Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 161, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1930 — Page 3

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4 CORN-HUSKING TITLE OF FARM BELT AT STAKE Huge Kansas Field Will Be Scene Today of Crack Ear Strippers. I ni ted Press TOPEKA, Kan., Nov. 14.—'The national corn-husking championhip, classic test of strength and Kill for men in the great midester n farm belt, will open today. No rural athletic contest rivals the popularity of this harvest race in which the stoutest and fastest men in seven states race through • he corn fields, stripping golden ears Irom stalks to determine who can harvest the largest amount in 'hghty minutes. Resalts an Hookup Nation-wide interest has been roused in recent years, and today radio hookup will carry reports of the racers’ progress all over the country. Fourteen contestants, survivors of local, county and state contests, in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, lowa. Indiana, Minnesota and Nebraskaleading corn-growing states—are entered. They represent the choice of p' . ica’ ability in a well-populated farm territory of 464,000 square miles. The prizes for which they compete include S2OO offered by agricultural papers and SI,OOO known as the department of agriculture prize. Huge Field Is Arena A huge level field of coni, standing straight and with exceptionally j long rows, yielding between forty and sixty bushels to the acre, is the contest “arena.” This is divided into longitudinal sections down which the contestants race, picking ears from two rows of corn at a time and tossing them into wagons drawn ahead of them. At the end of the field they turn back taking the next two rows. All picking stops at the end of one hour and twenty minutes. Then the man whose wagon contains the largest number of bushels of corn, whose rows have been picked cleanest and whose picked cars are freest from husks is declared winner. KIDNAPING IS CHARGED Woman Posing as Man Alleged to Have Stolen Girl for Revenge. ROBINSON. 111., Nov. 14.—Mrs. Janet Graham, who did a man’s work on a Mississippi plantation lor eight months before her sex was discovered, awaited extradition today on a charge of kidnaping the planter’s daughter. Myrtle Younger, 15, because he discharged her.

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Butler university’s newly organized student council is pictured here. The council first was organized in 1928 to put student organizations and activities under a single governing body. All class elections and control of the student budget of the university are under jurisdiction of the council. The eleven members and president, pictured.above, are: Top Row (left to right)—Miss Mary Hoover, 4324 Julian avenue; Edward Green, 659 East Twentyfourth street; Miss Betty Jeanne Davis, 3269 Central avenue, and Donald Youel, 3140 Washington boulevard, all seniors. Middle Row—Warren Isom, of Mitchell; Miss Elma Rose Sailors, Kokomo; Wales Smith, Martinsville, and Malcolm Snoddy, 516 Central court, all juniors. Bottom Row John Lockabill, 3325 Ruckle street; Miss Virginia Goodwin, 5551 College avenue, and Miss Margaret McLoughlin, Cedar Lake, all freshmen, and Russell Townsend, senior, presiTHOUSANDS MULCTED ON WEDDING INSURANCE Ten Promoters Are Held on Mail Fraud and Lottery Charges. By United Press DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 14.—Ten thousand Texans have lost half a million dollars or more this year in matrimonial and birth insurance, authorities investigating several mutual concerns estimated today. Many persons in Oklahoma. Kansas and Colorado also have sustained losses, they said. Ten operators face mail fraud and lottery charges in Ft. Worth.

dent of the council. The freshman class is not represented on the governing body.

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TWENTY YEARS I OF SCOUTING TO BE CELEBRATED N Program at Church Will Mark Organization of First City Troop. Twenty years of scouting in Indianapolis will be celebrated at the Tuxedo Baptist church, 29 North Grant avenue, next week. The city’s first troop was organized by the Rev. U. S. Glutton, pastor of that church, twenty years ago this month. The scouting program here now embraces ninety-two troops and 2,400 boys and leaders. A special troop program will be ; held Friday night, Nov. 21, for troop members and parents and an anni- | versary service will be held at 7:45 i Sunday night, Nov. 23^ ; Earl Conder, former president of ' the Indianapolis Boy Scout council, will be the principal speaker. ScoutI master Clutton will arrange the proI gram, assisted by Charles Welshans, C. Earl Byi-kit and Earl Morrison, assistant scoutmasters, and Earl : Amick, Omer Larrison and N. E. I Thompson, troop committeemen.

Chief Deputy

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Floyd J. Mattice

When Democrats take over the | reins of Marion county govern- i ment Jan. 1, Floyd J. Mattice, J former assistant United States j district attorney, will become chief : deputy prosecutor. His appoint- j ment was announced by Herbert j E. Wilson, prosecutor-elect.

INDIA DOMINION MOVE GAINING British Conference Urged to Grant Status. By United Press LONDON, Nov. 14.—The British government today published a dispatch from the government of India recommending liberal reforms in

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growth of national consciousness ill India: affirmed the ultimate id^al for British and Indians alike as an all-Indian federation moving toward dominion status, and sketched constitutional reforms to allow the Indian people to work out their own destiny. Debt Moratorium Sought LONDON. Nov. 14.—Leading Brit* ish and American financiers were engrossed today in conversations which were understood to include discussion of a possible moratorium on World war debts. J. Pierpont Morgan and Owen D. Young are attending.