Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 22, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 December 1932 — Seen and Heard In Indiana [ARTICLE]

Seen and Heard In Indiana

Aaron Trippet, age eighty-seven, died at his home three miles southeast of Hazleton. He was identified with several Gibson county banks and other institutions. Will F. Baum, former publisher of the Alexandria Times-Tribune, died after an illness of two years. He also was former publisher of the Chicago Live Stock World. Dragged more than two blocks under an automobile which struck him, Donald Lambert, age eleven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Lambert, was killed in Fort Wayne. Chester Gibbs, Vevay grocer, was found dead on the floor of his bedroom, death apparently having resulted from asphyxiation when a coal oil heater ignited bed clothing. Schuyler Donella, age eighty-five, former head of the United States secret service bureau in Louisville and for 39 years the nemesis of counterfeiters, died in Jeffersonville. Mrs. Frank Sommers is seriously ill with tularemia at her farm home, eight miles southwest of While skinning a rabbit Mrs. Sommers cut her hand with a knife. Jack Webb, sixteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Webb, was killed in Evansville when the sled upon which he was coasting dowh a hill crashed into the rear bumper of a parked car. Ray Anthony, age fifty-five, a farmer and resident of the community four iniles west of Brownstown all his life, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a shotgun at his home. Members of his family said he had been despondent. Mrs. Earl Cripe, North Manchester, was seriously injured when the car in which she was riding crashed with a truck driven by Charles W. Johnson, Warsaw, on a narrow bridge. She suffered a fractured arm, deep scalp lacerations and probable internal injuries. She was taken to a Huntington hospital. Mr. Johnson also was badly cut and bruised. The writer of the letter that sent Tone Kanne, sheriff, and other authorities of Rensselaer to a cemetery at Coldwater, Mich., to meet the purported kidnaper of Patricia Tripp, age four, has been identified as Richard Odren, age seventeen, junior high school pupil. Odren confessed writing the letter which indicated the child would be returned on payment of $100. D. C. Stephenson’s petition for a 90-day parole in which to assist in the perfection of his petitions for coram nobis in the Indiana Supreme court, and in starting a congressional investigation of an alleged liquor-narcotic ring in Indiana, was definitely discarded when filed with Gov. Harry O. Leslie by D. C. Jenkins, his attorney. “I will not refer the petition to the prison board nor give it further consideration,” said Governor Leslie. Selection of Elmer F. Straub, Indianapolis, as adjutant-general, and Robinson Hitchcock, Bloomington, as assistant adjutant-general, was announced by Paul V. McNutt, governorelect. They will take office on January 9, when the new governor is sworn in, Straub replacing Paul E. Tombaugh, and Hitchcock succeeding Edwin L. Nicholas, a retired regular army warrant officer who has held his post since the regime of Harry B. Smith as adjutant-general. Officers of the Indiana State Interfraternity council who were elected at a meeting of the organization at Butler university are as follows: George Lortz, DePauw university, president; Oscar Fitzpatrick, Indiana university, vice president; Joseph Taylor, Butler university, secretary, and Raymond E. Blackwell, Franklin college, re-elected recording secretary. Dr. Alfred Henry, fifty-seven, of Indianapolis, whose skill in combating tuberculosis placed him among foremost authorities in the nation, died unexpectedly of heart disease at his home here. He was a former president of the National Tuberculosis association, one of the organizers and the first president of the Marion Cdunty Tuberculosis association, and former president of the Mississippi Valley Conference on Tuberculosis. Those who entertain the idea that spring is just around the corner will gain little consolation from trappers of Indiana, who interpret the thick fur on pelts now being marketed as foreboding “a long, hard winter.” And there are other familiar signs which tend to bear out this pioneer system of forecasting the weather. Quail and other game birds have been found to be protected with unusually heavy feather growths. Youths who gather walnuts, butternuts and hickory nuts for the market report that the hulls are much heavier than usual, a sign which they say “never fails.” Incidentally, the winter trapping has been extensive throughout the state, and there have been reports of some re markable catches in the way of fox, mink, skunk, raccoons, oppossums, muskrats and weasels. Gov.-Elect Paul V. McNutt told 10,000 Democrats at an open air barbecue at Bluffton that he plans to lift the burden of taxation so “people may earn a living from the land.” This was taken as certain indication that a sales tax would be passed early in the year. The body of Stephen Crowley, seventy, with a rope around the neck, was found in his barn near Freeport, but Coroner Thomas Cartmel said a heart attack had frustrated Crowley’s intended suicide. The coroner said the rope was too long.