Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 1, Number 12, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 October 1932 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Mrs. Marlon F. Gallup has been appointed superintendent of the Indiana women’s prison. Mrs. Agrees Leinenbach, age seven-ty-eight. committed suicide at Newburgh by jumping into a cistern. Mrs. Robert Sheets, twenty-five, was seriously burned when a gas stove exploded as she attempted to light it. Charles C. Churchill, age forty-three, case proprietor in Newburg, ended his life by shooting. Illness was believed to have prompted the act. Trixie, four-year-old Donald Manion’s pet terrier, was recuperating in Seymour after being rescued from a 20-day entrapment in a groundhog hole. Approximately $3,500 in merchandise was stolen from a clothing store in Greensburg by thieves who broke a lock on the front door and escaped in automobiles. The state tax levy for Indiana for 1933 was fixed at 15 cents on each $100 of taxable property by the state board of tax commissioners. The present rate is 29 cents. Marion was selected at the 1933 meeting place of the One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field Artillery association at the closing session of the organization’s two-day session in Rushville. Thomas H. Penn, age eighty, for many years superintendent of the Armstrong-Landon company mill in Kokomo, died following a short illness. He was born in Birmingham, England. Mrs. Loretta Sunderhouse, age twenty-nine, wife of Herman Sunderhouse. was fatally injured when she was run down by a Monon passenger train while walking on the tracks at New Albany. Lorentz H. Adolfson. a student at Wabash college, Crawfordsville, has been announced as winner of the 1932 national oratorical contest of the Intercollegiate Peace association held in New Bedford, Mass. More than 7,000 persons returned to work In Anderson when the DelcoRemy and Guide Lamp corporations, both General Motors units, resumed operations following a two-week inventory and repair period. “Lady’s purse, found.’’ they wrote in the police records in Indianapolis. Then they opened it. Out fell a pair of “knucks,” a hunting license, flashlight, cigarettes and two old corks. Now it’s simply “purse found.” Depositors in the First National bank of Gary, which closed January 5, received a 20 per cent dividend on their deposits. The payments to 6,300 depositors total $340,000. The bank had only $40,000 in cash on hand when it closed. Ferris E. Traylor, Evansville, was named candidate for West Point from the First Indiana district by Repressentative John W. Boehne. As first and second alternates Boehne named Robert F. Bauer and Robert P. Williamson, Evansville. Rigger Williams of Huntington, fifty-five-year-old bachelor, died of a fractured skull after he had shot himself in the head eight times with a .22 caliber repeating rifle in a suicide attempt. Despondency was believed to have prompted the act. Felix Dimitchellie, owner of a speakeasy in East Chicago, protested to raiding prohibition agents that the prohibition law had been repealed. He produced as evidence a newspaper clipping of the Democratic repeal plank. The agents arrested him and seized his stock. Al Kuerst, Indianapolis, and Ray Jones, Logansportj are the winners of the $75 Boy Scout scholarships offered each year by Alpha Phi Omega, scouting fraternity at Indiana university. Robert Fenneman, Evansville, and James Kendall, Jeffersonville, were named alternates. Peanuts will grow in Indiana soil and climate. From ordinary seed peanuts bought for 10 cents and planted in his back yard, Monroe Brown of Muncie has dug up two bushels of peanuts of a large variety. He expects to go in for peanut cultivation on a large scale next year. William Haase, Martinsville, a junior in agriculture at Purdue university, was re-elected president of the Indiana chapter of the Future Farmers of America, which held its fourth annual state convention at Purdue. Randolph Hastings, Martinsville, was named vice president; Calvert Kingery, Crawfordsville, secretary; Irvin Johnson, Monrovia, reporter; Prof. W. A. Smith, Purdue, faculty adviser, and Prof. K. W. Kiltz, also of the university staff, executive seeretary-treasurer. The degree of Hoosier Farmer was conferred on Byron Duckwall, Angola; Kingery and Robert Smith, Crawfordsville; Weddell Pruitt, Monrovia; Carl Harlow, Seymour; Kenneth Davis, Shipshewana; Russell Carson, Middlebury; Kenneth Myers, Angola, and John Garrott, Battle Ground. Charles O. Abbott and E. L. Avery, officers of the Martinsville Trust company, closed in June, were arrested following their indictment by the Morgan county grand jury. Twenty indictments were returned against Avery and 19 against Abbott. A dog’s bark caused a serious automobile accident in state road 29 near Greensburg. The dog snapped and barked at the heels of a horse being led along the highway. The horse jumped in front of an automobile driven by Joseph Drake, Indianapolis, wrecking Drake’s car and seriously injuring him, and killing the horse.