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Loan 47 Years Old Is Collected With Interest I Brazil, Ind., April 14.— (U.R>—A loan of SI,OOO made 47 years ago has accumulated, at the rate of six per cent, to a present value of $10,915.25, a court ruling in favor , of Robert Bieler has decided here. The judgment was against Benjamin Simpson, Carson, Bieler’s cousin. Testimony revealed that Bieler came to work for Simpson after , immigrating here from Germany. ( Simpson needed money to operate j a mine and clay plant, it was said, . and Bieler furnished the capital. , Recently Simpson died and Bieler [, brought suit for the loan and inte’-l, est. |, o 11 KNOWN DEAD IN TUNNEL FIRE Chicago Mystery Blaze Is Baffling Firement; Workmen Lose Lives , Chicago, April 14. —<U.R> —A mysterious fire, loosing clouds of death- , dealing smoke, raged today, 35 feet underground in a sanitary dis- . trict tunnel on the southwest side , of Chicago. , All night the blaze, believed to have started in the sawdust and shaving packing that lined the tunnel, defied firemen and mine experts. By dawn the known death toll | was 11. Ten bodies had been re- j covered from the poisonous cham- j her by heroic firemen who braved t the smoke and gas time after time], to rescue their fellow workers and the laborers who were trapped last i J night. Sixteen or 17 firemen were ‘ believed still entombed early to- I day. I' The Uth death was that of an! exhausted policeman who was killed by a speeding ambulance as he staggered homeward after being on duty all night at the tunnel mouth. At least 40, possibly more, were injured by the smoke. Eleven firemen and five or six workmen, still trapped in the west end of the tunnel, may have found safety in an air chamber. Crews with pneumatic drills cut through the rocky ground today, trying to force a shaft to the air chamber in hopes that the trapped men had barricaded themselves against the white, dust like smoke that killed the rescuers. Coroner Herman N. Bundesen and acting fire Commissioner Edwin; Maloney, who took charge of the 1 rescue work last night and stayed on the job today, said there appeared little hope that the trapped men could live in the deadly smoke. The dead were: William Karsten, fireman; Frank Coyne, Byron Pratt, firemen; John Litwin, John Gwalda, John Paleones, Joseph Brazdicks and three (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o —i Probe Stamp Robbery Fountaintown, Ind., April 14 — (UP) Postal authorities today were investigating a robbery here in i which $11.85 in postage stamps, 53 money order blanks and a money order stamping machine were taken. The loss was part of the loot consisting of $5 in cash and merchandise taken from the store of Herbert Hungate, in chich the post ofmice is located. — o Elks To Hold Banquet < Members of the B. P. O. Elks lodge will enjoy a dinner at the Elk's Home, Wednesday evening at 6:30 o’clock. R. A. Stucky, W. A. Kleipper, and Ira Fuhrman comprise the committee in charge, and tickets may be secured from them or at the door Wednesday. o Church Given Farmland Lafayette, Ind., April 14—(UP)— A farm of 160 acres near the Indiana state soldiers’ home is bequeathed to the Evangelical Lutheran synod of Missouri by the terms of the will of the late Herman A. Bahls, Lafayette Hardware company pioneer, who died recently. The bequest is subject to the provision that the synod erect buildings sufficient to care for 50 people, and establish an old peoples home on the farm within two yeais after his death, and that the Synod give the right to his widow and a sister, Miss Liesette Bahls, to spend the remainder of their lives in the home without cost.

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REBELS RENEW MARINE ATTACK Truce, Declared When Earthquake Occurred Is Declared ‘Off’ Mexico City, April 14. —(U.R)'—The end of the "truce" which Augustlno Sandino, Nicaraguan insurrectionist leader, declared after the Managua earthquake, was announced by Sandino's agent. Dr. Pedro Zepeda, today coincident with reports of renewed fighting between rebels and United States Marines. Zepeda said Sandino had ordered renewal of hostilities on panAmerican day-today—because of "attacks" by Marines. Hostilities were ordered resumed "on all fronts.” Sandino also reiterated that he would "fight as long as a single United States soldier remains in Nicaragua.” Zepeda said the insurrectionist leader now is at his “headquarters somewhere near the Jicuro river." Washington. April 14. —(U.R/ —The commander of the U. S. S. Asheville reported to the navy department at noon today that four Americans had been killed and three were missing at Puerto Cabezas. No names were given. Argos Editor Expires Argos. Ind., April 14 — (UP) — Funeral arrangements were to be made here today for John M. Wickizer, 58, editor and publisher of the Argos Reflector the past 20 years, who died of appoplexy. He was also Argos postmaster for eight | years. [Seeks Marriage License; Faints In Court House Odon, Ind., April 14. —(U.R) — Securing a license to marry at the Daviess county court house proved too strenuous for Arthur Clements, young Odon farmer. He fainted. He was revived several minutes later by bathing his face with cold water. FIGHT CONTROL GROOP NAMED Governor Names Commission to Control Boxing And Westling Indianapolis, April 14. —(U.R)) —Indiana's new boxing commission appointed by Governor Harry G. Leslie consists of Andrew C. Weisburg. South Bend, Charles F. Artes, Evansville, and Lee Bays, Sullivan. Weisburg was named chairman at the commission’s first meeting. A secretary and five deputies are yet to be selected. Weisburg will serve for one year, Artes for two years and Bays for three. Offices will be in Indianapolis, but not in the statehouse. Official work of the commission cannot begin until the law creating the group becomes effective, it was pointed out today. The laws are now being published and will have to be issued by Governor Leslie. Under the commission, boxing bouts in Indiana will receive official decisions. Matches will be for not' more than 12 rounds, and both boxing and wrestling wil be incharge of deputies. A provision in the bill gives ten per cent of the gross receipts of each fight to the, state. Weisburg and Artes are republicans and Bays is a democrat, although no provision was made in the commission bill regarding politics of the members. Yoder Babe’s Funeral Will Be Wednesday Funeral services for Raymond Yoder, one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Yoder of Hartford township, who died Monday morning at 8 o’clock, will be held Wednesday afternoon at 1:15 o'clock at the home, and at 2 o’clock at the Berne Mennonite church. Burial will be in the M. R. E. cemetery. Death was caused by streptococcus vividans infection of the head and followed an illness of one week. The child was born April 5, 1930. Surviving are the parents, three sisters and one brother, lima Ruth, Vernelle, Evanna, and John Frederick. i

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 14, 1931.

Off for Vatican » IS W f \ WHHHHHKKMF i Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago, (photographed just before he board-. t ed train for New York, whence he I . will sail for Rome, to attend the| opening of the College of I Propaganda. FIRE DESTROYS ROOF OF HOME SBOO Damage Results From . Noon Time Blaze; Origin Not Determined r ) Fire damaged the roof of the Arthur J. Keller residence. 915 1 . North Second street, at 12:20 o’clock this afternoon with a total loss of SBOO. The fire is believed to have ork iginated from sparks from a bonjfire at the St. Mary’s river dump, .'across the street. 11 Neighbors first noticed the blaze. □ | which was well under way, and r turned in the alarm. The local fire department was callecf and fought the flames 35 minutes before they 3 were extinguished. 1 Damage was confined to the roof of the house, which was practically all destroyed, and the attic walls. Some furniture was slightly damaged in the upstairs part of the house. IThe home is owned by August I Walter, and is tenanted by the KelI ler family who spent today in Hunt- | ington on business. Mr. Keller is i editor of the Lutheran Parish Pap- .; er. o Workmen Uncover Plank A lot of folks are getting a view of the old plank road which way back in the days of mud was built from Jefferson to Monroe street. ’(Large logs were laid in first and the planks strung across them. The excavations now being made by 1 the gas company is bringing a lot ' of the logs and planks to’ view. 3 Later large rocks or nigger heads were tossed in on top of the plank ' and this street was thus used unr til 1892 when the first pavement ’ was put in and is still in use. FOREST FIRES STILL RAGING r More Than 100 Blazes Are Reported in Three Northern States t 1 Milwaukee, Wis., April 14—(UP) —More than 100 fires still burned ’ into Northern Wisconsin and up- ■ per Michigan timber and brush 1 areas today as augmented crews of - fire fighters strove to extinguish the blazes and prevent, renewed destruction of forests and villages None of the fires was menacing, but the threat of rising winds drivr ing embers into unburned sections presented a hazard which rangers 1 met by calling for new volunteers. 1 More than 300 men were added to 1 forces combating fires on the Pen- ’ insula'near Escanaba, Michigan. t (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX» j o 1 Funeral Held Today • Funeral services tor John W. I Voglewede, life loilg resident ■ this city who died Saturday night ■ were held at 9 o’clock this morn 5 ing at the St. Mary’s Catholic , church with Father J. A. Seimetz - officiating. Interment was in the St. Joseph Cemetery.

CLIFFORD HESS PLEADS GUILTY Youth Placed Under Probation to Local Attorney For 90 Days ( Clifford Hess, 18, pleaded guilty to petit larceny in Adams circuit court this morning and Judge D. ■ B. Erwin fined him SI.OO and costs and sentenced him to 90 days at the state penal farm. The sentence was suspended and the >oung man was placed on probation for 90 days to Ferd Litterer. | Judge Erwin ordered Hess to report to Mr. Litterer every Sunday morning during the next three months at the Reformed church to attend Sunday iSthool. Judge Erwin warned the young man that in case the probation was broken he would be compelled to serve the full lime of his sentence. The boy's father stayj ed the docket for 30 days during which time the fine and costs [amounting to sll must be paid. Virgil Cook, the other young man riresterl with Hess on a charge of stealing clover-seed from a farm east of Decatur was taken today to the federal reformatory at Chillicothe, Ohio to serve a two year sentence on a federal probation violation. Cook was under a two-year suspended sentence in federal court where he pleaded guilty some time ago to a charge of automobile theft. Reed Pays Fines Willie Reed, local vegetable wagon operator, pleaded guilty to two charges of public intoxication : and in each instance was fined; $lO and costs. A third charge of operating a motor vehicle while ur.c.er the influence of liquor v.a.: continued. Reed paid his fines and costs amounting to SBS. —4> Mission Band Coming On Friday evening, April 17. the Volunteer Mission Band of Manchester College will present a program in the Pleasant Dale Church No admission will be charged, but a free will offering will be lifted at the close of the entertainment. ROWBOTTOM IN FEDERAL COURT Indiana Congressman To Face Postoffice Sale Charges at Evansville Evansville, Ind.. April 14—(U.R)— A SIOO bill was to be introduced in federal court here today as the trial of Harry E. Rowbottom, former Republican congressman i from the old Indiana first district, opened before Judge Charles E. Woodward. District Attorney George Jeffrey ; said he would offer the money as evidence that government jobs were sold in the first district. It is charged that Rowbottom took $750 from Walter Gresham for the appointment of Gresham Ayer, Rockport, as rural letter carrier, and that bills totaling that amount, including seven SIOO notes, were borrowed from the I Citizens’ State Bank at Dale. I Jeffrey staid Miss Evelyn Ayer, sister of Gresham Ayer, would be placed on the stand first, to testi- , fy that William Davisson, one of the four postmasters dismissed in the district after the investigation, came to their home and discussed the appointment. Benjamin Huffman, Republican ; district chairman, Rockport, is . said to have arranged with Walter t Ayer to obtain the money from the Dale bank after the serial numi bers had been recorded. Postal investigators later said they obi tained bills with identical serial numbers from an Evansville bank ’ where they were allegedly depos- , ited by Rowbottom. i o — Rumple Burial Thursday > — . Funeral services will be held Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in Portland for Mrs. George Rumple, 63, former resident of Berne, who died Monday morning with heart trouble. Mrs. Rumple was a sis-ter-in-law to Mrs. Jane Tucker and Mrs. Gideon Rissen of Berne. She formerly resided in Berne, t Surviving are her husband, Geo t rge i Rumple, and two children, Mrs. 3 Fred Pelman and Oscar Lehman i of South Bend. s Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne.

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‘INKLINGS'GETS ALL AMERICAN PRESS RATING Catholic High School Publication Awarded Highest Honor In Contest —— IS EDITED BY LOCAL SCHOOL “Inklings”, Decatur Catholic high school newspaper, has been awarded all-American i rating by the National Scho-[ lastic Press Association, according to word received inDecatur. It is the highest! rating a high school publica-| tion can receive and it is the! first time that “Inklings” has ; been given the high award. The publication, printed monthly by Catholic high school pupils, a year ago was awarded first class rating, the second highest. This is the eleventh year that awards have been made by the national association, which has its headquarters at the University of Minnesota. “Inklings”, a six-column monthly newspaper is edited by Mary Helen Lose. Robert Holthouse is business manager of the publication. The paper is devoted entirely to school news and stories. The complete staff of this' year's publication is as follows: Editor-in-Chief, Mary Helen Lose; associate editor, Flothilda Harris; | associate editor, Patricia HoltIhouse; managing editor, Leo Dowling; news editor, Naomi Faurote; Copy Editor, Helen Teeple; Sports! Editor, Edward Vian; Associate Sports Joseph Voglewedej and Julius Baker; Society Editor,; (Margaret Vian; Associate Society (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Try To Nullify Law Hammond, Ind., April 14— (UP) —Lake County Republicans’ attempt to nullify the new reapportionment law and replace the county in the tenth district will be battled by Democratic organizations Frank R. Martin, chairman of the Lakj County democratic central committee, announced today. Martin made this statement when informed that republicans were planning such a move in order to support representative R. Wood for the speakership of the; house to succeed the late Nicholas Longworth. 0 Seek Directed Verdict Princeton, Ind., April 14.—(U.R)'— The defense's motion for a directed verdict of acquittal in the trial of J. K. Cunningham, Princeton dentist, on a charge of first degree murder, was expected to be entered into the case a second tjme today at the close of the state’s arguments. The motion was first filed last Friday at the close of the state’s direct testimony. o STEPHENSON . DENIES CHARGE I Replies To Rumor That Banks Favored Wage Cuts On Labor Augusta, Ga., April 14 —(UP) — Rome C. Stephenson, president of the American bankers association, today denied charges that bankers are responsible for agitation in favor of general wage reductions Speaking at a meeting of the executive' council of the association, Stephenson said-: "Anyone knows who gives thp matter the slightest thought, that wage levels are controlled by impersonal economic principles. They are not subject to the real or supposed personal wishes of any individuals or groups of individuals. Wages are paid out of the earned incomes of industry. If general economic conditions so effect incomes . that international -economies are necessary, certainly no one is personally to blame for that.” Asserting that "Wages of Money” interest rates on loans and investments —have decreased, as well as “wages of capital invested in industry” he intimated that if industrial wage cuts are to be made, it is a matter for each industry to decide.

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Old Oaken Bucket Is Stolen From Indiana U. Bloomington, Ind.. April 14. (UP) I —The old oaken bucket no longer I hangs in the Indiana University I trophy room. In its place is an electric fan and a scribbled note which says, "I came to Indiana this semester for the sole purpose of relieving you of this bucket.” The trophy, long a symbol of victory on the gridiron between Indiana and Purdue, was last seen in its glass ease at 10 p. m. Saturday. Scratches* made by a screw driver when the glass was removed are the only evidence of the work of the thief. Indiana officials have not yet taken the matter seriously. They i believe it is a joke and that the I bucket will be returned, as it was [after a short disappearance last . fall. o JBNIOB HIGH AWARDS MADE Leaders And Diggers Are Announced at Central For Six Week Term The Leader and Digger awards were presented to the winning pupils of the Central building, for work completed the last six weeks, The pupils having the highest grades in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades received the awards and are as follows. Eighth Grade A Leaders: Eula Myers, Mary Jane Schafer, Madeline Spahr, MaryJane Linn, Marciel Leatherman, Kathleen Odle, Gladys Doan, Alice Jane Archbold, Helen Gay, ! Martha Erma Butler. Harriet (Frutjite, Pauline Affolder, Mildred I Gause, Marjorie Johnson, Ixniise : Kiess. Martha Elizabeth Callant!, Jeanette Beery, Calvin Magley, Richard Brodbeck, Sephus Jackson, Wm. Elston, Evelyn Kohls. Eighth Grade B Leaders Virginia Brokaw, Mary Ann Bauman. Eileen Wells. Diggers: Robert E. Johnson, Paul Hilyard. Grade Seven A Leaders: Agnes Nelson, Ruth Porter, Corolene Townsend, Lois {Mann, Robert Engeler, Harry Moyer, Billy Schafer, Walter Summers, Diggers: Madaline Crider. Eileen Jackson, Juanita Johnson. Wilma Miller, Lawrence Johnson, Dale Myers.. Grade Seven B Leaders: Robert Brodbeck, Lewis Beery, Harold Zimmerman. Evelyn Adams, Catherine Jackson, Catherine Murphy. Daggers: Kenneth Gause, Raymond Wilso, Elaine Gaffer, Ruby Ladd, Betty Jean Short. Grade Six A Leaders: Arthur Sffnderman, Donald Bixler, Lawrence Anspaugh, Edna Beane, Alice K. Baker, Jean(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o . Resolution Is Found Indianapolis, April 14. — (U.R)—A house resolution having to do with codification of insurance laws, which was reported lost, has been found among papers of Charles Kettleborough, chief of the legis- , lative bureau, and will be effective as planned, Kettleborough announced. The resolution will not, however, be printed with the 1931 acts. | 0 Sapp Named Trustee Mishawaka, Ind., April 14. —(U.R) —Two trustees for Depauw University, Greencastle, Ind., were appointed at tlie closing session here of the North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal - church. They were A. A. Sapp. Huntington. and C. H. Neff, Anderson. o Orchard Foreman Dies Lafayette, Ind., April 14-(UP) — The body of Thomas J. Barnes, 71 \ Orchard foreman at Purdue univer- , sity ,who died of a heart attack at his West Lafayette home Monday will be sent to Mt. Healthy, 0., for burial. o Justice Is On Trial i Crown Point, Ind.. April 14 (UP) i —A blind justice of peace, William O. Day, was the appear in circuit ’ court here today to answer charg- ■ es of usurpation of office. His trial > is the first of a series expected to ■ revise the justice of peace and conI stable situation here. The action i was started by R. G. Estill, Lake , county prosecutor.

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NEW REPUBLIC TO SUPPLANT OLD MONARCHY Royal Family To Leave Under Protection; Will Depart For Paris NO BLOODSHED IN ABDICATION Madrid, April 14. — <U.R)i — King Alfonso XIII has resigned, Premier Juan B. Aznar announced today. Spain, one of the few remaining strongholds of monarchy, will become a republic. Niceto Alcala Zamora, leader of the country’s republicans and popular choice tor president, drafted a republican government in conference with his aides in Madrid. Republics already had been proclaimed in Barcelona and Seville, where great scenes or rejoicing took place as the people burned portraits of the king and paraded in the streets. Confirmation of the king’s resignation came after a morning of momentous events, during which history was made and the house of Bourbon removed from the throne. Tne king, it was understood, gave up the throne in favor of a repnl)lic, instead of merely removing himself by abdicting in favor of his son. Huelva, Spain, April 14.—(U.R) — Two men were killed in the village ot Dalarosa today when civil guards . clashed with villagers attempting I to celebrate the formation of a republic. , Dr. Gregorio Maranon, one of the . republican leaders, revealed that ■ the king agreed to quit on the following conditions: That he be permitted to leave Spain with appropriate honors, be permitted time to arrange his personal belongings, and be given full military honors on his departure. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Billy Sunday Threatens To Run For Governor South Bend, Ind.. April 14.—(U.R) 1 —Billy Sunday, evangelist, will be. a candidate for governor of Indiana next year on a dry piatform if both parties nominate wet aspirants, he told 1,800 persons at an Anti-Saloon League educational meeting here. "If I am a candidate, they’ll know I have been running,” the famous lecturer declared. Sunday branded wet groups as "a gang of black-hearted riffraff 1 and traitors.” Both republican and democratic parties forfeit all rights to existence if they nominate wet candidates, he said. o Ferntheil Girl Hurt Mary Ann Ferntheil, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. 11. H. Ferntheil of ■ this city suffered a painful injury i this morning. While playing with • some other children the child was ■ struck about the left eye by a swing ■ board. It was necessary for a pny- ■ sician to take four stitches to mend the wound. 0 FARMERS ABIDE BY STATE LAW I i lowa Farmers Submit To Cattle Tuberculosis Tests On Farms Tipton, la., April 14 —(UP) —The rebellion of Cedar county farmers against tests of their dairy herds for Bovine tuberculocis came to a ■ peaceful end today when state vet- ' erinarians were permitted to ga about their work without opposition. The Belligerence was at an end at least temporarily, after a conference between Gov. Dan W. Turner and 25 protesting farmers at lowa City yesterday. An underi standing appeared to be general i that the critical situation which t has existed for the last week would ■ not reappear. I Many farmers openly voiced their > objections to the test today, but - declared that for tlie time being at i least they could do nothing in the > face of Governor Turner’s insistence that the law be enforced.