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HIGH TRRUTE PAID AT RITES FOR DR. TOiTS

Iimpkf.ssivf. .funeral sfrv |( F.S HELD FRIDAY .FOR Ol tlF.ST DEPAtTW CR \I»

IqRFXSURF.K EMERITUS OF DPI'

|l'»«ior (’hutch Assisted U\ Hish<»; Hughes. Dr. Otnam and* Dr. I ongden

Impressive funeral lite^ were held i pi|(1 the (iobin Memorial Methodist [liiirdi Friday* afternoon at 2:30 L’fjneli for Dr. Salem) R Town, ireas- | rf > r pnieritiis of DePauw, and the f ll ip<!t graduate of the university'who , | i nly Tue-day morning a reult of a heart attack. f)i, Albert E. Monger, pastor of I, church.‘was in charge of the serve which was conducted in the fol- | wing order: Organ Prelude by Prof. Van Den an Thompson. liviuii "Knith of Our Fattier*," mrregation. nuture and Prater; 103rd l’•-■alnl i ; Uth Chapter of St. John—Dr. Hi mley Oxnam. Words of appreciation by Dr. henry H I.ongden- for the univer |i!v and Pi Mongei for the church Remarks by Bishop Edwin Holt ftighes. Hymn—“My Faith Looks Up to fire. ongregation edictlon Pi ( ( For Members of the Phi Kappa Psi Fuemity with which Dr. Town was | . | ed aa a hei and I a guard of honor. IA me pallhearens were Dr, C. \\ Hildebrand, Prof W A Hug ►re. ii"t I. O’Hai) Rus-ell Hrowai, frf lei-nine Hixson and Igiuis StevHnnorary pallbearers were H Rc.hbins, Prof. F C. Tilden, J, F luitney. Dr. C * Ford, Prof. Role A 0(| Mi M M Hlan-hard, Dr R FWtardt, < II Barnaby, Prof. R (icugh, Joseph Allen Jr., Dean C McCiit.han, Dr C, Tucker, r Walter F Bundy, Roy O, West, 11 John V\ r Rohe. ! Jtiicrnieut ivas in Forest HiH ceme |Di I.ongden’s tplk wms as follows: "II v puny at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold ,ould be the man whose thought wotld hold An hout’s communion with the dead. "In vain shalt thou, or any, call The Spirits from their golden day F -cept, like them, thou ton canst say, VIv spirit is at peace wdth all. "The wider of In Memorial)) intwbrted |)ei-fectly the thoughts and I" i - of one who stands in a place li " tliis in such an hour. And the l) ent. were only obeying a primal BiMinut, when in spotless robes an<l ktt. i , ceremony of purification they pid away their departed. Therefore, I -dip, thoughtfully, sadly but hope lully we attempt to hold this c,»mjriinioti But to do so properly in c:ee would requiie the goodness PI i saint; the wisdom of a sage and Ini emotional strength of a philosopher. "Should anyone ask how long 1 had known our dear fiiend, I should anFwer practically all my life; for the r'-ir I enteral first grade in the lit* |Dr two room brick school house, in ■he north part of this town, wbjch lonnerly UePauw’s first build I In T’.,wn was graduating front |\ 'liny over on the west campus. Of

making and rounding out of a character nvetl-nigh perfect. He was pas tor - f many of the largest churches of the state; distriet superintendent treasurer «uf DePauw university Buccessful in everything he under took hut most of ail in the beautiful character that came out of it.

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Of x\hat*in him was flower and fruit.' • “Members of Di. Town’s famiky were known hack in colonial times as men of affaits and scholars Town’s system of readers were widely known in the F.ast and at one time threaten ed tfie popularity of Mctluffey. Of the past history of his faipily he did not, spend so much time thinking, but he did take a legitimate pride, Hi the character and worth of his children and grandchildren and tiere at any tate is one old family that lias not degenerated but seemingly improved with the years. I have had cause to wonder at the children and grandchildren of the noble man and woman and herein i* part of his re ward, 'kor his children shall rise up and called him blessed.’ “Dr. Town,* horn, educated and spenning his life in Indiana was a splendid example of thcjie-t that the state can produce m manhood. He loved with all of his soul his state without demagogery; Ids church without bigotry and his family with out exclusive selfishness. “In him was the spirit of eternal youth, with all of its joyousness and hope. The only thing that indicated that he was advanced in years wa* the calendsi. No one thought of him as old. His buoyant “tep, alert mind, lia|(py smile and Self depr^ndence mad*' him ahraya a wakeoHW companion and the feeling that many now' have and have expressed is that the ‘Grim Reaper’ made a mistake in spite of the fact that it comes from a High .Source and that ‘The days of' our yep is are three score and ten.’ "Only a few days ago he celebrated at the anniversary banquet of his fraternity at Indianapolis and spoke with effect and feeling and his brother I'hi ’ Psi-, eave him a great

ovation.

“His goodness- and he w-as good— W'as not of the monastic type hut virile and active and called for by his active and helpful association with men and a knowledge of theii ner, |s. Business and its requirements did not contaminate him but he exalted and glorified them and proved the practicality of the Sermon on the Mount and at this moment I can think of him without incongruity as the president of a hank or the pastor of this church With him the line between the sacred and the secular w’as hard to find For him all life

was sacred.

“Our friend -was one of those far too rare to whom a conviction was a thing to Fie acted upon and by w'hich lie lived. Deciding to practice medicine as his father before him had done, he took a medical degree from Northwestern in Chicago and then dill postgnaduati* work in Bellevue hospital, New York City. He then started on what' would seem to he a

DEATH CALLS AGED MARION T\\ I* FARMER

GREENCASTLF INDIAN A, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1933

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DFt FASFD WAs 91 YEARS Oi D

Survived H\ ’on \nd Daughter Passed Away I »el July.

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, Rohkrtus Weil; age PI years, pass ed away lino day afternoon at S:20! o'clock, following a short illness of pneumonia, at hi home nne,mile west ot Mt Meridcni. Mi Wells, due to his advanced age, had been in failing health for some : time but only became seriously ill early Tuesday morning. iiii art , : hi - 'd&ug itei M1 Alva Stone, and a -on, Roscoe Well*, both of Marion township. Thffdeceas ed was an uncle of Harry Wells ( ,i this city. Mi Well wi widely known in bisection of the county a* he wa a j life-long it-: ident of Marion town ship His (wife preceded him in death ! last July. Funeral services will he held from 1 the home Saturday afternoon at | oVU-k. 'Burial 111 Forest Hill cenie

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CIVIL \yORKS PAYROLL TO BE $3281.11)

ADDIJIONM^ V|fi ' V IO B*- P AID OUT <*x - 1 ATK AND • < H\ JR At I itHC . . • AMI I AMOUNT To ii?Gi I $7 000

|{ A "I 1 ei- pies >nting to tha 4-11 Club c mte winnrr t the International Live S' mk Show in Chicago I t 1 right, the winner* are Marcus Ttei ,li (ieiard, Minn, and i.dian Mmphy «-t Hi 1 is. In itjonal achievement < hatni inns, and D- ii- 1 talk >f Goodman YV- and Hugo lira 1 aim ,,f Granite, oi la , naitional lea i*hip chamtiiotiS

VCRICUI HIRE i :< > Vi r< >\ ERSY NOT SETTLED

Indiana Stale Farm Brows < ’hampinn l ar ()f Corn So Par As lineal Pariners < an Tell

HUNK ANDERSON, NOTRE DAME < o A< H BP GNS

SOUTH BFND, Irtd , Dec 8, (UP) —The resignations of Heaitle\ (Hunk) Anderson, Notre Dame football coach, and Jessie Harper, athletic director, weie confirmed today by the United Press. Elmer Layden, one of fhe famous Four Horsqmen, ha been named to fill both positions in a sweeping ath letic reorganisation.

Poultry Meeting Monday, Dee. IS

P.AUI G Rll | A OF I AFAYETTF TO BE SPEAKER FOR EVENT An educational poultry meeting will he held in the asstimhly room of the court house Mondar e'-pnmg, lie* 19 at 7:30 o'clock under the mi-pices of the P-lUiam Count Poultry A«*oriaI ion Paul G. Riley of Lafayette, formerly of P tuldue university, will speak on the topic, ".Profitable Poul try- Production.”

LOCAL GIRL DIRl < IS PI AA lit PNG! I H Cl \SS

"Uise, the disparity of our ages bin-

I I any though, of friendship a t j ""'ted; ».* ^nesly. and Jairness

rliat time and yet thus early did he r "1 into my knowledge and life. |i -- tronger m.i stronger current I l ave come flowing in, until they I vij’t away every harrier and flood I I I my lifij with Hie lovliness of hi I hie** ed influence; and for years we sve been the closert and best of

Miss Mary Louise IhriKip, daughterof Dr and Mrs. J A I hroop, directed tig* play "Aunt Emma Se«s It Through,” given by the junior English da -* uf the t loverdale higli school Tiiui dlay evening The |»er-forni-ance w a 1 enjoye h\ a large a«di

most successful career as a physician, Imce and Miss Throop dcs»Tves much but there came to him the dear CO«‘ jnvdit far the - id-mb I WMJ in MtUeh viction that he should preach and as j the va-ri ms memb. 1 of the cast porthe fishermen of old dropped their trayed their respective roles, nets and followed Christ, so he laid ; Miss Ilito'P >" 1 giaduat - ot the down the carefully prepared plans ol Greencaatle liigh s. hool and DePauw Die pnrtMW yea 1 ■ and be,.an MOD ,mmc,--t - mi of tin He diil not trifle with his conviction , Alpha. Phi uiwi I ri Kappa wrorities ami that wsa the dm ret of hisjife. and join.-,I thM faculty staff of ^ the “I am thinking of Dr. Town’s wide , Clovei dale scho d last September. * interest in all good things—his re | ’

spec) and tolerance of the opinions of j others; hi broad-minded charity atvl genuine love of mankind; his at,so | Into Hlrcerlty; his faculty for mak j ing and holding friends; his loyalty j to every thing with which he was con |

Liiidys Ijtuxr Bm/ilian Pori

mind and action; his scholarly atti lude; his cheerful optimism and will, all his deeply religious nature. These are the outstanding features of the picture in all its strength ami loveliness which hangs and will ever hang on the walls of my memory. “One of the most difficult problem!

Ifrienda, across whose friendship no 0 f t |,e gieat dramatists is to get Ins niall clouT of misunderstanding ha’ 1 principal characters off stage without

[eve, ciina.

“Among the many, many things in ’ny life for which I am just at this time thankful and proud—this is one Hist he was my friend; probably L'e fiist outside I he immediate family to whom I should have gone in trouble or sorrow Of (his very- hour Wp Itave -poken and l promised him t” do what 1 am now doing, hai-i -

1 d I still were here

(osg of dignity, love and e-steem I

NATAL, Brazil, I>e. 8, (UP) -Col and Mrs. Charles -A. Lindbergh left at 8;15 a. m. today (615 a. m. ERT.) in their seaplane foi an unannounced

destination. .

They Vi re undei-tood to tie h'-ving for the United States to spend Christmas with their son John, now

sixteen months old.

The Lindbergh, headed up the coast ami were understood*to he going to Fara, at the mouth of the

which

loved and revered.

“Some months ago a hook came from the press entitled ‘Life Begins at -Fcrty.’ There is now just off the press another hook ‘Life Begins at

by Ferris. Dr. Town's life

J‘‘ri enmunetate th« varied art,v, did t»l» "" additional interest at I ’ks of his life. What does it matter forty and then at seventy but if he ! mm as they contribute to the j (Continued on Page Three)

have sometimes thought that the | Dara river near the mouth of the Good Father of us ail has something Amazon, enroute home. To Para is of that same problem in getting his 1 a flight of l,0(ki mile northwestward children to retire from the stage along the co:i t There are several without the loss of the qualities I parts where they ma* alight if they

have made the,m successful, | l pwire -

I I FORTS OF PRESIDENT To ( NT ATF HARMONY HAVE APPARENT! A i All FD \\ ARHINGTON Deo 8, (UP, An upheaval in the ignoultural ail justment admlniemtion,-regarded by many ro the h:i e of the recoveiy pyramid, today forecast a swivel . ... 1 f-,i. •

problems.

Eff its of President Roosevelt app.nmtlv had failed to harmonize waning so-called liberals and conseri a fives in the farm group and ten sion inne-ased. Speculation over resignations was revived in the face of denials, with expectations thgt new faces would bring new port-'fes and changes of emphasis in ' ie government’s drive to reatore ag, i-dlture to 1928 parity with industry Reports per ted thit George N. Pe^k. Illinois ustnalrit, would quit as administrat of the AAA. They woe emliellist. with ruTnors that he would i>e siiccc, led by Chester Davis, chief of the A.AA production division, who has directed its campaign for cinp leduction as a mean* of lasting

farm relief.

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace conferred at length (with Davis last night, after tun conferences at the Wliirip H -us, during the day at which the nft in 1 ie department wa dis cussed. Peel* also called at the White House fm- two hours pc. k \v:i rc|i-Tted tn liave under consideration proposals tliat he transfer to the NR A. or assume a high p st 111 the stat. department to work on furthering his ideas of fSnn re lief by the expansion of foreign out lets for American farm .products. Wallace, Asm taut Recretary Rex ford G. Tugwell, Jerome Frank, AA A counsel, .and other so-called liberals contein) foieign markets cannot Ire levived in the immediate future. They feel Peck Iras put too much em pltasts on this |ihase of possible agri cultural relief lamg-time. improve menl, the liberal group llelieves, can .udy result fiom balancing crop pro-. , duction with effective demand Peek’s lesignarton or transfer l Would lie widely regarded a a secomi 1 victory for the lilreral “brain trust" I group, ’which al <> ’prevailed over.con- | lervutives in recent treasury changes. Details if the lilreral-consen’ative 1 fight in the AAA leaked out slowly. LibenaJs were aid to resent Peek’s reported disdain for their crop limitation plans, many of which were worked aout before the recovery act was smarted. I’e^k was reportefl to Lave called the plans "the work of theorists” Ho was charged with delaying action on them, tl was point ed out that the vast corn-hog plan wa announced onl^ Wedne*-dav, after nine months.

Ralph Howard, superintendent of Die lialiana state faiSni 11 t only grows prisoners at the farm by hundred*, hut he is now r enlarging the reputation of the state farm by having an. enormous ear of com on dis play in his office, ’whn-H according to all information in farm rncl*’,, is the cha npioa 'f champion etra at com This big fellow, shu- ked from a field of good bottom com, weighed, at the time of shucking, two and one quarter pounds; measured i-t 3-4 mrhe* in length and niw inches in circumference, and ha- 18 rows of grains on it The average i* said to he 14 It is a mighty ear of com in

nil direct, 11Mi Howard is unable to say what kind of corn it is, i-tliei than just white coin Just why this ear of earn should have developed such size to of 1 md it is of course unknown, but being four rows largo than the average ear of cern, and longer and bigger in all ways, makes it -tand out prominently among other com on tiisph Mr. Howard said the entire field of corn, grown in one of the Deer creek hot - toms, was unusually good, but when the men W’orkmg found this ear, it w . so unusual that tl.B' saved it and. Mr Howard has the ear to prove it is a real champion.

Havana Prepares For New Violence

CUBAN .AI’T’HoKI riFS TAKING PIUBCAUTIONS AGAINST FURTHER OUTBREAKS HAVANA, Dec 8 (UP)-—Extra-ordinary military and police precautims weie taken to guard against di*01 lors today :, the noveriniient put into) effect a new law forbid ling e-m-ployrrs t > have more than 50 per cent of foreign b -rn worker' on their pay roll's . Spanish employers, particularly, who play at, important role in the island’s ennimeivial lire, hn' e hreitene.l to close their •-tahli-.h rent Authoritie- feared riotRecretary of Interior Antxnio Goiter as held all soldier? in barracks except tho e who, lieavily armed, were detailed ta |iatrol tiie sitreets As Die uutliorities prepared for foseible new bloodshed in the capita! and the provinces, president Rsimon Gran San Martin left hi' palace early today for -i *ecret political mission who'e nature wa unknown ‘M was Is-li* veil Grau visite i either l'iute<l State \inba radi i Slimmer Welle? 01 rome Cuhan political leader Gran saw Welb-s the night befi re under similar env-iim stances, it was leanied It wa* l/t-lieved nothing maleriaizenl from the first vi-it Tile 50 per cent law effective today was .('rnlrr.'iilgait'pd at the deman I of ('uban lah ners why ivsent the incursion of workers from Haiti and other countries . It terms are drastic. Not only must eiyployef hire 50 per cent of native Cohans, but d) per cent of theie pa\ roll totals mu-it go to Cubans MARRIAGE LICENSE # Kenneth Turpin, moisture tester, and Kathleen ^Stevens, employe P R. Mallory, both of Indianapolis.

TWO MOTHERS AND FIYE CHILDREN DIF IN FI AMf.R

No Inforuiati >n • *1 Here Yet A* lo WFic.hfi Local tjuota At ,11 F. inn t a~r , • * • * • Woikmen ► do . 11 cl. d iwotk 1 1 • Celt i- 1 1 1, r- 1 ' - ' • 1 I" . t ' I • r.cc. njing to iffi : ' in the local civil work? office ovei the 1 entral National bank. 1 In* ;idditi-"i t 1 11 new jiaid out on civil w k - jirojacts, one hundred workmen eng 'ed in widening berms on stati r-ir, ’ id, at.- project, will receive more th .11 $L(K)C, and other

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13 , ' 'D receive eve' il ii'inl.ed dollars This will make the tot d payroll for former unemployed -do?.- to $7,000 for ! the week clo'-nt ; 1.. iay C. u. Gautier, local civil works administmtor, reported I nday that he has net received information os yet relative to iacteasing the quota of men employe- - ■ «*i - 1 ; :oje.-; . in this countv. The federal government recently . enounced that Ind’iana’s quota wil.l bo increased several hundred men, the increase to be prorated over the state. It was said aporox.rrately 392 men were employed on civil works projects in the c-an” the n;vt-week, wjilch i under the quota of 398. The difference is accounted for by illness of .vet a I .of tl im who were scheduled to work, it vas 'aid. The money paid out on payrolls by tie. tati «nd g 1. r.r.ment, does not take into OCcVunt the mcney spent loc illy, t -i II equipment, and super 1 . ii i-i : .*• riotis projects.

RAULT RT MARIE, Mich., Dec. R, (UP)—Tavo mothers and their five children were burned to death when n fire destroyed the lume of Ernest

Kiblen early 4oday

The dead Mrs. Erline Orr, 19; her daughter, Constantine, 18 months; Mrs. Genevieve Hiblin, 31; Gehevieve Hiblin, 8 Katherine Hiblin, 6, Jer ome Hiblin, 6; and Ernest, Jr, 2 Oveilieated stove pipes were believed to have caused the fire The body of Katherine Hiblin was n.l in her be,I m the second floor. Her brother's body w'as found on the flnm next to the bed 1 iie other bodies were found on the first floor. The' two husband . were at work

when the fire occurred

FRIENDSHIP, \Vfs , Dec R, (UP) —Three children, thqir mother and giandfather were burned tn death today when flnmi swept their farm home a few miles north of here. The diHii wore William Bratley, (i4, M -v Lulu Brat lev, 25, and hei children, Lucille, 5, l*lizabeth, 3, and

Fieemaii, 9 months.

"It would sr-Pin that this is not the

I tune nor the place, nor is there neoes- j Seventy, I fity enniimerale voeioH oetivi- i did tak*

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20 Years Ago IN GREEI^CASTLB

Miss Clara Sharp ia confined to her home being ill off diphtheria Dr. and Mrs. C. N. Stroube were visitors here from Roachdale. Air W VV Tucker and daughter Mary spent the day in Indianapolis. Miss Elizabeth Ltunfts is the guest of Miss Mary And»fi*n, west of tkl city.

George Bittles

Is Badly Burned

EMPLOY! OF ( EM ENT PLANT SUFFERS SEVERE INJURIES ABOUT HEAD o Gworge Bittles living south of PiVtnamvllle, suffere evere bunis about the head and face early Friday morning in an accident in the dry mills at the Lone Star cement plant Bittles w-a: taken t-r his home after a Greencastle physician attended his injuries It w’as sard Bittles operates an electric switch and it is believed a flash from this inflicted -jevere elec* triced b'*tms.

'Starts Campaign For Senalorship R E ARL PFTFP FIRES OPENING GUN AT FORT WAYNB LAST NIGHT PORT WAYNE. Ind , Dec. 8, (UP)’ —Encouraged by rhe ovation of his home town frienD, R Earl Peter?, former state chairman of the Democratic jrartv and recalcitrant Democrat, npeired Die party’ choice for United State? senator today. Announcement of a definite campaign platform anticipated at a banquet here last night failed to mater - ializ.f Hi t dd 1 "" • i> that he would fight for the .leffei-onian principles of Democracy. Gnv Paul V McNutt, with whom Peters often has differed on party poli H , w.v ii"t 1 n ent He wo t filling a pr-kii . .-ngagement In

New York.

Peti-i pred.cti n tliat lu> would Imy supported for the nrrnrdnaticn by tho state central committee was home out partially by the presence of I Mr< A P. Flynn, Loganaport, vice chaiiinan of the state committee;

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IS Bf'iHI »I Home Mc(\ r.iir-ll 1 rif'h district

1 chairman.

Dr Carlton R Mc( iillonli. Indianapolis, who succeeded Peters to the committee chainnandiip, did not attend, but rent a IqUer predicting a Democratic victory in the old Republican Second district if the Fort Wavne - andidati- is « Die party

nomination. •

Nearly a • •• « 1 pi - nent party works pledged support for Peters'

in nearly two hours of

Vernon Gardner

DIES AI RUSSEITMI LK AFTER I ONG ILLNESS. FUNF.R AL

SATURDAY

RUSSELLVILLE, Dec. 8.—Vernon

Otto Gardner, '14, resident of this community for many years, died at his home here 'Thursday morning at

5:15 e'clock Mi Gardner had been i '

'•ndtdacy

in ill health for a year but had been '^lousll ick for only the pa-t ten

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The deceased , as horn at Lebanon March 18, 1869, Die son of William iind Lydia Gardner He wa?^ married July 15, 1905, to Estella *Kendall When a young man Mr. Gardnei was united with the Christian church under the pastorate of Rev J. C. Aah' ley, who Will take part in Die funeral

services.

The survivors include the widow; three brothers, Warren of Crawfordsville; Ed of Fieedcm, and Fred of Rushville; two sisters, Mrs. Perl Goff and Mrs. Charles Proctor, both of Russellville, and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral service- will be held at the Federated chuicli here Saturday aft •moon at 2 o’clock in tharge of the Rev. H L. Todd, paitnr of th* church, •ftsisted by the Rev Ashley. Burial will be in the Ru'sallville camiterv

eulogies that preceded his address. C Mr? Gaioncr Cri by, returned to her home e-e.-J of town ThuiTriiy from the mum- )i* pital

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