Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 53, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1927 — Page 3

JULY 12, 1927

NEW EVIDENCE LINKS JANITOR WITHMURDERS Circumstantial Chain Tightens on Lee in Grewsome Death Mystery. Bv United Pres* * NEW YORK, July 12.—Ludwig Lee, janitor of the house on Prospect Place, Brooklyn, where two women were slain, stood firm in his denials today while detectives found new evidence tending to link him with the case. Lee had undergone two and a half days of questioning so rigorous that it exhausted detectives. He emerged “not feeling too good,” to use his own words, but clearly nowhere near the breaking point. District Attorney Dodd 'prer' .ed to arraign Lee on a charge oi murder and to present circumstantial evidence against the janitor to the grand jury. Meanwhile, detectives discovered another bundle containing parts of the bodies of the victims. It was the seventh such bundle discovered, and was expected virtually to complete the bodies of Miss Sarah Elizabeth Brownell, 70. and Mrs. Alfred Benn t, 56, *he victims. Heard Lee’s Threat ■ Mrs. Anna Palas, former tenant of , Miss Brownell in the Prospect place house, told detectives she heard Lee j threaten to kill the aged owner last i Memorial day. Lee admitted yesterday Miss ‘ Borwnell had asked him to marry! her and he had accepted. He dis- i missed reported frequent quarrels as disputes of no importance. Medical examiners, who had virtually completed the task of assembling the dismembered bodies, turned today to reconstructing the slayings. Since no members of a | third body were found, they abandoned the theory that Miss Evelyn De Martini, who has been missing from her Brooklyn home since June 30, was a victim. Dates Are Fixed Miss Brownell, who probably was killed July 4, was first strangled and then stabbed, physicians believed. Her body then was cut into pieces. Mrs. Bennett, who was killed last Saturday night,' was stabbed to death, the body indicated. Miss Brownell’s body had been cut into comparatively small pieces, while Mrs. Bennett’s was less badly mangled, indicating that the first was dismembered by the slayer at leisure during the week before the second woman was killed. POSTAL VETERAN DEAD x Walter Parks Hanna Employed 36 1 Years in OT'ire Here. Funeral servic ; ; or Walter Parks Hanna, 71, retired postofflee employe, will, be held at his home, 2539 N. Alabama St., this evening. Mr. Hanna died Sunday. Burial will be at Greenfield, his birthplace. Mr. Hanna had lived in Indianapolis since his graduation as a youth from Ashbury Institute, now De Pauw University, and worked in the mailing, division of the Indianapolis postoffice for thirty-six years. The widow, three sons, and two daughters survive him. $20,000 WRECK LOSS Nickel Plate Freight Train Derailed at Blaine, Ind. Bv Timet Special PORTLAND, Ind., July 12.—Loss of $20,000 and a traffic tie-up of twenty-four hours resulted when twenty-one cars of a fast eastbound Nickel Plate freight train were derailed at Blaine eleven miles southwest of here. Eleven of the cars were demolished. Conductor Downey, Lima, Ohio, suffered bruises. Mike Roberts, Portland, section foreman, and his, force had a narrow escape as the derailed cars tumbled toward a point where the men had been working on the tracks. N SMITH MAY HOP TODAY Mail Pilot Ready for Second Attempt to Span Pacific. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. July 12.—The second attempt of Ernie Smith, former air mail pilot, to span the Pacific in an airplane may begin today. According to Capt. William H. Royle, Smith’s flight manage]-, the small travelair monoplane is ready for the hop. Two weeks ago Smith took off, but returned in a few minutes, because of a minor accident. • As navigator for the flight, Smith has Capt. Emory B. Bronte, holder of an unlimited Master’s license for all waters. - POLICE VETERAN DEAD Patrolman James R. Todd Was On Force 22 Years. Patrolman James W. Todd, 59, of 651 E. Twelfth St., a member of the police force for 22 years, died at his home yesterday of cancef of the throat. Todd was retired Jan. 4. The widow and osns survive him. Indiana Service May Recapitalize Recapitalization of the Indiana Service Corporation, Ft. Wayne, Ind., is proposed in a petition filed Monday with the public service commission. Bond and stock issues are proposed to create a total capital of $23,611,500. New Shower Device Bv Times'Special FRANKFORT, Ind., July 12.—A device declared an improvement over others for giving shower baths to children by fire departments has been put in use by Eajfi Denton, local fireman. A cellar' nozzle mounted on a ten-foot tripod is used.

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‘Can You Guess’Contest Won by J. S. Mitchell

J. S. Mitchell, 250 Detroit St., von the first prize of $5 for the best essay in the “Can You Guess” contest of The Times. Mrs. Vesta McLaughlin, Bloomfield, won the second prize of $3. The contest was for the best piece of writing portraying what would happen should someone open the corner stone of the War Memorial Shrine 200 or more years from now. The winning essays:

BY MRS. VESTA McLAUGHLIN The crumbling structure of the World War Memorial Building, an old landmark which was erected in 1927 and dedicated by General Pershing, war hero, is being torn down to make room for the-new airplane station. In a corned stone vtfas found an old newspaper, The Times, a relic that is causing much amusement at the city museum, relating as it does to ancient times, and methods of travel. It tells of Byrd and his men and their flight across the ocean and the perils of the trip. Today when a passenger plane controlled Spy radio and directed by one man, carries hundreds of passengers to Europe in comfort and safety, when our world is practically electrically run, when bombs and guns are directed and discharged by radio, the exploits of these pioneers seem small and insignificant. But let us honor them. Today everyone has a plane or straps on his wings. An inventor has perfected shoes with wings that fold out of the way when walking yet are instantly ready for flight. In these sootless, smokeless days it seems far fetched to think of those days when codl fuel not only smoked and stained the beauty of this memorial, but hastened its destruction. Let us be thankful for today and not yearn to Yesterday, for Tomorrow looms ahead with new achievements that will make Today's seem little. THEFT RING BREAK SEEN Four Men, Woman Held by Police for Auto Accessory Stealing. Numerous auto accessory thefts recently may be cleared up, police believe, because of the arrest Monday of four men and a woman, alleged members of a theft ring. Charles Stewart, Ben Davis garage owner, was arrested charged with receiving stolen goods In connection with the ring’s activities. Those arrested confessed to robbing fifteen private garages within a month, Claude Worley, detective chief, said. Others arrested: Virgil Downing, .Daniel Heck, FrqJnk Lane and Mrs. Luella Shelley. 1 PROS£ OFFICE BURGLARY Combination Knocked Off Safe of Life Insurance Firm. Police and city detectives are investigating robbery of the Union Central Life Insurance Company offices, eighth floor Roosevelt Bldg., between Saturday noon and Monday morning. Entrance was gained by jimmying a hall door. The combination was knocked off the safe and a SSO Liberty bond, S2O in* stamps and $3,500 worth of -negotiable notes were stolen. William E. Neal, company general manager, said the robbery was not discovered until Monday afternoon. Spanish Crops Struck by Frost Bv United Press \ VALLADOLID, Spain, July 12. This section of Spain today was visited by an unseasonable cold spell, frost greatly damaging the fields. Crops and trees also were damaged by windstorms and hail.

Lindbergh of Seas Sails Dreamily Across Ocean

BY ALFRED P. RECK United Press Staff Correspondent | WASHINGTON, July 12.—The coast guard destroyer Davis was steaming a lonely patrol off the New England coast. A warm sun and gentle wind had made the lookout drowsy. His attention was diverted by a playful school of swordfish, swishing the blue on the starboard side. Suddenly he looked up. . “Two-masted schooner dead ahead!” he shouted, and then added, “Looks like a derelict.” Lieut. Commander C. H. Bench, master of the Davis, was summoned from his quarters. “Put her alongside,” he ordered. The Davis approached the schooner. She was trim and white.

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BY J. S. MITCHELL EXTRA! Aug. 20, 2138.—Workmen, removing the tower-like building of the War Memorial, preparatory to placing the Soldiers’ Monument thereon, today unearthed a 12-page copy of the Indianapolis Times, (the ancient form of our present 48page Times Tabloid, bearing date of July 4, 1927—more than 211 years ago. Some interesting . items: General Pershing lays Memorial corner stone; President Coolidge, the "Silent Cal” of history, entertained with quaint “cowboy stunts;” the outstanding feature was the landing of “Commander Richard E. Byrd on the shores of France in a 3-motor plane, in which he and three companions almost drowned due to dense fog. This, the first attempt to fly in adverse weather, was considered remarkable in those days, but proved the foundation of our present system. Now-, with our 2 and 3-motor passenger planes, and 5 and 6-motor air trucks, also our capability of flying to any land in any weather, who knows what the next 200 years might develop. ABANDONED CHILDREN'S MOTHER IS LOCATED Woman Tells Police Little Girl Is Not Negro. Mrs. Ruth Smith, 31, told police Monday that she is the mother of tw 7 o children left at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Grigsby, 635 Eugene St., Friday. The mother, located by juvenile court attaches, said she had been advised by the Family Welfare Society to leave her children at the Grigsby homeland that the society would pay for their room and board. Welfare society officials emphatically denied this. The children, one a 4-year-old .girl and the other a 10-months-old boy, will remain in official custody until Mrs. Smith appears in juvenile court to explain her action. Authorities believed the girl to be a Negro and sent her to Negro Orphans’ Home. Mrs. Smith told police she was white. The mother and her husband, William Smith, have appeared in court before for child neglect, police say. Smith jcould not be located. HURRIES, FORFEITS LIFE Bqotblack Drowns When He Misses Dock in Leap from Ferry. By Unity! Press JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 12. Irqpatience of Joseph Dato, 15, bootblack, cost him his life today. As the ferry boat Tuxedo, was turning into its slip, he attempted to leap from the deck to the dock. He missed the dock, plunging into the water. The boat was reversed and a search made, but he had disappeared. Company Official Dies Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 12. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Charles E. Curry, secretary of the HughesCurry Packing Company who died Monday after a year’s illness.

Two "lieadsails, a foresail and a mainsail were reefed. On the bow, painted in golden letters, was the word “Despatch.” The wheel was lashed down. There were no signs of life aboard. Tne Davis sounded three long blasts of her whistle, but no one stirred. “Drop a boat,” Commander Dench ordered, ‘th’si looks queer. I’ll take a look aboard.” “Aboard the Despatch, aboard the Despatch,” he bellowed and as the coast guard skiff bumped against the side of the schooner, three tousled figures came out of a hatchwsly—a tall, bronzed, angular tnan, a tiny, terrier puppy and a kitten. By that time Commander Dench and his boarding crew were on the deck of the sclrooner.

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NAVAL PARLEY NEEDS RECESS TO COOL DOWN

Washington Officials Say Rest May Avert Impending Disaster. Bv United Pres* WASHINGTON/ July 12. A “cooling off” recefes for the Geneva naval conference would be acceptable to the United States Government. If the deadlock and recriminations continue, a forthnight holiday probably will be resorted to in an attempt to save the conference. The State Department spokesman said today Britain has made no definite compromise proposition, and indicated he was not favorably impressed by the informal British feelers. Talk of Totals Great Britain still refuses to talk j in terms of total tonnage limitation for cruisers, insisting on talking 1 ships rather than class tonnage. This method is unacceptable to the United States. The British suggestion for limiting the number of ships allowable in the 10,000-ton type—the type considered most necessary uy the United States—is impossible, in the opinion of the Navy. 500,000 by 1936 Although Britain talks only in terms of ship numbers, officials here today translated the British suggestion in terms of total cruiser tonnage as 462,000 for the United States and Great Britain each by 1934, and 500,000 tons by 1936. Officials here re-emphasize the American contention that the British suggestion would not effect economies, as claimed, but would be more expensive. The 7,500 tons type of cruiser, is relatively more expensive and “aggressive” than the 10,000 ton type, officials said. Naval Parley Hope Renewed BY HENRY WOOD United Pres* Staff Correspondent GENEVA, July 12.—New British proposals brought real signs of hope to the naval armaments conference today. The main point of the proposition, it was understood, is based on the idea of permitting Great Britain to retain cruisers that have passed the age limit without including them in her total tonnage. "Such cruisers, the British delegates suggest, will have lost their value as offensive vessels while retaining their defensive value for national security and protection of trade routes. The proposals have already been submitted to Hugh S. Gibson, head of the American delegation and president of the conference, and if acceptable to the Americans may form the basis of the establishment of parity between Great Britain and the United States in cruisers of combatant value. Discussions were resumed today in the hope of reaching a satisfactory agreement in time for a plenary sessiepi which will be held probably tomorrow or Thursday. CONTINUE BEACH CASE More McClure Hearing Evidence to Be Heard Wednesday. Hearing on the suit to have McClure Beach, Twenty-Sixth St. and White River, opened for swimming will be continued Wednesday by Superior Judge Joseph M. Milner in Room Five. Monday, Ira Holmes, attorney for James Angelo, conces,sion holder at the beach who is seeking to have it opened, presented evidence showing the'water fit for swimming. Bathing has been prohibited under a city order, setting out that the water is insanitary. EDITORS TO LAFAYETTE Meeting of G. O. P. Association to be Held July 28-29. Annual midsummer, meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association will be held at Lafayette July 28-29. During the two-day meeting a motor trip to Marshall Farms; inspection of Purdue University, the annual banquet; and address by Dr. Stanley Coulter, chairman of the Indiana State Conservation Commission; and a visit to a theater will feature. Shideler Pastor Dies Bv Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 12,—Rev. Fred Goudy, pastor of the Church of the Brethren at Shideler, died at a hospital here following an operation. He had preached in nearly all eastern Indiana cities and held several pastorates besides the one at Shideler. Expect Poisoned Woman to Recover Miss Myrtle Phillips, 31, of 409 Madison Ave., was taken to city hospital late Monday night suffering from poison. She was returned home after treatment and doctors expect her to recover.

“Where you from? Where- you bound?” he asked. “Providence, bound for Las Palmas,’’-the tall sailor replied, and added, “but, say, you fellows woke me up.” Further questioning by the coast guard commander revealed the sailor’s name as Hugo Hoahna of Providence, R. I. He was alone, on the schooner, except for the puppy and kitten, and was en route to Las Palmas, Canary Islands, off the African coast, 2.400 miles away. His only navigating instruments were a boat compass, a dollar watch and a pilot chart of the North Atlantic. At that tlrpa. Hoahna was several hundred miles off the New England coast, but did not Jcnow his exact position. The coast guard

MOTHER OF BANDIT COLLAPSES IN COURT Two Sentenced for Lapel State Bank Robbery. Bv Times Special ANDERSON, led., July 12.—Mrs. David Goodknight, invalid mother of Robert Goodknight, 26, collapsed in Circuit Court here when her son and Howard Wood, 21, were sentenced for the robbery of the Lapel State Bank on May 28. Goodknight and Wood, both of Elwood, were sentenced to ten years each in the State reformatory. They confessed to the robbery in which loot between $3,000 and $3,700 was obtained. LINDY TO VISIT CITY Tour Will Bring Colonel Here in August. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, hero of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, will visit Indianapolis between Aug. 1 and 15, probably about Aug. 7. Lindbergh's visit here will be part of a nation-wide flight to sifr interest in aviation, under the auspices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics. Nearly every State will be visited. The colonel will leave New York next Tuesday, according to present plans. His book “We” is about finished, wire reports said. M’COY NEW CHIEF OF NORTH SIDE LIONS CLUB Secretary of State lauds Civic Work Done by Organization. Good work done by the Lions Clubs in promotion of worthy civic movements was lauded by F. E. Schortemeier, secretary of State, in a talk before the North Side Lions Club at Columbia Club. Monday noon. “Organization in Civic Affairs,” was his subject. The club inaugurated Claude C. McCoy, executive secretary of the board of safety, as its president. Retiring President Ginger made a short talk. REMODELING INFIRMARY Contracts Let for Work at Dormitory by Commissioners. Remodeling of the old dormitory at the Marion County Infirmary will be started soon, it was announced today by county commissioners after contracts were let for various improvements. Hayes Brothers will reset the boilers and install new engines for $4,345. The Krebay Construction Company will plaster walls and put in new flooring. Contract for laying new linoleum on the first and second floors was let to the White Furniture Company. PREPARE FOR SEA HOP Michigan School Teacher’s Plane Ready to Brave Pacific. Bv United Press MARYSVILLE. Mich., July 12. The “Miss Doran” air sedan of Auggie Pedlar. Flint flier and Miss Mildred Doran, Carolina school teacher, in which they hope to fly to Hawaii was ready on the Buhl aviation field today for the resumption of their trip to Long Beach, California for the take-off. They planned to leave at noon for Selfridge field and to fly to Chicago fro mthe Army post at 3 p. in. Their plans to make the Chicago trip late yesterday were disrupted by mechanics, who were installing navigation instruments. FIGHTS- MOVIE RULING Zukor Will Oppose Block Booking Ban In Courts. By United Press - NEW YORK. July 12.—The Famous Players-Lasky corporation will carry to the courts the question of the legality of “block booking,” Adolph Zukor, president, indicated in a statement today. The statement, replying to the Federal trade commissions’ action last Saturday in returning a "cease and-, desist” order against the company, said, “The commission’s order, if sustained by the courts, will have to be dealt with by the entire industry and therefore no change in our existing policies is contemplated at present.” EMBEZZLING CHARGED Former Tocsin, Ind., Postmaster Before Court Today. Bv Times Speeial FT. W*YNE, Ind.. July 12.—Virgil Kreigh, former postmaster at Tocsin, is scheduled to appear here today in Federal Court to answer a charge of embezzling funds of the office. Federal authorities! assert Kreigh .forged postal money orders. Protesting his innocence, Kreigh suggests that order blanks had been stolen from the Tocsin office and others forged them. ,

officer charted it for him. The lone adventurer told the commander he had invested all of his savings in the ship and supplies and was off to fulfill a life-time dream of going where the winds took him. He left Providence on June 22 and hoped to be in Las Palmas within two months. “Hoahma is of Scandinavian and 1 Portuguese origin,” Dench said. “Tall, angular man, bronzed and grizzled face, who carries himself with the insouciance befitting his adventurous spirit. . One naturally compared what Hoahma hopes to do I with what Lindbergh did. But Hoahna’s success will create far less stir in the world. His arrival in Las Palmas will interrupt probably so Just a brief time the sleepy life of thoft sequestered isles.”

Wife’s Grave Calls; Aged Civil War Veteran Lost

ARRAIGN 9 IN O'HIGGINS CASE Erin Republican Chiefs Suspected of Death Plot. Bv United Press DUBLIN, July 12.—Nine men were to be arraigned here today on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the assassination of Kevin © Higgins, vice president of the Irish Free State. The suspects, arrested late yesterday, were alleged to be senior officers in a Republican organization, opponents of the present government. Eamon De Valera, leader of the opposition, in an interview severely condemning the killing of O’Higgins, said he was “confident no Republican organization was responsible for or would countenance such a crime. “It is a crime,” he continued, “that cuts to the root oL all responsible government. No one who realizes what the crime means can but deplore and cohdemn it.” King George sent a message to Timothy Healy, Governor General of Ireland and uncle of the dead man, expressing his “horror of the death, in such tragic circumstances, of Kevin O’Higgins. He asked that the deepest sympathies of himself and the queen be conveyed to Mrs. O'Higgins. ONE KILLED, FOUR OF FAMiLY IN CAR HURT Auto Crashes Into Tree Twelve Miles Fr>m South Bend. Bv Times special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 12. A man was killed and four members of his family were seriously injured when their automobile left a road twelve miles south of here and-plunged into a tree. Joseph Rasch, 60, Detroit, died of skull fracture. Internal injuries were suffered by his daughetr-in-law, Mrs. Esther Rasch, 30, Detroit; his nephews, Edward Rasch, 23, affd Moe Rasch, 21, both of Brooklyn, N. Y., and his niece, Miss Sadie Rasch, 25rBrooklyn. RICHARD BENNETT WEDS % Stage Star and Divorcee of Four Days Marry, in Chicago. Bv United Press CHICAGO, July 12.—Richard Bennett. stage sfar playing in • xuc Barker” here, was married to Mrs. Aimec Raisch Hastings of San Francisco. Mrs. Hastings received her final decree of divorce from Harry Coghill liastings, polo player, four days ago and came East immeditely to marry Bennett. Bennett was divorced from Ardienne Morrison in 1923. __

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William Dazey, 85, Traced to Filling Station Near Maywood. Somewhere in Indiana an aged Civil War veteran wandered today, seeking his

relatives, believe, to reach the grave of his wife. Since the death of his wife, Sept. 30, and some time before William Dazel, 85. has lived with his son, Henry C. Dazey, 249 N.' Warman Ave. Although physically strong for his age. Father Time had dulled the elder Dazey’s mind and memories of the joys and sorrows of his past, the battle of the Civil War he fought in and the years of happy life with his wife oltimes caused his mind to wander.

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A companion always accompanied him on short walks about the neighborhood. But in spite of a fall Thursday, Friday he ventured forth alone, with New Richmond. Ind., near Crawfordsville, where his wife is buried, his destination. His aged mind took him in the wrong direction. The son traced him to a filling station near Mayw'ood. south of Indianapolis. A woman tourist, the son learned, had given him a two-mile ride and stopped at a farmhouse near Maywood inquiring the way to New Richmond w’here the aged veteran had asked to be taken. Let out of the auto at the filling station Dazey asked the way to Crawfordsville. “Well, I’ll make it in a couple of hours.” he said when told it was seventy miles away. Dazey and his wife formerly lived at Crawfordsville. He has no relatives there and nothing would draw him there but the grave of his wife, his relatives said. A brother, Elbert Dazey, lives at 934 N. Bradley Ave. JACKSON STARTS BACK Governor Expected at Statchouse on Thursday; Motors Through. Governor Jackson is expected to return to the Statehouse Thursday, it was announced today. He expected to leave Osawotomie, Kan., some time today and motor home with his wife and family. The trip will take two days. The Jacksons have been visiting in Kansas at the home of Mrs. Jackson’s father. Thirty-Barrel Oil Well Bv limes Special PETERSBURG. Ind . July 12.—A thirty-barrel oil well has beer, drilled in on the Frank Thompson lease a mile west of Union.

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ELKS ELECTING EXALTED RULER John Malley, Springfield, Mass., Favored to Win. By United Press CINCINNATI, July 12. Joh:l Frank Malley of Springfield, Mass., was expected to succeed Charles G Grakelow of Philadelphia as grand exalted ruler of the Elks today rj the grand lodge members began balloting. Both Malley and his opponent Lee Meriwether, St. Louis, have hadlarge experience in Democrat.e politics. Malley was born in Springfield Mass., forty-nine years ago. He hr.s been practicing law in Springfield and Boston since his graduation from Yale in 1902. Two terms r.s State Senator and a period as collector of internal revenue gaia Malley experience in public office. Lee Meriwether was born ijt CoU umbus. Miss., Dec. 25, 1852. He w. 4 educated at Memphis, and studied law and practiced at St. Louis. In 1895 he traveled from Gibraltar lo the Bosphorus and wrote a report for the Secretry of the Interior on (he conditions of laborers in Europe. He was mayor of St. Louis in 1901, In 1916 and in 1918 he was sent to Paris by Robert Lansing. Secretary of State, to be special assistant to our amhasador. FIFTY PERSONS DIE IN QUAKES IN HOLY LAND Dozen Biblical Towns Are Damaged in Jerusalem Region. Bu United Press JERUSALEM, July 12.—A fivesecond earth shock late yesterd.-.y caused the death of more than fifty persons, the injury of many more and heavy public and private property damage in half a dozen Biblical cities and towns. Jerusalem, Nablus. Olivet, Jericho, Haifa, Amman and Ain Karim were reported in the path of the quake. Three tourists were buried when a hotel collapsed at Jericho, fourteen miles northeast of Jerusalem. A number of houses collapsed in Jerusalem. DRUNKEN DRIVER FINED Maurice Collier. 29, 50 S. Smith St., was fined $520 and sentenced to sixty days in Jail, Monday afternoon by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter for drunken driving. Collier is alleged to have driven a car which crashed into one driven by Raymond McMahon of Lapel at Fortieth St. and Fall Creek Blvd., Sunday night. No one was injured. I. U. to Spend $30,0C0 Bv United Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind., July 12. Thirty thousand dollars will be used in improvements on Indiana University buildings beginning in October. according to Charles Hays, superintendent of university buildings and grounds.

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