Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 3, Number 6, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 June 1933 — INDIANA STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

INDIANA STATE NEWS

Herman W. Moore, age twenty-two, formerly of Pendleton and Anderson, Ind., and later of Elkhart, died of heart disease while swimming in Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Walter Druley, Jr., of Anderson, age twenty-six, suffered a fractured skull when the automobile he was driving overturned near Middletown. Joseph Miller, also of Anderson, was bruised. Jackie Rush, age ten, of Bloomington, is dead of a broken neck, received when he was run down by an automobile driven by Henry Genoa. Martin Jerome Galliher, age eightysix, whose father was one of the founders of Muncie, is dead in the old Galliher homestead in that city. Erby Horton, age forty-nine, farmer two miles southwest of Versailles, accidentally shot himself in the head with a rifle while climbing through a fence and died after being taken to a hospital. The wheat harvest soon will be under way in Knox county. Large crops of alfalfa and clover hay are being cut. The cherry crop is large. Cecil Robbins, nineteen, a farmer, near Ehel, was made unconscious and one of his horses was killed and the other injured when they were attacked by a swarm of honey bees. Robbins was found unconscious beside the dead horse. Bernard C. Gavit was named dean of the Indiana university law school by the board of trustees. He succeeds Gov. Paul V. McNutt, who relinquished the office when elected governor last November. William Howe, eighty-three, committed suicide at his home in Mulberry by blowing out his brains with a doublebarreled shotgun. He lived alone. Ill health was given as thte motive. An express shipment of $7,000 in silver dollars was received in Ft. Wayne in payment for a carload of washing machines made there. Miss Josephine Thomas, age twentyseven, East Chicago, died in Hammond of injuries received in a crash in which two others were injured. Miss Thomas' auto was in collision with a car driven by Maurice Palmer, Whiting. Mrs. Melvin Leliter, vice president of the Indiana Federated Women’s clubs, was killed when the automobile in which she was riding alone was struck by a Baltimore & Ohio freight train on an unguarded crossing at Wellsboro, ten miles south of La Porte. Mrs. Leliter was the wife of a La Porte attorney. Four armed men held up the Purdue State bank while commencement exercises were in progress a block away at Purdue university in West Lafayette. They obtained approximately $2,500. Bathers scurried for safety in deep water; others fled in terror through the weeds and trees when a rabid dog appeared at the Millersville beach in Fall creek, northeast of Indianapolis. A two-year-old child was attacked and several other persons were said to have been bitten before the dog was killed by John Willis, a member of the Indianapolis police department. DePauw university held its ninetyfifth commencement exercise with Bishop Frauncis J. McConnell, New York city, a former DePauw president, as speaker. Two hundred and seven-ty-six undergraduate degrees were conferred by President G. Bromley Oxman in addition to five masters’ degrees and four honorary degrees. Police of Hartford City were baffled by the theft of $1,200 from three safes in the offices of the Franklin Security company. The excellent work of women in the legal profession and prospects of a great future for them were points emphasized at the dinner given by the Indiana Association of Women Lawyears at the Columbia club in Indianapolis. Mrs. Charline H. McGuire, Muncie, was elected president of the association; Miss Jessie Levy, first vice president; Miss Genevieve Brown, second vice president ; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Rainier, recording secretary; Miss Merzie George, secretary treasurer, and Mrs. Jessie Gremelspacher, Miss Lois Kelly and Miss Beatrice Gohman, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Frances Beane, of Albion, and Mrs. Zoe Wyatt, Redkey, directors. Dr. Amos Spartie Hershey, sixty-five, former head of the department of political science and international law at Indiana university and a member of President Wilson’s peace commission at Paris in 1918-’19, died at the State hospital at Madison. Long illness of bright’s disease and nephritis was fatal. Doctor Hershey was born at Hershey, Pa., July 11, 1867. He graduated from Harvard, received a degree from Heidelberg university, and studied international law at Paris university. He had been a member of the Indiana university faculty since 1895. His immediate survivors are his widow, a daughter, Mrs. James Russell, Oxford, Ohio, and a sister, Mrs. C. M. Hershey, Hummelstown, Pa. Melvin Leffel, age fifty-five, Mexico, despondent over illness and aggravated by the intense heat, is in Dukes Memorial hospital at Peru after shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol. The bullet emerged from the corner ot his left eye. It is thought he will recover. The Indiana branch of the National League of American Pen Women made the fourth of a series of pilgrimages to Newcastle, where federated clubs had arranged a tour to points of art and literary interest under direction of Mrs. Horace L. Burr and Miss Helen M. Goodwin.