The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 20 July 1936 — Page 1
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fiATLIRDAY IS BARGAIN DAY IN THIS CITY
fcEIM HANTS TO OFFER MAW attractiv e speciai.s ON Jl'I-Y >5
FIRMS
TAKE PART
IgrKU)" Prlf<*s on Hljfh Class Mercbanse Offered for Third Straight >Ionth
I (jreenra-stle's monthly Bargain Day )i July will be held Saturday. This is the third event of its kind inducted by the local merchants )is summer, who are cooperating ith the Chamber of Commerce. A toTof 29 firms will offer special values Kis Saturday. All articles included in Li^ain Day are high class merchunaml well worth the price asked |r the one day. [That these Bargain Days are provpopular was evidenced by the ft that last month, several of the ores sold out of their special items ng before closing time, and practic|y every firm reported splendid release by the buying public. Advertisements of specials for Satfday's bargains will be found in 'flic lily Banner Wednesday evening. Tin following firms are taking lit in Saturday’s Bargain Day: Ullan Lumber Co. jA & P. Grocery Co. Browning Hardware Co. Lj. K. Cannon & Co. Coca Cola Bottling Co. Dobbs Tire & Buttery Service Eitel Floral Co. Fleenor Drug Store Creencastle Hardware Co. Billis Feed Store Bam Hanna’s Book Store Yamly Sanitary Dairy Home Steam Laundry King, Morrison, Foster Co. p<ioger Grocery Co. & H. Sales Co. horace Link Co. Miller Grain Co. Metzger Lumber Co. Merit Shoe Store fc Moore Electric • I , Mullins Drug Store Murphy . r > & 10 Cent Store E uthern Indiana Power Co C. Prevo Co. C. Penney Co. Li H Pitchford Duality Meat Market Reeves Electric Appliances.
P RICK DRIVER LEADS REDS
INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, (UP) — pnzel Stocker, Hammond, WPA Fk driver, today headed the comknist party in Indiana as candi le for governor. Uther nominees chosen at the fty’s state convention yesterday |luded James A. Wood, Anderson titenant governor; Hugh Leeka Haute, secretary of state; NorC. Blake, Indianapolis, state jriitor; and John Gorins, IndianaIr negro, state treasurer.
McNutt opens fire Indianapolis. July 20. (UP)— Istered by a report showing a fesury balance of more than $10, )000, Gov. Paul V McNutt was Fared today to base the 19,"16 caml> n and his hid for the 1940 DemoItic presidential nomination on a Lparison of records with Gov. A If Landon of Kansas. |A general fund balance of $10.1.205 for the fiscal year ended lie .'10 was reported by the Indiana kiutive last night.
King's Assailant MAKING PLANS
FOR PAVILION AT CITY PARK BUILDING TO HE EREC TED 11V VOLI NTEER LABOR AUGUST 5
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Present Plans ( all for Two 80-Foo! Wings. Building to Be 89 Feet Wide
® George McMahon ' Relayed from London to New York across the Atlantic by radutphoto. and thence transmitted to Cleveland by soundphoto. this International Illustrated News photo gives a closeup of George Andrew McMahon, the eccentric middleaged journalist who attempted to assassinate King Edward Vlll of Great Britain.
UNION PARTY ORGANIZES CLEVELAND. July 20. (UP) — Leaders of three powerful minority political movements organized todav for a nation wide campaign to defeat
| President Roosevelt which was
Flinched here in the second annual convention of Townsend oid age pen■don clubs. Their candidate is William I.enike, presidential entry of the
new Union party. |
They alio oppose Gov. Alf M Lanlon. Republican presidential candidate. but the fire of enthusiasm is hottest against the new deni. Leadus of the campaign, designed to prevent cither major candidate from obtaining a majority of presidential electors and to throw the election of the next president into tl « house of
representatives, are:
1. Father Charles E. Coughlin, whor e radio oratory created the Nutioiial Union for Social Justice. 2. Gerald L. K. Smith, boss of what is left of the late Huey P. Long’s chare our-wealth movement. I .T Dr. Francis E Townsend, co- ‘ founder and owner of OH Age Re- 1
volving Pensions, Ltd.
Farmers Awair Landon Address
Burns Fatal To Leonard Young
18 YEAR OLD I.OGANSPORT YOUTH DIES AT PI T\ \M COUNTY HOSPITAL Leonard Alton Young, age 18 years, of Logansport, died at the Putnam county hospital. Saturday night at 8:50 o’clock. Death was due to electrical burns. Mr. Young suffered severe burns Inly 7 when he came in contact with a live electric wire carrying 2:100 volts, while wrecking the old gas plant just south of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks on state road 45, which resulted in his death Saturday light. The body was taken to the home parents, Mr and Mrs. Henry William Young at Logansport. where funeral services and burial will be held.
Plans for the exhibit pavilion at the city park are prognssing rapidly,
it was announced Monday.
Arthur Perry, who has volunteered his services as architect and general supervisor, states that the pavilion I plans call for two 80-foot wings, forming a right angle sector. The j building will be 50 feet wide, allowj ing for 10-foot adjustable sized pens | on either side and a in-foot open aisle between. The proposed location of the building, just south of the right field position of the softball diamond forms a natural amphitheater for a
show ring and judge’s stand. , . , • i 11 The pavilion will serve at least | 1 0||I‘|| yMMIIiHM*
three events this year: the 4-II club fair; the Putnam County Horse Show, and the Southern Indiana Fox Hunters’ Association. It will also have possibilities for use as a general
sales barn.
C. B. Edmonson is cooperating with Mr. Perry in preparing the grounds and foundation. The tentative plans call for erection of the building on Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 5, with volunteer labor. Much of the material for the structure will also be donated, it was said. More details in connection with the pavilion will be announced mter, those in charge announced.
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REVOLUTION GRIPS SPAIN; MANY KILLED
41 ASS EXECUTIONS OF LOYAL ISTN BV REBELS IS REPORTED
CHILDREN A4ION i
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I APPROPRIATION ALLOWED INDIANAPOLIS, July 20, (UP) — (ditional appropriations authorized the state board of tax commisiners today Included: *utnam county $60,680, of which ,556 is for public welfare. Today’s Weather $ and © Local Temperature ft Partly cloudy north, scattered pidershowers south tonight or ksday; not much change in temature. Minimum 65 i a. m 67 7 a. m 72 8 a. m 77 9 a. m 79 0 a m 82 1 a. m 80 p Noon 82 1 P m 83 2 P m 85
Saturday's Bain Broke Heat ^ ave
COMMUNITY' ENJOYS RELIEF FROM TWO WEEKS OF INTENSE HEAT Saturday’s fine rain storm broke the heat wave which blanketed Putnam county for a pel iod of two weeks with temperatures ranging "rom 100 degrees to 111 and the past weekend was a pleasant one, with he maximum temperature Sunday going only to 88 degrees at 11 Vclock. A week ago, the same temperature ranged up to_ 107 degrees. The minimum of Sunday wight was 65 dc (i^es. which compares favorably with northern resort climates and everyone was cooled off to start the week Monday morning. The low mark of the weekend was reached at 4 o'clock Monday morning. Much of Sunday was cloudy but Monday the sun came out bright but not hot. The same weather con ditions prevailed over much of Indiana. Saturday’s rain totalled approximately one-half inch, and did a world of good. In came down in such a manner that every drop benefitted the parched ground and growing crops and there was said to have been a big difference in the appearance of corn Monday morning following the rain.
BURIAL AT ROACHDALE Funeral services will he held Monday evening at 8:00 o’clock at th A Planner and Buchanan mortuary in Indianapolis, for Miss Gwendolyn Dix on of Brownsburg, burial will be at Koachdale. Miss Dixon passed away Saturday afternoon in St. Vincent’s hospital after and extended illness She wa born near Rockville, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Dixon and at tended the public schools there Latei she entered DePauw university’s music school. The deceased had for many yean been an active member of the Demo catic party and had been secretary tr Edward Stein, speaker of the house o( representatives, during the last regular session of the Indiana legislature Miss Dixon had also held positions ir the state highway department, the state excise division, and the probation department.
.. DOBBS’ SUCCESSOR ON < ITY COUNCIL TO BE NAMED
THIS EVENING
Members of the Giceneastlc city council will meet in special session :iiis evening at eight o’clock for the purpose of electing a .successor to Albert L. Dobbs, retired council neniber, who resigned July 1 to be•ome postmaster here. At the last regular meeting of the •-ouncil Tuesday, July 14 the memicrs voted to hold a special meeting his evening to fill the vacancy. Other business which will face the ■ouncilmcn this evening -s appointment of a board of trustees of four n inhcrs to control and manage :i - encast le's municipal park system ' Vntrol of the city park system has i'c-i tofore been in the Hands of a -omniittee working with approval of ihe-council. After the election of (tie •omniittee members tonight management of the park system will be entcely in their hands. One member of the committee will ■ named for one year, a second for ’-.v - years, a third for three years md the fourth for four years Each yc >r thereafter, at the expiration of terms of each committee member, a successor will be elected to serve a
four year term.
One efter! of the drouth other than lls adverse aspects tins been lo turn the attention of the American tarmci to the addiess hy Gov Allred M Landon on July 23 when he will formally incept the G O D nomination for president This speech lakes on Increasing importance because it will probably outline Landon s stand on farm relief and agricultural reconstruction One of the unusual angles to the situation is that it was just four veins ago that I’resident Roosevelt, speaking from the same steps ot the Kansas capitol, outlined
his farm program.
LOCAL OITION \\ ANTED INDIANAPOLIS, Inly 20, (UP) The Indiana Anti-Saloon League will seek enactment of a law for local option on the liquor question at the next session of the legislature, or Charles H Winders, a member of the league's executive committee announced yesterday in an address before a church congregation Dr. Winders charged that the present liquor setup -dH worse than the old saloon.’’
WELL KNOWN LOCAL WOMAN DIED TODAY
MRS K. A. OGG PASSED AWAY AFTER SHORT ILLNESS MONO\Y
1)1 \TH SHO( Iv
FRIENDS
REVEAL PACT % ITH TRUSTEES ON WPA JOBS
WORKS OFFK IAI.S OPEN ROM S TO DIRECT RELIEF Cl IENTS; FULL QUOTA EMPLOY ED
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES Judson Gibbers, 85 Civil war veteran, passed away Sunday morning at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Alex Bryan, eight miles east of Greencastle. Fiis death was the result of a heart attack. Funeral services will bo conducted from the home at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning with the Rev. Reuben Masten in charge. Burial will he in the Stilesville cemetery.
POLICE SEEK NEGRO
AUTOS CRASH ON SQUARE An automobile driven by William Hurst, of this city, collided wi’b one Jriven by Harry Lawson, of Illinois, at the corner of Washington and Inliana streets about 10 o'clock Satur-
day night.
while Lawson was proceeding south on the same street. When the Illinois car attempted to make a left hand turn into Washington street the two cars crashed in the middle of the intersection. Both drivers had the green light, Lawrence Graham, city marshal, stated. The noise of the crash attracted a large crowd and it was several minutes before the damaged cars could be removed and normal traffic resumed.
INDIANAPOLIS. July 20 Terms of an agreement between the Indiana Township Truste -s’ Association and the state Works Progress Administration concerning certification of applicants for WPA employment were announced today hy Wayne Coy, state works administrator. The plan in effect the jmst year will be continued with two changes Persons who arc receiving relief currently may he referred by the township trustees tb tin- governor’s com- | mission on unemployment relief as for works progress employ j ment on the basis of their tie-,1 for
1 relief.
LIFELONG PI TNAYI < OI NTY tj^ ( . second change provides tha# RESIDF.NT WAS RETIRED tj )( , trustees may refer to the c >m ROA( HDALE MERCHANT [mission those whom tney believi in
1 need of relief hut not receiving it, as
John Henry Grantham, 83 years e ||gjpp. f or Works Progress Adminold. a retired merchant and lifelong j s (j. a (j 0 n jobs. It is stipulated that resident of Putnam county, died at email refer such per m: nly his home in Koachdale Saturday after u l; iking a proper investigation a short illness determine actual need in their Mr. Grantham was the son of Elijah farn i| ies
The practice for the last year,
SLUG, ROB OPERATOR
FORT WAYNE, July 20, (UP) — la milts last night slugged Edwin C. Knnke, filling station operator, and robbed him of $160. Knake suffered a brain concussion when he was
knocked unconscious.
J. II. (I rant ham FuiKTal Monday
Fierce Flglil ng la Morocco. Revolt Against Spa’n's left V.lng
Gove nuen;
(Ty fitephen Hall, United Press Corresjxniilent) I.TRBON. Portuval. July 20 (UP) Radio messages flashing out to Europe from g voluLon torn Spain asserted to lay that rebels were dominant in all of the country by G illcia, Asturias and Gatali nia. One mecaage reported that the rebels held Cadiz and prorlaiine.l a state of war there; another that rebels dominated at Gonlnbu and were fraternizing with the people. MADRID. July 20 (UP) While Americans were heliia invited by the United States embassy to take refuge there, the government announced by radio today that the right wing army revolt in Madrid had been crushed. All rebel barracks in the capital have surrendered after fierce fighting ecpecially at the Monte is barracks. which is in the ham la of government troops, workeis and militia, representing the the left wing faction, the announcement said There was no direct word of the situation in other cities although disturbing reports were received of fighting and casualties. TANGIER. Morocco, July 20 (UP) Mars execution of loyalist r by rebel troops was reported today Hy refugees from Sjinni.sh M iroceo, held in a merciless grip liv the men who precipitated the revolt against Spain’s left wing government. A prominent resident of Tetuan, newly arrived from the Spanish zone, told me this morning that he ’.er.sonsllv flaw the mass execution:, the victims including high army officers who refused to Join ‘he rebels He said also that t -n Moorish children were killed by bombs from a loyalist airplane which bombardr- 1 the town and dcr' ay -d a si hool
house.
Deceased Was Widow Of Prominent Educator Who Died Only Few
Months Previous
Mrs. R. A. Ogg, age 78 years, passed away at her home on south Locust street, Monday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock. Mrs. Ogg had been in failing; health for several months, but had i been able to be up and doing ber usu-
al work. She was taken ill suddenly! ? ...
Stones of refugees ngri” that
late Monday morning ami lived only . , , , ,
there has been a tenable slaughter in
a short time. .. . , . , ... .,
the rebel territory. ( ivihans as well
She is survived by three nieces, I . ..
as army men who rcfu -c l to cooper-
Mis. Grace Westfall and Mrs. Louise . , , , 1 ate with rebels hive been victims,
3 aylor of Bloomington and Mrs. HE
Stilwell of Evansville and two nephews, Frank Logan of Mt. Vernon, 111., and Joseph Logan of Anderson. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afterno n at 1:30 o’clock from the McCurry Funeral home Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Grantham, who ow-ned the land on
which much of the town of Roach- w f, e j.eby the commission may reindale now stands. He was a bookkeep- veS (jjr a ( e un y cases referred to it by
the trustees or may refer eases back
FORT WAYNE. July 20 (UP) An underworld negro known as “Old Folks” was being hunted here by police today in connection w ;, h the murder yesterday of Louis Dupre, 50 year old negro dope peddler. Dupee, whose police record included sentences for crimes ranging from petit larceny to murder, was killed by an assailant who cracked his head
with a table leg.
Police believed the killing grew out of an argument when Dunce aerused two acquaintances of cutting into his dope racket. He had benuj-cn.
convicted twice for flollme naieotics. j -Funeral services were held at 2:30
1 o’clock Monday afternoon in the
[ Chastain funeral home.
Gen. Francisco Fram o. governor of the Canary Islands, is directing operations and according to reports here is still at Ceuta, giving his orders by the powerful wireless station there to his men in Spain proper as well ns in Morocco. Refugees are trudging along the roads from the Spanish zone reeking the protection of the fntern'itional
zone.
The refugees said thousands more.
„ .... , are fleeing afoot along the roads bo-Sunday-night as pole e iaide.I liiti hid- ! bind them, seeking n fti •- lo re an 1 inj; place, but he left a note express- : in French Morocco The rebels have ing regret that "I could not have got- i commandeered all vehii 'ex in the
SI SUE< T KILLS si LI'
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. July 20 A loblierv sc pcct committed suicide
or years ago in the first bank estab-
lished in Koachdale.
Survivors are three daughters, Mrs Agnes Woods and Mrs. W. C. Barnes of Indianapolis and Mrs. Horace
1.0aid Oi Cray fordwrttto; a son, Edgar BOC , ation and
Grantham of Koachdale; eight grandchildren and four great-giandchild-
MONON TRAIN HAS CLOSE CALL FOR THE SECOND TIME The same Monon freight train that
Hurst was going north on Indiana was wrecked at I’utnamville a month
ngo, had a second close call at the same place Saturday evening. It was said the only thing that saved it from being wrecked was the fact that all trains are running at reduced speed over the point. The pony trucks of the locomotive Jumped the track and before the train could be stopped, it had travelled from the passing track j to the “rock cut” nearly a mile north. Fortunately the engine remained on the rails and only a minimum
I amount of damage resulted.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLB
Reese Matson is here from Chicago visiting friends. Mr and Mrs. Frank Donner motored to Indianapolis. Mrs. Ralph Howard and sons are the guests of relatives in Charleston,
111.
Russell Nichols, small son of Prof, and Mrs. E. B. Nichols was slightly
to them for more adequate informa-
tion, is continued.
The agreement is set forth in n letter issued jointly by the trustees* as-
the Works Progress
Administration to trustees, commission visitors, district diiector? and supervisors of the division of employ-
ment.
The letter outlines of conditions of i Works Progress Administration employment set out in the recent administrative order. Any person over 16, not disqualified hy age, health, or s« rvitude may be employed, prefer cnee being given to persons certified as in need of relief by a public relief agency. Only one member of a family will be employed. Veterans receiving bonuses shall not be disqualified and all workers ere expected to maintain active registration with offices designated by the state employment service. At present, the Works Pi ogress Administration in Indiana is employ-
ten hold of a gun and played a game with you ” The man was Paul M Hacker, 35 j years old, sought since early last ! week in connection with the robbery of Mrs. Quince Ferguson. Saturday night Hacker went to the home of Mrs Anna Lntkin and asked to be allowed to hide. He stayed tm re until poliee arrived Sunday evening. As tic* of fleers approached Hacker ran onto the hack porch and drank the poison. He died at police headquarters a short time later. In his pocket police found the note which said: "To the poliee. Well, 1 think you guvs win. No hard feelings. It’s hern good, wholesome fun. Only sorry 1 could not have gotten hold of a gun and played a ganit with you. But this is not so If you really want to make men and women out of kids, start when they are kids and don’t send them up so young. After a guy serves a few years he gets so he don’t care. The parole board is
Spanish zone. Since my arrival here Saturday night 1 have made "cviral efforts to get Into the Spanish I rritoiy without success. The frontier is closely guarded. But the officers in charge of the Spanish frontier [Ki t arc enthusiastically talkative and say that, their movement is bncke i by all the Spanish fascists. They asserted that they have been completely successful in Spanish Morocco. They asserted also ihat twe battalions of the Spanish Foi i -n Legion ate on the way to M il ■ a I boat to reinforce the nil I nr there. The road to Laraclc' in the Spanish zone is gir't I I re ular nrmy men who have ioinc I the Foreign Legion rebels. They have ordered all civilians to keep to tb r homes unless they want to join the rebellion and not even to peer from their I windows. Gafes and restau’an's are closed. Five loyal Soanish warships are
injured while riding his tricycle on
Seminary street, when he ran into a in 6 ful1 quota but officials expect t
j tin quota will be increa.vd later.
the cause of crime that and the sys- , anchored here Tic i r*. mutinle I tem you guys help out.” I and hold the right win • officers pris-
1 local jiolire said Hacker previously oners,
served thirteen years in prison for q-f,,. cruiser Lilieita l n id the derobbery of a store in Brown county, stroyer Churntca ariimlih a morning lie is survived by a divorce'! wife, ! a}t u 1( , gunboat Lay a 1 ft for an unnow living under an unknown name )< n own desination.
at Muncie; ids parents, two brothers
and three sisters. j GIBRALTAR, July 20. (UP) — ! Bodies of more then 200 Spaniards, M ARRIAGE LICENSE killed in a fight between : * my rebels Harvey G. Walker, Greencastle R aIK j i e ft wing forces, lay today in the farmer, and Dorothy J. Range, i ntreets of La I.inca across the fronGreencastle. I (Continued on Page Two)