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Dynamite Cap Causes Injury to Small Boy Brazil, lnd„ Mar. 3- <U.R>- -A dynamite cap. apparently delivered to the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Burton in a load of coal, was believed today to have caused severe injuries to their seven-year-old son, Billy. lie is in Clay county hospital suffering loss of one hand and wounds about the chest and face. The small boy was injured in an explosion which occurred while he was getting a bucket of coal at the rear of his home. Police expressed a belief he had found a dynamite cap in the coal and it had exploded in his hands. DECATUR WOMAN IS APPOINTED Miss Winefride Kitson Is Chosen Stenographer In State Office Miss Winefride Kitson. office as sis'ant in the American Security Company has been given a position as stenographer in the office of Erank Mayr, secretary of State in Indianapolis. Ed. A. Bosse, democrat county chairman was notified today that Miss Kitson had been.selected for the position, her duties to begin in the near future. Miss Kitson is a well known Decatur young lady and has been employed at the American Security company for the past eight years. Previous to accepting a position at that place she was employed in the office of Judge Dore B. Erwin. She is a capable stenographer and office assistant and her friends here were pleased to learn of her appointment in the secretary of state's office. Miss Kitson was out of the city today and it was not learned when she intended to go to Indianapolis. Charged With Assault On 15-Year-Old Girl Fort Wayne, Ind.. Mar. 3. —<U.R) —Will P. Litteral), 71. was under arrest here today charged with criminally assaulting a 15-year-old girl. Physicians confirmed the girl’s claim that she had been attacked. WATCHMAN IS KILLED IN FIGHT Night Watchman Dies Hero In Frustrating Bomb Plot Chicago, Mar. 3.—<U.R)—William Mayer, 60, a night watchman, died a hero today, from machine gun wounds received during a fight over an attempt to explode a shrapnelladen dynamite bomb. His fearlessness hurried the would-be Immbers into spoiling their own plans. Mayer’s slayers escaped after throwing a bystander into a basement with the lighted bomb. They disappeared before they learned that the fuse sputtered out before reaching the explosive. Chicago, March 3 —(UP) — Two were wounded .one critically, in a fight that developed last night over an attempt to set off one of the most powerful bombs ever seen by Chicago police experts. One of the men underwent the harrowing experience of beUtg thrown into a basement with the lighted bomb and escaped only because the bomb did not explode. Unlike hundreds of bombs that have been exploded here just to damage property, this huge bomb, police said, was planted to kill Had it exploded, the officers said, it would have demolished the brick building under which it was placed (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Seventh Session of School Thursday The seventh session of the cooperative marketing school will be held Thursday evening at the Monroe high school. The subject of this week’s school will be on the cooperative marketing of poultry. Last week’s lecture on live stock !was well attended. Dr. Shelby is the j school instructor. These meetings are sponsored by the Indiana Farm Bureau and the vocational depart|ment of the state board of education.

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DEFENSE LOSES IN EFFORT TO GAIN ACQUITTAL Judge Crumpacker Refuses to Order Verdict For Kirkland ATTORNEYS ARGUE ENTIRE MORNING Valparaiso, Ind.. Mar. 3 —(U.R) — Judge Grant (’rumpacker refused today to order a directed verdict I of acquittal for Virgil Kii’xland. * 20-year-old Gary athlete charged with the murder of Arlene Draves. i his IS-year-old sweetheart. Judge Crumpacker’s ruling was given after opposing attorneys had fought all morning over whether the state had proved Arlene died of beatings and mistreatment during a drinking party last November. Prepared for the • setback, the defense immediately called E. N. Hrager. toxicologist of the Indiana State Medical School at Indianapolis. to testify to the amount of wine ami alcohol found in Arlene’s stomach after her death in Kirkland’s arms. O. B. Thiel, defense attorney, asked the directed verdict when court opened. "The state has not established corpus delicti,” Thiel declared. "Kirkland's ‘confession’ does not establish the corpus delicti, nor the defendant’s guilt," Thiel said. “The crime is a circumstantial i matter only. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— BULLETIN Washington, Mar. 3.— U.Ri — Viewing the Norris Muscle Shoals bill as embodying the ' issue of government ownership, President Hoover today returned it to congress with his veto, accompanied by an emphatic vote message. This measure, providing for government operation of the Muscle Shoals ptoperty for production and distribution of power and manufacture of fertilizers, is based on principles which would lead not to liberalism but to “degeneration,” the President said. Phi Belts Attend Installation Sunday Glen Beavers. Clarence Beavers.' Kenneth Arnold,.Herman Kruecke- 1 berg and Walter Elzey, of the local Phi Delta Kappa fraternity attended the installation of the Beta chapter of the fraternity in Battle Creek, Michigan, Sunday. The ceremony was held in the Savoy Hotel there and the newly installed organization is the only active chapter in Michigan. One hundred fifty Phi Delta, exclusive of the Michigan chapter attended the meeting, which marks the beginning of expansion work in that state. A large number of members of the local organization are planning to attend the district meeting which will be held in Wabash Saturday and Sunday March 7 and 8. EXCAVATING IS STARTED TODAY Work on New Postoffice Building Gets Under Way Today Excavating for the basement under the new Decatur Post Office building was progressing today and a fleet of trucks were busy hauling the dirt away from the site. Yost Brothers, Decatur contractors have a contract for the excavating work. The dirt is being hauled to the Johnson farm, southwest of Decatur, on State road No. 27 for a filling station. Six men were employed today on the job, five for Yost Brothers and and one for the Anderson Company, Chicago general contractors for the building. John Sorbo, general superintendent on the job was here today bossing the job of staking the site. Cal Yost, member of the local contracting firm stated that it would take about seven days to complete the excavating. All material used in the building must first be approved by the government. Mr. Sorbo stated, even down to the hardware and other minor tiems.

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Arlene Draves’ Sister on Stand 1 ■ ‘ 1 W :: J i ft W ■ Lik' W f W f ilhL ; -1 I • i wiW- i J ' WM w . W--A ■> (I inn* ■ MM>| A slight girl of serious mien. Elsie Draves. sister of Arlene Draves, ippeared as a surprise witness in the trial of Virgil Kirkland, who is accused of the alleged murder of Arlene at a gin drenched party of young people at Gary. Ind.. November 30. Elsie was introduced by the prosecution to prove that Arlene did not invite the treatment by the | unconventional mode of her attire

PAINTING BIDS i ARE RECEIVED Albert Roebuck Gets Contract to Paint County Infirmary Buildings A contract to paint the county infirmary building, barns, sheds and out buildings at the Adams county farm was awarded by the county commissioners this morning [ to Albert Roebuck. Four bids were filed with the board and Mr. Roebuck's bid was' the lowest of the proposals. His bid was $3lB. The wood trim and porches of, the infirmary building will be giv-; en two coats of paint and the| barns and other buildings one coat, i With the infirmary building there | are eleven buildings to be painted. [ Other bidders who submitted proposals were: *Sam Cook, $448; Winteregg, and Smith, $580; John F. Moringstar, $485.50; Jackson and Cramer, $662.13. All material and labor to do the work is to be furnished by the contractor. FIVE PERSONS BURN TO DEATH Father, Mother, Three Children Die At Tarentum, Pennsylvania Tareniuin, Pa., Mar. 3.— (U.R) Five persons were burned to death today when fire trapped them in the second floor of their frame house at Russelton, near here. The dead: Frank Daniel, 52, a coal miner; his wife, Antonia, 48; and their children. William, 11; Patsy, 9, and Jennie, 7. A fourth chilti. Julia, suffered a fractured leg when she leaped from a window to escape the (CONTINUED ON °AGE TWO)

Lenten Services To Be Held Tonight Tiie regular Tuesday evening Len-1 ten services will be held at the I Ist. Mary’s Catholic church at 7:30 1 o'clock this evening. The Rev. Father Charles Girardot of Fort Wayne! I will deliver the second of his series I of sermons. Benediction of the, [Blessed Sacrament will lie given [ .ollowing the sermon. Gas Tax Receipts Increase In February Indianapolis, Mar. 3. (U.R) —An I I increase in gasoline tax collections | in Indiana was shown in February,; over February. 1930. of $175,907.27, , state records disclose. Collections 'last month aggregated $1,282,701.17. | Sales for February aggregated 1 I 31.975,887 gallons, a gain of 4.306.-1 | 039 gallons. BUREAU OFFICE IS FAR BEHIND Veterans’ Office at Indianapolis Two Weeks Behind on Loans Indianapolis, Mar. 3.—(U.R>—Veterans’ bureau officers in Indiana were more than two weeks behind lin gn nting applications for loans to former service men, under the recently enacted compensation act, it was estimated today by John H. Ale, regional manager. With a capacity of 500 daily, the Indianapolis offices had received more than 12,000 applications, and many thousands had been filed outstate. There was no abatement in the throng of former service men seeking loans, and it became apparent that unless additional help is thrown into the task of acting upon the applications it would be several weeks before all applications are acted upon. There are 92,296 veterans in Indiana eligible to loans, it was reported, who may borrow an appregate of $45,365,278.

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REPORT GIVEN SENATETODAY RY COMMITTEE — Campaign Fund Committee Says Expenditures Were Excessive ONE MEMBER FILES SEPARATE REPORT I Washington. Mar. 3. U.R) Four members of the campaign funds investigating committee reported ito the senate today that expendiitures of $622,000 on behalf of the i Brown Davis republican ticket in the 11)30 Pennsylvania primary election was "excessive and inim- ' ical to the public interest.” "Such a condition,” the report I continued, "can not be permitted |to continue unchallenged without ‘the most serious consequences to ‘the nation.” I The aggregate of expenditures I for the Brown-Davis primary slate land for the republican ticket in the , general election was reported by i the committee as $1,117,649. “Your committee." the report | said, "is impressed by the total of these expenditures even when due regard is given to the area and population of Pennsylvania." Chairman Nye and Senators i Dale. Repn., Vt„ Dill. Dem.. Wash., j and Wagner, Dem., N. Y., signed i the report. A separate report was i submitted by Senator Patterson. Repn., Mo. "There was no evidence before the committee," said Patterson, "of I any corrupt practices or excessive i expenditure that could properly be ; charged to Senator Davis, either in I the primary or general election." The committee report said it 1 would be impossible to determine j what expenditure should be allocated to each candidate on the ticket, i but added the committee did not I consider it "material whether an |excessive expenditure is made on behalf of a single candidate or a | ticket comprising numerous candi- ' dates." The report said that unless expenditure of more than $600,000 on (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

FORGED CHECKS ! PASSED HERE Checks Are Passed By Stranger at Two Decatur Elevators Forged checks were passed by a j stranger at two Decatur elevators: I shortly before noon today. A check i I passed at Burk's Elevator, 504 Winchester street, was for $23.10 and lone passed at Reed's elevator was [for $22.40. Both checks had been signed with the name of Samuel E. Black, local unde: taker, made out to and endorsed by Glen Forbes. The forger oridered a ton of coal at each elcvaItor .giving addresses to which the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) I President Signs Bill Regulating Wages Washington. March 3 —(UP) — President Hoover today signed a ' bill requiring contractors on gov-1 eminent work to pay the highest I prevailing wage scale of the com-! munities where the work is being done. 18 ENTER TON LITTER CONTEST Medals, Loving Cup And Cash Awards Will Be Given Winners 1 Eighteen Adams county farmers are entered in the Ton Litter con- ( test, entries for which closed Saturday. They are E. W. Busche, L. F. JSprunger, Ralph Myers, Robert Myers. Osia Von Gunten, Otto Hoile, Peter B. Lehman, Ardon S. Mosser, Amos Kircbhofey, John E. Heiman, Henry Heiman, Henry Aschleman, Dan Habegger, Jr.. Enoch P. Habegger, Otto D. Bieberich, R. B. Moi- ' lenkolp. Ben Mazelin and E. S. Christen. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Berne High School Takes Most Honors — The Berne high school was successful in winning the most honors in the Adams county Latin contest I held in the Berne school building i Saturday. Amelia Ringger won first :and Fred Von Gunten won second in the freshmen division. Herbert Zuer | cher took first place and Anna iLiechty and Agnes Neuenschwander i tied for second place in the sophmore group. I These winners will represent Adlams County in the district contest 1 [which will be held March 14, at j I Muncie. Monmouth and Jefferson high I (school students also took part, Jes-1 ferson pupils winning third in both' divisions of the contest. j JOBLESS RIOT IN LEGISLATURE Committee Ejected From New York General Assembly Albany, N. Y„ Mar. 3.—<U.R)e-A committee of unemployed was eject-1 led from the legislature assembly hall today when their leader rose as the clerk was reading from the 'journal and started shouting for | relief. The galleries were crowded with [the unemployed — many of whom ! had marched here to demand relief from the legislature—when the I disturbance started. For a few i minutes there was intense excite- | ment until state troopers ejected the committee of about 20 memi bers who had been on the main . i floor of the assembly. i Just as the clerk started reading the journal, Jack Johnstone of | New York City arose and standing just behind the railing which , I separated the unemployed from .[the legislators, started shouting for relief. The clerk stopped reading for a : moment, then continued .raising his i voice to drown out Johnstone. The twenty rose and all started shout- ■ l ingState troopers tried unsuccess- ■ I fully to quiet them, as the crowd II in the galleries joined in the shouts. When the troopers failed to quiet the din they started ejecting the 17 men and three women, one by one. The unemployed slung

to tiie railing, shouting hysterically, but finally were pulled away and forced from the room. Tiie disturbance spread to tiie galleries. Troopers went there to quiet the shouters. When per(CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o Evansville Man Is Critically Wounded Evansville. Ind., Mar. 3. —(U.R)-— ■ A critical gunshot wound was suffered by Aiken Boemle, 30, as the I result of a scuffle precipitated by ids remonstrance because his wife drank beer. Mrs. Boemle told police tiie shooting was accidental, and that when she saw that her husband was perhaps fatally injured she got another gun and endeavored to commit suicide, hut missed herself. BROTHERHOOD HOLDS MEETING — Forty-three Attend Meeting of Evangelical Brotherhood Forty-three men of the Evangelical Brotherhood attended the meet1 ing held at the Evangelical church, Monday evening. Eugene Runyon, chairman, together with the March section of the brotherhood had charge of the meeting. T. L. Becker, president, had charge of a short business session The general subject of the meeting was "Cooperation," and a large placard picturing two men trying to ■ move a stubborn mule was the cen(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o—i Kelly Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Alfred . Kelly, former Geneva woman, who . died in Fort Wayne, Saturday were held at 2:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Six Mile church with Rev. Guy Walters officiating. Interment was in the Six Mile Cemetery.

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MEASURE GOES TO GOVERNOR FOR SIGNATURE ! Bill Permits Counties To ; Pay Pensions To Those Over 70 MUST BE RESIDENT OF COUNTY 15 YEARS Indianapolis. Mar. 3—(U.R)—Bark [peddling in its avowed program of [effecting sharp decreases in governmental expenditures, the Indiana House of Representatives this ' afternoon passed 89 to 0 the $76.000,000 biennial appropriation bill. I fixing the total expenditures for I the next two years at $75,589.I 677.68. This figure, instead of represent- | ing reduction in line with the much discussed cut cf a million dollars was an increase from that , reached at an all day and night ' session, Monday, when slashes amounting to $458,382.32 were agreed upon by the house sitting as a committee of the whole. Indianapolis. Mar. .3 (UP) Passage of the Senate old age pension bill bv the house of representatives was the highlight in Indiana activities lodav. Vote on the measure was (11-30. It permits counties to pay [pensions to indigent persons [over 70 years of age (hat have lived in the county for 15 years. I’he hill now goes Io the governor. Consideration of the $76,000,000 dollar biennial appropriation bill . was continued during the morning ! session of the house and will be J passed to the senate under suspension of tiie rules. Further amendments were expected to be made in tiie house, to add considerably to the $459,382.32 resolution ' effected yesterday in committee of the whole. Decreases and increases, as agreed wpon in the house, acting as a committee of the whole, were: Governor's contingency fund cut ' from $400,000 to $200,000. Governor's mansion mainten- . (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

STATE SCHOOL AID POSTPONED Senate Rejects Recommendations of Aid Commission Indianapolis, March 3 —(UP) —• The problem of financing public schools through state aid today war back in the same position in which it was taken up by the 1929 session of the legislature. The senate yesterday rejected recommendations of the stale school aid survey commission authorized by the 1929 legislature, recommendations of the commission drawn tip after nearly a year s study, were embodied in the Limiley Senate bill, which was killed 13 to 29. It provided for creation of a state air board of review, which compile school costs and report to the 1933 legislature. The bill was aimed at distribution of the costs of schools throughout the state on an equal basis, and was opposed vigorously by the large cities, which would have been compelled to pay more into the stat" school fund than they received. o — Small Fire At McFarland Home Sparks from the chimney caused a small roof fire at the Gregg McFarland residence, corner of Monroe and Ninth streets. The department was called and the fire was put out without doiftg great damage to the home. Major-Gen. Jadwin Dies Monday Night Panama City, Mjtrch 3. — (U,R) — Major General Edgar Jadwin, re- ' tired chief of the army engineering corps and chairman of the Inter- ' Ocean Canal board, died at Gorgas 11 hospital here last night from cere- . bral hemorrhage He was stricken .: with apoplexy at Ancon Monday . I night as he was preparing to pro- ;' ceed to Nicaragua to survey the possibilities of a Nicaraguan canal.