Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 275, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1930 — Page 13

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Do r Die Two Valiant Yanks Start Out to Storm Montsec or Perish.

'T'W r O unsung heroes who sallied forth to accomplish a feat which later was accomplish eel kg thousands of American troops provide the color for the first story told today in The Times World War Story contest. They didn’t capture Montsec, but they were willing. The Times is offering a prize of >lO for the best story of the World var told during the week, with $5 or the second best. a m Bugler Frank T. Anderson, otnpany B, First engineers, First division, whose address is R. R. 3, Box 640, Indianapolis, tells of this valiant pair. UP in the old Toul sector, in February, 1918, "B” Company was living for a while at Boucq, far enough behind the lines to make those hardened warriors think they were serving a tour in the S. O. S. Inactivity and lack of fighting palled on the heroic souls of Horseshoe Flaherty and his buddy, Shorak. MonUsec loomed up before them and dominated the entire country around. It hurt the proud spirits of these soldiers to have the Boche hold the peak. Though the French had triad vainly several times to take the hill, it did not daunt the two warriors who resolved to take it in the name of the Great Jehovah and the continental congress. Unknown to any one, they set out armed with rifles and several bottles of vin rouge, resolved to do or die. After they had walked for about eight hours and had gotten lost, they were met by Lieutenant Boas, who questioned them as to their mission. Reluctantly they explained that they were going to capture Montsec. After considerable argument the lieutenant was able to dissuade them temporarily, and let it wait about eight months longer, until General Pershing brought up sixteen or eighteen divisions to help them take the offending hill. nun Myrle Worthington. 123 West Morris street, who was a, private in Battery F, One hundred, twenty-fourth field artillery, Thirty-third division, who lost a leg in action, comes through with an interesting story of General Pershing : “AT ease, rest, smoke.” Those l\ words sounded great to us all after an hour or so of drill, but the time those words sounded the best was when our well-beloved General John Pershing spoke them. It was back in December, 1918— the fighting was' over, except that some of we buddies were fighting for our health. At that time General Pershing w T as on a tour of inspection of various hospitals in France, visiting the sick and the wounded soldiers who fought in this last. war. By luck he visited our hospital at. St. Mazaire, and the boys were glad to think that they had a chance to see him—and possibly* to get to shake hands with the man who led them to vifctory. General Pershing entered our ward, the amputation ward. There were about seventy or seventy-five boys, including myself, who had lost a ieg or an arm. Our medical officer called attention. The boys did their best to stand, reeling and rocking, trying to brace themselves against the beds, some standing on one leg instead of two. For the first five minutes the general was talking to the medical officer. nurses and orderly. The boys were very weak and were getting tired. Then the general came through the wards, visiting the bed of each buddy. After stopping at four or five beds, he asked the medical officer. "How many of this type wounded have you in this ward?” The captain replied. “All of them, sir.” Then General Pershing addressed the entire ward. “At ease, rest, sit down and smoke." We were all glad to do so. I was standing on what was left of one leg. My right leg was wounded badly. Today I carry the scare. I suffered the loss of the left. General Pershing finished his inspection. shaking hands with us all. As he was leaving a nurse came in. One of the boys sneezed and it funded just like he said, "Who is he?" Another buddy said quickly, ‘How in h do we know?” Genral Pershing had a laugh with us ->ll. He left, wishing us fast recovery and good health.

"SITES SATURDAY FOR FURNITURE FIRM HEAD Scheduled at Mortuary for H. J. Root. Funeral services for H. J. Root. 72, of 3060 North Meridian street. Ideal Furniture Company head, who died Thursday at South Bend, will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Saturday at Hisey & Titus funeral parlors. 015 North Delaware street. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr Root, who. for many years was prominent in Indiana furniture manuffwtuidng circles, died at the Oliver hotel when he suffered a heart attack while on a business trip. In addition to the Indianapolis store Mr Root operated two stores in South Bend and another in Terre Haute,

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RIOT PRISON IS TO BE RULED BY IRON HAND Mutiny Ends ‘Sunday School Management’; Convicts Nurse Broken Heads. SOLDIERS NIP OUTBREAK Ringleaders Are Held in Solitary, Clubbed Into Submission. BY NOLEN BULLOCH Lnited Press Staff Correspondent JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 28.—A mutiny which ended in a bloody riot between prisoners and guards in the century-old state prison which is sprawled out on the banks of Missouri river, today caused penitentiary officials to announce that from now on “this institution will be handled like a prison” and that the "days of Sunday school rule are over.” A dozen convicts, their heads cracked, jaws broken and bodies bruised from the clubbing they received Thursday at the hands guards, were confined in the hospital today. Nearly 100 others suffered lesser bruises and hurts in the riot in the prison mess hall and in the courtyard. In the solitary confinement cells in the cellhouse nearest the river bank nearly eighty men were held. Many of these are known leaders of the rioting. Warden Leslie Rudolph, for twenty years executive officer of the prison, and known among guards and prisoners as a "square shooter," announced after the rioting that leaders told him the men intended to bum the chair and twine factories. Protest Against Rule They intended this as a protest against the administration, Warden Rudolph reported the prisoners as saying, rather than an attempt to escape. The prisoners, in a surly mood for thirty-six hours, vented their rage against authorities Thursday noon when they turned over tables, threw iron plates and cups and attacked guards. Three lesser riots had been quelled earlier in the day. National guardsmen and special police, rushed to the penitentiary Wednesday noon after the electric siren on the prison office building had warned that rioting had broken out, aided in quelling the disturbance. The 900 men who had thrown down their tools early Thursday had been forced to march from the factories and had been locked in their cells when the noon riot occurred. Guards, ordered to “bring ’em out” by Warden Rudolph, had entered the mess hall, accompanied by the militiamen. The convicts rushed the guards and after a furious fight, fled through windows. Clubbed Into Cells In the courtyard the fighting continued until the men were clubbed into their cells. Six hundred men who had not participated in the riot were brought to the mess hall Thursday night to be fed. “I congratulate you on being men,” Warden Rudolph told them. I know that conditions here are far from ideal. We are overcrowded, but I know that most of you feel I am doing my duty toward you.” The men cheered. ’ The majority of the riot leaders were youths in their twenties. Instructor Stricken GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 28. —Dr. Grace Barkley, assistant professor of botany at De Pauw university, was found unconscious in the botany laboratory. She was taken to the Putnam county hospital where her condition is declared serious. Physicians state she is paralyzed on one side. No one was with Dr. Barkley when the attack came.

WETS ARE AHEAD IN DIGEST STRAW VOTE Bn Vnttrd Vrrm NEVt' YORK, March 28.—The Literary Digest’s prohibition straw 7 vote continues to veer sharply tow-ard repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Os a total of 1.244 483 votes cast thus far, 333,978 were for enforcement, 383.117 for modification and 527,388 for repeal. Nine of the twenty states represented in the new tabulation—Georgia, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota., Oregon, South Dakota and Washington—show 7 more votes in favor of enforcement than for either modification or repeal. The Kansas vote was 17.957 for enforcement as against a total of 11,723 for modification and repeal. Os 49 051 ballots returned from Indiana. 19.779 were for enforcement. 14,664 for modification and 14.608 for repeal. Tlie complete tabulation for this week follows: For For For State Enforcement Modification Repeal Total California 24.150 27.086 28.742 79,978 Connecticut 2,294 4,343 7,571 14.208 District of Columbia. 1,342 1,636 2,694 5,672 Georgia 4.061 3.321 3.503 10,885 Illinois 30.721 40,318 59.341 130,380 Indiana 19,779 14.664 14.608 49,051 lowa 17.812 12.298 11.449 41,559 Kansas 17.957 6.823 4.900 29,680 Michigan 18,707 20.302 27,677 66,686 Minnesota 17.661 17,530 21.896 57,087 Missouri 18.950 15.601 24,364 58.915 Nebraska 8,812 5.880 5.263 19,955 New Jersey 15,365 26.811 43.374 85,550 New York 42,800 88.598 139.912 271.310 North Dakota 2,289 2,008 2,196 6,493 Ohio 34.990 36,172 37.471 108,633 Oregon 5,109 4.176 3.173 12,458 Pennsylvania 31,585 34.534 64.505 130,624 South Dakota 2,664 2.015 1.674 6,353 Washington 7.928 7.728 6.718 22,374 Wisconsin 9.002 11.273 16.357 36,632 333,973 383,117 527,388 1,244,483

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Clara Lets ’Em Grow

The most famous red hair in America soon will be twice as famous —or perhaps it would be better to say twice as much of it will be famous. Yes, folks, Clara Bow is letting her hair grow. It is almost do An to her shoulders now. And she intends to let it grow on and on.

Indiana News in Brief

pv Time* Special . , „„ JONESBORO, Ind., March 28. In this quiet Grant county town, Charles J. Gray, 70, Indiana’s oldest newspaper reporter, has entered retirement at the home of relatives. After chronicling the news in Michigan City for forty-one years as an employe of the Evening Dispatch, Gray was finally forced to end his work due to il l health. Demand Probe of Killing NEWCASTLE, Ind., March 28. Friends and relatives of Wilson Griffith, 49, Newcastle, are demanding a thorough investigation of his slaying by a policeman at Middletown, 0., declared to have been the result of firing on an innocent

OFFICER SLAYS TWO ROBBERS Deputy Sheriff Fires When Prisoners Attack Him. Bn United Preen ATTICA, Ind., March 28.—Two thieves were killed by Deputy Sheriff Fred Ottinger, Warren county, here Thursday, when they attempted to resist th- officer as he was taking them il at Winchester. Charlt. (Curly) Frakes, Bloomington, sa. \y police to be a bootlegger, was . led instantly, and Joe Sharp, Joplin, Mo., died late Thursday night froi. a bullet wound in the chest. According to Ottinger, the two men robbed his store at West Lebanon Wednesday night and escaped with a small amount of merchandise and money. The officer found the two men at Attica near a brickyard, a hangout for petty criminals. The men had tne stolen merchandise. Upon assurance that the two would go to jail peaceably, Ottinger placed them in his automobile, not handcuffed. Once on the road the men attacked him, and he fired Coroner Clifford Crumley, Fountain county, is holding an inquest today. Ottinger is reported on the verge of a nervous collapse. Mill President Dies MILWAUKEE. March 28.—Edward Freschl, 53, president of the Holeproof Hpsiery Company, died at Mount Sinai hospital today. He has been ill for several weeks.

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bystander during a duel which caused the death of another officer. Suit Filed for Skeleton WARSAW, Ind., March 28. A suit for possession of a skeleton found a few days ago on a by road, believed all that remains of Frank Tucker, Warsaw cigar store clerk, missing since Jan. 28, 1927, has been presented by a brother, Fred Tucker, to Elmer Funk, administrator of Frank Tucker’s estate. 500 Quakers Hold Meeting NOBLE SVJ.LLE, Ind., March 28. Five thundred delegates attended the annual missionary conference of the Western Yearly Meeting of Friends held at the Gray Friends church southwest of here. All churches of the denomination in western Indiana and eastern Illinois were represented. Mrs. Leslie Bond of Amo, Tipton Man Slain in Texas TIPTON, Ind., March 28.—Funeral services with military honors will be held here for Ralph V. Graff, 22, son of J. P. Graff, former city fireman, who was slain in Texas, while being taken to the Novarro county penal farm to serve a sentence for illegal train riding. Leniency for Convict’s Wife HAMMOND, Ind., March 28. Mrs. Anna Budovich, Indiana Harbor, wife of Nick Sudovich, who is serving a sentence in Indiana state prison for conspiracy to commit a murder, was given a suspended sentence of a year and a day and SI,OOO in fines for liquor law violation by Federal Judge Thomas W. Slick in United States district court here. Mothei Wants to See Grave EL WOOD, Ind., March 27.—The first Madison county gold star mother to apply for a passport to visit the World war battlefields in France as a guest of the United States government is Mrs. Mary Probst. Her son, Hudson H. Probst, was killed in action and is buried in France. Fire Sweeps Eighty Acres COLUMBUS, Ind., March 28. Fire which started from a brush pile swept over about eighty acres of land in the Sweet Island neighborhood southeast of here, causing damage of $3,000. Body Given Up by Lake GARY, Ind., March 28.—A murder mystery was deposited on the sands of the Lake Michigan shore at Lake Front pdrk here, in the form of the body of a man about 60 years old, whose head had been slashed deeply, apparently with a knife. Man Held in Slaying Case TERRE HAUTE, Ind., March 28. —Authorities here are awaiting word from Philadelphia police, who will question Herman Meice, 31, formerly of Terre Haute, said to have declared he was wanted here for the murder of a 10-year-old girl. Garrison Wants State Berth BOONVILLE, March 28.—Charles H. Garrison, farmer, traveling salesman and prominent Democrat of this city, has announced as a candidate for the Democratic nomina- | tion for secretary of state. Dog Is Called Suicide NEW RICHMOND, Ind., March 28.—Mrs. Rose L. Work returned to New' Richmond to bury her pet bulldog, which she claims committed suicide beside the body of her 1 husband. Veteran Banker Is Buried KOKOMO. Ind., March 28. Funeral sendees were held today for John A. Jay, 83, veteran banker and church leader, who died Tuesday after a long illness. I. Church to Meet in Bedford NEWCASTLE, Ind.. March 28. Bedfora was chosen as the 1931 meeting place of the Indiana Ministerial Assembly of the Church of God, at a business meeting of the 1930 assembly here. Gypsies Get SSOO Loot LETTERS FORD, Ind., March 28. —Philip Lewis, 80-year-old farmer, three miles southwest of here, was robbed of SIOO in cash and S4OO in certificates and checks by five gypsies who stopped at his home.

SECOND VICTIM IS SOUGHT IN DEATHJDDLE Double Murder Is Scented , in California Forest Mystery. JEALOUS MAN BLAMED Construction Worker Says He Heard Six Shots Fired at Night. Bit United Preen EUREKA, Cal., March 28.—A companion murder victim to the red-haired girl found slain in a northern California redwood forest, perhaps the girl’s sweetheart or husband, was sought today by sheriff’s officers. Working on anew clew based on six shots heard fired in the vicinity where the girl's body was found Monday, sheriff’s officers searched the dense undergrowth for another body. Mystery, deep as the shadows of the towering redwoods which had cloaked the murder for six weeks, continued to surround the identity of the murdered girl today. Heard Six Shots The report of Charles Tracy, construction worker, that on a night about six weeks ago he heard three shots—then three more in rapid succession—sent officers on the new search. An autopsy revealed several days ago the girl was killed by a bullet fired through her head. A theory that an angered husband or jilted lover had slain the girl, was given strength by Tracy’s statement and marks on the girl’s shoes, officers said. Her shoes were scratched by gravel, as if she had been dragged for a mile or more over the highway. Letter Is Found A letter written on Lankershim hotel stationery, San Francisco, and signed Gertrude Lawrence, which was received by Sheriff John W. Runner yesterday, said: "Red-haired girl murdered at Scotia by a man named Danny. Look for him." A query revealed a Gertrude Lawrence had registered at the Lankershim from Vancouver, B. C., but had left prior to Thursday night. Fear of Mr. and Mrs. Elzie Pullen, 1419 Oliver avenue, that the redwoods murder victim was their daughter, Mrs. Violet Pullen Thompson, 24, was removed Thursday when Mrs. Thompson’s dental chart failed to tally with the slain girl. In all other respects, descriptions of the two were identical. TENNIS TOURNEY TO BE HELD AT BUTLER Miss Askren Will Have Charge of Annual Butler Event. Miss Ercil Askren, 725 Berkley road, will be in charge of the annual Butler university women’s

tennis tournament, to be held in the university gymnasium soon. The contest will be open to all women students. Miss Muriel Adams, state champion of West Virginia and ranking Indiana player, won last year’s tournament. Miss Askren is a member of the senior var-

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sity women’s basketball team and a member of the Alpha Delta Theta sorority. KERN SEEKS BENCH Files for Nomination as Democratic Candidate. John W. Kern filed today for the Democratic nomination for judge of Marion superior court one. The candidate has been United States commissioner for seven years and is secretary of the Indianapolis Bar Association.

Pupils Lay Aside Books for Play

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A SCIENTIFIC JAG! a Young Wichita Chemist Gets ‘Boiled’ Just to Prove Jamaica Ginger Is Not Poisonous.

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BEECH GROVE TO AVOID SCHOOL WAR

Superintendent Says His Tenure Will Be Up to Board. ‘My contract is binding only so long as my beard wants my services,” was the comment today of Lloyd B Mann on the life tenure granted him on the superintendency of Beech Grove schools Monday night, when by vote of two of the three school board members, he was given a contract for his sixth consecutive year. Gratification over the fact that the Beech Grove school has been returned to the continuous commission list was an important factor in Mann’s retention, despite the fact that his re-employment fop a sixth year gave him permanent tenure as superintendent, should he care to exercise it. Beech Grove high school was dropped from the commission list in February, 1929, because of lack of certain building requirements demanded by the state board of education. With anew unit costing $47,672 added to the structure and other requirements met, the school was returned to the continuous commission list, after inspection Monday night by the state board. There appeared little prospect today that any steps would be taken in opposition to Mann’s receiving life tenure by renewal of his contract. The life tenure factor had caused H. L. Hurst, board member, to oppose renewal of Mann’s contract, which was carried, however, by the votes of Q. E. Mitchell and Verl Pearson. Answering Hurst’s assertions that consideration of Mann’s contract was brought rather hurriedly, Mitchell today said that the purpose of the meeting had been advertised for two weeks. Mrs. John Shaffer, president of the Beech Grove Parent-Teacher Association, opposed to life tenure as a policy, said she did not expect the opposition to the sixth term to become organized.

CIRCUS IS ABOLISHED Emergency Fund Campaign Is Authorized by Board. The direct-by-mail subscription campaign to raise funds for the police and firemen’s emergency fund was authorized Friday by the board of public safety, following conference with representatives of business organizations who protested against the annual circus. The committee told the board business men preferred to raise the entire fund than to indorse the circus with 75 per cent going to promotion and expenses.

charge of the accident prevention bureau, declared. “Watch out for them! Too often vacation time proves to be accident time.” Pupils of School 2 at Delaware and Walnut streets are pictured running gleefully from the building today for a week of play.

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/ft/ NEA Service WICHITA, Kan., March 28. —Check up C. M. Anderson, young Wichita chemist, as the newest martyr to the cause of science. Risking his life to prove that Jamaica ginger is not the cause of the "Jamaica ginger paralysis epidemic” now sweeping parts of the nation, Anderson drank six ounces of "jake’’ that were taken as samples from as many drug stores here. Anderson didn't die. He proved his point. Aside from a- glorious drunk” he suffered no ill effects from the first legitimate spree staged in Wichita in many years. The experiment was conducted under the supervision of the health department, and police officers were instructed not to arrest the chemist for being drunk. Anderson, who failed to find any poisonous substance in dozens of samples of Jamaica ginger, is convinced that something else is responsible for the paralysis epidemic which has marked several hundred cases in Wichita alone.

Tooth at Birth By United Prenn PRINCETON, Ind., March 28. —Seeing is believing, and doctors here had to see the new daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Mounts, before they would believe the infant was born with a perfectly formed front upper tooth. Jeanette Rose, the subject of the unusual development, and her mother, are doing nicely.

CHILD WELFARE LEADERS MEET Regional Conference Held at Claypool. Equalization of opportunity is one of the functions of the modern state, Mrs. Lucia Johnson Bing, superintendent of the Ohio division of state charities, told the Ohio valley regional child welfare conference in sesison today at the Claypool. The conference opened this morning and will continue through Saturday. "France and Australia make outright grants to child-bearing mothers " Mrs. Bing pointed out. “This is in recognition of their contribution to perpetutation of the race. In America, slowly and reluctantly, we are realizing that there is a responsibility laid upon the government to see that all children are given the right to healthy, education and affectionate care.” Mrs. Bing offered some criticism of the present functioning of civil service laws “Civil service, designed by our political science friends, needs further study and development if it is to protect the quality of the state’s personnel,” she asserted. Judge Frank J. Lahr of Marlon juvenile court also addressed thp opening session.

WARREN FUNERAL TO BE HELD ON SUNDAY Funeral services will be held at 2 Sunday afternoon at the Oaklandon Universalist church for Charles E. Warren, 73, of 419 East Forty-eighth street, who died at the Methodist hospital Thursday. Burial will be in the Oaklandon cemetery. Mr. Warren, born in Withamsville, 0., spent his boyhood near Oaklandon. He was connected with the traction and railway business here and was a member of the Order of Railway Conductors, which will have charge of the funeral services, and of the Knights of Pvthias. The widow and a son, Clarence N. Warren, survive him.

FACTORIES IN FIVE INDIANA' CITIES‘REVIVE’ Industrial Conditions Are on Upgrade in Columbus and South Bend. j KOKOMO SHOWS GAINS Evansville and Newcastle Also Say Employment Is Better. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Time* Improved industrial conditions In Newcastle, Kokomo, Columbus, South Bend and Evansville are noted in a business survey of the state for th® ! week ended today. At Newcastle, the Welfare society, formed last fall to aid those in need due to unemployment, has ceased operations with the announcement that the few cases remaining will be cared for by township poor funds. So far in March, factories in Newcastle have added 500 men to payrolls. The Thomas Manufacturing Company has started operations in its new plant. Tile Continental Steel Corporation, with plants at Kokomo, Indianapolis and Canton, 0., reports profits of nearly $1,000,000 were made during 1929, and that, dei spite a general business slump, vol- , ume for the first quarter this year } was ahead of that for the first three j months of 1929 The 1929 pay roll | was $1,000,000 and cost of improvements to the Kokomo plant was $207,000. 100 Added to Force Officials of Columbus industries report steady improvement in the employment situation. The Reeves Pulley Company plant is near a normal basis. One hundred persons were added to the lorce of NoblittSparks Industries, Inc., this week, and more will be employed withiji a week. Full operation is report’ by the Reliance Manufacture Company and Columbus Handle al Tool Company. The first annual report of thq| Bendix Brake Corporation, one of the giant industries of South Bend, shows annual earnings of $7,400,000. Since Jan. 1 the corporation has added three subsidiaries, bringing the total to seventeen. Among the new units is the $2,000,000 Hydraulic Brake Company. Los Angeles, which holds patents on Lockheed brakes used on many automobiles, and which developed an airplane brake. Another acquisition, the Stromberg Motor Devices, Inc., is moving to a $250,000 plant adjoining the Bendix holdings. When in full operation this unit will employ 1,000 persons. Hiring of a force will be started at once. Some Overtime Schedules A few plants at Evansville are working on an overtime and in a number of others employment is approaching a normal basis. ( The Graham Body Corporation is forking at 80 per cent of the 1929 peak, while there is full operation by Servel, Inc. The Chrysler-Dpdge plant is near capacity prod? scion and that point has been a/ ped at the Mead-Johnson and B lus- j Erie plants. 1 Conditions in various L Via ! cities are shown in the foil H mg ■; summary: Anderson The Midwest** A plant and Sefton Manufactm Company, units here of the (St tainer Corporation of Amerh have been consolidated, which giV4's„ Anderson one of the largest plant \ of the kind in the country. Plant to Be Repaired Arcadia —Preparations are being ■ made for starting full operations at the D. C. Jenkins Glass Company plant April 4. Brazil—With installation of new equipment by the Dominion Coal Company, strip mine concern, it has become one of the largest coal and clay producers in this field. Trafa’-ar—A unit of the Hoosier Cc-'-’ng Company is to be built here by O. E. Fulmer, Bargersville contractor, who submitted a low bid of $6,240. Equipment to be installed will cost at least $20,000, company officials announce. Bloomington—The board of the Bloomington hospital, co-operating \ with the local Council of Women, is planning erection of a SIOO,OOO addition to the institution building. ; Cra-.-fordsville The Crawford hotel is being improved at a cost I of $25,000. Packing Company Expands Terre Haute— Construction of an j addition to the Loudon Packing j Company plant will be started Tuesday. The addition will be 240 I feet long and 150 feet wide. Former owders of the Schwartz Pic- ! ture Frame Company’s factory are again in possession, having bought the property at receiver's sale, it is announced the factory, which has been idle, will be reopened Monday, giving employment to fifty persons! Winchester Randolph county commissioners announce an addition to the county hospital here will be built at a cost of $20,000. Otterbein The State Bank of Otterbein has been formed to re- i place an institution of the sany* - name which was closed recently. 1 Griffith—A spring expansion pro- I gram of the Keen Foundry Com- * pany contemplates expenditures of * $50,000. Washington The Green Mound Coal mine, five miles southeast of g here, is being dismantled. At oif 1 time It was one of the largest pro- ss ducing pits in Daviess county. I