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The Call-Leader from Elwood, Indiana • Page 10

The Call-Leader from Elwood, Indiana • Page 10

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The Call-Leaderi
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Elwood, Indiana
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T7I2 riXCCS CXLI LZAwZR. Thursday, AHrtlu 9, tJ' State Fire Marshal Jay Stevens and the contractors instituted a third. Frank Uradv, superintendent of r.lARRIA 6E ODE KiLLED 17HEN new construction of the University of California, said a guard had been SENTENCE ROOF COLLAPSES kept posted to watch the shoring sup Our Weekly porting the roof, but that the braces buckled so fat there was no chance to warn workmen. The most serioufsly Injured 'work Chases U. S.

Officials Abtut the Eltvn Others Inured as Concrete men were Harry Sykes, 29 years old, Hay ward; Tony Gomez, 28, Oakland; Court Room After Penalty Is Imposed by Judge. Structure at University California Building Crashes. Special Adolph Feterson, 34, Oakland; Frank Albanene, Oakland- Nawtel Wells. MM 40, Negro, Berkeley; J. Riley and R.

V. Karrell of Oakland. wmm is started for FR and SEHTEKCEO FOR'fUY Fort Wayne, lnd April 8. Mr. Berkeley, April 8.

One wan killed and eleven others were I Wonderful Tag Day for Pretty Jane I By JANE OSBORN Hit. McClor Nwt.Miw Syndlctt. (WNU Swrlccl JANE DONALDSON, twenty, and a junior in the normal college, would certainly not have enumerated shyness as one of her characteristics. Then came tax day the treat la; day, so far as the normal college was concerned. To be sure Glcnton bad ha many sack days on ber calendar recently.

But none of tbe other or-ganizationi bad bad five hundred young women, most of them charming In one way or another, to so out tagging. There were twenty-five names on a list whom the wily committee bad put there because the; belonged to the two-dozen-and-one prettiest girls In the college therefore pretty sure to be the most successful taggers. Jane Donaldson was one of these. Of course she would be. Even If Jane bad not been pretty she would have been a successful tagger, for she had such a charming voice, and even If she had not bees pretty and had bad an ordinary voice, still she would have been chosen because of her frank, winsome manners that would have made everyone think her pretty anyway.

Jane's first location was the railroad station. She with a classmate was to be there from the time tbe early morning train drew out until after the rooming rush, The first commuters' train went at seven-twenty, but those who earns for that train were young boys working at their first Jobs, laborers some of them with palls or lunch boxes. Jane felt terribly conspicuous and had a wild desire to tear away the wide rose-colored ribbon that she wore from one shoulder to her Oda Lippens, the Iteadw Letter Writ er, concluded her appearance in Fed Shelbyville, April 8. John eral court here today by chasing various officials around the room. Doyle Shrout, 23, whose crime record shows activities over a period of teq Mrs.

Lippens, of Marion, claiming years, and Fannie MeCart, alias Fan to be 30 years old, was convicted by Judge Thomas W. Slick of using the nle Conway, 22, were arraigned in the Shelby circuit court today on charges 4.4021 45020 mails to defraud in connection with of forgery. The two were arrested by a fake matrimonial bureau scheme local police after they had passed two He imposed a two-year Federal forged checks at Shelbyville stores. Pleas of guilty ere entered by the women's prison sentence at Alder-son, W. Va.

Tumbles to Floor. couple and each wus given a sentence injured, seven seriously, when a see-tloa of new concrete root of tbe Mechanics building, under construe tio at the University of California campus, collapsed today. Workmen had toiled to complete laying of a 150-square yard area, three feet thick, above the new three-Story building. Skeleton bracing and pillars yielded suddenly, precipitating the workmen and tons of material to tbe ground. One man seized an Iron rod and clung to it as the root collapsed beneath his feet.

11 in Hospitals. Amerlco Cabral of Oakland died shortly after rescuers extricated him from tbe mass wet concrete. Eleven other's were taken to hospitals where their injuries were found to range from fractured skulls, internal Injuries and cuts to broken bones. University students from nearby buildings deserted their classes as of two to fourteen years imprison on the THEE Free lir'tpirsl Immediately Mrs. Lippens dived to inent.

Shrout will go to the Indiana the floor, apparently in a faint. Unit 45021 4.75 19 reformatory and the woman to Indi ana women's prison. ed States Marshal E. C. Hall started to aid her but before he could reach Authorities of the Indiana reforma her side she leaped from the floor tory today supplied police with infor mation showing that Sin out has cither and with a remark which would have stunned a longshoreman she dashed been in prison or parole from pru at Postal Inspector Benjamin F.

Sim on through the last ten years. He has oke. Federal District Attorney Oil served two terms at the Indiana le formatory for petit larceny and burg ver M. Loomis was in the line of charge but shuffled out of the lary, both issued in Lawrence county and one term in Federal prison for a postofflce robbery, lie has been on Amid cheers from the courtroom audience the postal inspector lammed parole from the reformatory since last December. to the library with Mrs.

Lippens in full pursuit. Pliorie 914 o. AUCTIONEER HEAT ViCTlM. Marshall Hull re-entered the action the many tons of material crashed. Officials' of Barrett Hilp, San Francisco contractors in charge of the work, feared some of the workmen were buried In the concrete, but check accounted for.

all the men Started. An was begun by Fire Chief George Haggerty of Berkeley, A second waa under way by at this Juncture, overpowered the CONGRESSMAN'S MOTHER DIES. If sentenced woman and led her scream ing and hysterical from the waist at the opposite side, nnd the rose-colored paper bat that designated he as an official tagger. She trailed one commuter timidly and then intended to step bravely up to address another as he came hurrying in. But he was so well dressed and so much brisker looking than the others who came for this early train that her voice failed again and she stepped back.

The man stopped. He asked her what she bad said, and as she turned awny be went to her Inquisitively. "l'ou started to sny something to me," he said. Too wanted me to buy one of your tags. What's the natter? Why did you draw back?" "I think I lost my nerve," admitted Jane, and added, "but please hurry.

Tbe train has been In a minute nnd Fm afraid It won't wait long. Please hurry." The man dropped a dollnr bill Into Jane's box nnd bolted Juue waited eagerly and In a few minutes he came bock. iil sim Mrs. Lippcn's two-year sentence Oreencastle, April 8. Last rites for Mrs.

Rachel Gillen, 84 years old, mother of Representative Gillen this city, will be held from her home at Roachdale Friday afternoon. Mrs. Gillen died early today after a short illness. Besides the son, two brothers, Frank and John EdwartU, was duplicated in that given to Jack Scott, her accomplice in the matrimonial racket, who will serve his came to the Catskiil region to regain his health, today wag in the Sullivan cbunty Jail here, awaiting arraignment on a second degree murder charge. "He' dared me to shoot," Troinbb said In a statement he gave the state police, "when I pointed a gun at him.

I pulled the (rigger and couldn't let go. He fell to the floor and I tried 10 bring him to. I didn't know he was dead." The accused man said he quarreled with the boy over a phonograph ho Topeka, April 8. An auctioneer crying a sale was overcome by heat this afternoon, as summer temperatures were recorded In many sections of Kansas. L.

S. Huggles, of Te'scott, wus pliced under care of a physician while a substitute took up his selling duties. A new maximum for the year, 89, was recorded at Pittsburg. Many points reported SB, S. D.

Flora, state meteorologist, forecast temperatures 20 to 25 degrees lower tomorrow. Monticclio, N. April 8. A over a cheap phonograph in a remote cabin at the foot of the Catskiil line at Leavenworth, Kas. Long Under Surveillance.

Mrs. Lippens has been under sur DOCTOR E. M. EOGGESS Has Moved His Office and Residence to 1305 SOUTH A 8T. Third Door West of Mercy Hospital, Phone 1035.

and a sister, Mrs. J. O. Smith, all of Roachdale, survive. mountains ended lu death for Ivau Tyler, 14, a schoolboy, and imprisonment for his 22-year-old friend, lieorge veillance of postal authorities for several years following continued reports that she was corresponding When you are in want of anything.

Harrison Trombley. Trombley, a former bank clerk, who 1iad promised Ivan. try our Want Ad column. with a number of men, object of matrimony, obtaining money from them and then never currying out Great Radio the promised inarringc. Her activl lies, detailed by l'ostal Inspector Sim coke, who worked on the case, stated that she had received money orders ranging In slie from $ti(l to $3110 from "Ton lost your train," said Jane, "and it's all my fault, I'm so sorry." Other commuters wore now nrrlving for the next train, but Jane left them nil for her working mate whose box wns getting quite heavy with contributions.

"I'm wondering," euid the joun man, looking ut his watch. "What you want to do is to make money for your Let's see how much would you make In day!" "One of the girls took In fifteen dollars on tog day last year." Then he explained. He hud a runli of business to attend to. His secretary was awuy 111, and the substitute Celeb lovelorn swains us far away as No luawka. The amounts were sent, It was Indicated, when Mrs.

Lippens asked her dupes for railroad fare to come to them for the marriage sor vices. Other pleas which elicited money Included illness of mythical broadcast from Indianapolis Speedway 9 TO 10 THURSDAY relatives. Mrs. Lippens finally was arrested had proved to be stupid. There was a rush of business people to meet, letters to he read and dictated to the typist He wus going lo Europe the when several men and women ar rested In Crawfoidsville and ulltg erliy engaged In the same racket dis closed her connection with the matri monial bureau fraud.

Hold Mrs. Lippens and Scott plead ed guilty to I he charges. next dny nnd hud a hundred Important telephone calls to make. And now he'd lost bis train. Some one with a nice voice mid a pleasant manlier nnd a little gray-mutter would be worth so much to lilin for the dny.

lie begged her to get a substitute for the tugging business nnd to come with lit in. The rose-colored paper hat would do It looked all right to him, he said to her. Jane, who would have glmlly gone nut scrubbing to get nut Of this lagging which she found so dillicult, went to her warding nuilo. She knew the it- NEW ENGLAND BUfdED UNDER HEAVY SM BARNEY OLDfrlELD llnstnii, April X. While south i Huti-rn New Knglaiid was get ting ae- juuii man ov biij" lie wan uie son of ono of the trtwlces belonged to one of the best families, nnd was en- I tlrely reliable, "ne might give you climated In a day of warm spring ThU pioneer auto rare driver will tell you of ome of big thrifts wi'iidier New i-Jiigmiid today i was hul l' il under hiiow ranging in depth fioni 8 to inches.

IllKliwuys were blocked by Know fallen tries, communications and other electrical facilities were dis rupted mid railroad trains delayed by the most disastrous storm of the year Sweeping down cu the northern por tion of this group of states last night taste- a tb? natural, tropic- flivored'lAFcndrfch'is to like it. Suppose you try one. I- H. Fendrich, 7i, Maker, Est. 1850 pumuiii I rag.iiiMiffJMiiM.

i irim i i miiii the otorm caused heavy damagu and ihited several towns. The utilities companies restored communications as rapidly as possi fifteen dollars for the day's work and I doubt 'whet her you'll mnke live at the rate you're going here. 1 can easily get some one to take your place." So June hurriedly taking off her rose-colored sash, followed Tom Itnw-lins, and together they got aboard the next train for the city. When she reported at college nt seven o'clock thai evening she had a check for hundred dollars. "I didn't beg It," she said to one of the committee.

"I earned It working nnd It was such fun." liut the committee member smiled. Jane wns indeed pretty and very lovely. Tom Kuwllns didn't stay abroad as long as he intended to. "If 1 hadn't met you the morning before I sailed I wouldn't have missed my trnln and I would have been willing to stxy In Kurope. But I hnd to come buck'.

Mnybe If I'd urged you, you'd have come then, anyway," he said In his quiet way. "Hut I dont believe I'm nunllllod to be a business man's private secretary. Fd nlfays plfjnnW to, teach," 'faltered "TJiep' come along, as my teacher," s'nld Tom. "Tench tue anything you bio today and tonight. New Hamp shire made claim to the deepest snow.

MAIIIO CMAMLEK Famous Metropolitan Opera star tinging your old favorite $ongi 19 inches at Nelson, which adjoins Keeno. COLOIRIA I1A1. Chinio VMAQ IVlroit WXYZ Fort Wtyne KmuiCiir. KM DC Omh. KOIL St-Louii RMDX BayCiijr wflCM DnK KI.Z Indhnipolu.

THIM Minneapolis VCCO Milwaulu SioaiQlr KSCJ Wicbiu KFH Wilerlno, I. WMT KfiurUJ. WUHF SOIISA A IN' II BAND Hear affaire the tirring mutic of this renowned band-matter and hU band KILLED BY OWN AUTO. Moutlcello, April 8. Crank ing his automobile while it was In second gear, Joseph Hollis, 47, of Aurora, was fatally Injured iwhrin' the (ran overMilmMiere.

lie' was cnroulo with his family lo gal ley Station, where he was to like unless he suggested with some celebration marks llic end of an elitWalc lubrication liuvo been employed and had slopped here to refuel his car. The body was returned to Aurora. confusion, "uulelss ytfUH chine hs my wife." And when Tom and Jane were married another check was received by the tnj; day committee. tudy, conducted by the American Automobile Association foi STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Indiana) Read the Classified Ads every day. THE HOUSE OF CRANE, Ind-,.

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