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RISONER FEARS
INSANITY WITH
FAMILY NEEDY
Father of Five Held at
/ Richmond Two Months
in Junk Theft.
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RICHMOND, Ind., March 29.
For God’s sake, get me out of
this place or I will be a raving
maniac,” was the plea of Millard
H. Price of Dublin to his wife when
she visited him at the Wayne county
jail here.
| “It is a crime to keep my husband
rin jail merely because he is
> suspected of stealing a few pieces of
worthless junk,” declared Mrs. Price.
• We need him at home to make a
living for the children,” she said.
Price has been a prisoner two
months without, trial. His hair is
becoming gray and his brow shows
wrinkles of worry over the plight of
his family. His wife has been
threatened with pneumonia and is
unable to work for necessities of
life for herself and five children, the
eldest 15. She is in need of the
services of a physicion, but with
out money to pay it. Four of the
children attend school at Cambridge
City. The teachers discovered that
they were without food at the lunch
hour and poorly clad. They have
since provided them with their daily
lunch and the citizens of Cambridge
City and Dublin have been giving
the family food and castoff cloth
ing.
Two months ago Price and two
youths from Illinois were arrested
for the alleged theft of some copper
and brass from an old discarded fire ;
apparatus, formerly owned by the '
town of Dublin. The owners of the I
abandoned fire engine refused to
prosecute them.
The youths were sentenced to a
year each at the state reformatory, j
Price refused to enter a plea of
guilty and said he would stand trial.
So far he has not been given a
trial and it is said county officials
are awaiting return of an indict
ment by the grand jury. This will
not take place until April. Mean
while, Price remains in jail and his
family is in want.
According to a statement the
youths made at the time of their
conviction, they entered a plea of
guilty rather than stay in the
county jail. They also stated that
pressure upon them forced their
plea of guilty.
Citizens of Cambridge City and
Dublin are making an effort to es- #
feet release of Price.
UNCIE BOARD SUED IN
CONTRACT CANCELLING
I
Effort Made to Replace Restraint
With Permanent Order.
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MUNCIE. Ind., March 29.—Suit to
enjoin the Muncie board of works
carrying out cancellation of
contracts let by the city during the
administration of John C. Hampton j
is on file here.
The William Birch Construction !
Company asks a court order to re- j
strain the board in canceling a con- j
tract awarded the company. After |
revoking the contract, the board re
let It to a Hamilton (O.) firm.
A temporary restraining order was j
asked and a hearing will be held
within the next few days on the
plea to make it permanent.
The present board, named by
Mayor George R. Dale, announced
the action was taken on that section
of the law, which voids contracts
where collusion is shown. No spe
cific act of collusion was set out.
AJj’EAL JUDGE CHOSEN
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(■ i‘-ir Jurist to Hear Infirmary
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U rn WAYNE - Ind • March 29. j
Jesse E. Sutton of Adams cir
fHteourt. Decatur, will be special
in Allert circuit court nere in
BfijP-ing appeal of W. Homer Young,
has taken action against coun
ommlssi on ers who removed him
superintendent of the Allen
f Jounty infirmary.
| Judge Sutton was appointed by
/Judge Sol A. Wood by agreement of
wall parties. The appeal will be heard
f March 31.
A motion for a change from
Judge Wood was filed by the com
missioners through Clarence R. Mc-
Nabb, county attorney. An affidavit
signed by Jacob H. Gable, president
of the commissioners, said they be
lieved a fair and impartial trial
could not be had before Judge
Wood. :
Unidentified Malady Fatal
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COLUMBUS, Ind.. March 29.—E.
Ray Sweeney. 36. traveling sales
man, died here following a four
days’ illness of an undetermined
disease. He became ill with what
was believed neuritis and taken to
a hospital to undergo an operation,
but his condition was such that it
could not be performed. He trav
eled several years for the H. C.
Whitmer Company here and for the
Bav View Realty Company. Cleve
land. O. He leaves a widow and a
daughter, Ray Louise, and his fa
ther, Ed Sweeney, and four sisters,
Mrs. John Jewell, this city; Miss
Leah Sweeney. Chicago; Mrs. Helen
Kieran. New York, and Mrs. Glenn
Sutherland, Indianapolis.
Seed Winners Announced
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GREENCASTLE, Ind., March 29
—Winners in the seed corn germi
nating contest sponsored by the
First National bank of here and
County Agent Floyd Miller are:
First. John Day: second. James
Macv and E. A. Zainer; third.
Charles Day, and fourth. Omar
Beck. Com was tested by the rag
doll method and varied from 84 to
70 per cent dead.
Lifelong Resident Dies
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ANDERSON, Ind., March 29
Mrs. Elizabeth Caroline Bliven. who
had spent all the eighty-seven years
of her life In Anderson, is dead.
Her father, a pioneer of the city,
operated a tavern here.
De Pauw Revue Will Be on Air
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SUITCASE BOOTLEGGING
REVEALED IN ARRESTS
Father and Son Held at Evansville
Used Novel Method.
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EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 29.
Portable saloons have been adopted
by an organization operating be
tween Kentucky and Evansville, po
lice have learned with arrest of
two retailers.
Suitcases, containing all equip
ment necessary for dispensing
drinks on the streets, or in build
ing entrances or other places, were
confiscated from Lonnie Branson,
59, and his son. Lonnie Jr., 19, both
of Slaughters, Ky.
Officers said the men carried
small bottles containing several
drinks each, and small glasses. One
suitcase was filled with “empties,”
and another contained four quarts
of corn whisky.
The Bransons were wholesalers,
officers said, who sold the small
bottles to aids who in turn retailed
the whisky. The pair refused to
talk after arrested, and were tem
porarily slated on vagrancy charges.
GIRL GIVEN UP IN LENT
Unique View Expressed by Man in
Federal Court.
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HAMMOND, Ind., March 29.
Edward Falz, 24, Evansville, re
solved to give up girls during Lent.
He was sentenced to 100 days in
jail by Judge Thomas Slick in fed
eral court here, charged with viola
tion of the Mann act, in transport
ing a girl from Evansville to Dan
ville. 111.
Judge Slick told the girl she was
to blame in part and suggested a
good spanking would benefit her.
He asked Falz why he didn’t marry
the girl. Falz explained that it was
the Lenten season and he had to
give up something, so he gave up
the girl.
WOMAN AT 53 ADOPTED
Aged Uncle at Evansville Desired
Heir for Estate.
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EVANSVILLE. Ind, March 29.
Although she is 53 years old. Miss
Caroline Dutton has been adopted l
bv her uncle. Dr. Joseph C. McClur
kin, 76.
In the petition for adoption Dr.
McClurkin said that death of his
wife March 16 left him without an
immediate heir. The niece has
lived in the McClurkin home most
of her life and has been regarded
by the couple as a daughter.
234 Schools in Contest
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MUNCIE, Ind, March 29.—The
Indiana commercial contest, spon
sored by Ball Teachers’ college here,
this year has entries from 234 high
schools. Professor Mark Studebaker.
in charge of the event, announces.
On April 12, 2.340 boys and girls
will begin competition in ’wenty
one centers and the district winners
will compete at here April 26.
Indictments Under Fire
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LIBERTY, Ind, March 29.—Coun
sel for Guy Howren. auditor of
Union county, has filed a motion to
quash two indictments returned in
January, charging alteration and
destruction of public records. If
Judge O'Byroe overrules the motion
it is expected the trial of Howren
will be called at an early date.
Above, left to right, Margaret Winship, Mary Jo Krummel and Martha
McQuilken. At left, reading down, Tom Anderson and Jack Shirley.
Right, Harold Rothert.
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GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 29.
—Song hits from De Pauw' univer
sity’s all-campus production, “The
Moan-On Revue,” will be broadcast
from station WFBM in Indianapolis
Monday afternoon from 5:30 to 6.
Harold Rothert, who composed
.the music for all the numbers in
the revue, will be at the piano as
accompanist. The original voices
from the revue will sing the hits.
They are Tom Anderson, Chicago;
Mary Jo Krummel, Vevay; Martha
| McQuilken, East Chicago; Jack
‘JAKE’ VICTIMS TO
RECOVER SLOWLY
Six Weeks to as Many
Months Need, Doctors at
Franklin Assert.
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FRANKLIN, Ind, March 29. i
Physicians treating fifteen to twen- j
ty drinkers of Jamaica ginger here,
predict that from six weeks to six
months will be required for com
plete recovery with probability that
some may be permanently affected/J
None of the patients, doctors an
nounce, are yet showing improve
ment and several are in a criticalj
condition.
It is declared the patients show !
symptoms like those of persons suf- |
sering from arsenic or mercurial |
poisoning.
Authorities so far have failed to '
obtain information from the suf
ferers that might lead to disclosing
identity of the person who sold the
poison drink.
SCHOLARSHIPS TO NINE
Additional Rector Awards Made at
De Pauw University.
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GREENCASTLE, Ind, March 29.
—There are nine additional Rector
scholarship holders on the De Pauw
university campus for the second,
semester, a report from the office
of Dr. Henry B. Longden, director,
show's.
Five of the holders have been
granted a leave of absence. They
are Anscn Kendall, Bremen; Ed
ward Sights, Michigan City; Ken
nett Ellis, Scottsbuig; Denver Jor
dan, Indianapolis, and Harry Quinn
of Columbus.
Two were granted scholarship for
more than 50 points for the second
semester last year and the first this
year. They are Robert Park, Co
lumbus, O, and Russell Rice, Craw
fordsville. Tom Ochiltree, Indian
apolis, was granted a scholarship on
graduation at mid-term from Ar- i
senal Technical high school.
Only one freshman cla s earned
a scholarship for the first semester
by getting 45 points or more. He is
Wilbur Osterling, Glen Elwyn, 111.
Part of Nose Severed
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LE3ANON, Ind, March 29.—Ed- j
ward Ricketts, 40. Negro, is held
on a chaige of assault and battery
with intent to kill following a razor
attack on Margarito Aguiler, re
sulting in severing part of the vic
tim's nose. The attack followed a
quarrel over the amount to be paid
by Aguiler who has taken on an
automobile trip by Ricketts.
SIO.OOO for School Voted
The state tax board has approved
a SIO,OOO special appropriation of. |
funds for building anew school in !
Union township. St. Joseph county; {
a site for the school will be pur
chased with $3,750 of the fund, and
the remainder will be spent on the
building.
Girl Kills Self
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MT. VERNON, Ind, March 29.
Miss Esther Schroeder, 21. commit
ted suicide by swallowing poison
after a quarrel with her father,
August Schroeder, sexton of the
Bellefontaine cemetery here. She'
died while being taken to a hos
pital
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Shirley, Chicago, and Margaret
Winship, Rushviile.
The program will open and close
with the theme song of the revue,
"When I’m With You.” Other num
bers will be “Sweetheart,” “Old-
Fashioned Dream Girl,” “You’ll
Find the Rainbow’,” “The One I
Love” and “Daddy, Come Back.”
The revue was staged by DePauw
university students from start *to
finish, the libretto, lyrics and music
was all written by students, cos
tumes and scenery designed by
them.
The cast and various committees
included more than one hundred.
Nailed!
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GARY, Ind, March 29.—Joe
Blackie is awaiting trial here
on a housebreaking charge, his
arrest, according to police, hav
ing resulted after he nailed
himself in a vacant house he
was robbing of plumbing fix
tures.
After entering through a
window', Blackie is said to have
nailed it so operations would
not be disturbed by intruders.
Mrs. John Bennett arrived to
inspect the house and heard
the noise of Blackie’s w'ork.
She called police.
MOTHER DENIED CHILD
IN COURT AT MUNCIE
Divorces Granted in Two States Aid
Father in Getting Custody.
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MUNCIE, Ind, March 29.—Even
though he expressed a desire to re
tun a 2-year-old child to its
mother’s custody, Circuit Judge L.
A. Guthrie declared his hands were
tied by the law and that she must
seek relief in another court.
The ruling was made in granting
a habeas corpus writ to Oscar Le
roy Myers to gain possession of his
son, allegedly kidnaped by Myers’
divorced wife, Mrs. Golden Redwine.
At the hearing it developed that
both parties had obtained a divorce,
each being ignorant of the others’
action. Myers obtained a decree in
Chicago, getting custody of the child
w r hile she obtained a decree here.
Myers now lives at Elkhart and
Judge Guthrie instructed the mother,
she could bring action to recover
the child either at Chicago or Elk
hart.
Covington Bank Closes
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COVINGTON. Ind, March 29.
The Citizens bank here is closed for
liquidation, the step having been de
cided on by the directors as a pro
tection to stockholders. Luther F.
Symons, state banking commission
er is making an examination of the
bank.
Treasurer Retains Office
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NEWCASTLE. Ind, March 29.
Because no successor qualified or
was elected Henry county treasurer,
Clayton McKinney will continue to
hold the office until Jan. 1, 1931. ac- 1
cording to a ruling by Paul Brown, j
county attorney, concurred by the
state board of accounts. McKinney 1
is serving his fifth year. James ■
Campton, elected to the office at
the last election, died before he
qualified.
Hammond Student Honored
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GREENCASTLE. Ind, March 29. i
—Roland Matthies, Hammond, has
been elected president of the De
Pauw university student body, the
highest office a student can attain.
He is a member of Delta Tau Delta
fraternity.
Ambulance in Crash
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RICHMOND, Ind, March 29.
The police ambulance here was dis
abled while on a run to a hospital
with an injured man. A taxicab
crashed into It on a slippery pave
ment. The injured man was Irvin
Thurston, near Williamsburg. His
automobile ran into a street car.
FRANKLIN MAN
TAKES POSITION
IN REO RUSSIA
Noble Ritchey to Supervise
Building of Plants
for Canning.
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FRANKLIN, Ind., March 29.
Noble Ritchey, Franklin, has re
signed his position as manager of
the Peru plant of the Stokeley
Brothers Canning Company to ac
cept a position with the Soviet Rus
sian government in developing the
canning industry.
Odess, Black sea port, with a pop
ulation of 500,000 will be Ritchey's
place of residence in the red re
public.
Soviet representatives have ad
vised Ritchey their government has
appropriated $35,000,000 to develop
the industry and contemplates build
ing five large plants in the fertile
agricultural section surrounding
Odessa. The Franklin man will su
pervise building and equipping the
plans and planting of crops to pro
vide them with raw material.
Machinery for the factories has
already been purchased in this
country and shipment to Russia
will be started about May 1, the
Soviet officials announce. Twelve
or fifteen Americans will accom
pany the machinery to Russia and
aid in installing it. The officials
hope to have the plants in readi
ness to handle this season’s crops.
Ritchey has arranged to have his
salary paid to his bank in this
country, as under an agreement
with the government, he will be
paid a sum sufficient for living ex
penses in addition to the salary.
Mrs. Ritchey and daughter Joan
will remain here until the husband
and father determines whether con
ditions in Russia are suitable for
them to reside there.
BROKEN HEART
WINS LENIENCY
Arrest on Liquor Charge
Cost Girl Fiance.
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HAMMOND. Ind., March 29.
Broken hearts were added here to
the indictment against prohibition.
Julia Hershqy, pretty 20-vear-old
violator of the dry law, stood before
Judge Thomas W. Slick in Federal
court here.
Her lawyer said:
“She was engaged to be married,
but when her lover found she was
a barmaid, he broke the engage
ment and married a girl from De
troit. This girl’s heart is broken,
and I think she has suffered
enough.”
Judge Slick imposed a three
months term of imprisonment, but
mtaended it.
MINISTER’S SON SLAIN
BY OFFICER AT ATTICA
Charles W. Frakes Had Served Two
Prison Terms for Burglary.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 29.
—Charles W. (Curly) Frakes, one of
two alleged thieves who were killed
when they tried to overpower Dep
uty Sheriff Fred Ottinger of Warren
county after he had arrested them
at Attica in connection with a
small robbery, was the son of the
Rev. C. A. Frakes, a Christian
church minister of Linton. 1
Frakes divided his time, spend
ing part of it at Linton and the
rest at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Ernest Arnett, here.
He had served two prison terms.
The first was one of two years’ sen
tence for robbng a store at Lin
ton. The second time he was sen
tenced from Sullivan. He was re
leased from prison tw T o w r eeks before
Christmas.
LONG CAREERS GO ON
Thirty-two Years’ Service by Two
Wayne County Postmasters.
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DUBLIN, Ind., March 29.—Two
postmasters in Wayne county have
served continuously more than thir
ty-two years each. They are Charles
Callway, at Milton, and George F.
Gipe of Pershing. Both were ap
pointed by President William Mc-
Kinley. Callaway’s commission an
tedates that of Gipe by a few
months. The former was appointed
in July and the latter in December.
Twenty-five years ago a fire at
Pershing left Gipe nothing but the
key to his postoffice, but service was
restored in a short time.
Bedford Debaters Win
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BEDFORD, Ind., March 29.—The
girls’ team of the Bedford high
school defeated Shortridge, Indian
apolis, in a debate here on “Re
solved, That Capital Punishment
Should Be Abolished.” The local
girls had the negative side. The
winning team is composed of Mary
A. Eckley, captain; Mary E. John
ston, Ruth Corbin and Sara Myers. i
Mary F. Litten is captain of the !
Shortridge team, which includes 1
Mildred Bacon, Louise Watterson
and Virginia Casmire.
Hogs Attack Child
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FALMOUTH, Ind.. March 29.
Maurice Dora. 3, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Dora, near here, was
seriously injured when attacked by
six hogs. The boy, who was playing
in the yard of the Dora home, wan
dered into the hog lot. He suffered
bruises on the body, wounds on the
arms and head. Only for prompt
action of the mother the child would
have been killed.
Former Resident Killed
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MUNCIE. Ind., March 29.—Mrs.
Anna Buchholz, wife of a former
Muncie florist, died in Chicago of
injuries suffered In an automobile
accident. Burial was made at Ox
ford, O.
Scene of Fatal Blast
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Home with chimney and windows shattered by dynamite explosion.
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ANDERSON, Ind., March 29.
Two more tragedies have marred
the life of Mrs. Blanche Brattain,
48, with dynamiting of her home
resulting in fatal injuries to a
friend, Mis Ida Mundell, 53. In
vestigation disclosed that the ex
plosive was placed by John Pugsley,
wealthy farmer, a rejected suitor of
EFFORT TO ESCAPE
PROSECUTION FAILS
Former Madison County
Farm Bureau to Face
Embezzlement Trial.
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ANDERSON, Ind., March 29.
After two and one-half years, dur
ing which he twice escaped crim
inal prosecution, Henry H. Shuman,
former president of purchasing
agent of the Madison county farm
bureau will be brought to trial in
circuit court here charged with hav
ing embezzled SIO,OOO of the funds
of the farm organization.
Prosecuting Attorney Oswald
Ryan demanded early trial of the
case following a ruling by Judge
Leonidas A. Guthrie, Muncie, sus
i taining the affidavit. Defense coun
sel had sought to have the charge
quashed on a technicality. Judge
Guthrie announced he would be in
circuit court here Thursday to set
a date for the trial.
Shuman left Madison county in
August, 1927. He was arrested a few
weeks later in the postoffice at Ma
con, Ga., and returned here to face
a charge in city court of having ar
ranged to sell and receiving a de
posit on a crop of barley which he
had previously sold to an elevator
in Lapel. He was acquitted.
A second attempt to bring Shu
man to trial failed when Judge Will
Sparks, now on the bench of the
United States circuit court of ap
peals at Chicago, dismissed an in
dictment returned by a Madison
county grand jury.
A civil action also resulted from
I Shuman’s connection with the farm
organization. Its directors filed suit
against a surety company on Shu
man's bond, demanding reimburse
ment in the amount of a shortage.
The case was tried in federal court
at Indianapolis, won by the farm
bureau directors.
OFFICERS IN ROLES OF
WHISKY PURCHASERS
Buy at S4 a Gallon and Arrest
Seller at South Bend.
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SOUTH BEND. Ind., March 29.
Frank Pawlak’s failure to identify
two prospective customers landed
him in jail on charges of violating
the liquox law.
Detectives Lucius Uk Fortune and
Carl Winther were talking to the
proprietor of a bath house in the
west end of the city when Frank
walked through.
“What's in the bag?” asked La
Fortune, pointing to a burlap sack
Pawlak was carrying.
“Whisky,” said Pawlak.
“How much do you want for it?”
“Four dollars - a gallon.”
Pawlak took $4 and passed over a
gallon. Then the officers showed
him their badges and took the rest
of the liquor and Pawlak.
CHURCH-GOING BANNED
Divorce Granted Mother of Eight
Married 29 Years Ago.
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WARSAW. Ind., March 29.—Re
fusal of her husband to permit her
to attend church services or social
functions was one of the instances
of cruelty cited by Mrs. Mary A.
Foltz, Burket, in Kosciusko circuit
court here, where she was granted
a divorce from Albert Foltz.
The parties in the case are the
parents of eight children, six of
them married. The parents were
married twenty-nine years ago.
One in 100 Break Law
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MUNCIE. Ind., March 29.—A
boy or girl faces a 100 to 1 chance
of being a criminal, Probation Offi
cer John Dragoo believes. In a ;
civic club address here, he declared j
that of the 1.800,000 school children i
in Indiana, 18,000 will be criminals.
One out of every hundred is the
state's average, he said.
Hope Woman Hurt
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HOPE. Ind., March 29.—Mrs. C.
C. Cook was cut and bruised on the
head and face and her side injured
when an automobile driven by her
husband and in which she and Mrs.
Alice Acton were passengers struck
a telephone pole and turned over
on a road near Hope.
Fire Razes Landmark
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PLAINFIELD, Ind., March 29.
The old Hanna home, one of the
landmarks in this vicinity, was de
stroyed by fire after having stood
since the early sixties. Tramps who
have been quartered in the house
are believed responsible*for toe fire.
Mrs. Brattain. who killed himself
a few days later.
During an Armistice day celebra
tion here in 1919, Mrs. Brattain's
husband was killed by a stray bul
let. Her son was drowned last
summer.
The explosion in the Brattain
home wrecked the interior, leveled
the chimney and shattered windows.
The dynamite had been placed i*
the chimney.
Hot Case
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GARY. Ind., March 29.—Sam
Steele, in a divorce filed in
superior court here against
Mrs. Hattie Steele, alleges she
threw a kettle of boiling water
in his face and declared she
would “see him dead” before
she lived with him again. They
were married thirty-one years
ago and are the parents of five
children, all past the age of 21.
KIDNAPING OF
WIFE CHARGED
Gary Woman Returns to
Accuse Husband.
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HAMMOND, Ind, March 29.
Mrs. Frances Mauck is back at the
home of her parents with a story of
being kidnaped by her husband,
taken to his parents’ home in Alex
ander, N. C, on a two-day automo
bile trip and held prisoner more
than a week, forbidden to communi
cate with relatives.
She was released, she asserts,
when by continuing in refusals to
drop a divorce suit against Ernest
Mauck. filed March 3. Money was
wired to her by her mother.
The couple was married two years
ago, the wife says, and separated
several times. The divorce complaint
alleges nonsupport and cruelty.
HOOSIER ON NOTED SHIP
Marion Educator Travels Aboard
the Europa for Return Trip.
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MARION, Ind, March 29.—Dr. J.
A. Huffman, dean of the Marlon
college divinity school, was a pas-
Europa when it sailed from New
York today on its first return voy
age to Europe.
Four months’ travel abroad is
planned by Dean Huffman. He
proposes to visit England, continen
tal Europe, northern Africa, Pales
tine and Syria.
SICK MAN SENTENCED
Logansport Liquor Prisoner Not
Expected to Recover.
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LOGANSPORT, Ind, March 29,-
Otis Woodruff. 32. Logansport, con
fined to bed at his home for eight
months by spinal illness, pleaded
guilty through an attorney to a
charge of possession of liquor. He
was unable to appear in court.
He was sentenced to thirty days
in jail and fined SIOO and costs.
Unable to pay the fine, he was com
mitted to the state penal farm, the
sentence covering the fine and court
costs.
Woodruff, afflicted for several
years, was arrested before his con
dition became critical. Physicians
say Woodruff will not recover.
Mountain Folk Defended
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NEWCASTLE, Ind, March 29.
Alvin C. York, World war hero, in
an address here, declared Tennes-;
see mountain people, from whom he:
came, with education would ad- j
vance as rapidly as any other calss.
He cited progress in reclamation of
the mountain areas in Tennessee
and the advancement of education
in the last ten years. "We have
been called moonshiners and feud
ists until the world will believe,
nothing else of us,” he declared.
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HARTFORD CITY. Ind., March
29.—The program for the eighty
seventh annual session of North In
diana Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, to be held at
Grace church here beginning Tues
day is announced by the Rev. L.
G. Jacobs, local pastor.
An exceptionally strong program,
of speakers has been arranged, in
cluding Bishop Frederick B.
Fisher, resident bishop of the
church of the Calcutta area. India,
who will preside at the conference.
Others on the program are Bishop
Ray mono J. Wade of the Stockholm
area, Sweden; Bishop Edgar Blake
of the Indianapolis area; Bishop
James C. Baker of the Seoul area,
Korea; the Rev. Newton E. Davis,
corresponding secretary of the board
of hospitals, homes and deaconess
work; the Rev. R. S. Cushman, pas
tor, Albany Methodist church, Ro
chester, N. Y., and a member of the
world service commission; Dr. G.
Bromley Oxnam, president De Pauw
university; Fred Hoke, trustee, De
Pauw university; Bishop Edwin H.
Hughes of the Chicago area; the
Rev. Bert Smith, secretary, men’s
movement; Dr. Clarence True Wil
son, secretary board of temperance,
prohibition and public morals,
Washington; Dr. John Paul, presi
dent Taylor university; the Rev.
Edward K. Kohlstedt, corresponding
secretary board of home missions
and church extension; the Rev. W.
E. J. Gratz, secretary department of
Epworth League and editor of Ep
worth Herald; Arthur H. Sapp,
president Laymen's Association,
Huntington, and Mrs. Walter. Werk
ing, conference secretary Women's
Foreign Missionary Society.
Dr. Wilson has chosen for his con
ference lecture, the subject of
I Found in a Bishop's Trunk.” This
lecture is expected to attract the
largest crowd of the conference ses
sion.
Choirs from De Pauw and Taylor
universities, the De Pauw sextet,
Taylor university ladies' quartet
and orchestra and the Yinger sex
tet of Boston university will pro
vide most of the music during Uie
session.
Chief among the banquets during
the conference will be the De Pauw
university banquet, which will be
held Wednesday of the conference
week at 5:30 o'clock at the United
Brethren church. Layman's Asso
ciation luncheon on Thursday and
Friday noons at United Brethren
church: banquet for retired minis
ters and wives Friday noon, Pres
byterian church; banquet for min
isters’ wives, daughters and widows
association, Christian church, Satur
day noon; banquet for conference
members at Taylor university, six
miles west of Hartford City, Thurs
day 5:30 to 7:30 p. m., and Epworth
League Forest institute banquet
Saturday evening front 5:30 to 8:30
o'clock.
The reading of appointment or as
signments for the next conference!
year will take place on Monday, i
April 7. This will be the concluding 1
act of the conference.
GUILTY MAN RELEASED
Technicalities Prevent Punishment
for Being Intoxicated.
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MUNCIE. Ind.. March 29.—Jack
Karns escaped conviction oiy
charge which he did not deny.
Karns faced City Judge Frank
Mann on a charge of being intoxi
cated in a public street, whereas he
was arrested in the union station
here. His counsel moved that the
charge be quashed and the state
dismissed it after the technicality
had been discovered.
Then the case was refiled, setting
out that the crime was committed
in the union station. But this time.
Karns’ law’yer brought up the
double jeopardy plea and was sus
tained. Karns leaving the court a
free man.
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