Planes Used in Forest Survey for Fire Drive
The Indiana state conservation department used national guard aircraft to survey forests for a planned fire tower system. Major R F P Taylor and Lt M G Carpenter piloted two planes with state officials Freeman and Wilcox aboard, surveying counties in the south and north to assess fire risk and burned areas. The federal grant offers 8 100 toward fire protection, with potential state matching to fund watch towers guarding tens of thousands of acres of timber and private lands.
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Military Air Service
State Conservation Department
Richard Lieber
Department For
National Guard
Manford G. Henley
R. F P. Taylor
M. G. Carpenter
George W. Freeman
Kokomo
Howard County
Ralph F. Wilcox
Brown
Jackson
Washington and Clark
Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Perry
Spencer
Dubois, Martin, Lawrence, Greene, Owen and Morgan Counties
Wilcox
Freeman
Department of Conservation
Indiana
Kankakee
Yellow Rivers
Elkhart
Lagrange
Lieber
Conservation Department
Boy 14 Uninjured After Stolen Car Crash in Chase
A 14 year old boy driving a stolen auto at over 60 mph to elude police crashed on a railroad crossing, the car catching fire and burning. He escaped unhurt through a window, then confessed to stealing two other cars in the past month. Officer fired a warning shot, stopping his flight in Muncie Indiana.
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Times Special
Muncie
Ind
Marrowly
Harry Brown
Pioneer's Kin Visits Franklin in Aug Visit
David H. King, 85, descendant of Franklin founder George King and Johnson county corporator, returns to Franklin for the first time since 1873. He now lives in Fayetteville Arkansas. In Winona Lake officers for the Eel River Christian church conference were elected: President John Lees, vice president O W Whitelock, secretary Carl Thompson, assistant secretary Samuel Frantz, treasurer J M Barnes.
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Franklin
Ind
David H. King
George King
Johnson County
David King
Fayetteville
Ark
Winona Lake
Eel River Christian Church Conference
John Lees
Huntington
O. W. Whitelock
Carl Thompson
South Whitley
Samuel Frantz
North Manchester
J. M. Barnes
Spectal
Newcastle
Alvin Hall
Monticello
Church of God
C. H. Holliday
Frances Ejlar
J. A. Cromer
Brown Couple Found Unconscious After Food Poisoning
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Brown of German township were found unconscious at their Columbus area home after eating meat for dinner. They could not call for help due to no telephone and remained unable to leave the house.
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Times Special
Columbus
Ind
Samuel Brown
German Township Farm
Aged Widow Caroline Jeffries Dies in CASMEL
Mrs. Caroline Jeffries 84 widow of Jackson Jeffries dies at her CASMEL home. A member of a longtime southwestern Hamilton County family she leaves children Mrs. Charles Newby Mrs. Calvin Brown Mrs. Bert Cook Mrs. Roy Hodgin Fred Pearl and Wallace Jeffries.
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Casmel
Ind
Caroline Jeffries
Jackson
Jeffries
Hamilton County
Charles Newby
Calvin Brown
Bert Cook
Roy Hodgin
Fred Pearl
Wallace Jeffries
Spiritualists Elect Bu Times Special Chesterfield Meeting
The Indiana Spiritualists Association meeting in Chesterfield re-elected Dr. Myron Post as president and Mrs. Mabel Riffle as secretary during the camp session held August 30.
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Bu Times
Chesterfield
Ind
Indiana Spiritualists’ Association
Myron
Mabel Riffle
Real Estate Boards Hear Delaware County Treasurer Speech
Joseph Meredith Delaware County treasurer addressed a dinner for members of the Muncie and Anderson Real Estate Boards in Anderson Indiana. Meredith spoke on public finance and property tax matters affecting Realtors. The event gathered real estate professionals and local officials.
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Anderson
Ind
Joseph Meredith
Delaware County
Muncie
Anderson Real Es
Indiana University Band Receives $3500 Instrument Upgrade
The War Department and Indiana University Band invest $15,000 in instruments with $3,500 spent on new equipment. The 100 piece ensemble, under W. E. Dillard, gains eight new sousaphones and plans to march at Columbus on Oct. 4 Notre Dame game in South Bend on Nov. 1 and Indiana Purdue in Lafayette on Nov. 23.
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Speel
Bloomington
Ind
War Department
Indiana University Band
O. P. Robinson
University R. O. T. C
W. E. Dillard
J. J. Pirtle
University
Columbus
South Bend
Lafayette
Bedford barber price war ends as shop put up for sale
M. E. Lowery halted the Bedford barber war by advertising his cut price shop for sale after cutting haircuts from 50 to 25 cents. Earlier this week unidentified individuals fired a shotgun into a room where Lowery and his wife slept but they were unharmed.
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United Press
Bedford
Ind
M. E. Lowery
Lowery
New Trial Asked for Two Life Prisoners in 1929 Train Robbery
Richard Harris and John May seek a new trial in Indiana after being sentenced to life terms for beating and robbing two white men on a freight train near South Bend on September 20, 1929. The victims George A. Lawrence and Kennedy Harmon reported injuries and forced jumps from the moving train.
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Timea
South Bend
Ind
Richard Harris
John May
Indiana State Prison
Here
George A. Lawrence
San Fernando
Cal
Kennedy Harmon
Memphis
Marriages of Cousins Urged by Wiggam at Teachers Institute
At the St Joseph county teachers institute Albert Edward Wiggam urged cousin marriages citing supposed superior mentality in offspring. He claimed American intelligence is in decline and leaders are dying out and argued that college graduates are a dying race. He cited Yale and Harvard graduates versus unskilled workers and praised cousin marriages among “good stocks.”
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Vimes
South Bend
Ind
St. Joseph County
James W. Gerard
America
Wiggam
Wiggams
Ed Newcomb Fined For Liquor Possession In Columbus
Ed Newcomb 36 of Hope was fined 100 dollars with 130 dollars costs and given 30 days at the state penal farm after pleading guilty to possession of liquor. Sheriff Fitch and deputies seized 63 pints of home brew and about three gallons of rhubarb wine from Newcomb’s home and barber shop basement following a raid.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
Ed Newcomb
Hope
Alonzo E. Fitch
Newcomb
Old Quaker Rites Used In Wedding
Noblesville Indiana August 30 194x. At the Little Eagle Friends church centennial a wedding followed early Quaker customs with Albert E. Pruitt and Ida A. Hill exchanging intentions before a committee. Attire featured cutaway coats broad hats bonnets and kerchiefs. The ceremony included signing of a marriage certificate and witnesses. Attendants were Misses Allie and Louise Pitts. A later service featured preaching and a program of music.
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Noblesville
Ind
Friends Church
Indiana
Little Eagle Friends Church
Hamilton County
Albert E. Pruitt
Ida A. Hill
Asher K. Tomlinson
Mary Jane Stagg
Johu Reagan
Allie
Louise Pitts
Lutherfield
Imitator Hurt In Porch Fall At Columbus Fair
Billie Nentrup twelve year old son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Nentrup attempted a high dive from a stack of chairs on a porch at his home imitating a county fair act His right arm was broken when the stack collapsed and threw him to the floor on the porch in Columbus Indiana.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
Billie Nentrup
Lawrence Nentrup
Boy regains health after pins removed from throat
John Leeka twelve year old recovering after surgeons using fleuroscopes removed two open safety pins swallowed while preparing a costume for a Serbian summer school. He was treated at home today and reported feeling much better.
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Gary
Ind
John Leeka
Barber Harris Lewis Found After Suicide Attempt
Harris Lewis, a Plymouth barber, was found in a weakened condition from loss of blood after cutting his left wrist in a suicide attempt. He was not discovered for about twelve hours but doctors expect recovery and offered no reason for the act. Mrs. Roberta Van Buskirk, 29, of Muncie, died after shooting herself in the breast on Wednesday, saying she was tired of living.
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United Press
Plymouth
Ind
Harris Lewis
Times Special
Muncie
Roberta van Buskirk
Purdue Deans Aid Homesick Students At Purdue
Purdue deans Carolyn E. Shoemaker and Martin L. Fisher serve as confessor counselor and disciplinarian for 4500 students. They monitor attendance assist with money and work needs and often appear at hospital bedsides. Homesickness and personal problems affect class work and campus welfare daily.
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Pye Times
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue University
Carolyn E. Shoemaker
Martin L. Fisher
Dean Shoemaker
DePauw Prep Sees Enrollment Similar to Last Year
DePauw University in Greencastle Indiana plans Sept. 10 freshman and upperclassmen enrollment with classes starting Sept. 15. About 600 high school transcripts are on file for admission as compared with 604 a year ago. Rector Scholarship Foundation reports 305 freshman scholarships, a new record. Women’s housing is nearly full with few vacancies in three dorms and 200 remaining rooms for men. Music school enrollment also looks stronger than last year.
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Dean Fisher
Purdue
Lafayette
Times Special
Greencastle
Ind
de Pauw University
W. W. Blanchard
College of Liberal Arts
Edward Rector
Rector
Lucy Rowland
Mansfield
Harold E. Robbins
de Pauw
Medford Maxwell
de Pauw School of Music
Kenneth Patton Involved In Collision With City Street Car
Anderson Indiana August 30 Kenneth M Patton 31 proprietor of a radio shop was critically injured when his automobile collided with a city street car Patton reportedly drove around a parked car directly in front of the street car Motorman E G Douglas was cut by flying glass and several passengers were shaken up
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Times
Anderson
Ind
Kenneth M. Patton
Patton
E. G. Douglas
Wiseman Faces Fifty Day Jail If Caught After Escape
Eerson Indiana Aug 30 Lock er Wiseman faces a fifty day sentence in Madison county jail if recaptured after vanishing from a city courtroom where he was fined 40 for malicious destruction of property at the National Guard armory. He is a member of Company H machine gun unit Indiana national guard.
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Erson
Ind
Wiseman
Madison County
National Guard
Indiana National Guard
Lowell Plans Large Reforestation Nursery and Park
In Lowell Indiana on August 30 State Representative Thomas Grant announced a donation of forty acres of land for reforestation. Hammond magnate F S Betz contributed 500 two year old walnut trees and H J Maxwell supplied 5 000 trees. The plot will serve as both a nursery and park.
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Lowell
Ind
Indiana
Thomas Grant
F. S. Betz
Hammond
H. J. Maxwell
Funeral services held for Mrs. Alice Holland
Funeral services were held today for Mrs. Alice Holland who died of paralysis at her daughter Mrs. Minnie Cordell's home. She leaves a son Albert of Indianapolis and is the widow of Richard Hal.
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Times Special
Bloomington
Ind
Alice Holland
Minnie Cordell
Albert
Indianapolis
Richard Hal
Still He Drives By Times Sueet At Greenfield Ind
Austin Boots, after appearing before Mayor Downing in City court, charged with driving after license revocation, left court with a continuance and drove away in his father's car. Officials say Boots is incompetent to drive due to defective sight, though he claims to plan driving six days a week and still holds a license card.
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Greenfield
Ind
Austin Boots
Downing
Secretary of State’s Office
Hancock Circuit Court
Boots
Anderson Wins Point Schedule Change for Freight Trains
In Anderson Indiana on August 30 an ordinance to bar Indiana Railroad freight trains from the business district except 11 p m to 7 a m was shelved after city officials and railroad executives reached an agreement. The railroad will adjust its schedule with a 30 day grace period to ease traffic delays at Meridian Main and Eleventh streets. In Cambridge City Indiana St Elizabeths church marks its golden dedication anniversary, among the oldest western parishes dating to Catholic missionary days.
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Anderson
Ind
Indiana Railroad
Meridian
Main
Eleventh Streets
Cambridge City
St. Elizabeth’s Church
Middle West
Indiana
Rug salesman boss recalls dogs after theft in Valparaiso
In Valparaiso the head of a South Bend rug firm forced two traveling salesmen to return a valuable Boston bulldog stolen from Mac E London Porter County clerk. In Richmond Dan Willard Cox is named voice teacher and college director for the September term, after previous roles at Battle Creek College. Funeral services are set for C. C. McCullough 51 Bartholomew County resident and Battle Creek sanitarium death. he owned a furniture factory and is survived by his widow Mary.
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Bu Times
Valparaiso
Ind
South Bend
Valpariaso
Mac E
London
Porter County Clerk
Richmond
Dan Willard Cox
Battle Creek College
Times
Columbus
C. C. McCullough
Bartholomew County
Battle Creek
Mich
Mary McCullough
School Tax Cut Proposed in Noblesville
Noblesville officials propose a school tax rate of 83 cents, down 2 cents from the current levy, noting it would be among the lowest in Indiana. The plan aims to reduce local tax pressure while maintaining school funding during the upcoming fiscal period.
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Noblesville
Ind
Indiana
Rally of Young People in Anderson to Gather Here
A sectional rally of the Christian Alliance of Young People will be held in Anderson on Monday. Attendance of several thousand is expected.
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Anderson
Ind
Christian Allance of
Typhoid Threat Over Paste Due To Water
Edinburg Indiana reports typhoid risk from contaminated wells amid no sewer system. Sanitary engineers from the state board warn boiled water, urge immediate sewage system construction, and set a progress report due by September 15.
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Edinburg
Ind
Sanitary Engineers
State Board of Health
Herbert H. Yourtg
Four Indiana High School Papers Win Sigma Delta Chi Awards
Four Indiana high school newspapers earn Sigma Delta Chi awards from IU The South Side Times Fort Wayne won open division Clarion Connersville High School five columns Broadcaster Sweetzer High four columns or less Benjamin Bosse Evansville named for most improved paper Its School Spirit The papers receive framed certificates and blue ribbons at the State Fair exhibit by IU journalism department.
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United Press Bloomington
Ind
Indiana
Indiana _ university
Sigma Delta Chi
I. U. Journalism Department
South Side Times
South Side High School
Ft. Wayne
Clarion
Con Nersville
Subscriptions Rise to Aid Murdock Family for Tuberculosis Trip
Public subscriptions swell a fund to send Mr and Mrs Daniel Murdock and their twelve children to New Mexico seeking health. Eight children and the parents suffer tuberculosis believed contracted from a tubercular cow. the cow was falsely tested and represented TB free. Murdock has sold possessions and repaired two autos for the journey. City police contributed $25 to the fund.
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Bu Times
Anderson
Ind
Daniel Murdock
New Mexico
Murdock
Good Hope Baptist Church Marks 100th Anniversary
Clay City Indiana August 30 The Good Hope Baptist church will celebrate its centennial with a Sunday program and noon basket dinner Speakers include Dr S A Hunton Indianapolis the Rev D P Liston McGowan J H Paddock and C S Bulander The church choir and Mrs C S Bulander will perform and a history of the church will be read by Fred Cromwell
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Clay City
Ind
The
Good Hope Baptist Church
S. A. Hunton
Indianapolis
D. P. Liston
McGowan
J. H. Paddock
C. S. Bulander
C.S. Bulander
Fred Cromwell
Horse Tramples Boy, 10, Near Lyons, Ind
A horse trod on 10 year old Robert Roach at his parents farm near Lyons while a ditch was cleaned. The animal threw him and then trampled him as it struggled to regain footing. The accident occurred August 30 in the family home area.
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Times Special
Lyons
Ind
Robert Roach
Cletus Roach
M@re
Descendant of Total Baptism Advocate Swims
In Noblesville Indiana Jimmie Campbell 12 visits with his parents Mr and Mrs J C Campbell of Brazil He is a great great great grandson of Alexander Campbell founder of the Christian church known as Campbellite The boy is an excellent swimmer regarded as one of the best of his age in Indiana Alexander Campbell promoted total immersion baptism rather than sprinkling
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Noblesville
Ind
Jimmie Campbell
J. C. Campbell
Brazil
Alexander Campbell
Christian Church
Campbellite
Indiana
Mystery writer Propper on fair play in crime tales
Milton M. Propper, 24, Philadelphia writer of two published mysteries, shares his rule for success: kill someone and reveal all facts early to give readers a fair chance. A University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate, he once worked as a newspaper copy boy. He plans more books as his writing sells.
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Milton M. Rropper
Philadelphia
Dr. I. J. Proper
Propper
Mary Young
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Two of Family Held for Chicken Stealing in Indiana
In Washington Indiana on August 30 Fred Burton aged 32 and his sister Mrs. Otie Ross aged 30 face petit larceny charges and await the September term of Daviess circuit court. Arrests followed accusations by Alfred Bunton and Alex Hayes linking them to chicken thefts. Henry Graffa, 73, carpenter, dies after a week of paralysis. He was born in Cincinnati and lived in Waymansville and Columbus. He leaves a widow, a son Edgar, three brothers George John and William, and three sisters.
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Bu Times Sueet
Washington
Ind
Fred Burton
Qnie Ross
Daviess Circuit Court
Alfred Bunton
Alex Hayes
Speei
Columbus
Henry Graffa
Carpenter
Graffa
Cincinnati
Waymansville
Bartholomew County
English Lutheran Church
The
Red Men’s Lodge
Carpenters’ Union
Edgar Graffa
George
John Graffa
East Columbus
William Graffa
Kansas
William Fledderjohn
Conrad Keller
William Schrorer
Miss Virginia Smith Engaged to King Sanderson
Hartford City reports Miss Virginia Smith formerly of the city now in Los Angeles was engaged to marry King Sanderson of Chicago. Sanderson was fatally burned in an airplane crash in Los Angeles.
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Hartford City
Ind
Virginia Smith
Los Angeles
Cal
King Sanderson
Chicago
Muncie Faces Legal Hurdles in Bond Sale
Muncie Ind Aug 30 The city council again confronts legal obstacles in selling a 43000 bond issue intended for ten uses after two banks warned the ordinance violates a two week cooling off rule between advertising and passage. Bank attorneys note only ten days passed and await final word from Delaware County National Bank on bid acceptance.
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Times
Muncie
Ind
Lester Holloway
Delaware County National Bank
Government proposes condemnation action for postoffice site
South Bend officials fail to agree with Mrs. Grace Studebaker Fish over the site value adjacent to the post office. Treasury official Major Perry Heath says a deadlock exists after two hours of talks. Government aims to file condemnation in federal court soon. Mrs. Fish values the land at 250 000 while officials cite 150 000 to 200 000 as fair.
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South Bend
Bu Times
Ind
Grace Studebaker Fish
Perry K. Heath
Treasury Department
Heath
Fish
Treasury
Postal Departments
Tree sitter complains there is no money in it
Jimmy Sugonits, 14, who sat in a elm tree in the courthouse yard for more than a thousand hours, claims the venture failed financially. He battled St. Joseph county officials who tried to eject him and endured four storms while missing shows and theater notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times Special
South Bend
Ind
Jimmy Sugonits
St. Joseph County
Judge Asked for Change of Venue in Bank Case
Charles C. Price former cashier of the now defunct Farmers Trust and Savings Bank filed a motion through attorney Carl J. Brook in Howard circuit court seeking a venue change from Judge Joe Cripe. Price a Kokomo city policeman faces five charges arising from the bank’s closing and had been denied a county venue change earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
Kokomo
Ind
Carl J. Brook
Charles C. Price
Farmers Trust and Savings Bank
Howard Circuit
Joe Cripe
Price
Tree sitter Dick Foster ends 1012 hour vigil in Huntington
In Huntington Indiana Dick Foster ends his 1012 hour tree sitting stunt after a long protest. The city notes his departure marks the last remaining climber leaving the site.
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Barger Price
Cyrus Pattee
Albert Wiggam
Wyman
Carl Moustakas
Poturalski
Dean Mb. Fister
Dean Caronyn E. Shoemaker
Good Hope Baptists
Bu Times Sneci
Albion
Farmers State Bank
Abel Barnum
Church
Askin & Marine CO
Washington St
Safety For Savings Fletcher American National Bank Southeast Co
Market
Pennsylvania
Total Baptism
Columbus Carpenter
New
Banks
Untington
Dick Foster
Aetna Trust and Savings Co
Pennsylvania St
Indiana Trust
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