The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 January 1937 — Page 1

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UKEENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1), 1937.

NO. 73

SHOW PERSONS NOT VOTE

HOMER C. MORKIIS REQUIRED

J BY LAW

TOTAL 14100 pthiK Places Last NoI'port 11,530 Cast

In Putnam

ind, five hundred and t>ns who registered for ^ion In Putnam county |led xs having voted, on in the voting places. The registration toand the listed voters 536. The reason for this |ween the two lists is an inquiry being conOounty Clerk Homer C. 1 Morrison, and his deputy Roger Morrison. This #ction is being taken in 1 accordance With the requirements of | the state election laws. Indiana election laws provide that . if a voter fails to exercise his right of franchaBfor a period of two , years, he he notified to register again and if lie fails to do so will be to vote at the next election. The Cler k is sending letters to all peraons on the registration list who failed to vote in the primary and fall elections of 1936. They will be given thirty days to return the card and be feinstated. or to appear in person iffthe clerk’s office to be re-registefvflr I n the event they do not acknowtskige receipt of the letter within thlMP days, their names will be renEMH from the master list. rever, appear any time ty-day period and until ays before the primary lake a new registration, confusing though, if will return the card or to the clerk's office jays and have his orig- i ion kept on the rec- j

New Photo of Sloan

EX-CONVICT CONFESSES TO MURDER

Nazi Warships at Anchor in Spanish. Harbor

[View of Cadiz harbor

VIRTUE NEAL OK MADISON ADMITS BEING TRIGGER MAN IN DRUGGIST’S SLAYING KORHEKY NETTED PAIR .$1.25 19-Year Old Indianapolis Youth Also He.d By State Police In Murder Of William Bright

INDIANAPOLIS,

Matt Leach

- Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. J!?re is an excellent new photo of Alfred P Sloan, Jr, president of General Motors, who dguros in the labor crisis involving the automobile industry.

ASSISTANT ROAD HEADS ANNOUNCED

NAMED IN THREE DISTRICT.*

TO SERVE UNDER SUPERVISOR CHESTER RUAKK

| -keep his voting status i s’oted at least once A vote in the priwill suffice to keep tic list of eligible voters on file show whether OffflHHji jjwnon exercised their right of franchise and if they did not vote within the past two years then their address is copied and a card will be sent 'to them notifying them that theit registration should be renewed at Ol'Ce or at least before the next primarjrpr they will not be permitted to vote, being ineligible through lack of registration. In Putnam county. Jackson township figures indicate 90 registered persons did not vote, which was the largest number of any township and Cioverdale was next. Some interesting replies are being received by Mr. Morrison. One woman wrote: ‘T have never failed to vote since women were given the ballot. So you are quite wrong in this. I suppose you are a Republican, the reason for this mistake.’*

START LICENSE ARRESTS INDIANAPOLIS. .Ian. 9 I ion K Stiver, state safety director, said today State police have started arresting motorists tom 1 Invmy 'Alt!, 1939 license plates. Detailed reports ss to the number of arrests made vailable until next week,

Chester P.uark, taking over th. office of supervisor of Putnan county roads Monday, has as fii assistant supervisors practicably th< same list under Chester Pickett, th( -etiring road supervisor. There it but one change in the first dis trict, represented on the hoard of oounty commissioners by O. E Cramer - five changes in the sec ond district which Is now represented by W. H. Eiteljorge, succeed ing Lee Wood as commissioner, am in the third district, represented by Edgar Hurst, there will be two changes, due to resignations. First District Gene Grimes, Russellville, succeeding Elmer Clodfqlter. Arthur Eggers, Coatesville, R. 2. Alva Gowin, Greencastle. Fant Judy, Greencastle. Lee Myers, Roachdale. Henry Phillips, First-Citizenr bank. Sam Roe, Roachdale. Charles |Sii!vey, Roachdale. Ernest Thompson, Roachdale. Lester Wilson, Bainbridge. Second District Oren Kivitt, Greencastle, Route 2 succeeding W. T. Blue. Claude Newgent, Central Bank succeeding Ira Hutcheson. Frank Girton, Central Bank, sue ceeding Claude King. Kenneth Knauer, Central bank. Hubert Clodfelter. Greencastle succeeding John Sigler. Andrew Sweeney, Greencastle. Loo Reeves, Greencastle, succeed Kimel Wilson. The place of Lee Bryan may become vacant through resignation. Third District L. E. Herbert. Reelsville route 1. J. C. Hinote, Reelsville. Geo. L. Hurst, First bank, Cloverdale. Ertis McCullough. Reelsville. E. J. O'Conner, Clovordale route ? Tol Walters, Gloverdale. It was understood that Eugene Cooper and Charles Duncan would resign. They served under Mr. Pick-

ett.

Senator Lane On Inaugural Com

APPOINTED WITH 7 OTHERS BA' INCOMING GOVERNOR TO ARRANGE RITES

*tty Baker On trial at Ann Arbor, Mich., charged with the slaying of a hoarder, Betty Baker, former dancer and \v.<v of a r-'*lH - « man. U shown aa she aj . AarLd m court.

O. Bruce Lane, of Putnam county, Joint senator in the state legislature from Putnam and Montgomery counties, is a member of the joint committee from the senate and lower house which has made the arrangements for the inaugural of the new governor. Monday. He was appointed to the committee by Mr. Townsend himself. There are eight members of the committee, four from the senate and four from the house of representatives. KILLS WIFE; WOUNDS SELF FORT WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 9— Mrs. George Hyde. 36, was found shot to death in her bed in her downtown apartment yesterday. Police said she was shot by her husband who then wounded himself.

Jan. 9— Capt.

of the state police an-

nounced last night that Vurtis j Neal of Madison, 21-year old former convict, had admitted the murder of William Bright, Indianapolis pharmacist, whose bullet-pierced body was found in a creek near

Shelbyville Wednesday.

Neal was arrested in Carroll County, Kentucky yesterday and rushed to Indianapolis where he ad-

mitted the slaying.

Hugh Marshall, 19 years old. of Indianapolis, an "odd jobs boy,” 'Vas arrested here and admitted beng with Neal, Captain Loach said. He named Neal as the actual killer. Bright disappeared Monday after working ilate at a drug store where ic was employed. His blood-stained lutomobile was found in Madison Tuesday and on Wednesday officers eined Bright's body from the creek •ear Shelbyville after noticing blood

•tains on the bridge.

Captain Leach said Marshall told lim they killed Bright after stealing his automobile for a trip to

Kentucky.

Leach said Neal confessed after icing told that he would be conidered equally guilty of murder regardless of whether he did the acual shooting. “I killed him,’’ Leach quoted Neal

-s saying.

State police described the murder is "one of the most cold blooded md unnecessary in the history of

he state.”

Marshall said he took $1.25 from Iright before the slaying.

Alarmed by the "undeclared war" between Germany and Spanish Basques along the northern coast of Spain, Britain and France may Intervene to halt an open outbreak of hostilities. In line with Chancellor Hitler's orders to search-and-seize

Spanish merchant ships in reprisal for the seizure of a Nazi freighter at Bilbao, these two German warships, flying the swastika, are at anchor in the rebel-controlled port of Cadiz, awaiting further orders.

Transfers Are Recorded Here

Ad Appeals For Kidnap Contact ‘‘WE ARE STILL WAITING,” MATTSON FAMILY MESSAGE SAYS

TACOMA, Wash., June 9. — The father of Charles Mattson, kidnaped '.welve days ago. sought now instructions from the boy’s abductor today ifter federal officers, suddenly re'ntering the case, sped on a secret mission early in the day. A rush by twenty justice departnent agents before dawn and pubication of the fifth of a series of ■Mable-Ann” advertisements loft obicrvers uninformed as to the fate of he 10 year old boy. “We are still waiting,” the kidlaper was told in a new udvertiscnent for further instructions in the Seattle Daily Times. Informed sources said the boy had not been returned, despite strongthming rumors his father. Dr. W. W. Mattson, had paid the $28,000 ran«jm demanded. Swift action by federal agents fol ’owed closely Dr. Mattson’s requests '.hat all peace officers and the pubic refrain from any activity that night interfere with Charles’ safe return.

BUSY WEEK IS REPORTED BY PUTNAM COUNTY RECORDER A list of real estate transfers in Putnam county, as recorded in the office of Mrs. Elizabeth O’Neal: Frank Riley ct ux to Francis N. Hamilton, lot in Depot enlargement, It Otto F. Lakin ct ux to Agnes L. Phillips anl wife, lot in Greencastle, |L James S. Watts ct ux to Attilio Benassi ct ux, land in Cioverdale township, $000. Addic Coleman to Clifford Monnett, lot in Commeqpial Place, $1. Walter S Campbell to Clifford H. Monnett, lot in Commercial Place, $37.80. Francis N. Hamilton to Frank Riley, lot in Depot enlargement, Greencastle, $1. Kimel Wilson to O. H. Reeves, 25 acres in Madison township, $740. William P. Wingcrt et ux, to Gail Wingert, lot in Cioverdale, $1. John Crockett et ux to Frank Blaydes, 20 acres in Jackson twp., $1. Central National Bank, commissioner, to Charles Bradtke et ux, 7 acres in Greencastle twp., $500. Morton W. Foi l lice ct ux to Rudolph G. Fordice, 299 acres in all, in Russell twp., $1. Rudolph Fordice ct ux to Morton W. Fordice, 96 acres in Russell twp., $1. Mary E. Pock to John W. Lukenbill ct ux, lot in Bainbridge, $1. Cassell C. Tucker et ux to Bernice Craig, lot in Greencastle. $100. Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank to Albert E. Williams, et al, 143.50 acres in Floyd twp., $1. Geo. Whiteside, of Connecticut, lot in Forest Hill cemetery, $150.

CIRCUIT COURT NOTES J. H. Layman, through attorney Fred V. Thomas, has filed suit for possession and to cancel sale contract, with damages of $300, on land in Madison township. The Federal' Land Bank of Louisville has filed suit for foreclosure against Gertrude O'Hair Thomas and Alva V. Thomas, based on a loan of $8800 made on 160 acres in Monroe township in 1926. Attorney’s fees of $498 are asked. Lyon & Abrams are the local attorneys. The suit of the Fillmore State Bank against Herbert and Robert Lawson, which was dismissed on January 4, has been refiled. As an aftermath of the divorce proceedings of Opal Watson against Landy Watson, in which Mrs. Watson was given a divorce early In December. Landy Watson was before the court Saturday on a complaint from his former wife that he was failing to make the payments to her ordered by the court when the divorce was granted. He had been instructed to pay $4 a week, and that order was repeated and emphasized, Saturday, the payments to be made “promptly.” Arrears are to be paid within two weeks.

BUS - TRAIN STALLED BY DEEP SNOW

PROGRAM OUTLINED The program of the Greencastle Coordinating Council for the year 1937 was outlined at a meeting of ‘he executive committee which met it the high school Friday. The membership of the three con. mittees comprising the council will be called for an early date and a reoort of their plans will be presented at the next meeting of the executive committee on Jan. 22. A general meeting of the council will be held the last week in January, the date to be announced later. CHARGED W ITH THEFT Three young men. Gibbons, Hoosier and Crosby, from the northeast part of Putnam county, were on trial in circuit court Saturday, charged with stealing corn from the Joe Bowen ! farm in Jackson township, to the

: value of $24.

WILL PROVIDES I’OK PETS i PULLMAN, Wash. (UP)—Leaving I a $31,000 estate when she died recently. Mrs. Henrietta Burkowsky included the following provision in her will: “I desire that my trustee retain sufficient funds to provide for the keep of my dog Shep and my cat | Pettie as long as they may live."

“LIT” OF RADIO FAME DIES CHICAGO, Jan. 9 Mrs. IsobM Carothers Berolzheimer, the “Lu” of the radio team, “Clara, Lu and Em,” died in an Evanston hospital yesterday. In private life she was the wife of Prof. Howard Berolzheimer of the Northwestern university school of speech. LEAVES HOSPITAL RED BOSTON, Jan. 9—Franklin D. Roosevelt. Jr., reported cured of a sinus Infection and stroptoccic throat, departed for Washington yesterday to spend a few days at the White House before going to Flori-

da.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

Mrs. Will Grogan entertained the Matinee club. Section Four of the Woman’s Union of the Christian church met with. Mrs. Harry Talbott. Mrs. Fred Hixon was a visitor in Indianapolis. Charley Woods announced that he had resigned is secretary to Superintendent Talkington at the Indiana state farm.

Local Crossing !>oin<j Checked PEN NSV OFFICIALS REPORTED CONSIDERING LIFTING OF WATCHMAN SERVICE The Pennsylvania railroad has sta- j tioned a man to check the number | of automobiles which pass the | Bloomington street crossing during j the night hours in an effort to prove ] that the traffic at that point does not warrant the employment of twenty-four hour watchman service, according to City Marshal Lawrence

Graham.

This crossing has been the object of much discussion during the past few months, city officials trying to insure adequate protection for motorists at that point and the railroad conducting investigations as to the advisability of keeping day and night watchman at a crossing which has recently been released as a detour for the National road. According to the number of fatal accidents, thin is undoubtedly the most hazardous spot in the county, three tragic automobile-train collisions having occurred there during the past three months, the last being that of December 9. which claimed the lives of Gordon Foutch. Murray. Ky., Lawrence Byers, Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Lockic Harrison, a sister of Foutch. who also lived in Detroit. It is hoped that the city wall be successful in its plea to the state highway and interstate commerce officials to provide for the safety of motorists there at all times. M A RRI AG E LICE NSE i Roy E. Howard, truck driver, Bra- ! zil R. 2, and Margaret L. Albright, at home, Brazil R. 2.

FEAR FELT FOR SAFETY OF PASSENGERS AS RESCUE EFFORTS FAIL LAS VEGAS. Nev., Jan. 9. (UP) — A transcontinental "bus with sixteen persons aboard was stranded last night on a snow blanketed plateau between Beaver Dam Falls, on the Arizona line, and St. George, Utah. A high wind that drove snow across the mountain highways trapped the bus and fifteen automobiles between two impossible sections of the road. Fear was felt for the safety of the snowbound groups, including about fifty persons, as snow was piling up fast and it was feared some of the cars might be buried. NORFOLK, Nob., Jan. 9. (UP) — Frantic attempts were being made today to rescue eighteen passengers marooned aboard a Minneapolis & Omaha passenger train that stalled between two 22-foot snow drifts Thursday midnight. Two attempts to reach the train yesterday failed. A snow plow was sent out, but it broke down at Winsidc. A locomotive dispatched to the aid of the plow stalled in a drift four miles cast of Winside. Meanwhile, shovelers arc enroute to aid the loco-

motive.

TOWNSEND TO FAVOR STATE STRIKE BOARD

GOV.-EI.r.UT TO AC.'OC'ATE SAME TO INDIANA LE, ISLATUUE FAVORED P.V LABOR GROUP Bill as Now Drift*:!, Would CnnRolidatn Several Kxlst’ng State Departments INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 9. Gover-nor-elect M. Clifford Townsend sai 1 today he will advocate passage by the current legislature of a hill creating a state division of labor headed by a commissioner empowered to arbitrate labor disputes. Townsend, now lieutenant governor, wfll become governor at noon next Monday. He said he will recommend the creation of a division of labor in his message to the general assembly on Wednesday morn-

ing.

The bill, as now drafted, would bring the state industrial hoard, the department of mines and mining, the boiler inspection department, the building inspection department and the department of women an I children in industry under the jurisdiction of the division of labor. Included in the legislative program of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, announced recently, is a proposal which would virtually force mediation in event of strikes. The proposed legislation provides that the governor wo -e compelled to call | out the national guard and close the plants where there is a strike or a lockout. The commissioner of the labor division would be conferred extensive powers, with authority to supervise industry and appoint committees to , act as mediators in labor troubles. The bill does not attempt to bring the unemployment compensation division (job insurance) under the division of labor. Neither docs it make the terms of the labor law applicable to intrastate diaputes. TJie labor commisiapoer would bo empowered und,’V th” nrnpo-i I act to require employers to provide information relative to employment, occupation. wages and hours. He would have authority to enter place- of employment for the purpose of making inspection, collecting facts and statistics. The commissioner or his deputies also would have the right to examine books and records, take deputations of witnesses and issue subpoenas and to promote voluntary arbitration, mediation and conciliUon between employer and employes. FORMER RESIDENT DIES

Musical Vespers At Local Church

SLEET ON RAILS Intcrurban cars were behind their schedule In some Instances Saturday morning, due to the sleet which had | coated the rails. Travel on paved roads and on the streets in towns and in the city of j Greencastle was made unsafe in j places.

UROGRAM ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH A musical verpers will be held in the sanctuary of Ihe First Christian church Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock. Tho program includes organ music, a vocal solo and antiphonal reading. Kenneth Cook will nrc-slde at the organ. Miss Jo Ruth Donnahue will he the soloist. The public is invited. At 5 o’clock a delegation from the Disciples of Christ foundation at Purdue university will put on an exchange program. This is a part of the several projects which are sponsored by the P. D. I. conference, an organization of Disciples of Christ students in Purdue university. Indiana university and DePauw university. About thirty students are expected to be in ihe delegation from Purdue university to attend the local college forum. Other services of the ilav inelu I* the morning worship at 10 o’clock. The subject of the morning sermon will be “How Can We Still Believe?” The minister, Roberi T. Berk, will be the speaker. The official boarrl will meet at 9:30 with the Men’s Forum and will discuss “The A rt of Church Management. John B. Boyd is the leader of this group. Tho student round table and the youth forum will meet at 11:15. The graded church will meet at 9:30. Miss Gertrude Herod, daughter of Mr. and Mrs'. J. W. Herod wWI leave Sunday for Albany, N. Y., to resume

^ her work.

Relatives here have received word of the death of Mrs. Nelle Smith Garvin of Erie, Kunn., which occurred January 6. Her death followed an illness of flu and pneumonia. Mrs. Garvin was a former resident of Putnam county and has several relatives and friends here. Her husband Ben Garvin preceded her in death a

little more than a year ago. POISONED LIQUOR FATAL

SULLIVAN, Ind., Jan. 9—Authorities investigated today the sudden deaths of William Thomas Burton,

61, and Otto Davis, 49.

Officers wore informed the men hail been drinking together a short time before their deaths occurred. Officers believed tho men had ob-

tained some poisoned liquor.

POPE PLANS ADDRESS

VATICAN CITY. Jan. 9—Pope Pius planned today to deliver an adrl'es:: to the world Feb. 7. to celebrate the closing session of the

Eucharistic congress in Manila.

T!je pontiff's message will express hope for a ’ of all people in an effort to s Christian peace in the world, according to Vatican sources. *,

a o a a a a a a a a Today’s Weather a 0 and a a Local Temperature a a a a a a a a a a a a F. 'r. cold wave Saturday; Sunday enow, rising temperature.

Minimum 6 a. m. 7 a. m. 8 a. m. o a. n. 10 a. m.

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