Three Children Die As Train Hits Grammar School Bus
In Merced California a Santa Fe freight train struck a grammar school bus killing three pupils Janice Abr six Robert Fuller eight and Doctors Epsen nine. Driver J P Kregger was severely injured and his wife also hurt. Conductor J A Holmes said the bus did not stop at the crossing.
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Merced
Cal
Santa Fe
Janice Abr
Robert Fuller
Doctores Epsen
J. P. K Kregg
Kregger
J. A. Holmes
George Parks
W. B. Wicklund
Wicklund
Slain Man Found In Big Four Box Car Near Crawfordsville
Roscoe Franzier about 30 was found dead with a fractured skull on a Big Four freight car after a train from Danville Illinois arrived in Crawfordsville Indiana. Coroner A L Loop said the killer likely fled after Covington. Police search for a Negro companion believed involved. He lived in Greenville South Carolina.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Montgomery County
Big Four
Roscoe Franzier
Danville
Til
A. L. Loop
Covington
Greenville
8. C
Annual Physical Education Exhibition at Greencastle May 26
The Greencastle public schools will present their annual physical education exhibition in the Greencastle gymnasium on the evening of May 26. Director W. E. Bausman heads the program with Miss Leona Kestner supervising girls' instruction.
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Greencastle
Greencastle Gymnasium
W. E. Bausman
Bausman
Leona Kestner
Guardian board agent meets nurse on cases in Greencastle
F. Truckses, state agent of the Indiana State Health board guardians, visited Greencastle today to confer with County Health Nurse Mary Agnes Miller on cases referred to the guardians.
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F. ©. Truckses
Indianapolis
Board of Guardians
Indiana State Health Board
Greencastle
Mary Agnes Miller
Green Castle High Golfers Face Bloomington Team
Coach W E Bausman takes Green Castle high school golf squad Hammond Allan Brown and Hurst to Bloomington Monday afternoon to play the Bloomington High School Club at the Bloomington country club course. Green Castle has one win and one loss this season, defeating Crawfordsville and losing to them in a rematch.
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W. E. Bausman
Greencastle High School
Bloomington
Bloomington High School
Bloomington Country Club
Hammond
Allan
Brown
Hurst
Greencastle
Crawordsville
Crawfordsville
Car crash in Kokomo leaves two injured and one dead
In Kokomo Indiana a collision occurred when a Peru man William Girard 45 drove Raymer 42 into the rear of a truck carrying automobile bodies. Dean Rogers 24 of Salem operated the truck. Girard died at the scene and Raymer was critically injured with severe facial lacerations and possible internal injuries.
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Kokomo
Ind
May
Peru
William Girrard
Hk. C. ‘Raymer
Girrard
Raymer
Dean Rogers
Salem
Rogers
Overals
DePauw Hosts Union Mothers Day Service in Gymnasium
DePauw University combines its Mothers Day service with a city union service attended by ministers from four Protestant churches. The event features special music by the DePauw Orchestra and choir, scripture by Rev W J Crowder, a sermon by Dr G Bromley Oxnam, and benediction by Rev Victor Raphael. Dr Oxnam returns Saturday after receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from USC.
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DePauw University
Bonam Memorial Gymnasium
Monger
Methodist
Indianapolis
DePauw School of Music
Rowland Leach
DePauw
R. G. McCuteban
B. H. Bruner
Christian Church
Victor Raphael
Presbyterian Church
W. J. Crowder
The
Baptist Church
G. Bromley Oxnam
Dr. Oxnam
California
University of Southern California
Weather Outlook Unsettled Rain Possible Tonight
Forecast shows unsettled conditions with rain probable tonight and again Saturday. Temperatures rise tonight then cooling on Saturday with a warmer trend expected later.
Greencastle Girl Wins In Club Contest At Purdue
Putnam county 4-H members attended the Purdue roundup at Lafayette with county agent Floyd Miller and teacher Lorene Hicks. A Greencastle girl placed second in the wool dress division of the dress review contest while the Putnam team finished third in the corn judging event.
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Charlotte Etter
Greencastle
Purdue
Lafayette
Putnam County
al Goff
Morris McGaughey
Russellville
Howard Moore
Oland Henry
Madison Township
Putnam County Club
Floyd Miller
Lorene Hicks
Greencastle High School
Commemorative Red Cross Stamp Issued for 50th Anniversary
EF. R. Bartley postmaster reports a two cent commemorative stamp for the American Red Cross fifty year anniversary. An order of 50,000 stamps will be issued, selling in late month. The two color design shows a Red Cross nurse before a globe from the 1930 poster The Greatest Mother, with 1881 and 1931 dates flanking the image.
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EF. R. Bartley
American Red Cross
Mr. Bartley
United States
Red Cross
Mrs. Ethel Jobe Dies of Pneumonia in Cloverdale
Mrs. Ethel Jobe age 38 wife of Conrad Jobe died at home in Cloverdale from pneumonia after two weeks of illness. Funeral service Sunday at 2 PM at the Cloverdale Methodist Church with Rev. Reuben Masten officiating. Burial in Cloverdale Cemetery. Survived by husband a daughter Miss Toleene Jobe and parents Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Brown of near Cataract and a brother Ora Brown of Cloverdale.
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Ethel Jobe
Conrad Jobe
Cloverdale
Reuben Masten
Jobe
Toleene Jobe
Ezra Brown
Near Cataract
Ora Brown
Re districting act questioned by Indiana officials
Indianapolis May 8. The plausibility that the 1981 congressional re apportionment act is invalid was weighed by two state election board members and Attorney General James M. Ogden. A Woodruff Place case alleges disenfranchisement by redistricting but officials maintain the act is constitutional. Gailord Brown announced the 811 Taxi line in Greencastle, formerly run by Lovell Knauer.
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Iniianapolis
State Board of Election Commissioners
James M. Ogden
Woodruff Place
Howard Mayer
State Selection Commissioners
Mayer
Indiana
Madison
Hancock
Marion County
Lawrence
Indianapioke
Center Townships
Warren Franklin
Perry
State of
Gailord Brown
Greencastle
Lovell Knauer
Death of David Houck in Greencastle Forty years past
From Greencastle district files: David Houck aged 80 died Saturday night at his home south of Greencastle. Jerry and Mrs. O'Brien marked their 56th wedding anniversary at their North Greencastle residence. Big Four R R suit vs Albert Lockridge over 8000 dollar damage award for right of way is in trial today.
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David Houck
Greencastle
Jerry O'Brien
Big Four
R. R
Albert Lockridge
Board of
Mr. Lockridge
Putnam County Hospital to Observe National Hospital Day
National Hospital Day will be observed at Putnam County Hospital on May 12 with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. and a baby picture taken at 4 p.m. Nearly 250 babies have been born there this year, with improvements costing about 6000 dollars adding a laboratory X ray staff and new equipment.
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Putnam County Hospital
Greencastle
Putnam County
Howard Rockhill
Harry Moore
Frank Donner
Harry Brown
W. T. Lewis
Cloverdale
Eva M. Milburn
Effie Steigleman
Grace Biffle
Indiana University Hospitals
Mabel Burton
I. U
Elsie Anderson
Sylvia Overstreet
Glee Allee
City Hospital
Indianapolis
Helen Taisey
Catherine Balkema
Purdue University
Chapel Week Schedule At DePauw University
The final week of chapel services at DePauw University is earlier this year to give seniors more study time before final exams which begin Wednesday May 27. Monday opens with Coming Out Day as seniors appear in cap and gown. Professor Francis C Tilden will deliver the address. Tuesday is Senior Recognition Day honoring seniors receiving honors.
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DePauw University
Pee
Franeis C. Tilden
Department of Comparative Literature
Jon
DePauw Geology Instructor Honored by Shell Societies
DePauw University geology instructor Helen J. Tucker has been elected to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the Conchological Society of America. She collaborates on biological abstracts and is a 1924 DePauw graduate with an M S from Cornell in 1928.
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Helen J. Tucker
DePauw University
Conchological Society of
Great Britaan
Ireland
Conchological Society of America
Miss Tucker
DePauw
Cornell
Knife Victim Improves as Probe Progresses
March Hamilton of South Bloomington Street Road, previously confined to Putnam County Hospital after a fight near Maple Heights School on April 29, was allowed to sit up and is expected to testify when the grand jury reconvenes Monday. Isaac Rogers, held on a deadly weapons charge, was among last witnesses. eleven others from Far Ridge and South Green Castle testified earlier.
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March Hamilton
South Bloomington Street
Putnam County Hospital
Maple Heights
Putnam County Grand Jury
Hamilton
Isaac Rogers Fot
Stilesville
Rogers
Putnam County
Far Ridge
South Green Castle
Methodist Conference to Be Here in Indiana
Two Methodist Episcopal Church conferences will be held in Indiana over the next two months. The Northwest District meet in Greencastle on June 10 with Bishop Herbert Welch presiding, followed by a Bloomington district meeting led by Bishop Francis McConnell.
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Northwest
Greencastle
Herbert Welch
Indianapolis
Ind
Methodist Episcopal Church
Indiana
Board of Bishops
Church
Pittsburgh
Bloomington
Francis McConnell
New York
Greencastle High Orchestra Prepares for National Contest
The Greencastle high school orchestra trains daily for the national contest in Cleveland next week. They enter the national meet after first place in their Indiana state contest in Lafayette last Saturday. To help cover trip costs they present a Monday night concert, an hour and fifteen minutes long.
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Greencastle High School
Cleveland
Indiana
Lafayette
Bishop McConnell Highlights DePauw Ties and India Views
The famed Methodist bishop and former DePauw president spoke to a capacity Meharry Hall audience on DePauw's enduring ideals and leadership under Sr. Oxnam. He assessed British India, praised Gandhi’s restraint, noted potential disillusionment after political freedom, and urged international mindedness.
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Meharry Hall
Francis McConnell
DePauw University
McConnell
DePauw
Sr. Oxnam
Board of Trustees
India
Bishop McConnell
Burrows
University of Chicago
Ln India
Gandhi
Irwin
England
Indiana
Greencastle
Methodic Church
George Ro Grose
Edwin Holt Hughes
May Day Play Opens May Day Program at DePauw
DePauw University presents the May Day program with a performance of Tommy in Speech Hall this evening to open the annual activities. The Japanese lantern parade by DePauw coeds will follow the play, with regular festivities planned for Saturday.
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Tommy
DePauw University
DePauw Coeds
Two Escape From the Woman's Prison in Indianapolis
Two Muncie prisoners escaped the Indiana Woman's Prison on East Michigan Street by scaling a high wall Thursday night. Helen Bennett, 27, serving five to twenty one years for robbery, and Jean Stamper, 23, imprisoned last year for two to fourteen years on a conspiracy charge, fled and faced a $1,018 fine.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Woman's Prison
East Michigan Street
Muncie
Helen Bennett
Jean Stamper
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