20 Jun 1933
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Newspaper
Seymour Daily Tribune
Location
Seymour, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1933
Page
1
Planes make this city the first stop on the fifth annual Indiana state air tour. White River Airport hosted the busiest activity as the event opened with officials and pilots inspecting aircraft and preparing for the program.
Mayor C. W. Burkart joined four officials on a Fairchild cabin mono plane ride from the airport to Louisville. He had never flown before and delivered a welcome address in the hangar at noon as the tour assembled for takeoff.
A mixed fleet from gliders to an amphibian arrived in Indianapolis, landing under precise guidance. Army officers led the first landings as about half the fleet touched down by 12 50 PM, with rounds of controlled landings and brief flyovers for the gathered crowd.
A second Civilian Conservation Corps member stationed near North Vernon Jennings county is hospitalized with pneumonia at Sehneck Memorial Hospital. Patient Leonard Jones condition is serious but not critical. James Kerns, admitted Saturday with a ruptured appendix, remains in serious condition though slightly improved.
Harringtons Nickle Plate Circus opened the season in Seymour with two performances this afternoon and on the B and O lot. The three ring show features clowns wild animals trained goats leaping hounds ponies monkeys and other attractions. Mr Harringtons educated horses are a highlight.
An Associated Press dispatch from Washington reports that the Seymour post office and six other Indiana offices will be demoted from first to second class due to low business last year. Several offices will move up or down classes amid widespread declines in postal volumes during economic unrest.
The United States civil service commission invites applications for an emergency agricultural assistant in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of the Department of Agriculture. Open to qualified residents of the state. salary 2000 to 2600 dollars with deductions up to 15 percent and retirement. Duties involve contacting farmers and agricultural organizations to secure cooperation under the act. Requirements include agricultural college graduation or equivalent, farm residence or experience, plus two years of relevant agricultural duties. Information from K. W. Hauenschild, local secretary, Civil Board of Examiners, post office in this city.
City council and board of works meet after a lengthy session to approve removing the Seymour town clock and part of the tower on the Marestic Theater building. The move follows a report from a committee and discussions with owner Mrs. Eagleston. The Vine Street sanitary sewer plan prompts funding questions and notices for residents to petition the council if they want the project.
The 3rd assembly of the Moravian Church at Hope marked the 103rd year with a Sunday praise service and musical numbers. Rev. George Westphal of Second Moravian Church in Indianapolis preached at the love feast, a historic ceremony for the denomination.
Corvin McIntyre, 27, of Austin, pleaded guilty to driving an automobile while intoxicated and public intoxication before Mayor C. W. Burkart. He was fined 31 dollars and sentenced to six months at the penal farm, suspended if he pays the fine and damages to several parked vehicles and a truck. The state license department will be notified not to issue a license for one year. He did not have a license when arrested after crashing a car driven by his brother-in-law into a curb during a noon-hour spree in Seymour.
Eleven of twelve Indiana districts back repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment in a June 6 special election. Only the Fifth District, including Jay and Huntington counties, votes against repeal by a narrow margin as 37,852 to 38,503. Overall, 557,062 support repeal to 212,120 oppose. Fifty-five of ninety-two counties vote for repeal. The result sends 246 wet delegates to the June 26 repeal convention and 83 dry delegates. Party leaders foresee liquor issues fading from politics for now.
William Hancock of Seymour has been selected for the Indiana University band to play at the State Fair in Indianapolis the week of September 28. The IU band, consisting of forty five men, joins the fair lineup. Hancock is the son of Mr and Mrs EF Hancock and plays the clarinet.
Capt. Mariano Barberan and Lieut. Joaquin Collar began a 1175 mile flight from Havana to Mexico City at 6 52 a m EST. The Spanish aviators, who last week completed a non stop Spain to Cuba hop, expect about 12 hours aloft, then plan to proceed to Chicago for the Century of Progress exposition.
In Kansas City, June 20, witnesses identify Charles Pretty Boy Floyd as one of the gunmen in the massacre of five men, including four officers and Frank Nash. A woman witness, Mrs. Lottie West, says Floyd’s photo matches the killer. authorities note Nash was targeted to free him.
Four Seymour students at Valparaiso University earned Phi Gamma Nu Society membership. Named are Esther Ahlbrand, Maurice Ahlbrand, Robert Ahlbrand, and Harvard Nolting, all children of local families. Seventeen students were chosen from 120 after exams before six professors.
Members of the Seymour Rotary Club toured the Indiana state air tour inspecting the various craft on display. B F Swain arranged the Seymour stop and invited the club. The delegation visited the airport after the regular luncheon meeting, replacing the usual program.
Heat wave claims lives across Indiana and Michigan as temperatures approach 100 degrees. Wheat harvest slows while farmers work dawn and dusk to avoid peak heat. Deaths list drownings and heat related incidents across Ohio to Nebraska with relief forecast for Wednesday.
Mrs. Malvina Henrietta Wills aged eighty one died Saturday at her son C. M. Wills home in Indianapolis. Funeral services were held in Greenfield and burial followed in Greenfield cemetery. She was long linked to James Whitcomb Riley as the poem That Old Sweetheart of Mine’s subject.
Washington officials report administration sources urged postponing wage cuts for railroad workers. Joseph B. Eastman, transportation coordinator, met with a carriers committee negotiating a permanent 22 percent wage reduction.
Pittsburgh dispatch reports a wounded robbery suspect Peter Subolsky, 27, Cicero Illinois, was abducted from Homeopathic Hospital by two men through a second floor window. Subolsky, shot in a police encounter April 15, had been awaiting surgery for a badly healed leg. Police issued alerts for Subolsky and a small yellow Ohio plate roadster. Cicero and Pittsburgh police tie him to prior robberies.
Tokyo reports the foreign office instructed Ambassador Ota in Moscow to protest vigorously the killings of three Japanese fishermen in Russian waters on June 14. It cites possible demands for apology indemnity and punishment for the slavers, suspected to be Soviet secret police. The deaths occurred near South Kronetski Bay by the Kamchatka peninsula when Fumi Maru sent men in a rowboat toward shore.
Mrs Charles H Resiner of North Poplar Street underwent an operation at Schneck Memorial Hospital Monday night for appendicitis. The procedure revealed a ruptured appendix and her condition is listed as serious. She was taken ill Sunday night. Mr Resiner is foreman of the newspaper composing department of The Tribune.
At the London conference Senator Pittman outlines a five point plan to back currency with 40 percent gold plus optional 20 percent silver. He says return to a gold standard will come as quickly as practicable and requires time for agreement. The Uruguayan delegation gives cautious support as the American delegation signals gradualism.
Associated Press reports three states Iowa New Hampshire and Connecticut voted on repeal of the prohibition amendment with Connecticut yielding defeat for repeal supporters. At least eleven states have voted so far all in favor as the threshold of thirty states is required for repeal.
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