The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 29 August 1936 — Page 1

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rME FOBTY-FOUB fsfORM OES DAMAGE OVER STATE

tlU .ED AT TERRE . lTf pbopertv loss OVER S.WO.OOO V rains are recorded GrwiraAtle. Newcastle And ' junond ANo Feel Fury of Storm Friday Evening prE HAUTE. Ind.. Aug. 29.— laden windstorm, sweeping in the west, struck T rre Haute cyclonic ferocity k-te Friday, .one life, injuring at least four j and wreaking prrperty damHtimated at $500,000. M-mile an hour gale, descending blinding fury at 4 :10 o’clock, ofed scores of homes and buildleveled trees and shrubbery and traffic on streets in all parts

le city.

Ued when a toppling tree crushWabash river tent was Bobby r 6 years old, of 21 North enth street. The child suffered ctured skull when a tree smash- , tent on the river bank south i Dresser Drive. rre Haute pol’ce were unable to mine the number of injured as lerous calls for aid jammed the phone wires at headquarters durthe height of the storm. tveral fires were started by elecwires which fell on houses and Iness establishments. Firemen handicapped by debris-covered ;ts in reaching the conflagra-

(J R KEN CASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 19R6.

NO. 270

New French Envoy

REBELS OPEN BIG DRIVE IN MADRID AREA SPANISH CAPITAL IS AGAIN TARGET FOR AERIAL BOMBARDMENT LOSSES REPOIcTED HEAVY Loyalists With Racks Virtually Against Wall; No Casualty Figures Are Given

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William C. Bullitt Appointed American ambassador to France. William C. Bullitt, who has been envoy to the Soviet Union, succeeds Jesse Isidor Straus, who resigned because of illness.

Petition Asks For New Road

REMONSTRANCE WIM. PKOB ABLY BE FILED WITH COMMISSIONERS

Tentative approval for the construction of a new highway in south Grcencastle township, submitted to the county board of commissioners by a three-man viewing ermmittee is expected to result in the filing of a remonstrance which will be the signal for a battle involving 87 petitioners for the highway, and the icmon-

strator.

The petition, circulated by Walker

gale was general over the city, feasor f 0 r Ernest H r aven, asked were blown down in all sec- a 30-foot highway be construct-

Western Union Telegraph pany reported 45 vires down, pling communicaMons

Terre Haute.

to and

Street car service was virtual a halt. Plate glass windows 'downtown stores were broken and area around the Rose Polytechnic dtute was reported hard hit. woxlmately -1 P90 Hoy Scouts Indiana and Illinois who had it pitched camp for a three-day y at the Vigo county fair at. Terre Me, escaped injury when the Td blew down their tents. jAli available police were called to There were no lights at police dquarters, and the officers were ;ed to direct activities by candlejit Fire department officials said 'proximately a half of the fire call es in the city were blown out. Theaters closed after ‘heir lights ‘ power went off. Although West 1 Haute did not suffer as much lages as the rest of the city, all hts in that section were out. Lack electricity at Union and St. Anwy hospitals forced physicians and to work by torches and

tdlellght.

’Hie wind maintained its intensity the storm moved or; to Brazil, treets throughout the city were ( locked by fallen wires and trees. 11 electric lights in the city were - out b y the storm and linemen

ed along a now private lane, beginning just south of the residence of Ralph West on the cast r'ght cf way of road 43. and running ir. an easterly direction. The road would terminate at the west end-of-a concrete bridge over Owl creek on the airport road. Most of the signers are owners of land near the site of the proposed highway or living in thi immediate

vicinity.

The road would pass on or over the lands of Ralph West, Naomi West Coffman. Edna West, Walker Reasor, Bertha Lee Reason Mrs. Ida Lockwood, and Lura Sellers. Mrs. Lockwood did not sign the petition and is expected to file n remonstrance for damages contending that the highway would not be of public utility. This would result in a legal battle with the remonstrator pitted against the petitioners before the board of commissioners. If the remonstrance Is filed, the board will act further on the petition at their September meeting.

LISBON, Aug. 29. (UP) — Big battles both north and south of Madrid were reported today as Fascist rebels apparently began their longI awaited drive to oast the red government from the capital. Losses were heavy, the dispatches said, but casualty figures were not given. The Madrid war office claimed a ‘great loyalist victory” in the Lozoya valley, in the Madrid-Sierra f’ont to to the north. Fierce fighting raged for ten hours before the government i forces won the battle, the war ministry said. Details were lacking. The rebel high command in Seville claimed a ‘‘great victory” in the Estremadure region south of Mad1 rid, an area from which the caiptal lias had no news for several days. Fascists claimed to have destroyed four entire battalions of loyalists, capturing seven field guns and much

j war material.

On the north coast from Irun and San Sebastian the heaviest fighting in the long siege resulted in many casualties. Loyalists holding the seaport towns were reported lunning out of ammunition. Rebel attackers made a desperate night attack last night, the first during three days of heavy fighting, and apparently gained considerable ground. They were expected to renew the assault at dawn, hopeful of taking Irun and San Sebastian in one final attack. Madrid was bombed by rebel planes again last night, but apparently with little damage, although government censors permitted only an official version of the raid 10 be transmitted. The air raid, just before midnight, caused great excitement. Efforts of other nation.” to confine hostilities to Spain were strengthened by an Italian proclamation of an arms embargo against both sides in

the war.

The situation in Spai” remained chaotic with a stalemate continuing on the fighting fronts despite appall-

ing loss of life.

Gen. Francisco Franco, supreme rebel commander, faced trouble at his source of trained man powr in Spanish Morocco. Tangier report” to Gibraltar said commissioned officers were forced to subdue ;eige ,, r'.ts in the Arzila garrison, Spanish Morocco, when they revolted against Fran-

co’s iron rule.

Arabs, who have been supporting sergeants and corporals m the Spanish regular army in Morocco, prepared to revolt If thei” Arzila colcolleagues were shot. Tangier reported great uneasiness among Arabs at Tetuan, Spanish Morocco,

HI NDRKDK ARE I>K\I> IN KOREAN TYPHOON TOKYO, Aug. 29 HundreJs of persons iiie.1 in a typhoon which swept across the China Sea an I ravaged the southeastern provinces of Korea, it was disclosed today. The cyclonic winds, reports said, whirled through Korea Thursday and

yesterday.

It was the second disaster within three weeks. A flood In the ccntial part destroyed almost 7,000 homes and more than 500 persons were reported dead or missing. Dispatches from vernacular new? papers in Korea listr 1 the typhooi dead at fiom 131 to 380 persons.

Degrelle Hailed as Genius

Fuague Demand Made By Soviet

RUSSIA \SKN LEAGEE TO I IND WAY TO ENFORCE AIMS GENEVA. Aug. 29 (UP) Soviet Russia, charged by Germany with readiness to plunge Europe into another war, yesterday demanded reorganization of the L' gue of Nations to make military, economic and financial sanctions against an aggressor effective. Following reform proposals invited by the league and submitted by Baltic states, Argentina, Uruguay anil and other countries. Maxim Litvinov, Soviet commissar for foreign affairs filed Hie Soviet government's propos-

1 is.

Litvinov demanded that nations failing to enforce sanctions voted against an aggressor bo punished. His note said the Soviet government opposed revision of the league covenant but favored strengthening the league’s punitive machinery by adoption of more speed ic procedure. The Soviet foreign commissar suggested that covenant provisions might be made more effective by adoption of a plan in the form of an assembly resolution or through a protocol open to signature by league members. His plan comprised an eleven-point program including proposals that in event of war against a league member ithe council be obliged to meet within three days at the latest after notification by the secretary general. Facts Litvinov insisted, should be established by the council within three days of its convening to avoid delays designed to postpone necessity of taking a definite stand. Litvinov proposed that, decisions be considered adopted if three-quarters of the council members, minus the disputants, reach agreement. He suggested that if the council failed to act against an aggressor that fact should not prejudice immediate execution of mutual assistance agreements. He added that all league members failing to participate in enforcement of economic and financial sanctions

WORST STORM IN YE VRS HIT GREENCASTLE

S< ORES OJ TREES I VKOOTED AS RAGING WIND SWEPT CITY

RAIN

\< COMPANIES

WIND

King of Belgium - —" Degrelle. leader of a new political

^ Leon Degrelle Although he is only 28. Leon movement in Belgium, Is being hailed by thousands of followers as a political genius. In his fiery speeches and In articles published In his political newspaper, he has attacked practically every leading political figure In Belgium except King Albert. His party, known as the Rexists, is pledged to secure new elections in the near (uture. The young leader already has followers in parliament and his party is growing rapidly.

TROT/KY’S SEC RETARIES HELD OSLO, Norway. Aug. 29, (UP) Loon Trotzky’s two secretaries were arrested today when they refused orders to leave Norway. As a result of the recent terrorism trial in Moscow, at which Trotzky was accused of plotting the death of Josef Stalin, the exiled Bolshevist leader and his wife, who have been accorded asylum in Norway, were interned and the two secretaries ordered out of the county. Trotzky’s permit of asylum expires

Dec. 18.

Me Anally Kilos Si‘l For Monday

SEKYICES FOR LOCAL BOY TO BE HELD FROM M. E.

CHURCH

Mrs. O'Neal Lists Properly Transfers SIXTEEN DEED EXCHANGES Ell.EH W ITH RECORDER

EAST WEEK

j|ht.

Rainfall at Brazil was reported as 1 inches during a 30-minutc down- ’ ur ami from 5 to 5:30 o’clock the ^perature dropped 32 degrees -

I tom *7 to 65.

^ Grcencastle high winds leveled rws ^ 00 * t roofs off houses and also Ilro '»fecl a store in the south part, of c ‘ty. Streets were blocked by riorm debris and police had difu, |> in investigating reports of J llama B c - Pedestrians scutried to l and no accidents wore reportUhc storm was described as the

* 0rrt «>ere in years.

A ■ hour later Newcastle felt the n of the storm. Wind and light- ? 'rippled power lines there, but

2 entire cit y was not

“tveral

U. S. FACES CRITICAL PERIOD BURLINGTON, Vt„ Aug. 29 (UP

-America faces the most critical because military authorities subordiperiod since the Civil War-involving nate to Franco shot an Arab nationa struggle to "retain the sovereign leader who enjoyed eieal jm snower of the people”, Frank Knox, t'K e among his people

Tangier also reported unrest among

Jews in Spanish Morocco.

whed to restore power during the Republican vice presidential candi-

Dr. Walter E. Bundy of the De-

should be subjecte 1 to discriminatory p auw university faculty will have customs and commercial measures t .harge of the funeral service. He by other members w j|| bo assisted by several local pasLitvinov proposed that mutual as- tor8 Marshall D. Abrams will disistance agreements, such as the rf , ct a brief Sigma Chi ritual during Franco-Soviet pa< t, bo formally roc- 8cr vice, assisted by several of ogniged as constituting complemen- jbe youth’s fraternity brothers from tary security within the framework Northwestern university, where he

Sixteen property transfers were made in Putnam county end filed in the office of Mrs. W. T O’Neal in the courthouse here. They are as follows: John Franklin Ogles to Gilbert E. Ogles 80 acres in Jefferson township, $1. Grafton L. Longden et ux to Estella Sutherlin. lot in Little Walnut cemetery, Longden s addition, $25. Burdett Landrum et ux to Arthur Hewd, 37 acres in Franklin township,

$1.

Riley Allen to Thomas Phillips. 47

Funeral rites for Jess McAnally, acres in Cloverdale township $1 150 former outstanding Grcencastle high Elmer P. Witt et ux to Walter school athlete and student will be hekl | Kirk, lot in Carpentt i svi le. original

from the Gobin Memorial Methodist : plat. $300. church Monday afternoon at two Laura L. Town o’clock. The death of the former lo ; Crowder, lot in cal boy occurred following a heart enlargement, $100

attack at a Petoskey, Mich., hospital Crawford C. HrH ■ ” t« O. E. Wat-

I son et ux, 10 lots in Caipentcrsville,

$150. Ella

to Richard N.

Greencasiio southern

Friday morning.

of the league.

E. Day to Putnam County.

State of Indiana, lot ir Grcencastle

Daggy’s enlargement. $'io0

Morris Carver et ux to Charles Trail, Jr., et ux lot in Grcencastle

Comercial Place. $1.

Charles Trail Jr., et al to James Block, lot in Greeii' istie Commercial

date, said in an address last night. He charged that “natural recovery’’ had been retarded by new deal "regimentation” and that “inflation and bankruptcy" face the nation unless the rate of spending is diminished. The "plain men," he asserted, are having to pay the costs of govern-

ment.

in darkness.

r-,. , ,, A half-inch of

T , ( ' n fourteen minutes.

NEW

smiling

^ — Robert Francis Erskino, a young 0 , f s f°nT> struck Richmond at 7 newspaper reporter, pushed himself 'Doling more than half an from the parapet on the eighty-sixth

tj/ „ At the height of the storm floor of

THREATENS PRESIDENT ABERDEEN, S. D„ Aug 29 <UPi A 70-year-old former insane asylum inmate who left his home at Hecla. S. D., after reportedly telling friends, “I’m leaving for Pierre to shoot the President," was locked in the county jail at Aberdeen today. Deputy sheriff Melvin Nelson refused to reveal the man’s name but said he had been sought 48 hours after disappearing from his home at

Hecla.

He apparently had no motive, Nel-

son said.

Special officers reported yesterday they had discovered what they be-

lieved to be another attempt at the YORK. Aug. 29 -With a President’s life in a large stone wedgfarewcll. "So long folks,” ed against a rail over which his train

was scheduled to pass.

Ends Life With 86-Storv Leap

NEW YORK NEWSPAPER MAN HURTLES 1,050 FEET TO SIDEWALK—LEAVES NO NOTE

TWIN’S RE I MON SUNDAY FORT WAYNE, Aug. 29 More than 15,000 person* are expected to attend the national twins’ convention at its fifth annual reunion at Trier Park Sunday, officials estimated. The tentative • stimate was made from entry blanks and the extent of injuiries throughout the nation. Yesterday officials offered the grand

had enrolled for his junior year short- , Place, $1.

ly before he left Chicago Iasi week | Perry C. Hoopengarner et nx to for a vacation in the Michigan resort James Summers, property in Jeffer-

city. High school basketball teammates of the former Tiger Cub ”tar will act as pallbearers and girls of hia high school class will be flower bearers. The body arrived in the city at noon today and will be at the Laltin funeral home, where friends may call until one o’clock Monday. The casket will be open at the church for an

. . . • hour preceding the service. Burial

prize to the most beautiful girl twins 11 * 1 ^ , „

ic will be in Forest Hill cemetery,

between the ages of 16 and 20. Registration will start today at the

Wayne Hotel.

the Empire State building

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

!m f ' re tle P artm ent received calls yesterday and hurtled to his death r»iY e ' gllt homes where fires were on the sidewalk 1,050 feet below Ported to have started from light- Erakine. 23 years old (reporter for

^ ] LlUle ' ,ama K e resulted, how- the Bronxville, N Y„ Press), shot Miss Elizabe an,cs ^ ' „ ' IUet0 the deluge of rain which three setbacks and smashed at ing nurses training at thc SE Un ^ -95 inch. the rate of about four mites a minute cent’s hospital in Indianapolis, is vis-

iting her parents, Mr

to.. - Lightning set fire

,e n of m northwes t of the city. Fifty into the sidewalk on West Thirty-

houjl ° ne of the G. Hill green- third street.

ZT bl own down with damage A half dozen sightseers on the obg ® ted at $500. servation tower floor saw him wave Terre'g 1 *' 1 twent y' five mi’es south of a newspaper, clamber over the ledge Storm aUte ’ got not a tlr op of rain, and spin out into space. PromL Ud8 north of there gave Building engineers estimated he forth ° f ° ne ' howe ver. Rockville traversed the distance, equal to the the 0f Terre Haute, escaped length of a fifteen-car railroad pas- “ rm aa did other towns in that senger train, in eight and one-tenth

seconds.

and Mrs. Al bert Landes.

Otto Dobbs, Jr., home by illness.

Miss Vivien Roberts has returned home after a visit in Indianapolis. Local thermometers registered as

YOI N < 1 BAR TENDER COLUMBIA CITY. Aug. 29 Paige Stiles, 35, of R R. 1, was arrested yesterday afternoon charged with sale of beer without a permit. In the court of Justice Joseph Harrison ho pleaded not guilty and was bound over to Circuit Court under $1,000 bond. A raid was made on Stiles' filling station. He is alleged to have employed his 11-year-old son as a bartender.

GOV. McNUTT TO SPEAK SULLIVAN, Ind., Aug. 29, (UP) —

Gov. Paul V. McNutt will fly here from Johnson county Sunday to speak at a union church service in

city park.

>1 \KKIAGE LICENSE W. Harold Phillips, Danville, fanner and F. Mabel McCammack,

Coatesville.

v ‘cinity.

is confined to his MAGNUS JOHNSON IN COMA

LITCHFIELD, Minn., Aug. 29. — Former United States Senator Magnus Johnson, critically ill in a hos-

low as 46 degrees early this morn- pital, has lapsed into serm-conscious-in g ness, his physicians reported today. Henry Runyan, county treasurer, Dr. K. A. Danielson said his patient transacted business in Mt Meridian. VV as “in poor condition.’'

Minimum 64 6 a. m 64 7 a. m 67 8 a. m 68 9 a. m 68 10 a. m 71

son township, $1.

Frank Karry et ux to Edward O. Barcus et ux. 40 artes In Cloverdale

township, $1.

Elisha McAnincli et al to Frank E. Bookster et ux. 4 acres in Marion

township, $1.

Frank E. Bookster et ux to Orville N. Perry et ux, 4 acres in Marlon

township, $1.

Fred Lasley et ux to Putnam county, State of Indiana, parts of two lots in Grcencastle Plummer addi-

tion, $1.

Charles E. Baxter et ux tc William F. Salin et ux. 80 acres in Washington township, $1200. ROOSEVELT ( \N< ELS D VI E SPRINGFIELD, III. Aug. 29 President Roosevelt’s scheduled drought conference with Governor Horner here September 3 has been indefinitely postponed, the governor was advised yeterdays. A shift in the plans was necessitated by the death of Secretary of

■ War Dern.

COUNT OUT OF DANGER NEW YORK. Aug. 29 Hospital ofifcials said today Alfonro de Bourbon, the Count of Covaoonga, was “out of danger’ at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center whore he suffered at hemorrhage. The count former heir to the Spanish throne, suffers from hemophilia.

No I.ighls In Varlom Parts Of City For Several Hours; Buildings Mere Unroofed A terrific wind and rainstorm approached with appalling swiftness from the southwest struck Uie city at 5 o’clock Friday afternoon and for 30 minutes blasted the community in near cyclonic velocity, leaving in its wake untold damage to property as countless trees were uplooteil or broken, bouses damaged and debris piled in streets, walks and

yards.

Hundreds of trees were broken or uprooted, blocking city streets. The city street maintenance dopartmrnt labored a good part of the night to clear thoroughfares. The lack of power forced residents to serve dinner by candlelight and local restaurants provided meals by lamp light. Both theaters failed to > un pictures. Generally speaking the southern parts of the city were the worst hit. The roof of a building owned by Charles Vandeavo was torn off and landed in Broadway street on top of an automobile owned by Joe Grubb. The automobile, filled with tomatoes, was badly damaged. A large elm tree crashed into the Sanford home on west Liberty stneet, wrecking the back parts of the house. Another elm was uprooted and blown across the front of the Peck home on Hanna street and a third barely missed an automobile and the west wing of the Cole apartments when uprooted on Washington street. Many other trees struck, brushed or barely missed buildings in the city A large limb struck the roof of Dr. C C. Tucker’s office building but did not inflict much

damage.

Hail. nccorYip.irnaflc the rain at the height of the storm, fell here for only a short while causing damage in several places to windows of buildings. A large plate glass window at the O. K. Hatchery northeast of the courthouse square was shattered. The Northern Indiana Power and Light company has restored power service to most sections of the city by to o’clock Satunla.■ morning. The company’s office received (>9 reports of line trouble In the city Saturday morning. Officials said ’epairs wn-re being made as soon as possibh . Damage by water was comparative light over the city. More than an inch of rain fell during the storm and the fact that the dry ground absorbed a great deal of the water immediately is the reason few basements and streets were flooded. Ed Houck, living south of Greencastlc, reported a huge silo on his farm was blown over and a barn on the Walter Brann farm ‘n the Manhattan community was fUttcneiL In Manhattan a tree demolished Mrs. Mary Wright’s woodshed. Reports early Saturday indicated that the Brunerstown community was hit hard by the gale and much riamigo inflicted. Frank Shafer, living south of the city, reported the roof of his bam was ripped off. The lower parts of the building, which Shafer declares arc 101 years old, weathered the

r.torm.

One of the strangest freaks of the storm was reported by Fred Vajvel, employee of the local water works at the pumping station north oC the city. Varvel sai 1 that he was watching the wind’s antics from a wirulow of the station when he saw his modelT Ford picked almost clear of the ground by the gale nnd blown a distance of more than 50 feet into th( bed of Big Walnut Creek. Varvel, seeing the creek rising rapidly fiom the downpour accompanying the windstorm, quickly obtained several lengths of strong rope and anchored the machine to trees near the creek to keep the car from washing away down the stream. Damage in the amount of $200 resulted when a cattle barn on the Frank Donner farm southwest of the city was almost demolished by the

gale.

In the opinion of residents the storm was the worst in many years. Damage to homes was not as great in proportion to the number of trees ruined. The trees were especially vulnerable because the dry weather had made them brittle and the roots were more easily torn from the dry ground.