Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 3, DeMotte, Jasper County, 1 June 1933 — INDIANA NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA NEWS

Governor McNutt appointed the members of the new Indiana banking commission, created by the legislature; which will take office July 1. He named Oscar Weiborn and Harvey Hartsock, both of Indianapolis; Myron Gray, Muncie; C. M. Setser, Columbus, and Robert Batton, Marion. Four bandits escaped with $5,000 from the Lowell National bank after firing a dozen shots at motorists in the main street of Lowell, 20 miles south of Gary, to prevent pursuit. The bandits sat in their car in front of the bank until it opened for business. Then they drew revolvers, entered and ordered Cashier T. A. Berg, Assistant Cashier George Foster, and Tellers Harry Love and Miss Mary Nichols to lie on the floor. One of the bandits fired two shots when Love was slow in obeying the command. Scooping the money from the counter, they fled and drove east. One of the bandits sent several shots through the radiator of the car of John Miller, a garage owner, who was driving in front of the bank, and fired at Dr. Nell Davis, who sat in a parked car. As the aftermath of a fist fight in the council chambers at Crown Point, the Lake county grand jury returned an indictment before Judge William J. Murray, charging three Crown Point officials with rioting. The three are Mayor Vincent Youkey, Aiderman William F. Houk, and Fire Chief Fred Bisselburg. The jury censured them for improper conduct and lack of dignity. Rather than appear in court in a divorce action filed by his seventy-year bride of six months. John E. Rice of Logansport. seventy-three, retired farmer, shot and killed himself. When an eastbound Pennsylvania flyer struck an automobile on a crossing in Hammond, Nick Bickovitch, age thirty-eight, driver, was killed. Judge B. F. Barnes of Kokomo, age eighty-five, will retire from practice of law June 1 after 57 years of continuous connection with the bench and the bar in Howard county. Valuation of personal property assessed in Bartholomew county has decreased 15 Per cent, according to William N. McClintic, assessor. Robert Ruge, Valparaiso high school athlete, has passed examinations for entrance to the United States Naval academy. Robert Ross, age ten, son of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Ross of Noblesville, drowned in Cicero creek, where he had gone with several companions to swim. Mrs. Benjamin Ruhling, fifty-five, of Elkhart, was killed when she was pinned beneath the wreckage of an automobile as it collided with a New York Central train. While several Purdue students looked on, Vess Kemble, seventythree, plunged into the swollen Wabash river from the Main street bridge in Lafayette and was drowned. John Byus, general manager of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, received word from the main plant in Pittsburgh that the Elwood company would reopen at once. Miss Clara Harp, age twenty-five, restaurant employee, committed suicide by hanging in a cell in Greensburg. Police who arrested her said seemed to be intoxicated. Her body was found suspended by a sheet. H. C. Thompson of Monon, age fiftyfour, attorney and life-long resident of White county, prominently identified with the Republican party, died in Home hospital, Lafayette, after an operation. Virgil Green, twenty-eight years old, and Clyde Copple, both of Hammond, were killed by the explosion of an oil exchanger at the Standard Oil company refinery in Whiting. Seven new guards began their duties at the Indiana State prison at Michigan City. They are Roy King, Gilson Witsesell, Joseph Levandowski, Alfred D. Miller, Stanley Herbert, Alex Gondeck and William Breining. One-lamp Louies, the appellation tacked on motorists who drive with one headlamp on their cars, will be the objectives of a campaign being organized by the state police department. County sheriffs have agreed to co-operate with the department in removing what Al Feeney, head of the department of public safety, describes as one of the worst traffic hazards. Forty persons, including twenty-six members of the Marion college glee club, suffered from ptomaine poisoning after eating pressed chicken and beef sandwiches at the Wesleyan Methodist church at Bakers corner, four miles east of Sheridan. The sandwiches had been made by members of the church in the afternoon and those made of chicken became tainted when kept in a warm room. Results of a state board of health examination disclosed that a squirrel which bit Junior Craig, nine, living on a farm near Clinton, was affected with rabies. Dr. J. L. Axby, state veterinarian, said it was the first time he has heard of a squirrel having rabies and that it carried serious possibilities for live stock and other animals. Physical examinations for applicants seeking admittance to reforestation camps were conducted in the Federal building in Indianapolis. Of the 300, all except 50 were sent to Ft. Knox, Ky., where they will receive preliminary instruction and training.