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CHICAGO.

AN y STARK 7 YEARS „ K Ol (.IIT TO COUNTY HOSPITAL MONDAY tj) TO CROSS ROAD 36

May 26. (UP) oiivor

A rniubruster w M cleare-l of criminal mt.-nt to,lay in his too-convincine demonstration of how to commit sui-

j cide.

( Hie detector tests convinced police I that Armbruster’s wife snatched a

revolver from his hands to kill herself after he showed Jier how

i it.

to use

I Occurred In Front of Stork rP , ttas Accompanied by Her Youiik Cousin

An n Stark, 7 year old dnURhjr and Mrs. Ralph Stark, was I V injured at Morton Monday -n at 4:35 o'clock when struck auto driven by a Decatur, III., ho was enroute to Ohio, rdinp to reports, the accident d when the little Kiri, accomby her cousin, Carolyn Condauphtei of Mr. and Mrs. Carjnncrly. of Morton, started to he pavement after leaving the general store. two youngsters stepped directhe path of the castbound maThe Stark girl was carried a of approximately 20 feet on mper. The driver in attemptavoid hitting the children d his car and crashed into a pole. The Connerly girl Iso grazed by the machine but ',ied only minor Injuries. Stark girl was brought to the county hospital here in an dous condition. Tuesday she was reported conscious zffering from shock and severe ind bruises. child makes her home with her arents. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. at Cloverdale. but she had o Morton to visit Mr. and Mrs. Stark, who are also her grandmas believed Tuesday that she -rcver as her injuries, although ely painful, are not thought to g serious nature.

t Salesmen Kemain hi Jail

BE CHARGED WITH MISREPRESENTATION OF PRODUCT

.every of boxes and C. O D. in which fur coats were shipped New York to South Bend to men held in jail here on susmay lead to charges against men of misrepresentation of for sale. two young men. Joe and ‘rt Gorman, said to be brothers, jailed here by Chief of Police cnee Graham Monday noon completing the sale,of at least frur coat for $100. The coat was sented as being Russian sable ike c, 0. D. tags located in an can late Monday afternoon rethat the eoats were shipped at 'timated value of only $15. police at first believed that "oats were stolen property, along a number of hats and rugs in the machine driven by the

men.

men had been making a house

^ouse canvass in this city in an dnpt to dispose of the goods. They

not received a permit from city Jials to sell in CJreencastle. of the coats represented as

The former world war aviator admitted that he showed his wife where to get the revolver when she said: "If I had a gun I’d shoot myself ” He left the room but came back Inter to hear her explain that the gun wouldn’t work. He proved it would, by firing a bullet into a bureau. Lie detector tests were ordered to determine whether he handed her the gun, then, or whether she snatched it from his hand. Mrs. Armbruster’s note disclosing her determination to kill herself convinced police of her suicidal inten-

tions.

Trial In Spieeel Uase Cnnliiiiii’s

DEFENSE WITNESSES called As TRIAL ENTERS ITS SECOND DAY Trial in the $1,500 damage case of Clara E. Spiegel and Carl Spiegel against the city of Greencastle for damage alleged done to property on Bloomington street during recent street improvement was continued in Putnam circuit court Tuesday. The trial began Monday morning before Judge C. C. Gillen and court was adjourned for the night at the conclusion of testimony of plaintiff’s witnesses. Seven witnesses testified for the plaintiff Monday. They included both plaintiffs, Arthur Plum mer, Lon Nichols, Roy Hitlis, Otto Dobbs and J W. Herod. Testimony of Walter Dunbar, city engineer, in behalf of the defendant, was begun Monday afternoon and continued to today. Other witnesses called by the defendant Tuesday snowing wers Elmer Blue and George E. Black. The case is a result of condemnation of a strip of land across the Bloomington street front of the prop erty, which was used by the city in making the street improvement during the summer of 1935. A tliscrep anry of two feet in the width of the strip taken has been revealed by the testimony of the two engineers on the witness stand. M. J. Murphy and Wilbur S. Don> ner represent the city in the case and .lames and Alice and F. S. Hamilton are attorneys for the plaintiff.

Scholarship To Greencastle Bov

MARION SELLER ONE OF FOUR WINNERS IN DEPAUW MUSIC SCHOOL

Marion Seller, son of Mr. and Mrs

Elmer Seller, east Walnut streel was today announced as one of th, four winnei-s of President’s scholar ships offered by DePauw University in the School of Music. Donah' Booty, another Greencastle boy war

y by the men was taken to Indi- i winn, ‘ r of onP ,,f ,he tpn • schnlii '

j ships in th* 1 Liberal Arts college in

the list announced recently. Mr. Seller indicated that he wish

| ed to use the scholarship to pursu, the .itudy of organ. The scholarship

^rred against'the transient sales ' ,rovi ' )PS $100 8 spmpstpr toward ""

tuition during the freshman year

check-up on the automobile the 1 8n,, is thP mn9, 8Ph / ,lar8hi ''

were driving revealed that it awar,le ' , hv the Sph001 of Muslc '

purchased in Wichita. Kansas. | TllP other three winners are woexplanation of the Texas license ! mPn 8tu f ® 8ther T ° st0r

. . , holz. Centralis. III.. Miss Jeanne was bearing was given. I , . .... „

e mnn I Hardy. Washington, and Miss Fran men were arraigned In Green- 1 ■ ® . . . ... . . Ip city court before Mayor • CPS Loom,s ' Shortridge high school

rlp * f Zeis Tuesday afternoon at SP,,ior ' ^‘anapolis.

0< ’lo«'k. Joe Gorman entered a !

°f guilty to charges of peddling I TOWNSEND REVOLT SPREADS

the city without a permit. '

(•Mis late Monday to be inspected i furrier in order to discover the of fur used. If the coat is not sable there is little doubt that rRe.s of misrepresentation will be

i ln teal normal trustees COMPLETE SWEEPING REORGANIZATION j ACCEPT TWO RESIGNATIONS Contract Of Dean Cancelled By Board. I) c. \ Gi-iffoy Elected New I’rewident. DANVILLE, Ind , May 26 Trustees of Central Normal college effected a sweeping reorganization of the college administration last night following tlio disclosure by the state department of education of the operation of an alleged “diploma mill" at the institution. I he board accepted the resignation of Dr. Waldo S. Wood as president and Mrs. Valentine Pleasant as registrar and cancelled the contract of N VV. Pinkerton as dean. The members elected Dr. C. A Griffey, a member of the faculty, as the new president, and Chester El son. a teacher in the Danville high school, as registrar. Dr. Griffey is a former member of the faculty at Adrian college, Adrian.

Mich.

Floyd I. MeMurray, state superin '.endent of public instruction and an alumnus of the college, made the dis closures that there had been false certification of teacher-training credits which form the basis upon which the state board of education issues teachers’ licenses. The board of trustees of the col lege admitted that false entries had been made “in eight or ten cases,’ but laid the blame entirely to Pin kerton. “There has been nothing irregulai in the affairs of Central Normal col lege except the charges made against Mr. Pinkerton for dealing in credits,” a statement by the board said. “Ini mediately the board heard of this being done the board began an investi gation and dismissed Mr. Pinkerton from the position he occupied as dean of education and wo have at all times co-operated with the state board ol ’ducatlon to Investigate and find out where the irregularities existed. “There are several records we have found which were altered and entries made and the only records which are irregular were made and kept by Mr. Pinkerton. “There has been not a penny of noney which has come to Central Normal college except in regular jhannels.” Members of the board also expressed regret at th<; resignations of Dr. Wood and Mrs. Pleasant. O. E. Gulley, president of the board, said he knew of "one or twi nstances" where money was involved n the certification of credits. Pinkerton denied knowledge how ever, of credits being sold. “All of my acts were done by and in the knowledge of Dr. Wood and sometimes at his demand,” he said ‘If there wore credits sold I do not know by whom or who by.” Dr. Griffey has been a member ol he college faculty since September. 1935. He formerly was superintend•nt of school at Adrian, Mich., nhd it Lancaster, Ohio. Wood’s resignation will be effee ive Aug. 16 "or at the pleasure of he state board of education." He ■xplainod that if the state board feels 'haf he should leave before that time will turn his duties over to Dr. Griffey at the time it sits. The college board also announced that, heeding requests of alumni, il was electing Judge George L. Tre maine. of Greensburg, an alumnus, as a trustee to succeed Julian Hogate, who died recently. COMMANDERY NOTICE

SELASSIE’S CROHN, SWORD seized rv Egypt customs CAIRO. May 26 .up. Egyptian customs authorities last night re/. • I the fugitive Emperor Haile Selassie's gold crown and jewellr.l sword when a shipping agent attempted to pass them thiougii without making a customs declaration. Tlie crown, set with precious stonCo, and the sword were in an undeclared valise which the shipping agent was bringing through for a passenger from East Africa. Officials did not mime the owner of the valise, nor Was it known how the treasurers were taken from Addis Ababa to the Suez Canal. Pending further instructions, the crown and sword, the last symbols of Ethiopion sovereignty will remain confiscated. WILL IMPROVE SIX MH.ES of CITY STREETS' XSPUXI.T, ROCK \M» OD. BEING USED IN IMPROVEMENT WORK The first car of 7b per cent cut . back Kentucky asphalt, containing 1 1.000 gallons has in . a spread on th<' ■ity streets and it covered about 8.- | 000 square yards on Poplar, Spring. Arlington and Durham streets. The asphalt costs .1275 cents a gallon applied on the streets, making a total cost of $675.00 for asphalt used on the 8.000 square yards In addition 1 the city had to furnish the rock and ! on the alrovc surface this item cost $215.00. making a total of about $900.00 for the 8,000 square yards. It will take about $100.00 more to fin Ish the above streets so that it in costing about 12 1-2 cents a square; yard to do this work The heavy oil application, such as the county used last year on the road north of the hospital and on the Roackville road will cost one-third less. The city will use this road oil on those streets which do not have heavy traffic The city is planning to appropriate $1.000 00 for this work and it is expected to cover tire six miles of unimproved streets of the city. Irt case ill street improvements are not completed this year, they will be continued next year. This type of work should last some four or five years without further attention, save some additional rock, when the oil bubbles out in extremely hot weather, and Mayor Zeis says the city hopes that reduced costs of ma- 1 terials and labor for street repaim will be sufficient to take care of tinbond issue an I interest on bonds that will be sold to pay for this work.

Possible Successors to Lehman

Announcement of Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York that ho would not be a candidate to succeed himself plunged the race for the Democratic nomination as governor of the Empire state into confusion. Three of the loading candidates for the nomination are Mayor John li. Thacher of Albany; Robert Jackson. Jamestown attorney, ami John J. Bennett, Jr., attorney general. /

VOTE RELIEF PROBEAFTER FALL ELEf TION WASHINGTON. May 26 A Sett ate investigation, after the presidential election, of unemployment and the relief progrant was recom mended today by the Senate Judiciary committee. The committee approved a resolu lion for such art inquiry introduced by Senator Hatch. Democrat, New Mexico. The committee recommended that lire inquiry lie delayed until after the election to eliminate “all political elements.”

I’OLIC E INVESTIG ATE DEATH OF INFANT FOUND f\ AUTO WINIMAC, Ind . May 25. (UP) Prosecutor J M Nyo awaited results of an inquest scheduled today before ’ding charges against Mrs. Elba Riffle Powell, 31 year old artist and sculptor, in connection with the death d an infant found in a repossessed lutomobile formerly owned by her Nye claimed a confession from the orisoner that she strangled the baby horn to her May 1 at the home of her parents without medical attention. According to the alleged confesdon. the mother ;ald she believed the •hild dead at birth but tpat she tied silk stocking about its neck to

make sure.

The body of the infant was hidden first in the coal pile, but later was removed to the rear seat of the automobile where it was found when the ^ar was repossessed bv tire Buggleby Motor Sales Company of YVinamac, the purported confession said.

rails From Train Near Hrrlsvillr

IVOR (OATS OF HRAZIL DIS COVERED HY TRAIN GREW TODAY

hs it

lor Zeis withheld judgment in the

.J until Thursday morning,

j ?rbort Gorman entered a plea of Ehilty an ,] ],[ s t r ] u i WHS se ^ f nr ursday morning at nine o’clock.

hicn were placed under bonds

’ 20< > At press time today the a Is hail not been made. In case the

s arc not placed in the hands of

v o r Zeis the men will be held in

htnam county jail until Thurs-

- v 'horning.

rf ‘Kular meeting of the Green- (,/ CUv counci > will be held in the

1 '’ f Mayor Charles F. Zeis this | three

eni b« at 7:30.

WASHINGTON. May 26. (UP) The “Townsend revolt’-' against the house old age pension investigating committee spread today to subordinates of Dr. Francis E. Townsend when two of his lieutenants failed to appear in answer to a subpoena. John B. Kiefer. Chicago, and the Rev. Clinton L Wunder, New York both members of the directorate of the Old Age Revolving Pension, Ltd. followed their leader today in his dramatic defiance of the congression-

al committee.

As a result the score stands at to nothing in favor of the

v I Townsendites.

Stated conclave Greencastle Com•nandery No. 11, K T„ Wednesday. 7:30 p. m. Jos. C. Brothers, Com. E E. Caldwell, Rec. SUGAR TAX KILLED WASHINGTON, May 26. (UP) A senate finance sub-committee voted unanimously today against adding a $66,000,000 processing tax on sugar to the administration's new revenue measure. The Putnam County Chapter of Red Cross is offering an Examiners Course in Life Saving Anyone interested is urged to get in touch with Lloyd L. Messersmith. Bowman Gymnasium, Phone 135-K. at once. This must be done immediately in order to take advantage of this class.

20 Years Ago IN GREENCASTLE

The prize hard luck story of the season for Greencastle motorists goes to Ferd Lucas Mr. Lucas, accompanied by Heber Ellis, DePauw baseball coach, anil three players started to Crawfordsville for a game with Wabash. Enroute they experienced six blow-outs, and as the car had only one extra tire they did not arrive until just before the game was called. As Mr. Lucas described it, "they averaged a blow-out every five miles.” And to top it all off. Wabash beat DePauw. 10 to 2. William Glidewell, north Madison street, reports the first home-grown strawberries of the year. Forcing open a rear window, rob- 1 bers during the night, entered the ho- 1 tel and restaurant operated by George Alexander at Limedale and took merchandise valued at $100.

Ivor Coats, age 37. of Brazil, was laken to the Clay county hospital at Brazil early Tuesday morning, after being discovered lying seriously injured beside the tracks of the Pennsylvania railroad one-half mile west of Reelsville. Coats was seen by members of the crew of an early morning train today and reported at Knightsville hy the crew of the west-bound train. An ambulance rushed to the spot and Coats was taken to Brazil. Sheriff John T .Sidhoi tin of Putnam county arrived at the scene before the am bhmee and obtained the man’s name and address. Coats stated that he had fallen from a freight train he was riding, hut could not remember at what time the fall occurred. He was seriously bruised about tire body and cut about the right ann and hip. His very w< ak condition prevented his remembering any of the details of the aeci dent. He gave Iris adress as 516 south Walnut street, Brazil, and said that Iv was an employe of the Big Bend Coal Co. of that city. IN HI A N A POMS LIVES'!«>CK Hogs 7,500; holdovers 126. 25 cents higher on 160 lbs. up, light lights arid pigs steady: 160 to 225 lbs. $10 05 to $10 15, top $10.20; 225 to 260 lbs , $9.85 to $10 05; 260 to 300 lbs. $9 65 to $9.85; 300 to 350 lbs., $0.45 to $9.55; 130 to 160 lbs., $9 50 to $10; 100 to 130 lbs. $8.75 to $9.25: pack ing sows mostly $8.25 to $8.75. Cattle 2.300; calves 1,000; opening fully steady on all classes; early steer sales $8 00 to $8.25; betters mostly $8.00 to $8.35; few $8.40; beef rows $5.25 to $6 25; cutter grades mostly $4.25 to $5.00; vealers $1 lower than early Monday, good to choice mostly $9.08 to $9 50 Sheep 700; market fully steady; few K|iilng lambs $9.00 to $12.50; one load good clipped lambs $10.50; slaughter ewes mostly $3.75 down.

KIVU YOUTHS YIOTIMS OF FORKS'!' KIRKS

MC WORKERS \RE III RNED TO DEATH IN NEW JERSEY FIRES BARNEGAT, N May 26. (UP) Forest fires, raginq over a bugr - area in Burlington and Ocean coun ties, last night claimed the lives of five CCC workers st Stanford Forge Six other CCC youths were burned seriously. Ira and William Morey, sorts of Sectional Fire W’aidrn Albert Morey, weer reported missing. The CCC victims were pint of a group of fifty from the F-55 corps of Hass River, who were trapped be tween a backfire and a raging blaze at Stafford Forge, near Manahawken. Twelve other youths have not been accounted for. The five bodies, burned almost Ire young recognition, and the injured youths were found about 300 feet, from a truck which twin been used to cany them to the fire. A similar tragedy was narrowly | avoided at Sims Pisec wher e 23 vnl iintccr firemen were caught between two I ires. They ere aped however, by crawling on their bands and knees for mor ” than a mile befor e they reached safety on a dirt road .leversI of the rin-n were partially overcome, but thev quickly revived Three of the burned (•(’(’ workers taken to Lakewood hospital for treatment were Identified as Richard Al len. 19 years old. Bor lentown; Charles Lupton, IV. Atlantic City, and Irving Fenkd 19, New Bruits

wick.

Bodies of the five dead youths were taken to a morgue In Tucker ton to await identification. WAR I M R RENEWED AS ENGLAND MGS EMPEROR

BLACK LKG10N TO FACE PROBE BY GRAND JURY STATE wig:; IW. STIGATION OF SECRET SOCIETY IS ORDERED IN OHIO Termed menace to society

< omp efr Probe Info Terror 'die Orgaiiiziilion I.ooi- in A < All Officials ( QirjJbrate DETROIT May 26. (UP) Attorney General Davl I I' Crowley decided today to order a state wide grand jury investigation into the necret terroristic society, the Black Legion. While officials intimated that it was otgaizeil on a national basis ami represented a distinct menace to American democracy, particularly to such minorities as Roman Catholics

and Jews.

While Crowley moved to bring the * full power of the state behind the drive to break up the legion. Mayor Frank Couzens of Detroit placed the municipal government in tire fight. Ho announced that he would ask Police Commissioner Heinrich A Picker! to provide ii list of city employes suspected of belonging. These will be discharged summarily, he said. Crowley’s investigation will be- ■ come the fourth looking into the lynch-law activities of the hooded fanatics who are known to have killed one man and are suspected of killing and flogging men throughout Michigan. But his will he the one with the most power. With a grand jury functioning in Jackson, Crowley will be able to subpoena wrtnessca from every part of the state. Crowley told the United Press that lie planned to confer with Oscar G. Olander, commissioner of state police, today, and tilien would order the Mtstc grand jury investigation. in Wayne county (Detroit) Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea revealed evidence tending to show the legion organized in all parts of the United States. The country is divided into 13 sectors, each commanded by a general who is responsible only to the national commander-in-chief, a myster ious personage “Shot Gun" Shepherd. He intimated that he would ask the cooperation of Indiana and Ohio authorities. Those states with Michigan comprise the legion’s “northwest sector." ^ “I believe we have just scratched the surface of an inquiry that will be national in scope,” McCrea told the United Press. McCrea. Crowley, Prosecutor Owen I Mrdley of Jackson county, and Justice of the Peace Ernest .! Rogers studied a mass of documentary evidence that in its implication tended to reveal the Btaek Legion as similar in many ways to the nazi storm troopers of Germany. The individual members of the legion were bound in biiml obedience to their superior officers bv frightful oaths They were sworn to kill, falsify. or do anything else without question if and when ordered. Memb< t 1 ; who tailed were threatened with mmmary death This discipline gave Shepherd, the commander-in-chief, absolute power over the entire legion, '.stirnated to number 135.000 men in Michigan alone and an unknown lumber in other states where it is

organized.

McCrea'n office pushed an investigation into seven strange deaths in Wayne county, possibly attributable to legion activities while Dudley direeted the Jackson county grand jury in a thorough investigation of tne organizatioti’s ramifications among emI toyea of the state prison. Organvdion memoranda and quantities of literatme were seized in the home if one guard and a number of guards were suspected of members. Dudley .noicfited that one or more guards would be indicted lor possessing (Continued on Page Two)

ROME. May 26. (UP) War talk was renewed today while Emperor J Haile Selassie approached Gibraltar! in a British warship on his way to |

London.

Moulding anger seemed to point clearly to a new period of dangerous I tension. Great Britain was spot | lighted onre more as pursuing jiol i

Ides inimical to Italy.

Anger was expi'ssed not only be Generally fair north, somewhat uncause Britain put a cruiser at the settled south portion tonight and disposal of the emperor enlled here Wednesday; somewhat warmer north “Signor Tafari” but al the prospect. ! "''l west central tonight; cooler ex-

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31 CHILDREN PERISH

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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia. May

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26 i UP i Thirty-one school children

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aged 10 to 14. were missing and he

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llcved drowned today after a ferry

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pio capsized.

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