Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1930 — Page 2

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BEAUTY HONORS AWARDED FOUR OF 25 SCHOOLS Martinsville, Saratoga, New Salem and New Carlisle State Victors. Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 15. Winners in the school beatification contest conducted during the past year by the Indiana university extension division in co-operation with the Indiana Parent-Teacher Association and Indiana Federation of Art Clubs as announced here by Mrs. Edna Hatfield Edmondson. of the extension division are as follows: Town and city schools, North echool of Martinsville, rural consolidated schools: First, Saratoga high school; second, New Carlisle school, and third place, New Salem school. In addition to the winners, twenty-five schools in Indiana were entered in the contest, conducted to stimulate interest and greater activity In planning and planting school grounds with trees, shrubs, flowers and vines. Basis of Judging “The plan for the contest involved certain definite features,” Mrs. Edmondson pointed out. “First, the interest of the whole community in the plan, as expressed by three groups; community organizations; the teachers and children in the schools and the school board and officials; second, the actual projects; the formulation of planting plans, and the actual planting of the grounds; and, third, the type of materials used in the completed plan.” Mrs. Edmondson announced a contest will be held again this year. The s ate committee in charge of the contest last year was as follows: Mrs. H. B. Burnett. Indianapolis, for the Indiana Federation of Art Clubs; Dr. Will Scott, head of the zoology department of Indiana university, for the Indiana Parent,-Teacher Association; Professor W. S. Bittner, for the university extension division; Professor Frank G. Bates, of the I. U. political science department and executive secretary of the Municipal League of Indiana, member-at-large, and Miss Leila R. Gaddis, Purdue university, member-at-large. This committee has charge of the judging. In the contest at Martinsville, the following were active: Miss Gladys Bray, Mrs. I. M. Kenworthy, T. J. Kennedy. Principal Selma Smith, Opal Taylor, Georgia Gilpin, and Evart Smith. At Saratoga, the following served on the committee: Willard W. Green, Harry Arthur, Edward Evans, the Rev. Mr. Barker, George F. Ostheimer, Paul Towell. Fred Tourney, Ray Fraze, Robert Harman, Lester Girton. At New Carlisle workers were: Webster Carr, Mrs. Rue Green, Mrs. A. R. Brummitt, Ora C. Bennett, Harold Anderson, Robert Pendl, Ray C. Downey, and H. C. Davis, and at New Salem, they were Letha Wilk. Mrs. John F. McKee, Virgil Root. John F. McKee. Mrs. Lulu Buckingham. George Hoffman, and Robert Wills. Contestants Listed Indiana schools entered in the contest were as follows: West Heights, Evansville, Mrs. George Frank, chairman: Fairvlew, Falmouth: Fletcher Reed. Tuttle: Crawfordsville. Mrs. Paul E. Dice; Bedford. M. J. Abbett: Richland township, Earl Park, C. M Sprtnkle: Forest Junior-senior, A. R. Street: Hortonville, Carl Kiser, chairman; No. 9. Indianapolis. Mrs. Chris Hanslng; No. 43, Indianapolis. E. W. Diggs; Dyer public school, D. A. Griner. chairmans Emerson school. Indianapolis. Maude Mondy; Warren Township high school. Indianapolis. Elizabeth Askrcn. haketon, John W. Teter; Dca township, Lafayette, Mrs. Cecil Ray: Jackson township school. Morgantown. Mrs. Earl Jones; Beaver Township high school. Morocco, F. S Stephens; North Salem, Lulu Buckingham; Romney high school. L. A. Wood, Plainßeld, R. W. Sheek: Stewartsvllle rural consolidated school, M. G. McFadden: Westville public school. Scott C. Knoll; Tangier high school, Ranson Brambllt: Monticello and Union township school, J. G. Zimmerman; Elm Park school. Sullivan. Mrs. Charles Banther: Samuel Coleridge Taylor school, of Indianapolis. H. M. Kiley; North school, Martinsville. Gladys Bray: New Carlisle, Webster Carr, and Saratoga high school, Willard W. Green. Fall Causes Paralysis Bu Times Special MISHAWAKA, Ind.. Feb. 15. Ralph Gernhart, 24. has left a hospital here where he has been confined thirteen weeks with injuries suffered when he fell down basement steps of a store where he was employed. Due to a spine infection. Gernhart was without use of his legs nine weeks. He will return to his work here after spending several weeks recuperating at his home in Lawrenceville. Deaths Follow Suit Bu Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 15. Francis M. Williams, 75, farmer died an hour alter the filing of a petition in circuit court asking the appointment of a guardian for him. Word of the death reached the court house after the issuance of summons on the aged man. It was intercepted and destroyed and the petition withdrawn. The action was filed by a sister. Mrs. Hazel Munn. Aged Resident Dies B'-> Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Feb. 15.—The body of Mrs. Alice D. Eycke, 72, will be taken to Waynesville, 0.. for burial Sunday. She was bora in Harveysburg, 0., and moved to Anderson forty years ago. She leaves a daughter. Louise Eycke. Anderson postoffice clerk, and a sister, Mrs. George M. Denny, Wilmington, O. Centerville Woman Dies BvT* ,cs*ee<ial CENTERVILLE. Ind., Feb. 15. Mrs. Lydia Alsman, 55, is dead. She was a native of Rush county. She leaves her husband. James A. Alsman. ami two brothers, Frank Hin|Paul, and Nathan Hinton.

$125,000 to Be Claimed of Railroad Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Feb. 15. Counsel for the Alexander King Stone Company is preparing a complaint to be filed with the interstate commerce commission asking $125,000 damages from the Monon railroad, on an allegation of failure to provide cars for transporting stone for the company. In a hearing on a protest regarding the cars, the commission ruled the ra'lroad’s action was “unjust and unreasonable." The railroad contended tracks leading to the company property were in poor condition. MAPLE CAMPS OPEN IN STATE Syrup and Sugar Being Made From Sap. Gathering of the maple sap crop has started in Indiana, and within a few days it is expected all camps in the state where sugar and syrup are made will be in operation. Bartholomew county is among the best for the crop. The Albert Miller camp has started operations. It has about 100 trees and is being worked in connection with the camp on the Ensley farm under lease and several trees on the Will Heflin farm are also providing sap. Other groups of trees providing sap are 200 on the Webb Hartman farm and about the same number on the farm of Mrs. Tiliie Walker. The price of maple syrup this year is $2.50 a gallon, practically the same as paid for last year’s output. Alleged Robbers Held Bu Times special LIBERTY, Ind., Feb. 15.—Arthur Peffley, 19, and Eldon Flora, 18, both of Hamilton, 0., have been returned here to await trial on a charge of robbing a filling station at Cottage Grove. They are alleged to have fled in a stolen automobile. They were captured at Hamilton, where they have been held for an alleged holdup, which they are said to have confessed to authorities.

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Lazy Bandit Bu Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 15. —Police today are looking for a young bandit with a small automatic pistol, SSO that doesn’t belong to him, and an aversion to doing any work even in his own line of filling station banditry. Charles Holland, an attendant at a gasoline station, was surprised by a command to “stick up your hands.” Holland complied. “Sit down on the floor,” the bandit commanded. When the victim had complied the bandit gave his third order, tossing Holland a piece of rope: “Tie your legs.” With his victim’s legs bound, the bandit tied the arms himself, emptied the cash register, and took Holland’s wrist watch before sauntering from the station.

CHURCH BODY MEETS Hamilton County Council in Session at Noblesville. Bu Times Special ARCADIA, Ind., Feb. 15.—The eighth annual conference of religious education of the Christian churches of Hamilton county is in session here. Several hundred delegates are attending. Truly Fosbrink delivered the welcome address and Howard Hunt and Miss Martha Barker are presiding. Addresses are being made on various phases of work among young lieople of the church by Charles R. Lizenby, state superintendent; the Rev. Ira Dawes, pastor of the First j Friends church, Indianapolis; the Rec. C. L. Schwegler. Cicero, and Paul Osborn, Westfield, county superintendent. SEARCH FOR BODY ENDS South Bend Police Believe Missing Man Alive. Bu Times Spcc.ial SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 15. Murder and suicide theories in the disappearance of Ellery D. Marks, insurance salesman, have been abondoned by police. Officers spent two days dragging the St. Joseph river in the vicinity of the Four Mile bridge where Mark's automobile was found abandoned in the hope that his body might be retrieved. Chief Samuel J. Lenon announced that no further effort to find Marks would be based on a theory of his death. The disappearance was the second mystery of its kind here during the past month. A. B. Williamson, principal of the Nuner school, vanished from his home about three weeks ago. In that instance the river was dragged, but failed to reveal any trace of the man. ___ Judge Shows Leniency ' Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15. James Kirk, accused in city court of intoxication and housebreaking, carrying a penalty of two year senj tence on the penal farm, was permitted by Judge Jesse Shuman to go home to his wife and five children. After his arrest, Kirk told authorities he had been beaten unconscious by two men who robbed h m of SBS worth of false teeth, his overcoat and S2O.

MARION SLATING CASE TRIAL TO STARTJONDAY Bruce Branham Accused in Death of Burney Cox Oct. 6. f Bh Time* Bvecial m MARION, Ind., Feb. 15.—Trial of Bruce Branham, 38, charged with manslaughter in the death of Barney Cox, will open Monday in Grant circuit court here. Cox died Oct. 6 of injuries said to have been inflicted by Branham during a fight in the lobby of a hotel. The state charges Cox was either pushed or was struck by Branham, causing him to fall on a tile floor. His skull was fractured. The divorced wife of Branham was married by Cox and the men are said to have quarreled after Branham’s young daughter, Mrs. C. W. Humphrey, attended a party where it is alleged Cox encouraged her to receive attentions of men much older than herself. Branham was arrested a few minutes after the fatal encounter. He is at liberty under $2,000 bond pending trial. FOUR POLICEMEN LOSE JOBS AT CONNERSVILLE Discharged Men Expected to Ignore Dismissal Edict. Bu Times Special CONNERSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 15. Failure to appear at a special hearing resulted in the dismissal of four members of the police department here. They are; Monroe Long, Ralph Cooper, Stanley McKinley and Cyrus K. Ellwood. They were cited to answer charges of failing to respond to calls and lack of cooperation with the new chief of police, Peter P. Fettig. Josep Oser, Fletcher Whitefield, Howard Kelley and James Haywood were named as their successors by the city council special committee. The discharged men are not expected to obey the committee but will appear ready for duty as usual and put in claims for pay. They assert that until a decision has been handed down by a higher court in a case now pending that . ie special committee has no power to remove them.

Three Hours in Jail Ends Elopement to Evansville. Bp United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15. Miss Katherine Fenwick, 16, Uniontown, Ky., came to Evansville to be married, went to jail, and then returned home still wanting to be married, but “maybe” to another man. When Katherine and her prospective husband, Charles Perkins, 22, Montgomery, Ky., arrived here he wanted to be married immediately. The bride-to-be hesitated. She was not sure she wanted to be married to Charles but if it had been his brother Robert, she wouldn’t have hesitated, she told police. The two compromised and set out to see the city, delaying the ceremony until later In the day. In the meanwhile, Katherine’s father telephoned police to arrest his daughter. The police did, and Katherine waited three hours in jail until her father came to take her home. “I’m not out of the mood yet,” Katherine lamented as she was led home. “I’m bound to be married soon—just wait and see.” COLD HALTS QUARRIES State Geologist Explains How Water Freezes in Slone. pm Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 15. Why Indiana limestone can not be quarried and milled in freezing temperature is explained in Quarries and Mills, stone industry publication, by Dr. W. N. Logan, Indiana state geologist. Dr. Logan points out the stone Is composed of minute shells and their fragments, bound together with calcium carbonate of lime. The binder does not fill all spaces, and water enters the stone. Freezing of the water makes the stone liable to breakage in handling. Legion Chief to Speak Bu Times Special GREENSBURG. Ind., Feb. 15. Forest A. Harness, commander of the department of Indiana, the American Legion, will speak at a joint meeting of the Kiwanis Club and American Legion on Tuesday night. BatesviUe Papers Merged Bu Times Special BATESVILLE, Ind.. Feb. 15.—The Batesville Herald and The Tribune, weekly newspapers, have been merged effective today, and publication will continue under the name of the Herald-Tribune.

Fly for Harp Bu Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 15. Mrs. Mary Lincoln Bowlen and Mrs. H. Lee Bassett, made a plane trip to Chicago, when an auto-harp which they had ordered to be used in a home talent minstrel failed to arrive on time. They boarded a Waco plane at the local flying field, with E. E. Jones as pilot. They figured they had six hours in which to make the round trip, and they arrived home just in time to go on at the opening of the matinee performance. Mrs. Bowlen used the harp in a gypsy feature act.

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Hoosier Boy’s Cartoon Called Bally ’ by Teddy

Later Merrill Blosser Gave World ‘Freckles and His Friends/ A group of youngsters who were winners in a cartoon prize contest, some years ago, were taken to Washington and through the White House, as a reward, to shake the hand of Teddy Roosevelt, then President. While the other boys passed on, one Hoosier boy lagged behind. Finally he grabbed a pad of paper from the desk and made a sketch of the President. “Bully!” boomed Teddy. And he kept the youngster with him half the day, chatting with him and encouraging him to keep on with his drawing. This was the experience that really convinced Merrill C. Blosser, the artist, who has drawn the famous kid comic, "Freckles and His Friends,” for years, that he should be an artist. For Blosser it was who brought forth the boisterous, "Bully!” from Roosevelt. Blosser really is a chap who never grew up. When a kid, Merrill was a real kid. And when he grew older he still remained a kid. All the boyish whimsicality of his nature finds expression in his comic strip. Expelled From School Blosser was born at Nappanee, in 1892. In his early school days he developed a fondness for drawing. His parents encouraged him and had him take lessons; but unfortunately the first public exhibition of his talents took the form of a series of caricatures of the high school faculty, and Blosser was expelled from school. This, as may be imagined, failed to depress him very much. He kept on drawing and shortly won the contest that brought him the Washington trip. Following that thrilling visit he kept at the drawing board and finally landed a job drawing illustrations for a motorcycle magazine in Chicago. But the task of drawing all motorcycle’s many and varied contraptions correctly was too much for him, and he soon fled —fled as far as Wheeling, W. Va., where he landed in the art department of the Register. Joins Feature Service There followed a year or so of routine work. Then Blosser moved to Cleveland and got a job as sports cartoonist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. He kept this job a year; then won a position with the Newspaper Enterprise Association, leading newspaper feature service. He hadn’t been with NEA long before it was discovered that he liked to sketch kids. He was put to work drawing a one-column kid feature, and in a week was told to expand it to full comic strip size. That was the birth of “Freckles and His Friends.” And, ever since, Blosser has been drawing the famous band of little characters who seem to actually live—in a comic strip. ALLEGED~ELOPERS HELD Man and Mother of Four Accused by Her Husband. Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., Feb. 15—William Stephens, charged with a statutory offense in an affidavit filed in circuit court here has been returned from Wabash and placed in the Grant county jail pending arraignment. Stephens is accused by Dee Cole, who charges Stephens eloped with his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann Cole. The husband also charged his wife with abandoning her four children in an affidavit filed in the same court. Mrs. Cole arrested at Huntington and was released on bond for appearance when the case is set for trial here. The oldest Cole child is 7 years. WIFE, 25, KILLS SELF Columbus Woman Despondent over Break in Health. By Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., Feb. 15.—Mrs. Bonnie Green, 25, wife of Loy E. Green died in the county hospital here three days after she had swallowed a quantity of concentrated lye with suicidal intent. Despondency over ill health is ascribed as cause of the act. With her husband, Mrs. Green came here about a year ago from Evansville where she was born and reared. She leaves her husband; her father. W. A. Biddle, Chicago; three brothers, Mack Biddle, Indianapolis; Maurice, Chicago, and Merle, Texas; and two sisters, Mrs. B. H. Waskon, Indianapolis, and Mrs. L. A. Horaaday, Edinburg. District L O. O. F. Session Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15.—Anderson will be host for eight lodges of Madison county at a district meeting of Independent Order of Odd Fellows to be held here Feb. 25. Visiting lodges wall bring candidates to be initiated by the local lodge. Child Dies of Burns Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., Feb. 15. Frances Louise, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Roby, is dead of burns suffered when she fell into a bucket of water being used to scrub a floor in her home. Boys Rule City Bu Times Special MARION. Ind., Feb. 15.—With Kenneth Kennedy filling the office of mayor, seventy-two Boy Scouts held all elective and appointive positions here. Scouts were also : assigned policemen and firemen j during the day. A regular council meeting was held in the afternoon. Farm Institute Elects Bu Timrs Special LIBERTY, Ind.. Feb. 15.—Jesse Maze has been elected president of the Union county farm institute . here. Other officers are James ! Eaton, vice-president; Lora La Fuze, secretary, and Wayne Lake, trea- , surer. i

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WITNESSES FOR STATE MISSING

Slot Machine Racket Trial May Me Opened.

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 15. Prosecutor Harry Taylor has started a search for two missing witnesses against Joseph V. Wypiszinski. South Bend attorney, charged with keeping and exhibiting slot machines. Those missing are Harold Neddo and his wife, whose testimony was instrumental in obtaining an indictment against Wypiszinski, charging him in thirty counts with the operation of a gambling racket. Wypiszinski is a former justice of the peace. The case was to have been heard in St. Joseph circuit court Tuesday with W. A. Slick as special judge. The disappearance of the Neddos may mean a delay in trial, however, as Taylor expects to meet technical difficulties in returning his witnesses from a Southern state where they are supposed to be living. ALLEGED MACHINE GUN | KILLER FACES CHARGES Joseph Saraceno Accused in Bank Robbery at Columbia City. Bu United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Feb. 15. —Joseph Saraceno, 33, Chicago, was indicted by the Whitley county grand jury Friday on a ciiarge of participating in the State bank robbery here April 18. Two indictments were returned against Saraceno, who has been held in jail here since his capture in St. Clairesville, O. One charges him with the murder of Mrs. Alice Binder, killed by a shot from a machine gun alleged to have been carried by Saraceno during the holdup. The second indictment, in seven counts, charges Saraceno with wounding Sheriff J. M. Haines and carrying away SSOO stolen from the bank. Saraceno was arrested with Joseph White, 38, and William King, Boydsville, 0., taxi driver. White is held in Grant county jail at Marion charged with a pay roll robbery at Gas City two years ago. King later was released due to lack of evidence. Saraceno is held in default of $40,000 bond. Clews connecting Saraceno and White with the Gerald Chapman-One-Armed Wolf gang are said to have been uncovered by detectives and Indiana officials. TWO HOMES RANSACKED Little Loot Taken by Burglars, at Anderson. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15. Homes of two prominent Anderson families ave been added to the list of those robbed during the last week. The residence of Edward S. Ridley, cashier of the Anderson Banking Company, was ransacked while members of the family were away at night. A maid discovered the robbery the following morning. A few articles of small value were stolen. Mrs. Katherine Gwinn, a widow, returned home at 11 p. m. from a school dedication program and discovered that her home had been visited by thieves. A purse containing $8 was stolen. Two diamond rings and a large roll of currency which had been left in the house were overlooked. TEST PLANE DESTROYED Machine Burns After Crash, but Crew of Two Unhurt. Bv United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 15.—A large tri-motored Corman monoplane crashed and was destroyed by fire in an open field, eight miles west of here Friday. An attempt was being made to land. The pilot and mechanic, the only occupants, escaped injury, although the plane plowed a 500-foot furrow in the ground before the landing gear snapped off and the three motors dropped to the ground after the ship nosed over. It was said the plane was on a test flight from Detroit to Chicago. The ship was owned by C. H. Nahey, Detroit.

Gipsy ‘Gips’ Bv Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., Feb. 15. Luther Ashley, farmer living four miles south of here, is S4O poorer as a result of a gipsy woman asking to tell his fortune. While the woman was talking to Ashley, he missed his pocketbook. Police were called and finally the pocketbook was found at Ashley’s feet. The woman hurried away with a party of gipsies in two large automobiles. Then Ashly discovered the pocketbook was empty. The gipsies escaped.

HOOSIER AT 90 SAWS WOOD ON DATE OF GIRTH Dillwyn P. Smith Lives Near Natal Home at Pennville. Bu Times Special PENNVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15.—A live mite of a Valentine came to a log cabin near here ninety years ago Friday. That Valentine, Dillwyn P. Smith. Jay county’s oldest resident, celebrated his birthday by ! cutting wo'Kl with a buck saw. Smith has spent all his life In te community, and now lives within | a mile of the site of the cabin where he was born. He is a son of Edmund and Eliza Dutton Smith, Hoosier pioneers. They came to this community in 1838 from Ohio, making the trip in a covered wagon. The elder Smith was a carpeiuer and coffin maker. His ledger book, preserved by his son, contains entries showing charges of $5 for coffins for adults while those for children were $1.25. Smith was married in 1861 to Miss Sarah E. Dugdale, the union lasting forty-three years. Mrs. Smith died in 1904. They had five children, all living. They are Mrs. W. D. Slay and Louis A. Smith, Pennville; Mrs. P. G. Montgomery, Cleveland, O.; Charles W. Smith, San Bernardino. Cal., and Mrs. G. R. Paxson, Ru.ihville. The first vote cast by Smith was for Abraham Lincoln, in his second campaign for the presidency in 1864. NOTRE DAME ORATOR WINS STATE CONTEST Student From Ft. Wayne Discusses Slow Operation of Courts, Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Feb. 15. Frank E. Corbett. Ft. Wayne, University of Notre Dame senior, won first place in the Indiana intercollegiate oratorical contest held at the university Friday night. His subject, “The Weighted Scales,” concerned the slow administration of justice in American courts. Other winners were: Second, Charles M. Taylor, Purdue, and third, Robert Goodwin, Wabash. Other contestants were Tom B. Millikan, Earlham; Amos Veren, Evansville; Robert Huber, Manchester, and Edward Fillenwarth, Butler. Traylor made a plea for better prison conditions in his speech on “Forgotten Men.” Goodwin paid tribute to the 118 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain in “Their Strength Is As the Strength of Ten.” INDICTMENT UNDER FIRE Counsel for Former Farm Bureau Chief Allege Prior Jeopardy. Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15. Henry Shuman, former head of the Madison county farm bureau, who is under indictment, on a false pretense charge growing out of an alleged misappropriation of funds of the farm organization has started his third attempt to escape punishment. Attorneys for Shuman have filed a motion in circuit court to quash the indictment on the ground that Shuman has previously been placed in jeopardy on the same charge that is now pending. Shuman was released in circuit court a year ago when Judge Will Sparks, now judge of the federal district court of appeals, held the affidavit improperly drawn. Shuman’s wife recently filed suit for divorce. MISSING YOUTH WRITES Taylor University Student Disappeared at Upland Tuesday. Bu Times Special UPLAND, Ind.. Feb. 15.—Two friends here of Frank Simons, 19, Taylor university student missing since Tuesday, have received post cards from him saying he would return Sunday. The cards were addressed to A1 Mathias. 20, and Miss Alio.® Dissel, 19, also students. Mathias, a room mate of Simons, is unable to assign a reason for the youth’s disappearance. He said Simons mentioned a desire to visit friends in Saginaw, Mich., where he formerly resided, and the cards stated he was en route there. Kiwanians Hear Rotarian Bu Times Special MARION, Ind., Feb. 15.—William B. Blake, member of the Marion Rotary Club, gave an address on “Rotary” at this week’s meeting of the Kiwanis Club. Ho discussed the foundation and ideals of the Rotary club. The address was given in connection with a plan inaugurated recently by Marion civic clubs in an effort to bring about a better understanding among all organizations. Customer Escapes Charge Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 15.—Merritt Foster, 28, is in a hospital here suffering from a bullet wound in a leg, inflicted when police caught hi mstealing from a grocery, apparently will escape prosecution. M. B. Edminston, store owner said he would not file charges because Foster is a customer.

Shoplifting Charged Again Bv Times hpedal TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Feb. 15. Mrs. Emma Carney, 54, who recently completed a sentence in the Indiana woman’s prison for shoplifting faces the same charge again. Police say she took .several articles from a 5 and 10-cent store here. Dog Makes Stage Debat Bv Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Feb. 15. Scotty, a dog owned by Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Deppe made his Istage debut here in “The Goose Kang's High,” a play presented by Fr*nkling college students. Miss Alice Elizabeth Harb directed the play.

Boy Cripple j Punished by j Fire Ordeal Bu United Press PRINCETON. Ind., Feb. 14.—A verdict of guilty was returned in Gibson circuit court here against Howard Robb 65, on a charge of assault and battery on his crippled grandson, Lloyd Kendle. Robb was sentenced by Judge Smith to serve six months and pay a SSO fine. Lloyd told the court that he hid a lump of coal with which Robb had intended to strike his daughter, and as punishment the aged man held one of his arms against a red hot stove. The arm was burned severely. He also told of several severe beatings with iron pokers that he had suffered at the hands of his grandfather. oemocratsTn RAP AT MAYOR Move to Oust George Dale From Party Alleged. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Feb. 15.—Mayor George R. Dale was elected mayor of Muncie by the Democrats, but he almost was read out of the party. This was learned following a socalled harmony meeting which was sponsored by Wilbur Sims, city Democratic chairman and foe of the mayor. ! Resolutions had been drawn, it was learned, “reading Dale out of the party” and declaring his weekly newspaper not to be the official j party organ, but for some reason j they were not presented. I Friends of Dale say the move failed when all but six of the twentyfive persons present walked out after the nature of the meeting had been revealed. Enemies of the mayor say the action was only delayed until a formal meeting can be arranged. Dale was bitterly attacked for his appointments, it being charged that he named many Republicans to offices which should have been filled by Democrats. 41 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK LOST LIVES IN FLOOD Report on Toll in Gibson County Made by Red Cross. Bv United Press PRINCETON, Ind., Feb. 15. Casualties in Gibson county from the recent floods included thirtyeight hogs, two horses and a cow, according to a report by the county Red Cross chapter. The greatest loss was destruction of ungathered com. Thus far there has been no estimate of damage to the wheat crop. Few families in the county actually suffered for lack of food, Red Cross officials said. Most of the homes isolated were unoccupied at the time, and at no time was there any serious threat of loss of human life. Rivers have fallen rapidly since the flood, due somewhat to deepening of the channel of the Ohio river, which permitted a quickened runoff, and little fear is held that a serious flood will occur later this year, although observers expect ani other overflow of the Wabash river | and some of its tributaries. WOMAN FACES CHARGE Swindle at Anderson Alleged to Have Netted S7O. ! Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15. | Charged with obtaining money under false pretenses, Miss Julia Rowles, 36, is in Jail here awaiting trial. Ernest Ward charges Miss Rowles obtained S7O from him by fraud. He says she told him she was a beneficiary of an estate in Allen county and discussed purchase of realty he owns here. She borrowed S7O from Ward, telling him it would be paid when the estate was settled. Ward asserts he learned she has no interest in an Allen county estate. Authorities announce she has confessed. Anderson Man Dies By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 15.—H. J. Wilding. 78, native of England, is dead here. He came to America when a boy. He leaves two sons, A. A. Wilding, Anderson, and William H. Wilding, Indianapolis; two daughters, Mrs. Lottie Cummins, Ashtabula, 0., and Mrs. Florence Steiner, Anderson; a brother, Robert Wilding, San Miguel, Cal., and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Hartnell, Los Angeles, Cal. Teacher 48 Years Dies Bu Times Special CHESTERTON, Ind., Feb. 15. Miss Rase Murphy, 78, a teacher in schools here for forty-eight years Is dead. She leaves a brother, Joseph Murphy, Valparaiso, and a sister, Sister Raymonda of Holy Cross convent, Notre Dame.

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GRAIN DEALERS OF STATE WILL HOLDMEETING Fifteenth Annual Session Open Wednesday at Wabash. Bu Times Special WABASH. Ind.. Feb. 15.—The Farmers Grain Dealers Association of Indiana will hold its annual convention here Wednesday and Thursday with S. J. Cottington, president of the Farmers National Grain Corporation as the principal speaker. The convention, the fifteenth annual meeting of the organization, was brought here for the third time in nine years. Attendance of 200, representing all parts of the state, is expected. Mayor Homer T. Showalter will welcome the grain dealers to Wabash in the first speech of the session at 10:30 Wednesday morning. Mrs. Ross Daugherty of Treaty will respond. Annual reports will be made by M. P. Hill, president, Francesville, and E. G. McCullon, secretary, Indianapolis. Speakers during the convention, lit addition to Cottington, include A. F. Hlnrich, assisting professor of farm management, Purdue university; Charles Latchaw, secretary’ of Ohio Farmers Grain Dealers’ Association; Frederick Landis, Logansport editor, who will address a banquet Wednesday evening; Ralph Grace, Rockfield; C. M. Holsinger, Oakville; Howard Halderman, Waash, and Frank Myers. Besides Hill and McCullon, officers of the association are: Matthew Maroney, first vice-president; Samuel Foster, second vice-president, and W. F. Hagen, treasurer. The board of directors is composed of J. R. Nelson, Wolcott; William Hagen, Chalmers; B. G. Gunnerson, Francesville; William Stephenson, Muncie: Carey Hester. Shelbyville; F. W. Schwinkendorf, Westville; C. J. Basenark, Crawfordsville; H. O. Rice, Huntington, and Fred Roberts, Monticello.

MAIL CARRIER RETIRES AFTER 25-YEAR CAREER Westfield Postoffice Employe Haa Traveled 223,000 Miles. Bit I'hnrp Xperial WESTVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15.—Walter E. Davidson, carrier on a rural route from the postofflee here twenty-five years, retired today on a pension. During his services, Davidson wore out several automobiles, nine horses, two wagons and two sleighs, and traveled a distance only 1,776 miles short of nine times around the world, approximately 223.000 miles. Os the 130 families which Davidson served at the beginning of his career, only fifteen remain, but he has carried mail to their children and their children’s children. BANS MOTOR FUNERAL Noblesville Man’s Request for Horse Drawn Hearse Granted. Bu Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Feb. 15. Complying with a request of Elias Tucker, a team of horses drew the 1 hearse which conveyed his body to a cemetery. He was a lover of horses and was never happier than when he was working with them. For many years he followed the grand circuit races and was a personal friend of practically all of the leading racing men of the country. The firm which had charge of his funeral retained a hearse for horses when its service was motorized but| the last time it was used was In' 1918. Daylight Saving Opposed J Bu Times Special CONNERSVILLE. Ind., Feb. 15 The Fayette County Sunday School Association reveals opposition to daylight saving in a resolution adopted at a meeting here. The resolution says fast time tends to ’ create tardiness and irregular attendance of Sunday school officer* and pupils. Mute’s Marriage Ended Bv Tim> s Special •a GOSHEN, Ind., Feb. 15.—Marriage of Emma Alshouse, Elkhart, a mute, and Chester B. Alshouse was annulled in superior court here when it was shown Alshouse is not 4 divorced from a previous wife.

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