Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1931 — Page 2

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TEN STUDENTS REWARDED FOR WORK OF MERIT Annual Fellowship List of Indiana University Announced. ay 1 imes Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 9. Dean Femandus Payne of the Indiana university graduate school announces names of ten graduate students who have been awarded university fellowships for next year. These fellowships, carrying a stipend of S6OO and cancellation of contingent fees annually are granted to students who have had at least one year of graduate work* and who show extraordinary ability in research. The students granted the fellowships and the subject in which they will do research are as follows: Imi M. Blackburn, Pineville, Pa., history: John A. Coffin. Muncie, history; Harold D. Ross, Jeffersonville, English; Lowell R. Hopkins, Evansville, education; George I. Wnitlatch, Charlestown, geology; Ancil Holloway. Fairmount, zoology; Robert D. Blue, Claypool, chemistry; John E. Potzger, Indianapolis, botany; Frank E. Dolian, Coalmont, chemistry, and George C. Reeves, Bloomington, philosophy. Blackburn received the A. B. degree in Greek in 1922, the Mus. 8.. in piano theory the following year from Indiana Central college and the A. M. degree in Greek from I. U. in 1924. He now is enrolled for his second year of graduate study here. His particular research work is a study of the Greek colony of Cyrene in North Africa. Studies Whig History Coffin holds the B. S. degree in history from Ball State Teachers’ college and the A. M. from Indiana university. His original investigation has to do with the evolution and the work of the Whig party in Kentucky. Rose received the A. B. degree from I. U. in English in 1929 and will have completed the work for the A. M. degree this June. He is working on the formation of a fundamental vocabulary of not more than 1,000 words that should belong to an international scientific language. Hopkins holds the A. B. degree in mathematics and Latin from Oakland City college and will receive the A. M. degree from the University of Missouri in June. He is enrolled in the graduate school here this year. Whitlatch received the A. B. degree in 1928 and the A. M. degree in 1929 from Indiana university, both in geology. From 1928-30 he was assistant in the geology department, and this year holds a university fellowship. His research work involves a field and laboratory investigation of the clay resources of the state of Indiana. The research work of Holloway j is concerned with the oak genus,, quercus. He is also an assistant in the zoology department, completing his third year of graduate work at the university. He received the A. B. degree in biology from Pennsylvania college in 1926. He already has completed 15,000 miles of field work and is planning an extensive collecting trip into Mexico during 1932-33. Holds Chemistry Award A Grasselli fellowship in chemistry is held this year by Blue, who ! received the A. B. degree from I. U. | in 1929 and the A. M. in 1930, both in chemistry. His research problem is the electro-deposition of metals from non-equeous solutions. Potzger received the A. B. degree In botany from Butler university in 1927 and will receive his A. M. degree there in June. He has spent the px-esent year, which is his fourth of graduate study, at Indiana university. His research problem deals with the swamp flora and plant succession in the Salt creek region of MOnroe county. Reeves received tire A. B. degree in English in 1929 and the A. M. in 1920 from the Cincinnati Bible Institute. He has done additional graduate work here and at the University of Chicago. Dolian received the A. B. degree In chemistry here in 1930 and has been U'orking for the A. M. degi'ee in that subject this year. He has been investigating the action of an hydrous salt on the process of estenifleation in the vapor system. Oldest Miller Dies By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., May 9.—Funeral services will beheld here Monday for Charles G. Carpenter, 94, one of the nation’s oldest millers, and for more than fifty years owner of the Richmond Roller Mills, who died Friday. He retired from active business life four years ago. He was a leader in the affairs of the Society of Friends and for fortyeight yeai's served as a trustee of Earlham college here, maintained by the society. Freight Line Opposed By Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., May 9. Mayor Zack T. Dungan of Huntington announces the city will oppose Earl S. Winegardner of Logansport in his petition to the public service commission for a permit to operate a motor truck freight line between the two cities. Mayor Dungan declares the freight truck business a nuisance, asserting roads are damaged and that ether utilities which pay one-fourth of the taxes In Huntington would suffer loss of business. State T. P. A. Meets By United Press ANDERSON. Ind., May 9.—The Travelers’ Protective Association will close its annual convention here today with election of officers and selection of the city to be host for the 1932 meeting. South Bend, Lafayette and Evansville have extended invitations for the convention. Girls Jailed for a Day HAMMOND, Ind., May 9.—Marjorie Clark and Marie Shalpi, girl bootleggers, who conducted a drinking resort in an exclusive Gary apartment section, were each sentenced to a day in each jail by Thomas W. Slick in federal £ here,

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In excellent health and spirits after a Florida winter, John D. Rockefeller is shown here as he posed for a Times-NEA Service cameraman at Lakewood, N. J.

NEW POLITICAL CLUB ORGANIZED Kokomo Democrats Given Charter. By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., May 9.—For the first time in the history of Howard county, Kokomo has an incorporated political club, through formation by local Democrats of the Jefferson' Club. The county has had many political clubs in the past, but they were organized for the purpose of one campaign and forgotten scon after the votes were counted. The club starts with a membership of fifty. The board of directors consists of Homer R. Miller, John E. Fredrick, Clinton T. Brown, Fred H. Jessup and Harry L. Matlcck. Miller is Democratic county chairman and seiwed two terms as prosecutor. Fi’edrick has been active for several years in state politics and fought the Taggart organization in conventions. Brown has long been active in politics and is known as an authority on election law. Jessup is a former prosecutor and Matlock was the Democratic nominee for representative in congress in the old Ninth district and gave Representative Fred S. Purness a strong contest in the November, 1930, campaign. The board of directors will meet Friday to adopt a constitution and by-laws for the organization and to select a permanent meeting place. 200 IN GYM EXHIBITION Drill*, Tumbling cn Program of South Side Turners. Two hundred students will participate in an annual gymnastic exhibition to be given. by the South Side Turners at their hall, 306 Prospect sti-eet, Sunday night. Program will consist of horizontal and parallel bar work, ballet and tap dancing, various gymnastic dirlls, tumbling and musical numbers. Laverne Crumbo and Robert Yoke will contribute a special feature in tap dancing. Students of Normal college will present live statue and pyramid formations. A dance will follow the exhibition. Music will be furnished by the Indiana Collegians, a sevenpiece oi-chestra. The public is invited. AUTO SMASHES STORE No One, However, Is Injured in Northside Car Crackup. When' two autos crashed at Thirtieth street and Boulevard place early today, one was hurled into the front of the Chaplin pharmacy, causing damage estimated at S3OO. According to officials of the store, no one was injured in the collision and the names of occupants were not obtained. Stephenson Rites Monday By Times Special MARION, Ind., May 9.—Funeral services will be held Monday for J, W. Stephenson, 52, wealthy'Marion man, identified with various lines of business, who died Friday of heart disease in Chicago.

Healthiest of Hoosier Youth Addicted to Milk

By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind., May 9.—Regular habits, with plain diet, including liberal quantities of milk and water, fresh vegetables and abstinence from tea and coffee, are credited by William Sanders, Franklin township, with giving him title of Indiana’s healthiest 4-H Club boy. Sanders was adjudged victor in the contest, at the annual club roundup at Purdue university yesterday. Sanders has consumed two glasses of milk at each meal, and a gallon of water daily, during the past two years. Fresh vegetables .compose a large part of his diet. He does not eat candy. During the past year Sanders was a junior in the Hopewell high school, and a member of the basketball team. , Sanders is an “early to bed and early to rise’’ addict. He goes to bed early, and arises at 4 a. m. daily, to aid in feeding stock, and doing other farp chores. He is the son of Mr. and Orue Sanders,

LIBERTY GIVEN 64 ON SERVING PART OF TERMS State Reformatory Board Acts on Completion of Sentence Minimums. By United Press PENDLETON, Ind., May 9. Sixty-four prisoners who had served the minimum of their terms were released from the Indiana state reformatory by the institutions board of trustees, sitting as a parole board. Fifteen petitions for parole were continued, two men were sent to the colony for feeble-minded, and two paroled for deportation to Mexico. The board showed its resentment against parole violators when it sentenced Raymond Barnes, South Bend, to an eighteen-year term. Barnes was paroled June 9, 1930, and arrested in South Bend for carrying a concealed weapon. He will serve the maximum of a two to twenty-one-year term for manslaughter. George Van Hoff, returned as a parole violator, told the board he was in the Ohio penitentiary fire and had saved many lives. Officials said they would investigate his story and if 'found to be true he would probably be shown leniency. He was sentenced to the reformatory from Wayne county.

Money Wise By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 9. Even elephants are money conscious, according to Gilmore Havnie, in charge of Mesker Park Zoo here. Kay, a young elephant, has been taught to ring a bell when visitors give him a nickel. Before ringing the bell, however, the animal picks up the coin and gives it to his keeper.

Suit Discloses Beer Party Was Wedding Scene By United Press PERU, Ind., May 9.—Suit for divorce and support money from Joseph H. McFagan, Cass county farmer, has been filed by Mrs. Frances McFagan, 20, of near Peru, who charges that she was the victim of a fake marriage in Wabash on March 7, 1928. Mrs. McFagan alleges that she attended a beer party with McFagan on that date, and that “an elderly man read something from a book and I thought we were married.” At a hearing before Judge Hurst McFagan admitted registering at a hotel with the girl, then 17, as man and wife. She seeks support of herself and 1-year-old child. Legality of the alleged commonlaw marriage was not decided by Judge Hurst, w r ho said that it would be passed upon at the divorce hearing. Wind Causes §IOO Fire By United Press COVINGTON, Ind., May 9. Bi'uno Belluci, Chicago, was fined i SIOO and costs when ari'aigned be- : fore Mayor Hegg here on a charge of possessing liquor. Belluci was arrested when two gallons of wine were found on a truck in which he | and his son, Valerio, were riding, j after it had collided with an auto-! mobile driven by Jacob May, Vin- : cennes, on state road No. 41, near here. Belluci explained he had bought a permit in Chicago which alowed him to make and use 200 gallons of wine a year, but was unable to produce the alleged permit. Check Fraud Charged By United Press TERRE HAUTE. Ind., May 9 H. B. Carlton, Louisville, Ky., who, police chai'ge, also used the names! of Walter C. Robbinson and F. H. | Marshall, is under arrest here today on a charge of issuing fraudu- j lent checks. Carlton was ari'ested 1 after an investigation by the state banking association. It is charged' he attempted to raise his bank, balance by depositing checks drawn on out-of-town banks. Carlton told detectives he was an employe of a railroad here and refused to admit any criminal act. Dry Raiders Arrest Two By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 9. Arrests by federal prohibition agents in a series of raids during the past three weeks here was raised to twenty-two today with the arrest of Ray Thurman, 46, and Wililam Cause, 40. Five slot machines and a large quantity of whisky and beer were confiscated at Thurman's barbecue stand, police said. Kokomo Man Wounded By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., May 9.—A critical gunshot wound was suffered by L. O. Chigley, 72, when his .38 caliber revolver was accidentally discharged while he was cleaning it.

By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 9. Ernestine Watson, 17, adjudged Indiana's healthiest girl at the Indiana 4-H Club conference at Lafayette, has led a perfectly normal and average life for a girl her age, according to her mother, Mrs. Vern Watson. Ernestine is 5 feet 2 inches tall, weighs 118 pounds, has blue eyes, brown hair and is considered by her acquaintances as quite pretty. A junior at the Prairie creek township high school, Ernestine is also leader of 4-H Club activities at the school and. since the school is without a vocational home economics teacher she also heads the clothing club. Many of her dresses are the product of her hands. Her grades in other subjects are average—96 to 98 —her mother said, adding that she is a good English student. She is fond of milk and fruit, eats candy sparingly and gets plenty of sleep. iie enjoys an occasional movie. *- M

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Monkey Business Costs $7.50-Eggs-actly That

By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 9. One of Earl Redden’s monkeys came home, to roost Thursday. It’s rather early in the year for this to happen, even though Redden says he can cite breaking of all records both for monkeys going away to roost and coming back. Last summer a flock of his guaranteed not-to-swim monkeys broke their contract, swam across a pool surrounding their home and hied themselves to trees in various parts of the city. Redden stood under many trees waving bright yellow bananas. All the monkeys came down but one.

COURTHOUSE NOW SERVING AS BARN

Building Erected in 1842 Was Scene of Three Murder Trials. By Times Special LAGRANGE, Ind., May 9.—An eighty-nine-year-old barn which stands on farm east of the Brighton schoolhouse was Lagrange county’s first courthouse. The building was constructed in 1842. Andrew Ellison, lawyer of the pioneer days, unwilling to see it dismantled when superseded by anew courthouse, had it tom down and the timbers moved by bobsled to the farm where it was reconstructed as a barn. It is recalled that the courthouse was the scene of three murder trials. In one, Hiram Springer was convicted of manslaughter in the killing of Jacob Beam during a dance brawl. Springer was sentenced to two years in prison. The supreme court reversed the conviction, but Springer escaped a second trial by enlisting in the Union army for service in Civil war. In 1870 Stephen Jenks was convicted of the murder of George Mallow and given a life term in prison. However, the supreme court reversed the conviction. In the meantime Jenks became a fugitive and was not captured until seven years later. He was again convicted and given a life sentence. He died in prison. Chauncey Games was given a life sentence in 1871 for the slaying of his sweetheart, Addie Dv,fight, a school teacher. CHURCH EVENT OPENS Evangelical Leagues Convene at Lafayette Today. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9.—St. John's Evangelical church is host to the seventeenth annual convention of the South Bend Federation of Evangelical Leagues and Sunday Schools, which opened today to continue through Simday. The Rev. C. F. Howe is the local pastor. Speakers include the Rev. V. Fi-ohne, Laporte. ■ The Rev. W. Goffeney, South Bend, was in charge of the opening session. Samuel W. Busch, Francesville, is president of the federation. Other officei’s ai'e: Vice-presidents, Edgar H. Hoffman and the Rev. P. R. Pobanz, Medaryville; secretary, Helen Schmock, Michigan City; treasurer, George Marker, Mishawaka; Sunday school representative. the Rev. R. E. Weisser, Wabash. Legion to Initiate 150 By Times Special \ LAFAYETTE. Ind., May 9.—James G. Barton of lowa, national adjutant of the American Legion, will be among the Legion officials at a joint meeting of Lafayette Post 11 and its auxiliary in Jefferson high school Monday night. Other officials expected are Mrs. Edna Werkhoff, Indianapolis, state auxiliary secretary, and Miss Ruby McNeeley, Fowler, Tenth district auxiliary committeewoman. Initiations will be held by each organization, the Legion announcing a class of nearly 150 new members, the ceremonial to be in charge of past commanders. The meeting will be open to the public. School Veteran Resigns By Times Special FRANKFORT, Ind., May 9.—Miss Katherine Howard has tendered her resignation as principal of Frankfort high school after eleven years’ service and a total of forty-five years teaching in various capacies in this city. A SIOO,OOO gymnasium which carries the name of Howard Hall is a tribute to her career. Church Water for Still 1 By United Press LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 9. Frequent visits of James and Earl Fife, brothers, to a church well aroused suspicions of authorities, who trailed the brothers and found that the water from the church property was being used in making moonshine whisky. The brothers were arrested and the still destroyed. Railroad Veteran Dies By Times Special LOGANSPORT, Ind., May 9.—J. A. Butterworth, 64, employe of the Pennsylvania railroad here thirtyfour years, during twenty-three of winch he was chief clerk of its shops here, is dead after a long illness. ‘SO-Cent’ Man Sued By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., May 9.—Mrs. Ruth Richard alleges in a divorce suit against Clarence Richard that he gave her an allowance of only 50 cents a week and squandered his money in gambling. Lockjaw Fatal to Boy By Times Special GARY, Ir.d., May 9.—Joe Heitza, 3, is dead of lockjaw winch developed from a slight wound in a foot caused by a nail. Washington Girl Dies By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind., May 9. Funeral services were held today for Miss Eunice Dumil, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dumil, who died after an illness of one week.

This one came down this week : after spending the winter in a tree. But it came down often during the winter. In fact, Mrs. Helen Ostrander invoiced Redden for $7.50 because the monkey came down into a chicken run at her home. Every time it left it took a flock of feathers for its nest and two or three eggs. The monkey quite lost its taste for bananas. Redden paid the $7.50 and , gave the prodigal to Robert Earl. I Redden explained that once an egg eater, always an egg eater, : Times are bad and he can’t pro- < vide eggs for the monkeys.

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ST. PHILLIPS, Ind., May B.—A verdict of accidental shooting has been returned by Coroner J. D. Newman of Posey county in the death of Miss Althea Allredge, 19, found with a bullet wound in her heart, near her home north of here. The coroner expressed the opinion that a small rifle was discharged as the girl climbed through a fence.

4-H CLUB GIRLS GIVEN AWARDS Vanderburg, Lake, Jasper Counties Teams Win. By United Press „. LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9.—Vanderburg county 4-H Club girls won the team canning judging contest at the closing session of the annual state 4-H Club roundup here Friday. Lake county team won the clothing judging contest, and the Jasper county team took fii’st honors in baking judging. Miss Louisa Bach, Lake county, won individual honors in clothing judging; Miss Elleanora Keller, Madison county, took first individual pi-ize in canning judging, and Miss Thelma Anderson, Henry county, won in baking judging. The Vanderburg canning team was composed of Eloise Schauss, Helen Featherstone and Helen Kappenman. f Lake county’s clothing judging team was made up of Louisa Bach, Marjorie Wason and Maxine Brown. TEST PROVES SUCCESS Activated Carbon Improves Water Supply at Anderson. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Treatment of water obtained from White river with activated carbon, anew process of purification of water, has proved a success at the municipal waterworks. Anderson is the first Indiana city to try the experiment, which was revealed at the American Chemical Society convention held recently in Chicago. Activated carbon, a pulverized charcoal preparation, is forced into the water supply to remove taste and odor resulting from the use of chlorine in killing bacteria. The new process is cheaper than the use of chlorine, the cost at the Anderson plant being about $1.50 a day. ( Woman in Auto Killed By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Two men are recovering here today from injuries suffered when Ernest Mitting, 38, Grand Rapids, Mich., drove his automobile over an embankment at the dead end of a road near here, and" it overturned on a railroad track. Mrs. Mitting, 30, was killed. Mitting and John Brunner, New York, were brought to a local hospital. Brunner said Mitting swerved into the road from state Road 67 to avoid colliding with another machine. Indianapolis Man Held By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 9. George Wilson, 36, Indianapolis, is held here on a charge of vagrancy pending investigation. He was arrested while trying to fit a number of keys he. carried into locks of parked automobiles. A GOOD BUSINESS SCHOOL Strong business, stenographic, secretarial and accounting courses: individual instruction in major subjects, large faculty of specialists in their respective lines. Free Employment Service. Fred W. Case. Principal. CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door. North Y. W. C. A., Indianapolis. Ind.

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WITNESSES FOR STATE ASSAILED IN FRAUD CASE Former State Highway Employe Strikes Back at Accusers. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 9. Counsel for Ralph Rogers, former state highway district superintendent on trial in Monroe circuit court here charged with conspiracy to defraud in handling crushed stone bought by the highway department, are centering their attack on four stats witnesses, J. Owen Hepley, Charles Dull, William Stephenson and John Asher, all formerly in his employ. The defense contends that the four turned state’s evidence in the case to shield themselves, and that a conspiracy existed within the Bloomington Crushed Stone Company’s organization. The company sol’d stone in question to the state highway department. While on the witness stand, Asher testified that he flasified weights of loads of stone handled, declaring this was done under instruction of Rogers and Hepley. He said a load of 500 pounds would be recorded as weighing 1,500. Hepley admitted under crossexamination that he, Asher, Stephenson and Dull had been working together since Rogers discharged them, to cause him to be indicted. PRISON BUYING LAND Total of 1,820 Acres Will Be Held Soon by Institution By United Press MICHIGAN CIT7Y, Ind., May 9. Land purchases by trustees of the state prison here will bring 1,820 acres under control of the prison within the next year. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of 335 acres of farm land in Porter county at a cost of $29,000. Another farm of 190 acres, to cost $17,000, will be turned over to the prison next March. Prison farms are in Porter and La Porte counties. They will be used to raise food for the prisoners and provide work for them. Manufacturing in the prison was curtailed by the passage of the Cooper act, and anew field to employ prisoners has been sought. VETERAN DOCTOR DIES Licensed Before Law Required Medical School Diploma. By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 9. Dr. P. T. Oliphant, 83, last Bloomington physician practicing medicine medicine who did not have a medical college degree, is dead, a victim of heart disease. He learned the profession through apprenticeship to a physician and obtained a license many years before the law required medical school graduation. Suits Demanded §158,000 By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Separate suits of six Indianapolis residents against Ovid N. Hessler, Elwood, seeking judgments totaling $158,000 for injuries, are on file in Madison superior court. The litigation follows the collision of automobiles driven by Clarence Lowe, Indianapolis, and Hessler July 19, 1930. Plaintiffs in the suits and the amounts they ask are Donald Castner, $25,000; Flossie Castner, $50,000; Harriet Lowe, $50,000; Clarence Lowe. $25,000; Arina Frances Lowe, $5,000; James H. Collins, $3,000. , Relief Costs $12,000 ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—The city relief fund, supported' almost entirely by contributions of city employes, has spent $12,427.72 since Oct. 28. Donations from salaries of city employes will continue until a $7lB deficit is liquidated and the fund built up for relief work here next winter. The movement was inaugurated by Mayor J. H. Mellett. Auto Victim Buried By Times Special GARY, Ind., May 9.—Funeral services were held today for Sava Ivanovich, 45, who died in a hospital after he was struck by an automobile driven by Mrs. Charles Rains. He w r as on his way to work when the accident occurred. Liberty Paper Sold By Times Special LIBERTY, Ind., May 9.—The Herald, a weekly paper here and the only publication of general circulation in Union county, has been sold by W. H. Parsons to Randolph Wedding, formerly of Crawffordsville. Wedding is a Wabash college graduate. Truck Driver Killed By United Press COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., May 9. George J. Bernard ,26, Eau Claire, Wls., was killed instantly near here when the truck he was driving crashed against a tree. Burley Jennings, riding with Bernard, suffered an arm fracture. Bandits Douse Victim By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Bandits, angered because their victim, Dan Riggs, had only 85 cents, forced him to accompany them to a river, near here, and threw him into the water.

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Rear Admiral Thomas C. Hart is shown above as he assumed his duties as new superintendent of the United States Naval academy at Annapolis, Md.

GOLLEGE WILL SET PRECEDENT Central Normal to Award Diplomas Outdoors. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., May 9.—Fiftyfifth annual commencement exercises of Central Normal college, set for June 12, will be held outdoors for the first time in the history of the institution. Another innovation will be the wearing of caps and gowns by graduates of both the four and twoyear courses, the former in black and the latter in gray. Heretofore only the four-year graduates have worn the cap and gown. It is estimated that about 125 will be graduated from the long course, and about 150 from the short. United Senator Arthur Robinson probably will be tne commencement speaker. The baccalaureate sermon will be delivered June 7, by the Rev. Frank McLaughen, pastor of the Danville Presbyterian church, a member of the graduating class. Other commencement week events include senior play, June 8; department of music recital, June 9; senior chapel, June 10, and alumni banquet, June 11.

So Sorry By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., May 9. —“I hate to do this, but I need the money,” a young bandit said to John Umbaugh, filling station attendant as he drew a pistol. Umbaugh handed over the day’s receipts, about S4O. The holdup came as the conclusion of a long conversation, the major part about the difficulty of getting good beer. The bandit bought gas and oil for his automobile before engaging the attendant in conversation.

BOY RECEIVES REWARD Given Wrist Watch for Aiding in Arrests Following Robbery. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., May 9.—Robert Arnold, 15, Hammond high school student, has been presented with an engraved WTist watch by police and other friends in recognition of his assistance in aiding in capture of four men awaiting trial on banditry charges. They are William Spurlock, Harley Collins, Harry Bond and William Collins. During the l-obbery of a grocery the boy obtained the license number the bandit car, turning it over to police. Arrest of the four followed. Arrests Follow Bank Closing By Times Special FRANKFORT, Ind., May 9. Charges connected with closing of the Mulberry Bank and Trust Company have resulted in Indictments being returned here by a Clinton county grand jury against Albert I. Yundt, president of the bank, and his daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Rhodes, secretary. Alimony Supports Man By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 9. Mrs. Hilda Smith was granted a divorce from Norman Smith after she testified that she had been forced to use the alimony she got from her first husband in order to support Smith.

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FIFTY SHOTS AT FUGITIVE FAILED TO HALTFLIGHT Jail Breaker Who Fled From Jasper Still at Large. By Times Special JASPER. Ind., May 9.—Ed Deal, French Lick young man accused with Raymond Mickler, also of French Lick, of robbing a store at Wickliff, Ind., is still at large today after fifty shots had been fired i at him by officers following escape | from jail here. The accused men broke out of the jail several days ago by removing concrete blocks from a wall, rhey left a letter to the sheriff g:ving their impressions of the jail. Officers received word that the fugitive was to be taken from New Albany to Vincennes in an automobile by his brother. Sheriffs of Dubois, Crawford. Orange and Martin counties; Sam Roberts, West Baden police chief; Wood Apple, French Lick police chief, and two private detectives lay in wait lor the automobile at Roland. a village on the Martin-Orange counties boundary. Apple recognized Deal and his brother in an approaching car, and held up his hand as a signal to stop. Instead the car was speeded up, and Apple narrowly missed being run down. As the car passed j he fired two shots, and the other I officers began shooting. Ed Deal leaped from the car and 1 ran across fields to a heavy woods. His brother stopped the car and submitted to arrest. He is charged with aiding a fugitive to escape. No trace of Mickler has been found since the jail break. DECISION DEFERRED IN TEACHING WIVES CASE Three Elvvood Women in Fight for Reinstatement to Positions. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Special Judge Alonzo L. Bales, Winchester, has taken under advisement ruling on a plea in abatement to the suit of Mattie Griffin. Grace Doerman and Mary L. Records, discharged Elwood school teachers, who ai'e demanding reinstatement. They were dismissed as a result of a policy of the Elwood school board against employment of married women. The motion alleges action of the board is final in such matters and that there is no appeal from such a ruling. Demurring to the plea in abatement, Attorney Oswald Ryan contends acts of the board are subject to judicial review and says the ruling against employment of married women is unreasonable and arbitrary. It is the first case of its kind m Indiana. The suit is destined for the Indiana supreme or appellate courts regardless of which side loses. More Miners to Work By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., May 9 Agreements to emplo yunion miners at a wage of $3.10 a day has been signed by seven Indiana mining companies not members of the Indiana Coal Operators’ Association, Abe Vales, district union president, announced. The Kings Station mine, near Princeton, employing 300 men, is among the signers. Survey for Paving By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., May 9.—Engineers of the state highway commission are surveying State Road 32, between Anderson and Noblesville, preparatory to paving project this year or next. The paving will follow the present route, plans for changing the route at its entrances to both Anderson and Noblesville have been abandoned because of the cost involved. New Albany Native Dies By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., May 9.—Mrs. Mary D. Fleming, a native of New Albany, and a member of General de Lafayette chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, died here. She was a member of an old Lafayette family.- She w-as graduated from De Pauw college, New Albany, in 1875. She leaves a daughter, Miss Bessie Ewry; three sisters, Mrs. C. M. Williams, Mrs. Charles T. Vajen and Miss Nora Doll, all of Indianapolis.

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