Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 65, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1931 — Page 2

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ELWOOD POLICE DECLARED LAX WITH DRY LAW prosecutor Warns Mayor Grand Jury Will Make Investigation. By Time * Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 25. Charles E. Smith, prosecuting attorney of Madison county, promises a grand jury Investigation into alleged lax law enforcement at Elwood following a wrangle with Mayor George Bonham. Planning a “show down,” Mayor Bonham called a meeting of the police board and invited the prosecutor and his Elwood deputy, Thomas Davies, to appear and state their complaints. The prosecutor's office, however, was not represented, so the mayor and the police board discussed the situation. Following the one-sided meeting, the mayor and board members corroborated in two separate statements. The mayor suggested that the prosecutor act on the alleged information, while the police board backed up the mayor and the police department In their enforcement program and declared it welcomed an investigation. Statements credited to the deputy prosecutor and sustained by the prosecuting attorney, are as follows: That Mayor Bonham and certain ether persons are using undue influence in an Elwood liquor case which is pending in Anderson city court. That all of the evidence obtained Jn a raid at the home of Lawrence Humphreys at Elwood a few months ago disappeared. ■That the prosecuting attorney’s Office listed ninety-eight bootleggers in Elwood and can not get the police ltd act against them. That warrants are heaped high at police headquarters without being Eerved. Evidence Not Delivered The prosecutor said: “Relative to the Humphreys’ whisky, I recall when Mayor Bonham and Sergeant Brown of the Elwood police department came to my office and asked me to file the case in Anderson city court. The affidavit was prepared and signed by Brown in my office and the case was filed here. “I told Mayor Bonham and Brown at that time to deliver the whisky taken in the Humphreys’ raid to me bo it could be used as evidence at the trial. The liquor never arrived find has not to this day. Later I gent a registered letter to the chief of police at Elwood advising him to deliver the contraband whisky immediately because Humphreys had taken an appeal and the liquor would be necessary as evidence in circuit court. I also know where the liquor was kept and how it was just recently arranged so they could boast that the liquor is now ready to be delivered to my office.” The prosecutor hinted at other Charges which he indicated would be laid before the grand jury. BANK QUIETLY CLOSED "' r ' J Wolf Lake Depositors Told to Get Their Money. Jhf Times Special WOLF LAKE, Ind., July 25. "Your money is ready for you,” directors of the Wolf Lake State bank said in announcement announcing Its closing for liquidation. Payments are being made at the American State bank in Ligonier. Little excitement attended the Closing, which was sanctioned by the state banking department. Directors said inability of banks to make money in small towns had been proved here. The bank had deposits of about $48,000. Loans total $36,000. There is $12,000 InVested in bonds. FIVE HOOSIERS CHOSEN |*hi Delta Kappa Officers Include Lafayette Man As President. Bv United Fress LOUISVILLE, Ky„ July 25. Norman O. Neiburger, Lafayette, fcas elected national president of Phi Delta Kappa fraternity at its convention here. Other officers are: Vice-president, G. J, Grant, Plymouth; second vice-president, Clifford Wilson, Jacksonville, Fla.; third Vice-president, Richard F. Preston, Cambridge. O.; secretary and treasurer, Paul F. Deaton, Connersville; master of ceremonies, E. T. Mattinly, Douisville; auditor, Russell Brundige, Dayton, O.; sargeant-at-srms, Ralph Deupree, Shelbyville; Inner guard, Dale Brown, Winchster, bnd outer guard, Otto Wilcox, Ft. Worth, Tex. The city to entertain the next feonvention will be selected In January. 323 Take Summer Courses ®y Tt'fnr* Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 25. Three hundred twenty-three students are enrolled in the summer term courses which the Indiana university extension division is conducting this year in Ft. Wayne and £ary. Regular university credit is sing granted for work taken at these off-campus summer terms Vvhich are planned especially for teachers, college students home for the summer, high school graduates who desire to become acquainted with college courses and college methods. * Liquor Guilt Denied By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., July 25. Pleas of no,t guilty to liquor charges were entered by three persons arrested at a river camp occupied by Mrs. Etta Van Orman. She, John Tunney and Berg Fulp enfered the pleas. Raiding officers said they found six gallons of whisky at the p&mp. Hoosier Made Partner Bu Times Special DECATUR, Ind, July 25.—H. R. Daniel, formerly of Decatur, has been made a partner in E. D. Babcock & Cos., investiv >-'* securities Arm. He resigned as vice-president and director of S. W. Straus Cos., to accept the place. He presents a radio feature as “financial Editor Df the Newspaper of the Air.” Electric Shock Fatal Bv Times Special BEDFORD, Ind, July 25.—Injuries suffered when he came in cofctact with a wire carrying 2,220 vols of electricity caused death of Clifford 8- St&llfW, 38, -

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POOR RELIEF COSTPROBED Grand Jury Investigation Opens at Muncie. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 25.—Investigation of the cost of poor relief in Center township, in which Muncie is located, is being made by the Delaware county grand jury. Charges that excessive prices were charged by grocers in filling poor relief baskets, mack. by the late Charles A. Van Matre, before the county commissioners, are the basis of the probe, it is understood. George L. Hawkins, township trustee, is now in Salt Lake City, it is said. Examiners from the state board of accounts are understood to be assisting Prosecutor Paul Leffler in the inquiry. In instructing the jurors, Judge L. A. Guthrie charged them to inquire into the ‘wilful misconduct in office of any public official.” Eighty-two witnesses have been summoned. RELIC MAY BE MOVED First Richmond School House May Be Brought to Parii Front. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., July 25. A proposal will be submitted at the annual reunion of the Harold family in Brownsburg Sunday, Aug. 2, that the first Richmond schoolhouse be moved from its present site at the back of Glen Miller park here to a position at the front of the park. The school building, a log structure, was the birthplace of Betty Hawkins Harold, a grandmother of Dr. Frank L. Harold of Richmond. It was built in 1812 by her father, Nathan Hawkins. , Governor Will Attend By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 25.—Governor Harry H. Woodring of Kansas, has accepted an invitation to attend the reunion of the Woodring family which will be held here Sunday, Aug. 23. Other notables who will attend are Bishop Woodring, of the Evangelical Congregational churches of the eastern half of the United States, who lives at Allentown, Pa.; Lieutenant Irving A. Woodring, Rockwell Field, Coronoda, Cal., who will fly to Muncie, and Dr. Daniel Wallace Woodring, of St, Charles, La., a World war flier. Mules Cause Chase By United Press MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., July 25. —Herman, a one-eyed mule, and three companions led a police and citizen posse through Michigan City in an all-night chase before they were finally captured. The mules, owned by a man employed on the Dunes relief highway, were first seen eating flowers and shrubbery on a lawn here. A posse, formed to capture the animals, took to automobiles. Accused Officer Resigns By Times Special GARY, Ind., July 25.—Jake Thixtun has resigned as Gary police lieutenant without waiting for a hearing on charges of disloyalty and insubordination filed by Mayor R. O. Johnson. He was accused by the major of writing a letter derogatory to the city administration at a time wheft a grand jury was investigating an alleged conection of police with vice and liquor law vialators. Martinsville Man Dies By Time* Special MARTINSVILLE, Ind., July 25. Charles E. Herold, 69, is dead of heart disease. He was the author of “Hoosier Etching,” published in 1928.

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STATE NATIVES LEAD HOOSIER ILLITERACY LIST Foreign Born and Negroes Less Than Half of Total. • With 43,721 persons above ten years of age unable to read and write, Indiana ranks thirteenth among the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia in having least illiteracy. During the past decade illiteracy dropped from 52,034 until now 1.7 per cent of the population cannot read and write. There are 22,510 native white illiterates in Indiana, more than the number of native white illiterates in the state of Mississippi, showing that 50 per cent of the problem deals with persons indigenous to the soil. There are twelve counties within the state with more than 600 illiterates in each. These are Clark, Lawrence, Madison, Henry, Knox, Allen, Laporte, Vigo, Vanderburg, St. Joseph, Marion and Lake. The number of illiterates in the various counties in the state range from thirty-two in Ohio to 10,195 in Lake. There are now in the state 13,536 foreign-born white illiterates, 5,605 Negro illiterates, and 2,070 constituting other races. Indiana is aligned with forty-two other states and the District of Columbia in having a state advisory committee on illiteracy in order to give special attention to the problem.

The Indiana committee is composed of U. G. Weatherly, Bloomington; George L. Roberts, Lafayette; D. T. Cushman, Muncie; E. E. Ramsey, Terre Haute; William A. Wirt, Gary; Miss Mattie Frye, Anderson: Forest A. Harness, Kokomo; Howard C. Smith, Indianapolis; Dr. W. A. Millis, Crawfordsville; Lee O. Baird, Muncie; Mrs. E. O. Hall, Auburn; Mrs. Homer J. Miller, South Bend; Fred Hoke, Indianapolis; Dr. Kenosha Sessions, Clermont; C. A. McGonagle, Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Julian D. Hogate, Danville; Ralph N. Tirey, Bloomington; Father Francis H. Gavisk, Indianapolis and the Rev. O. E. Schroeter, Indianapolis; John E. Fredrick, Kokomo; the Rev. Henry H. Fout, Indianapolis.

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By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., July 25. Irvin Richard, Negro, acting as his own attorney when arraigned before Judge B. A. Ball on an intoxication charge, said overindulgence of coffee led him to telephone the police station to send a taxicab. The court didn’t believe the story and assessed a fine of $lO. “I’m what you calk a coffee fiend,” Richard explained. “Idrink as many as sixteen cups of strong coffee a day. It’s an inherited appetite. My mother drank more coffee than I do.” At the time Richard called the cab he said he wanted it “because I’m drunk.” PUBLISHER BADLY HURT Greensburg Man in Auto Accident Fatal to Woman. By United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 25.—N0 change was reported at Baptist hospital here today in the condition of Ed J. Hancock, publisher of daily newspapers in Greensburg and Rushville, Ind., who was injured critically in an automobile collision near Scottsburg, Ind. Mrs. Carl Rogers, Scottsburg, an occupant of the machine driven by Hancock’s son John, was killed in the accident. English Singers Booked By Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., July 25. Dean B. Winfred Merrill of the Indiana university school of music, announces the English Singers of London will give a concert at the university, Dec. 4. The singers, three men and three women, is the best group of singers touring at the present time, according to Dean Merrill. They gave their first concert in America in Washington in 1925. Since then they have given 400 concerts and have appeared in nearly every state. The singers give their programs seated around a table as in the Elizabethan days. 4-H Club Picnic By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., July 25.—Club members from every 4-H organization in the county attended the annual county 4-H picnic at Glen Miller park here. Food and baking contests were conducted, winners to be announced next month at the ocunty fair. The picnic was in charge of county agent S. W. Milligan and his staff. Gypsies Take $235 By Times Special . GALVESTON, Ind., July 25. Gypsies who alighted from a large automobile and approached him as he was cutting weeds on a farm, two miles north of here, robbed .James Stafford, 57, of a wallet containing $235, he complained to William Zerbe, Cass county sheriff. A search was made for the gypsies without result.

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Man Seeks Divorce After Marriage Performed 38 Years Ago. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., July 25.—Trial of the divorce suit of Charles Partain, Mrs. Lucretia Partain is bringing out some sensational testimony in superior court here. Both are about 70 years old. They were married in 1893 and lived together until Feb. 11, 1931, when, Partain says, he was driven away from home by persistent abuse by his wife. Partain testified that his wife took all of the money he earned and deposited it in her own name, meanwhile refusing to give him any money except enough to buy tobacco. It developed that she had $11,617.96 on deposit in the Anderson Loan Association and $791.02 in the Pendleton Banking Company. The latter amount represents an inheritance from the estate of her father. It was further charged by the plaintiff that the money he earned was used to purchase a home which his wife had placed in her own name. Retaliating, Mrs. Partain testified that her husband drank to excess and beat her frequently, inflicting numerous injuries. Partain denied that he broke three of his wife’s fingers with a piece of stove wood. Partain admitted that he had sought and obtained aid from the township trustee and the Salvation Army, being compelled to do it because his wife told him they had no money, he testified. “There is no question but that this defendant was niggardly and made life miserable for her husband, particularly when he did not have employment,” Judge Bartlett H. Campbell said at the close of the trial. “It is admitted that he is a hard working man and is never out of a job when he can find one. The children who testified tried to be neutral, but there is no question as to where their sympathies reside. On the other hand the plaintiff to be granted a divorce must be without fault, and "he evidence is not en- • tirely convincing in the plaintiff’s favor. This case will be taken under advisement for a fev; days.” $45,000 CASES SHIFTED Automobile Crash Suits Will Be Heard at Portland. By Times Special PORTLAND, Ind., July 25.—A change of venue to Jay circuit court here has been taken in two cases asking a total of $45,000 damages from Max Ziegler &; Brothers, Muncie junk I 'dealers. Collision of an automobile and a Ziegler truck is the basis of the suit. Plaintiffs are Jack Hudgens and Jefferson Skelton, seriously injured when the automobile In which they were riding struck the rear of the truck. They allege the truck had no tail light. The crash occurred the night of Oct. 21, 1929. Bank Asks Name Change By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 25. The Jolietville State bank has filed a petition in Hamilton circuit court here to change its name to Union State bank. This institution was moved from Jolietville to Westfield recently when the State bank of Westfield went into the hands of a receiver, but the name of the Jolietville State bank was maintained. Half of the stock is owned by residents of Jolietville and the other half by residents of Westfield. Harry Talbert, receiver for the State bank of Westfield, is paying a 25 per cent dividend to depositors. Child Attack Confessed GOSHEN, Ind., July 25.—Elkhart county authorities say that Ralph Hershberger. 19, Orrville, 0., who is a prisoner here, has confessed to criminally attacking an 8-year-old girl, daughter of a farmer who had employed the youth. Drowning Boy Saved By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 25. Swimming 150 yards across the St. Joseph river, Leonard Connett, 29. rescued Roosevelt Johnson, 10, Negro, from drowning.

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Permanent Wave and Slander Will Get Court Airing By Times Special WABASH, Ind., July 25.—Ethel York, North Manchester beauty parlor operator, is defendant in two damage suits filed in Wabash circuit court here by Mrs. Cora Flook, in which a total %f SIO,OOO is sought. Slander is alleged in one of the suits. Mrs. Flook charges the beautician stated that the plaintiff’s hair could not be given a permanent wave for a stated reason which is unprintable. The other suit seeks to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been suffered because a permanent wave machine was operated too long with Mrs. Flook as a subject. She avers her hair was burned and a wound inflicted on her scalp. THEATER SUIT ASKSS2S,OOO Rembusch Firm Plaintiff in Greenfield Suit. By Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., July 25. Suit for $25,000 has been filed in Hancock circuit court here by the F. J. Rembusch Enterprises against the Why Not Realty Company, Austin P. and Ralph R. Boots, Edward G. Gant and others. Alleged violation of a contract for sale of a theater here is the basis of the suit. The plaintiff avers that after payment of $25,000 on the purchase price and expenditure of $5,000 on improvements, the defendants assumed possession of the theater and stationed an armed guard to make effective their eviction of the plaintiff. REAL ORPHANS SCARCE Only 10 Per Cent of Institution Inmates Without Parents. By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., July 25.—A survey of children’s institutions in Allen county show that only ten in each 100 inmates are orphans in the sense that both father and mother are dead. In four such institutions in the county there are 472 children, and only forty-eight of them have neither father nor mother living. Half the children are in the institutions as a result of divorce. Wives Trap Alleged Bigamist By Times Special VALPARAISO, Ind., July 25. Donald L. Silverman, said to be a wealthy Chicago real estate dealer, is in jail here today charged with bigamy. His arrest folowed a meeting of two of his alleged wives and himself in a roadhouse. The wives, formerly Helen Maday, Valparaiso, and Mary Maloney, Chicago, arranged the date at the road house in order to bring about Silverman’s arrest. Negro Police Suspended By Times Special MARION, Ind., July 25.—80th of Marion’s Negro police officers, Harley Burden and Fred Mosley, have been suspended. Burden was suspended thirty days for failure to make an arrest following an accident, July 10, and Mosley was suspended fifteen days for negligence in wrecking one of the police patrol automobiles, May 30. New Paper Makes Bow By T : mes Special MARION, Ind., The Grant County Times, weekly newspaper edited by Bernard Shively, former state representative from Grant county, made its appearance here this week. The first issue was distributed free to 12,000 homes, Shively said.

DEATH CHEATS APPEAL VICTOR IN LIQUOR CASE Supreme Court Rules Three Years After Man Killed Wife and Self. # By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 25.—Five years passed from the time an appeal was taken to the Indiana supreme court by Norman Lawson from a liquor law conviction in Delaware cirsuit court here and he won, but too late to be of any benefit to him. He died by his own hand after slaying his wife, Mrs. Grace Lawson. Lawson was convicted Deec. 30, 1925, and enacted the tragedy in June, 1928. Appeal was taken in the case in January, 1926. At the time officers raided the Lawson home he was absent, and Mrs. Lawson was taken into custody, remaining a prisoner until he appeared. The charges against her was then dismissed. The supreme court held there was error in convicting Lawson in that two counts were construed as one. He was fined SIOO and costs and given a thirty-day sentence for liquor possession, and the same fine wth a one to five-year prison term for possessing a still. This is the fourth instance in which a Delaware county liquor conviction has been reversed and defendants died before decisions. The others were Nelson Edwards, drowning victim; Babe Hammel, who died of tuberculosis, and Paul Harlen, killed in an airplane accident. Saving of Money Expected From School Bus Bids By Times Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., July 25. Township trustees of Hamilton county have finished opening bids of school bus drivers on 102 routes. There are more than 800 bidders. No two contracts were given to the same man. Each successful bidder is more than 21 years old. Each must provide a bond for SI,OOO. Where there was a single man and a married man bidding near the same amount on a route, the married man was given preference. All of the contracts are for four years and the lowest bid was $3 a day, the drivers to provide their own equipment and supplies of tires, gasoline, oil and pay for repairs. Some of the bids were as high as $7.50 a day, but the average contract was around $4. The various trustees estimate that the nine townships will save approximately $20,000 compared with the price paid last year. Trustee Lee Fleming of Noblesville township says he will save $3,300. Most of the trustees believe contracts will have to be renewed next year on account of the low bids. Although contracts are for four years, bonds cover a period of only one year with the understanding that they can be renewed annually. The trustees expect many of the arviers to lose money and after the first year refuse to provide bonds. INSECTS RUIN BUILDING Church Gymnasium at Paoli Damaged to Extent of $1,500. By United Press PAOLI, July 25.—Termites, insects which resemble ants, drilled holes through timbers of the Presbyterian church gymnasium here, virtually ruining the building. Damage caused by the insects, which work entirely from the inside and shun light is estimated at $1,500. The structure has been declared unsafe and abandoned. Differ on Injury By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 25.—Willie Goens, Indianapolis, was treated at a hospital here for a gunshot wound in his right ankle. That is what hospital records show. Police said Goens ran from them when they found him on a freight train and fell and injured the ankle. They denied shots were fired. Goens was arrested at the request of Anderson officers, but after treatment at the hospital, was released and hurried out of town. Road Land Sought By Times Special HUNTINGTON, Ind., July 25. Royce Ralchart and John F. Weber, Huntington county farmers, are defendants in condemnation suits brought in an effort to obtain land as a right of way for State Road 9 between here and Columbia City.

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By Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind., July 25. —The highest grades made at Indiana university last semester were those of Walter Keller of Lafayette and Miss Rebecca Whittington of Crawfordsville. Keller, a freshman, had twenty hours of “A” work and Miss Whittington nineteen hours. Fifteen hours is the standard amount of work carried by students. In addition to gaining high scholastic standing, Miss Whittington worked practically all the time while attending the university and is active in campus affairs. She is a member of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority. She will be a senior next year. SUIT FILED FOR CEMETERY DEBT Foreclosure Case Believed First of Kind. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., July 25.—Bergen Le Grande, Indianapolis, is the plaintiff in what is believed the first suit of its kind ever filed in Hendricks circuit court here. He seeks a foreclosure order against a cemetery. Le Grande is the ov/ner of two South cemetery bonds, and in the foreclosure suit, which alleges nonpayment of the obligations, he asks $1,400, representing principal and interest. The bonds are part of a $27,000 issue made March 1, 1928. The cemetery association is in financial difficulty due to two causes, a change in custom and the business depression. Formerly many persons bought cemetery lots in advance of need, but now it is said few are sold until there is a death. The association officials had planned to employ salesmen in an effort to dispose of lots, but this was dropped when the business depression started. TAX DECISION DEFERRED Mancie City Administration Victor in First Court Clash. By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., July 25.—The city administration has won the first skirmish with the city council in a gasoline tax clash. Judge L. A. Guthrie in Delaware circuit court refused to issue a temporary restraining order against city officials forbidding further expenditure of this money until the present case is settled. The judge said that he was taking City Controller Lester Holloway at his word that no expenditures will be made until final action is taken. The council seeks to remove control of the fund from the works board. Injured Man Asks $25,000 By United Press BLUFFTON, Ind., July 25.—Injuries suffered by James F. Hall when an automobile in which he was riding with Daniel Gerber, Craigville, went into a ditch, form the basis of a $25,000 damage suit against Gerber, who was driving. Hall says Gerber disregarded a warning by him to slow down and continued at a speed of more than forty miles an hour.

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IRATE FARMERS CHECK LAW IN EVICTION CASE Diplomatic Sheriff Settles Affair and Deserted Family Remains. By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., July 25.—Forty embattled farmers faced Sheriff L. L. Pounds when he went to a farm north of Danville to eject Mrs. Winnie Runion and her four children, but a compromise ended what for a time threatened to be a riot. The husband and father is said to have deserted the family several months ago. Rent of SSO was due July I%*but Mrs. Runion informed the landlord that she could not meet it. She gave a note for the amount, but a bank refused to advance the money. Then H. E. Jenkins gave her the money, but Elijah Smith, landlord, refused to accept it. He proceeded through court action to have the family ejected. Arrived at the farm to carry out the court order, Sheriff Pounds faced the neighbors, and there were offers to hold him captive so there would be no interference with “beating up” Smith. The sheriff assumed a diplomat's role. He persuaded Smith to accept the SSO that had been previously tendered and the Runion family will remain on the farm until November, when promising crops they planted will have been harvested. Pounds noted that eviction would have been a matter of considerable work, as there were fourteen tons of hay in the bam at the farm. DOCTORS ASK $19,000 Bill for Treating North Township Poor for Three Months. By Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., July 25.—For medical services rendered the poor of North township in three months, the second quarter of this year. Dr. A. A. Young of Hammond, brother of the township trustee, Mrs. Myrtle G. Meara, has submitted a bill for $6,705. Claims filed bv four other doctors range from $2,950 to $1,481. In all, twenty-eight doctors treated the poor of the township during the three months. Their bills total $19,903.95. DR. KENT GIVEN~~PLACE Franklin Graduate Chosen Acting President of College. By United Press FRANKLIN, Ind., July 25.—Dr. Robert H. Kent, in charge of the department of psychology and philosophy at Franklin college here, was named acting president of the institution by the board of directors. Dr. Kent succeeds Dr. Homer P. Rainey, who resigned to become' president of Bucknell university, Lewisburg, Pa. The board decided to name an acting president until a permanent selection could be made after opening of the fall term in September. Dr. Kent, a graduate of Franklin college and Rochester Theological seminary, has been a member of the faculty several years. He formerly was pastor of Franklin and Lebanon churches.

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