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liesmenare ■GENEVA FOR ■M MEETING I __ ’‘‘lljn Visits Home Os K^ c ol Nations In POINTS ■\ K | IMI’ORTXNT -'flu Apr. -I ihsiiH ii trom |ir i ~| || lr world (~'IKA.I lodav |K,, Mt;d international disarmament and the conflict, "as the lirsl Slates seerelarv oi i (l Vl si| the league ot I H-’ii' I. Stimson.l i ■ •’ will, Andre ,i li govern .. n-idered a < rat ion. K,, will not supercede Gibson head of the K a ,!,■],-e.ition. The Amer • was K'o specula- - new disarmament to Tarilieu at Paris, pro ai>n... of different arm- o-dmtion in differof the world. This known as hemispheric compromise the iipin.smv French and H-iniicli Rruening of .John Siiqon. foreign cretary, were Inst tn at 41wtn ,n rival of Stimson party from Paris. ■er Day" Is Planned ' I •■' 14. s I-- .!• •• -t rat um have - .lames He congress may be High'll to a bill at this ■ tax. ||H in- 1 ■ • .1 Ihe add iIHV"". I "'' ■ ''l .i d lie believed ■■•<l lev .. |B' linii’i -HI hull- and- ■ Ordered From (ounty if, iCl >) Js foitnei ly ol K ,-d to six ha-.-,, the county at of tin tertn in circuit i;.,i-.. u s intoxica|M other lines, assault and and drawng a deadly wea were n file against Cos■fiiher Funeral Held ral s *’’vices for Mrs. Lewis Deratin' woman, who died Adams County Memorial S' Wednesday evening, were i|B his morning at 9 o'clock at ., daughter. Mr .. [!n!! , BB nt Fort Wayne, and later Methodist Episcopal church |O“ v il’>e. Burial was in the I. <). at Pennville. pWER LOCAL I MAN EXPIRES Paul Jones Found Bad In Winchester II Hotel Thursday >( 1 has peen received here by Sprague, of the death of a W' r business associate and De7r" <i ,' ?nt ’ H- Paul Jones. "““aii, who died suddenly ■j;. a ‘ V nißht at a hotel in Win',ones wa * found dead in bed ■ s te '’ ai 'd ( ' eat h was said p een due to heart trouble. ■tn. u ea3ed form erly resided in ■ ' taring been associated in Kn ü bHSineSS With Mr - S P ra ' ■« r three years, 1927 to 1929®c k na UrV ' S<l by his widow and ri rp "- Fl| neral services will ' fr ' l,n the home in Harlan

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Gets Life Sentence —- 1 I Terre ’lliiiite. Ind, April 16 — I (IIP) Emniitt I’eiir in was seiitenc led to life Imprisonment today after I a jury found him guilty on a I second degree murder charge in < connection with the. death of Wil Ham Brook.- during a roadhouse fight. Witness* s testified during the trial that Pearson bout Brooks with a gun. Mrs. Gladys McKay, at whose establishment the fight occurred, was found guilty on a charge of violating liquor laws. She wus sen ’ tenced to alt months in prison and fined s6m». CLEAN-UP WEEK DATES ARE SET Local Drive To Remove Rubbish To Be Held April 25 To 30 — The annual Clean-up Week in De- i catur will be observed from April 25 to April 3d. Amos Fisher, city street commissioner, will be In charge of the cleanup campaign and was completing arrangements today for the gathering and disposal of the winter’s ai-ciimulalioli of debris. Mr Fi-her requested citizens to have the Hixes or containers of tin cans and other debris, except ashes, placed in the alleys not later than Monday. April 25<The trucks will start out Tuesdaj- morning to gather it up. Persons living in districts where they do not have an alley at the side Jr at the back of the house, are asked to place the containers in from of the house. Because of warm weather and the fa/t that the street cleaning dejtai tiaa. d» the wor. M ;he .k*st ’ "vfeA in April, the clean up week was shoved up one week. Heretofor It has been observed during the first week in May. The cooperation of citizens is asked. Mr. Fisher stated that four extra men would be employed in the clean-up drive and that it would ' be impossible for the trucks to gather up the boxes and barrels of cans, bottles etc., after the designated week. o— ——- Linn Funeral Held Funeral services for Catherine Ann Linn, three day old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Linn who died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital. Friday afternoon, were held at 10 o'clock this morning at the home. 320 Winchester street. Rev. M. W. Sunderman, pastor of the First Evangelical church of.iciated. and burial was in the Decatur Cemetery. A post mortem was held at four o'clock Friday afternoon to determine the cause of the baby's death, and it was found the baby died from an obstruction of the bowels. o Play To Be Given Final preparations are being made by the cast for the staging of “Nora. Wake I'p" in the Catholic high sehojl auditorium on Sunday evening. April 17 at 8 o'clock. The play is a comedy drama in three acts, and a full evening's enjoyment is in store tor those attending. Tickets have been on sale by members of the Catholic Ladies social club, and good results are being reported Welfare Worker Dies 1 Rockford, 111., April 16. — (U.R) — I Julia Clifford Lathrop, internationally known child Welfare worker, was dead today following an oper- | ation for removal of goiter. She was 74 years old. Miss Lathrop, who was the first head of the Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department ot Lalvor. devoted her career to social problems . specializing in Child Welfare. Two Solons Are Wet Washington, April 16. — (U.R) I Wyoming's two senators are align I ed without qualification today witli . the steadily growing senate group i which seeks resubmission of the i eighteenth amendment to the peo- - pie. Senators Kendrick, Dem., and I Carey, Repn., Wyoming, and both I considered dry, announced jointly i last night that they would vote to resubmit prohibition to the people.

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INSULL BUILT I GREAT EMPIRE i OUT OF MONEY Largest Business Venture In World Now In Hands Os Court OUTC OME IS NOT KNOWN BULLETIN , Chicago. April 16.—(U.R)—Rei ceiverships were asked in federal court today for three additional units in the Public Utility empire founded by Samuel Insult The companies which sought federal court protection for orderly liquidation were the Incull Utilities investment Company, Mississippi Valley Utility Investment Company and Corporation Securities Company. Chicago, Apr. 16- rise and fall of a mighty business em--pile after a tattle of years with the OtisrEatou interests was seen Imlay in the receivership granted Samuel Insull's $2,500,000,000 <lomain. The battle had its beginning in! the tremendous bull market which] ended in October 1929. • during, which Cyrus Eaton and his friends] started buying into the utility] field What the end of the story of that battle will be is unknown But both interests now are in financial trouble. And the colos sal Insull system that fed electric current from riverbank turbipe to) tjip wutSxslirvp, am! home jp thjm ‘ sands of eofiimunities is under lliel" guidance of federal court. Three receivers have been named Sam uel Insull himself. Charles A. McCulloch. a taxi and restaurant, magnate, an.l Edward N- Hurley.| financier. Similar protection is expected' today for Insull Utility Invest ments.. Inc., and Corporation Securities Co., of Chicago. Receivership of United Public Service Co. of New Jersey. United Public] Utilities and Southern United Gas I (CnNTINUWD ON PAGE TWO) JUDGE GIVEN PRISON TERM North Carolina Superior Court Judge Sentenced To Jail Raleigh. N. C.. Apr. 16—(U.R)— Grey-haired Judge John H. Harwood of the North Carolina superior court' and his 27-year-oid daughter. Lola, are behind prison bars today—because the daughter speculated in stocks to finance a romance, and the tlistinguished father altered court records to save her from disgrace. They were sentenced at the termination of a dramatic court! scone late yesterday—a scene th.it , would have provided a thriller for! just such a stage production as.) say. ‘'Coquette.'' or “The Trial ofj Mary Dugan." High state officials and members of the bar, for years associates of Judge Harwood, were gathered in the Wake county court room. The daughter, known to all of them as a trusted clerk of the department of revenue, cried and hid her face in a handkerchief as the trial began. Solicitor J. C. Little read the indictment. The state prepared to call the first witness. The defense made its dramatic announcement that a plea of guilty would be entered. Judge Harwood, 52 years old. former assistant attorney general and a member of a socially prominent state family, went to the iCOS'TIX'I'Pn ON PAGE SIX) 0 Rest Room Re-Decorated The Library Rest Room was redec mated and cleaned during the past week by the ladies of the Civic Section of the Woman's Club. The walls were painted, the woodwork was cleaned, and the room was beautifully decorated 'The rest room is maintained by the Civic Section.

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5 Killed in Explosion ii'L . MM 1, ,1 . -■ W"’- — 9Hb • .-w |B hr f* M—FMIMMMI^—— II ■ I" 1 Five men were killed and fifty-seven injured in terrific explosion which wrecked the newly built $6,000,000 state office building at Columbus. Ohio. Upper photo shows exterior of IXiilding tollowing blast. Bottom photo shows firemen searching rains for injured ami i dead.

FLARE SIGNAL '■ CAUSES STIR ___ Developments In Kidnap Case Not Made Public By Police Hopewell. N. J.. Apr. Iff—(U.R) - 1 A magnesium flare lighted earl; ] today at the hottie of Col. Charles | A. Lindbergh atop Sum land moun-l i lain, illuminated the countryside ! for miles, and led observers to be , ■ lievc it was a signal having a sig 1 nificant bearing on efforts to reI turn the flier's kidnaped son. State police at Trenton said that a state trooper stationed at | l the Lindbergh home had found the | flare yesterday. It was described: as being an old one. a “dud." The trooper decided to test it, so ' shortly after midnight he took it into the yard and lighted it. An aviation expert at Hopewell said tlie flare was of the type designed for parachute landings at night, costing from SSO to $75 each. He estimated it could have been seen from the air 60 miles distant and from the ground for 20 miles. The flare burned for five minutes, throwing out an intense white light which was made more 1 conspicuous by the elevation of; Ithe Lindbergh home. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) o GALM RULES IN 'I STRIKE REGION Guardsmen Enforce New Rule Prohibiting Strikers In Mine Area Cadiz. O„ April 16— (U.R)-A tense calm settled over the Harrison county coal fields today as 300 National Guardsmen grimly set about enforcing a county proclamation, prohibiting strikers from congregating within a mile of the county's six mines. More troops were expected to be mobilized to enforce the order which was issued by Sheriff Maurice Wooster after two men had died 'and more than a score injured in a series of clashes between strikers and workers. Adjt. Gen. Frank D. Henderson was scheduled to confer with Governor George White at Columbus regarding the necessity of sending more troops to the troubled area. The proclamation cited that a] condition of lawlessness existed, in-] terfering with peaceful travel upon] (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) j

Week-end Fares Cut The Nickel Plate road announces | a great jedm lion in its Week-end: | fares which will go into ifffeTt Tri-. ' day. April 29, and l>e available belt ween all points on the line, and | I also to many o.f the line. The new fares provide for a basis | lof approximately one and one. |tenth of the regular one way fare I i for the round trip- Tickets will be ; I good going on noon and later trains j I on Friday and all trains Saturday I with a return limit to leave destina- ; Ilion up to 4:uo A. M. the follow- ' ing Tuesday. Tickets will lie hon- 11 ored in Pullman cars at the usual cost for s. ace occupied. : GIRL BELIEVED TO BE KIDNAPED Daughter Os Wealthy Manufacturer Missing Since Friday BULLETIN Wilimington. Del., April 16. (UR) —Nine-year-old Hilda Brodsky, kidnaped while enroute to school yesterday, is safe and will be returned tonight to her parents, according to a telephone call a woman made to Brodsky today. Wilmington. Del.. Apr. 16. (U.R) —Nine year old Hilda Brodsky has been threatened with bodily injury. police believe, in what they say was a ransom note mailed special delivery to her wealthy father by supposed kidnapers in Washington, D. C. ; The girl failed to appear for ' classes at school Friday morning. and so far as is known, has not been seen since that time, although attorneys for her hosiery manufacturer father announced the kidnaping report "is only a rumor.” Harry Brodsky, jobber and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) i—o Quit Car Service Indianapolis, April 15 —(UP) — Abandonment of street car service in Michigan City was authorized by the public service commisson. effective at midnight, April 15. The city is served by the northern Indiana railway. Inc., which petitioned. through its receiver, for the aibandoment because of declining revenues. The petition pointed out that the revenues had declined gradually since 1927 and the comnanv suffered a deficit of $7,969.31 in 1931. Tlie commission’s order said I there was little opposition to the I abandoment voiced at a hearing on I the petition.

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ROOSEVELT HAS I 245 VOTES ON FIRST BALLOT Anti-R«osevclt Movement Unable To Stop State Stampede 1 < MANY STATES (JET ON WAGON —l’ Washington. Apt'. Hi. (U.R) 'lhe thing that makes the “stop Boosevelt generals: tear their hair is the wav thel New York governor eon-1 tiniies to pile lip delegates.l He has salted a wav 215 sure Voles. 'I his week Boosevelt wrap-i ped up Michigan, Kentucky I and Nebraska for delivery at the Chicago convention. Hei snuggled up close) toward the 50 convention votes of Illinois with increasing likelihood of taking them, or a good part of them, whop they arc released by Senator James Hamilton Lewis to whom they are to be pledged. Roosevelt's rivals have been held entirely to their own states, I except Governor Murray whose] brother got on die North Dakota delegation, the remainder of which went to Roosevelt. This has happened while some of the leading politicians in the party were saying privately that | Roosevelt was pretty light for the , White House. They said it so many times that, though still pro ] (CONTINI’RD ON PAGE SIX) I SHOWDOWN ON ! CASE IS URGED Darrow Leaves Sick Bed to Defend Four Americans in Honor Killing ] Courtroom. Honolulu. T. H., April , 16. (U.R) Clarence Darrow was , 'confronted by prosecution demands] I for an immediate showdown In naming the slayer of Joe Kahah- ' awai when he arose today from a sick bed to resume defense of four j accused Americans. Tlie murder trial, interrupted at ] a crucial point by the aged attorney’s illness, was to continue to day in a conference of judge and opposing counsel with Darrow sac I ing one of the most important bat- i ties of his case. John Kelley, fiery territorial pros-1 |ccutor who seeks life sentences] |for Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue.] her navy officer son-in-law. Lieut. (J. G.) Thomas H. Massie, and Seamen A. O. Jones and E. J. laird, an- i nounced he will resist further defense testimony until the actual slayer is brought into the open. The demand was aimed chiefly at Lieut. Massie, whose graphic story ot a brutal attack on his wife by a gang of island hoodlums—one of whom allegedly was Kahahwaj — has been the only mitigating evi(CnNTINUED ON PAGE SIN) G.O.P, MAKES FINAL PLANS Sen. Dickinson Named Keynoter At Republican National Meet Chicago, April 16 —(U.R) United States Senator L. J. Dickinson of lowa, President Hoover’s home state, was named temporary chairman and "keynoter" of the Republican national convention next June at a conference of party leaders here today. Simeon D. Fess. Ohio, chairman of the Republican national committee, announced Dickinson's appointment. Fess also announced the following additional appointments of convention officials after the committee meeting at the Congress hotel. Parliamentarian. J. Fran ci 8 Burke. PennsylvaniaAssistant Parliamentarian. Lehr Fess. Ohio. Chief Doorkeeper. Col. Glenn C. Haynes. Des Moines, la. Assistant to chief doorkeeper, .1. N. Johnson, Kansas.

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Elks Plan Convention Elks lodges of Northern Indiana I will meet In state convention al [ Ligonier on Sunday. Ajiril 21. An initiation Iwil he held In tlie aflrrn «>n at the Elk's home and an lull day program has been arranged The Gary Flks band ot 60 pieces land Halloway's Tigh Tension oi[i beslra of La Porte will furnish I music. Several members of Decatur 1 dge No. 993 are planning to attend the meeting. A public band concert will be given in the afternoon at the Ligionier high school. REPEALISTS TO MEET HERE Monday Night Set For Organization of County Repeal Association : A public meeting of persons in- ] terested in tlie repeal of the E’S’hteenth (Prohibition) Amendment, has been called for 7:30 o'clock Monday evening at the Chamber of C immeree rooms in this city. The meeting is for the purpose of completing a local organization |to be affiliated with the "AssociaI tian Against tlie Prohibiton Amendment." W. A. Klepper, general manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., has consented to act as temporary chairman of the meeting. Similar organizations have been organized j I in many Indiana cities and through- • 'out the country. It was emphatically stated that I the organization is not a so called ; "wet” organization, because includied in its membership are men and women who strongly believe in tern- ] perenee, but are opposed to the 'present system of prohibition anil > I evils, which are admitted! by the I most ardent dry. leaders of the movement stated. The Association is “opposed in i all re-pects to the return of the saloon and believes that the control of the sale of liquor is an economic one and that better moral conditions will lie brought about through the repeal of the prohibition amendi ment and enactment of new legisI lation. I The meeting is opened to the pubI lie and those-interested are invited ’ to attend. TARIFF ON OIL IS ATTACKED — Native Resources Are Good For 10 Years, Committee Hears i Washington, April 16. —(U.R)—The . known oil resources of the United States will "last a scant decade,” importers of foreign oil told the senate finance committee today. They were testifying in opposition • to the proposal to levy an oil tar- ■ iff as part of tlie new liillion-dollar I revenue bill. Paul H. Harwood, vice president of the Pan American Petroleum and Transport Co., which operates Venezuelan oil wells, denied the 42 tents a barrel levy proposed in tlie ! revenue bill would produce the I estimated revenue or that foreign 'foil is produced with “cheap peon I ] labor." Citing decreased oil imjiorts in '1931 and increased mid-continent i ! production. Harwood said that the j “cheap crude which is swamping 'tlie American market” conies not , trom abroad but from "the East Texas field forming a part of the •'territory sought to he protected by • the proponents of a tariff." ’ Harwood estimated the one-cent • a gallon levy on imported gasoline ■ would costs the American public $200,000,000 a year, "a large part r of which would be paid by the farmers." ’ Twenty major companies con4 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) — o Noted Author Dies f Chicago, April 16 —(UP) —Wlater 4 Noble Burns, newspaper man and author, was dead today following • an emergency operation. He was .’.il year-; old. r Burns, who was best known for hio "Saga of Billy the Kid” uud other stories of the old southwest, led an active and adventurous life ; as soldier, sailor, war correspondent and author-

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WOULD REDUCE SERVICE COST OF WAR VETS Submits Plan Through Budget Director For Large Savings IS PART OF NEW PROGRAM Washington, April 16.—(U.R) —Details of President Hoover’s plans for reducing the cost ot services of World war veterans were explained officially today to the house economy committee by Director of Ihe Budget lioop. The program lor ihe y< terans was one phase of the President’s general economy I suggestions which also included a 'general "furlough" provision for federal employes in lieu of a wage leduction, and tlie suggestion that Mr. Hoover receive blanket authority to reorganize government departments. Roop's statement was the first official explanation of the administration's attitude on economy measures for veterans. Through the budget director, Mr. Hoover proposed : 1— That no World war veterans having an income of $1,500 (if single) and $3,500 (if married I and’ i S4OO for each dependent, shall lie ■ entitled to any allowance or pension or free hospitalization except those suffering from combat disabilities. 2 — No person receiving free treatment or subsistence in a government hospital or home shall receive more than S2O per mouth, it without dependents, or $75 per month if with dependents, the ilif- ■ ference to be applied to the support of such home or hospital 3— Requires for officers six months service prior to November 11, 1918, and war connected disa billty. 4 — Eliminates payments in Mett of wages while under examination for claims against the government. 5 — Abolishes retroactive allowances for more than six months prior to date of determination or review of allowances or pensions. 6 — Provides that al! men receiving allowances who enlisted alter Nov. 11, 1918 are placed upon the iion-war disability basis. 7— Modifies the procedure tn suits I against the government so as to require review upon the basis ot ' evidence before the administration but does not eliminate jury trials. The President also asks sweeping ( authority in his bill to effect consolidations in the federal governi ment. with a view to efficiency anil | economy. Congress would have the right to ’ veto such executive action within • 60 days after its direction by tho President. ! The bill also provides that numerous consolidations shall be -car--1 ried into effect immediately with- ' out further congressional sanction. Included in this group are public works activities: public health a<I tivities; personnel administration: • merchant marine activities; con- > (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) GUTS URGED BY II ; SURVEY GROUP State Tax Survey Coni- ( mission Favors Drastic Appropriation Cuts Indianapolis. Apr. 16. — (U.R) ~" Drastic reductions in public expenditures was recommended by . tlie Indiana tax survey committee as "the only major way of bringing about tax appreciate relief tliat will aid the majority of tho citizens of the state " Tlie recommendation was included in a preliminary report which pointed out that Hie committee had been engaged in rer search in taxation problems since I 1929, during tlie entire period of r the present depression. a "Our committee is of the opinion that public expenditures can r Le materially reduced in the stale ( at the present lime.” the report stated. "Tlie proof of this method p of solving the tax problems as they now exist within this state (CONTINt'ED ON PAGE TWO*