The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 October 1936 — Page 1
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to H«ve Stumbled Into uvlvanii Train. Father of Four Children Pierce, age 33 years, residJ*Comiuercial Place, met a terleatn about 5 o’clock Sunday when he stumbled into an nd Pennsylvania passenger | near the Zinc Mill. Pierce’s | horribly mangled and it lot until late Sunday that it was who the victim really ification was determined i fingerprints of the dead man, , by Robert Moody, of the State Farm, and sent to | [police headquarters at IndianaIPierce, who had a minor police here, was identified through tints which checked with those
DEMOCRATIC MEETING AT COURT HOUSE SEN. VAN NUYS AND HENRY F. SCHRICKEK WERE SPEAKERS SATURDAY D E F E N I) S ADMINISTRATION
^ iiere Once Was the Ancient City of Toledo
Large Croud Hears Senator Nuys Uphold Policies of President Roosevelt
Van
Bishop F. T. Keeney
CONFERENCE WEDNESDAY AT GOBIN CHURCH
AUTUMN MEETING OF METHODIST CHURCH TO BE HELD IN CITY
The autumn conference of the ( Greencastle district of the Methodist Episcopal church is to be held in
Mill by a Commercial Place Gobin Memorial church Wednesday. jiL Wade McNary telephoned The program has been arranged by Iff John Sutherlin and Charles Dr. J. Emmett Porter, district super-
i that a man’s body was lying the tracks on the Pennsyli right-of-way was reported at
jir Putnam county coroner, was
utified.
(riving on the scene, the officers I parts of the body scattered ■ a distance of approximately | rods. The man was wearing a suit and light gray hat but (were no papers of identification. I eight cents in his pockets and rtially filled whiskey bottle
intendent, who will preside at all the
sessions.
The outstanding feature of the program is an address by Bishop Frederick T. Keeney, speaking on the topic “The Mili'on Unit Fellowship Movement.” This address comes at 2:30 p. m. The pastor of every Methodist church in the district will be present with a number of repre-
i was not broken. The initials sentative laymen from each charge, je' were tatooed on the left arm for the entire day’s program. English lettering and for a 1 The vital topics for discussion arc: | the authorities believed it was Christian education, world mission'or‘‘J. P." ary problems, and modern evangel»rding to Sheriff Sutherlin, ism, following the plans of the i was the father of four child- preaching mission recently held in
| two boys and two girls. He had Indianapolis.
| liviiig wit]) a sister, Mrs. Bell The program opens at 9 a. m. and
I continues until 4 p. m. All the mectings are open to the public, and the
lommercial Place. When jailed rocks ago for drunkeness. Pierce
the shiftiff he was working at laymen are invited and urged to
: Hill cemetery.
kthorities believe that Pierce was Bcated at the time of the trag[Sunday morning and that he Ihlod into the train, falling undei (wheels. The sheriff said he was i shortly after 6 a. m. and that j |Ny was still warm when he and | mer Rector reached the scene, so I Pierce evidently met death
lit five o'clock.
peral services were held Monday noon at 2 o’clock from the Rcc|funera! home. The Rev. Singt was in charge. Interment was forest Hill cemetery. ead Not Guilty To Theft Charges w Martinsville Reporter says:
present.
A fried chicken dinner will be served at the church at noon. Reservations should be made with the church secretary. The program follows: Morning session, 9 o’clock: Devotions - Russell L. Phillips. “Our Social Security Program”— Henry L. Davis. “The Children’s Home”—A. S. Warriner. “Methodist Hospitals” — Edgar Blake. Jr. “The Spritual Emphasis in the Church’s Educational Program”—E. R. Bartlett. Evangelism For Our Day:
c’re making no apologies tonight for the actions of our party during the present administration,” declared Democratic Senator Frederick Van Nuys, before a crowd estimated at three hundred and fifty people who had gathered in the Putnam circuit court room Saturday night to hear him and Henry F. Schricker of Knox, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Inliana. “It is inconceivable to me how any man who earns his living by the sweat of his brow cannot vote for Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Mr. Van Nuys, making the first speech of the evening, listed the outstanding actions of the Roosevelt administration and defended them at great length before an enthusiastic audience of Democratic partisans, his talk being interupted often by the
applause of his listeners.
“Tlie farm credit administration,” he said, “reduced interest paid on farm mortgages more than $200,000,000 a year. Through this alone more than 500,000 farms have been saved. Likewise, the AAA, though declared unconstitutional, henefitted the country when it was in force and accom-
plished its purpose.”
“The devaluation of the gold dollar was made to raise the price of farm commodities and has benefitted the farmers just as it was intended to do,” he continued, “and though many speak with alarm about the value of our money today, the American dollar is the safest and sound-
est monetary unit
around us.”
DARING J AIL BREAK STAGED BY BRADY GANG
slug SHERIFF, FIRE shots in MAKING DASH FOR FREEDOM RELIEVED L, INDIANAPOLIS Taxi Driver, Merchant Policeman Report Seeing Bandit Gang Early Monday INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12, (UP) — Three men in a black sedan similar to the one in which three Brady gangsters wore reported seen at Inj dianapolis fired at a motorist today j after he refused to halt south of Lafayette, state police were notified. Earlier reports had indicated the escaped gunmen were attempting to flee northwest, toward Lafayette and Chicago.
, Scenes of stark desolation and destruction such as this were everywhere as troops of Gonoral Francisco Franco’s insurgent army scoured the ruins of Toledo after their victorious entry. Scarcely a building re-
mains that has not been razed or damaged by aerial bomb and shell fire.
Knox To Speak Here Oc tober 21
WILL MAKE SHORT ADDRESS FRO.M TRAIN AT MONON ST VTION
Colonel Frank Knox Republican candidate for vice-president, will make three major speeches in Indiana in the last days of the campaign, it was announced Monday by Fred S. Purnell, director of the Speakers’ Bureau of the Republican
in the country National Committee. Colonel Knox is
expected to make a short address at
He defended the reciprocal trade tariff, saying that it was merely another way of putting into effect the former trade agreement with Canada. The old tariff amounted to ten cents a. bushel on wheat, he said, and Mr. Hull’s reciprocal tariff is about the same thing. In the meantime, according to Mr. Van Nuys, agricultural and commercial exports and imports for this country have in-
Greencastle, late in the afternoon of
Wednesday, October !ti.
Colonel Knox will speak at Crawfordsville, Indiana, at 1:30 p m., on Wednesday, October 21, coming from Chicago on the Monon Railroad and making short platform appearances enroute. The Crawfordsville meeting will be held at the I^inc Place, home of the Civil War statesman, former Senator Henry S. Lane, who nomin-
ereased $132,000,000 during the first a ^ e( j Abraham Lincoln for presidency.
C. Elsworth.
I “Pastoral Evangelism”
I
Beck.
six months of 1936.
“The labor board, which is now’ pending judgmert on its constitutionslity before the United States supreme court, W’as largely responsible for putting the 123,000 government postal employes on a 40 hour week basis,” he said. “It has largely destroyed ‘sweat shops’ and child labor in this country,” he further said. ‘Our president, through the bank-
He will proceed on the Monon to Bloomington, where he will change to another railroad to go to Evansville, Indiana, where he will speak that night. The vice-presidential candidate will speak at Gary on the night of October 30. He will make back plutlorm speeches enroute to Gary.
ERNEST MILLER LOSES VALUABLE COW BY THEFT Shortly after 8 o’clock Saturday night, some one entered the Sweet farm east of the city, which has been rented by Ernest Miller, and drove away a valuable cow, worth about $55, Mr. Miller reported Sunday. The parties failed to catch the calf but drove tli» cow east and soon afterwards an automobile hit the animal and killed it. It was said all parties concerned, were known.
Noble Johnson To Speak Tuesday REPFBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR C ONGRESS TO SPEAK IN COURT ROOM
! INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 12, (UP) — The hunt for Alfred Brady and two members of his self-styled “second \ Dillinger gang,” was concentrated in Marion county fixlay after two per•ons reported sciing the fugitives. A taxi driver and a merchant poi liccman reported to Capt. Matt j Leach of Indiana state police they had seen three men whom .they tentatively identified as Brady and his j companions, Clarence Lee Shaffer,
Ir. and James Dalhover.
Richard Iinheusen, the tnxi driver, \ raid two men hailed his cab early toiay and at the point of a gun ordered him to drive them out road 52 to-
I wards Chicago.
About a mile outside city limits, MRS. BESSIE GROGAN KMCK the taxi driver was ordered to pull DIED SATURDAY NIGHT ; U P alongside a Black Ford sedan.
EX-RESIDENT PASSED AWAY AFTER STROKE
AT NEWCASTLE
FUNERAL
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TUESDAY
Deceased Was Si-.ler of Will Grogan and Mrs. Willis Miller of This City
One man was in the car, Imhaussen
told police.
He said he noticed one of the men carried a pair of license plates under his arm and that the sedan did not
have license plates.
A merchant policeman named Fisher reported from suburban Mickleyville that a bhirk sedan without license plates drove into a filling
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"Evangelistic Preaching o er moratorium, established the peo-
ples’ confidence in the banks of the country,” he continued, “and if he had done nothing else than that, it would have been a historic adminis-
tration.”
He estimated that government ! spending is responsible for 55 per cent of our industrial and agricul-
tural
STATISTICS OF INTEREST
Luncheon.
Afternoon session, 1:30. Reports of committees. Miscellaneous business.
Address, “The Million Unit Fellow-1 ‘ ship Movement,” Bishop Frederick
htthey Jack Bowman and Chester fawby, W ho were arrested at kncastle last Thursday afilowing robbery of Lewis Bros store at K‘He on the night of October 8, ! arraigned in court this morning
P'e Judge C. G. Vernon to answer t. Keeney. i , aced that ^arge of auto banditry. Special report of of the committee egtlmate
’ll men entered pleas of not on world service program. ty November 9 was the date set . Adjournment. Uie trial.
’ ni l in the sum of $5,000 for each wdant was fixed Friday by Judge !U > ( * they will be held in jail
recovery and said that he
as a very conservative
estimate.
Statistics received in Putnam county Monday revealed that increases in the county relief case load in the state of Inuiana for the month of August, for 51 of the 92 counties in Indiana gave relief to more cases than in the preceding months, while 36 counties had fewer cases and Biown, Hendricks, Madison. Orange and Ripley counties showed exactly
QUINS BRAVE FIRST SNOW
; “We shall continue to have unem- the samc number of relief cases. ] ployment and will need the I’W A and rp^| a j g fi r}{ t month since Fcb-
! similar relief organizations for some 1
^ the time of the trial unless they (UP’ The Dionne quints were able to give the required bond. as usual for two hours Sunday de-
0Unt y Attorney John Walsh, who spite the first snow of Winter,
’appointed to represent them, ap- Today is Thanksgiving in Canada,
their behalf Saturday The babies’ Thanksgiving menu will
’■ be the routine “bacon and eggs for b ( lalue of the goods stolen from breakfast, vegetables, soup and milk * tore is placed at $60. for dinner and porridge, milk and
— bread and butter for supper.” tnam Lodge No. 45 I. O. O. F. ;;r:.?- ay evcn ‘ng at 7:30 President Tours
“h work in the degree of
JMship.
time to come because of the machine age in which we now live,” he de-
CALLANDER, Ontario, Oct. 12— c]are( j „j t is thP use of , no dcrn ma-
° Ut chines for which the country is not as yet adjusted which will make public works a necessity for some time to come, irrespective of whether Republicans or Democrats are in
power.”
“I am proud of the social security i legislation of the present administration,” he said. “The United States i is the last of the great Industrial countries of the world to have social
Glufn Of Tnlorado security laws, but we have finally Mate OI l oiorautJ iawa to he]p the bUnd and
CAM- crippled, provide for unemployment
PAIGN AR TRAIN° 0 In COLORADO, insurance, and health insurance Oct 12 (UP) President Roosevelt;along with other security items carried his re-elect^camp^nto a.-g the ^amejm^” ^ ^ ^
- ^ weeTof 0 his 5W mile tour that al-jof the country cannot -Und for the
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ruary that increases have exceeded decreases. The 70.7 per cent increase in Pulaski county was the highest in the state and the 21.5 decrease in Randolph county was the largest de-
1 clinc.
Monroe and Vermillion counties ! continue as the units with the largi est relative relief problem, with little change in their percentages reported. Jay county with .8 per cent and Dubois county with .9 per cent had the smallest percentage of relief recipients. Putnam county was included in the the group of 43 counties in the state having from zero to 2.4 per cent of their populatior on relief, showing an increase of 5.9 per cent of cases and a decrease of 1.2 per cent in obligations incurred for relief in August, 1936 over July, 1936.
Noble Johnson of Vigo county, who retired from congress in the Democratic landsidc six years ago, and the Republican candidate for the same office from the Sixth Indiana district, will be the speaker at a Rcpubliccan rally to be held in the court room Tuesday evening, it was announced today. This will be Mr. Johnson’s first visit to Greencastle since his nomination. He served several times in congress prior to the election of C. C. Gillen from this city, and is well posted on national affairs, and his discussions should be of vital interest to everyone. The public is cordially invited to hear him tomorrow night. Farm Escape Drinks Liniment; Sick Man Drinking a quantity of old-fash-ioned horse liniment, Thomas Weiss, a penal farm escape, attempted to commit suicide Saturday. Weiss sent to the farm from North Judson, skipped from the penal insitution at Putnamville Friday, staying in a barn near Clovcrdale over night. Saturday, he put in his appearance at the Victor Cue home, north of Clovcrdale, a very sick man. Mr. Cue took Weiss to Clovcrdale and turned him over to Ora Finney, town marshal. Weiss was brought here and Sheriff John Sutherlin took him from the jail to the county hospital. In the meantime penal farm officers came to Greencastle and Weiss was taken to the hospital at the farm. It was reported Sunday evening that his condition was improving and his ultimate recovery was expected.
Mrs. Bessie Grogan Kniek, a for mer resident of this city, suffered :
stroke of apoplexy Saturday evening Ion there, paused a roomuat and at her home in Newcastle. She died j then headed back toward Indianashortly afterward. Death came as >olis. a great shock to her relatives and Radio squad cars failed to apprefriends. ' ’icnil the reported machine in either
Mrs. Kniek was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Grogan, deceased. She was a member of the Greencastle Locust street Methodist church since child hood. She was a graduate of the local high school with the class of f 1891. She was also a member of the
Eastern Star.
Since leaving this city she had made her home in St. Louis, Mo., and
Newcastle.
She is survived by one brother and two sisters, W. A. Grogan and Mrs. Willis A. Miller of this city and Mrs Grace Wiseman of A It amount. Ill Miss Wilma Miller of this city, a niece, also survives. The funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 at the Rector funeral home. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home.
HEARING TO BE OUT. 15 County Auditor Abigail Cooper has
received notice from the state board of tax commissioners that hearings will be held on the appeal of ten 01 more tax payers requesting a review
ease.
GREENFIELD, Ind, Oct. 12 — Three small-sized Indiana hoodlums who had bragged they would outdo the late John Dillinger and his murderous gang, Sunday overpowered the sheriff and escaped from the Hancock County Jail where they were awaitng trial for the murder of an Ind-
ianapolis police sergeant.
They took the car of a citizen who attempted to aid the sheriff as he struggled with the men on the sidewalk in front of the jail and drove toward Indianapolis, twenty-one
miles west.
State police, advised of the escape within six or seven minutes, closed all main roads but after several hours expressed the belief the men had held up some farm house and were hiding or had escaped across the Kentucky line to a hideaway. The three hoodlums, Alfred Brady, 25 years old; James Dahlhover, 29, and Clarence Lee Shaffer, 20, all under 5 feet 6 inches and slightly built, were scantly clad and without money when they made their break and drove off. Slate police learned the car only
had about eight gallons of gasoline in the tank and they started searching
hearing will be held in the auditor’s office at 4 p. m., Oct. 15.
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100 DIE IN TYPHOONS
MANILA, P. T . Oct. 12. (UP) — At least one hundred persons were reported dead and an undetermined number were missing today as the result of typhoons which swept through the Philippines over the weekend.
Miss Mary Bittles is visiting in
uncie and Dunkirk.
Mrs. John McFarland was hostess
not
to the Boston Club. S. C. Sayers andi
Harry Moore
of because they only brought 2.54 per The Boston Red Sox won the World (Continued on Page Four) Series by defeating Brooklyn, 4 to 1. headquarters.
BORDER FLASHES REPORTED TOKYO. Oct. 12, (UP)—Two border clashes between Manchukuoan and Soviet patrols in which at Fast eight Soviet and one Manchukukuoan soldiers were killed or wounded, were reported today by Korean army
Landon Speaks At Cleveland Toniffht ABOARD LANDON TRAIN IN OHIO, Oct. 12, (UP) Governor A If M. Landon swung into a final whirlwind of campaigning in Ohio today with a charge that President Roosevelt’s trade and farm declarations were “more calculated to deceive the American people tiian to
enlighten them.”
Heading into this pivotal state's industrial section before speaking on relief tonight at Cleveland, the Republican nominee discusse I what lie termed the deceptions of Mr. Roosevelt's farm speech at Omaha and of Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s speech on trade at Minneapolis. The Landon train left Columbus shortly after 8 a m. The party ac-
the countryside around Greenfield in Ih belief the escaped men were hid-
ng in some farm house.
Nine cars of officers were brought down from the northern part of the state to aid in the search. Belief that the men were in hiding near Greenfield was strengthened as the hours passed with no reports of other automobiles or gasoline being stolen. The only reports state police had were that cars answering the description of that in which the men escaped were seen near South Bend and near Decatur There was nothing definite, however, to indicate either was the
one being sought.
At the time of Shaffer’s arrest in Indianapolis he told a story of the operations of the gang which he said "would put Dillinger in the shade.’’ He also raid the guns owned by the gang made Dillinger’s look like a
"piker”.
There had been reports a jail delivery was planned and Sheriff Clarence Watson, short, stoutly-built,
had asked permission of the judge and
Ohio included former Secretary of Treasury Ogden Mills, who joined
Gov. Landon at Columbus.
Landon. appearing rested after a quiet Sunday, was escorted from the
J hotel to the tiain by police.
prosecutor, he said, to transfer the men to a safer place, preferably the
State Prison at Michigan City.
"I wanted to take the prisoners to the reformatory or some other jail
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