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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1928
Page
4
The British Empire Cancer Campaign reports a year of work with no spectacular discoveries but notes a steady rise in knowledge. It highlights experiments showing cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer as a minor but hopeful finding. The report describes methods used in the research.
The report notes cancer and normal tissue can be studied inside the body, observing cell growth and effects of substances on slides. It discusses injury’s impact on cancer production, ongoing tumor immunity research, and experiments claiming antibod ies against enhancers. In 40 animals, tumor disappearance occurred in 38, with many treated becoming immune to future inoculation. Human applicability remains unproven and lead treatment is condemned.
Indiana voters face a close race with two athletic candidates. Frank C. Dailey, Democratic nominee, played baseball and football at Indiana University and later founded the Bluffton News. Harry G. Leslie, Republican standard bearer, starred in football and baseball at Purdue, later serving as athletic director and House Speaker. Both carry storied sports histories into the gubernatorial contest and a strong following among fans.
Funeral services were held at Cray Creek church Tuesday afternoon for John H. Strain a Putnam county orchardist who died Sunday evening after a long illness. Rev Wylie of Vincennes conducted the service and burial was in a nearby cemetery. Strain known for Sunday business restraint and honest dealing was born June 18 1848 in Vigo county. He preached in Kansas and helped establish churches before his 1882 marriage to Nannie Vickers on Sept 10 1891. Survived by widow daughter Helen M sons Curtis V Warren a sister Mrs Mary Morris and a brother Leroy Strain.
Murray A. Dalman former director of research in Indianapolis schools resigns after demotion to Latin instructor at Washington high. He will move to Chicago to work as educational consultant for Perkins Chatten Hammond Co. He begins Monday. Superintendent Charles F. Miller says resignation effective at school year start. Dalman served about 25 years in education, 13 in Indianapolis, a DePauw University graduate of 1902 and former Greencastle high principal.
Frances Kirkwood, 25, shot killed her husband Dr Glenn Kirkwood, 26, with a bread knife during a quarrel at their Sunnyside Gardens home in Woodside Long Island. Police say she admitted jealousy over his alleged attentions to other women. Across the Atlantic Arthur Diedert of the U S Treasury explained a warrant for Henry H Blackmer, a missing Teapot Dome witness, to Paris officials noting the perjury case in Denver remains within the three year statute of limitations.
American Association standings show Minneapolis 12 Indianapolis 10 Columbus 6 10 Kansas City 5 5 Toledo 4 2 Milwaukee 1 3 Louisville 5 St Paul 2. American League scores Chicago 5 New York 4 in 15 innings Detroit 8 Philadelphia 5 Cleveland 7 2 Washington 4 11 St Louis 9 Boston 4. National League Philadelphia 8 Chicago 7 1 Pittsburgh at Brooklyn and St Louis at New York and Cincinnati at Boston on wet grounds.
Moffett and Dobbs report two new Buick models sold in Greencastle. A two door sedan goes to Andrew Hirt and a Country Club coupe to Chris G Hartman, marking the first new models delivered in the city.
In Indianapolis on August 7 a suit seeks 2 million dollars for alleged alienation of James A. Allison’s affections. Mrs Sara Cornelius Allison, former wife, sues the widow Lucile Mussett Allison, now Mrs. Allison, claiming eight years of efforts to win the capitalist’s love. The estate is valued at 3.5 to 6 million.
Indianapolis August 7 Mr and Mrs Elmer I French died instantly when a radio aerial touched a 2400 volt line causing electrical shock. Their son Rollin French was saved by neighbors who used poles to beat the wire away and drag the bodies to safety. The couple had been married 38 years.
A porter opened the Village Inn on Chicago’s west side to clean it and found a man later identified as Dibble shot to death. Detectives believe the victim died about six hours earlier, roughly an hour after midnight, with tables and chairs overturned from a fierce struggle. Police seek the cabaret owners and further clues.
Albert D. Roberts, 18, of Frankfort Indiana, drowned while wading in Sage Creek. He stepped into a deep hole and was recovered later.
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