Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 28, DeMotte, Jasper County, 2 February 1933 — INDIANA NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS

Francis Marion Lantz, age sixty-two, was found dead in bed in Logansport Grover Silvers, age twenty-five, Bloomington taxicab driver, committed suicide by drinking poison at the home of Mrs. Lola Stewart. Police said Silvers had quarreled with Mrs. Stewart. Thieves stole a house from H. A. Zimmerman of Logansport, who reported to police that they loaded the building onto a truck during his absence. Miss Violet Siegwald, age seventeen, was killed and six others injured when the automobile in which they were riding overturned twice near New Albany after a tire blew out. Mrs. Mathilda Kaiser, age fifty-nine, died in a hospital in Evansville of injuries received when the truck in which she was riding was in collision with an automobile. Mary Donna Stickley, Indiana university freshman, returned to her home in South Bend to receive treatment for burns suffered when a beaker of sulphuric acid spilled over her. Robert Hoover, age eighty-nine, one of the three surviving Civil war veterans at Versailles, died at his home. He and his wife celebrated their fiftyninth wedding anniversary last September. Edgar L. Dickey, age sixty-eight, trustee of Pipecreek township, Madison county, died at a hospital in Elwood, following an operation. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Nora Dickey, and three daughters. Earl Warner, age twenty-two, East Columbus, pleaded guilty in Bartholomew Circuit court to leaving an accident without reporting and was fined $5 and sentenced to 60 days at the Indiana State farm. A bill, introduced in the house of representatives by Bern B. Grubb (Dem., Tippecanoe and Warren) defined the word racketeering and fixed penalties for committing “an act of racketeering.” John Foster, postmaster at Doolittle Mills, Perry county, 30 miles north of Tell City, was robbed of some postoffice cash and his own life savings, according to Walter S. Lytle, Evansville postal inspector. The robber obtained about $1,000 in all. At a meeting of interested taxpayers of Greene county in Bloomfield, the Hoosier Taxpayers’ union, recently organized at Worthington with Calvin F. McIntosh, former member of the state utilities board, as president, was converted into a county organization. Mrs. Lillian Holley is now sheriff of Lake county. She succeeds her husband, Sheriff Roy Holley, who was shot and killed in a battle with Michael Lantare, a crazed farmer, who killed one other man and wounded seven more before ending his own life. Jess Murvine, 29 years old, of Hammond, was shot and killed by Carl Boatright, twenty-three years old, of Gary, an employee of the Empire Oil Refinery company. Police learned that Boatright came home unexpectedly and found Murvine with his wife. Boatright surrendered to police after the shooting.

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Pay, pioneer resident of Indiana and of Indianapolis, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Herman C. Tuttle. Mrs. Day, who was ninety-six years old, was born in Madison December 4, 1836, the daughter of Capt. John Hite and Mary Janes Oglesby. She was a direct descendant of Col. John Hite, of Virginia, of Revolutionary fame. The state would assume the minimum wages of teachers under the terms of a bill drafted by the legislative committee of affiliated educational organizations. Minimum salaries of grade teachers would be retained at $800 and high school teachers at $1,080. The bill, furthermore, would fix state requirements for a minimum term of 160 days instead of the eight months’ term now specified. Milt West, forty-two, negro, of Newburg was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary when convicted at Evansville of involuntary manslaughter in the death of John Gardner, sixty-three, prominent Warrick county farmer, who was struck and killed as he walked along the road near his home December 25. West failed to stop to render aid after striking the victim, testimony proved. Abe Weiner, Michigan City billiard room owner, and James George of Michigan City were killed in an automoble accident six miles northeast of Laporte. Dr. W. W. Ross, Laporte physician, and William Richter of Michigan City were injured. Doctor Ross, although badly injured himself, gave first aid treatment to George and Richter as the three rode to Laporte in an ambulance, but George died in a hospital. Three hundred employees of steam and electric railroads in Madison county convened Anderson and organized a county unit of the Railroad Employees Taxpayers’ Association of Indiana, to seek state and national legislation for more successful maintenance of rail lines. Closing of state normal schools, drastic cuts in institutional expenses and suspension of the teachers’ minimum wage law are advocated by John L. Moorman, Knox, chairman of the board of trustees of the Indiana State prison, in a memorial presented to the Indiana senate and house.