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NO. 273

[NERAL OF A. COOPER

ON THURSDAY

SEEK POISON SOI IU E

BEDFORD. Ind., Sept 2. (UP) The source of poison which caused the deaths of two womer an I serious illness of two men, all living in the same farmhouse, was sought today by state pol'ee and Dr R. E. Wynn, AUDITOR Lawrenc* county coroner Victims of poison were Mrs. Katie Fultz, 50. who died A’ 28; ^frs Ruth Kern Dillon, 25. who died Aug.

CITIZEN 23. and Samuel Kern and John Tud-

dy, both seriously ill in the hospital

Widow, here.

A post mortem on the body of Mrs Fultz revealed she died of arsenic

poisoning. Dr. Wynn said. He had A Cooper, age fifty-three, net decided today whethe*- Mrs. Dil- ” county auditor and life-long Ion’s body would be exhumed for an

of the community, passed autopsy.

the county hospital at 8 The poisoning occum d on Mrs.

Fultz's 70-acre farm where victims

COUNTY

sstu away at hospital

TUESDAY

elv k - v0 " n fo Survived By

PaiiRhler* and Mother, eer For Many Years.

illiam

PLANS MADE FOR COUNTY HORSE SHOW

WILL BE HELD AT ( ITY PARK IN GREENUASTLE ON SEPT. 24.26 MANY PREMIUMS OFFERED

Lifeboat Battles Waves to Transfer Refugees ,

-jt Tuesday night, following

at his home on south Bloom- had been living,

street Monday noon Mr. per lapsed into a coma Monday moon and never regained con-

jsness.

Cooper’s death came as a great k to the entire community as he apparently in the best of health is offices in the courthouse Monmorning He had just arrived is home for the noon hour when

:ken.

deceased was the son of Mr. Mrs. John F. Cooper and was January 10. 1883, southeast of ■ncastle. He spent his early life at vicinity and at the age of five, ted to Greencastle where he rered his education in the city ools. On May 16, 1S>04 he was ied to Abigail Hurst, r. Cooper entered the retail gro- ’ business in partnership with J. Etter, thirty-one years ago. The men continued as partners for rteen years at which time Mr. per bought out Mr. Etter’s interand conducted the business for lime He later resold the entire mess to Mr. Etter and conducted rocery store of his own. Tn 1929 Cooper retired because of ill

Jth.

s a life-long member of the Dem:tic party, he re-entered public in 1932 when elected to serve a as county auditor. Mr. Cooper, only man to have been elected ice to the County Auditorship, his see id term lust January. Surviving are the widow, two vhters. Mrs. Walter Er.z and Miss ogene Cooper of Cincinnati; two jrs, Mrs. Paul Hurst ard Mrs. eodore Hurst of Jefferson townip, and the mother, Mrs. John F.

:per of Greencastle. 1

Funeral services will be conducted i the Rector funeral home Thurs-

y afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Inter- P artment iintl ent will be in Deer Creek cemetery. Hull.

Friends may call at the Rector e until time for the services.

ROOSEVELT ENROUTE TO CONFERENCE

PRESIDENT WILL MEET WITH GOVERNORS OF I>KOt GUT

AREA

ABOARD PRESIDENT!AT SPECIAL. Sept. 2. (UP) President Rosevelt may change his plans and return directly to Washington instead of Hyde Park next Sun lay because of the potentialities contained in the bombing of the IT. S destroyer Kane last Sunday night, it was re-

ported today.

The president, aboard his special train, retraced an easterly course through the drought area today, enroute to Des Moines and a conference tomorrow with Gov. Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, and other mid-west governo’-s. He at tended funeral services for George H. Dern, secretary of war, in Saif Lake

City yesterday.

Though the president had no comment, Washington dispatches reflected official fear of some disturbing incident so long as American warships remain in Spanish waters and American nationals are in Spain. Had bombs from the Spanish plane struck the Kane, the resultant situation

would have been grave

Mr. Roosevelt kept in close touch with the capital and conditions abroad. Special telephone lines strung through an open window of his car at operating stops gave him immediate contact with tne state de-

Secretary of State

eadv To Start Atlantic Flight RKV KICHMAN AND VETERAN PILOT FLAN TAKE-OFF THIS AFTERNOON

the big monoplane have postponed the

NEW YORK. Sept. 2. (UP)—Dick aboard.

Jfrrill and Harry Richman anunceil today they would take off 15 afternoon on their round-trip to London. They hoped to 10 Floyd Bennett field between 1

2 p. m. CST.

Mfi-fill. veteran transport pilot, Richman. night club entertainer

d owner of u <iy Peace,”

hi several times because of unfav-

weather.

I' 1 manager. Kenneth Bohr, today weather reports wen' good and

they intended to take off.

they plan to fly the north Atlantic to up the coast to New Found’and

^ acr oss to Ireland.

^e $95,000 Vultee monoplane is wered with a 1,000 horsepower 0 °r whose design was said to have n an army secret during the past

Its wings are nacked with 'housands of pingpong balls

It was reported also that the president would defer his announced radio address to the nation on the drought situation until he is back in Washington. It had been planned for him to deliver such an address from In-

dianapolis this Friday.

Mr. Roosevelt’s train w ! !l take him across Utah and Wyoming today to Julesburg, Colo., where he will hear the drought reports of local officials and talk with farmers, thence to North Platte, Neb., where Gov. Roy L. Cochran was expee'ed to come

First Autumn Weather Arrives Here Today

Entry Blanks To Be Sent Out By Township Chairmen. Entries Close September 17 Plans for the Putnam county horse show to be held September 24. 25. 26 at the Robe-Ann park In Greencastle were completed Tuesday evening at a meeting of the Putnam County Horse Show Association in the office of County Agent Guy Harris. Entry blanks will be sent to farm'rs whose names are submitted by the township chairmen. Chairmen will also have a supply of entry blanks on hand for those farmers who. wish to enter animals in the competition but who did not receive entry blanks. All township chairmen arc urged to get their lists of prospective showmen from their townships into the office of the county agent before Friday of this week. Entries for the horse show will close September 17. All horses entered prior to this date will be housed by tne Putnam county fair association. Those who enter later must provide their own shelter. The entries first received will be housed in the new livestock barn in the city park until it is filled, after which a limited number of tents will be provided. All horses competing in the slfow will be from Putnam countv except the “get-of-sirc” colt class. The stallion in this class may be from outside but the colt must come from Putnam county. The colt class was separated into grade suckling colts and registered suckling colts. All horses and colts which win money in their classes will he required to remain until Sept. 26 and exhibit in a parade. 4 Killed; 5 Hurt When Bridge Falls RICHMOND. Va . Sept 2. — Four WPA workmen were killed and five injured late yesterday when a highway bridge collapsed about five miles from Richmond in Chesterfield

county.

Three white men died immediately when the span gave way beneath their truck and hurled them to the bottom of a fifteen-foot ravine. A negro workman riding with them died three hours later in a Richmond

hospital.

Five others returning ionic from their day's work in another truck were injured, though none believed

critically.

The dead, all of Richmond, were Frank M. Kirby, 34 years oM Luther Clumpier, 27; Lawrence Davis, 18. ami John Grant, negro. The bridge spanned Falling Creek on state road 10. a primary highway. Officials said they would continue their investigation today in an effort to fix responsibility for the accident. ROAD WORKERS QUIT BRAZIL, Ind., Sept. 2. (UP) Work on state road 59 south of Brazil was halted a third time by labor

PLAN RODEO ALONG WITH HORSE SHOW

( IIA.MBER OF COMMERCE TO SPONSOR “WILD WEST” ATTRAt TION

DIRECTOR

OI.DTI MLR

Dipping and rising in heavy seas off the coast of Las Arenas, Spain, a lifeboat loaded with refugees from the Spanish civil war zone, la pictured battling waves, some 20 feet high, ae it heads for the Ameri-

can battleship Oklahoma, which is anchored two-and-a-half miles off shore Despite heavy seas, all passengers were transferred safely to the larger vessel.

An overcast sky with cooler breezes accompanied by occasional show-

ers, gave local residents their first troubles today after state engineers taste of autumn weather today. discharged finishers on the project. Coats and sweaters again gained Others workers stopped work when popularity with citizens after being the finishers were discharged, hngi

I hey notif'pd the practically discarded for two months, neers said the finishers were incom-

Lawns over the city are reviving petent.

under the stimulation of rainfall af- Officials of the Price Construction ter being burned brown by the sun. company, paving the rt>ad. planned to The rain started Tuesday evening confer with the engineers today in an and showers have fallen intermittant- effort to resume work and complete ly during the night and Wednesday the project before cokl weather halts

morning. Rainfall up to mid-after- operations.

noon Wednesday measured .66 of an Work on the road was halted twice inch and with the weather forcast as in recent months before the I rice “unsettled,” the prospect of added company signed union contracts,

rain was bright.

^oyanev

to give

dnu. st ’ 0u<l ^e panel be forced

m the ocean.

IX.K IS ATTACKED

Hartford city, mu., sept. 2.

Crescent Rebekah Lodge No. 763 will meet in regulai session Thursday night at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to be present.

Japan Plans Bi« Submarine Fleet

(UP) _

^ cunt Everett, 45, litigat Rlackf ncent child custody case in *a,hl C ° Unty J uver| de court, aefio,,., in ■' a ‘ 1 h pre today accused of crest Wounf)in K -Judge E. W. SeTt,e -V, Wh ° prestde ‘ l at the action. On * aC,< occurred late last night

EverJtt^b ° f the Jud K e ’ 8 home.

Iate r at h " aS arros t ed 8 short time

nis home near Per.nville. Prisoner denied complicity in

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

LONDON. Sept. 2. (UP) The Japanese embassy delivered a note to the foreign office today m effect announcing Japan’s intention of possessing a submarine fleet approximately 30 per cent larger than cither that of the United Stater or Creat

Still Found On Farm; Man Hold HERBERT MrGRAW TAKEN INTO CUSTODY FOLLOWING RAID TUESDAY A fifteen gallon stih and about fifty gallons of mash were confiscated about 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon on a farm operated by Herbert McGraw, two ard one half miles northwest of Bainbridge. Deputy Sheriff William Ashworth and Indiana state excise men Forbes, Bryan, Straud, and Stottlcmycr found on entering the property that (he still had not been in operation for several days, but sufficient evidence was found to lead ihen to apprehend McGraw in Danville. He was taken into custody and brought to the Putnam county jail to await

charges.

Death Summons \<re<l Resident MISS ANNA BELLE McUULLOI (.11 DIED TEESOAY IN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP Miss Anna Belli McCullough, aged resilient of Putnam county, died at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Nees, three miles northeast of the Poland bridge in Washington township, after an illness of five years of rheumatism and complications resulting from a fractured hip, aged 78 years, eight months and three days. Miss McCullough was born in Putnam county and was the daughter of Jacob Newton and Elizabeth Mace McCullough, pioneer residents of the community. The deceased had resided in Putnam county all her life except for a few years spent in Brazil and had been a devout member of the Big Walnut Baptist church for more than 00 years. Miss McCullough is survived only by a brother, Nicholas M. McCullough, of Vincennes. 2 BILLION DEFICIT WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, (UP) — President Roosevelt forecast a 1937 fiscal year deficit of $2 096,936.000 today in a revised mid-vear budget estimate reflecting business conditions and increased tax revenues. The revised budget pointed to improvement in re-t mployment by private industry, but warned as much as $500,000,000 in new relief funds may be needed Jan. 1 Mr. Rocsevelt predicted a national debt of S34.000.000.000 at the end of the fiscal year, June 30. 1937.

ROB EXPRESS TRICK MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 2. (UP) A daring robbery of an express truck while the driver stopped for a moment in a store, netted two men $560 worth of furs. Police said the theft was the work of professionals who probably had followed the shipment

from Detroit, Mich.

Seek Fiend In Woman’s Death

SEX-MAD SLAYER HI NTED BY C ALIFORNIA AUTHORTIES TODAY

LA JOLLA. Cal., Sept. 2 (UP' A

REBELS SHOT IN REPRISAL FOH BOMBINGS GROUP OF HOSTAGES EXE. < I TED 154 LOY ALIS’I

TROOPS

MADRID, Sept. 2, (UP) Government sources said today loyalist forces at I run had repulsed a rebel attack by airplanes, tanks and artillery and were holding their original

positions.

GIBRALTAR, Sept. 2 (UP) Spanish loyalists were reported this morning to have shot a group of

The loyalists at I run wore in des-

thickset man with a protruding lip rebel hostages, in reprisal for the was sought by police today as the bombing of Irun yrsterday.

sex-mad slayer of Miss Ruth Muir, j 35, Y. W. C. A. executive whose

ravished and beaten body was found 1 P^ate straits. But th y held out La Jolla beach area s till. and this morning fog prevented

the rebels from shilling or bombing them effectively. The loyalists assorted they had received 13 planes

in the swank Monday night

A few strands of brown hair found; clutched in the hand of the murdered daughter of a San Antonio, Tex., banker will identify the slayer if he is found, police believed. Two neighbors of the parents of Miss Muir, Mr and Mrs. Joseph Muir, said that while walking along the ocean front Monday night they saw her sitting on a seaside bench. Near her. they said, was a heavy-set man with a protruding lip.

from Barcelona.

Rebel airplanes bombed Madrid for the fourth time tins morning, apparently with little effect because the government’s air defense organization went into action the moment flic planes were hoard in the suburbs. Americans in Madrid began a new exodus, and a party was being formed to leave for Alicante on the east coast to board the cruiser

Career of Milt Hinkle of the Texas Rangers' Rodeo Reads Like Lief ion Story In connection with the Putnam county horse show. September 24-26, the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce will bring flic “Texas Rangers Rodeo” for five performances at the city park. There will bo showings Thursday afternoon, Sept. 24, Friday afternoon anil night and Saturday afternoon and nigtit. It was announced today that th“ admission will be free, and charges made only for grandstand scats. Milt Hinkle, director of the Texas Rangers Rodeo, is one of the most colorful characters of the Old West and his career reads like a chronicle of the romance and adventure of the frontier days. Hinkle was born in 1881 in a dugout on a three million acre ranch at Zovlna. Texas. He claims ho is a mixture of German, Irish. French and Cherokee Indian In 1807 he assisted in driving one of the last herds to go over the old Chisholm Trail from Texas to the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Montana, and was one of the men to track down the Apache Kid, desperado of Arizona and New

Mexico.

For a number of years he was the undisputed champion steer bulldoggcr of the world and claims to be the first white cowboy to accomplish this feat. Hinkle has hulldogged steers from speeding automobiles, motorcycles and airplanes. In 1913 Hinkle was considered by government authorities to adorn the side of the Buffalo nickel but a later choice put Chief Iron Tail and Old ”Nip" (the buffalo) on the sections of the coin. Hinkle was a “rough Rider" during the Spanish-American war and was personal bodyguard of president Theodore Roosevelt during exploration in South America Injuries have been slight, considering the chances Hinkle has taken; a broken hip, four broken ribs, fractured collar bone, a fractured leg and being gored by a steer arc the sum and total of his injuries from horses and steers. He carries a .45 caliber slug in his back, was bitten by a rattlesnake, and got a dose of strychnine when a gust of wind blew the poison in his mouth while making a trap for coyotes on the plains. Ho lived because of an overdose. Hinkle, however will bring his show to Putnam county, unimpared n health and promises thrills to appease the appetite of the most excite-nent-hungry crowd.

Lieut-Com., Matt Calhoun, U. S.

Navy, said he had observed a man of Quincy. the same description prowling in the Reliable though unofficial sources vicinity for three nights. in Madrid reported that loyalists had Police questioned seven persons in captured the important town of quick succession last night after Huesca in the northern t near the chief of police George Sears ordered rebel stronghold Zaragoza. The a round-up of men known or believ- government declined to announce the oil to have been involved in morals report as official saying it did not

want to raise false hopes. But earlier

INDIANAPOLIS I l\ ESTOUK Hogs 4.000: holdovers 996; weights above 180 lbs., 10 lower; 160 to 180 lbs., steady to 15c higher; under-

offenses.

All but one negro and he was held on < turbing the peace.

was released, charge of dis-

WHITE SLAVE RING ALLEGED FORT WAYNE, Sept. 2, (UP) —- Bond of Anthony Ribando. 34, al-

Britain. as from the end of this vear. leged white slaver charged w'th vioThc delis' >n replaces the fubma- lation of the Mann act, was reduced

rino parity among the three powers from $2,000 to $1,000 by U. S. ComMiss' mia Beck^th returned home establish. J by tne 1930 London naval , n i fls ioner William D. R. mel yester-

Prof. F. C. Tilden is in Newcastle delivering institute lectures.

i ,l ‘ s wif e and qUoter l by police

son

as saying

attacl < but his

[Uotec] b

tor Stnic k tlle judge with the

o^e" the^ aftPr er the recent litigation.

from a three weeks vacation at Bay treaty.

View, Mich. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Randel of Terre BURNED TO DEATI

Haute were visitors here. TERRE HAUTE, Ind . Sept.

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen Jr., spent (UP)

the day in Indianapolis.

i day.

Ribando was arrested with his wife and two other women last week by 2, local police and departn.^nt of jus-

Isaac Williams, 66, was ere- tice agents. The arrests were conmated last night when trapped ir his sidered as the first steps toward

L-ee Mathias is visiting in the city burning home, a mile west of here hre aking a gang believed operating

U. S. road 40. in four states.

1,200 Men Battle Hutfe Forest Fire GLACIER PARK. Mont.. Sept. 2. (UP) Approximately 1,200 firefighters today battled a roaring for 'st fire which swept out of control and destroyed government buildings at many glaciers with a loss estimated at $25,000. Superintendent E. T. Scoyen said three fires which have been burning in the park for sever: * days had joined to form one huge blaze covering more than 6.000 acres. The flames late last night swept from McDonald Creek across the Continental divide at Swift Current Pass and down the valley toward Many Glacier hotel. About 125 guests were routed from their rooms when the fire reached the hotel at 1 a m. The flames destroyed an auto tourist camp, about 90 cabins. the ranger station, an Ice house, a saddle horse corral and other small buildings. About 300 fire-fighters were sent to the park today from forest headquarters in Missoula, some by plane, others by truck. Today there were at least 1.200 on the fire lines, including 700 CCC workers.

dispatches had reported 'he loyalists in the city fighting rebels in the streets. The government confirmed that rebel planes heavily bombarded Mai aga on the south coast. An authorized dispatch said that many people were wounded. Rebels claimed a success at Gaudalajara, northeast of Madrid, where, they said, their bombing planes set ire to the big Ilispano-Suiza motor •ar factory working for the govern-

ment.

Rebels seemed to continue their ad/ance southwest of Madrid, and near Toledo. But it seemed alco that they were faced now with a considerable "orce of loyalists sent to establish a fighting front. A battle of some extent was expected within the next few days. Reports from the Baler rie islands off the east coast conflicted. Loyalists said that their expeditionary force was advancing steadily on Palma, capital of Majorca island; rebels claimed important victories. FLORIDA FUGITIVE HELD INDIANAPOLIS. Sept. 2. (UP) — Estel Kinnerman, 25 was held under } $3,000 bond here today on a charge j of escaping from the F'orida state 1 prison at Tallahassee while '•eiving a term for breaking into a beer tav I ern. He was arrested by -tate police.

veights

and

packing sows steady;

190

270

lbs.,

$10.05

to $11.40;

270

lbs.,

,f 10.85

to $11.18;

290

300

lbs.,

$10.50

to $10.95;

100

325

lbs.,

$10.25

to $10.85;

’,25

350

lbs.,

$10.0C

to $10.50;

150

400

lbs.,

to $10.25;

180

190

lbs .

$10.90

to $11.25;

160

180

lbs.,

$10.25

to $11.05;

' 55

160

lbs.,

$10.00

to $10 90;

t::o

155

lbs.,

$9.25

to $10 25;

too

130

lbs.,

$8.75

to $9.50;

packing

sows

i $8.25 to $!• 50.

Cattle 1,000; calves 600; steers strong to 25c higher; heifers and •ows steady; top steers $9.50; bulk fed steers $8.00 to $0.25; odd heifers $8.50; bulk $6.50 to $8.00 beef cows $1.00 to $4.75; cutter grades $3 00 to $3.75; vealers stcauy to 50c higher; hulk of bettor grades $8.00 to $9 00. Sheep 1,200; lambs 25c lower; bulk of better grade ewe and wether l ambs $9.00 to $9 75; slaughter sheep steady; fat ewes $2 25 to $2 75. top

$3.00.

and H Local Temperature

Showers west tonight and possibly Thursday morning; somewhat warmer south portion Thursday.

> Q

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

from Chicago.