Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 27, DeMotte, Jasper County, 26 January 1933 — INDIANA BREVITIES [ARTICLE]

INDIANA BREVITIES

Arthur de Baun, age sixty-two, former judge of the Sullivan County Circuit court, died at his home in Sullivan of heart disease. Two masked men held up the home of Isaac Way, four miles east of Shoals, in United States road 150 and escaped with about $50. Charles Estlick, age sixteen, Etna high school pupil, was drowned when he broke throught the ice while skating on Little Cedar lake, Colombia City. Paul Birkla, age eighteen, Fredonia, died of a fractured skull when caught under an automobile. It overturned a mile west of Milltown when a tire blew out. Fulton county authorities were seeking a hit-and-run motorist following the death of Frank Wolf, age seventyfour, widely-known Lake Manitou fisherman guide. After a first semester trial of the new Indiana university extension center in East Chicago, 84 per cent of students registered plan to continue their courses. The fifteenth annual convention of the National Methodist Association of Hospitals, Homes and Deaconess Work will be held in Indianapolis in the Claypool hotel February 15. Lumber dealers from all parts of the state attended the forty-ninth annual convention of the Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of Indiana in the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis. James W. Wayman died unexpectedly at his home in Brownstown of heart disease. Mr. Wayman was the owner of extensive land interests in Jackson and Daviess counties. Grief over the death of his wife last summer caused Arthur L. Stephens of Gary, age forty-two, mill worker, to drive his car into his garage, close the door and asphyxiate himself. Jury commissioners drawing names of veniremen for service at the firstdegree murder trial in Plymouth, of Virgil Barber, charged with killing Arnold Pratt, drew the name of the slain man. Three thousand hunters of Armstrong, Center, Scott and German townships held an old-fashioned fox chase which netted them two red foxes. Guns were barred at the hunt. The chase lasted an hour and a half. Harrison Wallace of Huntington, age forty, suffered serious burns when gasoline dripping from an automobile became ignited while he was working beneath the car. A spark from the motor is believed to have ignited the fuel.

Legislative measures designed to reduce the costs of government and to balance the state budget were designated by Gov. Paul V. McNutt as having “primary importance” in the list of administration bills being presented to the general assembly. A petition bearing the names of 1,500 voters in Madison county was presented to Senator Walter Vermillion by A. T. Rowe, Anderson, dry leader, who asserted the petitioners object strenuously to “any interference with the present state prohibition law.” Samuel J. Copeland, fifty-two, farmer and a Republican leader of Posey county, was shot in the abdomen while going to the henhouse in search of an opossum, which was disturbing the chickens. He caught a foot in some brush. As he stumbled the gun was discharged. After having been slugged with a blackjack in the hands of a man unknown to him, George Gray, age thirty, Kokomo, fell from a swiftly-mov-ing Pennsylvania passenger train between Indianapolis and Greenfield, receiving injuries which resulted in his death. Patricia Smyth, ten years old, was killed by the Pennsylvania railroad’s New Yorker, fast passenger train, eastbound from Chicago, at Hobart. Engineer Dennis Monahan said the little girl waited for a freight train to pass and then walked directly onto the tracks. Patricia was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Smyth of Hobart.

Eureka college, Bloomington, through its president, Clyde L. Lyon, announced a new policy of student institution co-operation. Emphasis is put upon the co-operative educational features of the plan which will effect a tremendous cut in the present cost of attendance at the school for those students who wish to perform work in exchange for reduction in tuition, room and board costs. A bill aimed at “high-priced basketball coaches” in Indiana was intro duced in the state senate by Senator Thurmann A. Gottschalk (Dem., Adams, Blackford and Wells). The bill would repeal an act of the 1919 session of the legislature providing for the establishment, maintenance and supervision of courses in physical education in the elementary high schools and accredited schools of the state. The state board of tax commissioners will accept, without appealing to the Supreme court, the Benton County Circuit court decision which permanently enjoined the state tax board from adding a 10 per cent horizontal increase in assessment of real estate in White county, Philip Zoercher, chairman of the state board, said. State and national legislation of importance to bankers and the trends of credit and practices in banking were discussed by members of the Indiana Bankers’ association in annual midyear meeting at the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis.