two unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide by throwing himself beneath the wheels of trucks. Weed hail been acting minister of the Church of the Nuzarene in Wesleyville, Erie suburb, during the pastor’s vacation. Friends raid hr 1 had been acting strangely since a heat attack last Sunday. MARRI \GE LICENSES Sherman M Wheeler, Staunton laborer, and Helen H Smith, Terre Haute, Alva T Layton Putnam county farmer, and Stella V Reder, Greencastle, R. 3.

I AST STEEL PLACED IN FKISCO<1 \GLAND BRIDGE \C ROSS l$\Y SAN FRANCISCO. July 18 Fifteen men unceremoniously shoved a five ton chord of steel in'o place yesterday and closed the gao in the San Francisco-Oakland Transbay Bridge, making the great structure more than 99 per cent complete The work crew car up a flag to mark the achievement after they had maneuvered the last link to its permanent position on a | Vr on the San Francisco side. Placing of the chord left only the oaving, the final riveting and the application of a few odds and ends to •omplete the $77 230 000 structure, which will start carrying traffic Nov. 12. The Bay Bridge listed as the costliest structure of its kind in the world, crosses the longest stretch of navigable water ever spanned by engineers four and one half miles It is eight and one fourth miles long, counting its approaches. Interurban trains an. I automobiles will utilize the span to supplant the great ferry system which has been carrying thousands of passengers across thy bay for three score years. The bridge was built by the state with a loan from the public works administration, and is publicly owned. Completion of this span and its picturesque sister, the Golden Gate Bridge, is to be celebrated with an international exposition in 1939.