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L BECKWITH DIED SUDf DENLY IN CHICAGO SUBURB L ( es HERE THURSDAY taj \\ ;ts Brother Of Mto» Ella (iHlth \nd Miss Emma BeekHith Of This City

, E u a Beckwith and MLss Emma nth received word early Wed- „ morning of the sudden death L brother, Orion W. Beckwith home in Libertyville, a suburb Ugo. He had been in poor for some time but his death Lily unexpected. Beckwith had made his home from Greencastle for many He came here from Danville, mily home when he was made lp h operator for the Big Four le rose to be trainmaster of the to division of this railroad anc'. mt to Kankakee. 111., where hr s headquarters for a number rs. I.ater he retired from active d work and had been engaged ine.ss in Chicago and Ubertyjice. Beckwith often visited here 11 be well remembered by many sastle friends. Besides the sisire. he is survived by the widow e daughter, Mrs. Jack Morrow body will be brought to Green Thursday afternoon at 2:14 he Monon and will be taken to gtor Funeral Home where fun irvlces will be held at four o’The Rev. McClure will conduct Lees Burial will be in Forest bnetery. pBBKKY FRUSTRATED jlble robbery of the Greencastle lodge hall was frustrated |y night when the crash of | glass attracted persons living ne hall, causing a sneak thief Les to beat a haatv retreat, pice to the hall was attempted png a window on the east side .building but the window glass kiken before the window could |ed open. poUce officers were called but 'ind no clues as to the identity [thieves. attempt to break into the g was made about 10:30. Coffman New ?ion Commander ;EI)S RUSSELL. BROWN TO pFFICE IN PUTNAM POST NO. US Coffman was selected com- ' of Putnam County Post, No. ■rican Legion during a mcetthc World War veterans Tuesight Mr. Coffman succeeds E Brown, who served most tly the past year, r officers included: Vice Corn's L. C. Conrad, James HuntImore. and William Rutledge h’ille Adjutant. Perry Rush; Officer. C. C. Tucker; Ser it-Arms, Cecil Bamett; Mun Mention delegates. C. C. Tuck sell Brown. Wilbur Conner; lies, Rd Coffman. L. C. ConI Lawrence Crump. IKE DAMAGES HOME breaking out in the attic of a r >’ frame residence at 608 College avenue was checked iy members of the local fire aent and damage was confined roof of the building, blaze was discovered about afternoon, soon after the Pr of Mrs. Howard Harris, the of the residence, had burned i’^ts in the kitchen stove. A re f| ue was blamed by firemen erior of the house was slightBged by water.

Today’s Weather <1 and 41 Local Temperature 0 >' cloudy and warmer tonight Ursday.

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THE DAILY BANNER

“IT WAVES FOR ALL”

SEEKS NEW CLUES

ASHEVILLE. N. C., July 22. (ITP) - Pretty Helen Clevenger’s bloodstained green silk pajamas were sent to the state chemist at Raleigh for analysis today, as Sheriff Laurence Brown cruised about this city in an armored car searching for new clues in her baffling murder. The pajamas clothed the 19-ycar old New York university student when an intruder entered her hotel room six days ago, criminally attacked ner and shot her in the breast. They were sent to W. M. Allen, state chemist, along with hits cf bed clothing and pieces of carpet from room 224 where Helen was a vacation guest. Five persons are in the sheriff’s custody for questions in connection with the crime. But none has been charged with participating in the slaying. Equipped with a typewriter and a bundle of paper, Sheriff Brown left his office today in one of the two special police cars capable ol traveling 105 miles an hour. He refused to reveal his destination.

LINDBERGHS IN BERLIN BERLIN, July 22. (UP)—Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh flew here today from their residence in England for a visit during which they will inspect German aviation facilities and may meet Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. They arrived at Staakcn airport at 5:07 p. m. The flight from England in their own plane required a little less than six hours.

GOV. McNUTT RAPS LAND0N IN RADIO TALK

INDIANA EXECUTIVE SAYS GOP NOMINEE IS -SUSCEPTIBLE INDIVIDUAL”

FLAYS NOTED PUBLISHER McNutt Declare* Endorsement Given Laadon By Hearst Is “The Kiss Of Death”

INDIANAPOLIS, July 22, (UP) — Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican iresidentml nominee, war. attacked is "an individual particularly susceptible to the Influences of stronger ninds and more ruthless wills,” by Gov. Paul V. McNutt in a radio adIreas last night. The Indiana executive branded the mdorsement given the Republican candidate by William Randolph Hearst, publisher, as “the kiss of leath." “I suppose it is too much to hope ‘hat Governor Landon will improve he opportunity afforded by his speech of acceptance soon to be deIvered by disclaiming responsibility for this poisonous support,” McNutt ’’aid. “Neither the Republican national •ommittee nor the individuals who ire doing Governor Landon’s talking it present are in ignorance of the mplications of the Hearst support,” le said, “but as yet there has been expressed no disclaimer cf any sort >f this Republican allegiance.” McNutt declared Hearst was “one >f the principal issues.” and what night be the “paramount issue” of he 1936 campaign. He said he not only wanted to outtne the general fundamental issues »f the campaign but that he also wanted to point out “some of the dnister forces at work to hamper and destroy the accomplishments of •‘resident Roosevelt’s administration m behalf of the whole people.” “And now the opposition socialists ;ommunists. fascists, reactionary Re--mblicans. and that last infirmity of Tolitical minds, the Liberty League, taken together, an unholy alliance of Bourbons and bolsheviki. wtmld crujify him,” McNutt said. He vigorously defended the policies >f the Roosevelt administration and leclared that “a Democratic presi lent and a Democratic congress laved the day when the country was : n need in 1933.” “The policies of the Roosevelt adlinistration having been indorsed by he minority party in the essentials <f the platform, the real issue of the 'residential campaign simmers down '.o which party and which candidate can best administer those policies,’’ he said. “I say the Republicans have accepted the Democratic party’s policies for . . . they carefully abstain from saying which laws enacted during the past three years they would repeal if they had a chanci,” the governor concluded.

(illKENCASTLE, INDIANA. WEDNESDAY, J1LY 1936.

GOV. LANDON CALM ON EVE OF ADDRESS

GOI* PRESIDENTIAL candidate TO ACCEPT NOMINATION ON THURSDAY'

VISITORS THRONG TOPEKA

Kansas Capital All “Drrased Up” For Big Republican Rally. Many Delegations In City. TOPEKA. Kan., July 22, (UP) Gov. Alf M Landon today approached a climactic hour in his political career at the same unhurried pace that carried him to triumph in this prairie state and to the Republican presidential nomination. Tomorrow evening when a flaming summer sun dies beyond the valley of the Kaw, the Kansas governor will go out on the steps of the state capitol to accept leadership ot his party and—more important to be formally introduced to the nation for the first time. But if Landon believes the reaction to his initial appeal to millions of voters who will hear his voice will weigh heavily in the campaign scales he has refused to permit even a breath of excitement to alter the even tenor of his routine. Up and down the capital's broad Kansas avenue, the bunting flaps from every lamp post, the banners drip like a giant fringe across the sky and sunflowers blaze among huge pictures of Landon and Knox towering over every foot of burning pavement. Along the already crowded streets surrounding the capitol and in bustling hotel lobbies visiting small town businessmen and farmers from drought-dried plains gather with the headline names of Republicanism in anticipation of a momentous day. From the assembly ground for tomorrow's huge pioneer days parade to the elm-shaded homes far out Topeka boulevard, the excitement of an impending celebration has begun to show. But not on Alf Landon. Landon sits with his coat off at a paper-burdened desk in the ancient capitol and goes about his business with a slow, easy smile. There is no clatter or turmoil around the governor He fits into the gaudy tapestry of a national political rally as comfortably as he has fitted into the background of the Kansas capital. This is a prairie town of gentle hills and spreading trees and broad, straight streets. The capitol, part of which was was constructed 50 years ago. rears its broad dome from the central business section of three and four story buildings and a few that stretch up to eight or ten floors. Carpenters have built a platform over the south steps of the capitol for the acceptance speech ceremonies and where sprinklers kept alive the grass, petunias, asters and shrubbery on the broad lawn. Along most of the city’s streets the grass is burned a dirty yellow and flowers even sunflowers are rarely seen. The corridors of the capito' were iark and cool to visitors coming in from the street. They arc old fashoned too, dating back to the early lays of Kansas’ statehood. Across the corridor from the governor’s office, at a desk marked “Information,” sat a thin old man with a drooping mustache, his feet propped up on the desk and green eyeshade Iropping over his forehead. The governor’s office, high-ceiling-sd with heavy, comfortable furniture, was crowded by half a hundred newspapermen. greeted at the door by Landon. On the wall was a painting of an ox-drawn prairie schooner under which was printed: “They crossed the prairie as of old tne pilgrims crossed the sea to make the west, as they the east, the homestead of the free.” In one corner hung the American flag and in the other the blue and yellow banner of Kansas smblazoned by a sunflower. A third comer sheltered a bust of George Washington. Landon strolled back to his desk, piled with telegrams and letters surrounded by a small statue of an elephant, a tiny bronze head of Will Rogers and the familiar plaster model of the three monkeys who “See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil.” He lounged forward in a big leather arm chair, his shoulders hunched and his hands gripping the edge of the chair like a small boy swinging his feet atop a stone wall. His smile was easy. Landon’s hair is an even sprinkling (Continued on Page Two)

Death Foil Mounts in Revolt-Torn Spain

Spain’s turbulent political history took a chaotic and bloody turn when revolt broke out in Morocco, spreading to other sections of the country as Fascist factions rebelled against the policy of the government in extending land-owning privileges tq

down-trodden peasants. Principals in the situation were Manuel Azana, recently elected president by a coalition of labor parties, and Gen. Francisco Franco head of the rebel forces, which Included part of the regular army.

Fatal Shooting Argument Climax

CONTROVERSY OVER “WHO IS THE BEST “G-MAN” ENDS IN KILLING GARY, Ind. July 22 <UP> An argument between an industrial policeman and an "honorary” deputy sheriff as to who was "the best Gman” ended in the fatal shooting of the former in a hotel tavern last night, witnesses told Coroner J. E. Doty today. John Brackman. 38, Chicago, who came here as an industrial policeman a week ago, was struck by three shots allegedly fired by Chailes Wilson. the ''honorary” deputy sheriff, coroner Doty reported. Witnesses said Wilson first drew the pistol when the argument between the men became heated and it was knocked from his hand and placed behind the bar. A short time later Brackman struck Wilson, drawing blood, and then apologized, investigators were told. Wilson regained possession of the pistol, left the tavern, and then returned and opened fire on his former companion, Coroner Doty was informed. Wilson was held on manslaughter charges. Coroner Doty said there was evidence Brackman had provoked the deputy sheriff to the shooting OGG FUNERAL WEDNESDAY

BARGAIN DAY ADS Advertisements of the following local firms, in connection with Greencastle Bargain Day, Saturday, July 25, will be found in today’s issue df The Daily Banner: Allan Lumber Co. A. & P. Grocery Co. Browning Hardware Co. J. F. Cannon * Co. Coca Cola Bottling Co. Dobbs Tire & Battery Service Eitcl Floral Co. Fleenor Drug Store Hillis Feed Store Sam Hanna’s Book Store Handy Sanitary Dairy Home Steam Laundry King. Morrison, Foster Co. Kroger Grocery Co. L. & H. Sales Co. Horace Link Co. Miller Grain Co. Metzger Lumber Co. Merit Shoe Store Moore Electric Mullins Drug Store Murphy 5 & 10 Cent St.re S. C. Prcvo Co. J. C. Penney Co. J. H. Pitchford Quality Meat Market Reeves Electric Appliances. Fire Destroys Five Hoorn Home BAINHKIDGE SCENE OF FIRE TUESDAY: DEFECTIVE FLUE IS CAUSE

FRANK IRVIN FIGHTS BLAZE ON TRANSPORT

LOCAL BOY HAS THRILLING EXPERIENCE WITH ARMY PLANE WEDNESDAY FIVE CIVILIANS “BAIL OUT” ('apt. Irvin and U«»-I‘ilnt Bring l>amuged Ship Safely Back to Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio DAYTON. O. July 22 (UP) Two veteran army air corps pilots brought a limping transport plane safely back to Wright Field here today after extinguishing a fire which stopped one of the plane’s two motors and caused five civilian observers to “bail out” in parachutes. Captains F. G. Irvin and J. F. Griffith fought the fire in the left motor with fire extinguishers after the smoke had filled the cabin and had them gasping for fresh air. The fire started without warning. The pilots could not determine immediately the cause. As the flames were fanned by the plane’s speed and the srooKe grew denser, Captain Irvin and Griffith ordered the civilian observers to jump. One by one they dropped into space, their parachutes opening quickly. All five fluttered to the ground safely.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock from the McCurry funeral home for Mrs. R. A. Ogg, well known Greencastle woman, who died Monday at her home on south Locust street. The Rev. C. M McClure was in charge of ’.he services. HURT IN FARM ACCIDENT Hubert Seller, Greencastle route two, was injured painfully but not reriously Tuesday when a mule team ran away with a mowing machine he was operating, cutting him ah^ut the legs and bruising him abotit the body. A Greencastle physician was called and treated him for the injuries at the home south of ifi' Meridian.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Miss Louise Abrams is attending a house party given by members of the DePauw chapter of Alpha Chi Omega at Lake Janies. Miss Florence Hughes is visiting relatives in Logansport. Miss Irma Grubb returned home from Whiting where she was the guest of her brother Lamar Grubb

and wife.

Miss Vera Kelly and Miss Lucille Kelly went to Monrovia today. Froni there they will go to Blue Bluffs to enjoy a week’s camping with a party i

of friends.

Glenn Lyon is visiting his cousin in Indianapolis.

Fire destroyed the five-room house, occupied by William Lukenbill and family and owned by Carl Beck, at 1 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in Bainbridge. The blaze started from a defective flue in the kitchen and the entire r oof was afire before an alarm was sounded. A volunteer bucket brigade prevented the flames from spreading to the home of Otis Ford. The burned dwelling is located in the southwest part of Bainbridge, near the Monon railroad and the lumber yard. Firemen and neighbors succeeded in saving the household contents. The loss is said to be sovered by incuramce. INDIANAPOLIS LIVF,ST(K'K Hogs 4,500; holdovers 262; market very uneven, 160 lbs. up. 15 to 25 cents higher with most advance on 250 lbs. down, underweights and packing sows steady; 160 to 250 lbs. $10.75 to $11.25; 250 to 280 lbs.. $1050 to $1085; 280 to 300 lbs., $10.30 to $1060; 300 lbs. up, $9.60 to $10.40; 130 to 160 lbs., $10 to $10.50; 100 to 130 lbs., $9.25 to $10; packing sows $8.50 to $9.25; few $0.50. Cattle receipts 1,700; ealvee 700; fed steers and yearlings opened slow, early sales steady, undertone weak; cows and heifers active, fully steady; bulk early steer sales $7.25 to $8.25; bulk heifers $6.50 to $8.00, top $8.50, few head $8.75; beef cows $4 25 to $5.00; cutter grades $3.00 to $4.00; vealers steady, bulk better grades $7.50 to $8.00. Sheep receipts 1.500; cteady with Tuesday’s average, most sales better grade $10 to $10.50, top $11; sheep steady, bulk fat ewes $2.50 to $3.00,

top $3.25.

The pilots took turns fighting the fire and handling tlio controls of the big Douglas transport, which was making a performance test flight. Flying at 2,000 feet, they slowly won their battle against the flames. Then they began the slow, hazardous flight back to home rase The plane landed at Wright Field a littk more than an hour- after ihc fire started. The transport loft Wright Field at 8 a. m. The fire broke out about 45 minutes later over Dunrcith, Ind.. midway between Richmond and Indianapolis. The civilian observers who jumped were H. D. McDaniel, John Cutting, William Cummings, an 1 two men named Weatherford and Hobson. During the return trip to Dayton the pilots told field officers, the plane slipped badly ami several times threatened to crash McDaniel, Cutting and Cummings were from Dayton; Weatherford from Middletown, Pa . and Hobson from Chanute Field. HI. Three of them landed in a cornfield | 3' miles south of Dunrcith anil the [ other two landed in a nearby field covered with oat stubbles. They were given medical treatment by a doctor at Spiceland before being returned to Dayton. Captain Irvin is the son of Will Irvin, south Indiana street. He is a graduate of the local high school and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity at DePauw university. He has been in the aviation corps for several years and is one of the piomincnt U. S. army fliers.

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NO. 239

U. S. WARSHIPS STEAMING TO STRIFE ZONE TWO SHIPS ORDERED TO PROUEED TO SPAIN AS REVOLT CONTINUES REVOLUTION TAKES TOLL Bloody Fighting Occurs Between Rebel ami Government Force*; Approaching Civil War MADRID, July 22 (UP» The government. in a strong offensive against the rebels, announced officially today that loyal forces had re captured the strategic city of ancient Toledo and Gaudalajara, capital of Gaudalajara province, adjoining Madrid. WASHINGTON. July 22. <UP)Reports indicating an increasingly serious situation in revolt-torn Spain prompted the sending of two warships to protect American lives, state department officials indicated today. The decision to send the Oklahoma and the Quincy into Spanish waters was reached at a conference between Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Admiral William H. Staro/oy, chief of naval operations and acting secretary of navy. Only a few hours before the conference the state department had raid no consideration was being given to the possibility of sending American ships to Spain The content of reports upon which the reversal was based wan net revealed. The mission of the two warships is entirely peaceful, officials emphasized. They will evacuate approximately 1,600 American citizens in the event fighting between Spanish government and rebel forces endangers their lives. It was the first time that American warships have boon ordered to European waters on a mission of this nature since the world war. The last time this government sent warships to protect American lives in a foreign country was in January. 1932, when ships of the Asiatic fleet were sent to Shanghai during lighting between Japanese and Chinese troops. The battleship Oklahoma, one of the first-line dreadnaughts of the navy, was ordered to northern Spanish waters from Cherbourg. France, where it was on a naval academy cruise with two other war vessels— the Arkansas and the Wyoming. She is expected at her destination tonight or tomorrow. The Quincy left Norfolk Sunday on a trial run to European waters. The recently completed 10.000-ton cruiser was only two days out of port when she was ordered to proceed to Gibraltor to await further orders. If necessary, the Oklahoma will evacuate Americans at northern and western Spanish ports and the Quincy it ports along the Mediterranean. The Oklahoma is commanded by Capt. William A Hall. " < > •!/ IdLISBON, Portugal, July 22. (UP) Gen. Francisco Franco, commander bi chief of the Spanish rebel forces, oroclaimed today a m'litary dictatorship throughout the country. He decreed also the dissolution of all workers’ organizations of any sort, in an effort to overawe the left wing labor union men whose militia has fought side by side with loyal soldiers and police. Franco’s order wan flashed from ‘he broadcasting station at Seville, the rebels’ general headquarters in the south, by (Jen. Queipo of Llano, commanding in the area, in Franco’s name. The order marked a new turn in the rebellion as fighting became general. and increasingly fierce, through out Spain. The revolt was assuming the proportions of a civil war. Franco's decrees struck to the heart of the situation They were the formal announcement to the country is a whole of the aim of the revolt— a steel army dictatorship and removal of an increasingly great power of f he left wing political and labor elcnents. LONDON, July 22. (UP) An Ex■hange Telegraph dispatch from Lisbon said today that many communsts who fled across the border from Orense said that Galician province is ompletely occupied bv rebels. Portuguese officials arrested the refugees, who included the socialist deputy Angel Gallarza.

Miss Edith Browning of the Central National Bank is spending her vacation at New Market and Champaign, 111.