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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Wesleyan Methodists a
Upton Believe Minister
a Martyr.
BIZ Times SpecinL

BIZ Times Special
Upton, Ind, March 23.-The
Rev. S. G. Kinnison, pastor of the
Wesleyan Methodist church here,
has the support of his congregation
despite suit for $4,000 filed against
him by Ed Murphy, alleging the
minister attempted to ALLEVIATE the
affections of Mrs. Murphy.
The following statement, signed
by the church, has been issued in
stating it's stand on the suit:
"To whom it may concern:
"We. as a church, want the pub
lie to know that we are standing by
our pastor, Rev. S. G. Kinnison, and
we want it also understood that
we had no church trial and put no
one out of the church; they severed
their connection by choice. We as
a church body believe Brother Kin
nison to be a martyr and are for
him and intend to stand by him.
God is still on the throne and He
never forSakeS His own
Murphy alleges in his suit that
after his wife spurned the minister's
alleged intentions, she was ousted
from the congregation by church
trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
$4,000 SET AS
PRICE OF DEATH
State Mentions Sum in
Briggs Murder.
Bv United Press

BH United Press
WILLIAMSPORT, Ind, March %.
The trial of Kenneth Ratcliff,
charged with the murder of Victor
M. Briggs, wealthy farmer is con-
tinuing in Warren circuit court here
today.
Clarence B. Briggs, nephew of the
murdered man, serving life SEN
tence in the state prison after
pleading guilty to completely in the
crime, was brought here to testify in
the case.
Briggs told the court that he and
his brother, Archie Briggs, had dis
cussed numbering the wealthy man
because they disapproved of a will
which left the estate of their grand
father, Toll Briggs, to him.
The nephey testified that he met
Ratcliff at Attica and they went to
the Briggs home. The elder man
was called to the front door and
several shots we're fired, some by
Ratcliff, the nephew said.
The state said it rad evidence
that would prove Ratcliff was to
obtain $4,000 to aid iii the killing.
The body of the wealthy farmer
was found on the front porch of his
lonely home, by a medicine sales
man who notified authorities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
HAVE COLOR IN CHEEKS

If your skin is yellow-complexion
paIIid-tongue coated-appetite poor
you have a bad taste in your mouth
a lazy, no good feeling you should
take Olive Tablets.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tahlets-a sub
stitute for calomel-were prepared by
DR.. Edwards after 20 years Of study.
Olive Tablets are purely vegetable
compound mixed with olive oil. Know
them by their olive color.
To have a clear, pink skin, bright
eyes, no pimples, feeling Of buoyancy
like childhood days you must get at
the cause.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets act on
the liver and bowels like calomel-yet
have no dangerous after effects.
They start the bile and overcome con
stipation. Take nightly and note the
pleasing results. Millions Of boxes sold
yearly. 15c, SOC, 60c. All Druggists.
Advertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
FARM BUREAU
OF STATE NOW
10 YEARS old
Federation Formed by
Small Group Meeting in
Indianapolis.

The tenth anniversary today of
the founding of the Indiana Farm
Bureau Federation brings state
ment from its officials recounting
its accomplishment since 1919 when
small group of men met at In
dianapoliS and perfected the state
organization.
In the last ten years the bureau S
purchasing department has bought
more than $15,000,000 worth of sup
plies and in cash refunds has re-
turned 100000 to members. Saw
ings effected through the depart
ment's work are estimated at mil
lions of dollars.
r. Good results are claimed by the
officials for the wool pool, another
activity of the bureau.
Sales for Indiana farmers by the
live stock marketing department
during the last ten years total
$3.50 100000 with refunds of nearly
$250,000. It has established pro-
ducers' commission firms on seven
central markets.
1t is estimated that the dairy mar
ket division has saved $35o000 for
farmers of the state.
More than 100000 bushels of
wheat have been handled by the
bureaus wheat pool, the value be-
ing in excess of $16,000,000
Nearly 10000 farmers patronize
the automobile insurance depart
ment, officials of which estimate
that for 1923 alone savings of
$4,000 were effected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
CATHOLIC FLAYS
ATHEIST THEORY
Former Notre Dame Head
Answers SocioIogist.
BIZ Times Special

BIZ Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, March %. -
Atheistic arguments advanced here
by Harry Elmer Barnes, professor
of sociology at Smith college, were
made the target for a concentrated
attack by the Rev. John Cavan-
augh, formeEpresident of the Uni
verSity of Notre Dame, in SER
mon before the congregation of St.
Patrick's church here.
Claiming that science and religion
can never be incompatible, Father
Cayanaugh assaulted the theory Of
the sociology professor that science
had so, far advanced that a revision
of the public conception of God is
necessary.
Science has attacked religion
and religious practices because they
are claimed to be decreasing the
happiness of man." Father Cayan-
augh said. I'm other words, if the
conscience hurts, abolish religion.
This theory is undoubtedly
wrong. Religion makes people
foolishIy happy. They have faith in
the better things to come. Science
realizes this and it's only reason for
wanting religion removed is be-
cause of its inability to take charge
of the woes and happiness of man. -
Replying to Prof. Barnes argu-
ment that religion is Anticipated be-
cause the new discoveries of science,
Father Cavanaugh claimed that the
Bible is one of the most liberal
documents known.
''If you question the prevalent be-
lief that Adam was tho first man
on earth you are still entitled to
membership in the Catholic church, .
he explained. "The Bible permits
you to believe as you will regarding
early man. The Bible has to do
only with the origin of the man we
now know"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
BLOSSOM FETE
TO BE GIVEN IN
BROWN COUNTY
First Event of Kind in Mid
die West Planned for
Spring.

BIZ Times SDecidl
NASHVILLE. Ind, March 23.-
The first blossom festival in the
middle west is to be given in
Brown county this spring
Mems and women's organizations
throughout the county will have rep
resentatives on the committee of
arrangements.
Preliminary plans are being made
by committee composed of Dale
Bessire, chairman; G. G. Brown,
secretary; Arthur Coffey, treasurer;
Mrs. Scott Mosier, parade; Leroy j.
Reach, speakers; Lee Bright, civic
activities; Charles MCGEE, roads;
R. E. Grubbs, publicity; w. G. Goble,
children's program; D. j. Douglass
and Tyners, fruit growers and bios
SONS; N. N. Wilkes, art, and Mar
garet Johnson, decoration.
Nearly 200 persons are already en-
gagged in making arrangements for
the event, to be held during week
when tree blooms and other spring
flowers are at their best. 1t is
planned to decorate every Brown
county home with blossoms.
Radio will be used to advertise the
festival, with broadcastS from In
dianapolis, Chicago, Louisville and
Cincinnati.
A may day pageant will close the
weeks activities. This will include
floats representing all the county's
schools, churches, clubs and other
organizations, its industries and
natural resources.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
PUBLIC MONEY
TIED UP when
BANKS CLOSE
Bartholomew County Gets
Payment; Wells Still
Waits.

Tying up of public funds is one
Of the results of bank failures in
Indiana. This brings serious diff
culties for counties. townships and
other units, including delay in pay
ment Of salaries and other debts
and in cases where such funds are
not returned, treaSurers are liable
on their bonds.
Bartholomew county has just re-
covered S6.980.81 which it had -
deposit in the Citizens National
Bank of Hope. 1t was closed follow
ing indictment of Herman A. Stew
art, its cashier, on charges that he
embe2zled a sum estimated to be
100000.
Clarence Brooks. county treaSur-
err, was told recently by signerS of
an indemnity bond that if he
pressed for payment, it would be
necessary for the signers to borrow
the money. They expressed hope
that the bank would be reopened.
Delay was refused by Brooks and
as result the money the county
had on deposit was paid by six men.
A second formal demand has been
made by Wells county authorities
for $l6,784.16 which was on deposit
in the closed Farmers Deposit Bank
of Montpelier. Nothing has been
paid so far as a result of the de-
mand, and County Attorney w. a.
Burns announces that unless pay
ment is made within a few days,
he will call a meeting to determine
if suit shall be brought.
There has been no pay day for
two months for Curry township
school teachers as O. result of the
bank closing epidemic in Sullivan
county. Township funds were on de-
post in the First State Bank of
Shelburn and the Farmersburg
State Bank, which closed within q
few weeks of each other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Congregation Stands by
Pastor Despite L0Ue Suit
POSSESSES PICTURE OF
ROOSEVELT TRAGEDY
Muncie Mans Photograph Shows
pI.no and Rody ne War Ace

Muncie Mans Photograph Shows
Plane and Body Of War Ace.
BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March 23.-One of
the few existing photographs of the
crash that caused the death of
Quentin Roosevelt. American air
ace, shot down during the World
war, belongs to Lewis A. Goontz,
Muncie mechanic.
The picture was taken from Ger
man officer and shows the ruin of
the airplane, the kicking mule for
which the craft was named being
barely discernible, and the body of
Roosevelt.
Goontz offered the picture to the
Roosevelt family, but was course9ed,
with thanks, to keep it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
CHILD STAYS IN JAIL

Girl, 4, Refuses to Leave Kokomo
Woman Facing Liquor Charge.
BIZ United Press
KOKOMO, Ind, March 23.-Four-
year-old Ruth Register will not de-
sert her mother, Mrs. Esther Roy
ster, in spite of the fact that the
latter is in jail here today on a
liquor charge.
Mrs. Register was arrested in a
raid. The child, who was with her
was placed in the detention ward
of the Jail. When relatives came to
take Ruth home, the child screamed
and struggled so bitterly that they
were forced to leave her.
The mothers trial will be held al
an early date because the sheriff
does not wish to keep her daughter
a prisoner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
BANK MAY REOPEN
Meeting to Be Held at
Hymera Tuesday.

BIZ Times Special
HYMERA, Ind, March 3D.
Plans for reopening the state bank
here will be made at a meeting of
officials and stockholders Tuesday,
Gilbert w. Gambill, Terre Haute,
attorney for the bank, announces.
While no statement has been
made by the state banking depart
ment as to the institutions condi-
ion in respect to resuming business,
Gambill says it has indicated its
sympathy lies with plans to reopen.
He asserts the bank has been we'll
managed, that it's officers are capa-
BILE men and will be able to reopen
the bank if any group can.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Plan FOch Service

BIZ Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, March 23.-The
local post of the American legion
and members of Battery A, One
Hundred and Fiftieth field artillery,
are formulating plans for special
recognition of the funeral Friday
of Marshal Ferdinand F'och, COM
mander of the allied armies in the
World war. A squad will fire a
salute as the American flag and the
tri-color of France are lowered to
half-staff in the courthouse park,
and 'taps' will be sounded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
LIQUOR PRICES SOAR
Double at Terre Haute Due
to Jones Law.

BIZ Times Special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, March %.
Liquor prices here have sky
rocketed due to the Jones law, pro-
viding five or ten-year prison terms
with fines of $4,000 to $4,000 for
dry law violators.
Cut alcohol, which has been SELL
ing for 30 cents a pint, is now 81.
Five-gallon cans of alcohol, selling
a week ago at SIG, are now bringing
$33.
There has been a corresponding
rise in the price of so-called genuine
whisky, which had been selling for
SIS pint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Boy Kite Filler Hurt

BVIimeS Special
CONNERSVILLE, Ind, March %.
Charles Davidson, H. is in a seri-
GUS condition at a hospital here
from burns suffered when he es-
capped death by electrocution while
flying a kite. Instead of string the
boy was using fine wire. It fell
across an electric wire and trans
mitted the current. Severe burns
on hands and back we're suffered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
INDIANA LEADS
IN FURNITURE
Output of Some Lines Ma
tons Largest.

BIZ Times Special
EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 3d.
This city is in the geographical
center of the nations furniture
manufacturing a report in the cur
rent issue of the Furniture Index
shows.
More than one-eighth of the fur
niture produced in the United States
comes from Indiana factories the
report discloses. The total value of
the national production is $879, 706,-
306, of which the Hoosier state con-
tributes, $132,915, 1865.
Indiana leads among the ten pro-
ducing states, in manufacture of
kitchen, porch, hall and lniscellane-
Gus furniture. New York is the
closest rival in those lines.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Architects visit Kokorno
a. Timea SpeciaI

BIZ IiDleN SDecldE
KOKONO, March 23.-Twenty-
five members of the indianapolis
Architectural Club visited the
Standard Sanitary Manufacturing
Company here today. The party
made an inspection tour of the plant
and were entertained at luncheon.
The delegation was headed by Rich
ard lansing and F. L. Leach Jr.,
of the indianapolis agency of the
factory. The party came here on
an interurban special car. G. w.
Applegate Jr., secretary of the club,
was, in the deleGati0ss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Five Nurse Graduates

BIZ 4 fmCS Special
KOKONfO, Ind, March 22.-Five
nurses will be graduated from the
Good Samaritan hospital training
school here May IL, Sister Mary
Blanche, superintendent. announces.
They are Miss Helen Garter, FL
wood; Miss Edna Huffer, Delphi;
Miss Frances Barchman, Upton;
Miss Pearl Oakley, Russiaville, and
Sister Petro Nilia, Kokomo.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
WOMAN, 81, IN FLIGHT
Kokomo Resident in Plane with
Grandson, Ii.

BIZ Times Special
KOKOMO, Ind, March 23.-Mrs.
Mamie L. Ross, 81, accompanied her
grandson, Ross Herman, 13, on his
first ride in an airplane at the
Shockley field here.
It was Mrs. Ross first venture in
the air. She said she enjoyed the
experience very much, and that an
airplane and the horse and buggy
of her girlhood days beaten a mile
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
MONON MERCER
/. FOES PLAN TO
MEET MONDAY
Various Interests to Be
Represented at Bloom
ington.
BIZ Times spectal

BIZ Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, March %.
Organization of a committee of
one hundred" to wage a fight
against an effort to merge the
Monon and Baltimore g. Ohio rail-
roads is expected to be completed
at meeting of Bloomington citi-
zens here Monday night.
City service clubs, Women's Or
CARNATIONS, organized labor, the
Monroe county farm bureau and
business and professional interests
win be represented at the meeting.
The call to order will be made by
william E. Brown, with w. G, Clev-
enger, Chamber of Commerce presi-
dent, as temporary secretary.
A visit here by President H. r.
KuTTie of the Monon, during which
he made a personal appeal for or
ganized opposition to the merger,
led to the call for the meeting.
A resolution opposing the merger
has been adopted by the Indiana
university board of trustees. They
declare that the interests of the
people and university are well
served by the Monon and "that such
interest would not be better served
by its acquisition by the Baltimore
81 Ohio Railway Company"
"The Monon is HooSier institlr-
tion," declares Phillip Hill, president
of the First National Bank here.
''Every Hoosier should fight for it
and aid in every way to retain it as
an Indiana road.'
Hill further asserts that Monon
officials are acquainted with needs
of the territory the Monon serves,
especially in the limestone district,
and that they know of the emer-
gencies that may arise and now best
to meet them, which would not be
the case with strangers.
Rnnors are current in Bedford
that if the merger is affected, rail-
road shops now located in that city,
Washington, Lafayette and Bloom
ington will be consolidated and
moved to Mitchell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Expect Gas Sufferer to Live

BIZ ImeS NDeCiGt
ANDERSON, Ind, March o.
Physicians expect recovery of Hib-
bert Guitars, IS, overcome by gas in
a room adjoining the one in which
Harold G. Daniels, %, musician,
ended his life. The tragedy resulted
from Daniels grief over death of
his fiance. Guitars is at a hospital
here The body of Daniels was taken
to the home of his mother, Mrs
William Daniels, at Richmond, as
requested in a note he left. +a-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Get Bandit Plea Delay

DECATUR, Ind, March 23.-El-
mer Wood, Al, Jack Gather, %, and
Phillips Chamberlain, 81, charged
with the robbery of the bank of
Linngrove, asked for additional time
when arraigned in Adams circuit
court here to enter pleas. The men
were returned to separate cells in
the jail and a further investigation
of the case instituted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
SUIT ASKS $4,000

Guardian of Insane Specialist Acts
Against Relatives.
By United Press
NEW ALBANY, Ind, March %. -
Suit to recover $65, 900 for DR.. John
HazleWood, well known eye, ear and
nose specialist here, who now is in
sane, has been filed against g.
brother, DR.. Fred Hazelwood of Vas
sar, Mich, and his wife.
The suit was brought by the Mu-
tual Trust and Deposit Company, as
guardian, on the ground that the
defendants obtained SOS, 000 in prop
erty from the specialist, by inducing
him to transfer it while he was mem
tally irresponsible. The property in
cludes $4,000 in bonds and $4,000
worth of real estate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Fly to Basketball Event

BIZ Times Special
DECATUR, Ind, March 23.-This
city has a right to maintain its SUI
premacy in a basketball state
George Wemhoff and Miss Margaret
Mylof, anxious to see games in the
Catholic interscholastic tournament
at Chicago, went from here by train
to TT. Wayne, where they Travelled
by plane for the remainder of the
trip to Chicago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
CIGARET GIVEN CHILD

Testimony Against Mother in
Muncie Divorce Suit.
BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March 23.-Testi-
mony that a cigaret was given a
315-year-old child for the purpose
Of having the tot smoke was offered
against its mother, Mrs. Buena
Vista Letsinger, seeking a divorce
from Marshall Letsinger.
The mother of Mrs. Letsinger
gave the testimony, although she
had been called as a witness for her
daughter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Physical Educators Meet

BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March 23.-The
spring meeting of the Indiana Ply
steal Education Association is being
held today at Ball State Teachers
college here. The organization is
composed of teachers of physical
education in high schools and col
leges of Indiana. This is the fist
time the conference has been heia
outside of indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Legion Plans Celebration

BIZ Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, March 3d.
Members of Byron Cox Post No. u,
American Legion, plan to sponsor a
fourth of July celebration at the
local Playground this year. Horse
racing, midway. fireworks and 9TH
er attractions will be booked. Mem
bership of the post is 303, the larg-
est in its history.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Police Organizing
BY Times SpeciaE

BIZ Times Special
MARION, Ind, March 23.-Or-
ganization of the Indiana Police
Association is under way, according
to Police Chief Lewis Lindenmuth,
who announced filing Of articles Of
Incorporation by the new organiza-
ton which is designed to promote a
more friendly spirit among various
police departments throughout In
diana. All members of the Marion
police depar tment are charter mem
bers of the organization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
LAST STORE TO QUIT

Once Thriving Town of Trenton
Slowly Dying.
By Times Special
TRENTON, Ind, March 23.-This
towns last business firm is for sale.
The Daley store, meeting and
shopping center for twenty-seven
years, is on the market. Once the
town was a busy place, with several
stores, blacksmith shops and other
business.
With passing of the Daley store,
only a school, the Methodist Prot
estant church and few homes will
remain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Arson Trial Postponed

BIZ ItHteS Special
NEWPORT, Ind, March 23-The
fourth trial of Samuel Withrow,
former kligraph of the Parke county
Ku-Klux Khan, on a charge of ar
son has been postponed without a
definite date being set. The case
had been docketed for trial Wednes-
day before Judge @. w. Waite in
Vermillion circuit court.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Young People to Meet

BR Times Special
ANDERSON, Ind, March a.
Fifteen churches of the Muncie
Presbytery will be represented at a
yuong peoples convention here,
April 10 and 20. Miss Gladys Glad
felter, New York, young peoples
secretary of the Presbyterian Ma
tional Mission Board will be the
principal speaker,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Assigned to Purdue

BIZ Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind, March 3D.
Captain Christiancy Pickett. who
will be graduated this year from the
United States Army field artillery
school at Fl. sill, Okla, will take
station as one of the assistant in
structors of the cadet corps at Pur-
due university here.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
Road Bonds Sold
BIZ Times Special

BIT ItfIB3 HDGCilJ
GOSHEN, Ind, March GA bond
issue of $4,000, probably the last
that will be issued by Elkhart county
for road building for several years,
has been sold to the Fletcher Saw
ings and Trust Company of Indian
apolis for premium of S1,515.50,
county officials announce. Proceeds
will be used to complete construc-
ton of the Millersburg- Middlebury
road, begun last year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
scolded Man Kills Self

BIZ Times Special
MONTPELIER, Ind, March 18.-
Reprimanded by hsi wife for spill
ing ashes on a floor while building
fire, Riley L. Greene, %, ended
his life by hanging. The body was
found by his wife on an inclosed
back porch.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-23
RETAINS FEDERAL POST

Muncie Man Re-Apponted Assistant
Secretary of Labor.
BIZ Times Special
MUNCIE, Ind, March 23.-Robe
Carl White, former Muncie lawyer
and postmaster, has been renamed
first assistant secretary of labor, it
was learned today. Official an
nouncement of Whites renomina-
ton is expected to be made by
President Hoover within the next
few days.
White has had charge of immigra-
ton during the last four years. He
was appointed second assistant sec
rotary of labor in 1921 and was adj
vanced in 1924.