Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 4, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 June 1933 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

William Ward, sixty-one, employee at the Madison shipyards, was killed when a boiler exploded. Willard New, age seventy-two, former judge of the Indiana Appellate court, died in North Vernon. He served as judge of the Sixth judicial circuit. Indiana naval history will be reviewed this summer at Camp Gridley, Bass lake. A special course will be given with emphasis on the career of Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley, for whom the camp was named. John P. Frenzel, Sr., age seventyseven, veteran Indianapolis banker and patron of the arts, died at his home following an attack of arteriosclerosis. Mrs. Edgar Wittmer, twenty-four, Newburg, received a broken leg but saved the life of her twenty-months-old son, Louis, when she snatched the child from the path of an automobile and tossed him to safety. The twenty-ninth annual convention of the Indiana State Association of Spiritualists was held in the Claypool hotel, Indianapolis. Mrs. Maye M. Hibbs, Fort Wayne, gave the invocation, and Dr. B. F. Clark; Indianapolis, president of the association, presided. Kenneth E. Fields. Elkhart, will receive the Sons of the American Revolution trophy for excellence in military efficiency in West Point June 10. Fields was regimental commander of the cadet corps this year. He has been first in his class academically two years. He has been on the varsity football and baseball teams. J. W. Chambers, former Velpen postmaster, age sixty-five, active in Republican politics many years, is dead of apoplexy. He was a candidate for county recorder on the Republican ticket several years ago, but was defeated. He had been in the general mercantile business in Velpen more than 40 years. Otis Turner was convicted in Sullivan of the murder of Andrew and Oral Reedy, father and son, as the result of a quarrel over a farm foreclosure suit. The jury returned the second-degree verdict. With two policemen and a bandit dead, a third officer wounded, and the police chief suspended for threatening the life of the mayor, South Bend was thrown into an uproar as city and police officials began an investigation. Police Chief John B. Keuspert was ordered suspended by Mayor W. R. Hinkle after the mayor declared that Keuspert, had threatened to kill him for proposing to cut in half the wages of the patrolmen. The murder of Officers Delbert S. Thompson and Charles Farkas by Donald Murdock, thirty-five, bandit and whisky runner, who in turn was killed by Officer Daniel Martin, came within 48 hours after the mayor had proposed to the city council that the police pay he reduced about 50 per cent to help meet a forthcoming deficit in excess of $200,000 in municipal finances. Robert L. Moorhead, colonel of artillery, Indianapolis, was elected president of the Indiana Reserve Officers association. Orin Norcross, infantry major, Muncie, was chosen senior vice president, and Capt. E. M. Chellew and Lieut. William Ostrander, both of secretary and treasurer, respectively. Capt. W. R. Neal, Osgood; Lieut. Col. W. J. Platka, Fort Wayne; Maj. A. C. Rasmussen, Indianapolis; Capt. C. S. Gundeck, South Bend, and Lieut. E. E. Campbell. Evansville, are regional vice presidents. Other officers are Lieut. Donald D. Hoover, Indiananolis, publicity director; Lieut. R. V. Carpenter, Fort Wayne, judge advocate: Maj. W. S. McRea, Evansville, chaplain; Lieut. Col. F. L. Hossman, Indianapolis, surgeon, and Capt. Neal, historian, Bloomington will entertain the 1934 convention. Authorities planned for speedy trial of five men, captured by a posse following the robbery of the State Exchange bank of Culver. A sixth member of the holdup gang, T. C. Teske, alias Shea, South Chicago, Ill., died in a Plymouth hospital of a bullet wound received in the chase. It was fired by Oliver Schilling, son of Schuyler Schilling, bank president. In addition to bank rohbery charges, the five men may face kidnaping charges. They forced two bank employees to ride on the running board of the bandit car as a protection against bullets from the posse. The men, in jails at Plymouth and South Bend, are: Jack Gray, age twenty-three, New York; Eddie Murphy, age thirty-three, New York; Joe Cohen, age twenty, Chicago; John Gorman, age twenty-seven, Detroit, and James Davis, age twentyfive, Tampa, Fla. Cohen insisted he had no part in the robbery. He said he was a hitch-hiker picked up by the bandits and forced to accompany them. All except a small part of the $16,000 loot was recovered. Authority in the new Indiana banking code for establishment of county and regional clearing house associations and other points intended to improve bank regulations and stability, will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Indiana Bankers association in Indianapolis, June 13 and 14, it was announced by Miss Forba McDaniel, secretary. Frank Murello, thirty-four, and his niece, Rosario Murello, four, of Indianapolis, were killed in an automobile accident three miles south of Scottsburg in which five others were injured.