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(MIEIONCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JI NFI 28,

NO. 216

„ t .. H:uii|»er tho ^larrh of .Vin Strikcn* Bm k to Sleel jlills in Seven States ImBLAND. Jun* 28.-(UP) Hea lers Irvellod charges of ter- , and strike-breaking at militia "police today as they rallied pick- , linfS along the seven-state steel „ n t in an effort to hamper the | of non-strikers back to the j I Resentment of strikers against; section for returning workers, Counted in Pennsylvania, where coal j again planned to march to i J aid of pickets at Bethlehem’s big | (Bnbria plant, and in Ohio, where lionists warned Gov. Martin L. j ),vey they would “take all neces-; r measures to protect” themselves ! ijsinst a “systematic campaign of j Ltrror” by National Guards. I In both states, mills had been re-j Lned or were preparing to reopen | Annieiiately. In Indiana, where Gov. Clifford Townsend was urged to t East Chicago under martial law, fejns for reopening Inland Steel Luts were to be announced this af-

ternoon.

Republic Steel Corporation and lloungslown Sheet and Tube comIpiny officials reported that their )hio plants had been stepped up to ippro.xiniately 85 per cent of normal, bapite renewed activity of pickets, lud that other mills, including those Ik Cleveland and Canton would relume operations as soon as possible, tethlebem Steel Corporation said its mbria plant was again producing |iith workers returning in “substan- ’ numbers. | Strike leaders disputed the claims feich company as to the number of j ning workers and stirred the 1 diet to a new danger point by, Ring that Pennsylvania state' lepers were “escorting” workers j lie the Cambria plant and that Ohio | Wlitia men were taking “violent and \ |htitar measures against unionists, j Despite company claims that ro-

FURTHER ARRESTS IN ( l<AY < (). The large gang of young men among whom a number of arrests already have been made in Clay county and who are strongly suspected by Putnam county officers with perpetrating robberies in the southwest part of this county, was depleted at Brazil Saturday when a deputy sheriff and state jxdico arrested four additional members of

the bunch.

That all the gang have not as yet been apprehended was evident by the robljery of the Hay Bennett store at Cory Friday night when en trance was gained l forcing the back door and a quantity of tobacco, cigarette, candy and small articles

taken. Loot of the alleged gang in AnoU ' , r beef cattle tour for Putclu.les a pump stolen from a school nam COUnly . has 1,een arran e ed ''V house, several hundreds of dollars '' UV ' Man i8 county a R entl for worth of merchandise from coun'v Wednpsilay ' 30 The itinerary

of the tour will include visits at a

COUNTY BEEF CATTLE TOUR IS SCHEDULED

COI'NTX XtiENT ANNOI’NCES

VISITS | ok WEDNESDAY

OF THIS WEEK

VARIOl'N STOPS ARE

Tour Will Start at i» a. in. At th< Fred Metiaughey Farm East

of Kussellvllle

of dollars

from county

stores, much valuable household

equipment taken from county homes ' n " r ° f farrns ,,f lhe county 0,1 and two wheels and tires taken Which beef rH,tlp HV( ' ,,,>inK ral8e(1 ' from the rear of a truck left parked flnd WhCro therp a,p interesUn B foa -

at the side of the road in western

Putnam County.

•U RGE GILLEN ANNOUNCED FINDING AT CRAWFORRSVILLE Judge C. C. Gillen special judge in the case of Mis. Dorothy O'Ncall Trippett, as mother and guardian of David C. O’Ncall vs. the W. Q. O'Neall company of this city, returned a judgment for the plaintiff in Montgomery circuit court Saturday afternoon the Crawfordsvillc

Journal and Review says.

The court ordered the O'Neall

SLATED company to pay the plaintiff $9,200

and the accumulated dividends on 810 shares of preferred stock in the company, of $100 pei share value. It was also further ordered that the payment of dividends continue so long as funds for such payments are available through company earn-

ings.

Anti-New Deal Coalition^

The tour will start at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning at Fred Mcj Gaughey’s farm at the east side of

j Russellville.

Mr. McGaughey has several cows anil calves which will be inspected. At 10 o'clock, the tour will be at j i Oscar Clodfelter’s farm, where there 's a herd of young cattle on fec u . j j Both Mr McGaughey and Mr Clodfelter have a record of the feed used. At 11 o’clock, the caravan should arrive at the Etna Insurance company's farm east of Brick Chapel. ' This farm Is managed by Mr. Scobee. ] He has 4.'! head of Angus steers on feed weighing about 850 pounds each. I During May these steers made a

surrounding towns and communities Rain of 4 6 ' ,0,,n ' ls I ,Pr ,|ay Hp ,las a started arriving in Greencastle be-i <laily rPCOrd nf fppd whlch hp fpd -

Successful Sales Event Held Here

SATURDAY’S BARGAIN DAY TERMED ONE OF FINEST

ON RECORD

Greencastle merchants, cooperat-

ing with the Chamber of Commerce, today went on record as proclaiming Saturday’s Bargain Day one of tiie

finest ever held in this city. Shoppers from nearly a score of

Business Volume lu State Boosted

GAIN IN FIRST FIXE MONTHS 15 PER CENT ABOYE LEVEL

OF 19.Sti

INDIANAPOLIS, June 28 The volume of business transacted in Indiana during the first five months of Ih.'iT was more than 15 per cent above a year ago the Indiana Business Review announced today. The Review, published by the Burcan of Business Research. Indiana 1 University business administration school, said that the volume for the I five-month period was less than 9 per cent under the record established

in 1929.

Governor M, Clifford Townsend said that valuations of the State Board of Tax Commissioners and

ALBERT DOBBS f NEW CHIEF OF POSTAL GROUP

< IIOSEN PRESIDENT AT 1931 PH NIC OK COUNTY POSTAL EMPLOYES ^

M X till Ml

I H I II

GATHERING

fore noon Saturday to participate in

the sales event. Bv early afternoon " ,P J unction " f 36 and 4X At - 1 the crowd had reached record-break- oVlock ' the tour win bp "..ward ing proportions and bv nightfall the My ers’ farm, on 4:!. north of .16. main thoroughfares an,l side streets whprp ,hprp arr ' ,pvpral 8tcer8 wei B h -

were crowded to capacity. The var- inK 1 000 l ,ounds oactl -

ious shops downtown reported the | At “ I 1 m ■ at 4 * ’ and :l ' 1 day’s business the b< V in months Blaydcs, several cows and calves will

The shoppers too, were enthusiastic , b< ‘ bispected.

over the variety of merchandise of fered at bargain prices during tin

The dinner at noon will be eaten at 1 ost j matod collections of the Gross In-

day.

Increasing in interest monthly, the Bargain Day event is reaching a peak unexcelled in Greenrastle business history. Each month finds many new shoppers coming to this city to do their trading, getting acquainted with local business men

come Tax I dvision showed a trend of increased business in Indiana. The Review sai l that Increased purchasing power and delayed spring buying stimulated some lines of retail trade during May. A few department stores that failed to equal their May, 1916. sales totals were in mark-

At .1 p. m.. tile last slop, will be at , ^ ( | contrast with other stores in J. B Williams’ in Franklin township. whic h sales were above the like per-

where his cows and ealves will be j 0( | j n 1929.

looker at by the men on the tour. Department store sales in the state It is planned to complete this tour aa a whole were 15 per cent or more

| Senator Carter Glass|| Under leadership-A)f Chairman John M. Hamilton, the 'Republican party is laying plans for 19.18 and 1940 campaigns. In the belief that an anti-New Deal platform might defeat the present adminii*tration, many party leaders advocate a coalition of disgruntled,. Democrats and Republicans. Among Democratic senators who have opposed New Deal measures are Carter Glass of Virginia. Edward Burke, of Nebraska and Millard Tydings of Maryland.

Return Sculptor To Slii\ ing Scene

by 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Representatives from several commission houses will be present and will dis-1 cuss market conditions and advise as to when to sell. Parker Brown, of

and continuing to visit Greencastle; Purdue university extension service.

for their regular purchases in bc-

will lead all discussions.

lopenuiK of mills in the Mahoning J tween Bargain Days. The merchants

I Wiley ami at Johnstown had broken I Hie strike of C. I. O. members deluanding a signed union contract, peek-end developments threatened I to thrust the conflict to a new crisis pi the picket lines. Speculation was renewed whether President Roosevelt pouM intervene as the last hope of

pttlement.

[ttSlRFXCING BIDS TO BE OPENED TUESDAY BY STATE

offer many attractive prices to the shoppers and hundreds of wise buyers are learning to take advantage

of Bargain Day. I. O. O. F. NOTICE

Putnam Lodge No. 45 will meei I Tuesday, June 29 at 8:00 p. m. o’clock |

last meeting for dues.

Wilbur S. Donner, N. G. Chas. L. Perkins, Secy.

Loyalists Report Mysterious Drive

CONFLICTING STATEMENTS MADE FOLLOWING BOMB-

ARDMENT TODAY

Violence Occurs At Strike Center

STEEL XYORKEKS DISREGARD

PICKET LINES, RETURN TO CAMBRIA PLANT

The State Highway commission | *i!lopen bids Tuesday morning. June ® on the resurfacing of 16.1 miles of •tote highways with rock asphalt wl Crawford, chairman, reported toila >’ Highways to be improved are

touted in 29 counties.

The mileage scheduled for resurfac- J

ln eac h of the six state highway j

plncts, is :Crawfordsville district,

miles; Fort Wayne district,

r; M miles : Greenfield district, 22.72 |* llM: HaPorte district, 31.63 miles;

fcyniom- district. 38.19 miles, “ 1 «mies district. 26.38 miles. ft'Mds to be resurfaced with rock

, *pha,t are those which have become ° rn and rough under traffic or , lc ** arc being improved as high- ^ 8Urf aced highways. Traffic de“rs win be established during the

Th^tatl^ 0 , 8Urf f ^ " iaterial - W er C broken with rocks. »av m hlrd ° f th ° Slate hiKh ‘ —-m™. with tho.

_ ''lamtenanee programs to be

for bids. Work already rtei on l j Je sur f ace t rea t, nen t D f

riximately 450 miles of state !

'“Shwa

above a year ago. Drug store sales were about 12 per cent above May, 1936. Hardware sales were about equal to a year ago. and grocery sales continued to be above last year. A larger number of used cars were sold in Indiana during the first five months of 1037 than during any corresponding period on record. New car sales were only four per cent under set during the first five months of 1 1929. Gasoline sales were running ( above all corresponding records. May was the 48th consecutive , nionlh during which general business conditions have compared favorably with a like period a year earlier, the

* Review said.

VALENCIA, Spain, June 28 (UP) Mysterious warships bombarded the loyalist coast north of Valencia today and brought conflicting reports from authorities. In one report, the director general of security alleged that two large German ships and two small ones were involved, and that shells fired bore German identification marks,

made in 1935.

But in a second report an hour :

later the director quoted police as Meredith Mcxllin, 19-year-old reslsaying that two warships bombarded dent of Ladoga R. R. 2, was dismisSavunto with lights extinguished and sed from Putnam County hospital that shells fired were of Spanish Sunday after receiving treatment to markingss indicating that the Na- painful injuries suffered in an auto-

KORFKT IRXYIN FACES TRIAL FOR Ml KDEK TRIO'EASTER

(p ICK OF

Says Dcalh Toll ( an Bo Rwluml

SAFETY DIRECTOR URGES ENFORCEMENT OF DRUNKEN

DKIYEK LAXV

Ladoga Youth Is

Injured In Auto ; MEREDITH M.ODLIN AGE 19,

CRASHES INTO CULVERT FELL ASLEEP IN CAR

JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 28 i (UP) Violence occurred on the Cambria steel strike front today as 1 thousands of steelworkers disregard

! ed picket hues reinforced by coal j tj ona iist cruiser Canarias was the mobile accident,

and miners ami railroad men and went ra iding ship This report made no According to reports, young Mod-

' back to work in Bethlehem Steel motion of German ships. lin’s automobile crashed into a culCorporation mills. The ships raided the coast for an vert on a nearby highway when he Two men were beaten by pickets hour . firing about 50 shells in all. fell asleep at the wheel of his car. group of Negroes threatened by Slight damage was done at Sagun- The machine hit the culvert with trestrikers was escorted back to safety to mendous force, causing the machine by state troopers, and the windows The British Merchant ship Hilda to be badly damaged as well as rein a score of workers’ automobiles Moller had a narrow escape when a suiting in serious injuries to the

shell exploded 10 yards from its driver.

Coincident with those develop-1 ,|ock at Sagunto.

ments was the arrival of James Francis Dewey, conciliator of the 1

It was reported Modlin’s nose was fractured. He also was said to have

LONDON June 28 (UP) —The suffered possible fracture on the

and the oilin e of 482 miles " , of the steel workers or-1 day that more than 10,000 Arab hospital, the injured youth was takUiw statp resentat.ve. which ca n P d troops, including many believed to be en to his home to recuperate.

Bethlehem' "workers ' out on strike | from Italian Libya, disembarked yeslune 11 in an attempt to force the terday at Malaga, on the south coast company to sign a union contract. where Nationalist troops from many ^ outbreaks between strikers points were assembling for a drive on 1 the early stages Almeria. Detachments of Italian and

state highways.

••LAV CELEBRATION

ipet!- I ‘ lnns Club of Roachdale is th*.

C X a ~r i g™ i,^ it was alleged, were d9y July Tl • °r n : nK ° f ^° n ‘ timated 600 coal miners from nearby present. Roal° ne ° f th^btgg'esr^ente fields canlP ,0 ^e^^rlilroadera CONDUCT LAST RITES FOR haa evor haH striking steelworkers and railro ,, ACKSON TOWNSHIP YOUTH

bTh—r to,,ay in thc '

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

Uie b'- 1 >0n ascPnt ’ on will be one of

^mme^orthe^efowd'on the af- failed to ha,tthP y ‘^t wUliam'Herman Robbins, member of off.cers reserve corps. , 00n of Sunday, July 4 1 to -w°rk” movement storied by W jacks )n townsh {&rm I Wallace Welch left

A Varie t y of contests have also l<*em employes two days ago an < ^ a . dead i

Lee and Will Hubard, “Cloverdale

NEW YORK, June 28. (UP) Robert Irwin. 29. sculptor and forj rner divinity student, returned today to the scene of New York’s famous Easter week-end triple murder, while authorities planned a quick trial in an effort to send him to the electric chair for the crime. He had been sought throughout the country be1 fore he surrendered in Chicago Saturday night. He was questioned at police headquarters early today after arriving from Chicago by plane, and not only displayed a willingness to discuss tho , slayings which police said lie had i confessed, but also showed an appar-ent-delight in boasting about tin' de-

tails.

Police Commissioner Lewis .1. Val

entitle and District Attorney William

Podge announced that Irwin had

given the New York policemen who

brought him here from Chicago statement confessing the slayings Valentine said that after pn-sont

ing evidence to the grand jury at once, Dodge would seek three separate indictments for the murders of Mrs. Mary Gcdeon. 54. Veronica Ged eon, her vivacious artist-model daughter, and Frank Byrnes, a room

er in the Gedeon apartment. Police also will take Irwin to

grand central terminal to claim two suitcases he left there when he fled New York. It was revealed th it police had kept a constant watch there for weeks, hoping the fugitive

would trap himself.

Irwin appeared cheerful and jaun ty after his plane trip. He had fled to Chicago Friday after being recognized by a girl kitchen worker in a Cleveland hotel. He had worked there several weeks under an as-

sumed name.

He joked with police, only occasionally revealing bursts of anger similar to that which he admitted drove him to strangle Mrs. Gedeon while he waited to murder her elder daughter, Mrs. Ethel Kudner, whom

he had loved and lost.

He boasted to police that he was

INDIANAPOLIS, June 28. Death on the highways can be reduced by enforcement of the new drunken driver law passed by the 1937 legislature, State Safr'ty Director Don F. Stiver said today. The law is one of the series of stringent safety laws passed at tho request of Governor M. Clifford

Townsend.

Xaried Program Enjoyed by More Than 150; Plans Made to Hold Picnic Next Year More than one hundred and fifty people attended the 18th annual picnic of the Putnam County Postal Employes, held Sunday at Sutherlin Springs, two miles north of Morton. A picnic dinner was enjoyed at the

noon hour.

During the business meeting the following new officers were elected President, Albert Dobbs, Greencastle postmaster; vice president, Walter Feld; entertainment chairman. Wilnier Albin; assistant entertainment chairman, Ray Herbert, and secretary and treasurer. Miss Elizabeth Ward, all of Greencastle. The retiring officers were: President Ivers Bain, Russellville postmaster; vice president, Frank McKeehan, Greencastle; entertainment chairman, Jess Potter, Russellville, md secretary and treasurer Miss Elizabeth Ward of Greencastle. Games featured the afternoon entertainment. Eldon Brattain of Greencastle and Ralph Frye of C’lot verdale won the horseshoe contest, each receiving a neck tie as a prize. This entitled Mr. Brattain and Mr. Frye to be captains of two softball teams, eaeli choosing his team, play- | er by player. Mr. Frye’s team won the game by 1 a score of 8 to 6. Allen Feld of Greencastle, fielder for the winning team, won first prize for the best play, catching a long, low fly ball, and Billy Etcbeson of Roachdale, pitcher of the winning team, won sec-

ond prize.

O. M O.Hatr of Greencastle was the only retired postal employe In attendance at the picnic. Plans were made to hold the next picnic on the katne .lirte next year, the location to be announced later.

AMELIA HOPES TO KE X( H 11. S. 11JTHIN NEXT EIGHT DAYS DARWIN, Australia, June 28 — <UPi Amelia Earhart, arriving here on her flight round the world,said today she hoped to take off at dawn 1 tomorrow for the trans-pacific stage

Penalty for first offense on a and to reach the United States withdrunken driving charge is a fine of in four days, given good weather, not less than $10 nor more than $50, Miss Earhart arrived here today with the possible addition of im- after a dangerous 475 mile flight

prisonment from 10 days to six

months,

For a second offense or violation of a court order pertaining lo the drunken driving law, the penalty is more service. The offender shall he punished by imprisonment of from one to five years. The court has no authority to suspend the sentence lor a violation of the law for any

offense.

The court will enter an order preventing the first offender from driving a motor vehicle for a period of not more than a year, and for a second offense for one year. A certified copy of the final judgment of the conviction must be transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Motor Vehicle Bureau within two days after the final conviction. Co-operation of the courts and the public in enforcement of the law was requested by Mr. Stiver. “The drunken driver who escapes punishment will be encouraged to drive again in an intoxicated condition,” Mr. Stiver said. . “The phrase ‘Judge, I just had a couple of drinks,’ has become too familiar. The State Police criminological laboratory has made a thorough study of intoxication and its effects upon drivers. The "drunkom-ter,” 11 device in the laboratory, scientifically determines whether the subject is intoxicated.

across the Timor sea from Kopang, Timor Island. The local quarantine officer and a crew of 100 townspeople welcomed the American woman aviator. Miss Earhart said she had had perfect weather except for sltglit head winds. Miss Earhart left Soerbaya. .lavs, Sunday for Kopang She left Kopang after a halt of 1R(^ hours. MXRKIXGE LICENSES Vernon McCammack, service station. Indianapolis, and Geneva Hughes, teacher. Charleston, Ind. Donald Bolander, tool crib clerk, Fortville, and Geneva Merle Trout, at home, Reelsville. David G. Petrey, farmer, Coatsville, and Fraruces LaNell McCammaek, at home. Fillmore. Warren Elmer Swickford, zinc mill employe, Greencastle route 3, and Charlotte Nina Neal, at home, Greencastle. REMAINS IN HOSPITAL J. 9’. Wysong. resident of Greencastle R. R 1. today was reported remaining seriously ill in Mercy hospital in Chicago, where fie has been a patient for the last three weeks. Mr Wysong is a well known

farmer.

and will go to

training.

Frank A. Ashworth

Norfolk, Va„

boys,” have entered the U. S. Navy f or willing to plead guilty and that he wasn’t afraid of the electric chair. He said, however, that he thought he

be placed in - an in-

and Will

for 20 vear-ohl Sutherlin apply for entrance to the probably would for 20-year oict m - sanc agylum for life

b^n ,‘" lv or contests have also Ion j ftl, ' du 'e d for celebration visi-

rs - Band

in his

to join the

headquarters company of the Ind.,

Heavy Artillery.

Mr. and Mrs. Asbury Manuel

.• hv com pan v police family, who was was estimated by company g oar,v Saturday ,, R myi workers were bed eany saiuruay.

„ j ~ concerts, free vaudeville 1 that more 1 rrnion officials County Coroner Charles Rector . „ ls a <>d a numKo * j hark on the job. Union onicia j . . a t d drove to their farm near Terre

ceisio number of rides and con- back on m j « r ondi- conducted an autopsy late Saturday S8lona have mao . countered with claims that conai co ^ Hjt( flnd H aute.

Mrs. Harry Talbott entertained section 4 of the Christian church.

the Z ^ a ’ S ° bPen P ,anned fori countered C 'T?hat tho number but withheld his verdict. His findL lon , g , threp - day ceiebration. which tions are good and tn - a m jng is expected to be announced

C f«*«» * »•-- i " f I WWthey have ever sponsored. ' shift was “considerably reduced j

He was booked at headquarters for triple homicide and was charged with the “manual strangulation” of Mrs. Gedeon and her pretty daughter and with “stabbing to death one Frank

Byrnes.”

He gave his occupation as sculptor, and said that he had no home.

tonight and Tuesday; not much Local authorities announced today change in temperature, receipt of notice from the Indiana ■

1737 MILK STATUE IS EFFECTIVE THIS WEEK

state board of health of the start of enforcement of the new 1937 milk statute, that provides further regulation for the sale and distribution of that product. Starting the first of July, all milk and cream sold or offered for sale in the state, should either be pasteurized or from herds that are tuberculin and blood tested, under state regulation.

Minimum 6 a. m. . 7 a. m. 8 a. m. .. 9 a. m. 10 a. m. . 11 a. m. 12 noon . 1 p. m. 2 p. m. ..

67 72 80 78 79 80 81 83 8.1 83

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