Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1931 — Page 1

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In CHILDREN ■ TO DEATH ME TODAY l in Fire Which DeK vs Home al llold- ■ erness. X. H. lee OTHERS are I ■ei’ortei* id ing Lh. x ", M.r. 23.-;U.R> ! ■ < liihlreti near death _ Koin burn- intli-ted by a I ■,i, :<>>■ 'i H" ii- home at , near h'" ami claim- ■ lives of six in. and a ■ nund-n ti-'.itmelit in a ■lospi'al. rH-iim-.l a chancel ■ only tliroiwh the couragel par-nt-. Mr. and Mrs. ■ very. «lu> risked theni-|i ■ tnL ~.t the < hil<li «ii lo safety. ■ others rapped ill theh ■ i|iir Lly enveloped Ihe I ■tottace. ■ dealt were: Sleile A very. | ■urge. 14: Harry. Hi; Fred, •»; ■T: Palsy. and Joseph, ■e under treatment arc: ■ jS; Thomas. 17. and John, Kim are siiff-riiig from mill■urns of the bead and body. ■ fire started in the kitchen ■re;i4 rapidly through the dry ■walls of Um cottage. Sterle. ■esi son. returned home early Bay morning and smelled ■ins to the upper part of the, ■tn arouse his brothers and I ■ he awakened his mother, I ■templed lo save her chil- ■ She lifted i ne from the bed | Bopped him from a window Bty and was about to enter: Br room lo save the ■ she was overcome by the 1 ■ smoke. Her husband lifted ■Avery to his shoulders and ■d her from the blazing build- ■ was prevented from return- ■<> rescue the others by the ■ and hillowing smoke which ■nvrlnped ' ■ entire structure. Bnen found the charred I ■of those who perished after Bre had burned itself out. I —— |i Holt Disbarred (From Practicing Law I onto, Ind . Mar. 23—(US>— R. Holt, former candidate for per of Indiana, now serving tn in Leavenworth, Kansas, rd prison for violation of the r laws, was disbarred from icing law in Indiana as the >of a ruling handed down Iby Judge Joe Tripe In HowCircuit court. It lost his fight to resign i,the tar while serving his y term and will now have to Instated by the state supreme I before he can practice again. M Ora Butler, former Howard t) sheriff, were convicted on Ata' of operating a protective nation to furnish legal advice Wor law violators, ourn Supreme Court Until April 13 hhmgton. March 23—(UP) taeme Conn adjourned todav Monlay April 13. ■ERDERNE WAN IS DEAD !• p eter J. Eicher, 61, asses Away at Burr “ak, Michigan T "c Ind. March 23-(Special)— , _ er J’ ®l cber ’ 61, former fOat i n w n 'v (iied at fler home >n > ni '* M,c l’lkan Saturday afters Pneumonia and complica18Tn aS .! >Orn near nernp - January -J he daughter of Mr. and 11 mt. hWartZ She was "Oh--mage on March 12, 1891. livan/r eleven children in «i BlP r< n r t , hP follow| ng brothers epani, lng near Herne: Mrs. bj p J’ I’’' 1 ’’' Jospph Mrs. Vo»h Phe n r ' Mra ' David Wickey Joh aßCOnl ' Mrs - C ‘ J ll P-Eicher. an ' l Sam ' ,el Mav a L Boerviceß 8 o erviceB wl » ’>e held ho meeigh t °^’-, at °’ Clotk nt “tehltan 8 “° rth *’ f Stu "

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Held in Plot R J U r . ; . - Declared to have confessed that he planned to destroy the nearly completed U. S. naval airship Akron, largest dirigible ever built. Paul F. Kassay (above), supposed Communist, former lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is held at Akron. Ohio, on a charge of an attempt to destroy the dirigible on which he was working. MAJORPURDUE TO RETURN HERE Salvation Army Representative to Complete Canvass For Funds Major William John Purdue of the Salvation Army will return to Decatur Tuesday to complete the job of raising funds for the Salvation Army. Major Purdue stated that although tho needs for help were greater title; year than in any year since the war. that the quota for Decatur had been reduced front SSOO to $250. Several contributions I were received last week by Major

Purdue. Albert Sclieumann, assistant cashier of the Old Adams County Bank has tfeen named treasurer of the local fund and Major Purdue stated that persons who wished to contribute to the Salvation Army relief fund could send their contributions to Mr. Sclieumann. The Salvation Army is feeding and giving shelter to thousands of persons tn the larger cities this year and also maintains the Women's Home and hospital at Grand Rapids. Michigan. This institution cares for young girls who become mothers out of wedlock and the service of the Salvation Army is far reaching. Major Purdue is a sincere and earnest worker for the Salvation Army and as he stated in an address last week before the Decatur Rotary duh, “we are not asking for much and will be content with the crumbs which you care to give us. We do a good work and will carry on if you'll just lend a helping hand." t —o Police Hold Auto, Charge Storage Bill Muncie. Ind., Mitch 23 —(UP) — Police held the auto of James Williamson longer than the thieves wlie stole it and caused him great deal more expense, he complained. His machine was stolen in January and 60 days later he was notified by Indianapolis police that unless he reclaimed it within 10 days and paid S3O storage, the auto would be sold to pay the bill. The auto had been recovered soon after it was stolen. o Woman Fails To Bid on Perfect Bridge Hand Indianapolis, Mar. 23. — (U.R)~—•' hand of 13 spades in bridge here last night was neither bid nor counted. Miss Phyllis Sharpe, recipient of I the hand was that she spread it out on the table before a bid had been made. z When the game was resumed a few minutes later, it was without, the grand slam count that would ■| have been registered with the hand.

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HODVER LANDS IN PORTO RICO THIS MORNING President Goes Ashore at 7:45 A. M.; Welcomed By City CONFERS WITH GOV. THEO. ROOSEVELT Ponce. Porto Rico. Mar. 23- (U.R) I—President Hoover landed here! today from the U. S. S. Arizona I on Jl»' first stop in his Caribbean i cruise. x The President came ashore at I 7:45 a.nt., after lie had conferred with Governor Theodore Roosevelt aboard the Arizona. A large crowd was gathered to greet him l in a typical Porto Rican setting ) of palm trees and tropical weather. The presidential party proceeded to the city hall where Mr. Hoover was presented witli an elaorately designed tablecloth combining the favorite flowers of all ' the presidents, including the pop-, py. his own selection. Josefina I Cabasa, an eight year old Porto t Rican girl, made the presentation I speech in English. Elements said to be nationalist sympathisers continued an appar-1 ently futile effort to inject hostil-1

ity into the presidential recaption * until a few hours before the Arizone arrived. Hand bills were distributed in the towns through which tlie presidential party will 'pass en route to San Juan, describing Mr. Hoover as the head of, j“a capitalistic, plutocratic, and | i socialist” rapublican party. The hand bills assailed the friendliness of "the socialist lalior party' 1 - toward Hie Hoover administration. They cited the President's veto of the soldiers' Ihmius loan 1111 and concluded by lilting Porto Ricans to refrain from homage to the President. "Homage is possible only be-! I tween equals." the literature stati ed. The proclamation was signed by j Luis Vergne Ortiz, president of the ; ■ San Juan nationalist committee. Regret was expressed here that I the nationalist activities had been i reported in the American and CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

BOARD REFUSES 10 BUY WHEAT Federal Farm Board W ill Not Buy Any 1931 Wheat Washington. Mar. 23.—(U.R)'—Official Washington, especially that group particularly interested in the farm relief problem, awaited with interest today the nation’s reaction to the federal farm boards announcement that it would liny no 1931 wheat. Tlie board, in a statement released this inoriiing. said bluntly that while its policy toward 1930, wheat is unchanged, it will per-’ mit no further use of its funds for pegging the price of next year's crop. If tlie farmers want relief, the statement said, they can get it by curtailing production. From Senator Capper. Repn.. Kan., farm bloc leader, came tlie response that the change in policy was "both a shock and a disappointment.” Capper, who is in Topeka, told the United Press that while “the farm board couldn't keep on forever buying wheat, just to keep prices up, this action may have a pretty bad effect on the grain situation next year.” He said the board should have held hack its announcement until later in the year. Senator Nye, Repn., N. D., said the new policy may result in a (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Huntington Man Takes Phonograph Patents Huntington. Ind., March 23—(UP) ' Patents have been taken out on an automatic phonograph, invented bv ' T. W. Small, electrical engineer ilv- ' ing here, which is said to combine several revolutionary ideas in perfecting a smaller and more wieldy machine. The new phonograph wil| hold I eight records, and can change rec- ! ords in 15 seconds —less than one*halt the former time it was said.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 23, 1931.

Institute Chairmen Met Here Saturday | Chairmen of the Adams county I farmers' Institute groups met Satin day afternoon with county agent | Archbold. Plans were made at this meeting for the coining institute season. ('. I). Spuller was reelected ■ | c ounty chairman and Everett Rice county secretary. institute chairmen pre ent were. I A. C Munro, Hartford township: 1 Charles Gage, Root; Ed Koose, St. L .Mary's; Ed Arnold. Kirkland; Ever-', ett Rice, Monroe; Ed Gilliom, Berne' C. D. Supller. Union township. JOHN G. HOFFMAN CALLED BY DEATH ' . ' I, County Commissioner Succumbs to Pneumonia at Home of Son Today John G. Hoffman, 66.. Adams 1 County Commissioner and prominent retired farmer died at 5:21) o'-j clock this morning at the home of his son, Charles Hoffman in Preble township following an illness of 12 , [days of flu-pneumonia. Mr. Hoffman became ill Wednes-, ■day, March 11 and his condition was considered serious from the stmt jHe had been critically ill ince las' | Tuesday. I Mr. Hoffman was serving the fifth I year of his second term as county i

I commissioner from the first district., Ille assumed office January 1, 1927' and was re-elected to the same of-1 fice in 1928, beginning his second term January 1. 1930. He was also . a director of the Farmer's Stat» , ' Bank at Preble for many years, and j lat one time served as an officer of:' that institution. He was general!: agent and one of the appraisers fori; tlie Mutual Fire insurance Company I of Preble township for the last 25, years. The deceased spent his entire li*e ' 4n Preble township and the town of Preble, and for the past year an ! a half lived with his son. He was born in Preble township. December 19, 1864. the son of Jacob and Margaret Uieberick-Hot'fman. botli de ceased. His wife Sophie BreinerHoffman. preceded him in death four years ago. Surviving are the following child- j ren: Mrs. Louis Koldewey of Union township; Charles Hoffman and Os ' ear Hoffman of Preble township; : Mrs. Elmer Kraft of Wells County; : Louis Hoffman of Palmer County. 1 Texas; and Selina Hoffman of Fort Wayne. One son. Paul, died in in-1 fancy. Eleven grandchildren and : , two sisters. Mrs. Lizzie Kirby and I Mrs. Mary Witte of York, Nebraska. ■ also survive. Funeral services will be held at | tlie St. Paul Lutheran church where ; the deceased was a member lor i — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Two Roof Fires At Geneva This Morning ' Geneva, Ind., Mar. 23—(Special- ‘ Two roof fires were reported to 1 the local fire department early this ■ morning, one at six o'clock at the 1 Charles Pyle residence and the other at 8:30 o'clock at the Floyd Aspy ■ home. No great damage was done to • either of the residences. i JANEHEFFNER.BB DIES Al GENEVA I Widow of John Heffner Dies of Paralytic Stroke Sunday t oo Mrs. Harriet Jane Heffner. 88, ■ died at the home of her brother- . in-law, Daniel Beeler at Geneva, , Sunday morning at 8:40 o’clock I following a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. Heffner was born November 30, 1842. in Ohio, the daugh- ■ ter of Enos and Rachel Hillery. She resided at Chattanooga. Ohio, 1 until the death of her husband, John Heffner, seven years ago, and resided with Mr. and Mrs. Beeler since that day. Surviving is a grandchild, Earl > Wile of Colorado Springs. Colo. Two children preceded the de1 ceased in death. i Funeral services will be held ' Tuesday afternoon at the Beeler • home in Geneva at one o’clock and ‘ at the Lutheran cemetery, six - miles southwest of New Corydon at two o'clock. Rev. U. B. Fallis of the Methodist church at Geneva, I and Rev. C. R. Lusk of thq United - Brethren church at Geneva will - officiate and burial will be in the Lutheran cemetery.

LEADERS MEET AT LIBRARY Adams County 4-11 Adult i Leaders Will Meet Wednesday Afternoon A training meeting for the adult j ,4-H t'Jnli leaders of Adams county (Will be held Wednesday afternoon* at 2 o'clock in the Decatur Public Library auditorium, County Agent 11. E. Archbold lias announced. Miss May Masten and W. R. Amick. 4-IP 'Club Leaders from tjurdue Univer-1 sity will conduct tile meeting. The leaders of the adult county |organizations who will attend the I I course include Marilynne Clem and! -Esther Kunßelhan of Union Town-1 |ship; .Mrs. Sherman Kunkel of Root (Township; Lorine and Irene Kirsch ! I ner and Blanche Fugate of Kirkland !Township; -Mrs. Charles Schenck of St. Marys Township; Mrs. Charles Teeple and Mrs. Beavers of Wasnlington Township; Mrs. Virgil Wag 1 ner of Monroe: Mrs. Ernest Zeigler land Mrs. R. R. Romey of Hartford (Township; Mrs. Shepherd and Miss! Mahoney of Geneva; Mrs. lleniy Rumple of Jefferson township. The leaders of the calf clubs are | Peter B. Lehman. Rudolph* Kolter. Osia Von Gunten, David J. Mazelin, and Sol Mosser; of the pig dull. Ralph S. Myers Henry Rumple and Reinhold Koldewey; corn club. W. T. Rupert and Franklin C. Mazelin.

o— Pre-Easter Services At Evangelical Church Four pre-Easter services will be conducted at the First Evangelical ! church on Tuesday. Wednesday, i Thursday amt Friday evenings of (this week. The pastor. Rev. M. W. iSunderman, will preach each night Thursday night, all classes of tr.e (Sunday School will meet in their regular places and after short <ie'votional period, tlie evening service will lie conducted by class teachers. o — Hold Evangelistic Services Daily The evangelistic services at the Pleasant Grove Church are progress ling nicely and interest in tlie meetlings is increasing. The Rev. 'Walter! (Johnson, pastor of the church, has i I delivered some very fine messages, land the public is invited to the ser | vices which are held each evening. I FUNERAL HELU ATBERNETODAY Levi Wulliman, Former | Berne Man, Is Buried This Afternoon Berne, Ind.. Mar. 23 — (Special) Funeral services for Levi Wulliman, 59, former Berne man who died Friday night, were held at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon at tlie home in Fort Wayne, and at 2:30 o’clock at the Mennonite church here. Burial was made in the Al.

R. E. Cemetery. Mr. Wulliman died at the Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne, at 11:55 o'clock Friday night of pneumonia. He had been ill four days. H-‘ was bom in French town ship. September 17. 1872, tlie son of Jacob and Catherine Neuen-schwander-Wnlliman. He spent the greater part of his life in Adams county, having moved to Fort Wayne ten years ago. His wife preceded him in death in 1928. Surviving are four cliildren. Arley, Myron. Mrs. Arnold Reinhard, of Fort Wayne, and Marcella, at home; and the following brothers and sisters: William, Mrs. Anna Augsburger, Mrs. Mellta Siegrist, Lydia Wulliman of Berne, David and Mennas of French township. o President of Bar Association Dies Gary. Ind., Mar. 23. (U.R)t-Wil-liam W. Miller, 54, presidenl of the Indiana. Bar Association, died at his home here Stinffay after under- . going an emergency operation Saturday. Miller delivered one of the enli ogies for members of the Gory Bar ' Association who died during the , past year, only a few hours before I he was stricken. 1 Miller was a graduate of Denver i University, the University of Chicago, and Chicago Law College.

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MANY VIOLENT DEATHS OCCUR OVER WEEK-END i Shootings And Auto Acci-| dents Contribute To Heavy Death Toll TWO MURDERS, ONE SUICIDE REPORTED By United Press i Two murders a suicide and six iauto accidents contributed to the deaths by violence in Indiana i over the week-end. Seven persons died in auto ac ij dents, and two were injured criti-! | cally. At South Bend Julius Von Hol- i . sheck. t>4. shot Mis. Helen Sand-j ers, 54, to death Saturday night, and fired a fatal shot through his own head. The bodies were found ; Sunday morning. Mrs. Sanders ! was bald to have spurned Von ! Holsheek's attentions. James Gaddie. 30, negro, was sought in lndiana)H>lis as the suspected slayer of Clarence Foster. 27, negro, with jealousy as tile suspected motive. Mr. and Mrs. Ijouis H. Fahlzing | were killed late Saturday near Richmond when their auto was . demoltehed by a C. & O. passenger ' engijie. The auto was believed ; to have stalled on the tracks. Ivan (Stratton, 50, Milton. was struck ifv an auto while walking on the highway near his home. He died within a short time. Felix Bean. 30. negro, was killed in Indianapolis Sunday when struck by a hit-run driver. , Peter Lannox, 30, was killed in-! stantly last night when thrown ’ from the auto in which he was j riding, as it rounded a sharp turn | in northwestern Hamilton county, i Luther Harris, 35, Indianapolis,' was' killed instantly when the auto I b > was driving in Indianapolis crashed into a power pole. Roy : Downs, a companion, was injured I critically, and two women in the . car escaped serous injury. They: (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) I , o Casket Worker Given SIIB.BO Damages j ! Crawfordsville, Ind., March 23 —1 I Miss Alma Davis, worker in a cas-1 Iket company here, who sustained severe injuries when she jumped I I from a window to escape joking | 1 1 fellow workers who tried to nail her ( |in a wooden coffin, was awarded Isllß.Bo for her injuries by the stale j industrial board. "t - : — ’ Sanity Commission Asked For Mother South Bend. Ind., Mar. 23. —(U.R) —Circuit Judge Dan Pyle was asked today to have a sanity commission examine Miss Elsa Baggs, 25. ’ who was arrested Saturday after she had failed in an admitted at--1 tempt to drown her ten weeks old ) son. Miss Baggs, unmarried, moved here witli her family from Hutch- ’ inson, Kansas, last June.

o DROP REVEALED IN COLLECTIONS Large Decrease Appears Probable In Income Tax Revenue Washington, Mar. 23 —(U.R)—A drop in income tax collections was revealed today in reports showing total collections up to March 20 for the month were $283,229,295. compared with a total for last March of $460,328,715. With most of the returns in on the first quarter's collections, this indicated the total for Marell may run below $400,000,000, compared with $559,000,000 for tlie month ; last year. Total collections for the first quarter last year were . $628,000,000. First quarter collec- , tions this year probalijly will not run over $500,000,000. The continued drop in collections tills year was reflected in collections of only $44,105,314 March 20 compared with $75,000,- . 000 for the same day last year, us shown today by the daily treasury statement. The deficit stood today at $613,360,270. Incoming tax collections will reduce this high figure (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Chaplain 'Fells Story Rev. George C. Whitmeyer. who | was asked to resign as chaplain, at Joliet penitentiary, read to legislative probers a letter from a 1 prisoner which lie intercepted in < which dope smuggling, corruption among guards and the taking of "prisoners for rides" was alleged.

SIX KILLED IN PLANE CRASHES Three Men,Three Women Killed in Air Accidents Sunday — (By United Press) Coincidence played a strange : part in airplane accidents Sunday j in middlewestern and far western ' states. In two crashes in California a man and a woman were killed in i each and in another crash at St. I Louis another man and a. woman • were killed. In one case the victims were a man and his wife, both licensed ! ' pilots; in another it was a recentIly licensed man pilot and his I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SUII MAY END IN COMPROMISE Attorneys Make Effort to Reach Agreement In Damage Suit Attorneys for the plaintiff and, defendants in the case of Imogene | Stewart, by Eddie Grimes, next! friend vs. Charles Arbaugh and 56 other defendants, suit on contract. I resulting from the sale of preferred stock in tlie Portland Oil and Refining company were in court today endeavoring to reach an I agreement in tlie case. Tlie case was filed in the Adams ; circuit court, September 15, 1927, being venued here from the Allen j Superior court. Damages in the j amount of $7,500 are asked and i tlie question under argument was to determine if the defendants collectively or individually were i liable. ( ongressman David Hogg, Judge John Aiken and Attorney Grant i represent the plaintiff. Attorneys for tlie defendants are Eichhorn, (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Q Little Improvement Shown In Condition The condition of Harvey Sprague who was injured when he was thrown from his bicycle last Wednesday night is not much improved today. Mr. Sprague’s injuries are still very painful and because of in ternal injuries which developed lati er he is not resting very well. Two Bandits Killed After Robbing Bank Edna, Kansas, March 23 —(UP) — Two bandits were shot and killed here today as they fled after robh- , ing the First National Bank of Edna A dentist with offices across the street from the bank opened fire on them with a shot gun as they started to get in their automobile with , SI,OOO in cash taken from the hank One bandit died instantly. The’ I other lived only a few moments.

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TWELVE MEN ARE CHOSEN TO TRY ALLEGED KILLER Six Days of Questioning Necessary to Obtain Jurors FACES CHARGE OF SLAYING LINGLE Chicago, Mar. 23—(U.R)—A jury of 12 men. all of whom said they were ready to return a death verdict if the evidence justified, were obtained and sworn in today to try Leo V. Brothers, St. Louis gunman, on charges of murdering Alfred J. Lingle. Chicago Tribune reporter. Six days of detailed questioning were necessary before 12 men were found who met the approval lof both state and defense. I The jury as sworn in consisted ! of the following: Ediward J. Brown, billboard posti er; Herman Crotzer, machinist; I Frank Edgeworth. machinist; Walter W. Graff, electrical foreman; Herman Isaacson, furniture firm employe; Kelsey Stone, glass cutter; Jacob M. Schlosser, pencil company employe; David Tateel,

garage accountant; Edward latrson, unemployed carpenter; Herman Thompson, clerk; Phillip Hagerman, street car motorman, : and Ears D. Aatlnesen, unemployled painter. The last four were accepted I today after a new venire of 100 | had reported. Only four men were |l questioned before the last pan-.-l was accepted. Before the defense indicated final approval, they conferred with Frothers, who nodded his head emphatically in accepting the jurors who will sit in judgment of his life. In questioning the last few taleemen. Wayland Brooks, prosecutor, indicated the state will not attempt to prove a motive in the slaying of the reporter. "The state is not obligated to (CONTINUED ON P*3E THREE) u Funeral Services Are Held Sunday Funeral Services for Milo Ward Black, business man of Evansville, who died last Monday following an appendicitis operation, were held Sunday afternoon in the Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. H. Ferntheil officiating. Herbert Stegmeyer of Fort Wayne, branch manager of the Holland Furnace Company and his salesmen served as pall bearers. Those from out of the city who attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Clem Stegmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. Harve Smith. Robert Pape of Fort .Wayne; J. Shoppe, Branch manager of Muncie; Joe, Frank, Ralph Vance :John and Harold Craig of West Libierty, Ohio; Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Winters of Newcastle; William Harns, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gardner, Mrs. Bruce Franklin, Mrs. Charles Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Eads of I Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Piatt of Toledo, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carnail. Mr. and Mrs. John Carnall of Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer of Geneva; Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Black of Los Angeles, (California; Mr. and Mrs. O. L. (Black and daughter‘of Vincennes; I Mr. and Mrs. V. W. Raab and Charlies Myers of Evansville. BLAME ILLINOIS PAROLE BOARD Charge Treatment of Convicts Caused Rioting at Joliet Joliet, 111., Mar. 23.— (U.R) —The state parole board was called upon today to answer charges that its treatment of convicts has been the cause of recent riots in Joliet and Stateville prisons. Shortly after resuming its investigation in to the riot, the special legislative committee took the testimony of W. C. Jones, of Streator, Illinois, chairman of the parole board. He had been on the witness stand only a few minutes when he was ■ attacked by Representative Harry McCaskrin, one of the committeemen. McCaskrin took Jones to task for not answering questions in a direct manner. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)