Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1929 — Page 2
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INDIANA G. A. R. MEETING WILL OPEN JUNE 10 StMe Encampment to Be Held at Martinsville. Mi. Timei special - MARTINSVILLE Ind.. June I. Remnants of a once mighty army ■will assemble here June 10 for the annual encampment of the Indiana departmen' Grand Army of the Republic to be in session here four days National and department officers tnll attend Special services honoring the old soldiers will be hald in all Martinsville churche* on Sunday preceding opening of the meeting, which will be in charge of members of the local post, as follows Officer of the day. James M McCammack. officer of the guard. Han Winter guards, Sam Wood and Lewis Ritter. Delegates will be welcomed on the morning of the opening day, Monday. and a concert will be given in the evening by the Boys’ band of the Soldiers and Sailors' orphans’ hom p . Knightstown. Meetings of the council of administration and committees will be held Tuesday and there will be an official reception for national and department officers, the G. A. R. auxiliary and allied organ izationos. •One of the features of Wednesday's session will be a parade in which mayors of Indiana cities will tna v ch in a body with the veterans and members of other patriotic organizations. Invitations to march have been sent executives of every city in the state by Mayor Lewis Sorter of Martinsville. A camp fire wiil b held in the evening Speakers during encampment include rac.il V McNutt. Bloomington. national commander of the American Legion. A business session Thursday morning will close the meeting.
SPEEDY ROAD MAKING ANNOUNCED AS DESIRE State Highway Director Speak* at Linton Meeting. P‘l Ttries Sp- etal LINTON. Ind.. June I—The Indiana state highway department is •making very satisfactory progress in pavement expansion this season despite some delay caused by inclement weather. John J. Brown, highway commissioner director, told a civic meeting here Friday night. Brown was accompanied to Linton by William J. Titus, the commission’s rhief engineer, in charge of pavement and bridge construction. Director Brown discussed policies of the department as regards service to all parts of Indiana, and said that it is the desire of the commission to pave every road in the system just as fast as possible. So far this season the commission has contracted 210 miles of concrete pavement, and is now convassing proposals for seventy miles, bids for which were opened Tuesday. Early in the season the commission contracted about a hundred miles oi bituminous pavement. Brown said, and it is the plan to place an additional hundred miles of concrete under contract this year. At the same time, every effort will be made to complete at least 325 miles of concrete and 100 miles of bituminous pavement bv the time weather conditions stop work in the. fall.
S3 Finish High School P.” Tim'* Speei'il GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June I. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam. president of De Pauw university, delivered the commencement address for eightythree Greencastle high school seniors. Superintendent Warren J. "Yount. Principal Frank N. Jones and Gifford Black, president of the class, also took part in the program. The Rev. B. H. Bruner gave the invocation and the Rev. S. E. Davies the benediction. Blast Fata! to Child Pit Time . .•'firin' LYNNVILLE. Ind . June 1 Charles R. Cannon, 3. son of Mr. ana Mrs. Forest Cannon, is dead of injuries suffered when a fifty-gallon gasoline drum exploded. Although the tank was supposedly empty, it burst when Bcrtis, a brother of the dead child, struck a match near it. Ex-Klan Leader Disbarred 5 < 7 :n. < s per ini -EVANSVILLE. Ind . June I.—Joseph Huffington. former Indiana Klan leader, has been disbarred as an attorney by Judge Bock of Vanderburgh circuit court, as the result of his conviction of being a member of a " hot car"’ ring Hufflngtcn is serving a two-year federal prison term. Wallpaper Made in 1820 Pit Tiik, < Special ,PRINCETON. Ind June I.—W. J. Walsh, proprietor of a decorating company, is the owner of a role of wallpaper w hich a Philadelphia company declares is 109 years old. Walsh received the paper from the late Joseph Hartin, who told him it was found by his father. James Hartin. In the attic of a house here. White Cron Sighted f.v tune* Special BLUFFTON. Ind.. June 1. A white crow has been reported seen east of here by farmers in the vicinity- They say it was hatched in the Jrvin Shoemaker woods and that they saw it in a nest before it was old enough to fly. Insurance Official Speaks F.y TANARUS, met Special GREENCASTLE. Lnd.. June I. Clarence Wysong. state insurance commissioner, spoke at the regular wefltly meeting of the Kiwams Club Friday noon. Former Merchant, 32, Dies JRV Time• spr nnt KNTGHTSTOWN. Ind.. June I. White Heatcn. 92. a merchant here many years is dead. He was formerly trustee of Wayne township.
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Bedroom in home of Tearl Grimes near Crawfordsville. where Virgil Youngwas f t °* " farter wounded in a shoulder. Young and Jones were asleep in the bed at the right at the tme ft shooting vt Ihe left is a rrih in which Gwendolyn Joan Grimes. 2', years old. was sleeping. Inset. P.arl Grimes, who admits the shooting.
KOKOMO CLASS NEAR RECORD Diplomas Given 187 High School Graduates. P'/ Times Special KOKOMO. Ind.. June I.—Dr. J. Raymond Schutz of the Manchester college faculty delivered the commencement address for 18” graduates of the Kokomo high school, one of the largest classes in its history. Honor students this year are Mary Stranburg. Nelda Rosenheimer. Ruth Frederick. John Parks and George Ferguson. To attain honors, a student is required to make an A grade in thirty of thirty-two required credits. Diplomas were presented to the following: Alice Aaron. Inez Aldridge. Avon Allan. Chester Anderson. Robert Anderson William Racke. Gilbert Baird, Isabelle Baker, Weston Bassett. Richard Bateman, Marlone Bennett. Jessr Benson. Madge Blessing, Lela Boyer. William Breedlove. Madeline Brooking. Grace Brooks. T. Brunnenrruller, Jean Byrum. Doris Christy. Charles Cline. Marvin Carruth. Robert Costly. Norbert Commons. William Cornell, Catherine Cramer and Mary Cullane. Beatrice Davies. Donald Davis. Roy Degler. Elmer Deio. James Drake, William Duncan. William Dunn. Thomas Dwyer, Alice Dunn. Berton Edson. Wilbur Enriers. Robert Estle. Robert Venn. George Ferguson. Esther Finley. Gavle Fitzsimmons, Basil Flora. Florenn Fouch. Ralph Frazer and Ruth Frederick. Ralph Goidsberry, Jewell Gordon. lucille Greene. Ray Graving. May Grist, Mildred Gross. Harley Grund. Esther Gunnell, Russel! Gunnell, Eleanor Harness. Erma Hawkins, Fred Hawkir.s, Tom Hewlett. lenna Hill. Wallace Hodges, Hussell Horsman. Russell Humphrey. Charlotte Hunt. Richard Hunt. Ralph Hutto. Glen James, Ira Johnston. Helen Jonson Marie Kaplan. Howard Kenwocthy. Marv Kerbv, Rebecca K stler and Eleanor Krebser. Mignon Lamb, Frances Lines. Dorothy I ingenfelter. Nellie Luck. Fred Macke. James Mcßride. Catherine McCafferty. Alice McCoy. John Mcßeynolds. Senior Meranda. Gecrge May. Marv Mikels. John Miller. Marjorie Miller, Joseph Morrow, Gordon Murray. Bsnard Nicholson. Evei- n Nison. Evelyn Orr. John Parks. Delbert Parsons. Don Parsons. Robert Par.n. Jack Fennell. Helen Polity, William Pcrrv. Eduard Petkovsek. Mildred Fowall. Dick Purvis and Harry Purvis. Gerald Rader. Josephine Reed. George Reed. Isabelle Rees. Wayne Richards. Eunic' R’.lev. Don Rivers. Holman Rhodes. Nelda Rosenhcimer. Marv Roswog. Arthur Rothschild. Louise Roush. Robert Salter. Frank Schockc, Marv Mae Scott. Carl Sewell. Fd Shaw. Jane Shoal. Homer Shoup. Katherine Smith. Maxine Smith. ! Doris Snyder. Gladys Sayder. Julian Somenille. David Souder. Paul Simmons, Irene Spade. Kathrrn Spann. Roscoe Spearman. Agnes Stahl. Richard Stanbro. Hubert Stout. Mary Stranburg. Ralph Styeh, Ruth Stych. Ralph Sutherland. Edith Swisher. Margaret Tavior. Alice Thatcher. Wantta ; Thompson. Carl Tiily. Florence Tucker and Mary Tucker. Madeline Vandenbark. Clifford Van Meter. Margaret Vent. Eliet Vincent, John j Vondersaar. Charles Walter. Rosamond Ward. Lucille Wa&hington. Robert Washi ington. Robert Weaver, Charles Webb, j Ralph Weir. Dorothy Wentz. Virginia Wtl- ( dernruth. Dorothy Williams. Earl Williams. Virginia Winslov. Richard Wood Lauralcc Wooley and Howard Wren.
Tells Own Fortune Correctly r ' I im- s sprrinl NEW ALBANY'. Ind., June L—•To jail," was the reply of Albert Fredore. who desires to tell fortunes w hen drunk, to a question by Mayor Newton A. Green, acting as police court judge where Fedora admitted being intoxicated. The mayor imposed a fine of S4O. Fedora was unable to pay and went to jail to "lay it out.” Statue Given De Pauw F i 7 fines special GREENCASTLE, Ind., June L A marble statue of Mrs. Clement Studebaker Sr., made by Lorado Taft, famous sculptor, has been given to De Pauw university, to be placed in the stairway alcove of the Studebaker Memorial Administration building. The Studebakers are donors of the building. Several members of the family, including Clement Studebaker. have attended De Pauw university.
S/ozc Driver Arrested Bn Times Special EVANSVILLE. Ind.. June 1. Indiana's no speed limit law for motorists is being enforced here. J. O. Shepard of this city, arrested by Walter France, state policeman, is charged with driving too slowly during holiday traffic on a road between Patoka and Hazleton. According to the officer, Shepard was driving between fifteen and twenty miles an hour.
CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind.. June I—The Montgomery county grand jury is continuing its investigation in the slaying of Virgil Young and wounding of Charles Carter by Grimes, who accused them of w recking his home. The shooting occurred at tne Grimes home near here where Young and Carter, Grimes estranged wife and the couple's four children lived. KIDNAPING REPORTED Kokomo Man Tells of Being ‘Taken for Ride.’ Fv T lines Si^nnl KOKOMO. Ind.. June I.—Police here are making an investigation following a report by Howard McKay, garage mechanic, that he was "taken for a ride” by a party he says consisted of five men, whom he believes were Chicago gangsters. McKay says he was kidnaped at the Turley garage where he is employed. and thrown into an automobile. He recalls being bound and gagged, then lost consciousness, which he did not regain until he found himself in a swamp ten miles from LaPorte. Doctors who attended McKay said he appeared in an exhausted condition and there were marks of cords on his wrists. No motive for the kidnaping has been advanced.
WOMAN BELIEVED GANGSTER VICTIM
Silk Thread Trap Fails Fw Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. June I.—Carl Brannon, 13, who escaped after a trap had been set for him at the home of A. H. Kelley, city health officer, only to be caught later, has confessed to stealing money from milk bottles placed outside of homes, police announce. Kelley placed a bottle containing money on a porch at his home, tied a piece of silk thread to it and passed the thread beneath a door to a dust pan on a table. The boy grabbed the bottle, but the falling dust pan made so much noise that he fled in fright before Kelley could catch him.
PROGRAM JUNE 5 FOR WINCHESTER GRADUATES High School Class Will Hear James S. E. McMichacl. Bn Times special WINCHESTER, Ind.. June 1 James S. E. McMichacl will be the speaker at the fifty-fourth annual commencement of the Winchester high school to be held Wednesday evening. The invocation will be given by the Rev. A. P. Teetor. pastor of the First Methodist church, and the benediction by the Rev. Lee Jackson, pastor of the Main Street Church of Christ. The graduates are as follows: Pauline Alexander. Jan-.es Armstrong. James Donald Bailey. John Lee Bishop. Andrew Max Brenner, Earl Bridgman. Mary Brook. George Carter, Martha Ellen Clark. Russel Cox. Robert Cullum, John Lee Deeds. Christine Flatters. Grace June Fielder, Marjorie B Fisher, May Torrest. Martha E. Fulghum. Ralph Harris. Joseph G. Harris. Virginie Mac Harvey. Reid E, Hiatt. Joseph A. Hough. Ruth Jaqua, Lorin Keener. Nellie Pearl Laslcy. Harold McCollum. Mildred McCollum. Carl Metz. Elizabeth Miller. Horace E. Pitcher, Harry E. Fotter. Sara Frances Puckett. Oneita Reinheimer. Robert H. Riker. Susan Emily Ross ViTjfinia Simmons. Quentin Smith Robert Sper.ce, Eddie Stonerock and James Thornburg.
Retiring Director Honored i Bit 7 iflies Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June I. Professor L. E. Mitchell, retiring director of publicity at De Pauw university. was presented with a desk • set, a Gladstone bag. and a sum of i money, by the staff and board of control of The De Pauw, student newspaper, at a banquet. Dc Pauw President Speaks r < 7 in: i * Special NEWCASTLE. Ind.. June I.—An audience of 1.800 attended commencement exercises of the New- ! castle high school, addressed by Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of Dc Pauw university, at which 120 1 graduates received diplomas.
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LIQUOR SMELL FAILS AT TRIAL Jury Disagrees in Manslaughter Case. Pv fimes Special BROWNSTOWN, Ind . June I. Some evidence that, liquor was smelled on the breath of William Judd failed to convince a jury in Jackson circuit court here that he should be convicted on a manslaughter charge in the death of Melville S. Coryea. After several hours’ deliberation the jury was discharged, having failed to reach a verdict. Coryea, Baltimore & Ohio railroad crossing watchman at Seymour, was killed Jan. 21, 1928, while on duty. A truck driven by Judd struck him, throwing him against a moving train, into which the truck crashed. Witnesses for the state testified to the liquor odor on Judd’s breath, but character witnesses Called by the defense testified that so far as they knew- he was not accustomed to use liquor. Woman Dies at 92 MORRISTOWN, Ind.. June 1 Mrs. Mary Hawkins. 92, a native of Germany, is dead at the home of a daughter, Mrs. T. R. Thcobold. south of here.
Pm and Roller Skates Only Clew to Identity of Body. By Times Stecial HEBRON. Ind.. June I.—ldentity of a gold pm with a pair of roller skates and the word ‘'Chicago” engraved on it, is a thin clew upon which police today hoped to learn who murdered a young woman and placed her body in a woods near here. Police were of the opinion that the woman won a skating contest and had been awarded the pin in Chicago. Two small boys who were hunting in lowlands near here came upon the body, which was lying face upwards in a clump of weeds near a roadside. An examination of the body revealed the woman was about 25 years old. She had been shot I through the heart and clubbed on the head. Dr. C. H. Miller, Porter county i coroner, who made the investigation, said the body apparently had been in the woods ten days. Another theory advanced by authorities was that she had been killed by Chicago gangsters because “she knew too much of the racket.” It first was believed that the body was that of Violet Broseau. nrfsing ! University of Chicago co-ed. A difference in color of hair and eyes dispelled the theory. The pin. which was found on the clothing, was the only possible means of identification, police said. | Clothing would be impossible to identify because of the long time the body had iesa in the woods, they explained.
Class to Be Graduated Monday F,;i Times special HOWE, Ind.. June I.—Commencement exercises for graduates of the Howe Military academy will be held Monday. The charge to the class will be delivered by F. Campbell Gray of South Bend. Burns Cause Death By Times Special MIAMI, Ind., June 1. Willard Schrader, 58, is dead of burns suffered five months ago when he fell into a vat of boiling water while assisting in butchering on a farm near Winamac. Road Bonds Sold By Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., June I. Four Putnam county road bond issues have been sold at par here, the total being 528.240. Two other smaller issues had no buyers, due to lew interest rate. Board Members Chosen F.v Times special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. June 1 Albert Albaugh. Greencastle, and Milton Edwards, Roachdale, have been appointed members of the Putnam county board of equalization for the sixtv-day session beginning Monday.
EXCHANGE CLUB CONVENTION TO BEGIN MONDAY
Muncie Will Be Host to More Than 400 at State Meeting. Eu Time s Special MUNCIE. Ind., June I.—The annual convention of Indiana Exchange Clubs will be held here on Monday and Tuesday, and more than 400 delegates will attend. J. D. Miltenberger of Muncie, former state president, is general chairman of the program committee. George S. Greene, Los Angeles, Cal., national president, and Harold M. Harter, Toledo, 0., national secretary, will be guests. The first business session will be held Monday morning when R. C Stone. Muncie club president, will welcome delegates. Roy C. Street, Lafayette, state president, will speak a' this session, as will Harter. The slate secretary, A. W. Sutton, will give, his report.
At the afternoon session F. W. Bernard. . .uncie bank president, will ' speak, after which delegates and i their wives will be taken on an auto i tour of Muncie. A dinner will be j served for the delegates in the evening at the Roberts hotel, convention headquarters. At the morning session Tuesday Douglas White. Indianapolis, will speak on “Why a Club President? and Henry Myer, Terre Haute, will lead a discussion. President L. A. Pittenger of Ball State Teachers’ college will speak at this session i and officers will be elected and the 1 1930 convention city chosen. The convention will close with a luncheon.
CONVICTS RELEASED Board Grants Paroles at State Prison, E{i Times Special MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. June 1. —Tlie board of trustees of the Indiana state prison, meeting at the institution here with Governor Harry G. Leslie attending, grante dthe following paroles: Buco Parah, Negro. Vanderburg county, murder. Earl Pabernat, Marion county, three to Are years, rhicle taking: Joe Gates. Hendricks county, two to twenty-one years, manslaughter: Douglas Ball, Marion county, one to two years, transporting liquor; Sam Yates. Marion county, one to fourteen years, grand larceny: Homer Newsome. Negro, Marion county, second degree burglary, and Fred C. Lewis, Negro, Marion county, second degree burglary, each two to fourteen years, and Dudley Sneede, Marion county, burglary, paroled to Kentucky: Hoyle Turknett. 32. Marion county, burglary, two to fourteen years, paroled to Florida, and John Lappert, 31. Marion county, one to fourteen years, grand larceny.
CLASS AT SEYMOUR HEARS COLLEGE HEAD Diplomas Given Graduates of Shields High School. 5,7 Times Special SEYMOUR, Ind., June I.—“ The Jewel of Life,” was the subject of Dr. Earl E. Harper, president of Evansville college, speaker for the commencement exercises of Shields high school, at which the following received diplomas: Robert Aller, Donald Anderson. Helen AufTenberg. William Baise, Oma Baker, Ralph Barnett, Olive Becker, Geneva Booker, Elizabeth Brackemyre, Anita Brand, Mildred Brethauer. Lcnoa Brinkman. Charles Brown. Malcolm Browning. Marjorie Browning. Robert Brunow, Edith Buckley, Christine Buhner. Robert Carter, David Cox. Lucille Cox, Florence Cook, Nellie Clark, Crystal Clouse. Lorene Decker, Josephine Deutschman, Bryan Douglass. Frank Edmondson, Florence Eggers, Marvin Fenton. Glen Fill. Emma Jane Foster, Noble Foster, Ralph Foster, Ruth Green, Elsie Hackman. Frank Halstead. Will*am Hazaard. Julia Helmbrecht, Helen Hennessy, Virginia Hoadley. Taylor Hollar, Helen Horning, Aruba , Hughes, Velma Jackson, Kathryn James, Ralph James. Marie Jennison. Lois Johnson. Marguerite Johnson. June Kasper. Gladys Kasting. Helen Wasting. Lavonne Kay. Alice Keith. Roland Kurtz. Evelyn Largent. Martin Matthews. Helen Meranda, Cornelia Miller. Marjorie Miller, Mildred Miller, Charlot.e Mitschke, Evelyn Morford McDonald. Donald Otto, Thelma Peters, John Prall. Ray Prall. William Preuss. Wilbur Rebber, Francis Reed, Willard Ringer. Helen Rogers. Mildred Schaefer, Helen Schultz. Mary Scott, Tom Scott, Margaret Simpers. Elsie Snyder. Katherine Stanfield, Virginia Slants, Farrell Sullivan, Dawn Trueblood, Evelyn Tunley, Dorothy Vehslage, Ina Whitcomb and Gertrude Wilde. Bankers to Meet Friday By Times Special MADISON, Ind.. June I.—Group Six of the Indiana Bankers Association will hold its annual meeting here Friday, with an attendance of 300 expected. There are fourteen counties in the group. An invitation to hold the 1931 meeting in Columbus will be extended by Bartholomew county bankers.
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Station TRIP l imed Out for Two Traveling Boys '\\ /"HEELER. Ind. June I.—Radio aided in cutting short a long W iourncy planned by two Gary boys. William Reynolds, 9. and John Malone. The crew of a Pennsylvania freight train, while stopping at Hobart, heard a radio broadcast of the report that the boys were missing, giving a description of them. Tom Warner, signal service operator for the railroad, was told in a note dropped by a trainman as the train passed through here to be on the lookout for the boys. Within a short time Warner stopped the boys as they walked along the tracks. Warner brought them to Valparaiso and turned they over to police, who held them until their parents arrived. The hoys said they were en route to Wellsville. 0.. where the Malone lad formerly lived. The boys said they had slipped notes beneath doors of their homes apprising their families of the trip.
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BAPTISTS PLAN PAGEANT History of Sect to Be Portrayed at Denver Convention. fij/ Times Special , DENVER. Colo.. June I.—Elaborate preparations are under way for the historical pageant, one of the principal features of the Northern Baptist convention here. June 14 to 19. Scores of principals are rehearsing and a choir of more than 500 voices is being trained as background. The presentation, Saturday evening, June 15, will fill the huge stage of the auditorium with figures representing the 400 years of Baptist history in Europe and America. TWO DENTISTS SEEK $39,1)00 Damages Suits Follow Auto Accident. Ed Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., June I.—Dr. Robert O. Stone and Dr. Fred Hoff a. Indianapolis dentists, have filed suit in St. Joseph circuit court here for $39,500 damages against Dr. Neal Howard. South Bend dentist, as the result of an automobile crash in Indianapolis Jan. 25. Drs. Stone and Hoffa were returning to Indianapolis from Shelbyville in Dr. Howard's car at the time of the accident. On Washington street near White River boulevard, the car. traveling at an alleged speed of sixty miles an horn - , struck a power pole. Dr. Stone received a skull fracture and crushed facial bones among other injuries, and asks $28,500 damages. Dr. Hoffa suffered broken ribs and a wrenched back. He asks $10,750 damages.
BLOOMINGTON ORDERED TO REBUILD SEWERS State Health Board Desires Changes By July 1. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., June 1 Practically the entire sewer system of this city and its sewage disposal plant have been condemned by the Indiana, state board of health, which has ordered that changes be made by July 1. The matter will be considered at a. mass meeting of the city council Tuesday night. Among recommendations of the state board are: That Jordan river district sewer be reconstructed and extended; an adequate sanitary sewer be built for North Bloomington: present sewage plant be abandoned or rebuilt and that discharge of roof and surface drainage into the sanitary sewer system be stopped. “Several very insanitary and unhealthful conditions exist in and about Bloomington,” the board reports.
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Wages Revealed When Largest Cass County Outfit Is Seized. Ej / Times Special LOGANSPORT Ind.. June I. Frank Fontana. 33. Chicago Italian, is held in the Cass county jail here following his arrest by raiders who found him operating the largest liquor still ever seized in the county According to Sheriff William Zerbe, who directed the raid. Fontana said he was paid S4O a week to run the still for a Chicago gangster he says he knows only as •’Jimmie.” The still was of 145-gallon daily capacity, operating under 160-pcund steam pressure, and used to produce sugar alcohol. An electric plant of the type used on farms provided power for two pumps. The outfit we* found in a shack on a lonely lane leading from the Onward-Pipe Creek road. In addition to the outfit, the officers seized a ton and a half of sugar mash. Fontana, who had been making alcohol only two weeks, told the sheriff a truck brought a load of sugar from Chicago weekly, returning with a load of alcohol. Purdue Professor Writes Book Bn Times Special LAFAYETTE. Ind., June 1. A book written by Frofessor Richard A. Cordell, of Purdue university, has been adopted as a text by Boston, Syracuse and Purdue universities. It is entitled “Representative Modern Plays—British and American.” Progessor Cordell is a graduate of Indiana university.
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BUSY WEEK TO OCCUPY CLASS AT TAYLOR 0. Program to End June 12 With Exercises for Graduates. fly Jim's epetial UPLAND. Ind.. June I.—Commencement week at Taylor university will open Wednesday when Commissioner S. L. Brengle of the Salvation Army will deliver the first of a scries of addresses to continue daily through the period Services will be conducted by the Rev. and Mrs. John Thomas, evangelists, and several ministerial and missionary meetings will be he’d with students and faculty members attending.
Throughout the week programs sponsored by the university's music department will be given, with Professor Theodore Bothwell directing. An oratorio will be presented by the university chorus, directed bv Professor Kenneth Wells, and there will be an artists’ recital with the following on the program: Professor Bothwell, organist: Miss Grace Richards, pianist: George Fcnstermacher. violinist: Professor Wells, tenor, and Barton R Pogue, reader. A meeting of the Legal Hundred, Taylor university’s board of control. will be held June 11, followed by the annual alumni meeting. The baccalaureate sermon for a class expected to exceed fifty will be delivered Sunday by the Rev. H. C. Morrison. Louisville, Ky. The commencement will be held June tg with the Rev. E. C. Wareing. Cincinnati. as the speaker. 3 YOUTHS SENTENCED Indianapolis Residents 4dmif Stealing Automobv’'* flv Time 6 specie I LEBANON, Ind., June I.—Three Indianapolis youths are under sentence today after pleading guilty in Boone circuit court here to auto stealing. They arc Floyd Coffman. 21, given a year at the state reformatory: his nephew. Paul Coffman. 17. and Harold Doyle, 17. each six months at the state penal farm. All gave 728 Spann avenue, Indianapolis, as their address. An automobile belonging to Earl Schenck was stolen here by th* three. Previously they had token a. car belonging to N. A. Nissen. 834 Fletcher avenue. Indianapolis.
