Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 46, DeMotte, Jasper County, 30 March 1933 — Seen and Heard In Indiana [ARTICLE]

Seen and Heard In Indiana

Blanche Lois Eaton, fifteen, high school student at Leavenworth, fell dead as she stepped from a school bus in front of her father’s store. A Circuit court jury at Logansport awarded Mrs. Elizabeth Miller, beauty parlor operator, $200 in her $20,000 breach of promise suit against Carl O. Snell, railroad engineer. Continued rain caused the closing of a number of Lawrence county roads as White river was 12 feet above normal and rising an inch an hour. Rev. Elijah P. Brown, the former editor and founder of the Ram’s Horn, a semi-religious weekly newspaper, and a resident of Indianapolis for 30 years, died at his home in Sebring, Fla. Appointment of Herbert P. Kenney, New Albany attorney, as assistant public counsellor of the public service commission was announced at the office of Governor McNutt. The four-member bipartisan system of institutional board control probably will be changed to three-member, bipartisan bodies. Governor McNutt said in discussing contemplated changes under the governmental reorganization act. Bunson mine No. 4, at Universal, five miles west of Clinton, was badly damaged by three explosions of dynamite bombs. The mine, owned by the United States Fuel company, had been recently leased by a concern which, it was said, was planning to open on a nonunion basis. Joseph K. McGary, eighty-eight, Civil war veteran and past commander of the Archer post No. 28. Grand Army of the Republic at Princeton, died. He was a member of Company E, Forty-Second Indiana infantry. Application blanks for permission to sell medicinal whisky in Indiana were mailed to prospective wholesalers and retailers, it,was announced by Al Feeney, temporary excise director of the state’s new liquor control law. Collision of a bus and a truck near Michigan City resulted in injury of 10 persons, three of them seriously. Amos R. Mattis, seventy-two, Chicago, was one of those hurt. The Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, accused of attempting to rape an eight-een-year-old girl member of his congregation. was found guilty of “imprudent ministerial conduct” by an ecclesiastical jury in Muncie. He was ordered suspended for a year. The United Cleaners and Dyers, 122 South State street, Hammond, was bombed in the night with damage to the plant and some of the equipment, estimated at $2,000 by Carl Fisher and Harry Pittsman, the owners. The bomb was tossed into the rear of the plant. Windows of nearby buildings were shattered. Police said Chicago cleaning racketeers had been active in Hammond recently, attempting to organize the industry. Mrs. Jessica Loomis Francis, sev-enty-two, died at Michigan City. She was a teacher in the Mark Sheridan High school, Chicago, for more than ten years. Perry H. Swank of Valparaiso was awarded $2,500 by the Circuit court jury against the Northern Indiana Public Service company for the death of his son, eleven, electrocuted last August by high tension wires while climbing a tree to view an airplane test flight. Gibson county ministers are planning an organization to fight repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. The Seventh District Federal Reserve bank granted the Farmers National bank, of Remington, permission to reopen. Ray Gilbert, Seymour, Democrat, state representative from Brown and Jackson counties, was named chief railroad inspector of the public service commission, succeeding Charles Michael, Logansport Republican. The reappointment of Rush G. Budd, Newcastle Democrat, as a member of the board of trustees of the Indiana Village for Epileptics, which is situated near Newcastle, is announced. George A. Ryan, veteran editor of the Horseman and Fair World, died at Indianapolis. He had been ill for more than a month. Death was attributed to toxic poisoning. Carrying her six-weeks-old daughter Marcia Ann, Mrs. Lorenz Bower started down the steps of her home at Zionsville. She fell. Marcia Ann’s skull was fractured, killing her. Mrs. Bower was not seriously injured. Mrs. Edward Duncan, age thirtyfive, living near Clay City, was fatally burned when she poured coal oil on smoldering ashes in the kitchen stove. The oil can exploded. A truce in the wage dispute between Indianapolis theater owners and union employees will allow theaters to remain open for another week at least. Previously it had been announced that all theaters, both legitimate and motion picture, would close. Lloyd Weldy, forty-five years old, county assessor of Elkhart county, died at Chicago from injuries received on March 14. when he was struck by a street car. Weldy, a resident of Wakarusa, was visiting Chicago as a delegate to the Pure Milk association. At Peru Ed Sheckell, department store manager, fell and broke his leg while dancing with his wife. Three men who pleaded guilty to burglary charges, at South Bend, told officers fumes from a torch wrapped in cotton and sprinkled with sulphur put the chickens to sleep and prevented a cackle as they were carted away.