Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 187, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1923 — Page 6

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ENRAGED FARMER SLAYS WIFE AND TAKESOWN LIFE Two Children Witness Tragedy and Subsequent Attempt to Burn Home, By Timet Special LOGAN SPORT, Ind., Dec. 19. After beating his wife with a shotgun until the barrel was twisted, setting fire to the house to destroy evidence of the crime, Edward Hutchinson, 45, farmer of near Onward, fled from the home and fatally stabbed himself. The wife. 40, died Tuesday afternoon, a few hours after the attack, at the Cass County hospital. The husband died in an adjoining room thirty minutes later. Two children, Edward and Lester Eikenberry, children of Mrs. Hutehin son by a former marriage, witnessed the attack on their mother. Angered because his wife planned a divorce suit is given as cause for the act. Charges Goes Wild The attack occurred in the living room a few minutes after Mrs. Hutchinson had returned from an overnight stay at the home of a neighbor. Hutchinson fired at her with a shotgun. The charge went wild and he beat her with the empty gun. After the force of the blows had twisted the barrel of the gun he picked up a rocking chair and broke it over his wife’s fallen body. The children ran screaming from the house and called neighbors. Hutchinson sprinkled gasoline about the house and fired the building. He then ran to the kitchen, grabbed a butcher knife, stabbed himself and fled from the burning building.

Posse Finds Slayer Neighbors entered the house, extinguis hed the flames and formed a posse to pursue Hutchinson. The posse found him lying in a field, his course being marked by a trail of blood. Hutchinson asked if his wife was dead and expressed hope she would die. ROBERT ALEYTO LECTURE Talk on Scottish Rite Degrees Will Be Given at 8 Tonight. Robert J. Aley. president of Butler University and an honorary member of the Masonic supreme council, thirtythird degree, will give a lecture on the degrees of the Scottish Rite to the Adoniram Grand Lodge of Perfection tonight at 8 following a business meeting at 7:30. The Scottish Rite Orchestra will play. Rural Detectives Shorn of Power Bv United Press GOSHEN, Ind., Dec. 19. —Four hundred volunteer constables and amateur detectives in Elkhart county were deprived of their power today. The county commissioners removed 400 members of horsethief detective associations who had been vested with the authority of a constable.

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CHILD CHOKES ON CAKE Dies Before Physicians Were Able to Remove the Food. By United Press HUNTINGTON, Ind., Dec . 19. Choking on a piece of cake, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott | Balsley died before physicians could remove the food. Elrod Honored by Klan Milton Elrod, editor of the Fiery Cross, a Ku-Klux Klan newspaper, has been named chairman of the Klan national bureau of publication and education. His headquarters will be j In Washington. He will continue to act as editor.

“Hey,Fellers-1 Got MINE!" That’s the “bicycle smile”—the broadest, happiest,' straightest-from-the* heart smile you ever saw on “son’s y face. He got his Christmas bicycle. Now he’s all set for the big doings—the joy-rides with the fellows everywhere daily growing stronger, the glow of health fairly radiating from him, the open world his playgrounds, clean boys his constant cod> panions. Get him a bicycle for Christmas —for play, for health, for every-day fun and usefulness. Your local dealer will be happy to show you the latest preferred models. MIdL& a WlcMcCe

BELL BOYS IN RUM CASE Liquor Bought by Federal Agents at Hotel, Is Charge, Three men giving names and addresses as Walter Cross, 1254 W. Twenty-Sixth St.; J. A. Beck, T. M. C. A., and Richard Condon, 2628 N.

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La Salle St., are held in the city prison *oday on vagrancy charges for investigation by Federal authorities. Police say Condon, a bellboy at the Claypool, got Beck, also a bellboy, to purchase liquor from Cross for Federal officers, who were planted in a room. The three men confessed, police said.

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ONLY that which is worth while can survive. The world has no place for a fifth wheel. Production is the keynote of this progressive age. The main spring in the affairs of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is the production of service. No word in the English language ever has been misused, so glibly, as the word “Service.” In the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) “Service” is interpreted exactly as Webster defines it —“The performance of labor for the benefit of another.” The job of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is a dual one —manufacturing and marketing. The Manufacturing Department of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has developed a large number of primary products from the single base —crude petroleum; each one performing a useful and essential service. Many of these primary products have been adapted to meet different conditions so that in reality this Company produces hundreds of products from a single base. This we interpret as a major service. The Marketing Department of the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) has built up a system of distribution so comprehensive that the man living at a cross road in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or in the mountainous regions of Southwestern Missouri is as sure of a constant supply of Standard Oil products as is the man living in the city. The farmer, harvesting his crops, can have Standard Oil Company (Indiana) products delivered to him in the field if he needs them. The man who wants a quart of ofl receives the same degree of painstaking attention as the man who buys a barrel The service rendered by the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) is not of the “fair weather” brand—it is sustained—it endures—it is big. Service is what has made the Standard Oil Company (Indiana) big, and by the same token, it is bigness that has made Standard Oil Company (Indiana) service possible. Not alone bigness as relates to size but bigness in vision; bigness in reducing vision to practical terms of usefulness for the lasting benefits of mankind and the world at large. Standard Oil Company (Indiana) 910 So. Michigan Ave. a Chicago. HL

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