Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 10, DeMotte, Jasper County, 29 September 1932 — INDIANA NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS

A 75-barrel oil well was brought in near Bristow at a depth of 280 feet. DeMolay chapters in southern Indiana and in Louisville celebrated “Southern Indiana day” in New Albany. Luther J. Hord, age sixty-five, owner of a sanitarium in Shelbyville, committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. Edgar T. Ewin, age twenty-one, Elberfeld, was killed when the automobile he was driving sideswiped a wagon and overturned. Baker Jones, farmer, near Rochester, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg when pigs upset a ladder while he was picking apples. “Lingerie orchid” is the kind of light that shines on Lowell, at night. The new street lighting system installed by the town board of the old town of 1,200 was switched on recently. Twenty-one persons were injured when the Rubin & Cherry carnival train, en route from Huron, S. D., to Nashville, Tenn., crashed into a string of box cars two miles from Evansville. Mace Remsen, age forty-five, a steeplejack, who was painting the Christian church in Sheridan, suffered fatal injuries when he fell 30 feet. He was taken to Robert Long hospital, Indianapolis, where he died. The Mishawaka Loan and Trust company closed but its depositors will lose nothing, as its checking accounts were taken over by the First National bank and savings accounts by the St. Joseph Loan and Trust company. Convinced of an approaching betterment of business conditions, the Ernst Nurseries, Inc., of Eaton, Ohio, has bought a tract two miles west of Muncie on which it will establish a branch nursery immediately. An office building, display rooms, a garage, packing rooms and greenhouses will be put up. Mrs. Bonnie G. Wilson, age eighteen, was killed, her husband, David F. Wilson, age twenty, Indianapolis, and her foster mother, Mrs. Vera Campbell, were injured when their automobile was in collision with another belonging to Fred A. Mueller, Indianapolis, at a cross roads at the Ataity church, four miles northwest of Greenfield. The provision of the $1.50 tax law placing a maximum limitation of 15 cents on the state levy was upheld by James M. Ogden, attorney general. The opinion was given to the state tax board. As a result, the state general fund levy for next year will be only 3.9 cents, the remainder of the 15 cents being taken up. by special legislative levies. Rev. Joseph G. Moore, who has been pastor of Capitol Avenue M. E. church in Indianapolis for the last seven years, was appointed secretary of the Preachers’ Aid society of the Indiana conference at the closing session of the one hundred and first annual meeting of the Indiana conference of the M. E. church in Vincennes. His headquarters will be in Indianapolis. Morris D. Cohen, Terre Haute, was elected president of the Indiana State Association of the B’nai B’rith, Jewish fraternal order, at the twelfth annual convention at the Kirshbaum community center in Indianapolis. He succeeds Harry N. Levin, Terre Haute. Other new officers are Abe Ottenheimer, East Chicago, first vice-president; Z. Dekelboum, second vice president; Samuel J. Mantell, Indianapolis, third vice president; Andrew Fried, Lafayette, secretary-treasurer, and Philip Weisberg, South Bend; Sam Schwartz, Muncie; Jack Skadron, Ft. Wayne; Irving Chayken, Hammond; Joseph Kuppin, Marion; Harry Goldberg, Anderson; David Gradman, Louisviile; Samuel P. Moise, Gary, and Abe Sklar, Michigan City, directors. Interlocking relationships of Insull holding and operating companies in Indiana and the method of their financing held the attention of the Indiana public service commission. The commission issued an order stopping sale of all securities and other evidences of indebtedness of the Gary Heat, Light and Water company, and directing an inquiry into relations between the concern and two holding companies, the Midland United company and the Gary Electric and Gas company. The commission will look into issuance of $8,000,000 in first lien collateral 5 per cent gold bonds, series A, of the Gary Electric and Gas company, approved by the Indiana state securities commission August 21, 1931. The inquiry resulted from a request of H. G. Fraine, manager of the statistical department of the First Securities corporation of Minnesota. Officials of the three companies involved in the order were required to appear before the commission September 28, bringing all records pertaining to issuance of the $8,000,000 series. An appeal to the state tax board by Anderson members of the Madison County Taxpayers’ association from action by the city council on four ordinances, providing for expenditures totaling $57,912 was certified by Albert Hupp, Madison county auditor. Two men who were said to have been intoxicated escaped from an automobile as it hung perilously from the side of the New York street bridge over White river in Indianapolis. The driver had attempted to turn from White river boulevard onto the bridge, but the car crashed through the guard rail.