Linton Daily Citizen (Newspaper) - January 23, 1929, Linton, Indiana WEATHER BULLETIN colder east Thursday increasing cloudiness fol lowed by not so LINTON CITIZEN Printed in the Heart of the Indiana Coal in the States Finest Corn and Fruit Belt and Within 30 Miles of Center of Population of United YOU LOSE CUSTOMERS Every year you lose a certain pef centage of your old removal or some other Keep getting new VOLUME NUMBER SINGLE THREE CENTS THREATS OF VIOLENCE AT Plan Is Well Under Way to Save Panhandle Mine and Start it Up COOPERATIVE MOVE MAY BRING RESULT Man and Wife Die Instantly Hit By Train DISPATCH Frank and his were killed stantly here today when their automobile was struck by a Big Four passenger train at a cros The couple were on their way to the bedside of Davidsons who is seriously MANY LOSE LIVES WHEN SMALL LAUNCH BLOWS Business Men and Mine Owners Join in Effort to Re sume TO CITIZEN is a new air of hopefulness here in the project to start one of the mines in the Bicknell field under a cooperative after preparations were being made abandon the mine and junk the Business miners and Wesley superintendent of the are to work sort of a plan to star the Several weeks ago a move was made to abandon this A company had leased it and had tried to make il Pay by the use of loading project according to re In taking out the loading ma chines equipment they had put in to the the report was spread that ali the steel and equipment been sold to a junk Good hian of Terre and that the wasj being Agreement Is after much pressure was brought to bear on the Terre Haute firm agreed to release their op tion on the mine for several thousand As the plan now ihe miners themselves and Harris will own a greater portion of the stock in the mine within a short time perhaps a it is is with drawing several thousand dollars from paying concerns and put ting the This is one of the big factors which cause miners and business men alike to have confi dence that the thing is to go It seems to be the concensus of opinion of miners of this field and business and professional men that Wesley Harris is and has always been a square shooter and that hell bring the thing about if he an even break and the of the oth That is the sacrifice the miners and Harris are Under the scheme to open the pit Wesley superintendent of the mine under the Schrolucke Coal will invest in the new stock while business men will donate which was subscribed at a meeting in the Elks hall Monday Miners to Take The miners plan to work for the first 30 days working for a wage o not less than and not more than At the end of the period they will begin work at per with a tonnage scale foi The difference between the wage scale for the first month and the which they will receive latei is to make up a fund to be giv en the Goodman Wolf firm for the release of their option on the Within a year the miners hope tf most of the stock in the mine and will be working for them The Schrolucke Coal to find a market for the while the mine will remain under the manage ment of Wesley THREE DIE IN GRADE CROSSING CRASH NEAR TODAY SEVERAL SHIPS ARE ON ATLANTIC COAST Calls Send O t h c r Liners Speeding to Res cue DISPATCH passengers wore unaccounted for aft er a launch blew up and sank in the river near Sitio to Several of the survivors were Boats were for EIGHTEEN LIVES WERE It is Said Have Been Killed at Same The story of how a Shore 1 T t v 7 Electric car roared out of a blizzard yesterday to smash and splinter a huge heavily laden bus of the Grey hound lihe near here and crush out the lives of eighteen of its sengers will be unfolded today in the beginning of four independent While five of the four men and a remain unidentified in mortuaries here and the groans of thirteen injured still echo in hospital nature erased the scare of horror at the scene of the disaster with a blanket of IS DANGEROUS GROSSING DISPATCH two white standing out like monuments in a will adorn the stretch of road here and Columbus of the crash that wiped out 18 lives That many have died from acci dents on the stretch within the past few In the last 19 it was said Lake Shore Electric cars have KILLED IN One Killed Instantly and Other Two Expire While on Way to Three members of a party returning from a marathon ianco were killed today when their roadster was struck by a Big Four passenger train at a crossing Those were Albert and Charles both of and Effie of Barrs Ruth a fourth of the in jured so she is expected to D IK DEPUE men were killed today when the automobile in which they were riding was hit by a westbound Rock Island passenger train at a crossing One of the Joe of was killed instantly and the diedon the way to a Spring George of and Peter of Spring were the other The bodies of and Horn were taken to was taken to Spring THREE IN EAST UNITED DISPATCH Three persons were killed and one probably fatally injured when an en gine and one coach of the Waterbury Winsted train were derailed and over turned near here police re The caught fire being railroad reports said TWO REPORTED AS FIGHTING HEAVY SEA Fate of One British Vessel Off Halifax Remains Deep DISPATCH 1 NEW Ameri can tanker which sent an saying she was in danger sev eral hundred miles off Cape s attempting to reach Bermuda under tier own it was reported today n advices from the Dolar Liner Presi dent intercepted by the radio marine The which sent up distress signals from a position close jy the stil was fighting a heavy while three ships that riad turned out of their course to aid hei sought to reach her Locate she not the Flori da although she had been in those waters for some The United States liner advised she was close by the The American did not she had sighted The American is commanded By George hero of other thrilling and went under full steam to the rescue of the two The sea was so rough that at times the America could make no more than ten knots and had to change her course to roll with the The America advised yesterday she would be by the Florida at day break although shipping men doubted if this would be the latest news indicated Captain Fried had The York and the President Harrison both advised that they would the positions given by the Florida for some time and then if njo trace Fate Of Ohe Vessel re mained a mystery today Sunday the British vessel advised sbe was about 400 miles south of A bitter storm was that Radio stations ashore kept a vigilant watch for further signals but nothing more has been heard and it is feared the craft may have gone The President which went on the shoals off the Bahamas Sun necessitating removal of her passengers to another was re floated today and continued on an around the world LOST IN SENATE T By Margin of Two Votes More Stringent Enforcement Mea sure Was SEIZED IN GREATEST CLEANUP DISPATCH scant margin of two the Gray increasing from a to a the sale or gift of to minors failed of passage in the senate A roll call vote showed ayes and twentytwo noes with foui absent or not Fifteen bills were introduced in the house before it adjourned until 10 Fifteen bills were intro noon to day when until Thursday I i After mobilization of Chicagos entire police force in the most spectacular drive against in the citys persons searched for jailed and Above is a group df suspects waiting to be questioned at p Anderson Senator Matter to FARM FEDERATION FAVORS MOVEMENT Measure Will Have Support of Farm Body and Other Lesser but tle between Secretary Mellon over the appropriation continued today but on a new front Passage by the senate day of the modified Harris amend to the deficiency shifted the fight to the House where a bitter de bate is As the amendment clothes the President with authority to allot the money among various government The provision was made to meet objections of Secretary Mellon against assignment entire sum to the Mellon pointed out the customs coast guard and other bureaus arc equally Even in its modified ths amendment fails to meet Mellons protest it provides no way of increasing to try Without provision for ap pointment of additional federal judges the in federal courts would be As court congestion IH regarded by the treasury as a major factor in blocking effect ive Mellon is opposing any measure which doon not meet President opposes any ap which might cause treasury deficit at close ad The would give the treasury a total of the ever appropriated di for prohibition INDIANA brine about a convention to draft a new constitution for Indiana was taken in the senate yesterday af when Senator John of introduced provide for a referendum at the general election in 1030 to determine whether a convention shall The measure is Kaid to have the of the leaders of Indiana Farni Bureau Federation of vari ous minority blocs which hiv been seeking a revision of the constitution for several Special Election If tho Aldridge proposal a special election is to be held the first Tuesday after I ho first Monday in for election of dele gates to the constitutional which would b held in the house oj at noon on the first Monday in The measure provides that 100 delegates be The to bo submitted voters in the general would Are yon in favor of tional in tho year 1931 The convention would be authorized to revise or amend constitution of the state or to formulate a new con if deemed TODAY IN CONGRESS 1NITKH first cy appropriation Judiciary committee considers rou tine of CoJ consideration Foreign affairs committee hearing on Columbus monument at San Do Ways and tariff 1IF lost was under water in some i The White at Indianapolis but not cause any serious TWO TO DEATH AT MICHIGAN Cold Wave and High Water Keep Hoosiers and DISPATCH 1 IN DIANA North Indiana in the grip of another cold throughout the were reported still on the rise said although the be attributed directly to the from said Whiter continued to rise at the rate of Official reports river 1B above reported that the city was not menaced by flood but that lowlands throughout county in All ferries were be stil operating but with considerable In county reported that White liver continued to rise at the rate o one inch an hour ami thut the only be crossed at miles northeast of Ferries throughout the county have ceased Word from said had its bonks and that state known as and hie 3yearold were to death today when fire destroyer the home just outside the city The dead Paul was perhaps fatally Her 2weeks old baby John suffered from An stove ij believed to started the ON RAMPAGE CLOSED IN LATEST Arrest of Murderer of Don Maple Again Promised Within Two SHELBURN GLOOMY RESULT OF SMASHUP Criticism of Heard of Maples Morning Visitor DS III The two days of thn ir ir who Maple to ni the bank and j of the First at were today in Sullivan countys week old fi State and county authorities f the case virtually have J lolled the early theory that Maple himself and announced the name of thn Maple in the of he L vico nnd was 1 Whito river continued to rise onehalf iin hour last night and could be crossed only over the new Rogers miles northeast of Peters and tho All have ceased Thn Bridge company has a large force of men clearing tho driftwood from against the preliminary base work of the new Lincoln Memorial bridge one north of JAYWALK DRIVE began a campaign yesterday against the practice of jaywalking that has caused serious one of them in the last few None of the motor car drivers in the accidents has been as police say their investigations have shown the fault is with the his family the by to SHELBURN SEEMS GLOOMY s I UNITED van countys bank tragedy this of n of as practically every resident had surplus money was a deponi tor in the closed by state Examiners alter its confessed to forg ing notes in the amount of mately Cloning of the banks and ar rest of Bolinger followed closely the death of Edgar found shot to death in the Peoples National bank and Trust Company of of which he was Struggled Three n men and of Shelburn have boon against financial for nearly three duo to idleness of coal The town except for ness farmers living around is dependent entirely upon the mining Bolinger has banks depositors will not his but is expressed by Charles who little will ho the In the stale and county continued to investigate the Maple POLICE STAGE Two were held by tho police today after a thrilling last charged with auto thelt and wore bo to be tho bandits who returned to Hugh after robbing him earlier in tho A spirited oi policemen and tile two alleged bandits was staged on a downtown Eight shots were fifed by tho police and each returned before the two sus Archie and both of away their guns and cornered be tween two after u chase by the LOUIS WILL HOLD SEAT UNITED Updike lost appeal who defeated Updike election the last court refused to mandate Unn Hay
