Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 171, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1928 — Page 7

DEC. 7, 1928

SUES TO GET BACK KOKOMO FIREMAN JOB Charles Etchison Case to Be Heard Monday at / Frankfort. Du Times Hoccial KOKOMO, Ind., Dec. 7.—Efforts of Charles Etchison to obtain reinstatement as a member of the city fire department here will be brought to issue in Clinton circuit court at Frankfort Tuesday, a change of venue having been taken from Howard circuit court here. Kokomo city officials are defendants in a mandamus proceeding filed by Etchison, who alleges he was wrongfully discharged from the department. His dismissal brought conviction of two city officials and an employe on charges of violating the prohibition law. In a suit to be tried here Albert R. Street, another discharged fireman, is seeking re-instatement. He is represented by O. C. Phillips, also counsel for Etchison. An unusual incident in Street’s case was recorded when counsel for city officials became worried because Phillips readily assented to a motion that Street’s complaint be made more specific. The city then sought to withdraw the motion but was overruled, and Phillips filed more details of charges. ■NO-WORK, NO EAT,’ COUNTY FARM RULE Snds Popularity as Haven for ColdWeather Lodgeror." B<1) United Press KANSAS CITY, Dec. 7.—“No-work-no-eat” rule has ended the popularity of the Kansas City municipal farm at Leeds as a winter haven. Those days in which prisoners caused themselves to be sent to the farm for the winter in order to have a place to eat and sleep passed this year, and the reason is the requirement that the prisoners must work if they expect to eat. In other winters, the number of inmates at the farm has totaled approximately 200, but so far this year the number has never gone above 100. The reason, James J. O’Rourke, superintendent, declares, is that the rock quarry, roads and coal pile require too much work. If any one shirks, he is taken separate table and denied food the others are given.

LIBERTY MAN RECEIVES MYSTERIOUS LETTER Postal Authorities Start Probe of Missive Which Contained Key. Bn Times Special LIBERTY, Ind., Dec. 7.—Postal authorities are making an investigation following receipt of a letter by Charles Stahr, proprietor of a theater here, in which a key was enclosed. The letter was mailed from New York, and bears the signature of Richard Quaile, who is not known to Stahr. It refers to another letter, saying it "evidently went astray, and it is natural to assume you would have answered so important a commuaiication.” According to the missive, "The key is for the side door. If you decide not to use it, please return it to me.” There are no threats or demands for money, but the concluding sentence is: "This is the last warning I can give you; in fact, I wash my hands of the affair after this is mailed.” WOMEN WRITERS ARE DOMINATING NATION Writer Says Men Outnumbered in Literary World. By Times Special NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—For the first time in the Nation’s history women writers have become the dominating influence in American literature. So asserts Robert Herrick, for thirty years one of the foremost American novelists, in an article tracing the current trends of authorship published in the current issue of The Bookman. "Today youth means largely female youth, so far as writing goes,” declares Mr. Herrick. “Just as women are taking over zestfully those poliaical activities that have grown stale to men, so they are exploiting avidly their own notions of the world and putting them into books. "Surely, more than half, possibly three-quarters of the recent fiction and poetry, has been written by young women.” MEDALS TO SHEEP MEN Indiana Club Awards Given for Lamb Production. S. Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 7. Eleven Hoosier sheep breeders and producers have been awarded gold medals and two have been awarded silver medals for outstanding lamb production records this year in the Hoosier Gold Medal Sheep Club, which is conducted by the Indiana Livestock Breeders’ Association, in. co-operation with Purdue university. Gold medals were awarded to Senour and Higgs, Brookville; S. E. Weaver, Goshen; Joe Disch, Brooksburg; Roy Cook, Darlington; Lindley W. Baker, Cambridge City; E. T. Hunter, Haubstadt; George D. Lyons, Brooksburg; Eugene S Spencer, Canaan; Fred Waas, Brooksburg; Ralph R. Winslow, Salem, and Francis H. Williams, Muncie. Silver medals were awarded to W. Carr Lentz of Charlestown and I'.. E. Kurtz of New Haven. Marx Quits as Centrist Leader li.ji Vmi ted Brest BERLIN, Dec. 7.—Former Chancellor Marx resigned today as leader of the Centrist party.

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Ye Old Town Lampe has been reproduced by the city electrical department to beautify the business district. The lamps, like that shown here, mark corners of the new concrete street car loading platform. City Electrician William B. Griffin said the ten lamps cost only $lB each.

GREAT AREAS OF LAND FREE More Than 300.000 Square Miles Await Settlers. / I!V Times Special WASHINGTON. Dec. 7.-Although people generally have the idea that the era of free land passed with the pioneers there are still in the United States vast stretches of unclaimed territory waiting for someone to settle on them and make a few improvements. The most recent report of the land office of the department of the interior sets forth that the largest amount of free land is in the western States, namely, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Tracts are also available in Florida, Arkansas and Minnesota, while a few scattered areas remain in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Wisconsin. All together there is considerably more than 300,000 square miles of this land waiting to be developed. Special offers have been made to ex-service men by the department of the interior. REPORT MEN’S CRIES AT ‘HAUNTED HOUSE’ Residents on Diamond Hill Also Tell of Autos and Lights. ISji Times Special WAWAKA, Ind., Dec. 7.—A strange happening at the “haunted house” on Diamond Hill near here, is reported by Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Tresler, whose home is on a side of the hill. The couple assert that after a long period during which no one even went near the house of ill omen, they noticed two automobiles driven up the hill to the structure. In a short time they heard screams of two men and saw lights in the house. Then one auto was driven away, but they did nQt see the other machine. Sixty years ago members of a uandit gang were hanged by a mob in the house. RAISE SACRED COWS Texas Longhorns Find Selves SupPlanted by Hump-Backed ‘Critters’. ii H Times Special BEAUMONT, Tex., Dec. 7.—lt may add to your interest in your next steak or cut of roast beef to know that if it has come from. Texas it may be from a “sacred cow of India.” That may sound odd, but it’s the fact. Brahman cattle, the queer humpbacked breeds that have been held holy by the far-away Hindus for centuries, are now being raised by Gulf coast cattle men in great herds. Their popularity that by interbreeding they are likely to drive out the famous Longhorns and Shorthorn cattle in some sections and evolve anew type of southwestern cattle within a few more years.

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