Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1937 — Page 23
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BARTHOLOMEW VETERAN WINS CORN CONTEST
Brings County Its First State Championship Since 1916.
Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Dec. 10.— R. L. Heilman, veteran exhibitor and prize-winning corn breeder, brought Bartholomew County its first corn growing championship since 1913 today when he took top honors in the 1937 Indiana Corn Growing Con-
test. The Indiana Corn Growers’ Association and Agronomy Department of Purdue University today announced Mr. Heilman winner over 1157 contestants in the Five Acre Corn Club Contest with an official yield of 179.1 bushels an acre. A. C. Brown of Ripley County, winner ih 1933 and 1935, was second with a yield of 173.6 bushels an acre. All yields were judged on the basis of No. 3 corn containing 17.5 per cent moisture by laboratory test, the judges said Winner of 14 Awards
* Mr. Heilman, winner of 14 corn growing awards and for 15 years a judge of the competition in which he was declared winner, is to be
the Purdue Agriculoural Conference Jan. 10. Awards this year were distributed among 12 scattered counties, indicating high - yields were general, contest officials declared. Mr, Heilman’s yield was the second largest on record for Indiana, they said. A record number of contestants entered the 1937 competition and 1035 medals for yields of more than 100 bushels an acre were to be distributed, a new award record. Winners of runner-up awards and their counties include: Maurice Lafuze, Union, 155.8 bushels, third; A. B. Brewer, Grant, 154.3, fourth; Jess Grady, Kosciusko, 152.9, fifth; Malcolm Anderson, Warren, 152.3, sixth; Julian Logue, Union, 149.8, seventh; Fred Hardin, Henry, 144.5, eighth; and Virgil Demaree, Jefferson, 144.4, ninth. H. L. Matlock & Son, Howard, 143.9, tenth; Milburn Wood, Grant, 143.5, eleventh; Ora Oswalt, Tippecanoe, 141.8, twelfth; Elmer O. Plank, Cass, 141.1, thirteenth: Harold Alkire, White, 140.8, fourteenth, and Richard THayer, Bartholomew, 139.8, fifteenth.
RADIO STATION FUND APPROVED
U.S. Expected to Make City Site of Experimental Unit Soon.
Designation of Indianapolis as the location for the United States radio experimental station is expected | shortly. Senator Minton’s office in Washington announced ‘today that the Bureau of Air Commerce had | approved an $800,000 appropriation | for the station. Mayor Boetcher. has pledged $50,000 as the City’s share in erection of a building to house the station. Nish Dinehart, Municipal Airport superintendent,” upon his return from a conference with J. Monroe Johnson, Department of Commerce assistant secretary, yesterday said: “It’s all set, except it must have the approval of some one else who was not in Washington at the time.” He added that the Bureau had sirawn its plans and indicated the announcement would be made within the next few days. Recently the Works Board offered 400 acres of the airport’s 1000 acres to the Bureau of Air Commerce if it would locate the station here. Following this eriginal offer, Mayor Boetcher announced the City was willing to bear thé cost of the building. i
SUSPECTED SLAYER TO OPEN DEFENSE
\ SPRINGFIELD, ELD, ©, Dec. 10 (U. P.) —With the State expecting to rest its case tomorrow and the defense prepared to question 30 witnesses, it was indicated today that the first degree murder case against Harry B. Dingledine, 54, would reach the jury early next week. Dingledine is charged with the, slaying of Deputy Sheriff Edward Furry and Patrolman Martin Ran- " dolph in a gun battle at Crystal Lake on Sept. 3, following a holdup here. Jurors spent most of Thursday at Crystal Lake, inspecting the cottage rented by Dingledine where the gun fight occurred. Deputy Sheriff Frank Haerr, one ‘ of the officers who participated in the battle, testified that Harry Dingledine was armed as he fled from the cottage. Te ab Martin Donnelly, wounded in the fight, told the jury that he saw both Harry Dingledine and his son, Henry, fire at Deputy Furry from a stairway in the cottage. Henry Dingledine already has been convicted of murder.
STEEL LEADER DIES
CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (U. P.)i— Eugene J. Buffiington, 74, president for 34 years of the ines Stes) Co.
Escapes Hangman With Fatal
Dive Onto Concrete Floor
wished today, 30 minutes after he was to have been hanged for murder. He died in the prison hospital by his own effort, a headlong dive from the catwalk of the third tier of cells, 30 feet to the concrete floor below. . His neck was } thokers such as the hangman would have broken it. He added half an hour to his life’s span but was unconscious for more than four hours. . All ‘the time, Warden William ¢ - Gess waited to have him hanged| The law said that no insane or “as soon as he was conscious.” Dur- | unconscious man might be hanged, ing that four hours it was doubt-|so the matter was in the warden’s ful whether he was going to die in | hands, and the doctor’s. Governor bed or on the rope. Brazilla Clark opposed the execu-
BOISE, Ida. Dec. 10 (U. P.).—Douglas Van Vlack died in bed as he
FRIDAY, ‘DECEMBER 1 1, 1937
son, but tetuserl to intervene. None of it mattered in the end.
- Perched Beside Tier of Cells For 20 minutes Van Viack sat perched beside the third tier of
cells, where he climbed hand over,
hand up a projecting rod after he sprang from his cell. Below was his lawyer pleading with him to wait;
the warden remonstrating with guards to hurry; the guards spread:
a net to catch him, but too late. “you'll never see me swinging at the other end of a rope,” he called down to the warden. “I have the right to choose the. way I will die. I won't gome down unless you get me a reprieve.” He had been let out of his cell to kiss his mother and father goodbye; one guard was alone with him; he leaped onto a table and began
his climb before the guard could reach’ him. His parents had just turned - away and were spared the final scene. ‘The mother was near collapse when she left, after spending" most of the day with the sympathetic Governor and her condemned: son. The guards were stretching the net when Van Vlack dived. His body crashed to the concrete, crushing his head and shoulder. He landed two feet from a guard.
Had Chance of Reprieve
Van Vlack leaped and died without knowing that his lawyer, Robert Alshie, had obtained a writ of
habeas corpus from Federal Judge C. B. Cavanan. The hearing on the writ was to have been at 8 o’cleek, just 17 minutes after he jumped.
“The lawyer was trying to tell him
11mes
Eniared, as Second-Class Matter Postof!
that " might} mean a a reprieve but
he didn’t have: ‘a chance to talk. There were 25 persons designated as official witnesses waiting in the prison to see the end of a 34-year-old man who killed his wife and two peace officers. ng them was Cy Givens, brother? f one of the officers whom Van Viack killed. It was in November, 1935, that thé. condemned roan kidnaped
| nis_divorced wife, Mildred Hook of
Tacoma, Wash, and fled with ‘her across’ Oregon and Idaho. The Hook family set police upon his trail. Patrolman Fontaine Cooper and Deputy Sheriff Henry Givens stopped him near Buhl and he shot them both. The next day he was found sleeping in his car. His wife’s body was found in a railroad culvert. He said he killed her so that she would not be able to give kim up.
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2 Escape as Plane Towing Aerial Target I alls Into Pacific Ocean
. LONG BEACH, cal, Dec. 10 (U. P.).—An aerial target fouling the rudder was, blamed today for the crash of a Navy plane into the harbor yesterday: Two fliers dropped in parachutes from a Beight.« of 1500 feet
and were taken from the water unhurt.
Cadet: Charles H. Franklin, Chat-$ tanooga, Tern. ‘and his observer, Everett Tu. Eyman, Salina, Kas., were flying a. speedy Corsair belonging | to the battleship Pennsylvania. They were returning to the harbor from practice, towing a sleeve target. Ap-
parently the target or its cord tan-| Idaho Falls
gled in the rudder and the disabled ship circled lower and lower. Cadet Franklin ordered Eyman to. bail out, and jumped himself a few!
t
minutes later. “The opiate plunged into the water and sank.
POLICEMAN CANS FRUIT IDHO FALLS, Ida. Dec. 10 (U, P.) If John Bartlett, 275-pound eman, ever loses his job, he mig . teach home economics. The hefty policeman cans ‘Aundreds -of quarts of - fruits, vege ‘tables and meats every ‘season.
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