Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1930 — Page 2

BANK'S CAREER MAY CLOSE IN VENUE CHANCE Shift of Suit to Frankfort Checks Plan to Reorganize at Kokomo. Bv Tim• s Stlcrinl KOKOMO Ind.. March 22.—Doubt prevails that an effort to reopen the closed Farmers Trust and Savings bank here will be continued in view of the fact that receivership proceedings have been taken to the Clinton circuit court at Frankfort on a change of venue. It is pointed out that should Judge Brenton Devol of Frankfort rule that a permanent receiver be appointed, thus doing away with th° present temporary arrangement, the only course open would be liquidation, thus ending the bank's career. It is considered likely Judge Devol will favor the permanent plan. It being believed that court in a county other than the one in which the bank is located w r ould not care to be burdened with the responsibilities connected with the temporary arrangement. More than-three-fourths of stockholders at a meeting held recently signed an agreement to contribute toward a fund for reorganizing the bank, between $700,000 and SBOO,OOO being offered. However, this will have no effect under a permanent, receivership. The application for a change of venue was filed on behalf of Bern Tate, a depositor of $240. He alleged that the state banking department, on whose orders the bank was closed, “exercises an undue influence over the citizens of Howard county,” and that an odium attaches to the defendant’s cause in Howard county,” the bank being the defendant.

ANDERSON MAYOR AND CITY JUDGE IN CLASH Police Told to File Cases in Justice of Peace Courts. By Times .</•< lal ANDERSON, Ind., March 22. Mayor J. H. Mellett’s first official act following his return from Washington, D. C., instructed Chief of Police Alvin E. Riggs to file affidavits charging violations of ths gaming laws and other misdemeanors in a justice of peace court. Decision to remove these cases from city court followed failure of City Judge Jesse Shuman to convict thirteen men caught in a gambling raid and acquittal of a number of motorists charged with reckless driving and speeding. Police complained to the mayor It was useless for them to make arrests only to have defendants released in city court. Judge Shuman declared that he had decided all of the cases which have been before him on the evidence as presented to him and charged the controversy to his refusal to be dictated to. COMPANION OF DEAD AUTO THIEF ACCUSED Indianapolis Youth Held at Columbus Admits Stealing Car. ffir Tima r Bnrcial COLUMBUS. Ind.. March 22. Robert Westerfleld, 17, Indianapoiis, 1* in the county jail here facing charges of vehicle taking on which he will be tried in Bartholomew circuit court before Judge Julian Sharpnack. The youth was arrested as he drove into the city by Columbus police, who had been called by telephone from Madison by State Policeman Baer, stating that the automobile had been stolen there. Westerfleld confessed and said he was wanted in Indianapolis and in other cities on like charges. The prisoner said he and two companions stole a car at Avon about two months ago, and while driving on the Rockville road the ear was wrecked and one of the men killed and another arrested. He Is now serving sentence on charge of vehicle taking. Westerfleld escaped. Prison Term for Arson 7>*/ Time* Sttrrinl COLUMBUS. Ind.. March 22 Abraham Greider, Delphi, recently convicted here of arson, was sentenced to a term of from one to three years by Circuit Judge Julian Sharpnack. When asked if he had anything to say. Greider replied that he was not guilty. Delay,in pronouncing sentence was due to time allowed the defense to determine if the case would be appealed. Greider was convicted of burning his household goods when fire razed his home and a barn, for which Sam Shaw and Frank Redman are now serving state prison terms. Gambling Charges Dropped Bv Time* special ANDERSON, Ind.. March 22. Thirteen men arrested by police and charged with shooting craps were released when City Judge Jesse Shuman held evidence was insufficient for conviction. Five policemen who raided the home of Jerry Chappell said the men were kneeling on a floor in a circle with money and dice in front of them. Sports Editor Honored Rv Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. March 22. —The De Pauw chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional Journalistic fraternity, has initiated H. C. Warren. South Bend, as an associate member. He is sports editor of the South Bend News-Times and is well known in Indiana as a basketball official. Sigma Delta Chi was founded on the De Pauw university campus and Edwin V. O'Neel, an alumnus of the school now on the staff of the Indianapolis Times, is national president of the fraternity. Spinal Malady Reported B" Times Special KOKOMO. Ind., March 22.—The flrst case of spinal meningitis in Howard county was reported here Friday, that of Corrine Chambre. 1?. who became ill Thursday. Her condition is not regarded as serious.

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‘Horse’on Cop lilt I nihil Brens HAMMOND, Ind.. March 22. —Policeman George Redman found a stray horse on a street and decided to call the patrol wagon. The call box was a block away, and the horse refused to be led. Redman, according to Officer Morz’ report dragged the animal to the. box. When the patrol wagon arrived. Redman was lying near the box, exhausted, and the horse was trotting away. Sergeant Fandrei ran after the horse, leaped to its back, and returned. Redman, 'recovering as Fandrei rode up with the horse in perfect control gasped: “I never thought of riding the thing.”

DISGUSTED MAN ADMITS SETTING FIRE TO BARN Columbus Laborer Tired of Working in Razing Building. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 22.—Orville Graffa, 22, laborer, confessed to arson here an hour after he had been arrested by Police Chief Lloyd Nickerson in connection with the burning of a barn at the home of Mrs. Henry Mundt here a few days ago. The arrest followed an investigation by Virgil H. Quinn of the arson division of the state fire marshal’s office, who was called here by Fire Chief James Kailor. Graffa said he had been helping his father raze the building and became disgusted with the work, and set the building afire. The damage was about SIOO. The father had the contract to raze the building and replace it with a garage. MUNCIE MAN KIDNAPED Husband Taking Medicine to Wife Made Captive and Robbed. By Times Special MUNCIE. Ind.. March 22.—When Dallas Jones, 18, stepped from a physician’s office here with a bottle of medicine for his wife, he intended to hurry home. But two bandits, driving a small automobile, changed his intentions. Jones was forced into the car at the point of a revolver, hurried into the country and robbed of all the money he had, $6.15. He was held several hours. Then he was returned to Muncie and ordered from the car. He arrived home six hours later than he had intended. . Gravel Removal Causes Suit By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., March 22. suit filed in Madison circuit court by the Prudential Insurance Company, asks an order against Eliza Dunlap, her son, Ivan Dunlap, and county officials to stop removal of gravel from a 260-acre farm in Monroe township. The company foreclosed a mortgage one year ago to protect a $20,000 loan made on the farm eight years ago and then bought the land at sheriff's sale. The complaint avers defendant entered upon the premises without right and excavated gravel which is being spread on county roads. Visit to Grave Planned p/ Times Svrcinl ANDERSON. Ind., March 22. Mrs. Mary Brobst. Elwood, has made application at the office of County Clerk Chester Thomas here to visit the grave of her son, who was killed in action overseas during the World war. She will sail from New York May 7 for France. She is the first Madison county gold star mother to make application for the trip which will be financed by the United States government. Prisoner Mentally Weak By Times Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. March 22. Dan O'Rafferty, who included this city on a trip which was marked by swindling, has been committed to a St. Louis sanitarium for treatment of mental disorders, police here have been informed by Police Chief Joseph A. Gerk of St. Louis. Lapel Woman Burned pu Times Special LAPEL, Ind., March 22.—Mrs. Clemma Critser is suffering from severs bums received when her clothing became ignited as kerosene poured on hot coals in a stove at her home exploded.

Township Trustee Faces False Claim Charge at Crown Point. Cm Times Special CROWN POINT, Ind., March 22. —Trial of Eric Lund, North township trustee charged with presenting false claims on which money was paid from the township poor fund, will open in Lake criminr# court here Monday before Judge Martin J. Smith and a jury. A special venire of fifty for jury service has been ordered by Judge Smith, who said it would probably be impossible to obtain a jury from the regular panel of thirty-six. Lund and Drs. Samuel Bgll and William E. Nichols of Hammond were indicted by the Lake county grand jury in June, after a lengthy investigation by- the state board of accounts. It’is charged'that Lund as township trustee permitted payment to the physicians presumably for professional services to the poor, when in fact no such services had been given. Last fall the defendants tried to escape trial ’with a motion that the charges should be dismissed on the ground that evidence was insufficient, but Judge Srpith overruled the motion. No dates have been set for trials of the doctors.

THEFT DURING REVIVAL Three Youths Punished at Columbus for Stealing Gasoline. nu Times Special COLUMBUS. Ind., March 22. Charged with stealing gasoline from Charles Noblitt’s automobile, Carl Olmstead, 19; Roy Collins, 16, and Ben Carter, 19, of west of here, pleaded guilty in city court and were fined $1 and casts, amounting to sll, and given a one-day sentence in the county jail. The were paid and the sentences suspended. The youths took gasoline from the car while it was parked near the Ohio Chapel church where a revival was in progress. Residents in the vicinity have complained of several acts of vandalism at the church during the revival. On one occasion greese was smeared on seats of several automobiles, and a flash light was kept flashing through the windows. Two Veterans Die Bn United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., March 22. For the second time within a week two Civil war veterans have died in a day within a short distance of each other. Michael Mathias. 89, was found dead at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lillian Kamp, five miles west of here. Andrew Shaffer, 89, died at his home in Idaville. A few days ago .two Uivil war veterans died; in the same day near Brazil. Suicide Theory’ Upheld 5 u l "■nrtsvl fress • * • * MADISON,'..Ind.,' March 22.—A Jefferson-county’-grand jury, investigating the deatK of Lola Lee, 20, found with; a; bullet wound in the head in front of the home here of Nathan' D: .Maffield, returned a verdict; • recommending that the suicide finding .of! 'Coroner John H. Gans and- Prosecutor Paul F. Dowell be accepted.' The.verdict said that the jury; had ; reviewed the evidence taken during-a two weeks hearing before the. coroner. Death Declared Suicide Bn United Press MADISON, Ind., March 22.—The Jefferson county grand jury has returned a verdict of suicide in the case of Flank Campbell, 25, Hanover. who died March 4 after drinking poison liquor. Investigation brought out evidence that Campbell had put poison in the liquor. School Musicians in Concert nv Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind., March 22. An audience of 2,000 attended a concert given by the high school orchestra and band under direction of Professor Harold Elliott, supervisor of music in the Nobiesville city schools. There were also numbers by the high school girls and school boys glee clubs. The program closed with an address by Fred M. Starr, superintendent of schools. Farmer Kills Self Bu United Press BLUFFTON. Ind., March 22. William Perry. 62. retired farmer at Montpelier, committed suicide by hanging himself in a barn on his farm, two miles northwest of here.

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Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., March 22—Headed by Tom Mix and Tony, his horse, a rodeo will be given here Sunday at the American Circus Corporation grounds as a farewell party to the Sells-Floto circus, first among the shows having winter quarters here, to begin the season’s travels. The circus will leave for Chicago Monday.

SUPPORT DENIED ENEMY GF REDS Portland Women Refuse to Follow Lead of Teacher. Bu Times Special PORTLAND. Ind., .March 22. . The Business and Professional Women’s Club of Portland today is on record against. one of. its members, Miss Ellen A. Wood, local school teacher, in her attacks on national leaders of the organization. She charged they -were being made dupes, in spreading socialistic and communistic doctrines. Several weeks ago Miss Wood made the first of a series of attacks on the leaders, declaring that radical influences were back of the Cause and Cure of War Conference, which received support of the clubs in national convention. Miss Marian McClench, Ann Arbor, Mich., national president, in an address here, defended herself and associate officers. Shortly after-ward Miss Wood issued a statement repeating the charges, and asserting Miss McClench had not replied to them. However, the club here turned down a resolution by Miss Wood in whieh she sought support for her allegations.

PRIZES GIVEN HOOSIERS Indiana Boys Win First Three Awards in Calf Contest. Hoosiers won the first three prizes in a dairy calf club contest the Baltimore & Ohio railroad for farm boys and girls living in communities along its lines. First prize, a SIOO scholarship, was won by John Leming of Route 3, Ligonier; second, SSO cash, by Turley Mace, Lexington, and third, $35 cash; Harold Myers, La Paz. There were several hundred entries in the contest, those in addition to the Hoosiers being from Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland. Airport to Be Improved By T.i m fn sr)reial RICHMOND, Ind„ March 22. Several new devices will be installed at the Richmond airport, including a lighted wind direction indicator. Consideration is being given installing of a rgdio beacon. Another device likely is an automatic weather forecast .broadcasting station. An official of- the United States department . of. ' commerce will be at the field next week to plan, for the installation. College Gains in Rating Bu Times Special MUNCIE, • Inch;' .March 22.—Two national • honors have been conferred.; Upon. .Ball .State Teachers college here, it is announced by President L. A. Pittenger. The school has 'been given an A classification, senior teachers college, with no deficiencies by the American Association of .Teachers colleges. The North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary' Schools, meeting at Chicago, has given '.the.'local institution the classification of- college. Hog Breaks Man's Leg Pm Times Special NOBLESVILLE. Ind.. March 22. Chester Powell, farmer, believes that he could furnish a good story for Ripley's “Believe .It Or Not.” While handling a large male -hog the animal .kicked. breaking the. large bone in Powell's left leg. The hog weighed 600 pounds.. Powell says he does not recall of a man having suffered a broken leg by being kicked by a hog. Church Stone to Be Laid pv Timm Sverial ' MARION, Ind., March 22.—The corner stone of. a.new- building for the First Methodist Protestant church , will be laid Sunday afternoon. The Rev. G. W r . Farrow, head .of Methodist. Protestant Indiana conference, ’"ill be the principal speaker. Completion of the building is set for - May 1.

MURDER THEORY BASIS FOUND IN WOMAN'S DEATH Bloody Knife and Handkerchiefs New Clews to Fate of Housekeeper. B j Times Special KENTLAND. Ind.. March 22. Finding of a blood-stained knife and two men's handkerchiefs marked with the same crimson, has caused Newton county authorities invesigating the death of Mrs. Bronysi Nordydis, ponderous Lithuanian woman, to entertain a theory that she was a murder victim. Pieces of the woman's body strewn a distance of 200 feet along the Monon railroad tracks, near Roselawn, were found twenty-four hours after she disappeared from the farm of Antone Jonikas, where she had been employed as a housekeeper since August, 1928. Four other men lived at the farm besides the housekeeper and Jonikas. Authorities said the knife and handkerchiefs were found in a wa-ter-filled ditch and it was apparent that an effort had been made to hide them. Children of Mrs. Nordydis, a son 19 and a daughter 16, identified the body. The dead woman had been separated from her husband John about three years. He is a resident of Chicago, to where he has ordered the remains of his wife’s body sent for burial.

BANDITS SHOOT BANK CASHIER Kennard Man Struck in Shoulder by Bullet. pii Times Special KENNARD, Ind., March 22. Three bandits attempted to rob the Kennard State bank Friday afternoon, wounded the cashier, Charles Pierson, 53, and fled without obtaining any loot. The three men had been seen driving about the town in an automobile for two hours before the robbery attempt and had aroused the suspicions of merchants. Just before closing time at the bank, two of the men. entered it while one waited outside in the car. Pierson was carrying the bank's money into the vault when one of the men poked a gun through the bars of the cage and commanded Pierson to ‘‘stick ’em up.” Before Pierson cotild raise his hands the gun was discharged. The bandits fled after the shot and were seen traveling south of town at a high rate of speed. Pierson’s condition is not believed serious. He was shot in a shoulder. EX-LEGISLATOR IS DEAD Benjamin F. Kobbe Lived in Bartholomew County Since Birth, By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 22. Benjamin F. Kobbe, 79, lifelong resident of Bartholomew county and former representative in the legislature. died at his home in Wayne township, following a short illness of heart disease. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon. Mr. Kobbe was born and reared in the vicinity wffiere he died and had lived for fifty-five years. He was active in political and civic movements. For twenty-four years he taught school in a building near his home named in his honor. His wife died about a year ago. He leaves the following seven children: Frank Kobbe, Mrs. John Burbrink, Mrs. Harry Taylor. Mrs. Gottlieb Lohr, Mrs. Elmer Eckelman, Mrs. Will Eckelman, Mrs. Frank Kreinop and a foster daughter, Mrs. August Burbrink. Wanted Man Escapes nn Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 22 Frank McQueen of near Hartsville, arrested a few days ago by Sheriff Alonzo Fitch on charges of vehicle taking, is now a fugitive from justice. McQueen was accused with Clarence Long and Minor Walters. When the sheriff went to his home to arrest him, he found McQueen sick in bed. He did not remove him. Later he went to the home to get McQueen to find that the man had disappeared. False Fire Alarms Fought Bii Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 22. Backed by anew city ordinance, making it a misdemeanor to turn in false alarms, Fire Chief Charles Taylor has opened a campaign on these responsible for more than fifty such calls this year. The chief said he w’ould file charges against anyone caught turning in the false calls. The ordinance carries a fine and jail sentence. Scholarship Offered By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. March 22.—A scholarship to Ball State Teachers college, providing an income of not; less than SSO each year, has been offered by the Muncie A’.trusa Club to girl graduate selected by a committee from high schools of Delaware county. City Superintendent Frank Allen and County Superintendent Lee O. Baird, were named to select the winner under rules and conditions made by the club. Sheridan Woman Dies mi Times Special SHERIDAN. Ind.. March 22.—Mrs. Hadley Stafford, 65, is dead at her home here. The husband has been a traveling. man in Indiana for a quarter of a century. She leaves her husband: a daughter, Mrs. Otto Harold, Boxleytown; a son, William Stafford. Fairmount: a daughter in California and another in Canada. Crippled Thief Sentenced pti Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., March 22. George Woodhouse, 23. a cripple, or, a plea of guilty to stealing an overcoat, was fined $lO and sentenced to spend days in jail.

OLD BIBLE CARRIED THROUGH FIVE WARS

Book Published 189 Years Ago Owned by Former Soldier at Richmond. Bti Times Special RICHMOND. Ind., March 22.—A 189-year-old Bible owned by John Bitters here has been carried by soldiers in five wars. The book was published in Germany in 1741. It has been in his family for many years. One of Bitters’ ancestors, a Prussian soldier, carried the Bible on the battlefield of Austerlitz, where Napoleon crushed the combined armies of Austria, Russia and Prussia. It was also carried through the battle of Jena, where Napoleon again was victorious. The eldest brother of Bitters’ mother carried the book in the Civil war. Bitters took the Bible with him whei? he enlisted in the United States regular army, and it was through the Spanish-American war and the Philippine insurrection. The final conflict for the book was the Boxer rebellion in China, through which Bitters served.

Gone to Stay Gary Man Wold Divorce Wife Now in “Old Country.'

Bu United Press GARY, Ind., March 22.—John Krivy, Gary, agreed that his wife Anna could visit her parents in Czechoslovakia, but he didn’t expect her to stay, according to a divorce he has filed in superior court here. After she had been in the old country a short time, he charges, she wrote that she was anxious to come home. He sent her. money for transportation to the United States. Krivy waited several months and wrote another letter when his wife failed to return. In the answer the wife said the money had slipped away somehow’, but if Krivy would send a steamship ticket she would surely get back. He sent the ticket, Later, Krivy charges, he received a letter with the ticket inclosed. and a message from his wife saying she never would come back. Further complications may arise if the court grants Krivy’s request for custody of his child, now r with its mother. The question is how to get the child back to the United States.

THREE FACE CHARGES . OF ROBBING SICK MAN Confessions Reported by Prisoners Held at Columbus. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., March 22. Curt Moutardier, 30; Chester Decker, 22, and James Young, 22, all of Kentucky, are held here awaiting trial in Bartholomew circuit court on charges of highway robbery. They are accused of robbing the filling station of Fred Garr, 63, four miles northwest of here. According to Garr, three men entered the station and drew a gun on him and also threatened him with a club. He has been sick and asked the men not to molest him, whereupon they bound his hands with wire. They then robbed the cash register of sl6 and took a quantity of canned goods and cigarets. After they left, Garr succeeded in getting loose and hastened to a neighbor’s home and telephoned Sheriff Alonzo Fitch, who, with a deputy, arrested the three men two hours later as they walked on U. S. road No. 31, walking toward this city. The money and stolen goods were found in their possession, as was also a revolver. The men, it is said, have confessed. Fund of $85,762 Asked By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 22.—The public of Muncie will be asked to contribute $85,762 to carry on the relief work here during the next year. This is the goal set for the Community Fund campaign, March 31 to April 4. The amounts alotted to factory workmen has been considerably decreased this year because of the unemployment situation. Suits Seek Road Land nu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., March 22.—Fiftysix condemnation suits w’ere filed here by the Indiana highway commission in an effort to obtain a right-of-way for the construction of State Road 28, known as the Al-bany-Alexandria highway. The suits resulted when property owners refused to agree with highway officials as to benefits and damages resulting from the new highway. Boys Leader Speaks By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., March 22. International exchange of boys was the subject of Dr. Even V. Knudsen of Boston and Copenhagen, Denmark, in -.1 dressing the Rotary club here. Dr. Knudsen for fifteen years was associated with the Danish government in boys’ work, and now is engaged in a project by which two hundred boys will visit Denmark and other European countries each year. It U. Professor Invited nu Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 22. —The following Indiana university faculty members have accepted an invitation of the program committee to contribute to a symposium on correspondence study at the annual conference of the National University Extension Association in New York, May 7. Professor Will T. Hale and L. J. Mills of the English department; Professor Grover T. Somers, school of education, and Professor Stephen S. Visher, geology department.

Red Was First Bu United Brers BLOOMINGTON, Ind. March 22.—A. L. Bundy, who operated a nickelodeon here in 1906, the second motion picture theater established in Indiana, recalls that a red petticoat was the first attempt to color films. The petticoat was waved by a woman as a signal for stopping a train to prevent it from crashing upon a wrecked bridge. The picture made “a great hit,” Bundy remembers.

CHURCH GIVEN AT VERSAILLES Native of Town Doner to Methodists. By Times Special VERSAILLES, Ind.. March 22. James H. Tyson, one of the organizers of the Walgreen Drug Company, now r a resident of Chicago, but who was born here, will present the congregation of local Methodist church with anew building. An architect is now drawing plans for the structure which will be fireproof and strictly modern. The material will be Bedford stone. Seats will be of metal. There will be a full basement to be used for Sunday school and social purposes. Tyson’s gift was accepted at a meeting of the church’s official board with Dr. L. C. Jeffrey, Seymour, district superintendent, presiding. Gift of the church. Tyson, announces, is only one of the many benefactions he plans for his home town.

TWO SENTENCED FOR THEFT NETTING SB.BO Indianapolis Men Admit Stealing Two Dressed Hogs. By United Press LEBANON. Ind.. March 22.—Two confessed hog thieves were sentenced to from one to ten years each in Boone circuit court here by Judge John W. Hornaday, and fined $lB and costs each. Richard Shaw, 27, and Harry Bell, 38, both of Indianapolis, confessed that they stole two dressed hogs from the slaughter house of Perry Jones, Zionsville, tyarch 14, while on a fishing trip at Eagle creek. They took the hogs to Nobiesville, where they sold them, and returned for two more. On the return trip, Jones too* the licence number of their automobile, which led to arrest. The hogs were sold for $8.50. Shaw was sentenced to the state reformatory, and Bell to the state prison. SPICY READING FOUGHT I-ake County Probation Officer Opposes Mag vzines. Bv United Press GARY, Ind., March 22.—Albert Lewis, Lake county probation officer, has launched a crusade against indecent and wood pulp publications, which he said flood the newsstands of the county. He announces criminal action will be resorted to unless sales are stopped. Included in the score of sample magazines he purchased in the county are those of the “true confession” variety, as well as the socalled art magazines. Lewis refused to name the objectionable publications for fear of stimulating sales. Lewis said most of the objectionable books were distributed from Chicago and said he might seek federal aid to prohibit the interstate traffic. City to Buy Building nv Times Special 1 ANDERSON, Ind., March 22. An ordinance authorizing purchase by the municipal electric light plant of the former Anderson saies pavilion has been given first reading by the city council. The measure is expected to pass at the next council session. The city leased the building three years ago at a rental of $250 per month with an option to buy for $40,000. Recently the building was remodeled to make room for the offices of the city electric light and water plants which were moved from the city hall. The improvement cost SII,OOO. .. Father of Six Killed mi Times Special PALMYRA, Ind., March 22John Q. Sears, father of six children, w’as killed on State Road 35 near here, when a loaded truck ran over him. He was behind the machine and attempted to place a rock against a wheel to prevent the truck from backing down a hill when he was crushed. Veteran Dies at 85 By Times Special RUSHVTLLE, Ind., March 22. Sam Rainey, 85, Civil war veteran, is dead at his horn ewest of here. He leaves eight children.

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MAN ONCE WAIF WILL TAKE HIGH FEDERAL PLACE Kokomo Citizens Recall Boyhood Days of Dr. Frederick Cullen. nu 7 inn s Si,, rial KOKOMO, Ind., March 22.—Di Frederick C. Cullen, who within n few weeks will become head of an important division of the United States department of agriculture, was a waif here iwenty-five years ago. who was adopted by the late Jack Cullen, then a saloon keeper. Later he was boy of all work at a local drug store. When Cullen was 14 years old his foster mother died. Shortly afterward his foster father, in the throes of grief, committed suicide at Mrs Cullen's grave. In his new position Dr. Cullen will head the food, drug and insecticide division of the agriculture department, concerned with the administration of the federal pure food and drug act. Dr. Cullen joined the department in 1929 after serving twelve years with the United States public health service, including work as an army surgeon. He served with troops on the Mexican border and during the World war. He was a lieutenant when he entered the army medical corps and at the end of the World war had risen to the rank of major. He has both brigade and division citations for distinguished service. Education of Dr. Cullen was obtained at the Winona Technical institute, University of Colorado, Rush Medical college and Postgraduate Medical and Leland Stanford universities.

MENNONITE PASTORS GIVEN ASSIGNMENTS Presiding Elders Re-Elected at Tndiana-Ohio Session. Bu Times Special GOSHEN. Ind., March 22.—Pastors were assigned at the closing session .here of the forty-sixth annual conference of the Mennonite Brethren in Christ of the Ohio and Indiana districts. The Rev. W. H. Moore was re-elected presiding elder of the Indiana district, and the Rev. H. M. Metzgei, Springfield, 0., was chosen again to head the Ohio district. Indiana pulpits were filled as follows: Wakarusa, A. B. Yoder: Nappanee and Oak Grove, W. Manges: Elkhart. Beulah, H. E. Miller; Elkhart. Zion, J. Grabill; Goshen, C. I. Huffman; Bethel, L. Rassi; Indiana Chapel and West Union, Charles Everett; Chapel Hill, Q. Antioch, I. Canan; Mishawaka, L. J. Lehman, Southwest and Foraker, C. A. Wright; Benton, H. S. Huber. LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL ALLEGED BY HUSBAND Evansville Man Testifies in Divorce Case Thai Wife Did Asking. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind.. March 22. Scott O. Thornburgh, traveling salesman, testified in his divorce suit here against Mrs. Inette Thornburgh that a proposal on her part led to their marriage. Furthermore, he alleges, she moved her son by a former marriage and her parents into their home. Mrs. Thornburgh in a cross-com-plaint, asking SIO,OOO alimony, alleges her husband had untidy personal habits. He alleges that when he came home in working garb after following his occupation as a gardener, she compelled him to change clothes and eat at a downtown restaurant. Her idea of breakfast, Scott testified, was “two cokes and two aspirin tablets.” I. U. Man Appointed nil Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind,, March 22. Announcement has been made here of the appointment of Professor R. E. Cavanaugh, director of the Indiana university extension division, to the advisory board of the Indiana Better Homes In America Association of which Mrs Felix T. McWhirter, Indianapolis, is chairman. He received his appointment from James Ford, executive director of Better Homes in America, of which President Hoove: Is honorary chairman. Youths Report Robbery nu Times Special S CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., March 22.—Leonard Hoskins and Herman Morrison, New Ross youths, reported to police here that they wen held up and robbed of about $25 on the Ladoga road south of here This was the second robbery of the kind to be reported in the pas’ week. The robberies were said tc have been committed by tv youths. Aged Man Drowned By Times Special WABASH, Ind., March 22.—Tim othy Ross, 73, owner of a sunum, resort in southern Wabash count; was drowned when he fell into the Mississinewa river from a boat.