The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 9 August 1937 — Page 1
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NO. 252
M Y IS HIT electrical ORM SUNDAY
ROBERT L. PIERCE, COUNTY ASSESSOR SERIOUSLY ILL
They Escaped in Triple Tragedy
! ( IRCUH CATS TAKE BATH IN DOWNTOWN SECTION
, OF 14 INCHES
OKI) DOWNPOUR AT
NOON HOUR said TO BE
Blow ii
Robert L. Pierce, assessor of Putnam county, suddenly became critically ill at noon Sunday, while at- 5 i tending the reunion of the McCray | family at Riverside park, Indianap-
RE- olia.
He was at once taken to the home J of his daughter, Mrs. Reese Jackson, j in Indianapolis; where a physician
SLIGHT attended him. He rallied during the
afternoon, but was too ill to return
From Trees Onto to his home in this city, and retnainjn Western Part of County; ed at his daughter’s in that city. Are Swollen 1 pending further recovery from his
illness.
aiii-elcetrical storm that Member of his family in Greencas-1 e m . n from the northwest dur-| tie returned to Indianapolis Monday * noon hour, Sunday, brought | morning to remain with him during f 1 4 inches < f rainfall. [the day. Mr. Pierce has been suf-, * , lyrical disturbance inter- j Bering from an affection of the heart.
Cjth telephone efficiency.
Jgh tension wire, owned by the "vi'lc company, it is said, at |
rea ls school house eust of
r iS !.e in Marion township, was!
into contact with a tree and
'ter was observed by passing
Ustle residents to be blazing,
ns were blown from trees onto in the western part of the j
causing dodging by motorists. I
heavy rainfall filled Big Wal- HON C. IHTMER, INDIANAPOLIS, W Raccoon. Little Raccoon and j HELD PENDING FILING OF
Ceek bank full and the surplus CHARGES ran off in a yellow flood. ■
small stream crossed by the ACCIDENT AT BAINBIUDGF
‘"sstle-SUlesville highway just |
fits Intersection witli the Nat- Cars HU Head On As One Driver At0 a,l. was flooded and water to tempted To Turn Into Filling
jpth of fourteen inches ran over ! Station -d cast of the bridge. A state I
officer watched the place foi j One man was in jail here today as
late in the afternoon, as-1 a result of an automobile crash east
motorists in getting over the J 0 f Bainbridge Saturday. Two per- j and then he called M. I). I sons wore seriously injured in the j :, state highway superintendent, j collision which occured scarcely sev-!
ke an inspection of the struco ascertain if it had been rend-
nsafe by the high water,
the evening, Sunday, another
of shorter duration, came from the northwest and de.2 of rainfall in addition to
Joi
land it is believed this was the cause|
of his illness, Sunday.
| AUTOCRASH I
INJURES TWO LATE SATURDAY
A motor truck carrying throe cages of "cats" from the Haag Bros, circus was brought up town this morning to a convenient hose connection, where the felines were given a cooling hath, along with a washing-out of their
qua rters.
Cats dislike water, but thene appeared to have become somewhat ro- | conclled to the drenching, from earlier experiences and did not fuss very much. The tiger was given the lightest dose, however. Thr. lions, on | the other hand, were soaked to the skin. In the cages were a young t African leopard, two young lions and a tiger, all beauties and full of ac-
tivity.
SECOND VICTIM J Of TRUCK FIRE i NEAR CITY DIES
RALPH SHELL, 21 YEARS OLD, EXPIRES IN ( RAWEOKDSVILLE HOSPITAL
BROTHER BERN EH TO DEATH
Xecldent OceurnsI Early Saturday On State Road LS Eight Mllew North of This City J
Bernard Gregor (left) shot his widowed mother and two of his sisters to death In their Pittsburgh homo and then turned the gun on himself. Notes found near his body indicated he feared going blind and saw no other way out. Frank Gregor is shown (right) comforting a surviving sister, Alice. Both were out of tha house at the time of the tragedy.
en hours after a truck burned and claimed the lives of two young men within six miles of Bainbridge. Don C. Ditmer, 448 Colorado street, Indianapolis, is being hold here. An automobile driven by Ditmer and one driven by Floyd Good-
the noon storm, making a j win putsboro rural route 1, crashjof 16 inches for the period. | ,, (1 hea(1 on a quarter of a mile cast was another storm Monday j ()f Bainbridge about 1 p. m. Satur-
^ig about 2 o’clock which struck : j a y
of Grcencastle, especially soil the neighborhood of Spencor. ver in -Morgan county, also, noon storm swept in a belt a ■fide across the county, through rthern edge of Madison townjMonroe township, and Floyd, in al severity. The rain was a deand the wind tore over corn and woods, causing more damthat belt than elsewhere in the
jy.
-Sellville, it is said, had but little
storm.
•th Madison township was visiy another storm at midnight, y. which had an accompaniof hail and a sudden dropping temperature.
mer Gives Up J o (bounty Police
Herbert Williams, about 50 years old, of 210 north Liberty street, Indianapolis, and Lillian Thomas, 45, of Indianapolis were severely injured 1 in the crash. Both were treated by a Bainbridge physician and Williams was taken to the City hospital in Indianapolis while the woman was able to return to her home. Williams suffered a badly injured right arm numerous cuts and bruises and internal injuries, while the Indianapolis woman suffered a badly cut leg and bruises. Katherine Burk Dillow, 23. of Rockville who was riding with Goodwin sustained injuries about the head and bruises. Goodwin sustained a
out knee.
Rex Molletl Ilil By Fast Train FORMER GREKNt ASTLK MAN NARROW IA ESI \PES DEATH NATI EDA\ IN OHIO D. C. Moffett received word Saturday night that his brother. Rex Moffett, formerly of this city and a widely known athlete of DePauw university, was injured at Eastman, Ohio, near his home, when his automobile was struck by a fast passenger train. He went to that city Saturday night and returned iSunday night, accompanying his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moffett of Indiana-
polis.
Mr. Moffett in some way escaped instant death in the crash. He was badly bruised and received some severe cuts about the body, bu/j it was not thought that he was seriously injured. He stopped at a railway crossing to allow a freight train to pass. The road was double tracked and as the freight train pulled over the high- | way crossing, Mr. Moffett failed to | see an approaching passenger train on the second track and pulled part
llti.Mi WITH ASSAULT AND FTkKV, SHOOTING ON PUBLIC HIGHWAY
Wells, thirty-year-old farmer Plymouth fcht miles north of this city, to- J damaged.
Rave himself up to Putnam t.V authorities to face charges of 111 811,1 battery and shooting on j
blic highway.
1 affidavit carrying the two 1
was filed Saturday in Pul ' Circuit icourt by Lester n L; years old, farmer.
Me-
way way onto the tracks. The fast
who was driving west saw P' 1 ' 1101 ' I tr!l j n caught the front end of his proroeding east, apparently swerve | aut omobil e , and this probably saved to his left before turning into a fill- )]js ljfe aa ( | i( | not ca t c h enough of ing station. Goodwin attempted to, (tQ carr y un der the train go ahead as Ditmer suddenly return- all tomobile was reduced to a pile ed to the right side of the road and I of j unk aM was tossed some forty the two automobiles crashed headon. topl awa y f rom the speeding train in
A Ford roadster in which the three th(J craah
Indianapolis people were riding was .
almost demolished while Goodwin’s
coupe was extensively TW O pi I \ \ »l SH DENTS
EARN HIGH PCKDCE RATING
j w. A. Alice, Grcencastle, junior in
the school of mechanical engineering and W. L. Sihitt, Fillmore, senior in the school of chemical engineering, are the Purdue students from Putnam county among the 404 students who qualified for the rating of Distinguish! | Student, the highest scho-
lastic citation obtainable at
Older Youth Ulu!> Drive Is Lumclied
Purdue
university, for work completed dur-j first American appearance for meming the second semester of the past i bers of the troupe in four yea's, re-
letter has been sent from the aca demic year. turning this spring from a tour of
LETTER SENT COUNTY AGENT
° f 0 "‘ > IN INTERESTS OF DEVELOPnorth of Danville. McClain mfvt
B P| i that he was en r oute to
"castle in his truck last Friday
1 8 ni| that a bullet struck th-’ , _ , , r-nv T Har-
Wardens
Life Threatened
rolled down at the time ' t<>nUal m, ' mb, ' rs of th ° or S anlzat '°" VHM.S from the scene of the ^ of y° unK ,>COplC
| " u: : "" 1 later notified
P' The injured
CHANGE TWO BOOKS ON LIST I OK C OMING SCHOOL YEAR County School Superintendent Frank E. Jarrell announced Monday that only two books on the book list of the Putnam county schools for the coming scholastic year will be changed from those in use last school year. The new books take the place of histories used in the fifth and sixth grades. “Earth and Its Peoples’’ Is the new text. It will he used in both the fifth and the sixth grades. “Brave Young Land” will be utilized In the sixth grade. The texts used last year, with these exceptions, will be used against this year.
Ilaair Rros. (arcus a Plays Here Today
MANY FEATURES INCLUDED IN LARGEST CIRCUS OF ITS KIND ON ROAD. Haag Bros. Circus, the largest motorized circus on the road today, ar- | rived in Grcencastle in the early morning hours Sunday and immediately got busy putting up some of J the many units of the tented city. Horse tents, side shows and many private tents of the stars of the show and, of course, the dinning room ami kitchen tops went up to precede the arrival of the big show by several hours. The place was in order to feed the working men by 7 o'clock Sun-
day morning.
The Haag Bros, circus this year is carrying some of the highest priced circus acts on the road today, including the Matsumatos, the Japanese six in number, late of the Ringling show; Captain Stout with his ponies, dogs and educated menagerie, and horses that never fail to thrill the ol ' is well as the young. One of the outstanding acts th! 1 year is the Flying Leroys an aerial act of world-wide repute. Tins is tic
\t Ueasl 3 Die lu Uilavelte Crash
OTHERS BELIEVED INJURED IN COLLISION EARLY TODAY;
DETAILS MEAGER
LAFAYETTE, Aug. !> <tIP> At least three person were killed In an nutomobilo accident six miles west of here on U. H highway 52 early this morning, according to the sheriff’s office. Others were believed to have been injured. Further information was not immediately available. Police headquarters said five people were injured in the crash, a head on collision between two automobiles. State police and sheriff’s officers were sent to the scene of the accident after receiving a call for an ambulance at 6:05 A. M. Police saiil the injured wore taken to Home Hospital. They were reported in critical condition and identification could not be made immediate-
ly.
The dead in Uie Lafayette crash
were:
Alex Sanders of Chicago, 315 Cen-
tral Park.
Jennie Sanders his wife. Mrs. Fannie Ttretski of New York City., Sanders’ sister.
The injured wore:
Mr. ami Mrs. Albert Brooks of Chicago, 315 Central Park; Harry Eisenstcin, Chicago, 5159 Drexel; Mr. and Mrs. Norman Atkins of Bonham, Tex., and their six months old baby. At Lafayette, hospital It was said that Brooks is unconscious and probably will die. Atkins and bis wife sustained internal injuries and are in a
serious condition.
The Sanders party was returning from a wedding last night in Cincinnati where Sanders’ son Abe married
Yetta Posner, 3234 Delaware Avenue. | \Valnut street a few minutes
The Sanders car was ripped open I the bus stopped,
from the windshield back through the i rear seat and the occupants badly j
mangled.
Suffering severe burns In a truck accident that claimed the life of hia brother Ralph C Shell, 21 years old of Brown's Valley died late Sunday at Culver hospital in Crawfordsville. Winston E. Shell, 17, the younger brother, burned to death in the truck j when it caught fire and overturned two ndles south of Fincastle early
1 Saturday morning.
The truck, property oi the A-I/iaf Baking company of Crawfordsville
BEING was being driven to Grcencastle when
the tragedy occurred. Winston wa» riding with his brother, who said I shortly after being taken to the hos-
I NKN'OWN HERE 1 ltlat w,1 il< > riding along in the
truck he heard an explosion and that immediately afterwards flames enveloped the two men in the cab of
the truck.
Investigation showed that the flaming vehicle ran off the road north of the Otha Bales home, carreened down a ditch for about 150 feet, kiyirked over a mail box and then slithered diagonally across the road and turned over about 200 feet south of the
Bales home.
Ralph was apparently thrown clear of the wreckage and when Mr. Bales, who heard the crash as well as tha other nearby farmers arrived, ho was attempting to extinguish his flaming clothing. Winston was trapped in the burning vehicle and his body was nearly cremated. The extent of Ralph Hhell’s hums was not fully determmined until
LOCAL DOUCE SEEK GIKL WHO FLED IUJSIIEHE young woman u xs TAKEN BACK TO IMHANAI’-
OL1S INSTITUTION NAME OF G11(1,
1
Bus Driver Reported She \ttemptcd To Leap From Moving \ ehiele;
Also Fled at Brazil
City police today were searching! for an unidentified young woman who esi Led the custody of a Greyhound bus driver about lu.'io Satur-! i lay evening and disappeared in
Grcencastle.
The girl's disappearance culininat- j led a bizarre series of escapes anil captures after the woman reportedly left an Indianapolis detention home, and went to St. Louis, where she was apprehended and placed on a bus for return to Indianapolis. According to tho bus driver, the young woman was determined not to return to Indianapolis When the
bus stopped In Brazil tbo unknown sometime after entering tho Crawglrl fled snd was finally caught by j fordsville hospital and he died Sunpolice and put back on the bus. Once, day, nearly 36 hours after tho crash, tho bus driver said, she attempted to Winston Shell was horn In Dougleap from tho moving vehicle but las county, Illinois, November 3, 1919, was saved from probably aerious in- the son of A. S and Mary Carlton Jury when enugfit at the door. At 1 Shell, while his older brother was that time she screamed. “I got away born in Champaign county, Illinois, oi, once and I'll get away again," tho August 11, 1915.
Winston attended the Central Business College at Indianapolis He had planned to return to school there this
fall.
Double funeral services for the two accident victims were conducted at 3 o’clock this afternoon from tha Hunt and Reeves funeral home in Crawfordsville The services were In charge of the Rev. Mr. Hetsler, pastor of the Raccon Methodist church, assisted by the Rev Mr Skelton of the Brown’s Valley Baptist church and the Rev Mr. GottsrUall of the Waveland Methodist church. Burial was In the Masonic cemetary at
Crawfordsville.
driver stated. The bus stopped at the Lee Hubhard service station at the corner of Jackson and Walnut streets here Just as employes were closing the station for the night Robert Best, station employe, unlocked the rest room for the girl then she turned and fled running east on Walnut
street.
City police were called and a search for the missing girl was started. No trace of her could be found and the bus continued to Indianap-
olis.
Employes at the station said the girl was about 17 years old, weighing about 140 pounds. She had brown hair, dark in complexion, and wore
a light flowered dress and red slip-
pers when she left (he bus. Traffic on tho National road de-
A hat. pocket book and suitcase tour through Grencastle was so
carried by the girl were left with heavy. Sunday, that drivers who had city police. Thorough checking of occasion to cross Jackson and Washhcr belongings failed to reveal any ington streets in the city, often had clews as to her name The initials to wait for the passage on the detour “M C.” were on the empty pocket- of a string of cars several blocks in ))00 | 5 length. Many of the out of town dri-
I
TKAUITU HEAVY
Police, who searched all Saturday night for the girl, today were mystified as to her whereabouts. She has not been seen since she ran east on
after
vers showed great impatience at the stop signs down town. Pedestrians had to tie on the alert to get across
the streets safely.
4 H < 1.1 B ( AMP NOTK'E
of the ages be
STRUGGLE WITH \NGERED
NIMROD
C ° Unly character ~who' should make credit- The life of Mace Vermillion of * *.,«o onaracie . youth Putnam county, and a state pame
man was
by a local physician and the ^le mcrnhcra of
the Older
filed the affidavit
raa; 'lav N Wells.
I aft, ' r Wells surrendered to- " was released on his own reI'Mtice to consult an attorney hc- ' ,n( ' a, 'caigned in Putnam Cir-
court.
'LMtRIAGE licenses
club. These names should hands of the county agent
as is convenient for those sending The club of this county meets j seen put a
the evening of Tuesday,
threatened north of
be in the warden was
soon I Spencer, in Owen county, Saturday, by a man whom Mr. Vermillion had
dead squirrel in an auto-
them. The crnnoi rms^u..^.^!^ ^ whom the conscrva tlon next on the evening _ officer sought to place under arrest. August 31. an<1 not onfy ! The man" resisted the officer and sed then to make the club not only ^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ larger but also more off hunter att acked Mr. Vermillion and,
three years in which time they visited Australia, New Zealand and Beilin, where they played a return on gagement for six months. They an | regarded as til ing the highest pai' entertainers of that type on the road today. Another feature act is that of Fritz, a mammoth Fast Indian male elephant 'a tusker) who actually smokes and inhales a cigarette through a long holder made and designed especially for him. It seems almost impossible to train an elephant to do this, hut Fritz smokes his cig-
arette at each perfonnance. Tho circus gave its initial perfor-
mance at 2 o’clock this afternoon at the Handy grounds. The final performanee will be presented at 8 o'clock tonight, with doors opening at 7 o’-
clock.
Uouiilv Trustees
PwiHn^ GrmT'vk*’proaident; Isabel tifter b™.kln S •w.y Iron, Pauline i.reeii, __j (v,,.„.jir,np(l the warden
Padgett is president;!
Dayton, Ohio, and Lillian
filling station
*4 ie
Zimmerman, at home, Roaeh-
r ' r Sharp, shoe factory cm- Lodge No. 1 55, 1-
V" CaRf, y. Til. and Mary D. Glos- Tuesday night August 10. ■ at home^ Greenup, 111. , Work in M. M. degree
him,
' \ threatened the warden with his LsT^HaU^atTonal leader, jsquirrel rifle while makinganescapc^ Mrs. J. tf. nan, Vermillion was bruised in Ihe
f a nnle^ate struggle. The assailant is being
meeting^ of ^ sought b y state police, who will place
8 00 p. m. a charge of resisting an officer
t against him, when he is caught.
Stated
20 Y
eurs
Afto
IN GREEN! ASTLE
Harry Wells was promoted to as- |
sistant cashier of the Central Na- ! tional Bank. The paper said: “Mr 1 Wells is a progressive young man of ,
ability.” (Ho is now cashier). Mr. and Mrs. James Albin hav
All Putnam county 4-H members who are planning to attend the camp at McCormick’s Creek state park,
Fl(*(*l rinmyh^ give their names at once to Wayne Branneman, county leader. ANNUAL OUTING ENJOYED These names should he in not later SUNDAY AT Cl.oVEROVLE 'than Wednesday evening. The camp PICNIC GROUNDS opens August 22.
returned from an auto trip through
Trustees of Putnam county, wdh their families, and a few guests, ineluding Frank K. Jarrell, county su pervisor of education, ami Mrs. Jai-
had their annual picnic at
I rell
CAMBRIX SPANS ATLANTIC FOYNES Irish Free State, Aug. 9. (UP) The British flying boat Cambria, arrived today from Botwood, Newfoundland, after crossing the Atlantic in 12 hours 2 minutes.
the South. They drove 2 200 miles j Elmer D. Vanclcave was listed; among those who had passed the! army examination and would not
ask for exemption.
Rev. Fenwick Ree l changed tires six times between this city and Brick j Chapel, on his start to Illinois.
Elmer Blue, trustee of Jefferson j •' 1 ,ir " <M
township, was in the city on business Charles Huffman, of the Hanna store, left for a three weeks vacation
in Colorado.
Jack Marley was here from Bloomington visiting his sister, Mrs. John
Maloney.
high school picnic grounds,
dale, Sunday.
The attendance was
$ a 0 o o o 0 0 0 « * 0 Today’s Weather 0 0 and 41 0 Local Temperature 41
Clover- 00000000000
Generally fair tonight and Tuesday,
not 190 per except unsettled east portion early to-
the
cent but most of the trustees W“re night; somewhat present. The day was occupied with northwest portion,
informal amusements, with a fine
basket dinner at noon. j Minimum The officers elected for the new i; a .m.
Theordore Raab, Wash- | 7 a . m.
| ington township, former trustee. 8 a m I president; Frank Cooper, Cljnton 9 a nl .
I township, vice president, and Mrs. 1 Mack Furr. Cloverdale secretary- n treasurer. These officers form an 12 executive committee to arrange foi \ j next year’s gathering. 2
warmer Tuesday
a. m. a. m. noon p. m. p. m.
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