Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Gus Danzier, age fifty-nine, manufacturer, died of heart disease at his home in Shelbyville. William A. Bramblett, age seventynine, died at the family home, six miles south of Lebanon. Struck by a hit and run driver as he walked along the state road west of Newburg, John Gardner, age seventytwo, Newburg, was fatally injured. Leo. Murtaugh, age forty-four, coptain in the Terre Haute fire department, ended his life by taking poison. No reason was advanced for the act. Despondent over financial difficulties. Rudolph Kagel, age sixty-two, committed suicide in the bathroom of his home In South Bend by shooting himself. Delmar Louis Swick, wanted In Winchester for the murder of Russel Bergman, stores collector, was believed to have been seen in Veedersburg. Mrs. Ella Williams, age thirty, colored, surrendered to police in Muncie after she stabbed to death John Woods, age twenty-eight, colored barber, by whom she was employed as housekeeper. Mrs. Mary E. Judson, age sixty-nine, and her brother William D. Hane, age sixty-seven, both of New Discovery, were killed at Coal Bluff, when their automobile was wrecked by a westbound Big Four train. Louis Busterda, age fifty-two, Hammond, was killed by a hit-and-run motorist. Accompanied by his son Junior, age eight, Busterda was on his way home from Chicago, and had stopped to fix a flat tire on his truck. Urey Harges, age twenty-five, whose admitted attempt to extort $1,500 from a widow went awry when he was trapped by a decoy package, was sentenced In Newcastle to serve one to five years in the state reformatory. A father and his son were wounded In Hammond in a quarrel which followed a holiday celebration. Frank Youcus, age forty-seven, the father, was shot in the hand, and his son, Frank, Jr., was stabbed In the breast. Imogene Davis, age sixteen, of Petersburg, was burned fatally when her clothing caught fire In front of an open grate while she and her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Davis, were visiting Mrs. George Gardner, near Winslow, ; William Henry Baugh, age ninetyCivil war veteran, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. McNeely, at Ellettsville. Three other children survive, Mrs. H. G. Rice, Spencer; Charles Baugl^ Ellettsville and Burch Baugh,’ Canton. Ohio. Louis E. Hamilton, lola, Kan., convicted in Boone county Circuit court a month ago for the murder of Lafayette A. Jackson, Indianapolis merchant, Was transferred to Indiana state prison where he was sentenced to die August 15. Funeral services were held in Waveland in charge of Rev. John Servies, Crawfordsville, for Mrs. Blanche Reddish, age forty-six wife of O. L. Reddish, president of the Indiana state fair board, who died at her home northwest of Waveland. Announcement of four major appoint ments in his office was made by Philip Lutz, Jr.", Boonville, attorney generalelect. Those named are: Fred A. Wiecking, Hartford City, formerly state commander of the American Legion, first assistant attorney general; J. Edward Barce, Fowler, Benton county prosecutor, second assistant attorney general; Herbert Patrick, Tell City, first deputy attorney general, and Joseph P. McNamara, Indianapolis, second deputy attorney general. „ A recent survey by the national bu reau of public roads discloses < that Indiana Is one of 11 states that have 100 miles or more of wide pavement on state highways. The four-lane su perhighway of the Dunes lake region is listed as the most important of the state’s wider pavements. It extends from the Calumet 30 miles eastward and is known as U. S. road 20. Other highways taken Into account by the survey include the National road from Indianapolis to Cumberland, Fort Wayne on roads 2 and 30, South Bend on U. S. road 131 and Evansville on road 41. Because Marion county’s divorce rate of 40.55 for every hundred marriages far exceeds the national rate of IG.G, Butler university will sponsor a class in divorce prevention. First effort at an organized study of the causes of divorce, the course, opening January 27, has attracted a large en rollment of married persons as well as young folks who are contemplating marriage. The class will be directed by Charles R. Metzger, thirty-nine-year-old Indianapolis divorce referee, twice married himself, and he will be assisted by a nationally known physician, a psychologist and a clergyman. Methods of meeting all problems and causes of dissatisfaction leading to divorce will be considered. Attendants at the state-wide meeting of the Knights of Columbus of Indiana In Indianapolis January 12, will hear an address by Martin H. Carmody, Grand Rapids, Mich., supreme knight of the order, who will be an honor guest. He is making a general tour of the councils of the United States and Canada, preparatory to a national membership effort that the order is to start in February and March. David D. Fickle of Logansport, seventy-nine, lawyer, former mayor and once school superintendent, died of heart disease.