22 Jun 1934
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1934
Page
1
A wagon-sized barn on the Charles Copeland farm two miles east of Lebanon was completely destroyed by a Tuesday fire. A stiff wind threatened the home but neighbors aided. the loss was partly covered by insurance.
Noblesville Indiana June 22 birth of triplets doubled the Esterline family. The two girls weighed five pounds and four and a half pounds and a boy four pounds. Mother 31, reported doing well. The Esterline couple already had two girls and a boy. Mr Esterline is a printer in Indianapolis.
Vienna police charged Irish adventurer Captain Ivan Poderjay with suspicion of murder related to the disappearance of New York lawyer Misa Turverson married December in New York. Mme Suzanne Ferrand, linked to Poderjay, is held on charges of crime profiteering after clothing tied to Turverson was found. Extradition request to the United States is likely. Police traced clothing and jewelry consistent with Turverson descriptions and found love letters between Poderjay and Ferrand from his New York period. Authorities remain convinced Ferrand knows more and await fuller U.S. details on Turverson’s fate.
Evidence suggests a plot to avert suspicion in the disappearance of lawyer Agnes Tulverson, wife of Captain Ivan I. Poderjay. Letters indicate she planned to travel to India with a Jesuit missionary brother, and a forged London cable from Agnes misled relatives. Poderjay admits marrying her December 4 and says he knew of a prior marriage.
Paul Van Riper reports the death of his cousin Mrs Harvey Graves who died Thursday afternoon at her Hayden home. Funeral services will be held Saturday at the Hayden residence with burial in Hayden Cemetery.
John M. Banks of Zionsville has been designated to enter West Point by an education certificate program to pursue a military academy appointment, according to local education officials.
Berlin June 22 Nazi leaders debated bridging the conservative and radical wings after Von Papen's Marburg speech. Goebbels denounced reactionaries in clubs while supporting a moratorium on foreign debt. Hitler returned from Neudeck amid cabinet crisis rumors and alleged assassination notes.
Mrs James Lyle and son Ross Lyle of Kewanee Illinois visit over the weekend with Mr and Mrs E M Lyle at their home on West Fordice Street Agnes Martin of Moline Illinois joins the gathering sharing a family weekend in the city.
aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia in New London Connecticut on June 22 Roosevelt grinned through the races labeling them grand as Yale crews overwhelmed Harvard. Franklin Roosevelt Jr rowed Harvard freshman boat No 6 in a narrow loss to Yale with the Blue from New Haven.
Two Italian born friends from Vitulano, Joe Iacobelli and Dan Fusco, reconnect after 27 years when Fusco’s son and a former Iacobelli label suit lead to a reunion. Iacobelli, Lebanon tailor since 1912, hosts Fusco and son John after recognizing the old friend.
Sheridan Ind June 22 Mrs Sherman Raines aged 65 died at her home. Her four sons and a son in law all served in the United States Navy. Russell and Joe Raines each served eight years while Hobart and Arthur Raines served sixteen years. George Hodson, husband of her daughter, also served an enlistment.
By Rose A Sims former pupils of Dr A B Jones gather at Memorial Park with his family for a bountiful dinner under old forest trees. They sing Bless Be the Tie That Binds after remembrances of school days and escapes of seventh graders reveal the enduring gentleness and interest of their former teacher. Attendees include Mrs Jones and Lois, Miss Jones Sphar of Frankfort, Mrs Retta Sanders Gibbs, Mrs Allie Welch Lowman, Mrs Bessie Hardin Clark, Miss Ruby Harden of Indianapolis, Ed Hardin of Baltimore, and others from Lebanon.
Harold St. Clair, a former Ohio convict, agreed to waive extradition to Illinois to face murder charges in the slaying of Dr. Homer L. Meyers, a wealthy Eldorado dentist. He was arrested after a nationwide search in New Orleans and admitted his identity, confessing the killing with a pistol. The motive cited included attempted kidnapping and robbery, with St. Clair’s traveling companion Evelyn Anderson held by Eldorado authorities.
A group including William Duff Russell Jackson Wallace Ross Brewer Acton and H A Baldauf toured Purdue University crop experiments at Lafayette during the annual crops field day. The event highlighted alfalfa yields and rotations along with tests on wheat oats barley and alfalfa by the experiment station staff.
Public Service Company of Indiana in Lebanon will cut residential and commercial electric bills by about 12000 yearly under a new rate schedule approved by the Public Service Commission. Residential bills drop about 6000 annually and commercial bills about the same. Rates eliminate the heating and cooking meter split. all use is billed at a single rate that falls as consumption rises. The new residential rates begin June 27 with a minimum $1.00 per month meter charge and a two-tier collection charge structure. Copies of the schedules are available at the local office.
Evansville Indiana June 22 debris from a cloudburst along the Ohio River uprooted trees and snapped wires. An oil field worker Frank Beckwith 60 of Wheel ing was killed by lightning and two others were seriously injured. Petersburg saw two and a half hours of rain disrupting telephone service and damaging property. New Albany reported one of the era’s severest storms with numerous downed utility wires and hazards. Police and firemen patrolled streets to warn travelers of electrocution risks from the fallen lines.
Washington reports a planned massed flight of ten giant bombers to Alaska with twenty officers and ten enlisted crew. They will photograph Alaska for defense site assessment and may conduct maneuvers to test northern operation viability. Officials stress goodwill intent to avoid Japan tensions in Pacific coast.
The Federal Radio Commission was asked to act on a permit for a new Indianapolis radio station. Signers include Keith Johns, secretary of the Democratic state committee, and Rev. Morris Coers, Baptist pastor and Democratic nominee for state representative. The Hoosier Broadcasting Company submitted the permit application.
The trial of Robert Bryson, an Indianapolis man charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, was postponed in City Court today until Wednesday after Bryson was arrested near Royalton by Jena Small and Claude Bendler.
Washington reports that the administration faces a harder budget outlook for the year starting July 1. Increased appropriations by Congress, higher receipts from new taxes, and added contingent liabilities widen the deficit beyond Roosevelt’s initial 1985 estimate.
A near cyclonic windstorm battered the south part of Boone County with Harrison township hardest hit. On the J. R. Cunningham farm a corn crib and hog house were demolished. a hog house was blown several feet and dropped upside down. An outdoor toilet landed over a high fence. Fruit trees were uprooted on Chester Acton’s farm and other farms suffered blown trees amid little rain reported by J. R. Cunningham.
Children’s Day exercises are set for Sunday night at 7 30 o clock at the Max United Brethren Church. An excellent program has been planned and the public is invited to attend.
Mrs Orville Hiland and her infant returned to their home near Chaos Town from Witham, this afternoon, ending a period of absence that had residents curious about their well being.
Brief obituary fragment mentions L C Borden of Kewanee last living here and spending the weekend away. No full details available.
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