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CUKKNCA.STI.K, INDIANA, MONDAY, Al'lll ST III,
NO. 254
E PARE park I OR Ml FAIR OPENING DAY CONCESSIONS ARRIVE >'DAV; WIU BE ERECTED j oN Tt ESDAV lmproves park DRIVES trr< Pn 1 * " ,,rk ° n Two s,ru '" Esbibit Tent To Arrive Wednesday
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h the opening of Putnam coun1936 4-H flub fair only two away the Robe Ann park faird is beginning to take on a air as fair committees prepare e three big days of entertain(or Putnam county people, re ride concessions moved into park today and will be erected day Already on the fairgrounds a ferris wheel, merry-go-round, O .loop plane, chair-o-plane and ddy ride Other entertainment jasions will arrive during Tuesand Wednesday and will be set or the opening Thursday mornmsing arrangements will no be a problem after Wednesas a crew of carpenters are ing work on the new exhibit lion and the park shelter house promise to have them ready for pancy before Thursday morning, mber of d-H boys are assisting placing stalls in the livestock ling An industrial exhibit tent arrive Wednesday and will be ed Wednesday afternoon ans at present include arrangets for an information headquartent containing telephone facilifor the convenience or visitors at fairgrounds. Other infonnationeatures will also be included if ?nt plans can be followed ayor Zeis announced today that yovement work on park drives Bloomington and Anderson ;?ts has begun and will be corned before Wednesday. Both drives be oiled to minimize unpleasant throughout the park. A culvert been placed and a new entrance been built to the park from Tenstreet Further improvement k about the fairgrounds will be Spieled before the three day event
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ACCIDENTAL DEATH TOLL 12 IN STATE
NINE OF VICTIMS WERE KILLED
IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS
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TWO DROWNINtiS
WT’A Worker Killed
BONUS PAID *0,0011 IN ITALY ROME, Aug, 11 Santa Claus, wearing Uncle Sam’s ocard and carrying a mailbag, has dropped United States bonus bonds at the door of 20,000 Italo-Auierican world '
war veterans.
Great is the rejoicing among scoies of little villages in the Apenines. The | bonus brought wealth almost un- |
heard of to many residents.
In contrast to the $SU be mis decreed reported! by Premier Mussolini for Itlay-Abys-I sinian 'war veterans tin American When Struck I payment ranges up to $1,500.
Holland’s Queen to Abdicate?
By Train. Auto Veridriits Top List For Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind . Aug. 10 'UP' At least 12 accidental deaths, one of which resulted from traffic mishaps, were reported today as the weekend toll in Indiana. Two drownings were reported and another person was struck and killed
by a train.
Roland Frick, South Bend, accidentally backed his automobile over his 18-months-old son, Roger, causing injuries which resulted in the child's
death three hours later.
Wayne Andrews Hatton, died from injuries suffered when his automobile overturned after it struck
gravel near Lafayette.
Dan Schaefer, 38. was killed and four other men were injured, none seriously, when their car overturned three times and plunged down an embankment near Lawrenceburg. Jess Edwards, 26, and Russell Lockwood. 24, dove into Eagle Creek here for a final swim before going home after an automobile ride. Half way across the stream Lockwood heard his companion cry, "I can’t make it.” He was unable to reach dwards before he sank. The wives of the men were standing on the bank
and witnessed the tragedy.
Raymond Hamm, 8, drowned near Petersburg when he stepped into a gravel dredge hole in White River. Layman Chambers, 60. a WPA worker, was killed instantly when struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train at a Valparaiso crossing.
AUGUST 10 TO OCTOBER Id WILL William Roach, 35, Evansville, died
Tragedy has written finis to the madcap career of Representative Marion A. Zioneheck. He leaped to instant death from the window of his fifth floor office in Seattle, Wash.
Putnam Squirrel Season Opened
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■IT FOR $3,000 DAMAGES IS sent FROM MORGAN COUNTY complaint for damages in the of $5,000 was venued to Putnam inty from Morgan circuit court iday, a result of a truck-automo-collialon in Indianapolis Stptem13, 1935. suit was originaMy filed in i irtinsvllle November 18 by Fred L ! rinEton, the driver of the truck, ! ainst Oiner St John, the owner of ' automobile. c alleged accident occurred at comer of east Washington and . ^ streets in Indianapolis The lr 'liff seeks $5,000 damages for in- j ocs he received when hi® truck and • p St John auto collided. c,r(, y an d Cox of Indianapolis repn * the plaintiff in the case and j ston. Steers, Beasley and Klee of J'tianapolis are attorneys for the de- 1 "'lant. ax Hoard Approves Additional Levies WntANAPOLIS, Aug. 10, (UP) state tax board today approved M'litlonal appropriation of $550 1 Putnam county but refused to nilZl ’ uppioprlation fer tiie genal f und $17,587 in gasoline taxes. J t)r ' Iflinna state board of tax mmissioners Saturday approved n additional appropriations sought ^ '"nships of Putnam county hut ‘I’ a county appropriation on the nt'is that it was not resulting m an emergency situation. PProval was received for the apPriation of $2,025 for Washington )ria ,nwns hip and for an approLjp 5 *-l 250 for Cloverdale town* !ui. remon8trance ti,p,i b y th '' fitate Iti'in '° rS !lssoc ' a li nn is delaying ackr^r ty flppropriati ° n to - ™ ,s "KKK s WEATHER t,, " i showers beginning of jThujg,, a “’ a ‘ n about Wednesday or Iui.l,' a ' Temperature near or “ 8ht| y above normal.
Hoosier nimrods in sixty-nine counties constituting the Southern Zone, opened the squirrel hunting season Monday with every prospect for their best season in recent years, as game wardens and conservationists in evety section of the state have reported increased numbers of squirrels during the spring and summer months. Last minute purchases of hunting licenses from the Putnam county clerk indicated that many local hunters were tramping the woods this morning in a search for the elusive |
game.
The law governing squirrel hunting prohibits the killing or possession of more than five squirrels in any one day. Other provisions prohibit the sale of squirrels except for breeding purposes and make it unlawful to "take, kill or shoot at, or in any manner distrub a squirrel in public park® or state grounds, or within one-half mile thereof.'* Putnam county is one of the sixtynine constituting the southern zone. The hunting of squirrels will not be legal in the area constituting the northern zone until Tuesday, September 1 and continue for 60 days ending on October 30. MARRIAGE LICENSE Lemuel C. Patterson, laborer and Pauline Neely, both of Greencastle. Triple Funeral Held For Slaying Victims HUNTINGTON, Ind., Aug. 10. (UP) Harry E Singei 25 confessed slayer of three members of a Wabash county farm family, today was hold to the gran I jury convening Sept. 7 after pleading guilty to the brutal crime in a justice of the peace
court.
After his appearance before Squire Joseph Melvin at Wabash, the redhaired farm hand was brought here
for safe keeping.
Prosecutor Eugene Weesner said
American officials in Italy are busy receiving and (omtersignlng the bonds and hanuing them over. Drill h Summons Mrs. Ido Allen DIED AT HOME Ol RROTHER, JOHN LLOYD. NEAR RUSSELLVILLE Mrs. Ida Lloyd Allen age 64, died rather suddenly at tin’ home of her brother, John A. Lloyd, near Russellville on Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Allen was a daughter of the late Isaac Lloyd and was bo»r and reared in the Russellville community ami was widely known in that section of Putnam county a. well as in Greencastle. In recent years she has been residing in Indianapolis with her daughter, Mrs, Mildred Johnston, who with a son, Lloyd Allen, survive. Other survivers include’ two brothers, Oliver Lloyd, of near Russellvil'e; Ed Lloyd, of Waveland. and an uncle, Sam Lloyd, of Greencastle. Funeral services will be held from the Federated church in Russellville at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. Hotel Hall liov Confesses Grime
in Cook county hospital at Chicago, from injuries suffered when he fell under a Pennsylvania freight train he attempted to board. Ivan T. Starnes, 19, .was killed instantly and two companions were injured, one perhaps fatally, when their automobile left the road near Crawfordsville and overturned. Vester Wheat, 19, suffered concussion and was in a critical condition. Michael Stofega, 56. suffered fatal injuries when run down by an automobile on State road 130 near Valparaiso. Other deaths reported were those of Mrs. Walter E. McCartney, 45, Shelbyville; Clarence Sullivan, 52, Oolitic; and O. W. Tyner, 63, Curtiflville, all traffic accident victims.
Dain t ails In Central States
DOWNPOUR WORTH >111 LIONS OF DOLLARS TO FARMERS IN THIS AREA CHICAGO, Aug. 10 1 UP> A rain storm worth millions of dollars to drought area farmers mushroomed over the north central states today. The rains originated in southern Wisconsin last night, and spread slowly toward Illinois and Indiana, Ind Eastern Iowa. Agricultural statisticians in Milwaukee estimated the rain added millions to the prospective 1936 income
NEGRO ADMITS SLAYING OF COED AT ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Ijueen Wllhelmlnit
Holland will have a new queen next year following the expected marriage of Princess Juliana, inset, to Prince Charles of Sweden, according to reports from London which also predict the abdication of Queen Wilhelmina who has reigned 46 years
ASHEVILLE, N. C.. Aug. 10 (UP) A deputy sheriff took a blood staineil revolver and a mashed bullet to New York today to complete with the aid of metropolitan police scientists, the evidence on which authorities next Monday will seek an indictment of Martin Mooie, a gigantic young negro, for the murder of Helen Clevenger, 19 year old New York university student. Miss Clevenger was sho* and clubbed to death with a gun butt in her room in the Battery Park hotH the night of July 16. Moore, a hotel hall hoy, confessed the slaying yesterday to Sheriff L. E. Brown and two New York City detectives. A gun loaded with cartridges of the type that killed Miss Clevenger the gun taken to New York today was found under the porch of his home. . District Solicitor Zob B. Nettles announced that he would ask a grand jury convening next Monday to indict Moore “We’ll try him within the week and have this murder < leaned up in less than five weeks after it occurred,”
he said.
Another negro employe of the Battery Park hotel. Banks Taylor, a pantry boy. provided the clU" that
caused Moore to confess.
Taylor told the sheriff Thursday, after keeping quiet three weeks in fear of becoming involved, that Moore owned “an old Spanish pistol.” ; Ballistics experts already had deter-j mined that the gim that killed Miss Clevenger was of a caliber not manu-
CHIEF EXPRESSES THANKS Marshal Lawrence Graham report- , ed Monday that he appreciated the cooperation accorded an appeal made j by the police department last week regarding bicycle riding around the square on Saturday night. The chief stated that there was not a boy or girl on a bicycle in the Business dis trict Saturday night which did much to eliminate possible injury during the usual traffic congestion fiom 6
until 10 p. m.
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Robbery Suspects Captured Here PI'TNAM SHERIFF ASSISTS IN < YPTURE or ALLEGED
ROKRERS
James Hunter, colored, of Texas, and Charles W. Jones, colored, of Tennessee, were placed in tin Vigo county jail Saturday evening charged with investigation and identification as the lesult of a robbery of the Big I Four restaurant, Twenty-fifth stieet, and the Big Four railroad Saturday, j
I in Terre Haute.
While the restaurant was closed lor a few minutes shortly after noon Saturday it was entered and a j pocket book containing $13 stolen Some trainmen saw a colored man , run from the establishment and : board a freight train going east. , i Sheriff William Baker, upon being I ! notified, called JoJhn Sutherlin shei-
j iff of Putnam county
Saturday afternoon two colored j men riding the tram together were 'arrested at Greencastle by Sheriff I Sutherlin and deputy sheriffs from Terre Haute returned both of them to
the Vigo county jail.
of Wisconsin farmers. The heaviest
rain in more than a month. It factored in the United States I drenched pastureland and grain fields I Brown questioned Moore again. ■ which had not recovered from the * # ~~~ —’ earlier drought. ' Heavy Rain Fell The rain was accompanied by winds| Here DlirinjI' NlJlilt
Two South Putnam ^ ouths Pay Damages
Walter Wagaman of near M irtinsville. seriously injured in a train-auto collision near Cloverdale December 22, filed a $25,000 damage complaint against the Monon railroad in Put1 nam circuit court Monday morning as a result of injuries he received at
the time of the accident
The collision occurred about a mile and a half southeast of Cloverdale i on state road 42 Ira Wagaman. owner and driver of the car, a hroth- , or of the plaintiff in the damage suit was killed instantly. They wer I route to Cloverdale to visit a brother, j Omer, when the fatal accident oc-
j currcd.
According to the complaint filed j today the car in which the blethers I were riding wan praetieally on the track before either of the men rcali ized that a train was approaching. I The plaintiff alleges that no bell or I whistle on the train was sounded until the locomotive was within 20(1 feet of the crossing and the driver of the ear did not hear the warning In time
to avoid a collision
According to the complaint VVagaman was injured about th» head, limbs and body and Iris nervous system was shocked resulting in a seri
ous injury to his brain.
Tiie plaintiff also stares that he was rendered Iid ipalde of working and earning money and lias been compelled to abandon his farming business. A*! a result he seek.' 1 $25,000 compensation from the railroad Kivett am! Kivett of Martinsville are attorneys for tiie plaintiff Charles McGaugliey lias been ob-
tained as local counsel.
FIVE GERMAN PLANES HELD RY LOYALISTS
SPANISH OFFU'IMS Cl,AIM ONE PLANE UONI AINED MILITARY EQUIPMENT DENIED BY GERMAN EMBASSY Daily Air Service Ret wee a Madrid and Berlin Suspended foi “laical Reasons” MADRID. Aug. 10. (Up) A war ministry statement ssseited today that loyalists captured a German Junkers airplane, containing military armaments, at Azuaga 60 nrilea north of Seville, the rebel southern headquarters. A few few hours before the anj nouncement the daily German Luft- | tiansa airplane service between Madrid and Germany wan suspended sud-
| denly.
| It was reported Hint the ah plane I captured was the identical airplane which loyalist sources said larded at Barajas airfield, near Madrid yesterday morning, and took off hurriedly after a brief talk between its pilot
and a Lufthansa official.
There were reports also that as soon as this planf left, loyalist authorities seized moor Junkers ai-plahes which were waiting a* Barajas air-’ field to evacuate German refugees. The war ministry statement said that the airplane seized at Azuaga was of tiie Junkers “52" type and
that it carried a crew of four.
Rumors were circulated that the plane was piloted by a German and that of the other three occupants two were Germans, the third a Spaniard. The German embassy’s only comment was an emphatic denial that there were any Germans in the plane seized at Azuaga Suspension of the Lufthansa service was explained as due to “local reason;' “ An embassy spokesman said i* was hoped that the service might be resumed after a conference with the
foreign ministry.
Azuaga, where according to the war ministry the Junkers armed plane was seized, is in an interesting location Tt is 180 miles southwest of Badajoz. the important railway junction on the Portuguese frontier. The country around Azuaga seems to lie a checkerboard of loyalist and
rebel holdings.
Reports that the plane which landed at Barajas field here was identical i with the one seized at Azuaga were
which reached as high as 70 miles an hour as they approached Chicago. Hundreds of small craft were washe I into the Lake from the Chicago shore by the storm which Capt. John Anderson of the coast guard described as “one of the worst I've seen
here.”
Hundreds of thousands of tourists bound back to the city were forced
Greencastle enjoyed a fine rain early Monday morning. A strong wind came up shortly before two 0 - j clock and it was followed by the best rain this city has enjoyed for the past
month.
The rain and windstorm followed Sunday's high temperature, when the maximum shown was 95 at two o’-
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AGED MAN Dil i! \T HOMI OF SON SEND \ > IN MONROE
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he would use Singer’s plea of guilty' to theroadside by swirling dust clouds] clock It was th( , warnlcs t day we
to first degree murder charges as a basis for his demand for the death penalty for the alleged slayer. John Fielding Wesley, 56 year old Kentuckian, his wife Viola, and their 12 year old daughter Margaret, were buried in a single grave in North Manchester yesterday. Funeral arrangements were kept secret to forestall attendance by the morbid curious. Mrs. Wesley’s mother, Mrs Lee Foster, and her sisters, Mrs. Alice Jones and Mrs. Colen White, all of Louisville, Ky., were among 75 per sons attending the services conducted by the Rev. Homer Ogle.
and later by driving rain. I rees were , | lavp f or )j, f . past two weeks, or smashed all over Chicago and the ; 8 j nce j U | V 27. when the mercury went Chicago Surface Line Company sum-1 l|pyomJ ^ 100 degTM mHrk . moned all its emergency crews to re-, '
pair high tension lines.
Air lines delayed scheduled takeoffs several hours until the winds died down shortly before midnight.
Archie A. Spencer of Russellville j Mra g q Sayers was hostess to
has been appointed administrator of the estate of George M. Spencer, who died at his home in Russellville July 8. The application for letters of administration listed six heirs to the estate, four of whom live in Russellville and one near Greencastle.
I Virgil and Clyde Parker, '''loverdale route 2. experienred difficulty Sunday evening in operating their automobile in Greencastle. Their car was held until they paid damages incurred when their car struck a post at a filling station owned by Vernon Shirley on south Jackson street According to police, the hoys drove
in at Vernon Shirley’s filling rtation
on south Jackson street about 10:30 Henry M Booher, .••gc 92 years. Sunday evening and asked to he per- passed away at 115 Sunday aftermitted to fix a flat tire on their auto- noon at the home of hts •■on, Walter mobile there. Shirley said that they Booher, in Monroe township. Death I worked for some time with no sue- followed a three years illness The ' ccss and decided to leave with the deceased had resided in the Bainpunctured tire still on the machine, bridge community for fifty years. As they started away, their automo- He is survived by four sons, Walbile crashed into a gate post i” front ter of Monroe township; Alva Booher of Shirley’s home, adjacent to the of Advance; Frank Booncr. Wavefilling station. Shirley, however, re- land; Jasper Booher, Oaklandon; two leased the youths and they drove sisters. Mrs. Mary Dickson and Mrs. j north on Jackson. Nellie Venus of Frankfort. About 11 o’clock city police re- Short services will be held at the ceived word of an auto accident on Walter Booher residence Tuesday Jackson street near the Intersection noon. Last rites will then be held I with the end of Seminary street, from the St. James Lutheran church,
Charles' McGaughey was here "from When they arrived they found that three miles east of Darl.ngtor at 2
i the boys had smashed their car p, m Rev. C. L Airhart wi!' have 1 against the curbing on the ear' side I charge. Burial will tie in the ceme-
] of the pavement. | tery there.
based partly on statements by a socialist member of parliament. He said that a plane landed at Barajas field apparently believing that the lebels had captured Madrid A Lufthansa official at the field, he asserted, ran out and talked briefly to the pilot, who then took off again Other witnesses of this plane’s arrival said that it carried at least one machine gun Airport officials took the plane'n number, and the socialist deputy, it was said, advised the war ministry of the plane’s departure. Officials were most reserved regarding the sequence of incidents and declined to offer any comment. Madrid police, patrolling quietly in Hie early morning hour? have arrested 500 fascists stui monarchists during the last two weeks who were trying to maintain wireless Maison with rebels at other centers, it was announced. 20,000 IVUmi Fiurhtinjr 5-State Forest Fires MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. Aug to, (UPt Twenty thousand men fought vith axes, shovels, portable pumps md watei soaked burlap bags today •o halt fires which swept through the forests of five north central states, ‘'orests of five nrth central states, burned scores of farms and summer lodges and forced settlers from their
homes
Sheriffs' offices drafted emergency tews from among Sunday idlers on streets and in taverns of the fire area
towns
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Section Two of the Woman's Union. Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Zeis arc at home from a motor trip to Oxford.
® Today’s Weather ® ® and ® ® I.ncal Temperature ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® Generally fair tonight and Tuesday, Rising tomp r 'ure Tuesday.
Roachdale on legal business Miss Nina Cook is spending weeks vacation at Lake Winona-
Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. m. 9 a. m. 10 a. m. 11 a. m. 12 Noon 1 p. m. 2 p. m. .
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