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(IHEKNX’ASTLK, INDIANA, MONDAY, JUDY 7, 1!M1.
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['AS ONE <>> mi oi.im '.i ( n IZENSOE OliKKNCASTI.K: 1UL ^ VOK MANY YEARS WILE BE TUESDAY glu- Had Been III A Lonu Death Came An A ■■■prise To Many Friends
HM long )>ft' of Mi s. Mary Mathias Rs end Sunday evening at 50 o'clock at her residence, 6:J5 Semina street, which has been
'ur home «ver since she and her hu.iamt bullt[it, in the year 1875. She f Y: <U»ed *wa\ quietly and serenly, aving had but little acute suffering Witt t the laat and that was brought poh her by a mild attack of indiges-
Mrs. Httpas had been confined to
er bed since the fracturing of her ip in a fall. October 21', 1939, but er illneaa d incapacity failed i«> k HUUsen theBrrnoiousness of her life nd her wufi' hospitality toward hei H(]^end>9#h had been an oul itandig pbaiSfri her character through LOCKM her Bears. The quoted expres-
icn: “ahehii grown old gracefully
CHAH:*s ibeenua d in speaking of her m tiese ootoii on occasions in the
a >ast.
Mrs. Mathi is was born January I AK>te44, at 'Fairplay, near Salem, this ' ‘ iate, tier native tc-wn long ago hnv■I Nm.ig become a forgotten village. lit-’ Ither, McKinney Hartley, was born > CTt Salem. He was a merchant in
;reenuuatjfc many years,, and bad ( charged w ith the murder of Howard ition ranch More at points in the county | M p ricsti former Bainbridge hoy.
the roatl He was auditor i jamesom is alleged to have sho.
f Putnam county, also. His wife, p,. 03t t , ; , death during a quarrel at
Mathias, was Sarah ( he American Aggregates Company
TAKEN BY DEATH
.Mrs. .Mary Mathias
BAINBRIDUi: MAN’S SLAYER FACIINi; TRIAL
JOHN PAI L JAMESON MI KDER CASE S< HEIM LED TO
START TODAY
HOW Mtil
PKIIisI, VICTIM
Alleged Killer Has l.i.ng Prison Keeord; Trial To Be ll> Id At
Greenfield
John Paul Jameson was scheduled to go on trial in the Hancock circuit court at Greenfield this morning,
nottarJH
jemon Wrtley,
born in Indiana,
- jMlghter bi Nancy Dutton Lemon,
^pnecticnt, and of Colonel | non, that couple, as bride j
Ad gnooni having moved to Indiana | a pioneer Bays, coming by horseback.
Mathias, of Chicago, j recalled that his moth-
1 jom 4n Obr,
TuxnM&rr.
! gravel pit near White river on Ind. 431, northeast of Indianapolis, May
27, 1940.
Prosecutor Blue announced the state will demand the death penalty for the alleged killer. Jameson, who made a statement to detectives detailing events leadir ., up to the deatn
ItMinr MM. Lemon Lilly. !, , |>. d to plead self-
beoanu the mother of Joseph defenae
1 son, E-
/ Lilly of Indianapolis, were the first M hertOns who rode as passengers on , t he Monon railroad, between Greenrastle and limedale. They then were
roung girl*.
*' Mrs. Mathias spent all but the first j.en years of her life here. She at/lended the public schools of this ■Community, was a pupil in a girls’ Jr tchool at Terre Haute, and “finisher jd’’ at St. Mary’s, near Terre Haute. G!41 Young women were not permitted to *tnatriculate In Ashury university, at
that time.
oral S ' rhe mar rihR't of Mary Hartley and Harry Mathias a young attorney of p^.C'-eencaatle, was an event of the day ^||j. On which Gem ral Grant was electe.l sc c . president of the United States, Nov- \ r (-| e -«mber 3, 1868 Mr. Mathias became ece , a law partner of S. A. Hays and was ——a leader infloeal politics. His death occurred ini-1912. Mr. and llrs. Mathias became the parents of-three children, of whom one son, Harr v, and their daughter, Mrs. Flora Grimes, died some year a ago. The other son. Lee Dowling Mathias, is an attorney of Chicago but has been confined to his home
by ill health
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Mathias became knoui. as a center of social activities In, the city. It was one of the homes of the community who h were always thrown open to callers on New Tear's day, and within its hospitable rooms many social events were held, attended by the best people of the city. She was a club member, and also a member of the First Presbyterian church' of Green-
\ castle since 1873.
1 ~ Mrs. Mathias was one of the founders of the Over the Teacups club of
and was a member of
the Woman') club.
She liked to tell of the faithful care given her by her nurse, Miss Jones, who recently became Mrs. Barlow; and her housekeeper, Mrs.
Taylor.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mathias will be held at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday
Jameson made an attempted e*jcape from the Greenfield jail April 20 after beating si verely Sheriff John Dent of Hancock county. The she.iff’s daughter, Miss Carrie Dent, came to the rescue of her father with a revolver. Jameson used a crude blackjack fashioned from a jail moo to attack the sheriff. He was taken to the Indianap dis reformatory for safe keeping pen ling the trial. The alleged killer, who has a long prison record, had two ether skirmishes with law enforcement agents before his capture. He escaped from state police at i cabin hideout on Sugar Creek near Crawfon Isville June 28, 19-10 and was thought to have fled into Putnam county. The
BLOOMINGTON WOMAN' HELD FOR MURDER PRINCIPALS INVOLVED IN SHOOTING KNOWN BY MANY LOCAL PEOPLE JEALOUSY SEEN AS MOTIVE Mrs. Caroline Payne In Custody Alter Fatal Shooting Of Charles Mattingly, Indianapolis BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 7 (UP) Pt.iice today a icribe I jeah usy as the cause of the fatal shooting Saturday of Charles O. Mattingly, 41, Indianapolis, ui attorney far the Public Service commission, while they held Mrs. Caroline IFayne, 45, Bloomington newspaper woman on open charges of murder. Love letters written by Mattingly were found in Mrs. Payne's purs and were being stu lied today in connection with the slaying. Two guns, one a .38 calibre icvdver with five empty chambers, wen turned over to p lice by Mrs. Myrtel Forth, a niece of Mrs. Payne, afti five shots were fired through a scieen at Mattingly as he visited with his wife at the home of Gus Nikas. His liver, stomach, lung and large intestine were punctured. 1 c died shortly before midnight at Bloomington hospital. While a student at Indiana univers; ty, Mattingly roomed a Mis. ,Payne's house. The divorced wife of former state senator Earl Payne of Indianapolis, she was reported to have fi nanced Mattingly's ed ication and to have assisted him in establishing a law practice in Bloomington and in getting his -state post. She was injured in an auto accident a year ago and spent some tlniw in an Indianapolis sanitarium. Her condition was reported to have taki- i a turn for the worse following Mattingly's marriage six month's ago. In a death bed statement, the slain man identified Mrs. Payne as his assailant. Coroner Russell De Matte asserted Mattingly said, in answer to a query as to who shot him: “Caroline Payne, but I did not set he.’.'’ When asked if she had ever threatened him, he said: “Yes, on various occasions.” Floyd C<x>k, Monroe county prosecutor, said a neighbor of Nikas' identified Mrs. (Payne as the woman who stepped on his porch after ho heard shots She paused, asked to use the telephone, and disappeared when Nikas appeared on the street. Police said H. W. Cooper, a local jeweler, had disclosed receiving a telephone call from Mrs. Payne who determined Mattingly was in town for the first time since his marriage. Cooper phoned the Nikas n ad< nee to warn Mattingly, but his call came
SENATOR VAN NUYS WILL PAY VISIT TO INDIANA Sen. Frederick Van Nuys of Indiana. expects to come to Indianapolis tomorrow from Washington. He said he will be at the Indianapolis Athletic Club where all who want to see him will have the opportunity. It is expected that this visit will have a direct bearing on the appointment of a postmaster in Greencastle, which has been delayed several months, and it is also presumed that those interested in the various candidates for the office will at some time during the week, see Mr. Van Nuys.
following month, when he was sur-; 10 minutes Late.
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> ^afternoon at the residence on east Seminary street, conducted by the Rev. V. L. Raphael, her pastor.
SUFFERS BROKEN I.EG
^ William Gatewood, age 11 years, of Oarthag-, suffered a fractured leg Sunday morning while playing in the yard at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Aker, east Washing5 F ton street The youngster, a nephew jl,! of Mrs. Aker, suffered the injuries when he fell from a swing. He wai taken to the county hospital for treatment.
prised by the Vigo county sheriff near Terre Hau'.e, he attempted to shoot that officer, but his pistol jammed. Jameson fli I into a nearby field, where he was captured by a posse.
Six l)i( Over Stale Sunday
BRINGS INMIXN \> DEATH TOLL TO 3(1 OVER THREE-DAY Wl I KEN D Six fatalities Sunday brought Indiana's holiday death toll to 36 over the three-day weekend. Totals included 28 auto deaths, one by fireworks, and seven of miscellaneous nature. Yesterday's victims were: Mrs. Elizabeth Necs. 81, of near Columbia City, und Edward Fry, Indianapolis who were Injured fatally in an accident near Roanoke; David Green, 1, Crawfordsville, who drowned i.n a fish pond; ^ Marion Nelson, 23, Farmland, who was killed near Springport in an automobile motorcycle collision; Bert Wheeler. 41, Kcndallville. who was struck and killed while walking on the' highway seven miles north of .auburn; An unidentified man, believed to have l>een a member of the New Castle epileptic village, who was struck and killed by an auto as he walked along Road 35 near Knox < Other victims included Dan Wilson, 22, Rushville, and Mrs. William Neukam, 37 Connersville, who died Saturday of Injuries received Friday I in a two-car crash near Glenwo-od I C. A. Brown, 52, Shelbyville, was | killed Saturday when his car was hk I Cnntlmipil on I’nite Two I
Reconstructing the crime, police said Mrs Payne called a cab to her home and dismissed it a short distance from the scene. Soon after Ui - sheeting, a woman's voice summoned an ambuance 'to the Nikas home m a call from a filling station nearby. Mrs. Payne was known to have gon • to the station and to have called a cab which took her home where she was arrested. Today, the tall, dark, heavy woman who is being held in the county jail, continued her silence in regard to the case. Her only comment has been: “I have nothing to -say. I have no statement to make.’’ Coroner De Motte ordered her held for the September meeting of Ungrand jury.
FIREMEN FIGHT BLAZE AT SAWYER RESIDENCE
A fire, starting in the basement of the W. H. Sawyer residence, 701 south Crown street. Saturday afternoon, was found spreading rapidly through the attic when the Greencastle fire department reached the
scene.
According to Fire Chief Harry Ragsdale none of the Sawyer family was at home when the fire broke out and as a result it had made headway toward a more serious blaze. However, It was quickly extinguished after the local fire fighting crew ar-
rived.
Damage to the house had not yet been estimated today. ELKS NOTICE
FIGHTING ON FDGF (>1 TWO S. A. NATIONS
EC l A DOR AND PERI ENGAGED IN UNDECLARED WAR AEONG FRONTIER PERU CHARGES AGGRESSION Trouble Again Flares Over Strip Of Territory Claimed By Both Countries For Years GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July 7.— (UP) Ecuador an I Peru engaged in undeclared war along their frontier today, shattering the peace of the western hemisphere and frustrating the efforts of the United States, Argentina, and Brazil to mediate their century-old border dispute. Patriotic demonstrations swept Ecuador. President Arroyo Rio, in a fervant manifesto, called upon the people to rally around the flag and pledged his government to “comply with its obligations without weakness or timidity.” The fighting began on the frontier Saturday, was intensified yesterday, continued today. Artillery and airplanes were engaged. The government, in a detailed statement, chargeil that Peruvian forces had attacked Ecuadoran border guards, invaded Ecuadoran territory .and had been the aggressors throughout. (The Peruvian government charged in Lima, the capital, that Ecuadoran forces had boen the aggressors throughout and said Peruvian forces had fought defensively only.) The outbreak of fighting was another in a long series of skirmishes, battles, and wars between Educador and Peru that date back almost 100 years over a strip of territory along their border which both claim. Only on May 13, botn Ecuador and Peru accepted the good offices of the United States, Argentina, and Brazil to mediate their quarrel, the only threat of efforts to unify the western hemisphere into continents of good
neighbors.
News of the fighting stirred pat-i-iotie nationalism throughout the country. Twenty thousand demonstrators "charged through the streets here yesterday, shouting “Viva Ecuador” and denouncing Peru. Demonstrations and mass meetings were being held in every city. The ministry of national defense said that Saturday morning a Peruvian garrison, accompanied by civilians, crossed into Ecuadoran territory in the Huaquillas and Chacras sector. Ecuadoran patrols arrived and were received by bursts of machine gun and rifle fire, the communique said. The Ecuadorans replied and the fighting spread to Belzalito, Guabillo, Carcanon, and Quebrada. It continued until 4:50 p. m. when the Ecuadorans stopped fighting. “We had two killed,” the communi-
que said
Yesterday, it continued, the Peruvians renewed the attack against Chachas, Balzawito, and Goabito after artillery and aerial preparations in which four planes participated. Infantry fire, including mortars followed. At Chacras, a church, a private house, and a barracks were (Contiuued on 1'iiKr Tno)
GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN—King Gustaf V of Sweden graciously accepts bouquet from two youthful subjects, during official visit to manufacturing town of Norrkoeping. This is most recent picture of King to reach U. S. He’s 83-
NAMED ON ( ol NIX l>() X Rl>
\k<Ts Vmmiuts 1-11 ( amp Staff EM’EJ ’I I It.H’IA TO GO TO CAMP XT -ll XKAM XK FROM pi i n x xi < oi vrx
NAZI FORCFS ON DEFENSIVE RFDS ASSERT
SOVIET ( Ol NTEK-ATT \< l\S IN l.EPEE XRE X CLAIMED IN COM XII N IQ I E BIG BATTLE OF TANKS German Offensive Of Massed Motorized I nils < becked XX cst Of Kiev, Reds ( Inini MOSCOW, July 7 (UP) Russ a troops have forced the Gormans > .> the defensive in the Ix v [>el lake reg m at the northern end of the while Russian front and are counter .h.tacking in the Morisov sect 50 miles to the south, a war communique asserted to .ay, Russians counter-attacked the Germans in the Ix-pel area yesterday, the communique said. There was gigantic battle of tanks, it was added, with the result that during the af . rnoon the Germans who had been attacking persistently for days, were forced to take the defensive A similar gland scale clash of Russian and German tanks resulted when the Russians st arted a counter-of-fensive in the Borisov area, .50 mili.i northeast of Minsk on the road *. > Moscow, the co-mmuniqut said. In the same Bobruisk area, on the Berezina river, tin- Russians repulsed with heavy losses several German attempts to force a crossing on the Dnieper river, the communique asserted. in the Nov>gnad Volyi of Kiev, on the Ukranian front, the Russians checked a German offensive of massed motorized units, it was said. To the -south, on the Bessarabian front, the Russians fought enemp infantry an I tanks which attack -1 in the direction of Balti, between tii' Pruth and Dmslcr rivers north of Iasi.
The County Board of Education meeting Monday with (' unty Supei ir.tendent of Schools Frank Jarrell named E. S. Walters, trustee of Clov erdale township, to >e a member the Putnam ('utility Tax Adjustmci Board, in place of J. M. Stafford, ft
signed.
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BETTER THAN AXERXGE Mi l l)
REPORTED BX M XNX PI T
NAM KARXIEKS
Farmers of Putnam county are be-
ginning to get near the end of fli -if 1941 wheat harvest Some were
busy Sunday and the remainin standing wheat will soon In
With Ur annual 4-11 club camp sec for July 20-23 inclusive, Camp Director Gene Akers, Greencastle high school vocational agi iculture in-strue-tor, announced today the appointments for the annual camp s.aff. The camp is to be held at Shakamak
State (Park.
Manager of this year's camp is David L. Grimes, Putiuun county farm agent. Greencastle residents who are to serve as superv m is at the camp are Gene Pennington, high school music director, who is to direct all musical affairs; Miss Leona Kestner, high school girl s athletic instructor and manager of the city iccrcatlon program, in charge of camp recreation; Mrs. Gail Akers, head of the
camp's health department.
Miss Mary Lou Schott, Putnam county home demonstration agent has been appoint I chairman of the camp commissai v c. uimittet : Miss Wilma Chambers, vocational home economics instructor in Greencastle high school, will hea l the quarters and sanitation committee; Hugh Caughell, Reelsvillc high school vocational agriculture instructor, chairman of the vesp< i s commKtee; Miss Jeanette Sutherlin. Coatesville vocational home economics instructor, chairman of -the - andlelighting committee. Miss Mary Lou Hess, Greencastle high school vocational home re-id v I , ' conotn ' cs instructor will serve
LONDON, July 7. (UP)- Authoritative sources said today that tli Russians were fighting well, that the Germans had failed to get complete superiority in the air. that th Kir - sians were harassing th • Gerii! in advanced armored forces seriously and that in general there was no immediate cause for pessimism r-a.irdin,' Russian prospects even theuyli the Germans had not been sto| ; • i LONDON. July 7. >UP) Units of the lied fleet, fightia. ships trying to enter tl Culf of Riga on the Latvian - ml t •>. > torpedo boats, the Ru mand said today in a - broadcast by the Moscoa - a ii -
ROME, July 7. bombers attacked I’ab n. i m yesterday afternoon, i main damage to the port, UP m: t injuring 20 amonr tl er. ulation, an Italian war • n said today.
British Sirily
member of the camp fire commi - tee. Francis McClure, Bainbridge 4-V!
for combining machines, as all th crot) cut by the binders has been cut
■ i i i ti, I leader is appointed as a member of
and shocked and the remainin ! fields are being allowed to ripen
thoroughly before the combines (ait. Some fields have already been c anbined, but many others will be taken care of this week.
the commissary committee. Approximately eighty Putnam county 4-H club numbers are er.-jK-cted to attend this year's can p. Three oounities, Sullivan, Clay ami Putnam, comprise this camp district and a total of well over .'!(>0 4-H members are expi cled to attend th--
four-day event.
HELSINKI. July 7 planes subjected H< air bombardment of the night, bambii .- sweeping down to t heart of the capital chine guns. At least one p- i < 1 OlltiniM'll Oil I
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There will be a regular meeting of the Elks lodge Tuesday evening at eight o'clock.
20 Years Ago
IN GREENCASTLE
Eugene Allan, 7 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Allan, fell while playing at the Second Ward school, where he was attending summer school and broke both bones in his left arm. The temperature was 101 degrees. The concrete pavement on the National roid west from Stilesville to a point I'., miles east of Mt. Meridian was completed. (It is yet in use.) The highway commission advertised for bids for a pavement east from Manhattan to the point I'/j miles east of Mt. Meridian.
In those fields where the combine has been at work, the farmers report better than the average yield, many going beyond 30 bushels per acre. The price is running from 94 cents to $1.07 per bushel, and it m expect 'd that the lower priced wheat will be
sealed and loans taken on its from the government until after the pies- Tom Wright, driving i l S. postal ent crop is off the market and it can truck, collided with a parked car <>n
MAIL TRUCK COLLIDED
WITH PARKED AUTOMOBILE
Top IVirr (hi lions \> $M.!0
I N 1)1 X\ xroi.l'' > IX I ''TIM K Hog prices were 20c higher on butcher weights. Hid pound e l ov i ami 25c on pigs and und< l weights to day at the Indianapolis i- Uyards >n a run of 9,500. Top price rose to $11.10, the highest in October 10. 1937. Nothing was dor, in tin- i itti -, j calf or lamb markets e.v.
then be sold at the prevailing price. I Practically all farmers are sell) g under the government allotment procedure, otherwise there is a penalty of 49 cents per bushel on th-- wheat. Some farmers report the oats crop not as good as last year, and they were expecting as big a yield as heretofore, but on close examination, some of them report the crop n it as
good as they expected.
The coin crop outlook, is said by all. to be the best in the history of corn growing in Putnam county and today many fields are higher than a horse and still growing. Unless a'l signs fail from now until the first of September. Putnam county’s corn
Ijocust street early Sunday morning, when, according to Greencaatle police, the mail truck driver attempted to determine the time of the night u> his watch. The parked cai. itclonging to Edward Taylor, was badly damaged, police said, on th.' rear left side while the truck was damaged <>n tnv right front. The accident occurred at 2:35 o’clock Sunday a. m. near the Sycamore-•Locust street Intersection. CHIEF ON X VCATION
crop for 1941 will lireal: ■
Chief of Police Ed Maddox Is on two weeks vacation from his duties as Green castle's chief peace officer,
all existing j Mr. and Mrs. Maddox plan to tour
1 the east during the vacation.
© 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 Today’s Weather 0 0 and 0 0 Local Temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Partly cloudy, thundershowers in south and central portions cooler in north i>ortion tonight; Tuesday generally fair.
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