Ligonier Banner., Volume 66, Number 50, Ligonier, Noble County, 12 January 1933 — Page 2

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37 CASES SET

Six State Cases and Four Divorce Suits Are Listed On Calendar -

Thirty-seven cases are listed on the trial calendar of the January term of the Noble circuit court. Of this number eight cases are to be heard before 8 jury and the remainder before Judge Robert R, McNagny. Lo

With a cluttered court docket efforts will 'be made to make this a

five week term. Six state cases and four divorce suits are on the calendAL e b = -

Thursday, Jan. 12

State vs Joe Riehards larceny jury State vs. Retter, mition new trial, court. - Ben Hile vs. V. 0. Grannis accounting court, .

Friday, Jan. 13

State ex rel Symons vs LaGrange Co. Trust Co., issues, court, - Saturday, Jan. 14

Montgomery Ward & Co. vs James K. and Gladys Forst, issues, court.

Ransburg Bros., vs R. R. Alles4 house, note, court. - : Albion National Bank vs Sam Kulins note and attachment court. Monday, Jan. 16 ‘Southern Surety Co. vs Merchants & Farmers bank motion, court. Emahiser and son vs Addie Strater foreclose mechanics lien court.:

Tuesday, Jan 17 - + 8. F. Trembly Co. vs Herbert Thorn et al, account, court. Wednesday, Jan, 18 Corabel Rippe vs V. B. Dooly, ejectment court, ; A. M. Davis Co. vs James D. Snyder account court, Lucas Kil-Tone Co. vs James D. Snyder account, - Thursday, Jan. 19

C. W. Slagle vs Emille Ennen et al,, set gside deed court, : : A Saturday Jan. 21 Mary J. Hoffman vs Walter Huffman et al set aside deed court, John B. Burns vs George Ananias,. damages court. Monday Jan. 23 State ex rel Symons vs LaGrange Trust Co., trial for claim jury, ‘ Tuesday, Jan. 24. State vs Frank Firestone receiving stolen property jury, ~ Wednesday, Jan. 25 State vs. Evangeline Rice arson, jury. ; Thursday, Jan 26 Maude Throckmorton vs estate Francis M. Field, claim jury. ' Saturday, Jan. 28 State ex rel Armetta Parr vs Arden Lane bastardy jury, Cecil W. Emerick et al vs. Glyda Fish et al, conversion, jury. Monday, Jan. 30 Carl O, Somdahl vs Northern Indiang Fuel & Light company appointment of receiver court.

Thomas Huston Dead

Thomas A. Huston age 77 years for= mer auditor of Noble county and for years engaged in the drug business ided Sunday evening at the home of his niece Mrs. Rollin Winwright three miles northeast of Wawaka. Complications incident to senility caused ihs death. - Mr. Huston was born in Mount Vernon, 0., He came to Noble county some years ago and engaged in the drug business at Albion. He served several terms as auditor, He was a prominent and highly respected resident of the community. Mrs. Huston died several years ago and since that time he resided with his niece Mrs. Winwright. , The last survivor of the original family is a sister Mrs. Emma Molen of Wawaka,

Heart Attack Fatal John Brown

John J- Brown 62 who resigneq recently as director of the state highway commission and was appointed to the state tax board died suddenly in a Indianapolis hotel of heart trouble. He was a native of Rockport and had gerved four years as director of the highway commission when he Tresigned and was succeeded by Hugh Barnhart of -Rochester. He had gserved on the state tax board before from 1919 to 1928.

Condition Remains Serious

Goshen hospital attendants reported that after spending a comfortable night the condition of Mrs. Millard Buckmaster 65 who was struck by a car driven by David S. Garman Wednesday night remained the same serous ut not critical. She suffers from a fracture of the skull a fractured rib broken nose and other internal and external injuries. Police are non-com mittal concerning the possibility of charges being filed against Garman.

Marriage Licenses

" Delmar O. Longbrake 22 presser ‘of Garrett and Florence Lucille Smith 23 of Kendallville on Dec. 31st, James A. Beery 51 farmer of Decatur and Blanche M. Graham 51 telephone operator of Monroe on Dec. 28th. ' Howard W. Sandusky 29 pattern maker of Toledo, 0., and Ethel F, M. Shatto 29 file clerk, of Toledo on Dec. ° Bxciting while it lasted but believ+ed by tire tighters to have done slight damage fire raged for a brief time late Friday in the midst of the steel tramework that soon will be the home of the nation’s post office department.

Would APolish Highway Commission

Sen William V. Doogs Democrat, Cannelton said he planned to introduce a bill in the Indiana general assembly to abolish the present highway commission . ; The present state highway department was created by an act of the 1919 legislature.

Sen, Doogs’ bill to obolish the present system would be followed it was understood, by another creating a new three-man full-time commission. The present commission consists of four men who are paid on a per diem bas.s. . :

The state legislature in special session last summer ke{t away from the highway department“some of its revenue by pacssing legislation sending back to local communities, one-half of the gasoline tax and automobile license collections.

~ During debate on those bills, Sen. Doogs said he had been urged by ihs constituents to withdraw his mname from them as co-author because the highway commission had halted construction work on a state highway in his community. Sen_Doogs represents Perry, Dubois and Spencer counties. Albert J. Wedeking chairman of the state highway commission lives at Dale in Spencer county. Wedeking said that he will resign as chairman soon, s

Admission Pireces Are Redueced

- Members of the Indiana state board of ‘agricultural declined to take any stand either for or against the passage of a pari-mutuel betting law in this state. Members of the board decided -that since the Indiana Association of County and District Fairs already has gone on record as favoring such a law that the state board should not enter into the matter.

The board also voted to retain its membership in the Grand Circuit horse racing organization. The races are held in connection with the state fair.

By vote of the board membership a downward revision of admission prices for the 1933 fair was ordered. The price for individuals throughout the day -and until 6 p, m. will remain at 50 cents.. From 6 p. m. until the grounds close the admission price will be 25 cents and the charge for automobiels .at all times .will be 26 cents. .In the past the admission for individuals and the charge for automobhiles has been 50 cents.

Blame Gang Bomb

The South Benq Times said in a copyright article it had learned from “unimpeachable sources” that a gangster’s bomb intended for a priest caused the 1931 airplane disaster in which Knute Rockne and seven other men were killed

The newspaper- said that govern ment operatives attached to the aviation department at Washington were gnvestigating the case and were satisfied a time bomb blew up the airplane in which the famous Notre Dame coach was traveling enroute to the west coast.

The paper said the bomb apparently was intended for the Rev. Fr. John Reynolds C. S. C., a witness who aid« ed in convicting Leo Brothers of killin Alfred (Jake) Lingle Chicago Tribune reporter. It was meer chance the paper said that Rochne instead of Reynolds was killed, Rockne’s body was mutilateq whe nthe airliner suddenly came apart and crashed to the earth of a Kansas farm.

$50.000 Damages Asked

Damages of $50,000 are asked in a suit filed in Elkhart superior court by Jayne M. Butz of Albion against Shirley Longacre of Hlkhart as the result of an automobile accident Nov, 13 last in Kosciusko county.

The complaint charges that an auto mobile driven by the defendant struck the car in which the plaintiff was riding andq that the defendant was driving recklessly and at an excessive rate of speed. As a result the car occupied by thep laintiff and driven by her husband Walter rolleq down an embankment. The plaintiff it is averred received a fractured skull, fractured pelvis, rupture of the blad der fracture to the left knee torn ligaments in the back and was unconscious in a hospital for six weeks. She will be permanently crippled the complaint says.

To Distribut Checks.

The checks for the second dividend 'of the Citizens Natioanl bank were received at Kenadllville from the comptroller of currency at Washington D. C., and are now being prepared for dis tribution. There are approximately 2,000 checks representing $60,000. At 15 per cent dividend is beining paid. This willl mean- a total distribution of approximately $216,000 paid out by the bank since it closed. The first dividend of 40 per cent amounted to $156,000 ;

4-H Show Jan. 17-21

" The annual 4-H club corn and potato show will be held in the office of the. county agent in Columbia City January 17 to 21. Thirty-eight corn club boys are eligible to exhibit corn in tihs show and 16 will exhibit potatoes - S. F. Trembley is general chairman of the show and Keller Beeson gon of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Beeson of Columbia township will be the judge. He is now with the Purdue univergity agricultural extension division.

Elkhart Man Heldup

George Burton of Elkhart attendant at the Sanseney service station reported to police at Elkhart that he had been held up and robbed of $2O by two bandits who forced him into a 1932 Pontiac coach ang drove him to the Oakland avenue and Mishawaka roads where they released him, :

Orange S. Blalock Sr., 79 of Sturgis. committed suicide by hanging him self with a leather belt in his bedroom He is survived by three sons, one Dal Blalock living at LaGrange.

BIG DEMOCRAT FETE PLANNED

Appreciation Banquet And Program To Be Held Friday Jan. 20 at Indianapolis

An appreciation banquet and program honoring the Democratic organization leaders of Indiana for the victory they achieved at the election in November will be held the night of Friday January 20 1933 at the Riley Room of the Claypool hotel Indianapolis it is announced,

Those to be honored at the affair are R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman; Mrs. A ' P.Flynn, state vice-chairman; Marshall Williams, secretary of the state committee; Amos Woods treasurer of the state committee and the 24 men ang women comprising the Democratic state committee. s

Sponsoring the function will be the Democratic county organizations in the 92 Indiana counties. : All state officials elected on the Democratic ticket in November and two years ago and all members of the Indiana legislature gre expected to he present for the event, Prominent Democratic organization workers in a number of counties of the state are sponsoring the plans for the appreciation function. The program will include a banquet followed by short talks by a number of those elected to office and responses by the honored guests. The tickets for the banquet will

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be sold by all county chairmen in cooperation with the county Wicechairmen. An effort will be made to have every county chairman pressent with a representative group of Democrats from each county.

. A fractured skull received in a collision between the auto in which he was riding and a train caused the death of Joseph W, Cripe 67-year-old farmer who lived three miles west of Goshen. ¢ -

The fatal accident occurred December 29 at Cromwell, Mr. Cripe driving a light automobile failed to see an approaching freight train -at the Cromwell main street crossing until too close to the tracks to avoid collision. He turneq the auto sharply in an effort to mis sthe train but the automebile struck the passing ‘cars and was caught on one of them. ‘With Mr, Cripe still within it the auto was carried several yards along the track still caught on the train, and was crushed between the train and a freight car which was standing on a nearby spur. \

The unsuccessful attempt to reelect President Hoover cost the Republican national committee $2,670,652 according to a report filed with the clerk of the house. That was approximately $1,000,000 more than the Democratic committee spent its report' made showed. :

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TO BROADCAST PROGRESS

Tax Measures and Other Economic Relief Bills To Get : Attention

With the opening of the legislature the Indiana Farm Bureau will broadcast daily the news of the general assembly in its progress of law making according to Lewis Taylor director tax and legislature department. “The. farm bureau has selected WLS the Prairie Farmer broadcasting station, Chicago over which to inform its members an dothers relative to the evolution of tax measures and other economic relief bills, because of its powerful transmitting equipment which will en%ble citizens in all parts of the state to receive the announcements” says Mr, Taylor. Farmers need further reduction in their tax obligations, if they are to retain their farms and homes, states the tax director. . The farm bureau tax program during this session of the general assembly will favor tapping new sources of revenue or broadening the tax base. It will oppose any efforts to repeal the $1.50 limitation tax levy. “Our program for tax legislation is designed - to further relieve property taxes and includes various new forms of levies which will spread the load among all ‘citizens of the state’ he s%s, The new forms submitted by the farm bureau tax specialist with

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To Take Over Rbller Mills

The Farm Bureau Mills Inc., comprising 15 county bureaus of northern Indiana having arranged to take over the Auburn Roller Mills, within two weeks and will operate the plant for general milling purposes as well as a storage for grain. The mill is a modern one and has been

in operation for many years. The counties interested in the project

are: Noble,” DeKalb LaGrange Steuben, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko Whitley,” Allen Adams, Wabash Wells Miami, Jay and Randolph, :

Mrs. Rebecca Maloney of Albion celebrated her 89th birthday anniversary at the home of Mr, and Mrs. J. M. Mathews who entertained a company of Albion and out of town guests in her honor. i

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