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ennial OGRAM to be ON BIG SCALE FOB celebration by nEP'l’W OI TLINED AT MEETING CASTLE DAY DEC. 9 • on Rploased Following bfr of Commerce Dinner Monday Evening t 0 information released Ciiamber of Commerce dinner held in the Presbyterian Monday evening, fhe whole ^ill hear about Greencastle pePauw university during the part of 1937. The occasion te the one hundredth anniver4 the founding of Asbury Coljow DePauw university, festivities will open December jC h will bo designated as .castle Day.” These events outlined during the meeting. in charge of Richard Sandy, eat of the Chamber of ComPaul F. Boston, superintendof city schools, spoke of the that had come to Greencastle the election of Marshall D. as governor of Indiana Kiand how this city will be conwith the international convenof Kiwanis to be held at Indithrough the association of Abrams, who will be host govto the international convention, jn R. G. McCutchan, chairman centennial committee of Deuniversity, outlined the probeginning in December and -uing through commencement ; mid-June. y interesting things will come -castle as a result of the obof the 100th anniversary of Many noted visitors will come to the city and to the during the celebrations, of the highlights of the oboe will be a nation-wide radio ;p from Meharry hall on the of January 11, when a coast program will be broadcast SBC. Phil Maxwell, president of Alumni Association, will be in a of this program. Some noted ' era and a very interesting prowill be put on the air during !0 minute broadcast. Alumni 3throughout the nation will ase at dinners and for the recepof the broadcast which will go from historic old Meharry hall, to Greencastle day, which starts program, many former Greencasmd Putnam County men and wowtio have achieved honor and dis- ’ n. have signified their intenof returning for the opening Among these are Larry , president of the Illinois CenR»i!road: Senator Elmer Thomas Oklahoma; Frank Lewman of J>d, president of Richman "ers Clothing Co.; Glenn I. «r of New York City; Donald ell of Chicago; Frank Irvin of h; Judge James P. Hughes, InUs: L O. Griffith, artist, of own; Mrs. Sally Bowman *11. whose husband was presiof Wells Fargo Express and chairman of the American ExCompany, also donors of the hall organ and of Bowman ium; Edward Gainor, presiof the Letter Carriers Organizaaffiliated with the American fation of Labor; Judge Jean n Penfield of New York, and

J others.

^ December 9 session will start a *P ec *al chapel program at 11 k. and will continue well into n teht. a display of costumes

100 y ears ago up to the pres-

Wod will feature the day’s pro-

In ‘he afternoon, teas will be

*1 the sorority and fraternity *** and a luncheon will be a feaat noon, and a banquet in the

to which all are invited.

!l irtin « January 12, will come a 'fence on preaching which will

the outstanding ministers

*cturers of the nation. It Is ex- . that upward of 2.000 may at-

different sessions.

February will come a national h h v? f0rcnce w bich may be head1 ‘ ent Cooper, head of the As-

j'fed Press

JP & Per men of

^ in these will be DePauw gradand former students who have hmailstie b ? niche in the hall of ftj, farne during the time , 1 bc depicted by the observ-

0 of th « centennial.

**ur»t^ arCh 10, wi >l come the inNth' 10n ° f Preside nt VVildman O- 11 be another red letter ^ he history of DePauw. The WlU ^ ‘cached at commence-

ment time in June, when from 4.000 to 5,000 visitors are expected on the campus. The New York delegation is making up reservations for eastern alumni to come on a special train and they will live on it during their stay in order that they may have accommodations. The commencement program will open on Thursday and will continue through to Monday at full speed in order that all can be gotten into the short space of time allotted. Dr. Wildman was another speaker at the dinner meeting. He discussed ( "Independence of Human Beings,” and showed how Greencastle is dependent upon DePauw and DePauw on Greencastle and one man on another, and one community on another and one nation on another. He said there is no such thing now as one being independent and , able to live without the aid of his neighbors. He said through cooperation, final worth-while results are obtained and only through cooperation can peace and satisfactory solutions of problems be solved in the present

day world.

1 The meeting proved to be the most interesting that the Chamber of Comerce has ever held and Grcencastle people can look forward with great interest to events that will be taking place and making history in Greencastle and DePauw from now until next June.

GHEUXCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1936.

NO. 33

CROOKS ELUDES TERRE HAUTE POLICE TRAP AUTO BANDIT-KIDNAPER ESCAPES ARREST MONDAY NIGHT

WANTED

TWO STATES

PROTEST TURKEY PRICES NEWCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 24 Officials of the Eastern Indiana Turkey and Poultry Association announced today they had telegraphed Representative in Congress Finley H. Grey support of a federal probe of alleged turkey price fixing. They said they would hold their birds for tiie Christmas trade because they would lose money at the current 15-cent wholesale top price.

Wives Nurse Siamese Twins

George E. Daffron Makes Getaway M ith Blonde Woman Companion From Surrounded House

Snow Falls In Several States

WINTER'S WHITE BLANKET

COVERS SECTIONS OK NORTHERN INDIANA TUESDAY

Winter unloaded its first big burden of snow over the midwest and moved into the east today. Warm weather was predicted today to melt the inch or more or snow and ice that covered northern Illinois and Indiana, southern Wisconsin, most of Iowa, and southeast-

j em Michigan.

While small craft warnings were i issued for the upper great lakes, weather forecasters predicted “not so cold” for Illinois, J$wer Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa. Minnesota, the Dakotas and NebrasI ka. Indiana expected more cold. The cold moved into the east, with lower temperatures predicted today 1 for New York, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Snow was predicted in New York

and Pennsylvania.

TEP.RE HAUTE, Nov. 24. (UP) — George Emmett Daffron, 26. Vincennes. sought by Ohio and Indiana police for robbery, auto banditry and kidnaping, escaped with a blonde woman companion from a dozen Terre Haute police officers who surrounded a house here last night. Daffron, who fled westward toward Illinois on U. S. highway 40, escaped from Ohio police recently after a shooting in a Cincinnati, O.,

tavern.

Terre Haute police arrested James Carter, 24. and his wife, Wanda, in a raid of the west side residence. Police obtained from Carter a complete history of Daffron’s travels since he became a fugitive after robberies in Indianapolis and Vincennes. Carter told officers that Daffron and his woman companion, who was unidentified, forced him, his wife, and their small child to accompany him on a wild jaunt through the southwest. He said on the trip which took them as far as Texas, Daffron had cashed a number of bad checks, and that he had been forced to drive his own car to Vincennes where it was placed in a garage and license plates transferred to Daffron’s car. Carter said Daffron had boasted many times upon their return to Indiana that he was desperate and would not be taken alive. He told officers that the group went to Odon Sunday night where Daffron burglarized a hardware store, obtaining a shotgun, rifle and a large quantity of ammunition. Forcing them to accompany him. Daffron had threatened many times to blow their heads off if they caused any trouble, Carter told officers. Police admitted they had received their tip last night after Mrs. Carter ran screaming into a neighbor’s residence and asked for police. It was reported to Indianapolis police that Daffron was captured at Paris, 111., but this was denied by the Illinois officers.

Van Sweringen Career Broken

ORIS P. FOLLOWS BROTHER IN DEATH—PAIR BUILT GREAT

RAILWAY EMPIRE

BREATHES THROUGH TUBE

WOLFLAKE. Ind., Nov. 24. (UID —Eugene Ring, 11, son of Scott Ring of Pierceton, is breathing through a metal tube Inserted to prevent death after a throat stricture had closed his windpipe. The boy, conceded a good chance of recovery, is in the hospital here awaiting an operation.

ETCHINGS ON DISPLAY

A selection of etchings by L. O. Griffith, a former resident of Greencastle, will be on display to the public at the Beta house from 1:30 to 5 p. m., Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Griffith is a prominent member of the Chicago Society of Teachers and of the famous Brown county artist colony.

Judge To Speak At Men’s Forum

John C. Perkins Called By Death WELL KNOWN MAN PASSED AWAY TUESDAY AT NORTH SALEM John Clarence Perkins, ago 56 years, died early Tuesday morning at the home of his brother, Carl Perkins, in North Salem, following an extended illness of heart disease. Although he had been in ill health for some time his death came as a shock to his friends and relatives. He is survived by three brothers, Carl Perkins, North Salem; Orville Perkins, Roachdale, and Laurel Perkins of North Salem, and a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Buchannon of Roach-

dale.

Funeral services will be held at Mt. Stater.

DINNER MEETING WILL BE HELD THS EVENING AT UHRSTIAN CHURCH

CLEVELAND, Nov. 24 Oris P. Van Sweringen, who started his business career as a newsboy and, with his brother. Mantis J., lived to manipulate and control a S".,000.000.000 network of railroads ami real estate, died yesterday on a railroad trip to New York. The noted financier who wrote an incredible chapter In the story of twentieth century transportation, died after a heart attack as his train approached Hoboken, N. J. He was 57 years old. It was less than a year ago that his brother. Mantis, died in Cleveland in the midst of their struggle to pull their railroad empire out of the depression. At the Van Sweringen offices here Joseph Doherty, public relations counsel, said that two men who were with the railroad magnet on the trip | claimed a minor accident in the Scranton, Pa., railroad yards “probably contributed to a heart attack.” The Van Sweringen ancestors came out of New York soon after the revolution and settled in the rugged territory near Wooster, Ohio. The two brothers, inbued with the pioneer spirit, went to school together and then pushed on to Cleveland where there was more com-

merce

They sold newspapers, became office boys. Soon they were clerks. They were ambitious, shy and se-

cretive.

With the shrewdnes sthat guided their intricate movements later they bought an option on a large tract of undeveloped land on the southeast edge of Cleveland, known as Shaker Heights. This was the start of their career. They couldn’t sell Shaker Heights without transportation, so they bought a rapid transit line. In their quiet way they began to contact civic leaders. Financial leaders began to take notice, to feel the warmth of their personality— the same personality that finally sold O. P. to J. P. Morgan. Shaker Heights today is one of Cleveland’s most fashionable and ex-

clusive suburbs.

The Nickel Plate Railroad ran near the development and the Van Sweringens bought it for $8,500,000. They then began to organize the railroad empire which brought them fame and a fortune which was estimated in 1929 at $100,000,000. The New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad was one of their early acquisitions. Later they reached out for the Toledo, St. Louis & Western, the Lake Erie & Western, and the Detroit, Telodo Short Line, the 1 Chesapeake & Ohio, the Hocking Valley, Pore Marquette, the Eric and the Wheeling & Lake Erie. Through it all, the Van Sweringen touch was apparent, but the Van Sweringen hand was unseen. The brothers never married. They lived quietly on their country estate and

functions. When

U. S. EMBASSY IS CLOSED IN MADRID TODAY

AMERICAN WOMEN AND CHILDRUN WILL LEAVE WITH EMBASSY STAFF REVOLT MAY ENGULF EUROPE

Mr. ami Mrs. Simplleio Gudino Mr. and Mrs. Lucio Godino Two sisters, wives of the Godino Siamese twins, are standing vigil at the bedside of their husbands in a New York hospital as one of the twins. Lucia, right, fights to recover from lobar pneumonia. Simplicio,shown, atleft, with his wife, is joined to his brother by a spinal link, but is not expected to contract his brother's illness because they have separate circulatory systems.

1200 Workers End Siege In Factory WILL PICKET PLANT FROM OUTSIDE PENDING

NEGOTIATIONS

Labor Official Shot To Death

MICHAEL .1. GALVIN KILLED IN TYPICAL GANGLAND STYLE

AT CHICAGO

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 24 «UP) —The 1,200 workers who held a unique siege beside their idle machines in the Bendix Products Corpo rat ion factory prepared today to picket the plant from the outside as the way opened for negotiation of

their dispute.

Bendix officials, who previously ndicated they would not resume peace conferences unless the be siegers left the factory, were believed ready to meet again with representatives of the united auto-

mobile workers untar. >

Differences over organization ac tivities of the UAWA, which led to a brief sit-down strike Nov. 17, wholesale layoff by the company, and finally the siege, were believed to have been settled in previous conferences. Only barrier to final settlement of the dispute was believed the union’s demand for dissolution of the Bendix Employes’ Association, a so-called company union.

Peace Gesture Made To Lewis

LABOR FEDERATION SEEKS TO

HEAL SPLIT IN RANKS; WORST IN 50 YEARS

Judge Courtland C. Gillen will be the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Men’s Forum at their dinner this evening in the social rooms at the First Christian church at 6:30 p. m. Because of Thanksgiv-

kscaper wins leniency LANSING. Mich., Nov. 24 Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald commuted the prison sentence of How-

ard H. Fulger yesterday and said avoided alt public

the convict who “made good” after their huge terminal was completed escaping from the state prison in here, they declined civic acclaim, southern Michigan 17 years ago The depression shook their hold on would be paroled at once. the railroad network severely. O. P. Parole papers were being pre- Van Sweringen, working without the pared and Fulger said he might aid of his brother, was restoring the

leave today

for Chicago to rejoin empire to its original power and

his invalid wife, from whom he was taken recently when his identity as

and many notable the nation. In-

ing the meeting has been advanced an escaped convict was discovered, from Thursday to Tuesday. j He was working in Chicago as an In addition to the speaker, a trio apartment building janitor. consisting of violin, cello and piano.

will interpret several selections by American composers of the modern school. The trio consists of Miss Jean Fillingham, Miss Emily Wolcott and Miss Ardella McCole. A brief business period will precede the dinner program. The speaker will be Introduced by Lois Arnold, president of the Men’s Forum.

The dinner committee is composed strong to of B F. Handy, chairman, Paul Bos- to $9.35.

ton vice chairman. John Burk, Ralph Sheep 3,000.

Bee Claude Bailey, W. E. Jones and steady; choice nativejambs to small

Harold Edwards. The attendance killers $9.00; committee includes William Stiles, early

B. F. Handy and Charles Meikel.

position when death overtook him. Only last week two Van Swerin-gen-controlled railroads, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the Pere Marquette, declared dividends totaling

more than $33,000,000.

INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Hog receipts 9,000; holdovers 136; market 15 cents higher; 180 to 300 lbs., $9.65 to $9.80; 300 to 400 lbs., $9.45 to $9.75; 160 to ISO lbs., $9.40 to $9.70: 150 to 160 lbs.. $9.15 to $9.65: 130 to 150 lbs., $8.65 to $9.40:

100 to 130 lbs

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

TAMPA. FLA., Nov. 24 <UP) — The American Federation of Labor made a new peace gesture to John L. Lewis today after its 56th annual convention formally suspended 10 International unions in the Rebel leader's defiant committee for industrial

organization.

But bulwarking the gesture, the . convention clothed the federation executive council with power to cal! a special convention in event peace maneuvers fail and drastic action — presumable expulsion—becomes nec-

essary.

President William Green, most eloquent advocate of the convention’s 21,679 to 2,043 vote for suspension of a million federation members, announced immediately after the gavel fell on a dramatic midnight session, that the A. F. of L. leadership immediately would renew its effort toward negotiations to end the gravest split in 50 years of labor

solidarity.

Green refused to accept the opinion of many veteran labor chieftains including Charles P. Howard of the typographers, that the suspension vote meant Lewis immediately would force a permanent, rival labor organization and that, if the C. I. O. wins its battle to unionize the steel industry, the split in labor ranks will be too wide to heal. It was reported that the C. I. O. leaders would meet next weekend to make plans.

CHICAGO. Nov. 24. (UP) Inves- | tigators delved today into recent activities of Michael J. Galvin, power in Chicago labor union wars for a generation, to find a clue to the men who shot him to death last night in

accepted gangland style.

Galvin, 55, president of the outlawed Chicago Chauffeurs and Truck Drivers union, was shot four blocks from Chicago’s loop just before midnlht. Struck by more than three dozen slugs, ho was dead when he

reached a hospital.

Police had only a meager description of the four men who rode up behind him in an unlicensed car and poured the contents of four shotgun shells into his body. They believed the men may have been connected with Galvin’s efforts to organize the chauffeurs and truck drivers in defiance of the accepted unit of the American Federation of Labor. Galvin, grey-haired but husky, was a Republican ward committeeman. His efforts to establish a union were believed responsible for many of the violent outbreaks between rival factions of truck and automobile drivers. His stormy career as an organizer apparently was broken with election of Thomas J. Courtney as state’s attorney at the time when powerful gangs ruled Chi-

cago’s underworld.

Courtney, in his successful campaign to drive gangsters from Chicago, declared Galvin’s union an “outlaw.” Detectives and state’s attorney's officers broke tip dozens of meetings at which Galvin attempted to carry out his organization plans. Galvin walked down West Madison street last night apparently without knowledge he was “marked” for death. An automobile sped up behind him, slowed down and approached the curb. There were two men in the front seat and two in the back seat. Shotgun muzzles nosed through the rear windows, roared four times, and Galvin fell into a doorway. The car sped away. Robert Steele saw the shooting as he stood on a street car platform. Ho leaped from the trolley to Galvin’s side, tried to lift him and failed. Rocco Potanzo. a taxi driver, drove up and helped Steele place Galvin in eab. They dashed to a hospital with him. but Galvin was dead when

they arrived.

Steele said all four men in the murder car were “dark” and probably of foreign ancestry. The driver was about 24, and a second man in the front seat about 30, he said. Officers found the shotgun shells were the same typo as used in police riot guns- .12 gauge, with a dozen slugs to each shell.

Mrs. B. F. Corwin was hostess to $8.15 to $8.90; sows | the Woman’s club. Miss Garnett Sackett. Miss Era Bence, Miss Melba Raines ami Walton Raines went to Indianapolis to hear Paderewski at the Murat the-

ater.

Mr. ami Mrs. Raymond Fisher are the parents of a son.

the and

10c higher: mostly $3.65

market opened

some held higher; no

parker deals. Indications

j steady on sheep.*

BAUHARD BOND SET

J. Bauhard was brought into Putnam circuit court Monday upon arraignment, entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of un lawful transportation of diseased hogs. He was alleged to have transported hogs afflicted with cholera in

a truck.

Judge C. C. Gillen fixed bond at $500 which was filed and approved.

Temporary 7'. S. Eni'vavyv WI'I Be Established At Valecnin Eric YVcndelWi Announces MADRID. Nov. 24. (UTM rv-go I’Affairos Erie C Wendelin announced the closing of the \merie.cn embassy today as Madrid talked of the developin'' >f the civil war into >ne that would engulf Europe. Most American women and chili Iren planned to leave with the embassy staff. Rut the men intend to

-emain.

Wcndelin said bo would leave the embassy building open, under r noaofficia! custodian, and that Amer’cans might make use of it at their

j own risk.

The men at once formed a commlt-

1 tee to take charge of the problem of obtaining food and keeping the embassy running on hotel principles. Roger S. Smith, hanker, of Roches‘er, N. Y.; Riley Williams, business man of Baton Rouge, La., and Frank Canaday, chicken farmer, of Virginia

were named to take charge. Acting on instructions by the state

department, Wcndelin assembled American refugees in the rotunda of the embassy and announced that the embassy would be closed forthwith.

He said that the Consul John John-

son, Vice Consul Bolard Moore, and Col. Stephen O. Fuqua, military at’ache, would leave for Valencia probably tomorrow to establish a tempor-

iry embassy.

The government, he said, promised to provide automobile transport for American refugees, to bo taken to Valencia and embarked on an Amer-

; can warship.

Wcndelin read the following note: “The American government has ordered the American staff of the i embassy to leave and has instructed me to evacuate to Valencia under our escort as many American nationils as may wish to take advantage of this opportunity to leave. “Arrangements are being made for transportation by automobile from 1 Madrid to Valencia. It is therefore necessary to know how many people

plan to leave..

“All American nationals in the •'mbassy will please report to the consul as soon as possible and in any event before 5 p. in., whether they desire to leave with the staff or remain in Madrid. An American warhip will he at Valencia to evacuate American nationals from Madrid. “Those American nationals who for any reason are not able to leave Madrid will be permitted to remain at the embassy. Those remaining will understand they do so at their own risk and upon their own responsibility. It will he necessary for those remaining at the embassy to provide for their own needs in the way of food and necessities. “Upon d<, ...re of the staff a custodian of the embassy premises will be appointed but no one will have any representative character or be cuthorized to deal with the Spanish authorities.” It was understood that the person to bo appointed custodian was the senior Spanish employe of the Ameroan commercial attache’s office, Francisco Ugartc. But various Americans have indicated their belief that the custodian should bc an American citizen. As Wcndelin prepared to leave, women, children, and aged men of Madrid lined up in the wet streets, under a gray sky, to await transnortation from their ruined homes to

tlvi coast.

FARM SENTENCE MONDAY Gilbert Branneman received a sentence of six months at the Indiana state farm and was fined $25 and costs Monday when he appeared before the Putnam circuit court and changed a former not guilty plea to guilty on a charge of stealing four chickens valued at $2.35 from Arthur Shumaker of near Cloverdale. He was placed in the Putnam county jail to await removal to the "tato institution.

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