Ligonier Banner., Volume 71, Number 10, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 April 1937 — Page 2
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YODER FOUND NOT GUILTY
Vindicateq of Charge of Stealing Allehouse Auto Several We€ks Ago ;
A surprise verdict of “not guilty” rendered by Judge Rob Me¢Nagny in the Noble circuit court yindicated Harley Yoder, LaGrange, from a charge of grand larceny. The trial was the climax of a case in which an automobile belonging to Raymond Allehouse, near Kendallville, was stolen several weeks ago, later being found abandoned near LaGrange.
Testimony pointed decidedly to the guilt of Yoder, the state presenting a signed confession obtained from Yoder at Albion several days after hig apprehension at Grand Rapids, Mich,, in which he took full r.esponsibiiity for the theft. Yoder then testified that he could neither read nor write and that he signed the confession only as a measure whereby he might see his family and lawyer. : In addition, a confession signed by Byron Stewart was heard, this statement indicating that Yoder was the actual thief of the machine. The case came to a sudden close when Judge McNagny pronounced him not guilty.
Byron Stewart held on a technical charge of parole violation was released. v
Atlacks Poss; Gets Life Term
Pleading guilty to robbery with a deadly weapon Merle Albright North Liberty was sentenced to lile imprisonment by Judge ‘J. Elmer Peak of South Bend. He confessed attack
ing his employer George Hockett in Hockett’s Walkerton garage March 15. Hockett is in serious condition in a hospital at Laporte. On_a second charge of robbery by violence Albright was sentenced to 10 to 25 years imprisonment.
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In Memory of W. L. Jackson g{ ' The following message was recefved by Mrs. Jane Jackson from relatives in Florida. : “We were so sorry to hear about uncle Bill’s passing away. - Love will - comfort you and it is never so near as when all earthly joys seem most affar, - Thou will keep him §n perfect peace. 'Whose mind is stayed on. because he trusted in' Thee. I know that thou hearest me always are the words of Him who suffered and subdued sorrows all our sympathy understanding angd love.” The following is contributed by Mrs. Jackson: It is a vital force, this love. It I 8 }more than romance and youth and smiles and flowers. It is maternal and\paternal, love wité¥ the family. Und;gqg love in the passing years. And after the years have passed. After the loved ones have gone. When darkness descends. Silence. Only the whisper in the heart, Love. : His wife Mrs. Jane Jac}tson.
(Banking Group Meeting
When the new Indiana comwmission for financial institutions convenes in the statehouse today four ‘new faces will appear thereon. Robert R. Batton, chairman, is thé only man reappointed to the group. He was appointed the first chairman 6f the commission for financial institutions by former governor Paul V. McNutt, now high commissioner Zor the Philippines, upon the commission’s or ganization July 1, 1933 after the passage of the Indiana financial institutions act by the seventy-eighth General Assembly of Indiana. Mr. Batton’s _reappointment was announced by Governor: M. Clifford Townsend March 22 and the nmew members of the group were named as follows: william P. Flynn and Frank E. MeMcKinney, Indianapolis; Vincent D. Vaughn, Lafayette; and Spencer Harrell, Shelbyville.
Mrs. William Putt 61, was instantly killed Friday evening at Garreft when she was run down by an automobile drivep by Phillip Fluke of ‘Corunna. The tragedy occurred while she was crossing the street from her home to the home of her daughter Mrs. Elmer Depew. Death resulted from a fractured skull.
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WILL ABANDON CCC CAMP
40 Camps To Be Operated In the -State During Final Three Months Is The Civilian Conservation Corps program for Indiana during the final three months of the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1937 provides for operation of 40 CCC camps a reduction of one unif from the present total Robert Fechner director of emergency conseryation work announced. ,The program .provides for closing on April 1 of the camp at Cromwell in Noble county where scheduled work projects will be completed, Fechner said.
Of the camps to be operated during the spring, three will be located on national forest lands, 11 on state forest lands, seven in state parks. 10 working on erosion control on pri vate farm land, one on a military reservation, and eight camps occupied with drainage projects. The camps are located.in or near the following cities. : ~ Tell City, Kurtz, Mitehell, ‘Henryville, Martinsville, Nashvile, Medaryville, Brownstown, Winslow, Ferinand, Corydon, Bluffton, Lagro, Ft. ‘Wayne, Monon; Linton, South Bend, iValparaiso, Kokomo, Frankton; Lebanon, Darmstadt, Princston, Lafayette, Waveland, Brookville, Lexington, Wadesville, Calem, Washington, Rising Snn, Worthington, Mitchell, Uasoniville, Madfson, Angola, Nashville Versailles; Evansville and Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Christian Science Services
“Reality” was the subject of the Liesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Secientist on Sunday March 28, : :
The Golden Text was: “Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations” (Psalms 90:1). Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermcn was the following from the Bible: “The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, ‘wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is established, that 1t cannot be moved, Thy throne is established of old; thou art from eyerlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord, the floods have lifted up their Ivoice; the floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, vea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thy ‘testimonies are very sure* holiness becometh thine house, N Lord, for ever” (Psalms 93:1-5.) ' The Lesson+Sermon also ‘ucluded the following passages from the ;omistian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Spiritual sense, contradicting the material ‘senses, involves intuition} hope, faith, understanding. fruition, reality. Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never reaches beyong the boundary of the mortal or the unreal. When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spiritual ideas like numbers and notes, start from Principle, and admitt no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense is the ' discernment of spiritual good. Understanding is the line of demarcation between the real and the unreal. . . . his Gnderstanding is not intellectual, is not the result of scholarly attainm:nts: It is the reality of all -things hiopght to light” (p. 505 /
Hurt in Fall May Sue for Damages. Miss Helen Tgg! of .Indianapoils well known here and executive secretary of the Indiana State Nurses as‘sociation, filed with City Clerk Leonard H. Ellenwood of Fort Wayne a notice of intention to press a clalm against the city for injuries suffered when she fell to the sidewalk at Berry and Calhoun strets about 6 o'ciock the afternoon of March 13. Miss Teal claims she stepped into a sidewalk depression, displacing a ligamen# of her left knee. As a result of the injury, the . claimant advises, she has been unable to continue her work as secretary gf the state agsociation. She had come to Fort Wayne to fill a speaking cugagement when the accident occurred The Ipdignapgllg’ woman is recover fng from heér injury at the home of her mother in Kendallville. A legal action to collect the claim from the eity is expected to follow the notice, which gives no statement of alleged damages, o
Stockholders Sued by Stafe The Department of Financisl Institutions of Indlana has filed suit In Kosciusko circuit court against stock holders of the Bank of Seward at Bur ket ‘asking judgment for a total of $27,589.70. 5 : It is charged in the complaint that the “bank is hopelessly insolvent and that the deficiency will not be less thap the amount of the judgments asked. The Ban}ho[f ‘Seward was organized August 26, 1911, and was closed several years ago. Thirty defendants are named fn the suit.
Marringe Licenses | Marrjage Hcenses were issued at { Albion to the following couples during. the last week: } ' Bmery L. Brown and Helen Nelson boz?; ot Kendallviile. - Ropert Vernion Néwcomer of Waterloo and Betty Alice Warstler of Kenalfville. e - John ‘Willlam Fry of Noble township and Beatriée Luctle Smith of NoDR ORI, oAI nn o e
SENTENCE FIVE FOR SEX CRIME
Two Other Men nnd Twe Girls To .3 Face Charges At Warsaw
Disclosure of a thriving vice ring in the west part of Warsaw brought gentences to six Warsaw men and one woman, while two other men and two minor girls await sentence upon their pleas of guilty. ; Those sentenced included Mrs. Leona Ramer, 44 who pleaded guilty he fore Judge Donald Vanderveer in Kos wiusko circuit court of operating a house of ill fame and contributing to delinquency of minors. She was fined $3OO and septenced to women's state prison for six months. Others sentenced were Roy Ramer, 21, son of Mrs. Ramer, who pleaded guilty to charges of incest and of criminal assault, receiving sentences of 5 to 1 years and 2 to 21 years. Johnny Heeter, 31 second degree criminal assault 1 to 10 years.
Darrell Riggins second degree crim inal assault, 1 to 10 years. Sanford Keim, 25 first degree criminal assault, 5 to 21 yeals. Richard Gilbert 55, and Rufus Pratt 35 1 to ten years. The men pleaded guilty to criminal ly assaulting two young dgughters of Mrs. Ramer, Suzanna 16 and Betty, 13. The girls are being held in jail and probably will be arraigned In juvenile court and sentenced to the state girls’ school. Two others, Frnest Nichols, 54, and Victor Hoover 25, are to be arraigned this week.
Arrests followed scveral davs of investigation afier repcrts ceme to county officials that two gilg of school age were emn..yed in a house of ill fame by their mother. Mrs. Nellie Arnold, zounty probation officer and Sheriff Virgil Yeager made the arrests followirg a thorough Investigation. 3
v"rl‘h; house had be2n cperating since December officials said
(‘raig, Awaiting Senrerce
Gerry Craig, Garrett, who was employed on the H. P. Rothrock farm west of Kendallville for some months confessed to Sheriff Irvin Cazier and Ed Rose of the state police departmetn that he had stolen corn from the Rothrock 6 or 7 different times. He said he hauled the cornm to Albion and Wawaka where he gold it, receiving about §25 in all. It was of ficially stated that the larceny charge would not be presented at tais time.
Craig is lodged in jail at Albion awaiting sentence to be pronounced by Judge Rob McNagny after being found guilty by a jury late Tuesday on a charge of rape. -
Tip of Fortune Teller Wrong.
Five cows which wecas believed to have been stoln from the Zarm of Orville Guy, living n'rth of Etna Green, havs heen found dead on the faim. Three smothersd to dexth under a straw stack and two others were found dead in & woods on the Guy farm.
Following th> disappearance of the animals Guy consulted a fortune teller several *im:s and was ir*rmed by her that the cows had heen stolen and taken to a “certain point.” This information wa3s passed on to Sheriff Virgil E. Yeager by Guy, but the official followed the nsual routine of investigation without resuit.
Names State Board Members
Gov. M. Clifford Townsend received resignation of Paul P. Fry, Linton as state liquor administrator ané announced personnel of three state boards. Fry offered his resignation effective: May 1, to return to private business. Townsend appointed five men and one woman in re-aligning the board personnel he inherited from the admiistration of former Gov. Paul V. McNutt. He announced membergship of the clemency commission, state board of tax commissioners and the state police board.
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{ Signs 0f The Times > B 8 9 “‘Comments, Politically and Otherwise, on Present-Day Topics By Pay E. Smith =
People are buying. Baster retail trade reached the highest level since 1930. And this with an early Eastecr and with wather mostly unfavorable for spring merchandise. More buying means more manufacturing. More manufacturing means bigger payrolls and bigger profits. And higher wagzes and larger profits means ability to pay state and federal taxes. The state and federal governments will get back the money spent to start the economic wheels which weren’t moving in 1932. The result: A prosperous and happy people.
When Herbert Hoover turned over the presidency to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 4 1933 the market value of all stocks and bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange was $50,485,000,000; bonds were valued at $30,785,000,000 and stocks at $19,700,000,000. Four years later the total value of all stocks and bonds listed on the New York Stock Exchange was $107,624,000,000. Stocks had gone up $62,617,000,000 an increase of more than 300 per cent. Bonds had soared to $46,007,000,000, an increase of $14,222,000,000, Of course, some new bonds and stocks have been listed. ‘but after allowing for them ,we find ‘the value of stogks and bonds have increased more than $50,000,000,000 during the last four years. Liberty Leagners told us that President Roosevelt's “experiments.” were steadily driving the couptry to bankruptcy. Yet the figures compiled by the stock exchange show that while the present administration has been in power, the value of the paper dealt in on the exchange hag increased to an amount which would pay off our entire nation al debt and leave a meat balance of $16,000,000,000. Rather interesting, {sn’t it?
The Tories are stooping as low to tight Roosevelt now as they stooped last fall. To defeat Roosevelt in the 1936 campaign the Tories organized various imposing “leagues” *“associations” and “federations’ under names which were aimed to give the impress jon that these phony outfits represent ed great numbers of Americans. The Farmers’ Independence /Council, financed by the Liberty League, was a typical example. Now the same methods are being used tg fight Roosevelt on the Supreme court reform program. Frank Gannett publisher of the Ganneit newspapers, who was active against Roosevelt last fall, now heads one of these mushroom organizations: “The National committee to uphold Constitutional Government.”
Sounds pretty, doesn’t it? In mail going to newspapers are three packets of propaganda from this ‘“‘commikjeel’—each packiett containing four propaganda broadsides, ten subscription blanks and a pack of “pledges’ to be sent to Congressmen.
The propaganda is subtly arranged to bring raeial and religious issues into the court fight, with quotations from The Daily Worker to insinuate that the President is “Communistic.” It is the same old howl of last fall, for the same purpose—to defeat the greatest humanitarian who ever occupied the White House. The fees of President Roosevelt’s court reform are not disputing the tact that the Supreme court needs new blood. The disagreement is over how. the court shall be reformed—whether the President shall appoint six new judges by act of Congress or whether he shall be given this power through a Constitutional amendment, We have a sneaky feel ing that advocates of the Ilatter course are not sincere; that they ‘want the authority to come through a constitutional amendment knowing that by such a route the reform will never come to pass. The same big interests which have blocked the child labor amendment could just as effectively stop passage of an emend ment revising the Supreme court. This. powerful bloc can lobby at ses sions of state legislatures as it has done against the child labor amendment and defeat it. The child labor flgfldmen.t ‘before the nation since 1924 has been ratified by 28 states. Approval of 36 s necessary. There seems slight chance of the amendment ever being ratifiod. See why opponents of the Roosevelt court bill ‘are suggesting the~amendment route. ‘ :
The nation is taking notice of Indiana. In the March f{ssue of The Country Home is a lengthy article on “Haye You Heard of Indiana?”’ The Farm Journal in March carried ’an}rtlcle entitled “Happy Hooslers.” ‘These two farm magazines with na-tion-wide circulation said some complimentary things about the Hoosler state. The financial solidarity of _gflg&u came In for gpecial praise. "This ‘was a fine tribute to former Gov ernor McNutt and the Democratic party. There were lots of articles wriften about Indiana in the administrations of Warren T. McCray, Bd Jackson and Harry G. Leslle, but no Hoosler ever telt very proud of them. ”‘ ik & g ping LA .
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From the Superintendent’s Office
After a lapse of a number of years, the Ligonier High School has again organized a Hi-Y Club. Mr. B. A. Schnell, State Hi-Y Secretary, met last Thursday with a group of high school boys from the Freshmen, Sophomore and Junior classes. After an explanation of the purposes and objectives of such a club, he proceeded
upon the approval ofl the group to ore ganize. The following officers were elected for the coming year: President, Graydon Blue; Vice-President BEugene Sloan; Secretary-Treasurer, Marion Calbeck.
A Hi-Y Club, as Mr. Schnell explain ed, is a group of older high school boys,wh o having united in a common and challenging objective, are seeking for themselyes and their fellow students the highest standards of life and conduct. Their expressed purpose is ‘“To create, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community bigh standards of Christian character.” “ The service of these boys constitutes a truly great adventure, not alone hecause of what they are to be, but also because of their present contribution to the solution of the problems of boy life. Fiercely tempt-~ ‘ed, they are gaining personal victorjes themselves, and helping their fellow students to win great moral conflicts. In the decision-making period
of life they are committing themselyes to far-reaching conclusions for life Investment, and also providing helps by which their boy friends may be deciding these questions intelligently now. Conscious of the fact
that they have at most four or five vears to live in high schopl, they are aggressively seeking opportunities for ‘personal, mental moral and physical development, and are leading thelr schoolmates into similar transformng achievement, :
. Thousands of the mature boys of the public secondary schools of the United States, Capada, and other.parts ot the world are now enlisted in a vigorous quest, seeking the ideals ot this Youth Movement. JLocally - thia voluntary effort of bigh school boys usualy takes the form of a self-gov-erned organization, sponsored by an
);dvhoq group of men, who represeat the school authorities and:the Young Men’s Chritsian Asssoclation, The motto adoptéd by thé National Orgatiization and referred to a 4 C's is “Clean Speech, Clean Sports, Clean Scholarship, and Clean Living.” * The organization bars no boy who
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will subscribe and try to live up to its standards.
The Club plans for an installation of its officers and members by some other Hi-Y Club in this area sometime in April. Mr. Schnell will visit the club sometime during the latter part of this month. R. G. Harrell will act as the faculty Hi-Y advisor. ‘Wednesday the annual Commercial contest was held at the school. Those who. rank highest in the local contest whether as individuals or as a team will compete in the State meet on Saturday April 17.
The second @eries of evening classes for adult farmers is now being held at the High School building at 7:30 every Tuesday evening. The first meeting of this series was held Tuesday, March 30, and was & discussion of Plant Food requirements of common farm crops. In struction was also given as to the proper method of securing soil samples for testing at the pext meetiing Tuesday April 6. At that time soll sampies brought in will be tested and fertilizer recommendation made. The importance of choosing the proper fertilizer when translated into dollars and cents values is very evident. The March 30th class proved that gelection of an 0-10-10 fertilizer when an 0-16-0 was really what was needed respited in a loss of about $28.60 per ton of the 0-10-0 used.
The Noble County annual Spring Beet Calf Club tour was a good success last Friday states M. A. Nye, Noble County Agricultyral Agent, Albion. . Henry Mago, Purdue Animal Husbandry Department assisted In conducting the tour. Stops were made at club meémbers, Phylis Jean Linville, Maynard Bortner, Tommy Imes Queneth Raer, Joe Becker, Dale Butz The big percent of club members were feedifig a proteln supplement with their grain a fact which pleased Mr. Mayo and County Agent M. A. Nye as they state it is Impossible to am finish you should on a eclub in the time you haye to with a S . of the club this year turned : ot AL 4
Farmers Classes
Tour Good Success