The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-18
The State
in Brief

officers are: Dorothy Rush, Fair
mount, president; Rebecca
Smith, Lincoln, Va, secretary and
undergraduate representative, and
Miriam Evans, MoorestoWn, N. j.,
treasurer. Miss Sarah Holmes is
chairman Of the cabinet training
conference for students to be held
at De Paw university.
CENTERVILLE, Ind, March 18.
-Thelma Walkup, IS, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton Walkup, is
in q Richmond hospital still I'M
conscious from a fall from baniS-
ter of the stairway at the local high
school several days ago. Miss
Walkup, student, while waiting for
a girl friend, seated himself on
the railing and fell backward to the
floor below. She sustained frac-
tured skull. Her recovery is doubt
full.
COLUMBUS, Ind, March 18. -
Mrs. Bernadine Stafford, who
caused her divorced husbands ar
rest on charge that he was $51
in arrears in paying So a week to
support their child, heard Circuit
Judge Julian Sharpnack say "the
defendant is discharged" after tes-
timony had been offered regarding
an agreement the couple made to
suspend payments.
RICHMOND, Ind, March Is. --
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed in Wayne circuit court against
the Pennsylvania railroad as the
result of the death of a child,
Samuel Mohler, killed when the car
driven by the father, Elmer @. Moh-
Ter, crashed into a cement pillar in
the center of the National road
where the Pennsylvania tracks cross
the highway.
ELWOOD, Ind, March 1s.-Fu-
neral services were held here
Mrs. Mary E. Balser, 81, who died
suddenly of heart disease with
which she was stricken while con-
versing with friends at her home.
She was the widow of George Balls
err. She leaves four sons, Wayne,
Walter, Elmer and Ralph, all of FL
wood. and a daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Warner, east of here.
VINCENNES, Ind, March 49,
Miss Cora Malott, who was born
and reared here, Is dead at Homo
lulu, T. H, where she went in an
effort to regain her health. Her
body will be cremated and the
ashes brought here for burial. She
was a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Newton M. Malo, formerly of Bed
ford.
CHAMELEON, Ind, March 10
Amputation of a leg caused the
death of Cora Walters, Perry coun-
ty auditor He was active in Dem
ocratic politics and had served as
his partys county chairman. He
leaves his widow; :, daughter, Mrs
Urdix Ewing, and an adopted
daughter, Miss Marie Walters.
MUNCIE, Ind, March 18-wil-
liam Copeland, so, a barber, died
Monday of injuries suffered Sun
day when struck by a Big Four train
at a crossing here. A Waterman
said Copeland walked directly in
the trains path.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, March
13-The death cell at Indiana state
prison had its first. occupant in a
long period today, when James Britt,
Negro, was prepared for
execution scheduled for Friday.
Britt was convicted on a charge
of numbering Sam Goldberg.
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, March 10.
The killing Of Harry Stepp, 81
year-old state prison barber, last
July 4, was admitted before Judge
Harry Crumpacker in La Porte SUI
perior court by Edward Spann, "a,
Negro, who was sentenced to life
Imprisonment.
BEDFORD, Ind, March 18. -
Orval Hill, SO, c., M. & st. Paul
railroad brakeman, was killed in
stantly here when he fell beneath
the wheels of a train on which he
was working and ground to pieces.
BEDFORD, Ind, March ia
capacity house greeted the first
of the Jordan River
Revue" all-student show of Indiana
here Monday night. The
show will open tonight at Bloom
ington to run three days.
LA PORTE, Ind, March 49,
Twin black lambs "baa" in the
sheep cote on L. H. Blake's farm
today. The combination, exceeding
ly rare, will go by the team name
Of Amos and Mandy, for sufficient
reasons.
PERU, Ind, March l8.-W. II.
Chapman, 81. walking 10000 miles
LOT SoiOUO wager, passed through
here with 1000 miles still to cover.
EDINBURG, Ind, March 10. -
Ernest Patrick, Is, a freshman in
Edinburg high school. has built a
tubeless radio and television set
which will throw a three-foot pic
ture. it is announced.
CONVICTION, Ind, March 10. -
Miss Olive E. Coffeen, 81, of this
city, a teacher sixty-seven years, is
Believed to hold a national record
for length of service in her pro-