The Tribune from Seymour, Indiana • Page 1

NEWSPAPER FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY VOLUME XLIX NO. 149. ELECTRIC STORM CAUSE OF LOSS IN THIS COUNTY Jason Bottorff Residence at Certland Damaged by Bolt Monday. TWO COWS REPORTED DEAD Animals Belonging to Fred Lucas and William Roach Believed Hit by Lightning: Two cows were reported dead and one house damaged in the county following an electric. storm Monday afternoon and night.

valuable cow belonging to Fred Lucas, who lives at Acme, was killed by a bolt Monday afternoon between 2 and 3 o'clock, it was said. The animal was grazing in a pasture near the use when the lightning struck. It was not learned whether the bolt actually struck her or whether she died from shock when it struck near her. The residence of Jason' Bottorff, well known Cortland man, was damaged when lightning struck the front porch Monday. The force of the shock tore several pieces of weather boarding loose from the dwelling, it was said, but no serious damage was done.

A cow. belonging to William Roach, who lives near Cortland, was found dead in a pasture near the house at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. Members of the family said they unable to say definitely that the animal WAS struck by lightning, but they believed this to be the case. They (Continued on page 2, column 3) SURGEON HOLDS SPOT LIGHT IN INVESTIGATION Doctor Parries Words with Reporters Who Attempt to Question Him. By Associated Press.

New York, June G. Jameson Carr, surgeon of the Canard line, today had the role of star witness before a grand jury investigating the death of Miss Starr Faithfull. He cancelled a vacation to Belgium to volunteer in clearing up the mystery of the beauy's drowning on the Jong Beach coast and arrived in New York yesterday an the steamship Laconia with three letters she had written him. The doctor said he had no theories as to the death. He refused to make the letters publie One, in which Starr apologized for getting drunk on the Franconia, May 29, was given out before his arrival by Nassau counauthorities.

Stanley: E. Faithfull, Starr's step-father, branded the letter am false, The letter wAs not. in Starr's style, he said. Carr gave little information to reporters on his arrival. you surprised at her death?" they asked.

"It is forty years since I've been surprised." "Is it correct you said in RosNon Miss Faithfull was charming and -this from 8 woman reporter. "All women are beautiful and charming," he bowed. Other questions about 'the girt and her affairs Dr. Carr refused to answer on grounds of profes. sional ethics.

Other witnesses called before the grand jury today included the Faithfull family, several detectives and a taxi driver, who drove -Starr Faithfull from day before her disappearance, the pier a and two women who saw her at Grand Central terminal, June -the day before she vanished. THE DAY'S NEWS Haven't time to write a lot, Tho it's not so awfully hot: We'll just let you, read the news And select your personal views. The Cub. 'GALLOPING DOMINOES" FURNISH EDUCATION By Associated Press. Evanston, Ill.

June 23. Dice- polling has gone intelli. gentsia. The employment office of Northwestern University, publicizing today the methods of students working their way, cited: "One student used two spotted cubes which when shaken and tossed upon a flat surface, cause money to change Another male earned his AS a nursemaid. NORTH VERNON WOMAN KILLED Mrs.

Jeffrie Skinner Dies Instantly in Accident in Columbus. FUNERAL HELD TUESDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Jeffrie Skinner, age thirty- five North Vernon, who was killed instantly in an automobile aecident at Columbus, were held Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Methodist Church In Vernon. Park Skinner, age seventy -nine her father-in-law, and a sister -law, Mrs. Lottie Ross, also of North Vernon, were injured in the accident.

They are reported recovering and not seriously hurt. Details of the mishap, as. told by the Columbus Republican, follow: The accident occurred at the intersection of Gladstone and McKinley avenues as the family was leaving the Garland Brook cemetery after having attended the funeral of David Thompson who died at his home in Azalia. Mr. Skinner was driving the automobile, it is said, and some distance back on the road passed another automobile.

He waR driving at rather a high rate of speed, according to witnesses, and his wife, apparently ing frightened attempted to jump from the car. As she did so he let loose of the steering wheel to grab his wife. The car left the road, plunged into a tree and turned upside down. Mrs. Skinner was pinned umder the debris, and it is said her head was crushed.

The driver escaped injury, but the other two occupants, Mrs. Ross and the (Continued on page 3, column 5) RITES FOR FORMER MAYOR TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral Services for John A. Ross to be at 2 O'clock from Voss Mortuary. Funeral serviges for John A Ross, former mayor of Seymour, who' died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Emma Messick, Indi.

anapolis, Sunday night, areg to be conducted from the Voss Mortuary here at 2 o'clock Wednesdar afternoon, The Rev. C. A. Shake, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will have charge. Burial at Riverview cemetery.

Mr. Ross was mayor of this city from 1914 until 1918, when he moved to Terre Haute for residence. He came here when boy, and lived here until after finished serving the four -year term as mayor. He was known to a large circle of friends acquaintances as a man of high ideals and generosity. The body will be brought to the Voss Mortuary Wednesday morning, and friends may call there after 11 o'clock.

BEARS CHASE INTO VOLCANO By Associated Press. Chignik, Alaska, June 23-4 Father Bernard Hubbare, Santa Clara, university, and three students, back here after climbing Aniakehak, world's largest active, voleano, told today of being chased into a crater by an enraged brown bear. In their ascent of -the voleano on foot and without guns, they had two encounters with bears. A Kodiak bear which appeared in their path was frightened away by flourishing of ice picks, but the climbers could not. turn, SEYMOUR WHEAT HARVEST IN FULL SINING IN THIS COUNTY Grain Ripening Rapidly Following Recent Showers and Hot Sunshine.

BIG YIELD ANTICIPATED Threshing Expected to Start Soon After July 1-Price of New Crop Uncertain. The wheat harvest is in full swing in Jackson county. The recent showers followed by hot sunshine have caused the grain to ripen rapidly and farmers are losing no time in getting the wheat in shock as they realize that much of the grain would go down during a heavy wind. Although accurate figures are not available this early in the season farmers confidently expeet the vield of wheat to be one of the largest in the history of the county, The fields came through the winter in fine shape and inspections reveal that the heads are well filled and that grain of good quality will be threshed. In some parts of the county rust appeared, but the (Continued on page 6, column 6) TRIO PRESENTS ROTARY PROGRAM Members Express Appreciation of Selection by Local Guest Artists.

CLUB YEAR CLOSES JUNE 30 The members of the Seymour Rotary Club enjoyed a rare treat at their luncheon meeting today in the way of a musical program presented by Miss Frieda Aufderheide and Miss Matilda Kessler, violinists, and Mrs. Glenn Keach, accompanist. A program of four numbers was presented by the trio and was highly commended and greatly enjoyed. Following the program C. R.

Jackson, club president, pressed the appreciation of the members to the guest artists and commented upon the wealth of musical talent in this city. Membets of the trio were introduced by C. E. Loertz, a member of the June program committee. Dr.

L. M. Mains, chairman of the program committee, said that the meeting next week would be given over to reports of the retiring officers and brief addresses relative to the work accomplished by the club during the Continued on page 6, column 7) HEIGHT OF SCARCITY PROVES NO BARRIER As scarce as hen's teeth. As scarce as ceiling fans for sale. Either is a rarity.

However, Marens EuDaly located a used ceiling fan for sale, negotiated for its purchase and had installed in the Majestic 'Fountain here, it. less than twenty-four hours after he had advertised The Tribune that he was in the market for one. The fan was located at North Vernon. GROUP CRATER away a brown bear which they met on the crater rim. The "Glacier Priest" and the students, Richard Douglas, Georgetown University, William Regan, Santa Clara University and Kenneth Chisholm, San Francisco University, fled across black glacier and down into the volcano.

Then the bear turned back. The three day trip on foot the crater was to locate a closer base camp and this week supplies are to be moved to a point near the mountain by plane, DAILY TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1931. SEYMOUR, INDIANA, RUTH NICHOLS INJURED RUTH NICHOLS Just completing the preliminary hop on her proposed flight along the Lindbergh trail in the hope that she would be the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone, Ruth Nichols saw her dream clouded for a time at least, when her monoplane erashed at St. John's. She says she'll make it yet, however.

MISS NICHOLS COMES TO GRIEF- DUO STARTS HOP Plane Badly Damaged of First Lap of Proposed Flight. Flier's End By Associated Press. St. John, June 23--Injured when landing 'after a flight from New York, Miss Ruth Nichols was still intent today on followthe Lindbergh trail to Paris. Her high-speed monoplane ping, was wrecked at the municipal airport as the setting sun blinded her for an instant.

At a hospital she smilingly asserted she would not let "that little spill" deter her from goal. She suffered injuries to her back and a one-inch gash on one knee. Doctors ordered an X-ray examination, fearing her spine bad been hurt when she was thrown against container. Mechanics checked over the plain and said, the extent of the damage was great. Despite the girl's desire to continue the flight, it iras thought the damage to the ship would, cause an in.

definite postponement. Miss Nichols took off from the Fiord Bennett field, New York, vesterdav afternoon, accom panied by a convoy of naval serve planes and another piloted by Clarence D. Chamberlain, her adviser. A crowd was at the St. John airport when she prepared to land, four hours and fifteen minutes after leaving New York.

The plane touched the ground lightly, rose a few feet, then crashed into hillocks and brush beyond the runway. Chamberlin: reached! the field after Miss Nichols had been taken to the hospital. Chamberlain, seeing the wreckage of the plane, said: "It looks as though it's all off now. How did she ever come out of it alive?" He went to the hospital aml was greeted by Miss Nichols with the salutation. "hello STUDENT HONORED Local Youth Neither Late nor Absent During Semester.

D. H. Anderson, of this city, a student in Indiana University, was honored with an grade in R. 0. T.

C. work there along with 206 other students, all of whom were neither late nor ahsent during the entire semester. "We feel that the spirit which prompted them to such punetaality and regularity augurs well for their future suecess," Colone! 0. P. Robinson, commandant of the Indiana university R.

0. T. said in announcing the grade students. J. Riess, ME.

D. Eve, ear, nose and. throat. Hours 9 to 12 a. 1:30 to 5 and 7 to 8 p.

m. Sevmour Clinic. I TRIBUNE WICKERSHAM COMMISSION NEARING END Final Week of Body's Existence to be Crammed with Finishing up Reports. TIME UP JUNE 30 Eight or Nine Forthcoming Jobs Still to be Completed by Group. By Associated Press.

Washington, June 23-Members. of the Wickersham commission buekled down today to the task of winding up the major part of two years labor in a week. The meeting started today was possibly the commission's last. As the session convened, it was pointed out that reports on major crime investigations maining to be completed before July 1 might well keep the members busy until the early hours of that date. The commission's official life expires with June.

In 25 months it has submitted. four, reports, to Hoover. Although only the finishing touches were lacking (Continued on page 3, column 6) GRAF ABANDONS POLE JOURNEY Zeppelin not to Attempt to Meet Nautilus--Plans Scientific. Tour. SUB GETTING REPAIRS By 'Assoctated Press.

Friedrichshafen, Germany, June 23-Abandoning its plans for a rendezvous with the submarine Nautilus at the north pole, the Graf Zeppelin will make a sixday cruise into Arctic regions next month on scientifie mission. Dr. Hugo Eckener said the mishaps suffered by Sir Hubert Wilkins's craft on the way to Europe had eliminated the possMility of their meetng on the "top of the world." Instead, the giant dirigible will cast off the latter part of July for a lone venture with nine scientists aboard, including Professor Rodolphe Samoilowitch (Continued on page 2, column 1) PICNIC PLANNED Church to Hold Outing Meeting July 28. The annual Sunday School pienie of the White Creek Lutheran church will be held Sundar. July 28, in the afternoon and evening.

Songs, drills, dialogues and tests will be part of both afternoon and night programs: The publie is cordially invited. The Sunday School teachers are Rev. Schulenberg. Otto Hilda Mever, Erna Taylor and Mary Burbrink. AND WE THOUGHT CHICAGO WAS BAD By Associated Press.

Chicago, June 23 genes, your search has ended. His name is George Fritz. Raymond -Horrel, moving pieture operator, parked his automobile on Dearborn street yesterday. Returning after work, he found. the radiator shoved in, a fender and running board torn off and numerous seratches.

And this note was pasted on the windshield: "Mv accelerator jammed on me and the accident Was unavoidable. I shall appreciate it if you will permit me to bear the expense of repairing your car, Please telephone me at my officeState 7883. George Fritz." POISON CASE IS STILL MYSTERY Authorities Fail to Uncover Evidence Which Would Aid in Probe. JOINT. FUNERAL PLANNED Greenfield, June 23-Admittedly without a promising clue in the poison deaths of Virginia Simmons, 14, and her sister, Jean, 10, authorities said today, the girls' parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John W. 'Simmons, would be recalled for questioning after joint funeral services tomorrow. Meanwhile, drug stores of Greenfield and surrounding communities were canvassed to learn where the poison that was placed in sandwiches eaten by the girls at a family reunion Sunday might have been purchased. Authorities at Lebanon, Boone county, where the reunion was held, joined in the investigation.

A white, powdery substance found in capsules secreted In pressed chicken sandwiches eaten by the girls was found by Dr. Rollo N. Harger, Indiana Univer(Continued on page 6, column 5) LAST RITES FOR MRS. THUMSER HELD TODAY Funeral Services for Ninety-OneYear-Old Resident This Afternoon. Funeral services for Mrs.

Babetta Thumser, age ninety-one years, who died suddenly Sunday morning, were held this after- 4 from the residence, with noon the Rev. S. M. Hutehison, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in charge. Burial at Riverview cemetery.

Mrs. Thumser, one' of the city's oldest residents, was widely known in this section of the state. She was the widow of the late. John Thumser, for many years master mechanie at the old 0. M.

Railroad Shops which were moved to Seymour in 1873. The family came to this city at that time and with the exception of a few years Mrs. Thumser lived in the homestead on East Third street. She is survived hy a son, Gus Thumser, of Lockwood, two daughters, Mrs. J.

G. Laupus and Mrs. Laura T. Horst, of this city. a brother, George Geinier, of Covington, seven grand children and seven -grandI children.

FORD'S VISION OF FUTURE DESCRIBED By Associated Press. Detroit, June Ford visions the nation of future -the perfect industrial statea nation made. up of surrounded by farms able to sustain them. The farm communities will supply the factories with carrots, cantaloupes, corn, wheat and other agricultural produets, from which automobiles, building material, clothing and the necessities of life -with food an incidental be turned out. Great industrial longer.

will be necessary, Mr. Ford theorizes, since the factories and farms will be' scattered over the nation. Work will be brought to remote sections, with modern transportation the intermediary. Farmers in the perfect indus-1 THE WEATHER: Mostly fair, probably occasionshowers or thunderstorms, PRICE THREE CENTS. FRANCE SEEKS COUNTER PLAN FOR AMERICA Report from Diplomatic Circles Gives First Intimation of Proposal.

PARIS DECLARED HUB Berlin Says French City, Not German or United States, Holds Final Balance. BULLETIN The Associated Press said Gatty and Post Get Off on Round-The-World Trip in Shiny White Monoplane. BULLETIN The Associated Press said this afternoon that Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off for Berlin from Harbor Grace at 4:57 clock Newfoundland daylight time this afternoon. By Associated Press. 'Roosevelt Field, No June -Harold Gatty and Wiley Post took off at 3:56:10 a.

m. Eastern Standard time today for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in their monoplane "Winnie Mae of Oklahoma" on the first leg of a round the world flight. The fliers, who will relieve each other at the controls, plan to stay in Harbor Grace about two hours to refuel, change oil end check up on the motor. The trip. to Harbor Grace is 1200 miles.

From Newfoundland the fliers will hop to Croydon, England, 2.000 miles across the Atlantic. The Gatty-Post enterprise is sponsored by F. C. Hall. Oklahoma oil magnate, for whose daughter the gleaming white "Winnie Mae" is named.

The fliers hope to shatter the mark of 22 days set by the Gra? Zeppelin for the round -the- world trip. With a cruising speed of about 150 miles per hour, they believe. their plane can make the journey in from seven to ten. days. The Winnie Mae is powered with a wasp 425 horsepower motor, supercharger- equipped.

A radio will enable the fliers communicate with the world all times, weather permitting: Post, who is from Oklahoma City; is 35, has had wide expertence as a transport pilot and has gained reputation for beIng an expert flier in adverse weather conditions. Gatty, who is from Los Angeles, also is a veteran transport pilot. He is 30. Their flying; has been done largely in the west and middle west. CHARLES BROWN ELECTED STATE JUNIOR COUNCILOR Local.

Youth Selected for High Post, in Hoosier DeMolay Organization. Charles Brown, of this city, was, elected Junior Councilor the Indiana DeMolay at the state meeting held in Muncie, according to an Associated Press dispatch this afternoon. Young Brown has been prominently. identified with the DaMolay organization in this seetion of the state for some time. He is the son of Mr.

and Mrs Charles Brown, Ewing street road. Edward Bonnister, New Albany I was elected. Councilor. this afternoon that it had been reported in diplomatic circles. and apparently on good authority.

that France is now Ning a counter proposal to the Hoover project, which would work in with the Young plan. By Associated Press. Berlin, June cialdom declared a one-day mo ratoriam from overwork today with the realization that Paris not Berlin or Washington is the hub of the universe in respect to the Hoover debt proposal. "The whole world waits for Paris," Mittagzeitung announced in- a banner line, unquestionably voicing the sentiment of all Germany. Ambassador Leopold Von Hoesch, who hastened to Paris when President Hoover's proposal regarding inter-government debts was announced, has been in cony tinuous touch with Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Minister Curtis, advising them as to what Germany can do to make France's acceptance of the plan easier.

Until Paris makes her decision the German government is marking time. Meanwhile, another German ambassador has formidable task. Carl Von Schubert at Rome must try lo convince Premier Mussolini that the customs treaty with Austria and reparations are not related, nor are the customs union and Anschluss (political union) identical. Ambassador Von. Schubert was reported to have been instructed to try to convince Mussolini that the matter of the customs union rests safely in the hands of the world court and that it would jolt world confidence if he were to try to anticipate the action of that body.

Insofar as German publie opinion was concerned, yesterday burst of jubilation was followed by a day of sober calculation. Newspapers pointed out that the people realized the milleniu had not come by any means and more than ever Germany must DOW show herself worthy of Mr. Hoover's confidence by doing erything possible to reduce public expense, eliminate waste and travagance and little by little get back on her feet by her own efforts. One evidence of this feeling in the Reichebank's decision to try to get along without the $300 000.000 loan placed at its Jisposal by American banks. Washington, June 23-American officials sought today "to speed ratification of the moratorium proposal to maintain with undiminished force.

what they as already materializing economic improvement. From no less a person than Secretary Stimson had come the warning that there must be no bargaining; that the plan must be acted upon quickly to pull the world out of its business And to crities who held that postponement for one year of all war debt and reparations par ments, would only delay, the eris(Continued on page 3, column 7) trial state, as visioned by Mr. Ford, will be able to more in less time through highly improved methods. At proper seasons they may' be shifted to the faetories to aid in production there, or the factory labor 1 may go to the farms during the reaping seasons. Turning with renewed vigor -fo the theory which he has maintained for years--that agriculture and indusry must interlock, Henry Ford today is enlarging aN experimental farm near here until at present it: extends over more than 3,000 acres.

On this farm engineers, scientists, soil experts and chemists will work on a lavish scale, attempting to prove Mr. Ford's contention that agricultural products may be turned into something other than food. WEATHER RECORDS Report by Rile? Goble, official To cal weather CONED server. office, the pomping ton. of the mour Water Max.

85. Mini dR. Rainfall: 40 in Stage of River 1 ft. 2 in. above low water.