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...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...
...receiverships last week made news: ¶ Studebaker Corp., famed automakers of South Bend, Ind. were put in receivership, but not by the slow and common process of financial decay. Considering the general state of the automobile business, Studebaker had not done badly (loss for the first nine months of 1932 was $4,390,000). Last week it claimed assets exceeding liabilities by over $70,000,000. It entered a friendly receivership for technical reasons. Last autumn Studebaker attempted to acquire White Motor Co. (TIME, Sept. 26). When 95% of the White stockholders agreed, Studebaker borrowed...
...news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: ¶To the secular indictment of Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, 55, Methodist Episcopal minister of Muncie, Ind., for attempted rape of 18-year-old Helen Huffman (TIME, Feb. 6) : a church trial, with a jury of twelve ministers presided over by Bishop Edgar Blake of Detroit. Preacher Conway was found guilty of "imprudent ministerial conduct," suspended for one year-a penalty which churchmen considered light...
...Evansville, Ind., Raymond Woods, 21, snapped at a grain of popcorn he had tossed into the air, caught it in his mouth, fell unconscious to the ground. A doctor found he had snapped a neck vertebra out of place...
...Ralph Metcalfe, tall Negro sprinter of Marquette University : the 60-yd. dash in the Central Intercollegiate meet; at South Bend, Ind.; in 6.1 sec., 1/10 sec. better than the ten-year-old record set by Loren Murchison...