The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 August 1937 — Page 1
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(iliEKNCASTLK, INDIANA, TI HSDAY, AVGUST 10, I'KI?.
NO. 253
IK PRICES hmE help TO FARMERS
high cost |KS PRESENT
OF FEED SELLING
t( t OF SLIGHT BENEFIT EK LEI ELS PREDICTED Liclit Receipts mid High , Bill Prevail Far Next
Few Months
THAMES SUICIDE PACT FOR DEATH OF MAN AND WOMAN MIDDLETOWN, Ind. Aug. 10 (UP) 1 ■—A suicide pact today was blamed by Henry County Coroner, Elmer j Bentley for the deaths of Walter Guy I Holmes, 37, Middletown, and Mrs. Carrie Anna Campbell, 30. of near Anderson. The two were found dying of a quick-acting poison in a parked | automobile near here late yesterday. The couple, found in an unconscious condition by passing motorists, disappeared from their homes last Satur-
| day, Bentley said.
An unsigned note believed to have j been written by Holmes before he took poison was found in the auto-
3 KILLED AND 4 BADLY HURT IN PLANE WRECK
Republicans Seek United Front
AIRLINER ROC Ml FOR MIA Mi FROM CHICAGO HITS HIGH TENSION WIRE AND FALLS
TWO CREW MEMBERS VICTIMS Plane Had Made Regular Seheduled Stop at Daytonfa Beaeli and Was Taking Off When It Fell
DAYTONA MEACH, Fla., Aug. 10 'UP' Three persons were killed
wn t statement in the news
f the Daily Banner that! mobile. It read: “God Bless my Boys
° tv farmers are finding and poor old Dad and Mother. Good- an ' 1 six others were Injured seriously C0U ",'H being paid for hogs by. Gertie-Hope you can manage to' Ia y when an Eastern Airlines plane h P 11 "- “ . - -' until the boys can support them- struck a hi K h tension wire while Uk-
selves.” i ' n 8 °tt an( t plunged to the ground. "Gertie’ is Holme's widow. The boys The dead were: Flight captain Stt-1 he referred to arc his 10 and 13-year- wart G. Dietz. Miami, Fla ; Pilot old sons. ! Robert G. Heed. Miami: Peter Philpot 1
1 passenger, address unknown. T T7'» *1 I T* 16 P lant '. en route from Chicago j
Lonict IS YlSlhlC ^t* a,n '- made a regular scheduled
stop here and had started to tak.‘
To Unaided Eyes
! the plane down the runway and it '
th " than profits have been SEEN AS A VERV DIM, BECRKED had just loft the ground when the th " of hogs, veryi PATCH OF LIGHT NEAR THE undercarriage struck a high tension
GREAT IHPPKK power wire installed two hours pre vioysly, according to airport officials.
| The comet that came into ken a -phe injured were: Flight Steward I couple of weeks ago is now reward- Brian Merrill. Miami. Fla.. W. G. Mar- | ing those who have been so assidu- j an , Mexico City, M. H. Hamilton, Dej ously seeking it in the heavens. troit, C. W. Dunlap, address unknown. 1
Last night it was visible to unaid- p. m. Thompson, Greenville, S C.; E.
fniuch help to them, because of f li cost of feed, is substantiatIpaul Mitchell, extension markbecialist of Purdue university, ias accumulated considerable lation on the current livestock
t.
statement is repeated by Guy
irris. Putnam county agent. Mitchell frankly says:
Irmers have been through a of several months when los-
han prof
|ile In the case
Liana farmers have been able £ a k even in their last fall’s pig land are hopeful that prices will ■e sufficiently to show profits
spring crop of pigs.”
Mitchell adds:
view of the high prices of feed j
ent months, relatively few '“ ,l °y cs as a vcr y dim, blurred patch w. Philpot, son of .1 F. (Peter) Philrs can realize profits even from 1 <)f i'^bt to the right of the second p 0 t, passenger, about eight years old. ' )gs If everything is considered H i- ar in the handle of the Great Dip- address unknown. of production costs. 100 1 P er - an d will be nearer that star, and ; p. m. Thompson still was unconi of pork at the market should ' ,>c l°w it, tonight. This should be scious four hours after the crash but lor 11.4 bushels of corn. j its brightest phase. It appears to j physicians at the Halifax hospital prices have not been high ' ,,e moving to the left, or toward the said he had no broken bones and was
fcl. for the past twelve months
LITTLE DONALD RETURNED TO HORST FAMILY HOME CHICAGO, 111, Aug. 10. (UP) Little Donald Horst to lay was back to the home from which he kidnaped last week, but there still was doubt that he would remain there
permanently.
County Judge Edmond Jar eki allowed the Horsts' motion for tem- : pornry custody of the child. The i order was made when Lydia Began, the boy's real mother, signed away all rights to the child. She was not , in court when the Horsts obtained the boy from St. Vincent's Orphan- 1
DIRECT ACTION f AGAINST CHINA 1 IS THREATENED
JAPANESE RESENTMENT OVER KILLING TWO NAVY MEN REPORTED GROWING NAVY CHIEFTAINS CONFER
Herbert Hoover
Landon '
Double Riles Are Held For Rrolhers
-i Lowden home
Seeking to establish a united front before the congressional elections of 1938, Republicans are reported planning a conference between Herbert Hoover and Alfred M. Landon at the home of Frank O. Lowden, former governor of Illinois, at the latter’s estate, Sinissippi, near Oregon, 111. Considerable factional feeling has prevailed in the G. O. P. since 1936 when followers of Hoover and Landon made an issue over which leader held the dominant position in the party. Lowden is expected to play the role of peacemaker at the confer-
ence which is slated to be held within a month.
ly for these 11.4 bushels of corn. Jis only those exceptionally effl|li"i,'producers who have realiz-
west.
If field glases are used it is somewhat plainer, but at best it is not much of a spectacle. Its interest
suffering from shock.
All the other Injured were reported concious and in “fair condition."
ASKS COOPERATION
lore than feed costs during thej lies ' n tlle fac * that is ono
I year"
In Business Here
| Chief of Police Lawrence Graham ! today appealed to Greencastle citi- . zens to keep chickens, ijucks, geese, , dogs, cats and other pets under more
i careful scrutiny.
%T I The Chief reports that a deluge of 11 early *)U Years complaints have reached his office ^ ; regarding the depredation of gardens
CHARLES A. KELLEY KNOWS ! a »d lawns by local pets. In the best ALL THE INK AND OUTS OF > inlcri ' stfi ncbthbnrly good-will and
the protection of property the Chief asked that pet owners please hccJ
OPERATING STOKE
Forty-eight years of delving into ! shelving, and boxes and bins, has
those infrequent visitors in the celesMitchell expects light receipts , * a ' realm.
ligh prices for the next few! ono should make the mistake s. Also, he believes that hog | of turning toward the southern sky | will go to slightly higher lev-! antl calling the brilliant planet, Jup-1 fore the middle of September. iter> thc comet. Jupiter is one of the leak of hog prices, he says, are : ! ' p gular guests, the largest planet ly reached sometime between 1 antl the brightest of all with the ex-1 st 15 and September 15, and I ception of Venus. Jupiter is the ring the latter date hog prices ! evening “star” now, and is so large 8,v decline rather fast, usually nn<1 taught that it is almost dazzling i kich as 25 per cent. when viewed through field glasses,
advises that farmers who have ’ Jupiter revolves on its own axis. I taught Charles A. Kelley just about should market j ^ut very slowly, and its diameter is *11 the ins and outs there are, in the i
! nearly four times that of the Earth, matter of operating general stores in During this month, there will be Greencastle. He, with correctness, more meteors visible shooting across surely, can be termed the “oldest the heavens than during any other merchant” in this community, bemonth of the year. 1 cause, on a list of men who were in business at the time he started, in NAZARENE SUNDAY SCHOOL '89, which he named, there appeared PICNIC TO BE WEDNESDAY to be no one who is now living. He
mentioned
The annual picnic of the Nazarene i Cannon, Jas. Browning, Julius Su
|fed spring pigs
before the lowering of prices
September. He says:
[cssibly those smaller pigs that been produced to date on cheappeds such as grass, will return as much profit by carrying them in thrifty condition until |T" r com is available in Septem-
City Council To Study ’38 Budget
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FIRST DRAFTS TO CLAIM ATTENTION OF MEMBERS AT
MEET TONIGHT
,, ., First drafts of the 1938 budget Drew Alspaugh Frank, for tho city of Greenca8lu , will claim
Tabernacle school will be held Wed-, dranski, John Cook, Louis Weik, and nw.onm 0 '!!'i'" | nl ( 'i 1 ") ''i' ' (nun< 11 ' ll ''
.. , meeting scheduled to betrm promptly
Wednesday, Aug. 11. on the Bennett others, as contemporaries of his in a , 7:;!0 lonj ;)t U)0 cit ^ . farm on the east side of the high- the the mercantile life of the city. or Charlos F Zi „ s announc0(l l0(lllv I way just south of the Big Four arch It was in the first room north of , . .. . . . . .. . , .. cieparation of the budget has been Ion north Jackson street. I the “Opera House” that Mr. Kelley , ,,
•’ underway for some time am the
Soviet Army Offleem Arrive In Chahai' To Lead ChlneNe Red Army Against .lapanese I
ngo officials.
“A full investigation of the Horsts’ TOKYO, Aug. 10 (UP)—Japanfitness to rear the child must be ese navy chieftains threatened direct made before they cun have him per- punitive action against China today manently,” Judge Jareeki said. He as a result of the killing of two Japordered a hearing August 23 on the anese navy men at Shanghai. Horsts’ petition to adopt the child Leading navy officers, ignoring the and indicated he would seek more in- government at large, conferred for formation about both sets of “par- hours on the Shanghai situation, re- | ents.” viewing reports of the fight in which
a navy officer and a seaman were killed by Chinese militarized police. Vice Admiral Mitsumasa Yonal, minister of marine presided at the
eonferehce.
The officers decided that the navy
would take direct punitive action ( ON III ( T FUNERAL SERI ICES • against the Chinese if they persisted FOR YOI NG MEN WHO WERE a “provocative” attitude toward
BURNED TO DEATH Japan.
| For the present, it was decided.
The funeral services for Ralph and the navy will maintain a strict* Winston Shell, the two men who lost though prudent, courae as part of their lives as a result of the hum- which it will do everything it thinka ing of a bread truck a mile and a necessary to protwet Japanese rosi-
half south of Flncastlc, a few days dents at Shanghai,
ago, were held at a funeral home in The navy’s threat folowed by one Crawfordsvllle Monday afternoon. day a threat by Lieut.-Gen. Hajime It was a double service, conducted Sugiyama, war minister, to resort to by Rev. Russell lletzlei, pastor oi real force unless China submitted
the Raccoon M. E. church, and Re*, j herself to Japan.
Raymond Skelton, of tho Browns Val- The navy's threat assumed more ley Baptist church. There was a very importance, when it was considered large attendance of friends. Th that the navy, taking direct action, younger boy was burned to death in precipitated the bloody Shanghai ! the wreckage of the truck and his|“ war » pf isi.tj, when the heroic re-
vj I |r IJ « | brother died In the Culver hospital, sistanee of the Chinese 19th route 1 KI10W11 I loro Sunday, from burns received in the army won the world's admiration.
.name accident. In J032 the opening incident was
UK. FRANCIS W. SHEi’HEKDSON, 11 th ° U f‘ a »^> murder of a Japanese
would live, hut late Saturday after- nuddlat priest. This and other tnnoon his condition became much | ( .h|ents which the navy selected as worse, and death followed, the next I ^ issU0( i brought the landing of Jay- / : marines 12 days later, on January 27. Ralph .s credited with heroism, be- -p,, ihe astonishment of everyone the cause he went bark into the blazing Chinese resisted ami Uie Japanese eab of the truck, after he had him !lrnl y was sent to finish what the
self escaped only with great difficulty, to try to save his brether from the flames. The latter was so tightly wedged in, however, that no effort
to get him out. Ralph
Beta Fraternity
STRICKEN ON
HEI’Al \V
HI S. \ ISITKD
C'AMI’l S
mmlale Begins
Wiling New Well
! Everyone is invited to attend and started in business, and when E.up measure is expected to he drawn up' er administration. For Facing charges of grand larceny, I AL CONSTRUCTION UNDER bring a basket well filled with goo’. * Stevenson, who had occupied the in estimated drafts for the careful ... * ’
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Dr. Francis Shcperdson. 76 years old, national president of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, who died suddenly on a bus enroute from Newark, N. J. to Columbus. O., Monday, has been a visitor in this city in the interests of the fraternity chapter at DePauw.
For ten years Dr. Shepherdson was I “ ^ „ was sufficient general secretary of Beta Ihcta Pi, .. ,,
f, ,, ,, | then pulled off his blazing clothing
the position now held by Dean G. Her-1 . , ,, ,
. . c r ,, r, ;ind ran to thp home of Otto Bales,
bert Smith of DePauw. , i u ,
nearby, Where he secured a quilt in
The death of the fraternity’s presi- j whlch he wrappcd himse | f .
dent came upon the eve of Beta Theta | Pi’s national convention scheduled to he held at Mackinac Island in the upper reaches of Lake Michigan. Dr. Shepherdson was a Senator of Phi Beta Kappa, national scholastic fraternity, and former president of, that body. He was at one time a dean
of the University of Chicago, director ALLEGED TO HAVE TAKEN
of the Julius Rosenwald foundation MANY ARTICLES FROM for the benefit of colored education, TOURIST CAMP and secretary of state of Illinois un-
\1l. Meridian Man Is Facing ( .halves
p r
[AY ON TOWN'S FIRST MU-
NICIPAL PROJECT
tiiines to eat for the children. The room to the north of him, quit busi- n t t ention of the councilmen tonight
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Indianapolis Man Held After Crasli
a counter near the front of Uie store, j, e j_ j n an a ttenipt to eliminate the talking politics. We got into an ar- necess jty 0 f petitioning for additional gument alxiut something. I told Jim appropriations throughout the year, lie was wrong and told him I’d prove Recently a proposal for additional it. ‘I ve got the authority on it, appropriations for tho present year I told him. was parsed by the State Board of “I started to get the hook, to show Tax Commissioners with revisions of him he was all wrong, when I heard (it e ms f or personal service in city de-
terfraternity function held periodiI rally at tho university. He was
the c
the DePauw Beta chapter.
Funeral services for the widely
. , » -i hv the ness he took over that additional. Reports have indicated that the
— , . —r ’z'&rz
the beginning of actual con- ( ed, and a large crowd . - I his big fire. In talking of it, he said: , city administration have said that
(cion of its first municipal pro- attend the affair tomoriov ^ ( Rnn del and T were sitting on the counc il hopes to increase the bud- 1 the'eampus last year for initiation at
the water sysem. Automoliiles will go me ngu< ... . 1
le drilling of the first well was route to take children to the grounds
kluled Tuesday and it was to he C Hs is upon which the remainder Pie construction of the system
to depend. The laying of the
V an d the erection of the tank
to follow the securing of the
hintocl minimum of water. niTMEK CHARGED WITH , jm yt ,i lin . .pire, fire!’ and I looked; part nients.
he well is to be located northeast
Ihe home of Mrs. Zclla Clearwat-| INTOXICATED licking up from a pile of cotton bats occupy the attention of the council °h the tract of land between the * behind the counter where we’d been j n tonight’s meeting and the other «nd the new routes of state road, ^ ^ c Ditmori 448 Colorado sltUnK meeting slated for the present
'street' Indianapolis, was held in jail ..j carri ed water as fast as I could month.
[ , rhe wp,1 contractor is the ' with bajI sct at $500 a fter jn a quart cup , tryin’ to put out the Public p °f Chas. Krauas & Son of Indi- . * « #>Harcrn nf . . % ▼ —nr)\H>iinty
P l ' |l is. They are to drill
■nches in diameter, and have
[ratiteed a minimum water
the past eighteen years Dr. Shepherd- ! Arley Fisher, 50 years old. living on son had devoted full time to the in road 40 near Mt. Meridian, was held torests of Beta Theta Pi. 1 in the Putnam county jail today. Three years ago. Dr. Shepherdson 1 Elmer Cottoni, in charge of a tourist spoke to a gathering of DePauw fra- ! camp situated about 4 miles west of ternity men at Greek night, an in- Stilesville, filed the charges.
around and there was a little flame Completion of the 1938 budget will
navy started.
Now, as in 1032, the navy Is in charge at Shanghai while the army rules in the north, both acting as they desire. The navy's position has been strengthened by withdrawal of Japanese civilians at Hankow and other up-river cities whose lives might he endangered in any clash of forces. It took only three days after the evacuation of Hankow to provide an “incident” on which the navy
might act if it wished.
TIENTSIN. Aug. 10 (UP)- Two hundred Soviet army officers have arrived in Chahar province to lead (he Chinese red army and organize resistance against the Japanese, a Japanese spokesman asserted today. He further said that many Chinese Communists had arrived in that eec-
tion.
Tientsin today was quiet, hut with a tenseness undercurrent. Japajiese hanks were enforcing a policy of cutting down on payments of cash from savings and other fixed hcank-
ing accounts.
Japanese military headquarters announced that Sung Cheh-Yuan. chairman of the Hopel-Chahar political council, had abandoned all posit ions of his forces and fled into Hochien, to the west of Tientsin. Thq Japanese spokesman Denied rumors of heavy bombardment and fighting in Nakow yesterday hut he admitted that constant skirmishes
were in progress.
ASSESSOR ROBERT PIERCE IS REPORTED IMPROVED
interest in the measure is
he pleaded not guilty to a charge of blaze because I couldn’t get anything expected to oe keen and presence of h0l ° operating an automobile under the bigger under the faucet, hut inside citizens at the meetings which will influence of liquor. The charge grew half an hour i- d lost $18,000 worth of decide the expenditures of the city
, K 8UP ’!nut of an automobile accident near „ oods . 1 had $8,000 insurance. Seven government ncxe year is anticipated.
I wm not U °T Bainbridge, Saturday, in which two f nsurance men came and looked over
am ° Unt ' pcrTon.«) were seriously injured. th „ plaC e. and the chairman said,
he humn , n v. * <• Herbert Williams and Lillian , Boys let . s pay him!’ They didn t tvm P 'I b ° ° f thC CCntnrf " : Thomas were badly cut and bruised arRue about anything, but paid me in operated by electric power. movcd to Indianapolis ^ In8idc of an hour I had their
tin no ,i C a , Ut0mat,c in lts ° P ; aner the automobile which Dltmer heclc8 .
min" ,, en , ant hC ‘ nR re(luirCr1 ' a . l8 driving allegedly swerved to the „ Mr H irt fixed the place up for
-- of h p 4-ay -d c shed m0 again and I opened up in the ‘ a "k will he located on E. S. >’ p ad-on driven by Fl0yd
a0rth ° f town ’ 11 18 G< win jams and Miss Thomas were er of his business campaign in Greenbiains 1 y 1 Cal(,weU * Co Rn ' 1 ri ding with Dltmer. Miss Katherine ca8t , e , told of the few years he spent of Nairilt W ' L ' Burke Dillow of Rockville, a passen- invoicin g and selling stocks taken he town 1’ ' ger in Goodwin’s auto, suffered mi- ovrr by a Greencastle loan company own s interests in all this con- 8! . in other towns, of his few lonely |
' - work wil! he represented ^ tem John H. James month .s‘as a farmer on the Will Haw- MARRIAGE LICENSE 1 of Sflen Eng ’ neCrinR COm * heard Ditmer’s plea, ordering him to kin8 farm , and of his getting back _ ^ ' '
appear when the court term opens in lnto trade ln Greencastle finally ak- w mlI laborer Tcrr0
Robert L. Pierce, assessor of Putnam county, who was suddenly attacked by illness of an acute nature at a family reunion at Riverside
ime imsiiis.
Mr. Kelley recounted the remaind- Park - Indianapolis. Sunday, became
much better at the home of his daughter Mrs. Jackson, in that city on Monday, and it was arranged to bring him to his home in this city
this afternoon.
Fisher has been held in jail while
county police authorities searched his
home near the tourist camp. The services of a truck were re-
quired to remove allegedly stolen
known fraternal writer and former articles which. Cottoni claims Fisher editorial writer for the Chicago Tri- ] ia d taken from a filling station and bune will be held Friday at Granville, other buildings on the tourist camp O. Many distinguished personages cf I pro perty. fraternal circles will pay last respect: The camp has been closed for sevto the distinguished president. eial rnontlis while paving has been
: underway near tho camp site on road
FRED WILLIAMS ASKS DIVORC E 10 Cottom said Tuesday that articles In a complaint for divorce from “too numerous to mention” have been Merl Williams, Fred A. Williams of t a |{pn from the premises during the
this city states he and his wife were j past several weeks,
married December 10. 1935, and fin- Specifically, the affidavit charges ally separated in July. 1937 and that |]. a t Fisher took a rug valued at $50 she filed two suits for divorce ask- f rom the camp and was allegedly
ing for alimony, but withdrew each found on Ki8h er'.s property adjacent nor " tonipht in llonor of the ™ a J or| ty suit. James & Alice are his attor- to the camp. T '
Cottom declares that he saw Fish-
er, while he was hidden under a straw stack in a barn on the camp property, enter the building. Fisher stepped on his leg while he was hidden in the straw in the barn Cottom
added.
Fisher is expected to be arraigned soon in Putnam circuit court to face the charges.
noys.
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
llrs
own. E«W., St Lo»i. in Sept.mh.r Bond for Dltmer «. w ov.r tn. buildinf
and
in
s:Sr-*'"’’-■ “o *■» bc ” pprovedby '“ r ' 1 whcre .~ w ..'p--.,
south Haute, and Viola Burnett,
t keeper Terre Haute.
house-
Among the commissions issued at the officers training camp at Fort Harrison was a captaincy to Earl C. Lane, and Everett Jones; for first lieutenancy to Claire Bittlcs, and for second lieutenancy to Glenn I.
Tucker.
Mr. anti Mrs. Harry Wells visited
in Indianapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Peck
were in Indianapolis.
E. I). K. NOT TO ATTEND DINNER WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. -.(UP) — The White House announced today that President Roosevelt will! not attend the Democratic “harntony din-
leader Alben W Barkley, I)., Ky. O ft ft ft ® ® 4* # • ft Today’s Weather • ft and • ft Local Temperature 41 ftftftftftftftftftft!# Considerable cloudiness, thundershowers northwest tonight or Wednesday and east and south Wednesday: little change in tempefrature|
F. I). K. SIGNS BILL
WASHINGTON, Aug 10 Up' President Roosevelt today issued a formal statement declaring that h"
, had signed the $132.00000 interior Miss Naomi Snyder visited Mrs. department appropriation Reese Jackson and daughter Helen mutjji reluctance” because in Indianapolis. ( cational education provisions.
bill “with of its vo-
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