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RW TELLS IfIEIAIIVES ■iJ.S.POROLL ■ Parti*—’ Members Hy of Placing Many ■etativcs on Salaries BoMY TO I STRIKE HARD I'nitcd Press) IIH ■. \i"H 23 <uw K>n ss 14 <■ lli n S '»> > |K io ill.- limitation Kcrm:"'" ei'ollOlllV Im 1 - m>l <'<‘ll I’l'CS- . 'll inv< stipule <i hotlv <>l ■npl, \ r< prcseiifali'es. H| coli;;l'i'ss should ever ■ hmn ami tell all. as Ern, Dent.. 11 . the United [|..ii!' *v■■■ iLi informnothing ,h..v, mi graft. heav- - putting their wives. it others. broth tep -< hildren ; t.'taries amt dm? that many of d r. ln. tves actually <h.)u that others do on payday. 'tom a farm belt KK.. revealed bringing »ho. with six months college training, was his office payroll last at a salary higher thau r stenographers office. Deni.. Miss., liifcirthe wirhl war veterans of lite house, would be as secretary of a capable young until recently also was as a newspaper corvesin Jackson, Miss. He t > Washington > few ■ the genial Senator bat Dem. Miss., whose speech about the “love Mti bull frog" described in a ■nt-fit pamphlet has provides one bright spot in the debate; maintained a on th., payroll last sumMl":t she has since been |N> ■ chairman of the senate com■on audit and control is Br John G. Townsend. Jr., ■ Cel. The c ommittee clerk Bl I. Townsend Grace TownBib" appeared on the senate B during the recess last sumFelix Hebert. Repn. B« chairman of the senate Btee on patents. Marguerite Bis listed as one of the Bttee clerks. Both live at Bum Park hotel. Dorothy ■ remained on the payroll ■hont the long summer vaeaB a clerk in the office of Br Fess. Repn., O. Senator ■x'llVl'lMi ON page six> fHE SY STEM |l IE CHANCED r''" s Co. Gets PermisF’ n To Merge Two FAchange Stations fMpolia, April 23.—(U.R)—The r ls Telephone Company of De |»as authorized by the Public Commission to abandon its fone exchange at Linn Grove Isetve the Linn Grove sub- ■ rs through the Berne ex- ■ fr°ns will not be charged the L "' e transfer, the order rulfd shall be charged rates now |' 1 1 at the Berne exchange. . ontpany stated it Incurred a 1,,',' 1257.89 in operating the i ,rnv ° exchange last year. I - —o—— Gets Painful Cut Paris .han Sheets, Iff month F 'Kilter of Mr. and Mrs. ChalL '. rts ° f North Second street L" a ! cttt on her left arm. early i <J n nK near her .home on L_ COntt B,r eet. The child was lon * Pol> hottie when she wits .K* Mewa!k ’ cutting her L ’ the broken glass. Four fouui ret|uired close

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Parent-Teachers Meet The Wag,| Pan.ni Teachers Association will meet at the seitool buildinu, Tuesday a ternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The meeting will he the annual observance of May Day. w.i! h Is X it.’mal Child Health i 1 Day. j i\ feature >f the program will be [the motion picture film furnished! I by the Child Hygiene Division of! the State Board of Health. All parents of South Ward pupils are invited i«.» he present. This will be the last meeting of the yetrr. TAX PAYMENTS REPORTED SLOW I About Half of Spring Installment Paid With Only Week Remaining '! With only a week remaining fori [[the payment of the spring install ! nient of taxes without a penalty! Ibeing added, more than half of thei .'current tax remained unpaid today,l .-Migs Alice Lenhart, deputy in the' office of John Wechter, county jtteastirer. stated today. i The real rush has not started, al-1 'though the office has been busy for the past week. Yesterday's receipts, ■ totaled slO,Oll. Up tq April 21, thei ■total collected was $112.450.05. In order that all taxes be paid-byj i Monday. May 2. the last day to pay ' the spring installment without the , 10 per cent, penalty being added? ! collections will have to average. [I more than $30,000 per day, during' Ithe next week. Miss Lenhart stat‘'ed. J Delinquent tax collected since the II first of the year amounts to $25.1041.06 and tax placed on the dupli- . care totaled $24 09. The spring mstaHment of taxes ‘ amounts to a little over $355,000. t ! The tax bill is lower this year, due ; the reductions made in levies last i year by several of the taxing units. | . o r CAPONE SLEUTH IS PROMOTED! I — Investigator Is Chief Ol ‘ Chicago Area For Distinguished Work Chicago. April 23.— (U.R) — Apr pointment of Elliott Ness, who was . chiefly responsible for gathering : evidence leading to indictment of - Al Capone and 6S others on prohi- > hit ion law conspiracy charges, to - the post of chief investigator for the Chicago prohibition enforcet merit district was announced today • by Administrator Malachie L. Har-j “|ney. Ness led investigators in uncover-. ’ ing 5.000 acts of Capone ami others I that the government charged con-1 - stituted a liquor ring conspiracy, f Some of the charges are still pend- • ing, including those against Capone. now in jail. Nesa was assaistant chief of the special intelligence unit of the proLibition department when Alexander Jamie, now chief investigator for the “secret six.” headed that unit. | i William Messel Loses Eye In Strange Mishap , I An operation was performed Friday morning on William Messel. Jr., young salesman of Geneva, for the removal of his left eye, which ' was destroyed in an accident at • the home of his pirents Thursday ' night. 1 The young man who nad been 1 shot putter of much ability several years ago. was practicing in the ■ yard of his parents home. Near the ring from which he was putting '■ the host stood a post about 30 ' inches hig.i a point protruding ir bove it. When he completed the shot, Messel swung to the left and stoop--1 ed. striding his left eye against the point at the top of the post. Woman Is Governor Baton Rouge, La., April 23—< TTP) —Louisiana's chief executive today was “Her Excellency," Miss Alice Lee Grossjean, pretty 25-year-old brunette. Miss Grosjean became acting governor in the absence of Governor Alvin O. King, who is attending a governor's conference at Rich- | uwnd, Ya ■

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Mooney Receives News of Defeat — » Lk Lilk LJS -. JgWH&gn nMMMBMWMiMaBaaMMana** Warden J J. Ilolohan (right! of California state prison telling Thomas J. Mooney of Governor Ralph's [decision that Mooney must serve his term for dynamiting 1916 preparedness parade.

COMMENCEMENT IS ANNOUNCED Monmouth High School Seniors To Be Graduated April 25 Commencement exercises will be I , held in the Monmouth gymnasium I Monday night, April 25. at 8 o’clock ' I for the ei -ht members of the gr id- i uating clas s of the Monmouth High School. Tile address will lie given by Hess Fi-wnUin lJ<Kktidgu uud.diplp.- [ mas will lie presented to the members of Lie class by the superin-] tendent o tlte Adams County : schools, Clifton E Striker. Baccalaureate services will be • 'held in tho Zion Reformed Church in this city next Sunday night. ' April 24. The annual reception and [ banquet for t'.is grgaduating class! | was held in the dining hall of] I tho Rice 13 tel last Wednesday i ; evening. The names of llie eLht graduates !

lure Fred Brokaw. Doyle Lytle. Alice Reinhart. James Moses, Russell I ■ Fleming. Thearl Sutils. Helen Fair h id. and Herman Bittner. Following is the complete pro- j I grant for the commencement exer-1 rises: M re'.'. —Orchestra. invocation Rev. B. H. Franklin. Music —Orchestra. Instrumental duet, Fred Brokaw and Litella Brokaw. Accompanied by Mrs. R. 0. Wynn. Address Ross Franklin LtxtkI ridge. * Music—Orchestra. Presentation of Seniors —ITinci- ! pal R. A. Endaly. Presentation of Diplomas —Superintendent Clifton E. Striker. Benediction— Rev. B. H. Franklin. KIDNAP PLOT IS FRUSTRATED Attempt Made To Capture Entire Family In Indianapolis Indianapolis. April 23 (U.R) — Quick action by Katherine ta Prenta, daughter of Dr. Vincent La Prenta. Italian consul for Indiana, frustrated a purporte attempt to kidnap the entire family here last night. Two men approached Dr. La Prenta as he returned to the auto in which his wife and daughter were waiting. One pressed a revolver against his side and forced him into the front seat of the machine, beside the daughter. The gunman also entered the front seat. The second man sat beside Mrs. Ta Prenta in the rear seat. After Dr. La PrerAa wnd his wife had been rolfbed of $25 each ; one of the men said, "start the , machine and let’s go." i The daughter, police were told, . seized the ignition key and threw 1 it into the street. When the gun- 1 man demanded the key, the daugh- I ter leaped from the machine and I called for help. Both men ran < from the auto and escaped. i

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Leslie Tries Trick Indianapolis, April 23. (U.R) An I experiment in which Governor I Harry G. Leslie posed as an expert panhandler has convinced him that I begging as a profession' has reached new heights during tho depress--1 ion. Loading his pockets with nickels [and dimes and one or two quarters [Governor Leslie sauntered up Meridian street. He was approa lied Iby a man whom he reported ‘equally well dressed." with the customary query: | "Say. mister, can you give me a dime?” I The governor carefully extracted all (his coins and displayed them 'pnnußy. "I've been working the “ttflbr side of the street and had i pretty good luck.” he explained 1 Quickly the stranger came back |with the advice: i “Don't go showing it around like [that, or they'll get wise to you:" NOTED BRITISH ! EDITOR DIES

Newspaper Man Drowns Late Friday; Was Rowing Near Yacht Windemere, England. April 23 (U.R>—Edviard T. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian and a member of one of England's most famous newspaper families, was drowned in Lake Windemere late yesterday. Scott was rowing in a dinghy to his yacht anchored in the lake. He was accompanied by his son. Richard. The dinghy capsized. While the boy clung to the keel, Scott started to swim ashore. He was a strong swimmer, but disappeared after swiifiming only about 50 yards. His body was recovered this afternoon. Scott, who was 48 years old. succeeded his father, the late Chafles P. Scott, as editor of the Manchester Guardian in 1929. The elder Scott hud made the newspaper one of the greatest of modern times. He edited Wie Guardian from 1872 until lie died in 1919 The younger Scott was born at Manchester Nov. 15. 1883. and was educated at Rugby, Oxford, and the London School of Economics. He was private secretary and aide-de-camp to Sir Sydney Oliver, governor of Jamaica, from 1907 to 1919. He returned to England and joined the Guardian staff in 1921. He served in the Royal Field Artillery during the world war. • Scott married Miss Malde Josephine Hobson, daughter of John Atkinson Hobson, noted writer on economics and sociology. Mrs. Scott's mother was the former Florence Edgar of New York. Decatur Men Attend Van Wert Reception Judge Dore B. Erwin. C. J. Lutz, H. M. DeVurib C A. Dugan, were among those who attended j the reception in honor of Chief; Justice Marshall of the Ohio supreme court at Van Wert last eve-; ning. Chief Justice Marshall was | the guest of Judge Harry Conn at the later’s home in Van Wert. Governor George White of Ohio also attended the reception.

MOONEY FORCES■ PLAN NEW FIGHT I > Will Not Be Satisfied Until Prisoner' Obtains Complete Freedom San Francisco. April 23.-— (U.R)-j Support of Tom Mooney gathered forces today "for a fight to the finish which will end only when lie walks but of San Quentin a free man.” i Their renewed drive for a par- ' don was matched by opponents of ! the convicted labor leader who I claimed new evidence has been uncovered tending to establish i Mooney was justly convicted as , one of the San Francisco prepar- | edness parade bombers in 191(1. | Confident Mooney had a fair | trial was expressed by Governor James Rolph, Jr., in denying thej I convict's fourth application for a pardon. He loft the way open. l'i however, for* another repeal. ! Govern >r Rolph said signil'icantI ly, "I cannot siy what my decision would have been in a plea for ' i commutation of sentence- -] based I j the denial solely on Mooney's up I plication for unconditional par- | don." .’ The Mooney defense committee.' j however, echoed Mooney's oftre- , peated statement that only a 1 . straight pardon would be accept- ■ ed in order to "clear his name.” J "The defense committee is organizing a campaign which will | continue to operate on a larger I scale than ever before.” an offi- ' cial statement said. "We are hourly receiving assurances of sup- ' port from old friends and sympathisers." The statement also accused Governor Rolph and in's legal advisers trnNTTNCWIi ox page SIX) WITNESSES ON WAY TO PROBE Financiers Reported To Be Missing Enroute To >! Washington Today i , Washington. April 23. — (U.R) — 11 Counsel for the senate banking and • currency committee’s stock market I i investigation announced today that II witnesses hitherto regarded as •Imissing, former associates of Percy ' A. Rockefeller in market pool operations. were enroute to Washing- ■ ton and would be here today. The i men are Bernard E. Smith and Thomas E. Bragg. . I Both men were said to have been •lin Columbus, O„ yesterday when William A. Gray, committee counsel, announced his subpoena service had been unable to find them. Bragg communicated with chairman Norbeck of the committee, promising to be here today and Smith's counsel arrived this morning and said his client would reach Washington before noon. • Gray also announced a subpoena i had been issued for William Dan- : forth, reportedly a large operator. Rockefeller was an uncomfortable ■ witness for two hours before the committee yesterday. He revealed pool or syndicate operations with zx *• *x* 'SZ -Cx tCON'IINUKD ON F’AGE THREE)

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3RACG NAMES OPERATORS OF MARKET POOLS Tells Senate Committee of Several Margin Investments Made RASKOB IS AMONG FIVE Washington. April 23. —<U.R) ,—Thomas E. Bragg todav told ithe senate ranking and curjrency committee that .John ,1. ! llaskob, W. A. Kenny. Fred I Fisher and Percy A. Rockefeller had been associated with himself in a f)<),00(> share pool in Anaconda copper. “1 lost about $400,000,” Bragg told Senator Couzens, Republican, Michigan. He said they bought the 90,000 shares at $l7O per share. There were other poo! members including M. J. Meehan, but beyond Meehan. Bragg said he did not care to trust his memory to recall the names. Couzens asked about the Rockefeller pool in Lima Locomotives. He could not at first remember who suggested the syndicate. "You can remember who suggested it. remember you are under oath.” Couzens said. "Yes Isir." said Bragg and then | identified Rockefeller as the one who had suggested Lima locomotives but - that either himself or Smith had suggested a pool oper I at ion. "It was a joint account and we ' each put in $50,000.” Bragg said. "What did you lose when the syndicate was dissolved?” About $20,000 each." Bragg said. Did you organize oilier syndi- > rales with Rockefeller?"- Couzens II asked. 11 "Well, there were a couple of 'I (CONTINt’T.’.D ON PAGE FOI'ID INSTRUCTIONS ARE DEBATED Honor Slaying Trial Is Nearing End; Controversies Continue 4 ' Courtroom. Honolulu. T. IL, Apr. • | 23. —(U.R) —The honor slaying trial ■ jol four Americans, already marked 'by many hitter conflicts, reached its closing hours today with defense and prosecution dueling over proposed instructions to the jury of 1 mixed whites and browns. Angered by a refusal to let territorial alienists examine Lieut. ' Thomas H. Massie, for whom an ' insanity defense was offered. Prosecutor J*hn C. Kelley announced he would ask the court to throw out the whole plea and give an instruct--1 ed‘verdict of guilty of sectftid degree murder. This was the charge in indictments against Lieut. Massie, his society matron mother-in-law. Mrs. Grace Hubbard Fortescue, and two navy enlisted men, Albert C. Jones and Edward J. Lord. . Answering Kelley's demands for an instructed verdict, Montgomery Winn of,defense counsel said he i would ask Circuit Judge Charles S Davis to instruct the jury that if Lieut. Massie is found to have been temporarily insane, all three co defendants must be automatically exonerated. They were accused of slaying Joe Kahahawai, half caste street car conductor and one of five island 1 hoodlums tried in December on charges of attacking Thalia Fortes- ' cue Massie, the lieutenant’s young wife. Massie, in an electrifying courtroom scene, admitted he held a gun "to frighten” Kahahawai into con fessing the attack. When Kahahawai assertedly told him, ‘"yes we done it." .Massie said his mind became a blank’and he remembered nothing of what happened. Kahaha--1 wai was shot to death, and later ■ the defense tacitly admitted 1 through alienists that Massie had 1 fired the gun. The trial was to resume today with Kelley offering rebuUal evirto.Aoo There was every prospect that closing ur h <„iic...'■ gin Monday. ! Winn, associated with Clarencp ' Darrow in the battle to free the iquartet, agreed with Kelley that l [“no law” lias been found as yet (which precisely covers the case.

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Morgan Is Candidate Indianapolis, April 23 (U.R) Announcement lias been made liy Bort <’. Morgan, formei prohibit ion dire lor of Indiana, that he will formally present his name as a i Ropiihllcan lamliiiate for secre 1 tary of ■ into, at a' gathering in' Bodford this evening. Other candldales for the position | I are Tom McDonald, sheriff of l,aport<* county, and Luther t>.| Draper. Spiceland, former state' senator. FLIER'S DEATH j BEING PROBED — —■ - - Bruises Found On Body of Haden Clarke, First Thought to Be Suicide I Miami. Fla . April 23.—(U.R) -Doctors have" found bruises on thei body of Haden Clarke, writer flier, j 1 which indicated he died after a! 'struggle, and handwriting experts 'claim they have found nine discrep■'eneies in "suicide notes" left in .Mrs. J M. Keith Miller's home. Hr. Carlton •Deederer. Mayo clinic graduate, told of the bruises darling a conference called by Mrs. Ida ' Clarke, mother of the dead sweetheart of Mrs. Keith-Miller. State's 'Attorney Hawthorne and State's Inivestigator Rowland participated. The handwriting experts said itheir findings included differences in phraseology used by Clarke in his writings and in the "suicide notes.” doubtful signatures and differences in spelling. One of the most important differ'!ences. the experts _said, was’the [use of the word "advice." In the suicide note the word was spelled “advise." after the English usage. ■ Examination of many pages of manuscript prepared Uy CUirkei while writing Mrs. Keith-Miller's I biography showed he always spelled the word "advice." ! Mrs. Keith-Miller insisted late| last night that she “loved Clarke j I with all my heart and soul. I was! 'proud to know 1 was going to 1 marry him.” She was still held.' however, with her manager. Cap ! I tain W. N. Lancaster, a British; flier, pending investigation. They > •have been associated in many long, 'distance flights. J Clarke was found dead by Cap ! •tain Lancaster in the sleeping porch i >f the Keith MiMller home Wednesday. The two occupied beds on the i porch; Mrs. Keith-Miller slept inside. Lancaster had hurried here ' after receiving word that young ' Clarke and the woman flier plan- ' tied to marry. ’I Clarke lay on the floor of the ■ porch, Lancaster’s gun under one I leg. Later, the “suicide notes” ; were found, and the story of; [Clarke’s romance witli the subject! , [of his biography, and the story of [ 1 a mysterious air line to Mexico was revealed. ' Two bruises above Clarke’s right ear. Dr. Deederer said, could have been caused by knuckles or the butt ON PAGE SIX) COUBT UPHOLDS RATE SLASHES Federal Judges Uphold; Right of Commission On Utility Rates Indianapolis, April 23. —(U.R) - . Three federal judges today upheld - the right of the Public Service I commission to arl'fitrarily slash or , increase rates of a utility in an . emergency. At the same time, however, the judges ruled orally that they . would grant a temporary restraini Ing order against the commission's orders reducing the rates of the . Indiana General Service company , 20%. The utility operates power . lines and plants in the Marion ; area. "The judges feel that this figure . which would mean an aggregate I reduction of $125,000 a year is a I consistatory reduction," Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell told How- , ell Ellis, public service commissioner. Judge Baltzell's ruling was made after conference with' Judge Will Sparks of the Circuit | eotirt ol and J'tdg* Thom-1 , as Slick of the northern .d;s!rt ' , Ellis announced following the] l conference that he will insist that' the special findings and interioetttCONTINUKD ON PAGE SIX)

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STATE CRIMES ARE SOLVED IN i MIDWEST RAIDS I - 1 . I Woolverton Kidnaping is Believed Solved; 19 Are Arrested BANK THEFTS ARE UNCOVERED Chicago. April 23 i Police of three slates opcraliitg in concert arrested I’d men ami women todav in a series of raids and charged them with 29 bank holdups and one of the midwest s most sensational kidnapings. (', hi e f Investgialor Pal Roche of the Cook counlv ! state’s attorney’s office said con I sessions had been obtained from several of the captives. I The raids, a highly spectacular lories, occurred siniultanoously it Chicago Heights. 111 . Racine. Wi c. Lafayette. Ind., and Pendleton. Ind. Rothe characterized the arrests as sounding the death knell of one of the most highly organized criminal bands in the central states. Tlte kidnaping which police claimed was solved by the roundup was that of Howard A. Woolverton, 52. prominent .South Bend. Ind., industrialist, who was held for $50,000 rtn.scm during the winter. He was released after at least part of the ransom was believed paid. ‘ Gunplay marked one of the 1 raids in Chicago Heights where ■ the heavily armed investigators seized 12 men and two women. In H the hid«'nw:iys vistted officers '! found n small arsenal ol retolv■jers, rifles, sawed-off shotguns (CtINTINCED <>N PAGE FOl'lti RURAL SCHOOLS I CLOSE APRIL 29 All County School to Close Next Friday For Summer Vacation The rural grade and high school will close next Friday. April 29. it was anti .tim ed by Clifton E. Strik- ’ er, county superintendent, today. Final examinations will lie given at all of the schools Monday afternoon. and Tuesday. 'C.mTmetr ement exorcises for the 'high school graduates will be held ,[each evening during the week, lieI ginning Monday evening April 25. and continuing until Monday May 2. Bacealraueate services tor the graduating classes at the seven rural hi It schools will he held Sunday evening. April 24. This includes the graduating classes of M ait.te. Hartford. Jefferson. Plea | it Mi’.’.s, M'lntnouih.! Kirkßand and Geneva high schools. Junior and Senior receptions are being held at the various schools beginning wit It M :nroe high school cn Friday. April 15: Monmouth high school on Wednesday. April 20 and Pleasant Mills, Friday. April 9 9 I Ei.hly seven will Ito graduated I from tlte rural high schools. The number of grgaduatin; pupils ami the dates f>r the commoncement services are as follows: Eight front Monmouth high school April 25; 11 from Hartford high . school. April 26; seven from Monroe high school, April 27; 13 from Jefferson township hkh school. , April 28; 18 from Geneva high school, Avril 29; 10 from Pleasant Mills, .April 30; 20 front Kirkland high s hool. May 2. Fred Wiecking Moves (Attorney Fred A. Wei:king of 1 Bluffton has announced that he will move to Hartfoid City and form a I partnership with Attorney James R. Emshwiller of ihtt city. Mr. Weick- [ ing is well known in Decatur. He has been active in American Logon and Elk’s lodge circles and is a candidate fcr the Democratic [ j nomination for judge Os lite stalo j appellate court. Legion Will Meet ' The regular meeting of the Am ' | erienn Legion wil be held. .Monday ■jevenin.g at 8:(M> o'clock P. M at the egion Hall.