Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1938 — Page 17

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ROWDY PUPILS ARE BLAMED IN

TEACHER | DEATH

Oswego Principal Is Found -

Killed After Rumors of | Pranks. C———

OSWEGO, Til, Dec. 22 (U. P.) —A psychological problem worthy of a

Solomon—whether the rowdyism bf;

a group of high school boys drove |

Principal Melvin A. Attig to suicide —faced newly elected Sheriff Robert Woodard today. | Rumors spreading rapidly among the town’s 1200 residents said that was what happened. ~The small-town sheriff, elected only a month agd, set out today to

find out whether the rumors were

founded on fact... He enlisted th aid of Mayor Andrew Pierce and

= School Board President Bert Kel-

logg Their only facts were that Mr. Attig was killed] about dusk last Wednesday by an Aurora & Elgin passenger train in neighboring Dupage County. His automobile, with his watch lying on thé seat, was parked a short distance away. He

had left home telling his wife he TT

would be back by 6 p. m.

Drenched With Water Sherift Woodard matched those

. facts beside these rumors:

A group of bays reportedly ob- ! { jected when Mr. Attig replaced John i Clayton as high school principal ‘two’ years ago. | They made life : miserable for the new pr cipal. : They cut telephone wires in the { principal’s office, built| a fire in His waste basket, took important papers i off his desk, unscrewed door hinges, tdrenched him with water when he i attempted to quell a distutbance in i the basement, three a [large dictionjary out a second floor window and jeut the wires to the fire alarm bell. All the rumors appeared to be | toundea on hearsay, The Rev. i Horace Larson of the Presbyterian | Church said he had heard that the principal was “terribly treated.” He could not confirm any of the rumored outrages. |

motorists to drive carefully.

After Jan. 1 streetcars will be used to remind Each Indianapolis

Railways streetcar will carry a poster, “Let’s Resolve: To Drive More Carefylly During 1939.”

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“well-liked” at Aurora, where he taught in the East High School before moving to Oswego. He was a native of Metamora, Ill +Mr. Attig left a widow and two children.

COUSIN OF WALLY FACES DIVORCE SUIT

RENO, :Nev., Dec. 22 (U. P.).— Mrs. Natica Peabody Sinclair has established a Reno residence to divorce Beverly Sinclair, New York stock broker and cousin of the Duchess of Windsor, it was learned today. She retained George Sprinmeyer as attorney. The Sinclairs

Mr. Attig, 28, | was described as

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were married in September, 1937.

CONTRAGTS LET FOR J BUILDINGS AT FAIR

(New 4-H Club Structures to

Cost $352,700.

The City Building Commission today issued permits for the construction of three 4H Club buildings totaling $352,700 at the State Fair Grounds. The structures are a boys’ dormitory, a girls’ dormitory and an auditorium and recreation hall, all to be of reinforced concrete and

steel construction. The permits were

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issued to Charles Wermuth & Co. Ft. Wayne contractors. Construction on the buildings will begin at once.

IS SANTA’'S FACE RED? NORWALK, O., Dec. 22 (U. P.)— Santa Claus came strutting into a church Christmas program celebra-

tion here, his head high and his face rosy. Suddenly, his face became still rosier. His pants had fallen off in the rush,

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Slippers

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All-Wool Sweaters ___________19¢ ‘All-Wool Campus Coats ____[_$4.77

Girls” Blanket Bath Robes______99¢ : Girly’ si 69

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