Charles L Ward Dies Following a Fall in City
Charles L Ward aged 38 of 712 West Oak Street died at Schneck Memorial Hospital at 10 50 p m Friday night from a brain injury after apparently falling in a coal bin at Seymour Woolen Mills He lapsed into unconsciousness and died hours later Coroner W A Dickmeyer ruled death due to cerebral hemorrhage following an accidental fall Funeral services will be conducted at Nazarene Church at 2 30 p m Monday Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery He was a native of the county husband of Pearl Nicholson and father of Carolyn Jo He is survived by a widow a three year old daughter five sisters and three brothers He was a member of the Eagles lodge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Ward
West Oak Street
Schneck Memorial Hospital
Seymour Woolen Mills
Mr. Ward
Lester Ward
W. A. Dickmeyer
Nazarene Church
Walter ©. Morris
Riverview Cemetery
Ward
Luther
Debtte Collins Ward
Pearl Nicholson
Carolyn Jo
John
Edward Ward
Jackson County
Lillie Maston
Indianapolis
Ida Bates
William Ross
Cincinnati
Carrie Myers
This City
Myrtle Lee
North Vernon
The
Eagles Lodge
Mrs Mae Ann Barkes Dies After Long Illness
Mrs Mae Ann Barkes age forty two longtime Waymansville resident died at her mother in law Mrs John Noblits home five miles west of Waymansville after a long illness Burial was at Grandview Cemetery Brown County Funeral services were held at Asty Chapel Church on the Waymansville Columbus road Rev Chester Plummer in charge She was born near Waymansville June 16 1891 and married to Ira Barkes Two children preceded her in death her mother died three weeks ago She is survived by her husband a nineteen year old son and six brothers
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Ann Barkes
Waymansville
John Noblit
Asty Chapel
Waymansville- Columbus Road
Chester Plummer
Grandview
Brown County
Memorial Service At Reddington Sunday
The Success Company Uniform Rank of the local Knights of Pythias will travel to Reddington Sunday afternoon to participate in a memorial service for departed members. Judge John M. Lews will deliver the main address at 10 o'clock at the Reddington Christian Church followed by graveside honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Success Company
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Reddington
John M. Lews
Reddington Christian Church
No License No Drive Policy Tightens Statewide
State police are stopping motorists without licenses and demanding permits. The 72 hour grace period has ended, with directives from the director of public safety. Drivers without licenses now face fines and possible penalties as enforcement increases locally and across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Director of Public Safety
Police Chase Ends in Wreck as Bandits Escape
Seymour patrolman Roy Lee and night driver Fd Pickerell pursued a three man coupe after a gas robbery near Columbus. The chase ended when the car struck a telephone pole at Fourth and Ewing, injuring Lee and damaging the police vehicle. The suspects fled toward Indianapolis Avenue and disappeared after cutting through streets and railroad tracks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Roy Lee
Mr. Lee
Fd Pickerell
Columbus
O’elnck
Pickerell
Fourth
Ewing Streets
Fourth Street
Mill Street
Third Street
Indianapolis Avenue
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tipton Street
Lee
Rockford
U.S. Road 31
Fourth All Ewing Streets
Williams Rites Sunday
Funeral services for Alexander Williams age sixty one former Seymour police chief who died at the home 614 East Seventh street will be conducted at 2 o clock Sunday afternoon from the First Baptist Church with Rev A A Cohn in charge Burial in Riverview cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Williams
Seymour
East Seventh Street
First Baptist Church
A. A. Cohn
Riverview Cemetery
Factory Here Raises Wages First of July
A ten percent pay increase for about 5,000 employees at the Al Perin Strauss Company in this city will take effect July 1. The Seymour plant will run at full force with added hiring next week, and similar raises are reported for Reliance plants in almost twenty cities in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alperin Strauss Company
Seymour
Reliance
City to seek early loan for Seymour pool project
The city plans to apply early next week for a Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan to build a municipal swimming pool in Seymour. City Engineer Charles R. Mather will finalize plans for board submission while Attorney Edward P. Elsner handles legal steps. The self liquidating project aims for about $36,000 to serve 565 people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Seymour
Charles R. Mather
Board of Trustees
George A. Clark
Edward P. Elsner
North Vernon Seeks Rechecking of 1930 Census
North Vernon officials push for a special census to retain city status, arguing it supplements the decennial count. A 3 000 population threshold must be met to keep North Vernon classified as a city, per state practice and instruction from Senator Fred Van Nuys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Vernon
Fred van Nuys
Measles Dominates State Communicable Diseases Week
Measles led reported illnesses for the week ending June 17 with 125 cases, far ahead of scarlet fever with 46 and whooping cough with 45. Marion county contributed 80 measles cases and Vigo 19, while meningitis remained at one case statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurman B. Rice
Marion County
Vigo County
First new wheat from Dudley town arrives for threshing
The Blish Milling Company reports receiving the first new wheat from Henry Krumme Sr of Dudley. The grain tests sixty pounds and is of good quality. Threshing is set to begin at Krumme’s farm and will move to other farms in the ring, with full threshing expected late next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blish Miling Company
Henry Krumme, Sr
Dudleytown
Jackson County
Henr E. Krowme
Dudley
Kramme
Cortland
Mead McKain
Henry Mellon
It's Nothing New
Associated Press notes a Wall Street economist turned amateur archaeologist has found evidence of currency management in ancient times, dating back to the fifth century. The find suggests pre Christian rulers understood inflation and deflation concepts long ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Three Men Die In Lake Michigan Plane Crash
Survivor Mrs. Charles Rennie Jr recounts a doomed flight from Traverse City to Milwaukee. Pilot James Gillette, 28, mechanic Peter Keller, 24, and Rennie’s husband Charles Rennie Jr, 29, perished after attempting a water landing in fog. Rennie, 27, was rescued after drifting on a small raft for about 30 hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Traverse City
Mich
James Gillette
Peter Keller
Frankfort
Rennie
Ann Arbor
Prpe
Milwaukee
Gillette
Mrs. Rennie
Kurtz to Host Annual Picnic and Independence Day
Kurtz will hold its annual picnic on July 4 with Mallie Fish coordinating. A day and night program includes a band speakers carnival amusements a late afternoon baseball game and prizes for largest family best choir largest Sunday School delegation oldest married couple and youngest married couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kurtz
Mallie Fish
Jane
Jackson County Hijackers Suspected In Beer Theft Ring
State police plan to bring John jer Indianapolis and John S. Dunkin St. Louis on hijacking charges tied to a second beer load theft east of the city on U S Route 50. Howard Fall and Joseph Pietz were arrested or questioned as the investigation linked a barn storage plant to the scheme. A separate early Friday raid near Versailles nabbed Robert Payton and Edmund Chandler in a 250 case shipment hijack from Cincinnati bound for Chillicothe, Ohio. Police see an organized crew at work in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jer
Indianapolis
John S. Dunkin
St. Louis
Jackson Circuit
Cheshier
Howard Fall
Marion County
Joseph Pietz
Fall
Chishier
Fall Place
Robert Preeman
Leuisville
Louisville
Chillicothe
Ohio
New Albany
Robert Payton
Edmund Chandler
Versailles
Ind
Arnold L. Austin
Cincinnati
Austin
Covington
Front Street
Work Progress on U. S. Road 31 Relocation Projects
Rapid progress is reported on two relocation projects on U. S. Road 31 south of Seymour. Grading is underway while paving will start later. Hancock & Kieffer of Brownstown leads the work, which also includes relocating US 8 and Road 32 through Crothersville and improving a dangerous curve near Kriete's garage. A large number of county unemployed men are employed on the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour
Hancock & Kieffer
Brownstown
Crothersville
Kriete
World news roundup from The Week’s Biggest Headlines
The Associated Press reports on U.S. actions in finance and policy. The American delegation bars immediate pegging of the dollar while the U.S. proposes lowering gold content in world currencies. Raymond Moley sails for London with Roosevelt instructions as part of economic strategy. The drive to reduce UU expands with actions in agriculture and industry. Three more states vote for repeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
U.S
Raymond Moley
London
Roosevelt
Widow Vin cent Coll Seized as Bronx Robbery Ring Leader
New York police detained Miss Vin cent Coll twenty five and two men as the alleged ringleaders of a six week reign of shop robberies in the Bronx. Detectives said two gunwomen and an accomplice led the raids on drugstores and other shops, a raid that ended with Coll and her two companions in a hotel room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Vincent Coll
Bronx
Coll
4 H Club Camps for Summer Announced
Jackson county 4 H Club members will join peers from Lawrence Orange and Martin counties at River Vale in Lawrence county August S to IT for eighteen state camps this summer. Garrett Moore of Paoli will be camp director. Bartholomew Brown Johnson and Shelby counties attend Heflin’s camp in Bartholomew county July 31 to August 3. Jennings Dearborn Ripley and Ohio counties go to Milan August 7 to 12. The opening of Camp Alexander Mack at Milford Koseluske county last Monday launched the schedule of eighteen camps statewide. The camps offer vacation time plus instruction to boost club work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson County
Lawrence
Orange
Martin
Rivervale
Lawrence County
Garrett Moore
Paoli
Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson
Shelby County
Alexander Mack
Milford
Koseluske County
Indiana Educator Hougham Invited to July Chicago Sessions
Robert B. Hougham, president of the Indiana State Teachers' Association and secretary of the Teachers' Retirement Fund board, formerly superintendent of Johnson County schools, is among nine Indiana educators invited to attend sessions of the Joint Commission on the Emergency in Education and the NAes convention in Chicago during the first week of July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert B. Hougham
Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Teachers’ Retirement Fund Board
Johnson County
Indiana
Joint Commission On the Emergency In Education
National Educational Association
Chicago
American delegation hopeful Australia will join wheat scheme
The American group at the world economic conference grows optimistic Australia will join a production and distribution scheme for wheat. If Australia signs on, the alliance of major producers like Argentina, Canada, Australia, and Russia would advance the plan, seen as a key wartime economic achievement. France and other nations show cautious support as talks continue amid ongoing stabilization efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated
Ndon
Stanley
Australan
Bruce
Canadiia
Russia
Notain
Australia
Argentina
Canada
Austin
France
America
James M. Cox
Ohio
Amercan Group
Albert Sarraut
Cordell Hull
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Judge Lewis
Cense
Reliance Co
CITY
Henry E. Krumme, Sr
Pre. Christian Times
U. S. Road 31
W.E.C. Wonder
Stanley Bruce
Austral
Riley Joble
Sey Tmnour Water Co
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