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NO. 12ti
\KER grilled BY COMMITTEE ON COY ATTACK
Claude Kinder, who arrested Cancilla. Kinder said Cancilla was taken from a taxicab which was driven here from Anderson early Friday morning, although Kinder quoted Cancilla as insisting he had been in Indianapolis since the hunt for him
IN RAILROAD TIE BUSINESS FOR 50 YEARS
TO GIVE KEITTAL
started.
Herman Berg violinist, and Robert Sheldon pianist, members of the music ischool (faculty, ^will present their second sonata recital of the year in Meharry hall Tuesday,
j , . March 16.
IVIES THREATENING LIFE OF Senator Bedwell said at the end of LOCAL MAN CELEBRATING The program will consist of three STATE WELFARE CHIEF, of the examination that the commit- HALF CENTCRY IN THIS sonatas, one each by Beethoven. RaLATEK BADLY BEATEN tee would recess and await another INDUSTRY vel, and Grieg. Tl^e Ravel sonata s — call, probably to be made some time especially interesting inasmuch as Kt'IIXA PLEADS RIGHTS j next week. . STATISTICS OF INTEREST he is an admirer of Gershwin and ■ incorporates the modem jazz idiom iia|H>li* Politician and Lawyer TO PRESENT .MINSTREL Charles A. Bruner Gives Staggering*mto one of the movements, entitled
To Be Tried on Charge of Figures Regarding Railroad Tie Malicious Mayhem The Bainbridgc high school chorus * Work For 50 Years | will present a negro minstrel Tues-;
INDIANAPOLIS, March 13.—Joel ; day night, March 16. Karl Davis, a Th *ro may be “golden anniversarBakcr, Indianapolis political lead- member of the junior class, will act ics ” in matters outside the realm of u m icr indictment in connection i as master of ceremonies. matrimony. Charles A. Bruner of
ith the recent attack on Wayne I Soloists include Lcuorc McCam- Greencastle is celebrating
GERMAN PRESS IS PROTESTED BY AMBASSADOR
U. S. AMBASSADOR SPEAKS STRONGLY TO RERUN ABOUT NAZI CRITICISM OF WOMEN
ARTICLES
CALLED COARSE
'Blues."
As usual, admission will be free. The program will begin at 8 p. m.
Soloists include Lenorc McCam- j Greencastle is celebrating his halfmack, Josephine Stultz, Mary Me- | century in the railroad tie business, Gaughey, Stanley South. Earl Davis for instance. Tho figures he gives, and George Priest. The seventli j concerning the number of ties he has grade girls and the school quartette hnuRht in that period, are really will sing. The program will be i staggering. A person does not often given in the school gymnasium at 8 iinnk of railroad ties as having a o’clock. | comparatively short life, and that | they have to be replaced, but, as a
v state welfare director, denied storday afternoon to the joint leglative investigating committee that threatened Coy's life or that of jrgji Sheppard, a state welfare ani executive. Peter A. Cancilla, attorney, indictwith Baker on charges of mayhem (I assault and battery with intent kill Coy, refused to testify. He d Baker are free under bonds of
000 each.
Herbert M. Spencer, Marion county rosecutor, said today Baker and ancilla probably would go on trial criminal court next week. The
malty for malicious mayhem is a
risen sentence of -two to fourteen 1 Members of the coaching staff exears and a fine not to exceed $2,000. pressed the sentiments of the entire e penalty for assault and battery | Northwestern campus when they rith intent to kill is a prison term of ; heartily agreed that the proposed to ten years, to which may be I Jess McAnally Scholarship is a fine ided a fine not to exceed $1,000. ami fitting tribute to one of the most The prosecutor explained that a popular men to play on a Wildcat
ry may find persons charger! with ataletic team.
ese offenses guilty of mayhem, as- ; Great interest has already been ult and battery or simple assault, ! s hown in the plan of Jake Gimbel. II of which carry lesser pen .lties. Muncie. Indiana sportsman to provide Cancilla. captured early Friday by ! a deserving youth, who has ab.lity,
Crawford New Highway Chief
GOV. TOWNSEND NAMES FORMER McNUTT SECRETARY— ruTS nicus on board
McAnally Praised Bv Athletic Staff
COACHES AT NORTHWESTERN
U. HELD LOCAL BOY IN
HIGH REGARD
Indianapolis police squad, said •hen he faced the committee, “I deand my constitutional rights.” Senator Charles H. Bedwell, Demorat. Sullivan, committee chairman, plained to Cancilla that the com-! ittee of three senators and three j presentatives was investigating the ,
with a college education, and at the j same time establishing in McAnally's i honor, a lasting tribute. Many hous- ' es on North Compus are beginning
j to contribute to the fund.
| Dutch Lonborg, who coached McAnally while he was here, stated that “I think it is a grand idea, and is indeed a worthy tribute. Everything
ppoarance of a senate public wel- ] ^ ha3 ^ ^ a j„ jut Jess is true; are bill and the Coy attack. ^ waa one of th e finest men I cvci
“Are you willing to waive your j worket | w ith".
nstitutional rights and testify to j Track C oach Frank Hill while e committee?” Bedwell asked. ! agreeing whole heartcdly with Dutch “I know nothing about the bill,” I>on borg, also added a practical side -plied Cancilla, repeating that he of t he idea when he said, "It certainemandec! “his constitutional rights.” i i y jg a fine idea, aad will mean anRepresentatlve Winfield K. Denton, other boy in the school who other-
matter of fact, the equipment of a roadbed with the proper number of ties when the road is constructed is not the and of the tie business by any means, because all must be “retired” when they roach their “old age limit,” and new ties put in their places. For that reason, the tie business does not come to an end, and
tics are considered the best base for
railroad steel rails.
Indecent Criticism Of American Womanhood Is Severely Protested
By II. S. Official
BERLIN. March 13. (UP) Ambassador William E Dodd last night delivered one of the strongest Amor ican protests made to Germany since the sinking of American ships during the world war as an outgrowth of comment in Nazi newspapers of the so-called “LaGuardia incident.” It was understood the protest, presented verbally to Foreign Minister Konstantin von Ncurath, denounced the German articles as “unparalleled in coarse and indecent character and shocking to all decent minds.”
WALLY EXPECTS NEVER TO RETURN TO AMERICA BALTIMORE, Md„ March 13 U‘P> — Mrs Wallis Warfield Simpson will live the rest of her life abroad, Mrs. Lionel Atwill, society woman and friend of the Duke of Windsor’s fiancee, said today. "I had at letter from her,'' Mrs. Atwill said, "saying she has no intention of ever coming to the United ot^les to live.’’ Mrs. Atwill said that when she heard rumors that the Duke of Windsor might make his home in the United States she wrote to Mrs. Simpson offering the use of her estate Rainbow Hall.
The protest was made
result
INDIANAPOLIS, March 13 Governor M. Clifford Townsend announced last night the appointment of Earl Crawford of Milton, former secretary to ex-Governor Paul V. McNutt, as
chairman of the State Highway Com-J of publication in government-control-mission. led newspapers of attacks on AmerThe Governor also named the Rev. jean officials, “civilization” and woT. A. Discus of Marion, superintendent nianhood, growing out of the sugof Grant County schools as a member gestion of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
.lever shall cease, as long as wooden , pf the comnlis sion. of Ncw York that Chancellor Adolph
Crawford will replace James D. j-ntb.f'g statue he placed in a "cham-
Adams of Columbia City, Dicus will ^er of horrors.”
succeed Evan B. Stotsenburg of New
Albany Dodd reportedly told Von Neurath The new appointees will take office the American people saw no justifi-
cation in such “sweeping vitupera-
Also. not many persons realize the very large number of ties required for a road. They are laid 22 inches from center to center, which means something like 2,880 ties for a mile of track. A hundred miles of track would require more than a quarter
of a million ties.
During the season of 1918-19, Mr. Bruner sold the Cairo division of the Big Four 864,000 ties, and he estimates that up to 1918 he sold that company, for the Cairo and other divisions, more than a million ties. His sales at his tie yard on the Pennsylvania railroad, during the last two years, totalled 150,000 ties. His sales during the entire fifty-year period run into very large figures. Recently, he has been paying $1.06 per tie. If Jiis price for the entire half-century period had been close to that figure, it would mean that Mr. Bruner had paid out considerably more than a million dollars for ties, and, of course, had received that much back again, plus his profit on
Monday.
tion, unfounded statements and attacks upon American womanhood
and institutions.”
“The language of the German press probably is unparalled in its coarse and indecent character and shocking to all decent-minded, especially since there was no human provocation which would justify it,”
Crawford has served on the com- ■ mission before. He was appointed in 1919 by former Governor Goodrich and reappointed by fonner Governor
McCray.
He served as chainnan of the State Highway Survey Commission, whose recent report to the General Assembly resulted in adoption of a number
of measures reorganizing the high- D()(li| wafl quoted ns snyin
way system, changing the method of
j distributing highway funds to local Reliable reports said that Dodd exunits of government and amending nounded to Von Neurath Secretary the weight tax law to increase its °I State Cordell Hull s policy in conrevenue production. ducting official relations with other The new chairmkn was horn in nations on the basis of complete muFayette County in 1881 and, early ini tual respect for the rights and sensihis career, was a rural school teach- bilities for each other. He also strosscr. He began public service in 1913 as ed the United States' constitutional a state representative from Fayette guarantees of the right of freedom of
and Wayne counties. ! speech.
Crawfoni, now a farmer and bank- This presumabIy referred to the er, is an cider in the Christian Church fact LaGuardia . B address to a Jewish
at Milton and a director of Butler
University.
Dicus is an ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ Church, but of rec-
Suts Teacher Four Year Rule
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO REqt IKE LONGER TERM OF EDUCATION INDIANAPOLIS, March 13, The state board of education adopted a regulation yesterday that will require four years of training for elementan school teachers instead of the present two-year training requirement. When fully In force the new regu lation will require elementary teach ers to hold a degree in elementar' education. The new provision will not becom fully effective until July, 1940. Stu dents enrolling for training aftc Nov. 1, 1937, will be required to com plete the four-year course. Floyd I McMurray. state superin tendent of public instruction, ex plained that this provision makes i’ possible for students now in the senior year of high school to obtain ar elementary license on the basis o* two years of training if they desire Students may enroll this fall fo' either the two year or four yeai course, but afterwards all student will be prepared and licensed only o’four years of training. Mr. McMurra' said.
WELL KNOWN LENA DOCTOR PASSES AWAY
DR. JAV STILES DIED \T COUNTY HOSIMTAY HERE FRIDAY NIGHT FUNERAL SERVICE SUNDAY Death Of Dr. Stiles Followed An Illness Of Three Weeks Duration Dr. Jay Stiles, age 69 years, died shortly before midnight Friday at the Putnam county hospital where he was removed a few weeks ago, following a stroke which he suffered. Dr. Sides had been in failing health for the past three years. He had followed his chosen profession of medicine at Lena in Parke county since 1912 and prior to that time nracticed in Portland Mills, where he began his medical career in 1904 following his graduation from the Ohio State University School of Medicine at Columbus in 1898. Dr. Stiles was widely known in several counties, having practiced in Portland Mills for eight years ami worked extensively in Putnam, Montgomery and Parke counties and following his removal to Lena, traveled extensively in Clay, Putnam and Parke counties in his work. Dr. Stiles was a friend of all who came In contact with him and his splendid vork among the people of his communities will be a lasting tribute to
him.
He was born and reared in Mar•on county, where he was educated in the elementary schools prior to entering college, which resulted in his
graduation in medicine.
Dr. Stiles started his work in communities prior to the time of good roads and transportation, but no road was ever too bad or the weather so severe that he failed to answer alt “alls for his help and this sense of luty won for him an unusually wide
'■ircle of loyal friends.
He is survived by the widow and one son, William Stiles of the Cen•ral National Bank. He was a member of the Morton Masonic lodge and of the Lena Methodist church. The funeral services will be conlucted from the Rector funeral home
The education board approved p tentative four year course, which wil’ serve at a pattern for training insti tut ions, and later the board will ac cerdit institutions for the prepara
tion of teachers for licenses conform- . „ , „ , , , ... ... , , Sunday afternoon at two o’clock with ing to this genera) plan, Mr McMur
emocrat, Evansville, asked Cancilla ; w j Se wouldn’t be here. It also will
f he thought "you might incriminate 1 serve to build one more tradition for the sales he had made. /ourself by anything you might j the school.” Formerly, the railroads did not
■y?" Ade Schumacher had nothing but ; creosote their ties, and expected them ent yearg hag not conducted services -
Cancilla replied that “anything I i high praise for the whole plan. He al- . to last four or five years in use, but re&u i ar | y . ight say could be used against me,” so praised the work of Jake Gimbel the creosoting treatment, it ias been referring to the indictment. He was j wljo has done much for boys who found, just about quadruples the xcused after a four-minute appear- show ability. ”1 am tickled about the lifetime of the tie. Also, formerly, liner whole thing; I didn’t get a chance to only oak ties were used, usually Baler said he did not “altogether read about it in the Daily, hut I have white oak, but with the advent of the llvaive my rights.” ! heard about the fine things that Jake j rrcosoting process, many kinds of He rose from the witness chair and Gimbel nas done, and he certainly | timber can be used and much expense
rgued with Bedwell when the latter Paid tribute to a fine boy, because savc ,!.
women's organization in which ho at- | tacked Hitler as the “world’s greatest menace to peace" could not have been controlled by the United States government. Hull officially tendered
„ . . . , his regret over the speech.
He has has been superintendent of
the Grant County schools during the It was believed Dodd particularly past four years and prior to that pointed out articles and cartoons in time was a teacher in the high school j the newspaper Der Angriff, Propa
ray said. “The plan.,” Mr. McMurray said
at Swayzee, Ind.
[Insisted on a “yes or no” answer. ! McAnally was really wortny ot mis Creosoting costs $1.30 per tie, and The crowd at Friday’s session of I memorial. I the tie, untreated, costs $1.06,
the committee was so great that the
enate chamber was filled below and n the galleries. Several state police
‘fficers stood guard.
Baker testified that he had not reii Cancilla until yesterday, assortng they parted company shortly before the Coy attack March 1. He denied statements of previous "’Uncases that he had threatened Coy’s and Sheppard’s lives if they Interfered with the Marion county welfare department, of which he former-
ly was director.
Burt Ingwerson, line and baseball one 0 f them, without the exfCnntiniMsi «» rnire T«rot pense of placing them under the rails,
| costs the railroad company ap-
Sch00l Flllld proximately $2.36. If 2.800 arc rc-
Rnnains Here
GOVERNOR REFUSES TO SIGN BILL TAKING $170,000 FROM PUTNAM COUNTY
I quired for one mile of single track, the ties alone would cost more than I $4,500 per mile. When trains and rails were lighter, ties that were 6 | by 8 on cross-section were used, but i now they must be at least 7 by 9
inches.
Civil Service
Grades Received
EACH PARTICIPANT RECEIVED HIS, BUT RANKINGS ARE NOT KNOW HERE
The men who took the examination for rural carrier out of the Greencastle postoffice, November 24 last, have received their grades, but no
The hewers and sellers of railroad other information. They do not know j n ni j,| W estern factories,
ties would he justified in being proud their ranking in the examination, nor of their work. Ties that are defective when the appointment will he made, in shape or material, or poorly laid. The examination was to make it poscoutd be the cause of disaster, i siblc to fill the c arrier vacancy
ganda Minister Josef Goebbels' own publication, and an editorial March 5 criticizing the state department’s handling of the LaGuardia ease as
"lame.”
Dodd reportedly took with him copies of numerous articles and cartoons lampooning American life, calling Jewish women who heard LaGuardia's address “women of the streets" and assailing LaGuardia as
a "procurer.”
Other publications denounced La- j Guardia as a “gangster” and an i
apish “King Kong” and portrayed! communists heating sit-down strikers
"is in no sense retroactive and does not in any way disturb or invalidate any license now held by a teacher It does not prevent any college student now in training or any high school senior from securing and using the certificate he has been promised.' Under the tentative four year course outlined by the 1 oommittoe an-' approved by the education board. th< first two years of work may be re garded as preliminary college work and credit will be accepted in the event the student desires to prepare : scnt for some other field the state super-
intendent said.
“A recent enactment signed by the governor will result ultimately in a more substantial retirement annuity for teachers," Mr McMurray said “This will be an incentive for a teacher to secure broader preparation
for a lifetime profession."
The board also appointed Albert I''
of Knox, superintendent of
the Rev. Robert T. Beck in charge. Friends may cal! at the Rector Funeral Home anytime prior to tho
funeral hour.
BRITISH KHII’ ON I !UE
Putnam county land owners who ; have loans from the common school
Baker said he went to Florida after f lln( | an ,i the Indiana university per-
" 0 " atPr aa '1‘rcctor by a hurriedly j mancn t endowment fund are relieved (h h thp l)roakinR ()f rai | s an ,i Greencastle route 1, made vacant by passed hill. Ho returned, he said. by the refusal of Governor M. Chf- I wreck of tnUns Thegc Ucft (iio resignation of John Knight. It is
011M ,. . l0arnc,l he WM wanle,, for j ford Townsend to sign the bill recent- ^ havc ^ from Putnam county r 0 ^ an,, arriVP ' 1 hCr,, ThUr ”' ' ly ,,aaa0tl by lhC SlatC l0Ki8lalu, ' C during their lifetime have borne the *y to find he had been indicted. tended to take all of the money n ht of so many trainfl the figures Raker also denied testimony of n these two funds out of circulation in I ,, u _ ,
Previous witness that he was with ( the counties and concentrate it in Cancilla in a tearoom near the state state fund, handled by a state comhouse shortly after the slugging as mlslsoner, who would invest it Wt ‘ 11 as shortly before. i government securities.
He
President Drives Special Auto To Inspeet 2,800-Acre (ieortfia Farm
said he “couldn’t remember” "hethcr Representative Martin J. Howncy, Democrat, Hammond, bail Riven him the original senate welfare Pill or a copy of it. Downey has tes’fied that he “loaned” the original
These two funds, plus the congressional township fund, have been revolving in Putnam county many years, the common school fund for more than three-fourths of a cen-
of three
i the Starke county schools, as assist-
The protest was so severe that it | ant vocational rehabilitation superwas expected an official answer | visor. He will have headquarters at would be made by the German gov-1 South Bend. 3Hie appointment will eminent. j be effective April tt.
resignation of John Knight,
being fillet temporarily by Eldon Bratton. No further infonnation in the matter has been given to All>ert Dobbs, Greencastle postmaster. The vacancy may be filled at once, or there may be a further postponement
of several months.
A clerk-carrier examination held November 10 at the Greencastle of-
sold a great quantity of sugar timber ! f *cc was to furnish a lists of eligibles here from Washington he changed to the Parry Manufacturing com- for an y vacancy that may occur, ]lja j, ray business suit for a “rough-
panv and has sold mine props in there being none now. These grades jng ., outm got roacq uainted with ! CCC boys and foundation and towns- Honolulu. great number. Mr. Bruner’s connec- have not been given out by tne civil 1|jg little whito cottage among the ! l-eople waiting at the village dejxjt
fonn has service department and nothing is ever g reens on pj ne Mountain. | They applauded and waved greet-
would be staggering if they were worked out. For that reason, the Putnam tie maker and dealer has a
n part in the economic life of the coun-
try that is of real importance.
Mr. Bruner, among his sales also
WARM SPRINGS, Ga.. March 13
—President Roosevelt dropped the heavy cares of office yesterday and
turned chauffeur and fanner. Loss than an hour after his arrival
SAN FRANCISCO. March 13, (UP)—The crack United States cruiser Louisville raced today to the. rescue of the British niotorship, Silverlarch, on fire 700 miles from Honolulu with eight passengers and a crew of more than 40 men aboard. The Louisville expected to reach the Silverlarch, which early today its second SOS within three days, by noon (2 p m. CST). Tho master of the Silverlarch had reported to his London office that he hoped to transfer his passengers, all Americans, to the first rescue .ship that arrived. In other messages, (licked up by radio stations along the Pacific coast, he intimated that ho might be forced to put off all hands
in life boats.
Two other vessels were answering the Silverlarch’s SOS The Panamanian niotorship Fijian expected to reach her late today The new 350 foot coast guard cutter Roger B. Taney also was speeding to the Silverlarch whose No 2 hold was
ablaze.
Tho last distress call from the English vessel came early today when she reported her fire out of control and asked all ships within the vicinity to aid in removing her
crew and passengers.
Coastguardsmen Bail I that tho Louisville probably would remove tho
fords and a flock of chickens that Moore had added her e last Spring. Arriving here for a two-week vacation at 9:30 a. m.. Central Standard Time, Friday after a 721-mile j
journey from Washington, the Presi- passengers and transfer them to the dent found a small contingent of cutter Taney which will return to
_ tury. There are upwards oi mrce : ^. on w j^ b t be creosoting
Measure to Baker and that the latter hundred loans, totalling approximate- cndet j and be w j]| broaden his field j known as to them, locally,
refused to return it. j ly $170,000. on Putnam county prop- by op€n i ng ytl ,do elsewhere at Green- 1 ’
Baker told the investigating com- er ty. Most of these loans were made rast | 0 an ,i a t Brazil, Rockville, and Judge James P. Hughes of Indiana- au tomobile over the dirt roads several m ittec his interest in the missing bill - to citizens who showed an actual Martinsville, and will buy tics on any P ol *s was a visitor here k riday. | miles to his 2,800-acre farm, where he
"as in the senate amendments which need for the money, with security ac- roa ,i j n this state. Also, he will buy affected his welfare department. He ceptablc to the successive auditors of | ogs all( | | unib er in carload lots. He ad sought from Downey, chainnan the county. thanks his friends who have been co“f the house judiciary “A” commit- T b p plea of Senator Floyd Hemmer operating with him through this half
100 a public hearing on the bill, he 0 f Huntingburg, in advancing the Sai ’’- caus c 0 f his bill was that money had Baker insisted in answer to repeat- be en lost in many of the counties t ’ 1 questioning about his atUtude to- through poor loans, which loss had Wanl CViv tViof U „ : i . _ u.. 4 O V natrorci
''••"d Coy that he held no animosity ovvar, l the state welfare director, ’k spite their differences over the
misshg bill.
1 ke only other witness examined
b y the
ben made up by the tax payers.
century so pleasantly.
20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE
After a cold lunch he drove his j ings as the President, dressed in his own little specially built hand control [ gray suit and gray hat without top-
coat alighted to go to his cottage. Several score infantile paralysis victims at the. faundation cheered from wheel chairs as he passed the administration building on the grounds.
WAR VETERAN KILLED
MUNCIE, Ind., March 13 (UP)—
The refusal of the governor to sign Russell Boots, 49, World War veteran the measure kills it, and the loans died yesterday from injuries received from these two funds will continue to when he stepped into the path of a be administered through the office of Big Four passenger train at a d6wneommlttee was Police Sergt. [ the county auditors. , town crossing.
Hebcr Ellis was in Bloomington on business for the DePauw athletic as-
sociation.
Oscar Sallust la confined to his home by illness.
\ found preparations under way for
Spring cotton planting.
A bright sun beat down and the
thermometer was over 70.
He put off until today a swim in the Warm Springs Foundation out-
door pool.
Otis Moore, manager of Mr. Roosevelt’s farm, was glad to see “the boss”. The President hail never seen the farm at just this time of year
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Allen Jr. saw wb en plowing was under way. “The Music Master” at the English Mr. Roosevelt also looked over his
theater in Indianapolis.
herd of forty prize white-faced Hero-
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Mrs. James Roosevelt. Jr, and Miss or rain probable in south portion toMarguerito Lehttiel. a personal secrc- night and Sunday; not much change
tary, drove to the cottage, while in temperature,
newspaper men and secret service operatives took up quarters in the camp used by the President’s Marine guard
from Quantico, Va.
White House office headquarters were established in the while-pillared Kress Hall, with Secretarv Marvin H [ McIntyre in chsrge 1
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