Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 March 1938 — Page 10

BIDS FOR REPAIR ‘OF STATE ROADS

Contracts to Be Awarded Later on Grading and Siffacing Projects.

> The State Highway Commission today was studying bids received on Federal-aid projects, including a part of the feeder or farm-to-mar-ket program recently approved by the U. S. Public Roads Bureau. The Jow bids total $448,078.45. Contracts are to be awarded later on these grading and surfacing projects, located in Porter, Gibson, Whitley, Carroll, Cass and Miami Counties: Estimates of Commission engineers were $552,866.60. On one of th projects no bids were beneath the estimate. A. M. Skinner & Co. Morocco, made the low bid of $60,909.59 for the grading and surfacing of six miles on Road 18, from two and ° one-quarter miles west of Galveston to Road 31. The same company bid $63,725.65 for grading and surfacing 8 miles or Road 18 from Road 35 to two and one-quarter ‘miles west of Galveston. The Tri-Lake Construction Co., Columbia City, entered the low bid of $79,743.47 “for muck removal, grading and resurfacing almost 10 miles on Road 205 from Columbia City to Churubusco.

No Bids Under Estimate

Low bid for grading and improvement of three and a half miles of one lane of a divided lane on Read 30 west of Valparaiso was $109,298.80, enfcred by the Bontrager Construction Co., Elkhart. No bids were under the estimate for improvement of 2 miles on Road 57 near Buckskin. U. R. Price & Co., Bloomington, submitted a bid of $95,937.38 for improvement of . six miles on a different stretch of the same road from Buckskin to Oakland City. ' A combination bid on the Road 57 projects of $134,396.04 was made by A. G. Ryan & Sons, Evansville.

NEGRO SLAIN AFTER "POOLROOM WRANGLE

Ezell McCullough, Negro, of 2018 Boulevard Place, was shot and killed early today following an argument with another Negro in a poolroom at 2104 Boulevard Place. He was 26. Police said McCullough, employed at the poolroom, argued with the other man over a soft drink order. He quit his job and left the poolroom. Returning in a few moments McCullough was shot through the right lung by the customer who

had taken a shotgun from his room |.

nearby. : Shortly before noon, Courtney Hopkins, 49. of 210412 Boulevard Place, telephoned Detective George

Sneed, saying he wanted to sur-}|’

render for the slaying. He was taken sto Police Headquarters for question-

ing.

2 HELD AS SLAYERS OF DETROIT AUTOIST

DANBURY, N.. C., March 23 (U. P.)~Clvde Byrd, WinstonSalem, a white man, and Ulysses McDonald, a Negro, today were held * without bond for trial in June term

of Superior Court on charges of |

slaying George W. Taylor, 44, Detroit mechanic. The preliminary hearing was attended by Taylor's widow and two of his five children. Taylor's body was found March 15 in his wrecked automobile near here. Byrd and McDonald admitted having been with him when the accident occurred, but said he was ;- alive and uninjured when they left him. Taylor's head was crushed and his throat bore marks as though he had been chocked.

EAR BITING COSTS $2000

BOSTON, March 23 (U. P.).—One ear partly bitten off equaled $2000 when Joseph Ryan was awarded that sum in a damage suit against his landlord, Nicholas Chagaris.

J THE FAMOUS

Youth Is Slain, Pal’ Held in $10 Extortion Plot

SPOONER, Wis., March 23 «(U. P.).—Charles Lockhard, 17,. was held. for questioning today in the slaying of his former friend, Raymond Washkuhn, victim of a $10 extortion plot which police believe was inspired by the recent kidnap-slay-ngi of Charles S. Ross near here. Washkuhn, also 17, a _hgh school senior and son of a well-to-do farming family, was shot Monday night while en route downtown to fulfill the extortion demand. With a bullet from a .22-caliber pistol in his lung he crawled nearly a block: to the home where he boarded during the school term, then collapsed. Just before he died, Sheriff Robert H. Willis said, he named Lockhard as his assailant, A typewriten note in his ‘pocket read: “You are a pretty ‘well dressed young fellow. Your folks must have money. Put $10 in an envelope and leave it at the public library. Saturday night or Sunday-—or e Washkuhn had been shot ‘as he was going downtown to telephone his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred K. Wwashkuhn, at nearby Spring Brook, to ask them for the money, Willis said. He told Sheriff Willis he heard Lockhard’s voice just as two: shots rang out. One bullet went wild and struck the boarding: house. Lockahrd, Willis said, denied knowledge of the note and slaying.

L. S. U. RUSHES'PLANS FOR CAMPUS OIL WELL

BATON ROUGE, La.,.March 23 (U. P.)—Plans for drilling an. oil well on Louisiana State University property were speeded today after a wildcat well came in within. 300 feet of the school’s tract. The well, of unestimated produc-

tion, was. sunk by’ the Louisiana

Crusader Oil Co. in the South Louisiana and Texas: Salt Dome geological formation. : It . produced at 6500 feet. The well, first producer. i Baton Rouge parish, was tched with considerable interest by school authorities. The dome was traced directly beneath school property:

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JOB STUDY TO BEGIN

Paimiter Is: “Assigned to Make Survey.

* Dale Paliniter,’ South Bend, newly appointed member of the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief, today was: assigned -to study St. Joseph County's unemployment problems. a Townsend. a EE e intnent-ye e: New py ‘member is presidént of the South Bend Industrial council.

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