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- JAVITS IN £ Shing cases DISMISSED A « :li " s * Mari< i n W Leaders Dropped State's Motion Biwoi’ charges i’Buivt siieriit |;ii|.. M.ch 13— 1 1 P) ar.un-l -A Marion men i .nip " II- 'ormer • ~l sl v ,. ». dismissH upon I’sed M-He Wall and u-tmiieys genrelief ■ , h e; part:. j.atmn ill the ln(Ij «... -r-.|.''-d against I'.::-. Wallers. MlPyd. Everett Clark. Asa (W 1 “ ’ xi °" l '' AH 1,111 Came have been ..let lui- " I l ' , l t . 'string Camplxli n ’" : ’ v l "' ,alls, ‘ tl,e ■■ ■ ng ‘ «a< dismissed t li.-ir "’"■ 'k'" 1 '"" 1 w;l ' made be- -■ likelihood convictions. . I ru'd. Hi Hiel l a:o; ' L.-nnon. Bo'h (lilted. Mi Hiker Found H Guilt) of .Murder Ky.. March 111— (UP) ; i ar.-nt. i. was found ■ >--jay ■ i-ring < 'ail I!. :..,..r. w at ■ t expected. - ■ a. open in. of Ant ho. at g.-d with I furi'o professor in 7 M«i- killct of two men hr let with him while ‘ ('arson .is the slayer. — — ■ranti Business ■ Man killed In Fall M - ■ lit (UP) - Ale::- - ho became one of 1 i li-giiming as a teamster de, : from ttie ninth floor Drake hotel today while ar.-.i'd tiis apartment. {■ A (', i ■ ittou. his physician, fall was accidental. Re...an to fail several a.o ami blindness waHr. Crafton declared must have stepped through win. Ii was found open. ■C. H. S. Seniors ■ To Hold Bake Sale Senior , lass of the Decatur ■"lk high school will hold a sale Saturday morning at o'clock in the Ellis building, (loot Peoples Loan and company building. Hom" and home baked foods wilt !■>>": i. Proceeds from the sale used in publishing the aredition of the Tattler, publica|M of Hie Decatur Catholic high ■HUE EXPERT 110 BE SPEAKER P C. T. Gregory Will |Bpeak At Monroe Tues- | day Night IB C. T. Gregory, extension plant IBkologlst of Purdue University, |V' speak at the Monroe high I 800 l Tuesday evening, March 17, IB'"in o'clock. Dr. Gregory will |B™l' concerning seed corn testing. I B^ ll corn growers want ing inforon corn root rot and its Brillion by using the rag doll Bthod of testing seed corn are urg B to hear this address. Growers Bye learned that by eliminating Bt rot and using a strong germinB«n, they have increased their Blds from five to fourteen bushels ■ r acre. Dr. Gregory will also Bswer questions regarding control ■ Plant diseases and other crops.

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Carefree Again hHf I? O — B > M r Eva Tanguary. who thrilled her audiences with the words of “I Don't Care." and then, burdened by illness and loss of sight, did not have the heart to utter th"tn, sang them again today when she arrived on the Los\ Angeles limited. Por after four years, the use of her eyes has been restored to Eva.

ALLEGED RING I INVESTIGATED Fake Naturalization Paper Ring Uncovered In Canada Montreal, Mar 13.- (U.R)~An alleged $3,000,000 take naturalization paper ring in Montreal, operating ' in conjunction with Chicago gangjsters, is under Investigation by officials of the department of justice ! at Ottawa, in co-operation with of- ! fleers of the fraud prevention department of the National Association of Credit Men. New York city. | A Toronto judge, it was learned, i already has been commissioned by | the Hon. Hugh Guthrie, minister lof justice, to investigate the activities of the fraudulent ring throughput the dominion. Inquiry already i has been made in Vancouver. Calgary, Regina. Winnipeg and Toronto, and indications point to Montreal as headquarters for the ring. Behind the ring, it is claimed, is an ingenious method preventing gangster forces from being deported by the United States to Italy and other European countries. Fake naturalization papers are made out in Montreal by gangsters and gunmen, and when M ashington tries to deport them to Europe, Canadian naturalization papers are flourished and fake proof is established that the criminal are naturalized Canadians. The United States, then, can only deport them to Canada whence, in the course of time, they are easily able to sneak back to the states .CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Twelve Measures Signed Bv Leslie ; Indianapolis March 13 —(UP) — |Gov. Harry G. Leslie today signed 12 bills passed by the 77th general assembly. Among them were measures providing for means of meeting the deficiency existing in poor townships depending upon state school aid. replacing the present industrial board with a secretary, establishment of (uniform salaries for prosecuting attorneys and deputies and employment of additional state policemen for enforcing vehicle load limitation. ■o — > R. A. Stuckey To Open Coal 'i ards R. A. StuaJcey announced today that he would open a coal yard in Decatur and also in Huntington, Peru, Wabash, and posssibly one or I two other cities. Mr. Stuckey has leased the coal 'sheds at the Macy Conveyor factory and will conduct the Decatur yard at that place. He has secured locations in Huntington and Peru and will be ready to open for business in a few days. Mr. Stuckey is an experienced coal man, for several years being a representative of the Mid-West Coal Company. His companies will be known as the “Cash Coal Yards.

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COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HAS BEEN CHOSEN Dr. Homer P. Rainey, President of Franklin College to Give Address REV. SUN HERMAN TO GIVE BACCALAUREAT — 1 Dr. Homer I’. Rainey, president of Franklin College. Fi'hnklin, Indiana will deliver the address at the an- . nual commencement exercises of 'the Decatur Public High school in this city on Wednesday, .May 20. M. F. Worthman, city superintendent of schools received an acceptance from Dr. Rainey today, statling that he would fill the engagement here. Mr. Worthman also announced I that the Rev. M. W. Snnderman, pastor of the Evangelical church in this city would deliver the baccai laureate address. The baccalaureate services will be held on Sunday. May 17. at the Methodist Episcopal church There are fifty students in the senior class this year who are applicants for diplomas. The class this year is smaller than a year ago when 56 students were graduated. o Rev. Lannian Talked To Rotary Club Rev. C. R Lanman. pastor of the First Christian church of this city gave an inspirational address on | "Jesus and His Teaching of Broth- , erly Love." at the regular meeting ! of the Rotary club held last eveIning. Rev. Lanman recently be- . came pastor of the Christian I church. The program was in charge jof J. W. Tyndall and G. T. Burk was a special guest of the cflttl.

Walter Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. August Walter, who died at her home on Firs; street. Tuesday night, were held at two o'clock this afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church with Rev. Paul Schultz officiating. Burial was in the Decatur Cemetery. TWO BROTHERS IN GUN BATTLE Deputy Sheriff And Bandit, Brothers, Fight Each Other Popular Bluff. Mo., Mar. 13.—<U.R) r—Two brothers, one a deputy sheriff. the other a Ijank bandit, fought against each other in a gun battle near here which resulted in both the bandit and his companion being shot and captured. One brother, Tliaddeus Owens, 21, and his companion, John Mardell. were held here today on charges of holding up the Bank of Harviell and stealing SSOO after binding and gagging Miss Vernice Gatlin, assistant cashier. Owens did not know that his brother, Wiley, was leading the posse when tlie gun battle began near tlie state line late yesterday. Neither did Wiley Owens know that his brother was one of the men at whom he was shooting. Deputy Owens’ forces emerged from the battle unhurt, but his brother did not fare so well. Thaddeus was shot through the left arm. Mardell was wounded so severely in the right arm amputation was necessary. After his capture, Thaddeus Owens admitted to Wiley Owens his part in the robbery and said CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) 0 Two Killed By Train At Spencer Crossing Spencer, Ind., Mar. 13. — (U.R)' — Two persons were killed and two injured seriously yesterday when their auto was struck by a train at a Spencer crossing. The dead': Mrs. Alla McClaren, crushed skull, and Mrs. Marion Sheppard, internal injuries. The injured: Mrs. Fred Dayh, broken leg, and Mrs. Rolla Hughes, cuts and bruises about the face. Witnesses said the driver, Mrs. Sheppard, apparently did not see the train, which was traveling at reduced speed.

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Dairy President To Speak Over Radio The Cloverleaf Creameries, Inc., I 'of this city invites farmers, dairyirnen and the public in general to |"tune in" their radio Sunday even ing at 9:15 o'clock standard time and hear Mr. Thomas 11. Melnnerney, president of tile National Dairy Products Corporation. Mr. Mi llinery will speak over station WEAR, New York City and 31 associated sta-1 tions. It will 1>« the first of a senes nf radio programs inaugurated by! National Dairy and officials of the | (local creamery assure the public I itliat it will be of great interest to. (everybody. GOVERNOR SIGNS FOURTEEN RILLS Amendment to Public Depository Law Is Signed Yesterday Indianapolis, Mar. 13.—(U.R) —An amendment to the public depository law providing that banks will .pay two per cent interest monthly | on the minimum balance during the 1 1 30-day period was signed by Governor Harry G. Ix>slie yesterday. The present law requires payment of two per cent on the average daily balance each month. The governor signed 13 other | measures, including one providing for submission of two state constitutional amendments to the voters at the general election in 1932. According to William P. Cos(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) FIVE JUDGES TO HEAR ARGUMENT Lake County Judges Will Hear Public Fund Claims I Hammond, Ind., Mar. 13.—<U.P>— I Five Lake county Superior court ! judges wil sit en banc at Hammond i March 24 to hear arguments as to j whether county and city funds deposited in defunct Lake county banks should be declared .preferred claims against the several receivers. Decision of the judges to meet jointly was made because each of (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o Kokomo Men Taken To Leavenworth Indianapolis March 13—(UP) — Ora Butler, former sheriff of Howard county, and Olen R. Holt. Kokomo attorney both convicted in federal court here on charges of organizing an association to protect crime and represent criminals in court . were to leave Indianapolis today in custody of deputy marshall Harry Gates, to begin sentences tn Leavenworth Penitentiary. YOUTHBURIEO IN DEEP WELL Little Hope Is Held That Duluth Man Is Still Alive Duluth, Minn., March 13 —(UP) — Firemen, deputy Sheriffs and farmers fought against renewed caveins today in an effort to reach ‘he bottom of a 40-foot well where George Marchiniak, 20, was entoni bed late yesterday when its dir. sides collapsed. The hoped to reach Marchiniak within a few hours, and learn whether fears that he had suffocated were true. The farm boy had been working in the well when the dirt began sliding down on him. He cried out for help, but was hurried before he could be readied. Workers toiled throughout, the night, but each time they neared the boy aditional dirt fell and prevented rescue. Fire department equipment was sent to the farm, about ten miles outside the city limits, to furnish lighting for the workers. This morning the men dug into loose gravel with new enerky, protected by w’ooden caissons. Firemen said there was no possibility that the boy would be found alive.

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SCHROEDER IS CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER Found Guilty by Indianapolis Jury of Torch Murder — MUST SERVE 2-21 YEAR SENTENCE Indianapolis. March 13. — (U.R> Harold Herbert Schroeder must i serve a two-to-21 years sentence in j t(ie Indiana state prison at Michigan City. The Mobile, Ala., business man was found guilty on a charge of 1 voluntary manslaughter last night by a Marion criminal court i The two-to-21 years sentence is ; mandatory. Schroeder was charged with first ■degree murder in connection with the death of an unidentified man whose charred body was found in Schroeder's burning auto near Indianapolis, May 31. The state asked death for the defendant, charging he killed the unknown man. and burned the body to destroy identification ,so that Schroeder might disappear and his wife collect insurance on his life. Schroeder maintained the body was that of a hitch-hiker he had given a ride and who was injured fatally when Schroeder's auto (plunged from the road into a ditch | near Terre Haute. Because he feared authorities ; would accuse him of murder after 'the death of his companion, Schroeder said he set his auto on fire in an attempt to destroy the body. Schroeder’s insanity plea was met with testimony of alienists who adjudged the defendant sane. Ending the 17 day trial, the case was handed to the jury by judge Frank R. Baker at 2:59 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and after (three hours and 36 minutes deliberation, the jurists were ready to re- | port. The jury cast four ballots, it was I said. Vote on the first and second i ballots were seven for conviction 'and five for acquittal. A comproi inise verdict was readied on the last two ballots, it was reported. CHARLESKRANER DIES SUDDENLY Adams County Resident Drops Dead Near Geneva Thursday Geneva, Ind., Mar. 13. — (Special) — Charles Kraner, 65, life-long resident of Adams county, dropped dead at 4:45 o'clock Thursday evej ning in front of the Louis Barnhart farm, a mile south of here on I state road number 27, as he was walking to his home southeast of Geneva. Mr. Kraner had apparently been in good health and had spent the day in Geneva. He was found on the highway and was taken to the i Barnhart farm where a physician (was summoned who said lie had | died suddenly. Coroner J. C. Grandstaff, after an tinquest held this morning, stated (that death was caused by a heart attack. Mr. Kraner was born on a farm. | two and one-half miles southeast of I Geneva, where he spent his entire J life with his parents. He was never married. Surviving is the mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Kraner. and the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Jesse Barber of east of Geneva; Mrs. G. F. Pyle of east of Berne; Mrs. Manuel Stager and Mrs. Garfield North of Ludlow Falls. Ohio; Mrs. Joe Fogle of Jefferson township; John Kraner of Ceylon, and Clyde Kraner of Geneva. His father, Hiram , Kraner preceded him in death ten I years ago. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Evangelist Will Open Meetings Sunday Evangelistic meetings at the Ml Pleasant M. E. church, three miles northwest of town, will open at seven o’clock Sunday evening, March 15. Services will be held each evening next week, starting at 7.30 o'clock. Rev. Charles Brand of Auburn will be the evangelist.

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Helping the Farmer F' r* ItO * i . f JkWl ' M'-- ->-1 ■w- —g Sfc JT* ■ C. B. Denham of the Federal Farm Bureau is shown (standing in front), addressing tile National Live Stock Marketing Association in Chicago Wednesday. Others (standing in rear), are: L. 11. Thompson, president of the American Farm Bureau; L. F. Fabor and E. A. Breamer; seated, H. L. Kokernot and Charles A. Ewing, officers of ihe association.

! FRIDAY. THE THIRTEENTH! Indianapolis. Mar. 13.—(U.R) j —Three minutes after Friday , ; the thirteenth had begun, twin , ! babies were born to Mr. and [ Mrs. A. L. Herbst. The boy weighed seven pounds and the girl, six pounds, | making 13 pounds of children. “There’s no bad luck in that," ' j Herbst said. STATETO CLAIM FEDERAL FUNDS Will Start Action To Obtain $2,000,000 Inheritance Taxes Indianapolis. Mar, 13. —<(J.R) — Action toward claiming lor Indi- . I ana the nearly $2,006,000 in inher- ( | itance taxes due from the federal ' | government will begin April 1, , I Clarence B. Ullttm, state inher-, | itance tax administrator, announcI cd today. At that time, a check will be '(CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o Two Men Instantly Killed by Fast Train Archbold, 0., March 13 —(UP) — Two men were instantly killed here I today when the westbettnd twen-1 tieth century limited of the New i (York Central lines plowed into their [ truck at the Lincoln street crossing i James M. Hulze, Auburn Junction, i Indiana.. formerly of Butler, was identified as one of the victims while ' antorities were seeking to identify the other. Both were carried in the [ wreckage nearly 300 yards, before [ the crack flier could be halted. The limited das delayed two hours. SLAYER'S SHACK IS DISCOVERED Believe Home of Virginia Brooks’ Killer Is Found San Diego Calif, March 13 — ■ (UP) —In the belief that they may have located a shack in which lu-year-old Virginia Brooks was held captive prior to her murder, police today sought identification by the girl’s mother of portions of an under garment found in the building. During the night, chemist Macey of the police department subjected the fabric to a chemical analysts. The result of the analysis was not revealed but detectives said the [ lead was encouraging and that Mrs. ■ Brooks would be requested to examine the piece of cloth. A strip of canvas knotted into a double noose as found virtually buried in the floor of the shack. Investigators received a set-back last night when Dr. Ernst Mundkowsky announced after an exahiintion that the girl’s body had not, as at first believed, been mutilated jits condition, he said was due o [ “natural decomposition." Mundkowsky said he found evidence the girl, who was kidnapped more than a month ago while going to school, had fought with her slayer.

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ALLEGED BANK [ ROBBERS HELD Five Arrested at Indianapolis; Two Taken At Chicago — Indianapolis, March 13. — (U.R)I—l 1 —I Five men suspected of implication ■ [in four Indiana bank hold-ups, to [ which one of them purportedly con-1 fessed, were in custody of Indian-! apolis police today. Ralph Gifford. 25, was said to have admitted that lie and one of' ' the others under arrest, stole an auto, and attempted to hold up the) New Augusta Bank on January 22. | (Robert E. Huffman, cashier, fired' |at tlie bandits, who obtained no (loot. He likewise allegedly confessed that he held up and shot ; Wilbur King, a pool room proprietor, in and Indianapolis suburb. Gifford and the four others, whose names were not revealed, : were alleged to have been implicat|ed in robbery of the Jolietvillei I bank January 8, in which $1,406.41 was obtained; the Broad Ripple 1 bank February 12, in which the [custodian was shot and wounded. I but no loot obtained; the Farmers State Bank at Scireleville February 19. in which 1,402 was taken, and [the New Augusta bank. Chicago, Mar. 13.—(U.R)—Persistlent dective work by two Chicago police sergeants resulted today In the arrest of two men who were I identified as the robbers who held [up the Farmers State Bank of Scirclesville, Ind., and escaped with $1,430 several weeks ago. Witnesses from Scirclesville identified the men who gave their names as John Hitch. 23, Indianap- [ olis, and William Lejcar, 25, Chi-. [ cago. Extradition papers were ordered by Indiana authorities and the men also were held for questioning by Chicago police in connection twith several recent holdups. Inspector Osborn of Indianapolis said he believed the men had taken part in several Indiana robber- [ [ ies besides. Police Sergeants Joseph Fallon [ 'and Marshall Pigeon who brought (about the arrest, first picked up [the trail of the men when they [arrested Alice Briser, 31. and' Gladys Simmons, 21, both of In- ■ dianapolis, as they sat in an auto- [ mobile on the west side. The worn-1 en said they were waiting for two men from Indiana. After the women had been booked on disorderly conduct charges, [ Fallon and Pigeon followed them to a west side apartment. They raided the apartment and captured Hitch and Lejcar who were living there. o Bandits Are Routed By Government Troops Shanghai, Mar. 13. —(U.R)— Three thousand bandits led by a sister of General Ho Lung, notorious com- [ munist, were defeated today in, a i fierce battle with government [ troops. Tlie woman commander had started with her forces to capture the town of Lachin. Crossing the Hupeh-Honan bord- . ier she was met by nationalist soldI iers of the division of General Hsu | Gyuan-Chan. In the ensuing fight [there were many casualties and the [bandits were routed.

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INVESTIGATE STRANGE DEATH OFMRS.BOWERS Coroner, I. U. Professor, And Physicians, Hold Examination HUSBAND ARRESTED THIS MORNING Portland, Mar. 13 (Special)—Ai

autopsy was being performed tins afternoon on the body of Mrs. Eftie Bowers, who was suffocated at her home here early Thursday morning when a file broke out at the home. The autopsy was being performed by F. E. Keeling. Jay county coroner Dr. Thurman Rice, pathologist of the Indiana school of medicine at Indianapolis, and Drs. W. C. Sch- ; wartz and M. M. Moran. The latter |two physicians were retained by the (lawyers for George Bowers, husband of the dead woman. The report of the findings in the autopsy probably will not be made until Saturday morning. George Bowers was arrested earlly this morning and placed in the Jay county jail when lie was found at his home in an intoxicated condition. A summons had been issued Thursday afternoon for Bowers by representatives of the state fire marshal’s office. Bowers had re'fused to submit to questioning up|on advice of his attorneys, McGriff (and Beehdolt and M. V. Skinner. I Mrs. Bowers' death occurred aIbout 4:30 a. m. Thursday. Iler body I was found in a bedroom, her head land shoulders in a clothes closet, covered with clothing. Her left side was badly burned and she had snf- ( sered a bad bump on her forehead (and one cheek was badly bruised. | Little damage to the home was ' caused by the lire, actual loss from 'fire and water both amounting ‘o jonly |2OO. Much mystery alien Is | (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o Indian Woman Freed From Custody Today Buffalo, N. Y. March 13 —(UP) — Nancy Bowen, aged Seneca Indian who confessed that she killed Mrs. Clothilde Marchand, was freed from the court today. County Judge F. Bret Thorn, before whom Nancy appeared for sentence on a first -degree manslaughter charge, imposed a sentence of one to ten years imprisonment on tlie aged Indian, woman. He then ordered that since she already had served a year and three days awaiting trial, site be, released immediately on probation. — o Eight Firemen Are Overcome By (Jas Terre Haute, Ind., Mar. 13—(UP) Eight city firemen were overcome by carbon monoxide gas while fignting a blaze in two straw stacks ar the Terre Haute paper mill this morning. Three of the men returned to work shortly afterward but th« remaining live were taken to their homes. None was considered serious. The blaze, origin of which' was [unknown started early this mornling and was still burning shortly [before noon. Firemen were working to confine the blaze to one stack [after another had been completely [consumed. No estimate of the damage was made by company officials o BLEEKEINFANT DIES THURSDAY I Daughter of Joseph And Adeline Bleeke Dies At Home Funeral services were held at 10 'O’clock this forenoon for Maxine 1 j Bleeke, infant daughter of Joseph and Adeline Young-Bleeke, who died ‘ at the home of her parents in Union township at 4:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon. Death was caused by 1 cerebral hemorrhage. The baby was born at the home in Union township on Tuesday, March • 10, 1931 and had been ill since birth. ’ Surviving are the parents anil the grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Chayles - Young ‘of Preble township, and • Charles Bleeke of Union township, i The funeral services were held at I the home with Rev. M. J. Frosch ol?|ficiating and burial was in the Emmanuel Lutheran church cemetery.