The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 30 July 1937 — Page 1
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ED AND [URT WHEN IN WRECKS
TIENNE EXPRESS ON | MOUNTAINS DERAILNEAR PARIS i TAKEN FROM CAR into Flames After Beimj etween Two Steel Cars if in a Vise jjuly :i0,—(UP)—Twentywere killed and •(d were fcously today when the St >|)res8, .s])eeilii < ' *he jntains at mo - m 0 >ur. was derailed at Vll. 'leorgr 12 miles fro. t
■is .
were removed . , '>r car which Iflamu r Heing crushtwo steel ears as if in a of the dead were burned east two bodies still were the wreckage, ami res!d they might find more, kd communique attributed lo a switchman’s error, but jlination showed that the [jumped the tracks after cross a switch that had use properly. iCamille Chautemns and interior Marx Dormos the scene from Paris to fctigation. Minister of pub■Queuille had already ar-
8PARROW MAKES FLKiHT WITH ICE CREAM CONE
Ital at Villeneuve soon was ,nd many of the wounded, fled, were brought to hosSurvivors told how the i had been like match teen the heavy steel cars all casualties were in were mostly vacat'on[for the mountain resorts, unidentified dead were a baby, two boys about d five women. The train 3 approximately 20 min-
had left Paris,
using acetylene torches, ting to remava the body nit 10 years old. He had under a mass of tangled
Children and grown-ups are not the only lovers of ice cream cones. This fact was revealed Thursday afternoon when a sparrow, of the most common variety, swooped down on west Washington street, giasped an empty ice cream cone from the street and flew away. The bird’s gait was slowed as it tried to make time in getting away from the scene with the choice morsel, so it stopped on a nearby ledge, called on some fellow sparrows before v tlnuing the flight. gpne was regular size—not double or triple dip- -except the ice cream had been removed.
GOLF FINALS SCHEDULED
WRECKAGE OF SHIP REACHES BAY; TWO DEAD FIVE INJURED AND TWO MISSING FOLLOWING BLAZE IN VESSEL OFF COAST.
LIFE IN A TRAILER
300 JAPANESE REFUGEES ARE SLAIN. REPORT
ill PASSENGERS ARE RESCUED
Scorea Of Rescue Boats Ply About Smoking Hulk In Attempt To liOcaG* Two Persons.
BALTIMORE, Md„ July 30 <UP> The smouldering wreckage of the 26-year-old Stem-Wheeler City of
CLEVELAND, July 30 — Mm. Clarice Orgel, 24, pretty housewife and mother of a 2-year-old son, in a suit for divorce filed today, charged her husband, Ralph, "wanted me to live in a house trailer on parking lots
and move from city to city."
She said he is now in a parking lot
at Lincoln Park, Mich.
"I’ll take a cottage any time.” Mrs. |
Orgel declared. There’s nothing nicer RELIEVED than a trailer for trips, but living in
oH(* is impossible." | Yin Ju-liriig, Heml of Japanese Spoil
sored Regime in Eastern Hopei
TWO YOUTHS KILLED Reported Missing
MASSACRE REPORTED AFTER
CHANG shin VI REVOLTS AGAINST GOVERNMENT
OPPONENT SEIZED
SOUTH REND, Ind., July 30.—j NANKlNil. July 30 <UP> Jap(UP) William Hughes, 18, Misha- anese war planes bombarded Chinese waka and Robert Loucks, 16. South Central ydovernment troop concentra
Baltimore wallowed in Chesapeake Bend were killed instantly early to- tions at Paotlngfu and killed 35 ChinBay today as officials counted two day when an automobile in which esc soldiers, the Central News Agency j dead, five injured and two missing in they were riding collided with a New reported today,
a fire which converted the vessel in- York Central passenger to a blazing furnace last night. j crossing near here. Safe on shore were 91 passengers
and crew members, many of whom
train at
TERRE HAUTE, Ind., July 30 (UP)—Steve Rose of Terre Haute and Dick McCreary, Indianapolis, district champion, will meet today in the
finals of the State Junior Golf tourna- ......„ w „,
ment over the Terre Haute Country were forced to leajv life-belt clad— A ll ‘ll’IIH'I’s; K |||iwl
Club course. into the chill waters of the Bay to * 4
escape scorching flames which flared' | from an unknown source below deck
; and midship.
One crew member, a fireman named Callis, reported himself safe at 9} a. m. today after being listed as mis- 1
sing throughout the night. Scores of rescue boats, many of BRAZIL, Ind., July 30 i UP)-Three
which worked all night picking up men were killed anil one other ser-
Farmers Wish For More Hogs, Cattle
Near Centerpoint
TOKYO, July 30. (UP) The newspaper Nichi reported from Peiping today that 200 Japanese refugees
in the city of Tungehow
massacred.
had been
HIGH PRICE NOW BEING OFFER ED ON MARKET, $13 TOP ON
HOGS, $15 STEERS
With the price of 160-pound to 300-pound hogs fluctuating near the $13-per-100 pound mark. Putnam county swine breaders and feeders are wishing they had more of that ligh-priced product to sell. It is seldom that a high price is iffered when Putnam producers have any considerable quanitity to sell. Hogs at $13 mean little to a farmer who has none to dispose of. However, $13 for hogs is not too much for the producer to receive who las finished them on $1 corn, farmers
say.
Good yearling steers have been priced along with the hogs at $13. which is unusual, ranging up to $15.50 for the best of them. Killing steer., aver 1,200 pounds in weight climbed the middle of the week to $16.40, and most of them, too, had been finished off on expensive corn. Beef cows were half price of heavy steers, with cannors running as low
as $3.
I’TOS CRASH Good to bPSt VOalS WerP 510 50 10 ' Cecil'Rawlings of m50 ’ an,, thc roault ’ in mrat sho P fl -
- demand f or 40 cents a pound
tim'Mvcn by
DBnvUMjfti'i Horschel Robbins of ROMMUH C 3 I * It':.' mt. rtii'l't It'll of BRMMfay and Indiana streets in '■ DwnrlUe, Eunday morning without it MrtoiH Injury to any of the occupuita. Tfke impact turned thc RawHag* car bver on its right side and then baJK on Its wheels. The dam■g* to the Robbins car was around
the radiate - and front bumpers
Robert Stafford of Roachdale, riding
With Robbins, was uninjured. Mr. and. Mrs. Earl Wayne Botts of
•outheaat eof the city announce the arrival of a fine baby boy, born Mon;U day, July 26, at thc Putnam county hospital. Both mother and baby are doing nicely Mrs, Botts was formOfly Mias Mil.. 1 Sngelin Bnizil
INK SELLS SEVERAL IN PUTNAM COUNTY tch from Washington statIrelve federal land banks in States during the first half Of jjjiis calendar year received from sales of farms, an increase of more than dollars from that source, lalf of the preceding year, rille land bank, which opPutnam county, sold 363 a total of $1,582,000. Inf that number were several land in this county which auired from foreclosure of
OWN ATTORNEY DIES STER, Ind., July 30 — era! services are being ar!ay for Ephraim F. Bowen. attorney and Republican for congress from the 10‘h 1932, who died yesterday a gallstone operation. He
rs old.
The paper said Chang Chin-Yu chief of tlie east Hopei peace preservation bureau, had devolted against
ANOIIIKK SERIOI SIA INJI RED |,j H ow!1 government in an effort in
overthrow Yin Ju-Keng, head of the Japanese-sponsored regime in east-
ern Hopei.
AS LIGHTNING STRIKES
WAGON TODAY
Yin Ju-Keng wan reported missing
survivors, still plied about the amok- i^usly injured”today whcnTightnlng arul so, "‘' bellcved 1,0 waa ki.lnaped
ing hulk in an attempt to locate the struck a wagon under which they
two persons -one crew-man, one pas- had taken refuge during a storm. SHANGHAI, July 30. (UP) A sengcr—still unaccounted for. The men, all members of a thresh- Chinese government army poured Three naval airplanes from the ing outfit, were working the Me- northward today apparently a day nearby U. S. naval academy at Anna- Mecley farm near Centerpoint, when too late to challenge the Japanese
polis made a survey flight over the the storm broke.
scene shortly before dawn, but sighted no bodies or survivors. The pilots reported the City of Baltimore was destroyed, with only the blackened boilers and smoke-stack protruding above the water line. Idle steel hull of the vessel, owned by the Chesa-; pcake Steamship Company, was aground near Pinehurst, a village on the Bay shore.
The dead, all of Centerpoint, are: Sam Boyce, 65. Fred Bucklew, 34. Clyde Chcezen, 28. The injured man was John Edscrs,
Attorneys Seek New Davis Trial
YOUTH CONVICTED OF INVOL-
UNTARY MANSLAUGHTER JULY 3 IN GIRL'S DEATH
VINCENNES, Ind., July 30.—(UP>
Defense attorneys today filed mo- make them vassel cities of thc em-
peror.
was
tor veal steaks and other good cuts. Choiioe lambs range (as (high as $11.25, and lamb chops went up in cost along with the price of the aninals on foot. The swine population of Putnam county today is an unknown quantity, but, two years ago, there were reported by the government to be 10,209 head of swine of all ages in the county. Five years prior to that, or in 1930, there were 46,338 of these animals feeding in Putnam. But this seeming large number includes thousands of unmarketable animals, including brood sows, which are not often marketed by the breeders as upon them their progeny depend the production of the herds that can be sold. Although the number of head of hogs in Putnam county has not recently been determined, the county may be assumed to follow the trend of the state as a whole, in that respect. The spring pig crop in thc state this year was 7 per cent larger than in the preceding year, but a loss of this grain may be expected, because the number of sows in the state that will farrow this fall is reported as 2 per cent less than a year ago. The United States spring nig cron was 7 ner cent less than in 1936, and
1 ing on the Hankow railroad, thence on to thc war area.
and
KING HEADS SIXTH DISTRICT YOUNG DEMOCRATIC CLUB John W. King, who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. King of east Anderson street, this city, and who is in the office of the collector of the internal revenue service, was named
president of the Sixth district Y'oung tion for a new trial in the case of Democrats' club, at their recent Ward Davis, sentenced July 3 on inmeeting held at Crawfordsville. He! voluntary manslaughter charges for succeeds Gordon Olvey, Jr„ who has!'he slaying of Annavieve France in been appointed to the state board of | Petersburg, March, 1934. accounts, and Mr. Olvey was requir- The motion listed 83 reasons for a ed to resign as district president of n( ' w trial, chief among them being al-
the young Democrats. ' leged discrepancies in admitted testi- 1 There were many indications that Other officers of the Sixth district mony and technical disputes leading dhia time the government might turn young Democrats organization are: up to the hearing in which attorneys angry talk into determined action if Annabel! Bennett, Rosedale, vicej charged the court erred. , it was pressed too far, for there was president: Gladys Whitten, secretary, Davis, former Petersburg High the danger of a revolution if it capwho was re-elected to that office; Lee i School athlete, was sentenced in Knox itulated too plainly. Sinclair, Crawfordsville, treasurer. circuit court after his third trial n j <llt dispatches which arrived The last official act of Mr. Olvey 1 charges of slaying his pretty sweet- ovrr rr jpp|od communications sysas he retired from the presidency of heart. He was convicted twice pre- | 0ma aM ,| t| lf . United States marine the young Democrats was to place visously on first degree murder char- w j re | ef , s gtation at Peiping, which Mr. King in nomination for president, ges but each time the state Supreme ma ,|p every effort to cooperate with
the American public in thc emer-
STATE FAIR TICKETS ON SALE AT AGENTS OFFICE Tickets for the Inrl'a'ia Slate Fair vliich will be held at the r » rground* n In llanapoils. Seotembe" 4 * 10 a;v on sale at the office of Go” T MaTis. county agent. Thc piicc o' the t'ekets sre twenty-five cents each. As in previous years, th’se t'ekets '’onstitute a saving for f o • co ts as thev sell foe half orlrp nnM for tickets at the fairgrounds. Hs-»-ia nnnoun oes today that he haft 1 000 tickets on hand on that a few were already sold A last, minute rush marks the sa'c of the tickets at his office the agent said, /and advised that prosnective fair-goers bnv tirk''t«i oa-lv for It is undeterminsb'e if addltlonnt tickets will be obtained after the present Uipply is sold. Colored Fanner Was “Xmas Gift” '•FORCE M il.El VM NICHOI S RESIDENT OF COUNTY MWY YEARS George William Niehola, who is •ne of the best-known of the colored ill izens of Putnam county, wan a thristnias eve present for his parents down in old Kentucky nearly threcquatters of a century ago. He will be 75 years old next December 24 His father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam Nichols, lived about a mile from Lebanon. Ky . at that time, but came to Indiana when their Christmas gift son was about two years
old.
Mr. Nichols lives on a ton-aerc tract on the Houck road northeast of Greencastle a couple of miles and that land has been in the family between 60 and 70 years, which is a much hotter record in that respect than is made by many families of the county. It was bought by Mr. Nichols’ father from Milton Woodruff and the old folks died there. Although it is not a large area, the mere fact that a former slave from the South became its owner is a testimonial to his industry and ambi-
tion.
George William Nichols, the present owner of the little farm, recently told a Banner man that his father, (ho one who left Kentucky to beI come a Putnam citizen, was a slave whose last owner was a man whose name was Stallions, who was not a
Central government troop and mu- harfl nlan to work f or l)n t j„.f ( , r p nition trains were moving northward ( sta | lions Mr Nichols. Sr., was owned to Paotingfu. 75 miles south of Peip- | ( y a man w ho was hard on him at
limes.
war machine to a finish fight. Authoritative reports from Nanking, the national capital, said that the vanguards of thc government troops had arrived in the neighborhood of Tientsin and at Changhsintien, eight miles southwest of Peiping, to reinforce their comrades of
thc north.
But they arrived, disjointed dispatches over disorganized communications Indicated clearly, to find that thc northern troops had broken. The issue of peace or war remained to be decided. Thc central government seemed steeled to resist any Japanese attempt ^o extend dominajtion over Peiping and Tientsin, and
BARGAIN DAY EXPECTED TO DUWV CROWD
MON I MIA SALEH FEATURE IS SLATED IN LOCAL STORES FOR SATURDAY. MANY MER( HANTS COOPERATE
Variety Of Articles Bring Offered In Shops Of Greencastle On Special Occasion.
All the county presidents pledged court granted him a new trial,
their support to the new district head.
ENJOY SWIM PARTY
About twenty-five carriers of The Daily Banner and The Indianapolis News went to Brazil Thursday even
of Robert Hadley, News and Banner
circulation manager.
WIDOW OF LATE SEN. TAGGART SUCCUMBS IN INDIANAPOLIS
gency, showed that now the Japanese were masters.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 30 <UP) — Mrs. Eva Bryant Taggart, widow of the late United States Senator Thom-
They had driven the Chinese troops out of Tientsin, and were searching thc city for snipers. They had blasted Chinese troops, apparently from
, , . . .u as Taeirart died at her home today ,he area east of Peiping mg for a swimming party at the new * ' at a j^rur S where the Chinese stormed and proBrazil municipal swimming pool at of pneumonia alter a lingering ill ... . , ,, Tannnese PV-rnst Park The hovs were In chartrc ncsa - H,,r husband died in 1929. Mrs h, ‘ h, Y amhilated a small Japanese
Forest Park. The boys were in charge ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ forrp Thoy ha ,, clcaro d the Peiping | Stadulka. who walked away from the
k neighborhood Among her surviving relatives is pro-Chinese
The present Mr. Nichols does not rely upon the ten-acre farm to be his source of livelihood, however. He farms a 160-aere tract northeast of Greencastle which is a part of (lie estate of the Putnam county orphans home, near this city, and lie has operated it for 21 years. He took care of his old father and mother until they died and by that time, he said, he decided he himself was too old to marry. So he is an “old" bachelor. However, he lias children about bim 'n his home, grandchildren of Berry Ernest, who was a well known resident of Greencastle many years.
FARM ESCAPE SENTENCED John Stadulka, escaped penal far e inmate, received a 1 to 5 year sentence in the state reformat r.ry at Pendleton today on his plea of guillv to the charge in Putnam circuit court.
TRACTOR KILLS YOUTH
of anti-Japanese or j farm yesterday, was immediately np ^ ^ troops. A Japanese- prehended by officers and brought toi
her" sori^Thoinas d' Taggart, Demo sponsored government ruled at Peip- the county jail here^ He was sent ene. .I
cratic National committeeman for * n £-
Greencastle today looked forward to playing host to several hundred shopi>ors from this trading area Satunlay when monthly Bargain Day is observed here. Through the cooperation of Greencastle Chamber of Commerce and twenty-seven merchants, this month's Bargain Day promises to be one of the outstanding feature sales events planned here in many months. Various inducements are being made in thc way of price reductions to attract a record-sized crowd of shoppers to Ibis city for Saturday's spectacular sale. Merchants sponsoring the event with the Chamber of Commerce this month have added many types of articles to the regular sales specialties in an effort to offer a wider assortment of merchandise to • he visiting shopper as well as tho local trade. With a change near in the season, it has been predicted that clearances of summer articles will reach an alltime peak Bargain Day. Several firms are clearing out summer goods at drastically reduced prices, making it possible for the consumer to gel several weeks' use before Autumn arrives or store the merchandise until '.ext summer and at the same time make way for the arrival of fall shipments in local sstores. Some business shops have gone so far as to reduce regular merchandise as much as fifty percent in price for Hie Bargain Day feature, and others are clearing out summer specialties at even greaterf reductions. Substantial reductions also are being featured on year-around needs. All indications point to this July Bargain Day bringing the greatest array of tuomey-saving prices ever offered in local stores, and it is believed that the city will be packed throughout Saturday with shoppers from at least a dozen towns and communities in this section who will come to make this shopping head-
quarters.
Bargain Day crowds have been increasing in size for several months. I ho crowd attending the June event »vas estimated as the largest ever attracted here, but hope is held that the size will be surpassed at tomorrow's Bargain Day. Many of the Bargain ; Day shoppers, too, are making , Greencastle their regular shopping center, becoming better acquainted ; with local merchants participating 1 in | Hie sales and at the same time becoming familiar with the variety of [ fine stores here and the wide assortment of merchandise offered at at-
tractive prices.
WAR “DISTI KBING:" F. I). R. WASHINGTON, July 30.—(UP) — 1 'resident Ro< ,evelt today described Hie Chi none-Japanese hostilities in China as very disturbing and said ho intends to remain in or near thc White House over the weekend to keep in close touch with Hie situa-
te the penal farm from Cake county.
T Indiana and owner of the famed rePERU, Ind., July 30.—(UP)— . , „ . , , . , ’ ’ . . 1 sort, at French Lick, Ind.
daTfor Richard ^arics ' M^. ^ Private funeral services will be held
^ .... . , tomorrow with burial here,
who was injured fatally yesterday
It Seems To Be Vacation Time For Motorists As They Pass Through City From Fvery State
♦be number of sows farrowing this j when he jumped from a tractor pull- ^ jjooSEVELT TO MEET fall over the entire country Is esti-j' n P a threshing machine into, thc; GOVERNOR
mated to be 3 per cent less than a path of a car in front of
year ago.
! seven miles northeast of
his home
here.
William L. Denman Observes Forty-Eighth Anniversary On His Coming: To Greencastle William L. Denman, today recalled 1923. Continuing active in political
MURPHY
WASHINGTON, July 30 President Roosevelt arranged for a conference this week with Governor Murphy of Michigan, which has been the scene of major labor disputes. White House officials denied that the two would "rewrite the Wagner labor re-
lations act.”
SEEKS DIVORCE
Charging cruel and inhuman treatment M 1 ii'iiiiin Wood filed suit for divorce against Thaddeaus Wood in Putnam circuit court Thursday. The i'laiiitiff'i action asserts that they were married in January, 1936, and .'icpcr.it i d iii June, 1937. Fred Thomas
They arc passing through early and , Hie plaintiffs attorney.
forty-eighth ancl civic matters. Mr. Denman was
his party’s choice for the nomination for mayor of Greencastle in 1929 and was elected to that office. He served
that July 29, was the
anniversary of his coming to Greencastle to live. Since that sime, he
——^tended Earlham college j has taken an active part in the zf-1 ^ twiiT of four yeitfTa* well ■Mira State Teachers' college, fairs of the city and county and con- ^ ^ add . tional year thp lcpilaturc In Dana. Spartansville and , tinucs today to be interested in havinR pa8aed the fam0u8 .. 8ki p'. e l-
VineawoM university before serving civic matters. Mr. Denman came to ■ ^puring the world war. Putnam county and Greencastle from
Crawfordsville, on July 29, 1889. Six
ENT—$1 A YEAR years later, or in 1895, he was elected ^ Pa ^ IAPOLIS. JULY 30—Uncle auditor of Putnam county and serv- , year’s rent—$1—today to pq four years in that office in his
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
ection law that allowed all mayors of
Indiana cities to serve an additional ' to spend Sunday. He retired from the office of Saul Sudranski was in Indianap-
mayor in 1935. olis.
In other affairs. Mr. Denman is Mr. and Mrs. William Eiteljorge also quite active, being a member of visited in fShelbyville.
thc Kiwanis club and having served Wilber Paris wrote his parents as its president for one year. He concerning his army experiences. He
It is evident that vacation time ] they desire and be perfectly contentmeans more to the average. Ameri- j ed with tho outcome,
can today than ever before, because
cne has only to stand on a down town 1 late, and in fact many of them are
corner a few minutes and watch the j eating their breakfast in Greencastle. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schoenman and
to get some idea | because the city has thc reputation "on Frederick and daughter Elizaof having finer places to eat than beth have returned to their home In many of the smaller towns along the 'his city after vacationing at Scney,
highway. The gasoline stations are Mich.
likewise profiting from the tourists, ..
and it isn’t an unusual thing to sec two cars in the same station, with license plates from states some 3,000
to 5,000 miles apart.
The trailer situation is about nor mal and hardly a day goes by without a score or more trailers passing through. Some of them appear to be
automobiles go by to get
as to where they come from Where they are going, is quite another question and only the drivers likely know, and in many instances the chances are they have gotten into thc auto
and are just going somewhere.
Cars from every state are passing through the city. This is the first time this has happened because heretofore they have passed over the National road and missed Greencastle,
Willie Jones went to Terre Haute whpreas thc detour 0 f State Road 10
■$ a O O O ® ® ® &
$
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$ #1
now is sending them through the business district of the city.
active interest in church
^l^MBfSiyMHrott, Indianapolis mcrch- own right and then acted as deputy •**t and hot 11 owner, for a five-story auditor for a period of two years butldinp^ccupied by the regional of- under Peter Stoner. . ^ ake8 an
ti««? lh ' R “ ctU ™"' t Aprtl , 91 |,. Mr. Denman wa> ami lod K e affair, a. well a, all mat-
£rx r «*^ neper.,
was a lieutenant.
E. B. Taylor won the final match in the president's flight in the championship golf tournament at River-
3 up and
Thc cars arc from thc Pacific coast, the Atlantic coast, from Canada, and from the Gulf states. In fact they are from every section of the country and most of the cars are later model
cars or new ones, and many of them September, it is expected that many , are occupied by two or more women ! of them will be taken oft the toad, with no men to bother them. They those especially with children as all can change their minds as to where wil1 ^ back home for the coming
1 they want to go as many times as school year.
Today’s Weather
and
Local Temperature
® a V2> ® ® ® 'Sf Partly cloudy and unsettled with
occasional scattered thundershowers
of the Pullman car type, while oth- south portion tonight and Saturday; ers are of the make-shift variety and slightly cooler extreme north tonight,
the occupants arc just out for a care-
free vacation trip. Minimum - - - - This condition is expected to con- 6 a. in. .... 70 tinue throughout thc month of Aug- 7 a. m. . — 73 ust and much of September, but with 8 a. m. — <5
the starting of school the middle of
9.1 ’n 77 10 a. m 81 11 a. m — 83 12 Noon 85 1 p. m 87 2 p. m 88