Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 8, Decatur, Adams County, 10 January 1939 — Page 5

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was driven into the driveway. A man with a shot gun stepped out. A man behind the driver's wheel then threw a spotlight on Miller. The gunman shouted, "where's I that nigger?” Then, without waitIng tor an answer, he tired three times. He and his companion tied. At St. Francis hospital, Miller j told police he wus unable to exj plain the gunman's query. Before losing consciousness, he murmured: "Well, the gamblers finally got me.” The killer's querry puzzled police. They turned their investigation to Chicago on the possibility ; the slaying may have been connected directly with the killing of Walter J. Kelly, 38, a negro, known as the policy and lottery king of Gary, Ind. He was shot and killed Sunday night on Chicago's Michigan Boulevard while he was seated in his parked automobile. The other victims were Robert Lewison, alias Lewis, 24, found shot to death Saturday night on a road north of Hinsdale, 20 miles west of Chicago, and John Balina, 25. an alleged slot machine hijacker, who was shot to death early Saturday near Joliet, 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Police still are investigating the slayings. Miller was a locksmith and used his skill in his campaign. Police Capt. Charles Esken said Miller made keys to fit slot machines for anyone who wanted them. "Frequently," Esken said, "he 1 would go alone into places oper-

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ating the machines. He said he wanted to take the profit out of their operations.” Police were studying the possibility Miller tnay have been slain for distributing the keys, thereby cutting into machine profits. Recently he went to the state capitol several times to complain to the attorney general against operation of the machines, in one trip he accompanied members of the Peoria Ministerial Association. After that group had lodged a complaint state officials clamped down on gambling here. Miller became relentless in his campaign three years ago after he had been shot in the street by Detective R. J. Claudin. Claudin said he shot Miller because he had appeared suspicious and had not heeded a command to halt. Last March Miller obtained a $5,000 judgment against Claudin. He had charged from the witness stand that Claudin had shot him on orders of “higher-ups” in the Peoria police department. CHAMBERLAIN VISIT Cl N'TINUED FROM PAGE ONE) a whiie after Munich but has been rising again during the last few weeks This tension is due to un- • ertai.ity and general fear that the dictators are plotting another move In the spring which will again shake Europe. It is not based on anything specific and opinions differ widely as to what •he move may be. Nevertheless the man in the street seems to

have decided that March will be ine ci it leal mouth. Since Munich there has been a retnailable psychological transformation of government and public opinion and this undoubtedly will exert its effect upon the future of British policy. Factors which l.ave contributed to the psychological alteration include provocative speeches by Hitler and his propaganda minister, Paul Joseph Goebbels; German official and press attacks upon Anthony Eden and Earl Baldwin. Chamberlain'S predecessor as prime minister, culminating in the characterisation of Baldwin by one newspaper as a gutter snipe: German press charges of British "atrocities” in Palestine and a'i accumulation of other pin pricks which finally led Chamberlain to say that he was still "waiting for a sign" from Germany that she would contribute to appeasement. But the biggest factor was Germany « notification of her intention it avail herself of a clause in the British-German naval treaty to practically double her submarine tonnage. This spotlighted the tact that Germany already possesses more submarines, in number, than does Britain. Millions of Britons still recall from personal ex:>erieuce 15)18 when German submaiines nearly starved Britain; and Germany's decision started them thinking hard. Germany's renewed wave of anti-Jewish activities was another sizeable element in a definite alienation of public opinion.

(FIRST HEARING HELD ON BEETS Agriculture Department Opens Hearing On Sugar Beets Detroit, Mich., Jan. 10. —The de- ■ partment of agriculture Monday ■ opened the first of a series of i hearings to establish a fair wage i for sugar beet workers and to fix i a price to be paid sugar beet grow- ‘ ers by processor. f More than 200 workers and grow- * ers from Michigan, Indiana and 1 . Ohio testified. Workers generally complained 1! the present wage scale of $7 an ", acre for harvesting the sugar beet • ; crop, with an additional $1 for each additional ton over seven an 1 acre, was so low it forced busband and wife to work together in the fields to make a living. The growers submitted a sliding wage scale based on relation ' I to annual yield, arguing that work- '' ers should be paid in relation To ’ the size of the crop. o BRITISH HEAD (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ' cuss Chamberlain's program for Rome. Chamberlain and Halifax will continue on to Rome this evening,

to arrive tomorrow afternoon and be greeted by Mussolini. With Chamberlain and Halifax today went Sir Alexander Cadogan, permanent under secretary of state for foreign affairs; Maurice Ingram, head of the foreign department of the foreign office; Osmond Cheverly, Chamlierlain's principal private secretary; Lord Dunglass, Chainberlativ's parliamentary private secretary and Charles Peake, foreign office press representative. This delegation was sufficient evidence of the impotance which was attached to the prime minister's visit. The augury, however, was an unhappy one. British people were pessimistic as to the outcome. They approved Chamberlain’s determination to visit Mussolini, but only because it was one more effort to get Europe off the road toward War. They had little hope that it would succeed. As Chamberlain left, Adolf Hitler had just announced his intention of seeking equality of strength in submarines with the British navy. Mussolini's fascist troops were fighting alongside the Spanish nationalists in a gigantic civil war offensive, timed to coincide wth Chamberlain’s visit and impress him with the inevitability of an insurgent victory. Italian newspapers, closely controlled by Mussolini, were clamoring for concessions from France. The fact tfiat Chamberlain and his aides left London to make Paris their first stop, and that Chamberlain and Halifax arranged to have tea with Daladier and Bon-

, net, Indicated the magnitude of the task which Chamberlain had ' set himself in seeking agreement with Mussolini—-provided that he was not going merely to make a i final test of strength of the Ber-lin-Rome diplomatic axis before admitting that his appeasement polj icy had failed. The Paris tea-conference was a notification to Italy that Great Britain nad France remained allies in event of any international trouble caused by Italian demands on France. In London the Spanish civil war was regarded as the most important feature of the ChamberlainMussolini visit. British people expected Mussolini to be even more yielding in his demands for an early Spanish nationalist victory, because of the present offensive. It was said authoritatively Here that Chamberlain would refuse firmly to agree to recognizing the nationalists as belligerents until Mussolini withdrew his troops from Spain. The war office here issued a 3,- ; 000 word statement last night angrily denouncing and denying allegations that British troops had committed atrocities in Palestine. "Lying, exaggerated propaganda" was charged. Though the war office did not say so, the statement was aimed directly and solely at Italy and Germany, Great Britain's prospective friends, whose newspapers and officially approved wireless programs for weeks have broadcast to the world such stateI ments as "the usual British atro-

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cities in Palestine continued today.” ■ ' - -o CHANGE POLICY (CONTINUED rKOM SAGE ONE) continue to be held on the second and fourth weeks of each month. Pack meetings, to Include all the Cubs »>f the city, will be held during the first and third weeks of each month. The first Pack meeting wdl be held Monday. Jan. HI. at 6:3'‘ p. ill. at the old high school building Parents and other interested persons are Invited to attend. * TODAY'S COMMON Eli I tOR * Do not say. "That will be the | ruination of tne;” say, “That , i will min me.”

• PAY NO MORE! a UmUERSRIUEDIT tompm DR. C. V. CONNELL VETERINARIAN Special attention given to diseases of cattle and poultry. Office &. Residence I 430 No. Fifth St. Phone 102.