Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1929 — Page 2

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TWO IN PRISON FACE TRIAL ON MURDER COONT Alleged Slayers of Cowan Wan to Appear in Court at Muncie. B Time* I" * MUNCIE. Ind .. Nov. 30.—Leroy Thompson and Fred Buettoer will go on trial in Delaware circuit court here Tuesday charged with the first degree murder of Spence Tuttle, aged man. Aug. 4. Both defendants are already inmates of prnal institutions. Thompson is .serving a sentence in the state prison for robbery and Euettner is serving a term at the state reformatory for auto theft. The state’s chief witnesses in the murder, Helen Bennett and Cathryn Nicely, are in the Indiana woman's prison serving terms for robbery. Statements of the women to the grand jury resulted in the return of the murder indictment against Thompson and Buettner. They asserted they were with the men in an automobile and Tuttle was picked up and robbed of a watch and a small sum of money. He was later thrown from the car, according to the women. The body of Tuttle was found at the side of a road and for a time it was believed he was the victim of a hit and run motorist. Once before the Nicely woman has left the prison to be a witness for the state, her testimony having aided in obtaining conviction of Harry Stonebcrger. Muncie attorney, and Sam Everett, taxicab line operator, for robbing George Sage, a grocer here. CASTS ANNOUNCED FOR TWO DE PAUW PLAYS Purer flu Will Offer Production in Christmas Season. ii/ f nit * u l'r< mk GREENCASTLE, Irci.. Nov. 30. Casts for “Why the Chimes Rang” and “The Vanishing Princess.” Christmas plays to bo presented by Duzer Du, De Pauw dramatic fraternity, are announced. Students both direct and produce these plays. Louise Freeland, Shelbyvilie, and Gladys Rohrig, Harmony. are directing “Why the Chimes Rang.” The cast for the play includes Martha White, Dana; Josephine Travis, Chicago; Wayne Shumaker, Indianapolis, and Dorothy Rutter, Roseda.e. Helen Foster, Fortville; Dwight Neal, Whitestown, and Robert Kimberlin, Soutli Bend, comprise the cast of “The Vanishing Princess.’’ Mary Rime, Marion, and Chester Osgood, Greenfield, Mass., aie directing.

CLERK STOLE $13,826 final Report Made on Water Department Shortage at Newcastle. &!/ Times Special NEWCASTLE, Ind.. Nov. 30.—Oscar Grant, former city water department clerk, serving a prison term for embezzling public fund?, was $13,826.46 short, according to the final report of Vaughn Wise and George O. Dunn, state board of accounts examiners. In submitting their report to Mayor Strod Hays, the examiners recommended that the offices of city clerk, treasurer and water department clerk be combined, % declaring such action would be an economy and result in better service. NEWSPRINT PARLEY SET Publishers to Gather in New York for Conference, Dec. 9. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Members of tire American Newspaper Publishers Association have been called to an emergency convention to discuss the newsprint price situation at the Pennsylvania hotel here, Dec. 9. it was announced by the association president E. H. Butler. A conference of directors of the publishers’ organization resulted in railing the emergency convention to allow publishers to discuss the proposed increase in newsprint price from $55 to S6O a ton. From Scouts to Policeman Bv Times Soeeial ANDERSON, Ind.. Nov. 30.—Earl 3. Rood, who resigned three months ago as Anderson Boy Scout executive, has been appointed a member of the police force by Mayor-elect J. H. Mellett. Rood will handle cases involving youthful law violators and wil act as a parole officer for them. The new police board, composed of Charles J. Neil, chairman. Dr. Henry Harrison and Homer E. Duke, has held several meetings preliminary to beginning Its duties. Fraternity Elects JP„ Times > n'—'al BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 30. Sylvian Tackitt of Martinsville, has been e’ected president of the Phi Delta Gamma, professional forensic and dramatic fraternity at Indiana university. Onlv students active in dramatics and debating are chosen for membership. Other officers are Edmund Keeney. vice-president. Shelbwille: Bernard Frick, treasurer. Evansville, and Vincent Fowler, secretary, Indianapolis. Forming 100-Piece Band Bv Unit'd Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 30. A movement, to organize a 100-piece state band within the ranks of the American Legion has been started by Raymond Fuson. architect, here. The musicians will be recruited from the 265 posts of the legion in the state and will meet for practice the first time at Indianapolis Sunday, Dec. 8. % Rescuer of Four Hurt Bv United /’nr** INNISDALE, Ind., Nov. 30. Serious burns were suffered by William Kessler, when he rescued his wife and three children from their burning home. Explosion in a coal stove set the house afire. It was destroyed.

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Mrs. Flossie Sapper

r,’i Tiny* Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., Nov. 27. Normally Noblesville is 1,200 Republican, but Mrs. Flossie Sapper, a Democrat, retains her office as city clerk, having been re-elected by a majority of 460, the largest of any candidatet on either ticket. Mrs. Sapper, a widow, has a son. Harrell, senior in Noblesville high school.

INJURED BOXER FAILS IN COURT Damage Suit Dismissed by Judge at Brazil. /?// United Pres* BRAZIL, Ind., Nov. 29.—A suit by James Pritchard, here seeking damages because of injuries suffered in a boxing contest was withdrawn by his counsel, after Judge T. W. Hutchison of Clay Circuit court, had said that damages could not be collected because boxing is legal in this state. The suit was filed against Robert Thompson and Alfred Mann. Pritchard suffered a broken jaw and other injuries received in a fight at the old Hoosier Rink here. Pritchard’s suit was filed through his father, James Pritchard, as the son is a minor. The claim held that the youth was induced by Thompson to go into the ring and fight Mann. Pritchard, the suit said, was an inexperienced boxer and not in the same class physically with Mann, who is an experienced and powerful wrestler and boxer. The youth was permanently injured, the suit alleged.

AGED BEER VENDOR ESCAPES JAIL TERM Woman Bootlegger Is Put Under Bond; Residence Padlocked. It]) United Press KALISPELL, Mont., Nov. 30. The 70 years of Marie Maginnis. Montana’s matriarch bootlegger, again have saved her from jail. Marie—probably the oldest woman beer vendor in Montana, if not the west—made a tactical error. Out pt beer, she urged a group of thirsty looking, smiling gentlemen "to come back later, won’t you boys?” They came back and brought with them a warrant for her arrest. Although a suspended sentence of the year previous hung over her, Federal Judge Pray dealt leniently with Marie and merely locked up her residence for one year. She can live there if she raises a SI,OOO bond. Postmaster Entertains Bv Times Soeeial ATLANTA, Ind., Nov. 30.—A. G. Kauffmann, postmaster, gave supper for the postmasters of Hamilton county and their wives. The affair was to have been in honor of Congressman Fred S. Purnell, but he was unable to be present on account of sickness. The guests included Mr. and Mrs. John Hinshaw, of Westfield; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wheeler of Noblesville. Mr. and Mrs. Shad Young and Miss Iva Winkle of Cicero, Mr. Ray Bryan and daughters Myrtle and Winifred; Miss Martha Kauffmann, and Clinton Haughey, Republican county chairman and wife, of Sheridan. Seal Sales Begin Bv Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 30. The annual Christmas seal sale in Bloomington is in progress and will continue until after the Christmas season. The committee in charge of the work is composed of Mrs. S. M. Kerr, chairman; Mrs. Norma Hope. Peggy Culmer and Mrs. Mary A. Waldron. Organizations co-op-erating are Kappa Kappa Kappa, Psi lota Xi, Sigma Kappa and Delta Theta Tau. Course for Farmers Bv Times Soeeial BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 30. Many persons from Bloomington and elsewhere in Monroe county will attend the farmers’ short course at Bloomfield Tuesday and Wednesday, it was announced by County Agent Walter Rogers. Former Official Buried Bv Times Special BAINBRIDGE. Ind., Nov. 30. Funeral services for Charles Carver, 69, former Putnam commissioner who died Tuesday, wen? held Friday afternoon at his home here, in charge of the Masonic lodge. Burial was at Brick chapel. Exposure Causes Death By United Press LAPORTE. Ind.. Nov. 30. The first fatality from the cold wave in Indiana was reported with death of William Bricm. 55. Exposure was given as the cause of death. He sought refuge in the Silas Graig farm house, and toppled over dead an hour later. Machine Severs Fingers Bv Times Sotdal CADIZ. Ind., Nov. 30. Joseph Hart suffered loss of the thumb and two fingers from his right hand when they were caught in a corn picking machine he was operating on a farm near here.

HUGE RUM RING ■ AND GARY CASE UNKREVEALED Fifteen Arrests Recall Black Label Beer Seizure in February. P.u Times Special GARY, Ind., Nov. 30.—A truck load of Black Label Canadian beer seized here in February, which started a chain of events leading to indictment of 100 Gary police officers and citizens on charges of conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law, is believed to have been property of what government agents sav is a $10,000,000 liquor transporting ring in Chicago. Fifteen men, including Paul Morton, alleged leader of the ring, are under arrest. It is said that the beer was brought to Chicago on a route leading directly through the Calumet district. The arrests reveal that two men on the truck, taken into custody after a minor traffic law violation here, were dry agents working under cover and posing as members of the ring. At the time of the truck seizure, Alexander Jamie, chief special agent, endeavored to obtain their release in a plea to Gary police, but failed. The tw T o agents were convicted in Lake criminal court at Crown Point and each given two-year prison terms. Shortly after their conviction the two were paroled to Elliott Neff, brother-in-law of Jamie, and immediately went back to the liquor ring against w'hich they have since been collecting evidence. During the federal grand jury session at South Bend, resulting in indictment of about 300 persons in the Calumet district on liquor lawcharges, it was charged that twentyone Gary police and other officials and citizens had distributed the seized beer among friends. Four days after the truck was seized the St. Valentine daymassacre of seven members of the Bugs Moran gang occurred at Chicago, alleged to have been the work of A l Capone gangsters. Investigators believe that the wholesale slaying was connected with the liquor ring, which is said to have been making deliveries to the Capone gang. Interference with transportation is believed to have resulted in reprisals against Moran’s men.

INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES OUTLINED BY HOOSIER Former Anderson Man Now Public Welfare Director of Illinois. ttu Times Soeeial ANDERSCJN, Ind., Nov. 30.—Rodney H. Brandon, director of public welfare for Illinois, in an interview in Anderson, his home city, outlined the most comprehensive program ever undertaken by Illinois for revamping penal, correctional and charitable institutions. This program. Bra icr? is one of the principal which Governor plans during hi When c > ?o prison labor ha luring will be e. ; m the state’s p vocational ec place, Brandon prison , made la tosition for the .• • ■ -s prospect of ? “first termers’ ts selfsupport SUIT FOR BRIDE WON Boy-Husband Gets Girl-Wife on Order of Kokomo Judge. Bv Times Soeeial KOKOMO, Ind., Nov. 30.—Vearl Keith, 19, has forced his parents-in-law to restore to him his 16-year-old bride, formerly Miss Martha Land. The Howard circuit court held that despite the fact that both husband and wife are under legal age, the marriage was contracted in good faith and therefore binding. The young husband is at liberty under $1,500 bond pending trial on a charge of stealing chickens. Fights Grave Injuries Bv Times Soeeial ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.—Mrs. Gretta Daniels, Pendleton, who was injured in an auto-train crash here Nov. 22, is gradually recovering at St. John’s hospital here. She suffered a fractured skull and two shattered vertebrae. Physicians who said she could not recover are now holding out slight hope for her. Administratrix Appointed Bv Times Soeeial ANDERSON. Ind., Nov. 30.—’Testamentary letters have been issued in circuit court to Ida B. Jackson to administer the estate of Laura S. Mauzy, former Anderson resident. The estate consists of $7,000 personal property and real estate estimated to be worth $4,000. Wounded Man Dies Bv Times Soeeial VINCENNES, Ind. Nov. 30.—C. B. O’Donnell. 69. died in a hospital of injuries received last week when he was accidentally shot by Ed Meyers, city patrolman. O’Donnell had been living with Meyers. The gun was accidentally discharged while Meyers was cleaning it. Teacher Fatally Hurt By United Press VINCENNES. Ind., Nov. 30.—Injuries sustained by W. B. Anderson, 50, agriculture teacher in Oakland City college, here, when his auto overturned on state Road 50, west of here, caused his death in a Vincennes hospital a few hours after the accident. Police Force to Be Reduced Bv Times Special GOSHEN. Ind., Nov. 30.—1n the interests of economy, it is announced that Mayor-Elect Clell E. Firestone has decided to reduce the Goshen police force from seven to five men and to combine the street commissioner and assistant fire chief jobs.

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Poor Fund Purse Closed to Automobile Owners

Pn Timet Steciei? WABASH, Ind., Nov. 30. Automobile owners will find It difficult to get aid from poor funds, according to Township Trustee Gardner, acting under instructions of the Wabash county commissioners. “There are several really destitute cases in the city,” Gardner says, “and a large percentage of these really need assistance, but w-hen it comes to giving aid to those who own cars, that is a different story.” Regarding poor owners of automobiles, Gardner says: “I remember one incident last

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And So They Were Married Bn Times Special ELKHART, Ind., Nov. 30. Dr. R. O. Ostrowski, 48, Hammond. who with fourteen other phvsicians formed an antimarrying club twenty years ago, took his bride here, Miss Mary Korman, 29. Explaining his marriage, the doctor said he and Miss Korman were snowbound in Elkhart during an automobile trip and that after learning they had seen all the motion pictures running at the city's theaters and recalling they knew no one in Elkhart, he proposed and was accepted. The marriage took place Nov. 21, but has just been announced.

BOY SUSPECTED AS GUNDUELIST Fugitive, 15, Comes Back to Anderson Home. Bv Times Soeeial ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.— Two weeks of fugitive freedom ended for Ernest Wallace, 15, when he returned home from where he escaped by running out of a rear door when two detectives knocked at the front door. Four police made the second trip and took no chances. Wallace confessed to police he went to Middletown after leaving here, stole an automobile and drove it to Fairfield, 111. He stole another car there and drove it back to Anderson. City authorities and state automobile police are checking a clew that Wallace was involved in a gun duel with authorities in southern Illinois while he was returning from Fair field. Wallace denies participation in the shooting. The youthful prisoner is guilty, police charge, of a number of automboile thefts. He and a companion, Ernest Johnson, 17, were shot at by the marshal at Knightstown a few weeks ago while riding in a stolen car. Wallace and Johnson are in jail and James Baker, an alleged accomplice, is free under bond pending trial on charges of auto theft,.

PROMOTER LEAVES JAIL Detroit Man Wins in Plea for New Trial at Anderson Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.—Harry M. Goldberg, Detroit, has beer, released from the Madison county jail under $5,000 bond to appear in circuit court during the January term for trial on a charge of false pretense in connection with woik as promoter of a theater project here. Goldberg was sentenced three weeks ago by Judge Carl F. Morrow to a term of from one to fourteen years in the state reformatory but later was allowed to withdraw his plea of guilty and substitute a plea of not guilty. He alleged he w'as influenced to plead guilty on a promise that if he did so the prosecuting attorney would recommend a suspension of sentence. Hoosier to Attend Show' ii,y l imes special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30. Frank Watson, former representative in the state legislature from Hamilton and Tipton counties, will go to Chicago next week to attend the national live stock show, having won a free trip by raising 112 bushels of com on an acre of ground, the largest yield in a fiveacre club of twenty-five members. E. B. Moore is getting several head of his Cotswold sheep and Berkshire hogs ready for shipment to the exhibition. Moore has shown the grand champion rams at the show for the past three years. Farm House Burns tin Times special NObLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30. An eight-room house on the farm of Mrs. Arthur Maple, northwest of this city, was destroyed by fire, which originated from sparks on the roof. Chemical trucks from several small towns went to the scene and farmers made an effort to save the building, but their work was of no avail. , The loss is estimated at SB,OOO, less than half covered by insurance. Woman Hurt in Fall tut Times special ANDERSON, Ind., NOV. 30.—Mrs. Mary Beree fell down a flight of cellar steps at the home of Merz Shoemaker and was severely injured. Christmas Savings Less BH 1 1 met special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.—Anderson banks will mail 5,800 checks to members of Christmas savings clubs. The fund this year is $160,000, as compared to $198,000 a year ago. •*

year where a family had repeatedly come to me for aid, stating that they were unable to provide for themselves. One day when I w r as standing on a downtown street, I noticed the woman who always came for help, driving a pretty nifty looking automobile around. Later in the week this same woman came here for aid and I told her that I had seen her driving a car. She replied that the car was the property of her children but it was no excuse and I refused to give them aid. That was over a year and a half ago and the woman has not been back since.”

Ninetieth Anniversary of Ft. Wayne Institution to Be Dec. 8. Pit Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Nov. 30.—Concordia college, one of the largest Lutheran Institutions in the United States, will celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of its founding Sunday, Dec. 8. The observance is expected to draw attendance of several thousand Lutheran church members from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia, as well as delegations from several large cities, including Chicago, Detroit and St, Louts. Each of the sixteen other Lutheran schools in the United States will be represented. Concordia is the oldest of the junior colleges conducted by the Missouri synod of the Lutheran church. It was first housed in a log cabin in Perry county, Missouri, having been opened Dec. 9,1839. In 1849 the college was moved to St. Louis having been given $2,000 and a two-acre site. The college opened its doors here Sept. 9, 1861. It is the classical department of the original Concordia, which was effected by combining a practical seminary' conducted here by Dr. W. Sibler, founded in 1846, with the school at St. Louis which was theoretical in policy.

BRIDE OF HOUR LOSES FOOT IN AUTO CRASH Parents of Indianapolis Man’s Wife Also Injured. BEDFORD. Ind., Nov. 30.—Mrs. Cleophus MiMller, 17, was in a serious condition in a Bedford hospital today as the result of injuries suffered i nan auto crash Friday n’ghi an hour after her marriage to Cleophus Miller, 22, at Mitchell. The car, driven by the bridegroom, went over a fifty-foot embankment at the Spider Creek bridge. The bride’s left leg was so badly crushed that amputation of the leg just above the ankle was necessary. Her recovery is doubtful. Miller and the bride’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lisker Moore, escaped serious injury. Miller works iin the office of Kingan & Cos.. Indianapolis. He is the son of John Miller, and hia home is at 809 North Meridian street, Indianapolis. 7 FIREMEN LOSE JOBS Assistant Chief Among Those Dismissed at Michigan City. Bv United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Nov. 30. Seven Michigan City firemen, including B. M. Rydzy, assistant chief, have been notified of their discharge, effective Sunday. Besides Rydzy, the firemen discharged are Myron B. White, Ernest F. Keith, Walter A. Richman, Almon Mitchell, James Garwood, and William Schumacher. Rydzy has been a member of the department twenty-two years. No explanation of the ouster was made, but it is believed to have been at the behest of Mayor Fred Miller. Kiwanians Elect Bv Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Nov. 30. The Noblesville Kiwanis Club has elected officers for the new year: A. H. Baker, president; Albert Ludlum, vice-president; Samuel Weldy, district representative; Fred Baker, Raymond Caca, H. H. Dittbrenner, Don Jenkins. John T. Kester, Willard Hare and Edward Stevenson, directors. Young Hunter Wounded Bv United Press MARION, Ind., Nov. 30. Accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of Arthur Bollett, 20, inflicted severe injuries to a foot of Ray Boone, 22, his hunting companion. Boone may be crippled for life as a result of the badly mangled condition of his right foot. Dog Bite Causes Poisoning Bv Times Special ARCADIA, Ind., Nov. 30.—Marshall Branson, business man here, is confined to his bed and is in a serious condition with blood poison, as a result of the bite of a dog.

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VETERAN ENDING 1 37-YEAR CAREER IN LIQUOR WAR Denton Bass Started as Employe of Internal Revenue Bureau. Bn Times Sp< rial MITCHELL. Ind.. Nov. 30— Denton Bass of Mitchell will retire on a pension Wednesday after spending thirty-seven years as an official dealing with the liquor traffic. The veteran's first work was that of a storekeeper-gauger for the Indiana unit of the internal revenue department. Later he served as a prohibition inspector and then as a dry' agent. He is the first man in the Indiana unit to be pensioned. Bass has lived through the era of the horse and buggy, automobile and airplane; from the day of legal traffic in liquor to the day of prohibition. During twenty-eight of his years of service he was a store-keeper-gauger in a territory within a radius of thirty miles of Bedford. Arrested Two of Family Recalling some of the events of his long career, Bass said that residents of the hill country of southern Indiana gave him most of his troubles in enforcement of the dry law. He took part in a raid in the Floyd Knobs district of Floyd county, originally designed to include the arrest of Thomas Crawford and his two sons, reputed to be the biggest liquor manufacturers in that part of Indiana, The Crawford family was arrested and two stills seized, but before the raiders left the section, they had nine more prisoners and three more stills. Hot Mash Caused Injury In another raid and arrest of a widow and daughter named Moody, Bass remembers that the daughter, seeing the officers approaching, dashed into the house, to return screaming a few minutes later. She fell into a vat of hot mash while attempting to dispose of it and was badly burned. For a time it was feared she would die, but she finally recovered, although disfigured for life from scars of the bums. Bass was wounded only once during his career, and that was in Mitchell, his home town. During a raid in which he was accompanied by Police Chief Harry Chess, a man whose home was be g searched seriously wounded Chess with a shotgun, a few shot striving Bass in a shoulder.

TWO INJURED IN FALL Boy Also Goes Down With Scaffold But Escapes Unhtt'L ; lt.v Tim> * Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.—A scaffold fell twenty feet in the interior of the new Anderson postoffice under construction precipitating two men and a small boy to the floor I below. Arch McTavish, 40, laborer, suffered a compound fracture of the ! left leg, a dislocated shoulder and other injuries. He was buried under debris. Russell Stewart, 18, laborer, was badly bruised. The injured men "were taken to St. Johns hospital. A 7-year-old son of Henry Gertsen, superintendent of construction for Charles Weitz & Sons, contractors, was on the scaffold when the collapse occurred. He fell, landing on Stewart, and was not injured. Guard Officers Chosen Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30. Colonel Ray Deprez, Shelbyville, head of the One hundred fifty-first regiment, and Major D. C. Thompson, commanding the Third battalion, have appointed Duke V. Atwood captain of anew Indiana national guard unit which will be organized here. Byron Stewart, first lieutenant, and Edward Kaegi, have been appointed staff officers. The armory here will be enlarged to accommodate Machine Gun Company H, organized here five years ago, and the new unit. The new company will have sixty men. Health Board Chosen Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30.—Jesse Crouse, Dr. John C. Armington and Dr. E. M. Conrad will be members of the city board of health during the administration of Mayor-elect J. H. Mellett. Dr. Conrad, a Republican candidate for mayor in the city primary in May, had previously been named secretary of the health board by the incoming mayor. Executives Go to Germany Bv Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Nov. 30. Irving J. Reuter, former president and general manager of the DelcoRemy Corporation here, later head of the Olds Motor Company. Lansing. Mich., and Fenton Armstrong, his assistant here and at Lansing, have sailed for Germany where Reuter will be general manager and Armstrong factory manager of the Opel plant at Oppenheim, a General Motors property.

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John T. Rock

Bil Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30 Mayor-elect J. H. Mellett has appointed John T. Rock, Democrat, a home builder, as one of the three members of the Anderson board of works. He has lived here nearly forty years. Other members of the board are Thomas McCullough of the Bulletin Printing Company and Wilbur G. Austin, real estate dealer.

CASHIER GETS PRISON TERM Rosston Banker Admits Loan Without Consent. Bn United Press LEBANON, Ind., Nov. 30.—A sen • tence W two to fourteen years in Indiana state prison was passed upon Perry T. Hancock, 48, former cashier of the Rosston bank, when he entered a plea of guilty in Boone circuit court here to a charge of borrowing money from the bank without written consent of the board of directors. Amount of a check which he admitted issuing was $203.44. Total shortages in the bank chargeable to Hancock, and tlie amount he is allegedly short in Union township funds, with which he was entrusted as trustee, has nor. been determined. Bank shortages caused by him are said to be about $14,000.

SPHINX CLUB PLEDGES List Anounced by I. U. Honorary Soial Organization. tf,y l imes special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 30 The following pledges are announced by the Sphinx Club, honorary social organization at Indiana university, composed of representatives from each fraternity on the campus: Carl Brecht, Delta Tau, aarf Thomas Quinn. Sißn-.a Alpha Epsilon, Indianapolis; Howard Bettman, Sigma Chf, New Albany; Neal Hines. Phi Kappa Psf. Terre Haute; Ciaron Veller, Delta Upsllon Linton; Lowell Todd, Kappa Bedford; Charles Brubaker. Kappa Blßma. Pt. Wayne; Hanson Gifford. Phi Delta Theta. Tipton: Edward Clapham Beta Theta PI, Pt. Wayne; Robert Caine, Phi Gamma Delta. Marlon; Richard Simone, Theta Chi. Kentland. and Richard A. Wall. Kappa Sigma, Lebanon. Manufaturer Dies Bv Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Nov. 30. Private funeral services were held today for Eldon B. Pierse. 78, retired manufacturer. His father, W. R. Pierse, was Judge of the Madison circuit court six years. The deceased was a graduate of Wabash college. He operated a saw mill here twenty-three years, started the Anderson Bridge and Scraper Company and in later years was the principal stockholder of the Pierse Furniture He leaves his widow, Mrs. Virginia Pierse; a son, Winbum R. Pierse, Anderson, coal dealer; three sisters, Mrs. Ruffkin North, New York; Mrs. Hinda Ballard and Mrs. W. N. Durbin, Indianapolis.

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TEN SCHOOLS IN MONROE COUNTY MAY BECLOSED Lack of State Aid Funds Likely to Affect 3,000 Pupils. Bv Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Nov. 30 Whether ten township schools in Monroe county, with 100 teachers and 3.000 pupils, are to be closed will be decided at a meeting of forty-nine county superintendents to be held In Shoals next week. The day of the session has not yet been set. W. V. Payne. Monroe county superintendent, declares that lack of money is making further operation of the schools impossible. The schools affected are in the state aid class. There is enough money on nand to continue only until Jan. 1. For the past several years the state legislature has been reducing funds of the various state aid schools and this year each township had its allowance cut one-third, Payne said. With this cut, approximately only $65,000 was left to run the schools the entire year, not nearly enough to pay expenses, he said. At the last meeting of the legislature an additional amount, was included In the budget needed to operate the schools but a number of new corporations soon used it up and left funds short again. CITY CLERK MAY QUIT TO AVOID $25,000 BOND Barrett Law Change Causes Odd Situation at Greencastle. Bv United Press GREENCASTLE, Ind., Nov. 30. Rather than carry a bond of $25,000 for six days, Gw\n Ensign, city clerk, • of Greencastle, may resign Jan. 1. Under anew law, all books, records, statements and accounts bearing on Barrett law assessments are to be turned over to the city clerk by the county treasurer Jan. 1. Upon assuming this responsibility the clerk must post a bond equal to onehalf the largest amount ever collected in the city under the Barrett law. Ensign’s term as clerk will end Jan. 7, so that he would be forced to carry’ the bond six days. Fred Snively, who is to succeed him, would then have to obtain a newbond. Members of the city council have suggested as a way out of the difficulty that Ensign res gn Jan. 1 and Snively be appointed to fill out his term.

ELECTION BILL HIGHEST New Record Set at South Bend In Cost of City Campaign. Bv United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 30. Reports by party organizations of expenditures during the campaign preceding the Nov. 5 municipal election here, show anew high mark was set. Victorious Democrats spent $24,285, while the Republican bill was $12,191. These amounts are exclusive of candidates’ expensea. Among large contributions to the Republican funds was Chester L. Ducomb, candidate for mayor, who gave $2,000. The G. O. P. has a cash balance of $5.47, but outstanding bills amount to $1,604.98. The Democrats have only 61 cents balance and owe $33.85. Girls Leap to Safety By United Press VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 30. Two girl students at the Western Union managers training school, here, escaped from a burning building from a second floor window. Neither Margaret Burkdull, Shelby, 0., nor Elsie Adams, Muskegon, Mich., was injured in the leap. Smoke blocked a stairway when the girls discovered that the building, of which they were the only occupants at the time, was in flames.

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