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COOLIDGE SIGNS IHTI-BOOTLEBCER measure today \>» UW. Increasing Pen‘altv For Liquor Law V iolations. In Effect uW IS TRIUMPH FOR ANTI-SALOON league By Herbert Little, VP Staff Correspondent Washington, Mar. 2.— U.R>—A | new law providing a maximum j .entente of five years in prison' ' j a SIO,OOO fine for liquor law Stations. intended to. curb bootlegging- came into existence ff «™n President Coolidge »- b '%i««>n, ai--cted in th? act to discriminate u- WM -n criminal or habitual violation, anil casual or slight violations. In Imposing sentences . Effective At Once The measure is effective at once. Together with the $3,000,000 added prohibition appropriation for the next iseal year, it will mark a supreme prohibition enforcement effort on the , threshold of the new Hoover adminis- i inlion. The drastic law quintupling present penalties, is a triumph for Assistant Attornev-Ceneral Mabel Walker Wille-1 brandt and the Anti-Saloon League, j who pushed if for five years. Spon-| lorn! by Senator Wesley L. Jones. Se?s, Wash., the measure was passed by large majorities in both houses. The law provides another means of prosecuting vendors of liquor. Its clause allowing a maximum penalty of five years or SIO,OOO fine or both, applies in cases of illegal manufacture, sale, transportation, importation or exportation of liquor; but not to Mere possession. United States attorneys, however, still have the option of proceeding under some of the misdemeanor i clauses of the Volstead act, or under the revenue liquor-tax laws, against minor violators. Justice department authorities said the act will almost entirely supplant the conspiracy statute, which is now extensively used where prosecutors seek heavy sentences. Under the Jones act, the V. S. attorney will be required to obtain an Indictment, as the law makes the violations described felonies. At present prosecutions against liquor-law offenders are usually undertaken on information sworn to by the officials, ncept in conspiracy cases which re-qnit-e indictments. Two City Manager Bills Reported Out Indianapolis. March 2—(U.R)—Both the Noll city manager bill and the Situs Bill providing for repeal of the ®y Manager law were reported out of committee today without recommendation and sent to second readfog- This marked the real beginning of the City Manager fight on the as•embly floor. HUE WOMAN EXPIRES TODAY Mr. Marion Buffenberger, T 5, Dies Early This Morning u. B . erne ’ Mar - 2 —(Special)— Mrs. won Buffenbarger, 75. died at her mornt« Ce here at 12:15 o'clock this d eatt , n f’, Saturtla y- March 2, 1929, Mln ~ B ‘ nK due to gallstones and sered / l ° nS w hich she had sufT. n m some tlme past. Buffenbarger was the daugb- , «« b!rn r> t a “i Prances T-rtcker and Adam, n Blue Creek township, AU h gU8 ’ t 27 ' 1853 ' In 'iage wits ’ Bhe ,lnited in marw^ln g husbaS Buftenbarger > the one 'son"'«, beßitles the husband are Ti *usviiie p o antold Buffenbarger, of Striker ’ Pe “" s s' lva nia; Mrs. Ernest Mrs. Wilt n UCyrus> North Dakota; for, Mrs' ° f P eneva - One daughag 0 e aCe Hardin, died seven is o brother picker, of Decatur ! Funeral the dei eased - - M ®Pleted npn S v ment9 have not been i dau ghter in v news from s he JWedly wii?hl t Dakota, but un- : Hl " cl >urch with h h ® d . at tbe Spring ; Ce foetery. burial in the church > i

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Good for Cabinet Wk ■ X Wk JK ... £F- «« ' Z (KIR I WJri * SB g 0 / Hr ii James W. Good, above, western campaign manager for Mr. Hoover, is to fill the pest of Secretary of War in th-.' Hoover cabinet. SLAYERS GIVEN LIFE SENTENCES Wayne Williams And Carroll Cooper Sentenced For For Wayne Murder — Foil Wayne, March 2— The final . chapter in the Clem Foley murder case was written here Friday when i the death sentence imposed by a jury reverb! weeks ago on Wayne Wil- > Hants, one cf the three slayers of the Kroger meat cutter, was changed by Judge Sol A. Wood, of the Allen circuit couit. to life imprisonment. The change in sentence was effected by Judge Wood’s favorable action ou a motion for a new trial of Williams by Robei t A. Buhler, defense att rney. Judge Wood gianted the new trial. Williams immediately waived a j second jury trial and pleaded guilty and Judge Wood then imposed the I sentence of life imprisonment. Judge Wood held that Williams was entitled to a new trial because of the fact that the jury verdict was not supported by the law and the evidence and pointed out that Lawrence Thompson, indicted by an Allen county grand jury as the member ot the bandit trio wha fired the fatal shot, received a sentence of life imprisonment when he pleaded guilty in Huntington circuit court. “The law contemplates equal justice.’' said Judge Wood, “and it certainly would not be impartial justice to send one man to the chair as an accessory in a murder when the actual slayer is escaping with a life sentence. ’’ Cooper Also Sentenced Carrel Cooper, the third member of the Muncie bandit gang which perpetrated seveial store holdups similar to that in which Foley met his death, also was sentenced FridayCooper was sentenced, by the same jury which sentenced Williams to the chair, to life imprisonment in the Indiana state prison and made no effort to escape the epanlty by seeking a new trial. New Bank To Open At Uniondale Next Monday Officers of the new Bank of Uniondale, a private institution capitalized at SIO,OOO, announced today that their new bank would open for business at 10 o’clock Monday morning in the building occupied by the State Bank of Uniondale, which closed recently. The officers of the new bank would take over the liabilities of the old bank together with the assets. There has been ample guarantees posted to moie than take care of the situation, it was stated. The move to take over the affairs of the old bank came after officers cf the new bank had heard a complete report or an audit made of the old bank. The new bank, as a private institution, has 96 stockholders, who under the law aie personally liable tor not only the capital stock but any amount up to their own personal worth. These 96 stockholders are personally good for $750,000 liability, it was stated, I and thus the new bank is regarded as ono of the strongest institutions for it’s size in the state.

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PERSONNEL OF HOOVER CABINET IS MADE PUBLIC Robert Patterson Lamont, Os Chicago, Named Secretary Os Commerce SELECTION COMES AS A SURPRISE By Thomas L. Stokes. VP Stuff Correspondent Washington. Mar. 2. — (U.K—Presi-dent-elect Hoover's <abinet was completed today with the announcement that Robert Patterson Lamont, of Chicago, head of a lai go steel foundry, will be secretary of commerce. The other nine men whose appointments already are conceded are: Secretary of state —Henry L. Stimson. of New York. Secretary of treasury - Andrew W. Mellon, (incumbent 1 of Pennsylvania. Secretary of war James W. Good, of lowa. Attorney general-William I). Mitch-j ell, of Minnesota. Postmaster general — Walter F. j Biown .of Ohio. Secretary of navy Charles Francis! Adams, of Massachusetts. Secretary ot agriculture Arthur M. Hyde. Missouri. Secretary of interior—Ray Lyman] Wilbur, of California. Secretary of lain r—James J. Davis,! of Pennsylvania. Lamont, an engineer by profession.! is the “surprise” fox the commerce I post which was promised by Mr. Hoover's associates. The frenzied speculation about this last post came today upon this name, which was confirmed officially. Lamont, a native ot Detroit, is 61 years old, and a director of several of (he nation’s leading industrial firms, including Armour & Company, the American Radiator company, the International Harvester company and the Illinois Bell Telephone company. He was educated in the University of Michigan. He was chief in the procurement division of the army ordinance department in Washington from October, 1925, Co February. 1919. and held the rank of colonel. o DEATH CLAIMS BEBNE WOMAN Mrs. Catherine Sprunger Dies Early This Morning At Age Os 71 Years Betne, Mar. 2. —(Special)— Mrs. Catherine sprunger, 74, widow of Frederick Sprunger, died at 4;4.> o’clock this morning, Saturday. March 2, 1929, at her home here, death being due to hardening of the arteries, with which she had been ill for seven years. Mrs. Sprunger had been bedfast for a period of three years Mrs. Catherine Sprunger. daughter of Abraham J. and Catherine Sprunger, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, June 22, 1854. On December 5, 1872. she united in marriage with Frederick Sprunger, who preceded her in death. April 10. 1914. The deceased was a member of the Mennonite church here. Surviving are the following children, all of whom are residents of Berne: Ira, Daniel J., Mrs. Noah Habeggor, Mrs. Gideon Sprunger, and Misses Rose, Bertha, Hannah, Maty Anu, Alina and Milka Sprunger. One son, Otto Sprunger, resides in Bluffton. Thirteen grandchilren and one great grandchild also survives. One brother, Simeon Sprunger, and one half-sister, Mrs. Louis Habegger, reside in Berne. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home, and at 2 o’clock at the Mennonite church, the Rev. C. H. Suckau officiating. Burial will he made in the M. R. E. cemetery. Condition Os Marshal Foch Remains Unchanged Paris, March 2—(U.R)—Marsal Ferdinand Foch’s condition remained unchanged today, but his physicians admitted they were worried over the presistence of the pulmonary congestion. The congestion, in the base of the lungs was difficult to treat despite tapping. Foch’s temperature this morning was 100.4 and his pulse 92.

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Linked to McGurn v* 1 / A'wC Maa. . . .. V wanMNMMiaWv ■> ■ a Rocco Fanelli, who allegedly admits being gangster and bootlegger, I hut insists that he had nothing to do with 'he St. Valentine’s Day massacre ■in Ch’i-ago. He is said to have been | identified as one of the men entering ’ garage before slaughter. MOTHER NET” AT FORT WAYNE I Mrs. Anna Mary .Johann, 90. Mother Os Sister M. Edwin, Dies Friday Mrs. Anna Mary Johann, age 90. mother of Sistei M Edwin, teacher of I the Fifth grade in the St. Joseph 1 Catholic s.-hool in this city, died" Fri- ’ day afternoon at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Clara Beckman. 607 East Jefferson street. Mrs. Johann was a resident of Fort Wayne tor 72 years. She was born in Germany, c ming to this country when 18 yea:s old and locating in Fort I Wayne. Surviving besides the daughter in this city, aie four daughters, Mrsi Beckman, Mrs. Margaret Gephart, [ Mrs. Mary Nichter, Mrs. Catherine ! Trimmel, of Fort Wayne; two sons. I Andrew and Peter, also of Fort Wavne | | one brother, Edwin Mai tin. and one ] sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Ankerbruck. of I Fort Wayne. Her husband died 35 years ago. Funeral services will be held Mon- . day morning at 9 o’clock at the StMarys Catholic church, Fort Wayne. Sister Edwin was called to Fort Wayne yesterday. o FOUR PERISH l IN OHIO FIRE Fifth Person Seriously Burned In Fire At Goulds Station i Steubenville, Ohio, Mar. 2. —(U.K — 1 Four persons perished today when ; the home of William Prim, 4G, at Goulds Station was destroyed by fire. - Only Prim was saved and he was f brought here so seriously burned that ■ physicians feared he would die. 1 Those who died were: Mrs. Dora r Prim, 45, wife of Prim; and their • daughter’s family, Charles Crawford, - Mrs. Anne Crawford, 22, and Otis » Crawford, 8 months. t Searchers headed by Coroner A. Li ‘ Bell were unable to find any trace of - the four victims. Their bodies were believed completely cremated. « 1 11 ' "* ' —— > Rain And Cold 1 Weather Forecast For Inauguration Washington, Mar. 2.—(U.K —Rain I and cold weather was forecast for inauguration day at the nations capital by the United States weather bureau today. The official report issued by the ' weather bureau today for the district reads: “Increasing cloudiness Sunday 1 followed by rain Sunday night and probably Monday. Colder Monday.”

COOLIDGE ENDS TERM IN WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT Great Display Os Pagentry Expected To Mark Change i In Administration LITTLE CHANGE IN RETIRING PRESIDENT I Washington. Mar. 2.—(U.R)—The sun I sets tonight upon the administration j of Calvin Coolidge, the last of the Yankees. Herbert Hoover, the fair-haired son I of the new machine age, tlie world-1 faiiiou-* engineer and administrator, who eight years ago was so ignorant of politics that he said he did not know whether he was a Republican or a Democrat, moves into the White House at noon Monday. M ith Hoover comes a new period • in American public affairs; Mr. Cool- • idge, the economical, cautious-footed 1 New Englander, applied a cold towel ‘ to the head of a nation still suffer-1 i ing a hangover from intoxication of : the world war. Now comes Mr. Hoover with great I projects for advancing the strength and glory of the nation —such as bis project for a new canal across Nicaragua and the development of a system of internal waterways, his plans I for restoring the farmers to normal i j p-osperity. The change of administrations, the i nearest thing to a coronation this I democratic nation can stage, will be ' I marked this time by a greater display lof pageantry than in many years, despite the simple Quaker tastes of! Mr. Hoover and his request for a modest inaugural ceremony. Washington already is crowded witli visitors. Temporary stands have been built over most of the 'downtown sidewalks and a festooned i-j “court cf honor" constructed of pine ! planks and circus seats, has been ! thrown up in front of the White ' House. Gold braid and bright uniforms will brighten up the solemn 1 affair of taking the oath. Congress, grinding through dreary night sessions while individual members squabble over whose petty private measures shall get through the 1 last-minute jam. will adjourn Monday <COXTISt'H» OX IMRK St VI • o GASOLINE TAX FUND DIVIDED Adams County Gets $39,673.04 And Decatur Recieves $2,487.18 Adams county received $39,673.04 and the city of Decatur, $2,487 18, in the distribution of the state gasoline ' tax, made yesterday by the auditor 1 of state. Ralph (’rill, ot’ this city, de- ■ upty ’ gasoline collector, personally supervised the distribution. The money received bjr the county /■ is placed in the county highway repair fund and is used by that department in the upkeep of the county roads. The money received by tile city ot’ Decatur will be used by the street - department in the repair and upkeep i of the streets. t Amounts received by other towns •. in Adams < unty ate. Berne. $802.77; h Geneva. $459.10; Momoe $200.56. t One-half of the amount distributed to counties is divided equally among a tile ninety-two counties. The remaiur ing half is divided among counties in proportion to the number of free a ’ gravel, macadam ami county unit roads maintained. The number of miles of such toads in the state is J 41,365 25. The per capital a mile on which distribution was made was 5 $33.77284677. _ From the total gress collections of - $11674,215.19 a total of $483,785.31 was refunded for taxes paid by buyers of gasoline for use other than in automobiles. Cost of administering the fund was set out as $19,539.99 To the total colections for the year the sum of $5,286 13 revolving fund re<brd balance wbs added, so the gross total for distribution was sll,679.501.32. from which refunds and administration were subtracted to obtain a net total of $11,176,178.02 for distribution. o Purdue Student Missing iLafayette, Ind., Mar. 2 —(U.R) —Jack Roemer, 19, Canton, 0., Purdue University freshman, has been missing from Delta Upsilon fraternity house » here since Wednesday.

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Nation’s Lawyer? i i Ap t Lr f< ' r I i ■ Although he is a Democrat. William D. Mitchel of Minnesxita. present Jlolicitor-General of the United States is President elect Hoover’s choice for the important post of Attorney-Gen-1 eral. BENJAMiNOLWEr DIES IN MICHIGAN ! Adams County Man Dies Os Heart Trouble Friday At Branch, Mich. The body ot’ Beniamin Lynn Oliver. 44. former resident of the Spring Hill vicinity, whose death occured yesterday morning in Branch, Michigan, will arrive in Decatur at 12:55 o’clock Monday afternoon over the Pennsylvania lines. The body will be taken immediately to the S. E. Black undertaking parlors, where friends may view the remains until Tuesday morning. Benjamin Lynn Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Oliver, both of whom are deceased, was born near Berne, September 19, ISB4. He united in marI riage with Blanche Oliver, the surviving widow. Mr. Oliver has always followed the occupation of farming and was located most of his life in the vicinity of Spring Hili, about nine miles south of Decatur. For the past four years, he has been in failing health. Eighteen months ago, Mr. Oliver went to Branch, Michigan, to reside. . His death occured as the result of . heart trouble, at 3:30 o’clock Friday morning, March 1, 1929, at the horns' of his step-sister, Mrs. John Hyatt, at Branch. Surviving, besides the widow are ■ the following children: Frances, Minnie, Martha. Walter. Juanita, Opal, Paul, and Edna Maxine Oliver, of Portland; and Mrs. Mary Keemer, of 1 Winchester. One sister, Mis. Eli Bixler, of Herne: two step-sisters, Mrs. 1 George Shroll, of Decatur; and Mrs. John Hyatt, of Branch. Michigan; and two brothers, Marian Oliver, of 1 Decatur, and-Tom Oliver, ot’ Monroe, ’ also survive. The deceased was a member of the 1 Spring Hill Methodist church. Funeral set vices will be held at 10 o clock Tuesday morning, at the Spring Hill 1 church, and burial will be made in ’ the church cemetery. 1 —— * Fair Weather Forecast For First Os Next Week ? I’ Weather outlook for the period of - March 4 to 9, 1929. For the Region of the Great Lakes i mostly fair first part of week, precipitation in eastern portions, and • some rain or snow over entire area in I second half; Temperature for most ! part near seasonal normal first part, . and followed by colder by middle of I week. • 1 " O 1 " ■■ Decatur Auto Stolen; Recovered Near City Andrew Foos, of this city, reported : to the police last night that his Wil- ■ lys-Knight sedan had been stolen. I Night Policemen Johnson and Wo- ’ mack located the car near the edge of the- city at 3 o'clock this morning.

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KIRKLAND. 1928 WINNERS, AND DECATUR LOSE Berne Furnishes Upset By Defeating Decatur This Morning, 21-19 GENEVA DEFEATS H ARTFORD, 19 TO 15 Tourney Scores I Hartfotd Twp., 20; Monroe, 15. Geneva, 21; Monmouth, 8. Kirkland 26; Jefferson Twp, 20. Berne 21; Decatur, 19. 'Geneva, 19; Hartford, 15 Berne. 26; Kirkland. 15 (final) Berne got away to a flying start in the first half of the second semi-final game of the sectional basketball tourney here this afternoon. The Bears piled up a lead of 14 to 3 over the Kirkland Kangaroos, in the first nine minutes of the period. Kirkland rallied, however, and at the end of the half, had cut the margin down to five points, the score being 14-9. Led by their star center, Hawbaker, the Geneva high school Cardinals won their way to the final game of the Decatur sec- ' lional basketball tournament toI night by defeating the scrappy Hartford high school Gorillas, in the first semi-final game afternoon, 19-15. Berne Defeats Decatur . The big upset of the tournament came in the final game of the first round this morning, when the highly inspired Bears, put the Decatur Yellow Jackets out of the running, by a | score of 21-L9. This was the best game of the tournament so far. The gymnasium was filled to capacity for the forenoon session and another large crowd was present for the semi-final games this afternoon. The first hall of the Geneva-Hart-ford game this afternoon was featured by the close guarding of both teams. The halt’ ended with Hartford holding a one-point lead, 4-3. Hawbaker, Geneva center, scored six field goals and one free throw, for a total of 13 of Geneva’s 19 points. Lineups and summary: Geneva FG FT T Lybarger, f. 1 0 2 Runyon, f. 10 2 Long, f 0 0 0 Hawbaker, c. 6 1 13 Neal, g 0 2 2 Fenn is, g. o 0 0 Totals 8 3 19 Hartford FG FT T Davis, f. . . ... . ... 0 11 Studler, f. 1 0 2 Gottschalk, f. .000 Guyot, f. 0 0 0 Hoffman, c. 11 3 Watson, c. 0 0 0 , Zimmerman, g. 3 17 Martin, g 10 2 Totals 6 3 15 Kirkland township Kangaroos had their hands plenty full to win the first game of the second session, this (CONTIXLKII OS PAGE SI.XI MEXICAN STARTS NON-STOP FLIGHT Attempting Hop From Mexico City To Washington Without Stop Mexico City. March 2—.(UP) —Joaquin Gongalez Pacheco and C. E. McMillan started on a non-stop flight . from Mexico City to Washington at 6:47 A. M. today and made a brilliant take-off with 500 gallons of gasolineBy lifting their Stinson-Detroiter ' into the air with such a heavy load, | they set a record for this altitude. 1 The plane started from the Valbuena civil flying field and ran for a mile, ’. gathering high speed, before it rose slowly into the air and began to climb. The fliers still had to rise another 2,1)00 feet, with load largely unimpared to clear the mountains enroute to plco. I BULLETIN Fort Wayne, March 2—South Side defeated Central of Fort Wayne in the semi-finals of the f sectional tourney this afternoon 42 to 23.

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