Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1928 — Page 8

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BATS E SERVE MAN Sought to Rid Farms of Mosquitoes, Moths. Bu Times Special WASHINGTON, July 20.—Are bats, long social outcasts, about to become highly esteemed members of the community as sure death to mosquitoes and coddling moths? Agricultural department experts Isay, no. Their tests have failed to demonstrate that bats have a commendable appetite for either mosquitoes or coddling moths. But many farmers, it is reported

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here, distracted by coddling moth destruction of their orchards are not convinced. They are seeking to encourage bats to live in their communities, some even going so far as to establish bat “roosts.” And the owners of a few large bat caves are reported to be doing a substantial business in the sale of bats as mosquito and moth destroyers. Woman Kills Self Bp Times Special KOKOMO. Ind., July 20.—Mrs. Lulu Crum, 48, wife of G. F. Crum, Galveston, died in a hospital here after shooting herself in the mouth with a double-barrel shotgun while despondent over ill health.

COURT RULES GIRL, 15, CAN STAY WITH MATE F(. Wayne Judge Decides Against ChUd-Wife’s Father. Bp Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 20.—Mrs. Ruth E. Hoffman, 15, can remain with her 21-year-old husband, Otto Hettinger, regardless of her father’s wishes, Judge George H. Leonard has ruled in refusing a writ of habeas corpus to the father, Carey Hoffman, living near here. The couple eloped to Watseka, 111., where they were married after an all night trip in Hettinger’s auto. The girl represented her age as 19. This was advanced by her

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Doggy, What? Bp Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 20. Herman Stuckey, local golfer, has fitted a harness to his large police dog so that it can carry a bag of golf sticks, the first four-legged caddy to appear on links here.

father in his contention the marriage was void. Judge Leonard, however, held the tie, could be cut only as voidable and the father lost after the girl-wife testified pc her love for her husband and that his relatives were not forcing her to live with him against her will.

FIGHT SALVATION ARMY PROPOSAL FOR BUILDING Michigan City Persons Object to Band Noise and Undesirables. Bp Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 20. —Noise of the Salvation Army’s band and that its “A man may be down, but he is never out” policy will bring undesirable persons to the vicinity are reasons given for a fight by property owners to prevent the army from erecting a building on a recently purchased site. A campaign is now under way by the army to raise $36,500 as a building fund. Among objectors to the building

plans are boards of the Clinic and Protestant Hospital Associations. Several home owners are also protesting. FREE IN PETTING’ CASE Bp Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 20Geneva Donald, 17, arrested with Harry Learman, 18, because a policeman considered their "petting” party in a local park beyond the bounds of propriety, has been released to Mrs. Estella B. Prince, Jackson County probation officer. Learman is still held while authorities probe a charge that he took mortgaged property out of the State.

$500,000 TO BE ASKED Goal Set in Campaign to Aid Valparaiso University. Bu Times Special VALPARISO, Ind., July 20.—Communicants of the Lutheran church in the United States to the number of 700,000 will be asxed to aid in raising a $500,000 fund for Valparaiso University, this city’s sixty-six-year-old educational institution. Announcement of plans for the fund campaign was made by John C. Baur, acting president of the university. Arthur R. Hanser, New York, and H. C. Thomas, San Francisco, associated in the past in money raising efforts, are here preparing for the campaign.

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