The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 September 1936 — Page 1
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GREENCASTLE INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1936
NO, 297
ADLINE ON REGISTRATION NEXT MONDAY
FOUR DAYS LEFT FOR NEW VOTERS IN PUTNAM COUNTY ON NOVEMBER 3 Who Have Changed Precincts Must Also Register or Lose Opportunity to Vote In the next general election tly more than a month away, of Putnam county are urged be sure that they are properly cred before the deadline of four k Monday afternoon, October voters who have reached that age since the last primary election those who have not registered ous to that time must register with one of their precinct region officers or in the office of ty Clerk Homer C. Morrison in to be eligible to vote in the November election. Persons who have changed their to another precinct since last time they registered must their registration in order to However, if they did not their residence they are not ated to register again for the dential election, even though did not vote in the primary, e Indiana voting law requires the voter must have been a ent of the state for six months ious to the election, 60 days in voting township and 30 days in precinct. absent voters must be registered their home before application for ent voters' ballots can be obfrom the office of the county October 3 is the first day that rs may make application for abvoters’ ballots and November 1 the last day for application for ballots. However, absent votare urged to make application as as possible, because of the time uired to complete the voting proure. This type of applications be available to all voters who, use of the nature of their business find it impossible to be a their le polling places on Nov. 3. is the duty of every citizen in county to make sure that he is erly registered and then to vote le coming election. Check your status today.
Seeks Treasure
PRESIDENT OPENS HIS CAMPAIGN
STARTS DRIVE FOR RE-ELEC-TION WITH SPEECH IN SYRACUSE, N. Y.
Simon Lake
Confident that he has located the sunken, treasure ship, Hussar, near Hell Gate in New York's East river, Simon Lake, veteran submarine inventor, is engaged in a salvage hunt for the $5,000,000 treasure believed lost when the British frigate sank during the
Revolution.
RAPS COMMUNIST RUMORS Mr. Roosevelt Will Deliver Another Major Political Talk Tomorrow
In Pittsburgh
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Sept. 30, (UP) —President Roosevelt was on the political firing line today, ready to follow up his campaign opening speech | before the Democratic state convention here last night, with another major address in Pittsburgh tomor-
row night.
In the roaring atmosphere of a po-/of
abiding heads of peaceful families who began to wonder, as they saw their children starve, how they could get the bread they saw in the bakery window? .... Do I need to recall the powerful leaders of industry and banking who came to me in Washington in those early days of 1933
pleading to be saved ?
"Most people in the United States remember today the fact that starvation was averted, that homes and farms were saved, that banks were reopened, that crop prices rose, that industry revived, and that the dangerous forces subversive of our form of government were turned aside. “A few people—a few only unwilling to remember, seem to have
forgotten those days.”
Then Mr. Roosevelt contrasted Republican and Democratic handling of the depression. The Democrats, he said, "met the emergency with emergency action. But far more important than that, we went to the roots of the problem, and attacked the
22 CASES SET FOR TRIAL IN LOCAL COURT
JUDGE GILLEN ANNOUNCES SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER TERM
FIRST
CASE
OCTOBER
Circuit Court Calendar Subject To Change, However, At Judge's
Discretion
Twenty-two cases were set during the past two days for trial in the September term of the Putnam Cir-
REBEL ARMY ADVANCES ON ALL FRONTS POSITION OF LOYALIST GOVERNMENT IS SERIOUS
AS RESULT
MADRID'S CAPTURE POSSIBLE Any Retreat In Face of "Big Push”
By Rebels May Become
Rout
GIBRALTAR, Sept. 30, (UP) —
cuit Court by Judge C. C. Gillen. The/ation, of Clayton, Indiana, received callendar is subject to change at the/and allocation of $150,000. These discretion of the court, but the cases/funds will begin construction on a
litical convention, and in two-fisted, pause of the crisis We were against bare-knuckle style, the president be- revolution. Therefore, we wage gan his personal campaign for re-/war against those conditions which election with an attack on those of/make revolutions-against the inhis enemies who call him a commun-/equalities and resentments which
ist or insist that he willingly receives
Four Perish In Airplane Crash
the support of communists.
That was his theme, but it led him into a biting denunciation, seasoned with familiar Rooseveltian irony, of the Republican regimes preceding the new deal, and friendly references to Alfred E. Smith, who, once his po-
OCCUPANTS WERE TAKING PIC-/litical and personal friend, now is at TURES OF TRAIN IN/least his political enemy and, speakILLINOIS/ing on an anti-new deal thesis, will
compete with him for the attention
NAPERVILLE, Ill., Sept. 30 (UP)/of the radio audience tomorrow
—Violent air currents set up by a
breed them...We proved that
democracy can work.”
The Republicans, he said, were faced with the same problem. “Conditions congenial to communism were being bred and fostered throughout this nation up to the
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State Tax Rate To Remain Same
speeding streamlined passenger train were believed responsible today for
the crash of a motion picture airplane/the trail, are promoting a false is-
Those who cry communist at him are dragging a red herring across
and the death of its four occupants. The eight-passenger Lockheed-Vega smashed into the ground yesterday
sue, he said. He went on immediate-
ly into historic precedent
“This practice is as old as our
afternoon as it swooped low over the/Democracy," he said. "Avoiding the Burlington road's crack "Zephr" for/facts-fearful of the truth-a malicmotion pictures./ious opposition charged that George The dead:/Washington planned to make himself Ralph biddy, 36, camerman for the/king under a British form of govern-
Wilding Picture Productions, De-/ment
troit.
Howard Adams, 27, Chicago, sistant director.
ndits Get Gems
Valued At $35,000 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept, 30 (UP)ielry valued at $35,000 was taken y by three men who held up a baggage truck driver and took esman's case containing the Kenneth Grant told police that as drove away from the Union sta-
Wilma Schuesler, 24, Chicago Script girl. Oscar Hanold, 40, veteran Chicago
transport pilot.
The plane took off from Chicago/Abraham Lincoln Municipal airport and waited at/Theodore Roosevelt
Naperville for the train. As the train approached, the plane swung alongside, with Biddy working his camera
through the open door. Hanold/this chain of thought; nor did he
for a rear-/name the "individuals and groups"
LEVY WILL CONTINUE AT 15 CENTS, TREASI RY BOARD ANNOUNCES INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 30. The slate property tax rate of 15 cents on each $100 of taxable property was retained today for 1937 after a meeting of the state department of treas-
| ury.
The only change made in the six levies making up the 15 cent rate was an increase in the general fund ' levy of 4.65 cents to 5.05 cents, a 4 mill boost. This was made possible
board and planned to surrender by the addition of. v tho 4-mill world American democracy to the dictator war memorial levy, which lapsed by
ship of a frontier mob. They called j statute. Roman emperor; The remaining levies, which were
unchanged, include: boar dof forest-
that Thomas Jefferson planned to set up a guillotine under a
as- French revolutionary form of gov-
ernment; that Andrew Jackson soaked the rich of the eastern sea-
Woodrow Wilson
Messiah.”
Mr. Roosevelt
destroyer;
a self-constituted did not complete
brought the ship around
view "shot” just before it crashed. Testimony of witnesses indicated the possibility of motor trouble, although the plane had passed department of air commerce tests a week ago. It was believed powerful air currents sucked the ship to the ground, where it caught fire immediately.
who “desperate in mood, angry at failure, cunning in purpose . . . are seeking to make communism an issue in an election where communism is not a controversy between the two
major parties.”
“Here and now, once and for all, let us bury that red hon ing, and de-
stroy that false issue,” Mr. Roosc-
Hanold’s body was found over the ve ^ sa j ( j ] ast night. “You are fammotor, which was buried in the w j{h niy background. You know
— in the
&t 1 a. m., a black sedan con- ground. The other bodies were in me heritage, and you are familiar, the three men blocked the cabin. Heat of the burning plane was eS p ec i a jiy j n (.he state of New York.
of his truck.
intense it charred the bodies be-
with
my public service extending
o of the men climbed into the yond recognition and melted metal ovor a q Ujr t Pr Q f a century, of his truck, Grant said and fore- parts of the plane. p or nearly four years I have been ta to drive to the outskirts of the Officials of Blue Bird Air Service j president of t h e united States A The bandits then singled out a Tnd.. which operated the plane, said [ onj , i-ecoid has been written. In -k belonging to Jack Teichlauf. Hanold was one of the best pilots at lha ^ r ,, cor( | both in this state and in ’York, a representative of the S. the Chicago airport. lhc na tional capital, you will find a N'oo & Co., out of which they re- Biddy had been assigned to the s j m pl e , clear and consistent adherV «1 a sample case containing Uie WO rk because of its technical require- ,, ncc no t only to the letter but to the
’elry.
r* W<*h Is Rotary Speaker 'fher in d-pauw speaker AT WEDNESDAY’S LUNCHEON MEETING
ments. A veteran newsreel man, hwas said to have been the first cameraman at the scene of the Shenan-
doah disaster years ago.
Adams, former Cleveland radio an-
spirit of the American form of gov-
ernment.
“To that record, my future and the future of my administration will conform. I have not sougKt, I do
ry, 2 mills; board of agriculture, 3’i mills; teacher retirement fund, 2.4 cents, and school revenue, 7 cents. A reduction in the general fund levy had been contemplated by the hoard, it was reported, but several
factors prevented a slash.
Laurence Sullivan, state auditor, said he. Gov. Paul V. McNutt and State Treasurer Peter F. Hein, who -•omprise the treasury board, felt there may be heavy drains made on the state treasury balance despite its
present healthy condition.
These demands, he said, may include larger expenditures for social security than now anticipated, necessary building and repair at state institutions and a possible reduction in
gross income tax revenues. Found Guilty In Garbage Test Case
D. Moor of this city was found guilty Tuesday in the city court of a charge brought by the city of Grecncnstlc of naving violated an ordinance passed by the city council December 23, 1930 when he collected garbage from a residence in Green-
listed comprise a tentative schedule for the September term. Oct. 5 Griffith Distributing Companv vs. J. F. Hirt, on account. Oct. 6 Whalen Estate, on contract of issuing letters of administration. Oct. 7—James Johnson estate, claims. Oct. 7 Clara Cunningham estate, claims. Oct. 12 Fletcher American National Bank of Indianapolis vs. Howard Daily. Oct. 12 State vs. Wayne Laudig. for possession. Oct. 14 Central Building & Loan Association vs. Fred L. Paige, et a! foreclosure. Oct. 19 Kathryn Talbert vs Mary Wysong, damages. Oct. 21—William M Cain, receiver, etc., vs Blanche M Nutter, damages. Oct. 26 Omar A. Larrick vs. William L. Hightower et al, foreclosure of mechanic’s lien. Oct. 28—Mora Welch vs City of Martinsville, damages. Nov. 5—Dean Wehner et al, vs Alfred Trotter et al, replevin. Nov. 6 Vero Homesite Company vs. Harry E. Wilson. Nov. 9 Ben Hur Life Insurance Association vs. Reuben Masten replevin. Nov. 10—Walter Thompson et al vs. E. M. Allen, et al, damages. Change of venue from Hendricks County. Nov. 12 Jesse Fisher, Adm’r vs. The PennsylvarHR ’-Railroad et al, damages. Nov. 16 Gertrude White, Adm’rx vs. Universal Coal Corporation, dam-
ages.
Nov. 17 Frank Booher vs. Walter Booher ct al, satisfy the deed. Nov. 19 Florence Dice vs. City of Terre Haute, damages Nov. 23 Dora Rush vs. Binford Miller, Adm’r. etc. against estate. Venued from Montgomery County. Nov. 24 I^cnard C. Grimes vs. Donald A. Grimes, et al. partition. Dec. 1 True Hixon Lumber Company vs. Morris Kersey, foreclosure of mechanic’s lien.
FUNDS ALLOCATED Allocations totaling $80;'690 for building some 700 miles of rural electric lines in Indiana, Iowa, Missippi and Texas were announced by Rural Electrification Administrator Morris L. Cooke today. The sponsors of these five projects include two cooperative electric associations, one j non-profit corporation, one municipality, and one private power com-
pany.
These allocations make a total of $26,611,429 which REA has lent or carmaiked for approximately 24.000 miles of rural lines to bring electricity for the first time to some 90,000
customers.
In Indiana, the Hendricks County Spanish rebels advanced on all fronts
Rural Electric Membership Corpor- lo( | av
Reports from Madrid indicated that a retreat might turn into a rout that would leave the rebels an almost unopposed path to the vicinity
of Madrid.
The leftist ‘loyalist) government’s position approached that of extrem-
ity.
Gen. Francisco Franco was reappointed commander in chief of all nationalists ‘rebel) armies for the final drive on Madrid. He was notified at Toledo yesterday. The commander in chief at the outbreak of the war. F- ico later was made comander in the south, with C,on. Emilio Mola commander in the north. Nationalist army sources reported that Franco intended to enter Madrid in triumph October 12 “The Day of the Race,” the great national noliday. A correspondent of the Lisbon
400-mile rural electric system through most of Hendricks County, and parts of Morgan, Marion and Putnam
counties.
Landon Favors Postal Reform
REPEATS INTENTION TO PICK
‘COMPETENT EXECUTIVE’ TO BRING EITTCIENT RULE
TOPEKA. Kan., Sept. 30. Governor Alf M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, said today President Roosevelt's recent civil service order tended “to freeze the tenure” of postal “job holders’ and added that if
elected he would put the department ^wspaper Seculo reported from rcb“on a business basis. ’ ,| Headquarters at Avila that Franco
ntended to start his drive at once.
Servic es Friday For Mrs. Shuck
WELL KNOWN RESIDENT MARION TOWNSHIP PASSED AWAY
nouncer, played on the stage with not seck j repudiate the support of castle.
Tallulah Bankhead, stage and screen actress, and at one time played the lead on a road show version of "An
American Tragedy.”
»* "SI'p.;: Coatesville Woman
the Kuest speaker at the Wedto) luncheon of the Rotary club. ^ spoke on “American History as
‘•“Med by Trees.”
"elch spoke of the many histre( ‘ s which dot the United ^ antl showed how our historv on tied up with these trees in oiuch of it was transacted in S Mc of this tree or that tree in
* historic spot.
^'ana. Dr. Welch said, had its na tionally known trees and iron ° f many ' S ° mC bplnK thc Van se, t elm at p,a infield, the beech ~. River *lde park, the trees on
"Ppccanoe battle
O’don eli
any advocate of communism or of any other alien “ism” which would by fair means or foul change our American democracy. “That is my position. It always has been my position. It always will
be my position."
Mr. Roosevelt said no difference existed between Democrats and Re-
Harold Lynch. 23 years old Coates- publicans on communism: thc differ-
accompanied by once, he continued, was in how they
Is Accident Victim
The Domo-
ville truck driver,
his wife Marjorie, narrowly escaped dealt with communism death at 2:15 a. m. Tuesday when crats “have been realistic enough to the truck he was driving overturned face it. We have been intelllgen five miles east of Grecncastle on the enough to do someth-ng about i Stilesville road. Lynch wan taking And the world has seen the results a load of tomatoes to the Brazil can- of what wc have done.
ning plant at the time of the acci-
dent.
Mrs. Lynch was taken to the county farm nearby. She was later removed to Coatesville for medical at-
“In the spring of 1933 (continued Mr. Roosevelt) we faced a crisis which was the ugly fruit of 12 years of neglect of the abuses of economic and social unrest. It was a crisis made to order for all those who
Thc complaint which was sworn by Louis Williams stated that Moor collected and carried the garbage from the residence of G. Herbert Smith on East Seminary street on September IS. 1936. Moor pleaded not guilty to the charge. He was fined five dollars and costs when the court found him guilty as charged. Thc action was in the nature of a test case to determine if the old ordnance instituting the collecting of garbage is binding. Moor was granted an appeal in the Putnam circuit ”ourt Wednesday morning and his appeal bond was set at $30. which was filed by the defendant and ap-
proved by the court.
Mrs. Rebecca Shuck, ago 70 years, well known resident of Marion township, died at the Putnam County hospital, Wednesday morning at 1 o’clock, following a brief illness. The deceased had been a life long member of the Fillmore Christian
church.
She is survive*! by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Lawson and two grandsons of Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 10 o’clock from the Fillmore Christian church, with burial in the Fillmore cemetery. Friends may call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shuck after 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.
“It is my intention, as I have already indicated,’’ thc nominee told reporters, “to select the most competent executive I can find to draft for the job of putting the depart ment (postoffice) on a business
basis.”
“Would it make any difference if such a man were a Democrat or a Progressive?” Hie governor was
asked.
Landon paused and then said: “No, it wouldn’t. One thing is certain. No man can be simultaneously a member of my cabinet and a chairman or member of thc national
committee.”
The press conference was held in l the large living room of the execuI live mansion. As he replied to quenI lions the candidate walked around. ' Thc postoffice department came up in the press conference where Landon was asked for comment on the statement of John D. M. Hamilton, national party chairman, that he would not become postmaster general if the Kansan were elected Postmaster General James A. Farley is chairman of the Democratic national committee. “It is further evidence," Lapdon said of Hamilton’s statement, “of the intention of the Republican party to carry out its pledge for a merit system through thc civil service in
government.”
A bit later he added: “The president’s recent civil ser vice order proved not to be a real step in thc direction of a me / system, hut its effect was to freeze the tenure of present job-holders.” Before seeing reporters he had conferred with a number of advisors, including Charles P. Taft and Ralph West Robey, on the campaign swing which will take him into Illinois, Ohio and Michigan. Major addresses were planned at Chicago Oct. 9. Cleveland Oct. 12 and Detroit Oct 14.
Rebel headquarters at Valladolid heard an unconfirmed report that rebels advancing on the Toledo-Mad-id highway had reached Illcscas, 20 idles north of Toledo and 20 miles touth of thc capital. It was admitted that loyalist troops were retreating steadily on the road. The rebels were on the ofensive on all fronts and there was 10 apparent means of stopping them. The Madrid government and authorities of semi-autonomous Catalonia began mobilization of able bodied sen intending to make the call to he colors general for all able to ight. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 30, (UP) — Phe Seville radio announced today hat. thc Burgos government had oublished a decree naming Gen. • rancisco Franco “chief of state of Spain.”
TO ABANDON LINE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30, (UP) The interstate commei e cot.mbs ion today approved the abandonment by the Illinois Central Railroad of six miles, extending from Hedrick to
West Lebanon, Ind.
Roosevelt Caravan In County Friday
20 Years Aa;o IN GREENCASTLE
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Browder Arrested At Terre Haute TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Sept. 30 ‘UP) Earl Browder, New York, (mmunist candidate for President, ind two companions were arrested today when they arrived here for b scheduled address. Browder and his companions, Seymour Waldman and Waldo Frank, both of New York City, were held on ■barges of vagrancy and "for investijation," police chief James C. Yates
said.
Yates previously had announced hat he would not permit Browder to make a scheduled address here to-
night.
Communist party officials yesterday threatened to institute court proceedings when President Ralph N. Tirey. of Indiana State Teachers College, refused them use of the school’s au litorium, after the board of trusI tee j had granted a temporary per-
j mit.
Tirey explained retraction of the i nvitation by saying that a school function had been scheduled for tonight. Police also ’’-ught to arrest a man known onl” -s Stanfield, who was with Browder and the others on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois train which arrived here early today. He htul not yet been located, however. ■v • Today’s Weather ® and ® '> Local Temperature <31 <9$ o C- ® 0 0 0 0 0 0 Cloudy, showers tonight and probably east poition Thursday morning; not so cool northeast and cast central portions tonight; cooler extrema northwest. Thursday.
tention. The extent of her injuries ovprthrow our form „f povem-
ficld, the arc unknown, but Lynch escaped
r>n M an thr ' noted ones at Vin - with minor cuts and bruises.
, n ., , 801110 of which she men-
in Grecncastle. She closed M r - Davis, owner of the truck H * lk by quoting the famous poet was speeding to the scene of the lines, “Trees.” It proved to truck accident when his car overtofforent f r „ m many talks anJ turned at thc crossroads schoolhouse Kfnulnely enjoyed by the Rotary course and was badly damaged.
Davis escaped with slight bruises.
ment. Do I need to recall to you the fear of those days— the reports of those who piled supplies in their basements, who laid plans to gt t their fortunes across the Border, who got themselves hideaways in the country against the Impending upheaval ? Do I need to recall the law-
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There was a heavy frost this morn- ! ing and a minimum of 32 degrees was recorded by the government thermometer, according to J. P. Allen Jr. Paul Airhart, who is employed in Dayton, O.. is home for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Jewell Vaughn were visitors here ftom Cloverdale. i
The Roosevelt Caravan will toar Putnam county on Friday, Oct. 2. Thc caravan provides musical entertainment and is accompanied by several well known Democratic speakers. Appearances at the various towns in the county will be made as near as possible on the following schedule:
Grecncastle 10 a. m.; Cloverdale. 10:30 a. m.; Reclnville 11:30 a. m.; Grecncastle 12:30 p. m.; Fillmore 2 p. m.: Bainbridge 3 p. m.; Roachdale
3:45 p. m.; Russellville 4:30 p. m. All Democratic candidates in thc county are invite ! to accompany the caravan on its Putnam tcur.
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