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President Pascual Ortiz Rubio, his wife and their three children. The newly inaugurated president and his wife, in company with their neice, were wounded in an attempt upon their lives February 5.
D.C.H.S. PUPILS TO HOLD DEBATE I Public Is Invited to Attend Forensic Program Tuesday P. M. A debate on the subject “A Small College Is Preferable To A Large College’' will be held between two teams of Decatur Catholic high school pupils at Catholic hfgh school auditorium next Tuesday afterinoon at 2:15 o'clock. The debate will be open to the public. Much interest in the approaching debate is being shown among pupils of tlie school and a good-sized crowd is expec ed to hear the pupils present their arguments. ■The affirmative team includes! George Harris, Rose Mary Hohhonse. and Edith Lengerich. These I LiU’ee pupils wiU argue that, the! small college is preferable, and all three have been working for several weeks on their argument preset: tat ion. The negative team composed of Viola Schmitz, Helen Vpglewede and Bernard Wemhoff will argue for the larger college or university. A close debate is anticipated. Judges will decide on several points, including the argument itself, the presentation of the argument and the general attitude of the speakers. o Auto Is Stolen A Ford coach belonging to Milton Werling of Preble was stolen Thursday night from in front of the Decatur Reformed church. A clue has been obtained and it Is thought that the thief will be apprehended soon. — 0 — LOCAL LEGION POST TO MEET Plans Will be Made For Fort Wayne Meeting Monday Night At the regular meeting of the, Adams post American I-egion Monday night at 8 o'clock at Ijegion hall, plans will be made for local Legionnaires to attend a meeting at Fort Wayne, Wednesday, February 12, at which National Legion Commander O. L. Bodenhamer, will be the chief speaker. Reports from the committee in charge of arranging for the trip to Fort Wayne are to the effect that almost all local Legionnaires will attend. The meeting is especially for Twelfth district Legion members bu special invitations have been sent to several of the Eighth district Legion posts near Fort Wayne. The local delegation will be headed by Commander Lloyd Baker and other post officers. A smoker and feed will follow the Monday night meeting. o Uncle of Mrs. Gilbert Strickler Dies Friday Mrs. Gilbert Strickler received word today that her uncle, J. J. Lortine of Fort Wayne died last night at his home at 1610 Wells Street, Fort Wayne. Mr. Loraine had been in failing health for sometime and recently received treatment at a Fort Wayne hospital. Tlie deceased had visited in this city several times and had a wide acquaintance here. Funeral arrangements have not been made.
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They were leaving the national palace shortly after the president’s inaugural ceremonies. Their injuries are not regarded as serious.
Adopt 7-Day State Fair In Indiana I — Indianapolis, Feb. 8!— (U.R) —A seven-day state fair instead of the eight-day affair, was decided upon i late yesterday by members of the state fair board after a two-day 1 meeting. The 1930 exposition will open Saturday, Aug. 30, and close Friday. Sept. 5. it was announced. Ollier matters acted upon by the board included approval of the budget totalling $240,000 for pre- < iniums and fair expenses; approval i of expenditure of $56,000 for re- : modeling ami building of additions i to the agricultural and horticultural < and the womans’ building; signing : of a contract with tlie Kryl band of Cincinnati to provide music during the 1930 fair. o TO PROSECUTE COMMISSIONERS Attorney General Will, Bring Suits Against Lake County Men Indianapolis, Feb. 8. —(U.R)Crintinal action against Lake county commissioners accused of entering,! into illegal contracts for payment | of road materials, was being planned today by Attorney General James M. Ogden. Basis for such action will be an attempt to show that a conspiracy existed among the commissioners to defraud the public, Ogden told the United Press. The attorney general will be in Gary next Wednesday, he I .said, to personally investigate the situation, and formulate plans for future court action. Charges will be filed by Ogden in Hammond Federal court Mon day through Oliver Starr, Lake county prosecutor, accusing at least two of the present board of county commissioners and a Chicago contractor of entering into illegal contracts and fraud in the payment of money under illegal contracts, Ogden said. Tlie commissioners involved are William H. Linton and James M. illack, Ogden indicated. The contractor is Edward W. Anderson, ' Chicago, representing the TufTread Road Service company. Democrats Win Legal Battle At Whiting Hammond, Ind., Feb. B—(U.R) —A ruling that Thomas S. Boyle, Democrat, is the legally elected mayor of Whiting, rather than Walter S. Schrage, Republican, was made in Lake circuit court today by Judge E. Miles Norton. Boyle was elected mayor by three votes last November over ( Francis McNamara. McNamara ’ contested and died before the contest was settled. The city council elected Schrage, who had resigned last December. The suit just decided by Norton was contested on a friendly basis and it was said there will be no appeal. o Taft Is Much Better ( Washington, Feb. B—(UP) —Continued improvement in the condition of former Chief Justice Taft, ill at his home here, was reported in a bulletin issued by his physicians at 11:80 A. M. today. The statement, signed by doctors Thomas A. Claytor and Francis R. Hagner, read: ‘The Chief Justice continued to improve and is very comfortable.’’
Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February S, 1930.
FIREMEN MAKE TWO RUNS TODAY Elzey Home Burns For Second Time in Week; • Damage Is $25 The Decatui fire department was called at 7:30 o’clock this morning to tii“ ,;rvm Elzey residence on Short Street where a roof fire was reported. The fire originated from chimney spaiks and damaged the roof with a total loss of $25.00, Jack Friedt, fire chief, reported. This is the second roof fire that occurred at the Elzey residence this week, both of them being caused by sparks from the chimney. The i other tire occurred Tuesday afternoon and only slightly damaged the rftof. Early this morning at 12:20 o' Took the local fire department received a call from the Ed Miller residence on West Adams street I where a boiler of clothes caught ! | fire and burned. No part of tlie I Miller house was damaged from I fire, and the loss was confined to ihe clothes. Mrs. Miller put a boiler filled witli clothes on the hot plate in the Iba-ement of the Miller home early I in the evening. She forgot that the I fire was still burning when she retired for the evening, and at 12:20 o'clock this morning was awakened by the peculiar odor that came from tlie burning clothes. The fire department was summon ed and extinguished the fire before any damage was done to tlie house or turnituie. o HOOVER PLANS FISHING TRIP President Will Leave Late Tonight for Florida To Spend Week Washington, Feb. B.—(U.R)—President Hoover, putting the cares of government behind him, plans to leave here late tonight for a week of deep-sea fishing in the tropical waters off Florida. The outing will be his first since he took office save for brief weekends at his Virginia camp. Although Mr. Hoover’s physician. Dr. Joel T. Boone, says he is in excellent health, it was believed a short rest would be beneficial to him. Mr. Hoover plans to divorce himself entirely frbm problems of state while he is in Florida. The president, so far as is known, has no political engagements for next week. A house-boat, the Saunterer, owned by Jeremiah Milltank of New York, will receive the presidential party when it arrives at Long Key, Fla., Monday morning. Mrs. Hoover, Associate Justice Stone, Mark Sullivan, newspaperman - ; and Vernon Kellogg will accompany Mr. Hoover. Secret service men will (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Cousin of Mrs. Fred King Dies in Toledo Word was received here today by Mrs. Fred King that her cousin, ()wen Hughes, 27, of Toledo, died in that city Friday. Death was due to tuberculosis, from which Mr. Hughes had Buffered for some time. Mr. and Mrs. King will go to Toledo Monday to attend the funeral services.
GANGSTERS ARE CHIEF TARGET OF OFFICIALS ■ Chicago Police Start, Round-up of All Racketeers In City CITIZENS TO OFFER HELP Chicago, Feb. B—(U.R8 —(U.R) —Wholesale roundup by police of gang-: sters and nicketeers was the* answer of law enforcement authorities today to an ultimatum of Chicago's leading business men I i that gangland’s rule of dynamite, and death must end. Direct action by citizens, through I vigilante committees or otherwise,' was the alternative mentioned by | big business and police swung Into action with startling sudden- . ness. The police coup began at the boxing show at. the Coliseum las! ‘ night. Seven racketeers were ' | arrested as they filed out after ; the show. The raid was thorough. Ila's an I hour lyefore the gong sounded for | the first lout, 25 picked detectives assembled for roll call in the La. Salle street railroad station. Lieut. Maurico Byrne called the roll and distributed tickets. The detectives scattered among the 4,000 lioxing fans and singled out their men. The seven arrested were: David I (Cock-eyed Mulligan) Albin, pro(CONTINUED ON PAOE SIX) URGES RUTING OF TOWNSHIPS — Lieber Says Plan Is Best For Settling State Aid Wrangle Indianapolis, Feb. 8. — (U.R) —A ■ plan for buying up entire townships in southern Ihdiana and re- ■ storing their productivity througn reforestation was before Governor 1 Harry G. Leslie today after a meet ing with the state conservtaion 1 commission at Turkey Run state farm yesterday. The proposal was presented by ' Richard Lieber, director of the I commission, and provides for purchase of these townships with state funds, and forestation work under direction ot the state forester. Chief features of the plan, according to the director, are restor- | ing value to lands that now arc deteriorating and virtualy worth less, and elimination of payments to these townships from the school aid fund. Lieber produced figures showing that the state tax collected in 29 southern counties for one year was $1,224,867.15, and $1.075,2,34.16 was ■ returned to the counties in stateaid. Fifteen of these the director i said, are typical forest counties and paid $402,007.81 in state tax. whereas $591,989.18 was given them for state-aid. Population of the counties is negligible, he said, and is growing ■ smaller each year. Were the state . to buy the lanji, the population would be absorbed by surrounding townships. o Seattle Has Coast Fire; Damage Is Large Seattle, Wash., Feb. 8 —(UP)— A second fire within a week and the third within six months struck ’ the Seattle waterfront early today, sweeping through the Oceanic building and destroying large quantities ■ of stored furniture and government ’ equipment. The fire raged nearly three hours ■ and all equipment In the city, in- • eluding fileboats, was called to I check the flames. Origin of the fire was not determined Unofficial estimates placed the damage at more than $200,000. , Movie Owners Freed Princeton, Ind., Feb. B.—(U.R) — G. W. Green and Edward Thies. I Princeton motion picture theater i operators, were acquitted by a jury i in Gibson circuit court where they . were charged with operating shows i on Sunday. The charges were filed > by the Ministerial Association and W. C. T. U.
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'BANDITS ROB I DECATURMAN Omer Peterson Slugged And Robbed by Men Early This Morning Onu r P terson was slugged and robbed at about 1:15 o’clock this morning as he was walking along Elm street, near the Nickle Plate railroad tracks and was found unconscious about an hour later in front of the Erie railroad station on Winchester street. Mr. P terson was returning home I after attending the fire at the Ed I • Miller residence, which occurred a i little after mid-night. Tlie hold-up men, who used Chica-1 go gunmen tactics, according to th- | i .s.aiemeiit made by Mrs. Peterson I I this afternoon were ambushed near I j the Ira Oswald residence on Elm . street and as Mr. Peterson walked I by they struck him on the head and | then loaded him into an automobile or carried him to the Erie station Mr. Peterson said he was robbed of $1.50 in cash and a ring valued lat S3O. He was found lying on th .ground near the station by Carl I Hammond and C. F. Fanning, night | clerk at the Erie, who carried him I inside the station and revived him. ; His father, Frank Peterson, was called and he was escorted home. Mr. Peteison does not have any idea who held him up and slugged him and the case was not reported ,o flic police. ■ - o — — Pope Condemns Soviet Attitude On Religion Vatican City, Feb. 8. —(U.R) — Pope Pius XI, in a letter to Cardinal Pompilj today, bitterly condemns “the horrible and sacrilegious wickedness perpetrated in Russia I against God.” The Soviet union has closed . many churches in Russia and en[couraged anti-religious campaigns. 11. B. Anderson Dies Washington. Feb. B.—(U.RX-Harry B. Anderson. Uniter! States public health service laboratory attend ant, died today at Naval hospital of parrot fever. Anderson, the 15th fatality since the malady first broke out in this . country about six weeks ago, contracted the disease while working as a member of the government's staff seeking to find the psittacosis germ. o Mine Tragedy Toll Grows To 20 Today Helper. Utah, Feb. 8 — (UP) — Death toll in the Standard Coal Mine distastsr mounted to 20 today ' with the deaths of three, members ■ of a rescue crew, caught under a cave-in as they sought to find three men who had not been accounted for after an explosion rocked the mine Thursday. The rescuers who were caught and crushed under-a huge slab of rock were: Clarence E. Smith, 36. of Great Falls, Mont. John R. Loman. 24. of Vedollo, N. M. Walton Henderson, 18, of Standardville, Utah. Three Are Restrained New York. Feb. B—(UP8 —(UP> —A temporary injunction restraining three men, including a former president of the Boston Curb Market from operating in any stocks or securities has been issued by Supreme Court Justice Fawcett of Brooklyn on com plaint by assistant attorney General Watson Washburn. The trio —Abner S. Werbling, William L. Jarvis, once president of the Boston Curb and Leonard J. Rolnick —are alleged by Washburn to have made over $600,000” last spring by operating a pool in advance Rumley shares on the New York Stock Exchange. According to Washburn, Wall Street sources believe the three ' men made as much as $6,000,000. 1 () — Advertisers Elect i Indianapolis, Feb. B—(UP8 —(UP) —All officers of the outdoor advertising association of Indiana were re-elect-ed at the annual convention in Indianapolis. oficers are: president, W. Rex Bell. Terre Haute; vice president, L. A. Cilkerson, Vincennes; secretary H. E. Krutz, Goshen. Executive committee members include;; Marion Rice, Evansville; L. ; F. Cargill, Michigan City; Elmer I Harris, Muncie; W. R. Youse, PortI land; Fred Obenchain, Elkhart, and Thomas A. Merrill, Fort Wayne.
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i Big Job Ahead | r ■ t 1 "A' -1 k * ' 1 ♦(S®- F - - V Roswell B. Johnson, son of the 1 mayor of Gary, Ind., finds he has a big job ahead of him as city I attorney for Gary. With ninetyseven civil suits pending against i the city, this 26-year-old lawyer, the youngest city attorney in Indi- ' ana, has a real job on his hands. BROWN DENIES I' FUND SHORTAGE i — Says Money Had Not Been Transferred To His Department ( Indianapolis. Feb. 8. — (U.R) — Charges that public funds had been 1 mishandled by the highway depart- ■ inent were denied by Director John ■ J. Brown uxlay. An investigation of records in the office of state Auditor Archi > N. Bobbitt recently disclosed over-1 drafts on the gasoline tax fund for] ■ payment of road materials. In a statement today, Brown said th > I funds were in the state treasury, but had not been transferred to the . commission's account. , The investigation showed that . money had been drawn from the ; treasury fli anticipation of revenue ; to accrue from the gas tax. Brown 4 said the over-drafts had been made “to put the highways in the best possible condition for winter use." Although Bobbitt and Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, state treasurer, previously had termed the overdrafts “illegal,'' both said today it ’ was sound public policy. I o JURY TO PROBE BANK FAILURE i f I Blackford County Judge Calls Special Probe in Montpelier Bank Case Hartford City, Ind., Feb. B—(U.R) —giand jury investigation of the circumstances surrounding the failure of the Farmers Deposit Bank of Montipelier has been ord . erod by Judge Victor H. Simmons , of Blackford circuit court, eharg- , ing state bank examiners tailed to . close the- institution when they , knew it to be insolvent. The bank r was closed in February, 1929. He instructed the grand jury to I return indictments against the bank examiners and bank’ officials . if evidence warranted. f Judge Simmons said examiners . some time before the closing and ) had inspected the bank's books t refused to order it to suspend op- - erations until a private citizen . threatened to ask receivership. ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Argue Dry Question C'eveland, Feb B—(U.R)—Before8 —(U.R)—Before an audience of 3,000 persons pre--1 dominantly wet in sentiment, » Congressman Fiorello H. Laguar- - dia of New York and Senator ■ Smith W. Brodkhart of lowa debated the prohibition question last . night. The audience was with L«- . Guardia and on a formal vote, with only one-fifth of the crowd ballotting, he was given 355 votes to 100 for Brookhart. r Brookhart attacked Secretary of - Treasury Andrew W. Mellon as i the man responsible for “ipreeent 1 rotten prohibition enforcement.’’
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WHEELER PLANS RESOLUTION IN CONGRESS SOON Drys Dissatisfied With Conditions, Report of Several Shows PROBE WOULD BE GENERAL BULLETIN Washington, Feb. B—(U.R)— The Williamson bill, transferring the prohibition enforcement bureau from the treasury department to the justice department as recommended by the Wickersham crime commission. was passed by the House today without a record vote. This was the first administration prohibition enforcement measure passed by either house. The bill will now go to the Senate. By Paul R. Mallon. UP Staff Correspondent Washington, Feb. 8. — (U.R) — A congressional investigation of prohibition enforcement will be demanded in a resolution to be offered in the senate next week, Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Dem.. Mont., announced today. | Wheeler, who conducted the I Daugherty investigation, said h - | was writing a resolution proposing that the judiciary committee conduct the Inquiry. Wheeler, a dry, is not a member of the committee, which is overwhelmingly dry, and. therefore, would not take part in the investigation. Threats that such a resolution would be offered were made by Wheeler a we*k ago when he questioned the transfer of prohibition administrator John F. J. Herbert from The Baltimore district to the ’ Montana-Idaho area. His present i move is prompted not by this case, however, hut by’ a desire to ascertain facts concerning enforcement methods. The Herbert case was cleared up for the present at least when prohibition Commissioner Doran announced he had investigated the unpublished charges against Herbert and found them to be false. Herbert has returned to his post. “I think the public should know how the bureau is being conduct ed,” Wheeler said. "Every one realizes enforcement has broken down not only in the large cities but in many localities, inMnding my state. 1 feel congress sKbnld ascertain if proper methods have been employed. "We have all received private information concerning various situations which require investigation." Other drys, including Senator Borah, Renn.. Idaho, have been dissat sfied with the personnel of the enforcement bureau and probably would support Wheeler's resolution. but the greater number of senatoiial drys have been opposed to any investigation. The resolution would have to get their support before the inquiry could he ordered. While this new move complicated the prohibition situation in the senate, the house was rapidly moving forward toward a passage of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 _— NEW EQUALITY BASIS STUDIED Believe New Theory to go Beyond Parity; New Basis on Gunpowder Washingfon, Feb. 8. —(U.R) —The United States is contemplating a new basis of Anglo-American battleship equality which would go beyond the parity theory underlying the Washington arms conference agreement, an official informed the United Press today. Tlie new parity basis would deal witli speed and gun powder as we'l a.s numbers of battleships. British acceptance would entail greater British sacrifices in capital ships than hitherto have been I publicly discussed during the LonI don conference. The United Press was informed I the United States is prepared to (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)