Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1930 — Page 2

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ANDERSON DEBT OF $875,000 TO BE LIQUIDATED Start in Payment Made By Anderson's New Administration. Ry Tim ANDERSON. Ind., Jan. 25. Mayor J. 71 Mellett p.nd other new city oflir.ais have started paying a $875,000 debt inherited from the preceding administration. Current obligations of $219,482.42, including a number unpaid claims more than a year old. will be paid as rapidly as money becomes available and the bonded debt will be retired as it becomes cue. jt is announced in a program of the mayor and City Controller Ira Davis. The controller has grouped the bills against the municipal electric light and water plants according to size and in the next, few days will Issue warrants to pay all claims ranging from $1 to S2O. There are about 125 claims in this classification. Larger claims will be satisfied from time to time. Bills against the general fund will be paid in a like manner. Two freight and demurrage bills of long standing have been paid $17,000 to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and $4,700 to the Big Four. The Hatfield-Campbell Coal Company of Cincinnati w,ll be paid $15.Q00 on a bill of $24,982. Included in the debt are several Judgments entered in the Madison county courts in behalf of creditors who became tired of waiting for their money and filed suits. JOURNALISM STUDENTS TO VISIT NEWSPAPERS Sigma Delta Chi Members at I. T". Will Cos to Chicago. Bn Timi s Siucial BLOOMINGTON. Tnd.. .Jan. 25. Members of Sigma Delta Chi journalistic fraternity at Indiana university will visit newspaper plants of Chicago Friday and Saturday, according to Franklin Mullin. Rushville, president of the fraternity. Professor J. W, French, faculty adviser of the organization, who will accompany the journalism students to Chicago, has received permission from the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago News and the Hearst publications. Those who will make the trip in addition to Professor French and Mullin are: Kevin Brosnan. Carl Brecht, Robert Pebworth, Vincent Fowler, Leroy Corey, Melvin Lehman and John Rosebaum, all of Indianapolis; Scott Chambers, Newcastle; Stanley A B. Cooper. Brazil: Griffith Niblaek, Wheatland; Jean Graffis, Richmond: Clifford Milnor, Rome City; John Collins, Anderson; Charles Hoover. Wabash: Lewis Jarrard. Angalo: Ray Tharpe, Ladoga, and Ray Mullen, Kokomo.

WOMAN ACCUSED OF $7,000 EMBEZZLEMENT i Indictment Returned Against Former City Employe at Ft. Wayne, H l/ United Press ' FT. WAYNE. Ind.. Jan. 25.—Mrs. Addie McCollem. 46. former cashier of the City Light and Power Company. today faced charges of embeszlement of public funds following the return of an indictment by the Allen county grand jury. Mrs. McCollem is accused of having taken $7,000 of company money while she was in the concern’s employ. Discovery of the shortage was made Jan. 11. five days after Mrs. McCollem had been relieved of her position under the change of city administration. Mrs. McCollem is alleged to have taken she money from funds paid the company for light bills, giving customers the receiot en<*s of statements and faking the other end of the bill to her home, thus keeping her books balanced.

DISLOYALTY COSTS JOB Muncie Mayor Discharges Policeman Who Agreed to Criticism. Bu Timi* Special • MUNCIE. Ind.. Jan. 25.—A policeman while in a local cigar store, heard the manager deride Mayor George R. Dale and then declared he agreed with the criticism. The policeman. George Holcroft, Is without a job today, at the mayor's orders. “I wont have anyone on the police department who isn’t loyal to me,” the mayor declared. Mayor Leaves Hospital Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 25. Mayor J. H. Mellett has left a hospital where he spent a week suffering with an intestinal disorder, and is now at Martinsville hoping to fully regain his health before returning to his desk at the city hall. Physicians have virtually abandoned their original belief that an operation would be necessary to effect a complete cure. Sick Mayor Recovers By Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 25.—Mayor J. H. Mellett returned to his desk In the city hall Friday, following a tw’o weeks' illness during which he was treated in St. John's hospital here and at a sanitarium in Martinsville. He is greatly improved in health. His first announcement upon resuming his duties was that he would have no time to give to Job seekers. Woman. 70 Accused Bv Timi * Special KENTLAND. Ind.. Jan. 25.—A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Frances Butler, is at liberty under SSOO bond pending trial in Newton circuit court on a charge of possessing liquor. Accused with her are Edward Bales. 27, and Ray Harrington. 35. Raiders reported a five-gallon can of alchohol was found in a house the three occupied.

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£’>/ T>:n < S'i,< < inl NEWCASTLE, Ind.. Jan. 25.—Although the new city administration which took office here this month is Democratic, George Van Zant, Republican, remains as fire chief. Several other department heads remain at their posts, the Democratic mayor. Sidney Baker, announcing he believed that long and efficient service offset political affiliations.

TWICE SEIZED LIQUOR HELPS Hammond Man's Plea Nets Tighter Term. 7 imes Special CROWN POINT. Tnd.. Jan. 25. Fred Vogel, proprietor of a Hammond fish fry resort, formerly a meeting place for Lake county politicians, is under sentence of a S2OO fine and six months penal farm term for violating the liquor law, after making an unusual plea in mitigation. According to Vogel, eighty-four pint bottles of liquor found in his possession in a raid in September, was part of a stock which caused his arrest and convietion in 1927. Judge Martin smith accepted the plea jvhich saved Vogel from being punished as a third time violator, with a penalty of a year in prison. He was also convicted in 1928.

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Prisoner at Ft. Wayne Fights Verbally and Physically. nit Timex Special FT. WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 25.—Attaches of the Ft. Wayne city court are willing to admit that Marie Gordan, 28, weight 98, is “little but mighty.” While in court where she was fined $1 on a loitering charge. Marie, replying to a deputy prosecutor as to why she asked a man on a street for a dollar, replied:,. “Shut up. you smart fool. I haven't time to fool with you and answer your questions.” Mrs. Emma B. Lepper started to take the prisoner to a cell. Marie started to run. Mrs. Lepper grabbed her by the coat but her grip was broken. Then she got a neck hold. Her screams brought help. In her cell Marie said: “You know. I got in trouble here, because I don’t know' any one. In Chicago, the officers are my friends.” SHERIDAN BANK ELECTS Directors Chosen and Reports Made at Stockholders Meeting. Tj Tims x Special SHERIDAN. Ind.. Jan. 25.—Three hundred and fifty of the 500 shares of the capital stock of the Farmers and Merchants National bank were represented at the stockholders meeting during which progress of the bank during the past year was told by J. E. Kercheval, president, and W. S. Pressler. chairman of the board, who said the surplus had been increased from SB,OOO to $12,000 and $8,500 accumulated in undivided profits in the two years and nine months of its existence. Directors elected are J. E. Kercheval, J. A. Branson, W. S. Pressler, H. S. Moredock, Phil Hare. L. C. Higbee, I. H. McMurtry and Frank Ringer. Child Nearly Scalped Pv Timas Special BLUFFTON, Ind., Jan. 25. —Doris Mullis. young daughter of Mr. and Mrs Sylvester Mullis, Urtion township. suffered a scalp wound and the loss of some hair when her head came in contact with the moving wheel of a cream separator. Dog Bite Causes Death Bu Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. Verner Talbott of Terre Haute has received news of the death of his sister. Mrs. J. C. Wengatz. a missionary in Africa, as the result of a rabid dog’s bite. She left here with her husband twenty-two years ago for the African Missionary field.

Heroic Dog Bu I nited Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Jan. 25.—Mrs. Carl Meadows, 35. credits a dog with saving her life after she had been dazed by an explosion. She was hurled to the floor of her home when a pint of gasoline she was carrying exploded. The dog began licking Mrs. Meadows.’ face until, aroused from the daze, she leaped on a bed and wrapped herself in the covers, smothering the flames and escaped tt-om the blazing house, which was destroyed.

VICTIM OF BACK FRACTURE MAN NOBODY WANTS Richmond Police and Hospital Would Shift Sufferer. By Timro Special . RICHMOND, Ind.. Jan. 25.—Alton Singleton, confined in city hospital with a broken back, is almost without a place to go. Police will not assume charge of him and federal authorities indicate they do not want him. He is an alleged violator of the Dyer act. He suffered a broken back in an automobile accident several months ago while he was trying to elude Sheriff Henry E. Long of Wavne county. A physician attending Singleton says that the man is not under arrest and that he will release him at any time to any one who will take him. Sheriff Long, however, states that Deputy Marshal Harry Gates, a federal officer, served a warrant on Singleton several weeks ago and that the hospital authorities had been advised that the man is under arrest. The district attorney at Indianapolis has advised the local authorities that he knows nothing about the man’s case and said he would begin an investigation. He stated his office had no funds for hospital expenses. FOUR ANIMALS FOUND TOGETHER IN FLOOD Cow, Cat, Rabbit and Squirrel on Platform In Bam. B.u Times Special PRINCETON, Ind., Jan. 25.—A cow, rabbit, squirrel and cat perched on one platform, all flood refugees, in a barn on the farm of John Degenhart west of here. When water drove Degenhart and his family from their home, he herded livestock on higher ground, but the cow was missing for a time and the flood became too high to drive her away. The farmer erected a, scaffold platform in the barn and placed the cow on it. Returning a few days later he found the rabbit, squirrel and cat sharing the platform, but Degenhart arrived too late to prevent one casualty—the cat was engaged in eating the rabbit.

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py Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 25. —Publicity given Indiana State Teachers’ college here recently, due to an order of President L. M. Hines barring use of a bathing suit clad girl as a model in an art class, is deplored by the Indiana Statesman, school paper. The college, the paper says, is primarily for the purpo-e of training teachers, and live model

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Columbus Man Gives Dem- * onstration of Deisel Engine Car. By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Jan. 25. Clessie L. Cummins, head of the Cummins Engine Works here, has returned after, exhibiting his oil burning Deisei engine automobile to Henry Ford, son Edsel, and other high officials of the Ford Motor Company at Detroit. Cumipins was on his way home from New York after a trip from Indianapolis at a fuel cost of $1.38 when he visited the Ford plant. Ford and his son rode in the automobile and both expressed much interest in it. Ford sat in the front seat with Cummins and the son in the rear seat for part of the trip and they exchanged seats without the automobile being stopped. They asked >many questions concerning the motor and Cummins explained the differences between it and others of the Diesel type. The engine, which is built at the Cummins works here, is declared especially suitable for use in trucks, buses and other heavy motor vehicles. Cummins claims two advantages over the gasoline motor, pointing out that it is much cheaper to operate and has greater acceleration.

BOYS ADMIT THEFT OF AUTO AND SHOPLIFTING Two Held at Kokomo Also Tried to Rob Woman, £m Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. Jan. 25.—Two South Bend boys, John Stickley, 15, son of a South Bend fireman, and Donald Dickey, 14, son of a school teacher in that city, are held here after confessing, according to police, that they stole an automobile belonging to Harry Dawson of Argos; shoplifting in a store here and an attempt to steal a purse from a Kokomo woman. Although a boy in years, Stickley is a man in size. He is 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds. Dickey is the opposite, his height being barely five feet. MURDER CONFESSIONS AROUSE DEFENDANTS James Wood Shows Ini-rest for First Time in Trial for Life. Bu United Press MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 25.—State testimony continued today in the trial of the case against James E. S Wood, Kentucky World war veteran, O'a ted with the murder of Mr. and Mrs. George Heath at their farm home Dec. 10. It was indicated today the trial in Delawar cirouit court will not be completed before the middle of next week. For the first time since the opening of the trial Monday, Wood Friday displayed interest in his fight for life, when his two confessions were read by state’s attorneys. Wood straightened in his chair, eyes flashing, as Judge L. A. Guthrie admitted to evidence the confessions made by Wood soon after officers captured him near his home. Only for a few minutes did the apparent realization of the meaning of . the trial remain with the defendant and he slumped back in his chair, resuming a faraway gaze that has marked his dally appearance in court. The defense admits the killings, but seeks to evade the death penalty for Wood, contending he is insane.

Bloomington Seeks Hospital Bu Times Special BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. Jan. 25. The Bloomington Chamber of Commerce has taken option on four Monroe county farms to offer as sites for anew $500,000 veterans hospital to be located in Indiana. Priests at Funeral Bu United Press ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 25. Twenty-six Catholic priests from over Indiana were here Friday at the funeral of Mrs. John Costello, mother of the Rev. John Costello, a missionary priest. Lifelong Resident Dies B.y Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind.. Jan. 25.—Mrs. Mary E. Piercefield, 85, died suddenly here at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ollie Miller. She was a lifelong resident of Bartholomew county. Veteran Lawyer Dies bu Times Special ! — ’ MUNCIE, Ind., Jan. 25.—Harry E. Walk, 68. attorney, is dead here after a long illness. He had practiced at the local bar more than thirty-five years. Estate Land Sale Asked En Times Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 25.—Appraisement, sale and distribution of proceeds from sale of 185 acres of Jackson township farmland is sought in a suit filed in circuit court by Willis S. Ellis, administrator of the estate of Leannah Kemp, who died a year ago. Another suit is pending in which heirs are contesting the will, but regardless of the outcome it will be necessary to sell the real estate to pay claims against the estate and a mortgage of

drawing is beyond that purpose. Miss Carmen Sharp, the model, wore a two-piece suit, according to the paper. Asa student she has paid part of her expenses by giving swimming lessons, and has won several medals in swimming contests. “I have no objection to such a course in a school of art,” President Hines is quoted as saying, “but I do know the things that can be done in the public schools.’’

Death Pairs FT. WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 24. A series of unusual deaths among related families was brought to notice with the death of Mrs. S. M. Van Blaricon, 62, Fairmount, mother of Mrs. N. E. Smith, Ft. Wayne. The deaths of the fathers of Mrs. Smith and her husband, pastor of a Ft. Wayne church, came within a* three week period in the spring of 1928, both being due to heart disease. The mothers of the couple died recently, also in a threeweek period, both victims of apoplexy. The parents of the Rev. and Mrs. Smith all lived in Fairmount for many years and were neighbors and friends. Ages of the two fathers were within one year of being the same.

LIFE TERMS TO ‘BABY BANDITS’ Youth, 17, and Two. 15, Slayers of Two. CROWN POINT. Ind., Jan. 25. Three “baby bandits” of East Chicago face life terms in the state prison after sentencing by Judge Martin Smith in Lake criminal court here. Their combined ages are only 47 years. The youths were convicted under a 1929 Indiana statute which provides a mandatory death penalty for murder during a robbery. Defense counsel received consent of the prosecution to change the charges to murder, upon which the three pleaded guilty. Walter Zielinski, 17; Alfred Shoue, 15, and Tony Lekornek, 15, all of East Chicago, were sentenced. They confessed to the murders of Mrs. Mary Flaczyk and William Hendron, East Chicago, during holdups. SHERIFF’S NAME USED BY YOUTHFUL FORGER Sentence of 2 to 14 Years Results at Greensburg. Bn Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Jan. 25. Virgil Colson, 17, is under sentence of 2 to 14 years in the state, imposed by Judge John W. Craig in Decatur circuit court here, following a plea of guilty to forgery. The boy’s check deals were large and rapid. He deposited a bad check for $940.67 on the American National bank of Rushville in the Third National bank here, to which he had signed the name of Ray Compton, auctioneer and "Rush county sheriff. Within a few minutes he had given the Greensburg Motor Company a check on the local bank for $755 in payment for anew automobile. In the meantime he cashed three other checks aggregating $23. Judge Craig, in withholding judgment for a few hours, had about decided to be lenient, but the boy, during the periods, is said to have told police of several other misdeeds he had pulled and made insulting remarks.

FIDDLER, 98, BOOKED John Hawkins Will Also Dance at Wayne County Meeting. Bn Times Special MIDDLEBORO. Ind., Jan. 25. John Hawkins, 98-year-old blacksmith, will be in the spotlight again Tuesday at the Wayne county pig roast before several hundred guests to demonstrate his ability as an oldtime, fiddler. He will also execute a few jig?. Frederick Landis, Logansport editor, • • will be the principal speaker. State Representative James Knapp of Hagerstown will be toastmaster. City to Sell Turbine Ry Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Jan. 25.—An old 2,000 kilowatt turbine will be sold to the highest bidder at a meeting of the board of works, Feb. 4. The machine was removed from the municipal electric light' plant to provide ;space, for anew: 10,000 kilowatt unit.- ■ Appraisers have estimated the machine to be worth $2,500, Perfect Bridge Hand Bv United Press LA PORTE, Ind., Jan. 25.—One of those hands—thirteen cards of one suit—was held in a bridge game here by Miss Casimira Lambert. She was dealt the entire heart suit. Mary Terry, Charles Merrill and Chester Lamber, who played in the game, were witnesses. Electric Line to Quit Bv Unitea Press ANDERSON. Ind.. Jan. 25.—A. W. Brady, receiver for the Union Traction Company, announces that the Muncie-Union City line will be abandoned Feb. 8, upon authorization by the state public service commission. The line is thirty-six miles long.

CIVIL WAR SNOT SURVIVOR WILL BE 99 TUESDAY ♦ Richmond Man Wounded By Bullet Which Killed Comrade. Bit Times Special RICHMOND. Ind.. Jan. 25. Jerome J. Jordan, wounded in the shoulder during the Civil war by a bullet which passed through tire body of a comrade, will celebrate his ninetieth birthday Tuesday. Due to poor health he will spend his anniversary quietly but open house will be held for his many friends. Jordan was born Jan. 28. 1840. in Butler county. Ohio. His father, a weaver, and the first to make a seamless sack, died when Jordan was 6 years old. Jordan says in his youth children received but three months' schooling a year and the other nine months were spent at hard work. He was out of school three years when the Civil war started and he joined Company C, Sixty-ninth regiment, Ohio volunteer infantry. He saw service in three major battles and several skirmishes. He was In the battles of Stone River, Murphysboro, Tenn., Missionary Ridge, Tenn., and Versackey, Ga. In the latter battle, April, of 1864, Jordan was shot through the left shoulder. Witnessed Comrade's Death “We were making a charge,” the veteran recalls, “and I turned to speak to another member of my company, when he was struck by a musket ball, which went entirely through his body and struck me in the shoulder. He fell dead at my feet.” Three inches of Jordan's shoulder bone was torn off by the ball. He can not raise his left arm in front of his body but can place it behind his back. Muscles in front of the arm were removed. Likes Motoring Jordan does not use tobacco now. He did when he entered the army, but he stopped when he returned. “It sort of got me and I had to give it up,” he says. He likes motoring. He does not care for motion pictures. He has no desire to ride in an airplane. When Jordan first came to Wayne county, Richmond was but a small town. Its main business districts were between Sixth and Eighth streets. North Ninth street was a field. He recalls the horse-drawn bus, then the horse cars and saw the first electric street car here. “The Civil war was bad enough,” says Jordan, “but I guess the boys who went to France had worse to fight against than the boys of ’63.” OFFICIAL QUITS. FACING IMPEACHMENT HEARING Daviess County Township Trustee’s Place Taken by Candidate. By United Press WASHINGTON, Ind., Jan. 25. While search was continued for John H. Waggoner. Washington township trustee, on a citation of impeachment, brought about by alleged shortages totaling about $50,000, his resignation was announced by the Daviess county council. The resignation was submitted through J. G. Allen, attorney for Waggoner. Will C. Hyatt, who Is a candidate in the next election for trustee of the township, was immediately appointed to fill out Waggoner’s unexpired term. It is believed Waggoner has fled to some distant locality, perhaps unknown by any of his friends.

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KIDNAPED. CHILD ESCAPES HARM Two Women Take Lagrange Girl on Motor Trip. By Times Special LAGRANCE. Ind., Jan. 25.—Barbara Schermerhorn, 7, is safe and unharmed today in the home of her foster parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schermerhorn. proprietors of a hotel here, after being kidnaped by two women who took her on a motor tour which covered much of Lagrange county. Authorities believe one of the women was the child’s mother, who abandoned her in the Schermerhorn hotel when 6 weeks old and who later lost a court fight with the couple for her custody. The child was seized as she left a school here. A posse headed by Sheriff Clarence G. Minnich searched roads in the county without. getting a trace of the kidnapers. Before the posse returned, the child was brought back and left at exactly the spot where she had been seized.

TEETH LOST IN RIVER BY BAD LUCK VICTIM Farmer Near Warsaw Stung by Bees Pulled Into Icy Water. I By y Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 25.—Aaron 1 Kincad, farmer living west of here, continues to be a victim of bad luck. His most recent misfortune was a plunge into the icy water of Tippecanoe river. He was pulled into I the river when the horses he was driving while moving a house ran away. While swimming to shore | from water fifteen feet deep Kincaide’s set of new false teeth fell ; from his mouth and were lost. Last summer the farmer was : stung by hundreds of bees. A few . months later he was in two autol mobile accidents. HOSPITAL OPEN AGAIN AFTER MENINGITIS CASE Closing Was Precaution Against Spread of Disease. By T'nitrd Press BEDFORD, Ind., Jan. 25. The Lawrence county hospital here is open today after being closed to all but spinal meningitis patients. When Thurman Leonard, 45, was taken to the hospital suffering from meningitis, all other patients were removed to their homes as a precaution against spread of the disease. At a meeting of city physicians with Charles Blackburn, city and county health officer, It was decided to re-admit the patients. The Dive school, north edge of Bedford, was closed after Charles Harmon was reported seriously ill with meningitis. Chicken Thefts Admitted Bn Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Jan. 25. Lawrence Miller plead guilty in Decatur circuit court before Judge John W. Craig to a charge of grand larceny and two of burglary', based on chicken thefts. Miller is said to have taken thirty-two chickens from the farm of John Ryan and fortyfive from that of Henry Showers, about three weeks ago. Judgment has been withheld. New Tester on Duty Rtj Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Jan. 25. Roscoe Davis of May’s Crossing, Rush county, has succeeded William Taylor as tester for the De-catur-Franklin County Cow Testing Association. The association has twelve members in Decatur county and thirteen in Franklin.

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ALLEGED BANDIT AIDED BY WIFE IN ALIBI EFFORT Joe White Declared Out of Indiana When Bank Was Robbed. pii Times Special MARION. Ind. Jan. 25.—Joe White, held in the Grant county jail here with William King, both charged with robbery' of a bank at Gas City, is innocent, his wife asserts. She ha.l given his attomev depositions to show that during July. 1929, the month in which thfrobbery occurred. White was traveling with a camlvfl company in West. Virginia and had not been in Indiana. Five affidavits in support of the alibi defense from as many members of the company were obtained by Mrs. White, who lives at Bridgeport. O. The wife told officials here that she and her husband own a, home in Bridgeport., but have mortgaged it to obtain money for his defense. She has been married previously and is the mother of two children. King Is a British subject and has been promised by the British embassy at Washington that it will investigate his case. His appeal to the embassy brought a reply from the secretary of Sir Esme Howard. British ambassador to the United States.

THREAT AIDS DEFENSE IN POLICEMAN SLAYING Witness Admits Warning Clyde Jones to Cease Attentions. If,ii 7 inn s Special LEBANON, Ind., Jan. 25.—Counsel for Clyde Jones, accused of slaying Amos Hamilton. Frankfort policeman, scored a point in the trial of Jones here in the testimony of Otto Davis, operator of an alleged beer-selling place at Lafayette. It has been contended that Jones carried a revolver to protect himself from Davis, said to have been looking for him because of attentions paid to Mrs. Davis. On the witness stand Davis admitted he had made threats against Jones andwarned him to stay away from his wife. % The defense is expected to close its testimony late today, after which court will adjourn until Monday when final arguments will be made and the case given to the jury. ADMIT KETTLE THEFT Warsaw Man and Youth Get Reformatory Terms. By Times Special WARSAW, Ind., Jan. 25.—Glenn Riggins, 24, and James Ewing, 18, were each fined $5 and sentenced to a year in the state reformatory here for stealing two large iron kettles from a slaughter house. The sentence of Ewing was suspended. The thieves broke the kettles in pieces, which they sold as junk Iron to a foundry here, receiving $1.05. PLEASANT RELIEF FROM CONSTIPATION Shoulders droop under weight of years. Young, yet beauty has fled. Cheeks are sallow and drawn. Unsightly pimples. Keep your system clean and you keep the beauty of youth. Its energy. Its irresistible charm. Then life is not a failure. Clogged bowels and inactive liver cause posions to seep through the system. Health vanished and with it beauty and energy. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets will help save you from this dark hour. For 20 years they have been prescribed in place of calomel to men and women seeking health and freedom from constipation. They act easily and smoothly. No dangerous griping. Take nightly before retiring. Results will amaze you. Thousands of men and women would never be without Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets, a vegetable compound. Know them by their olive color. 15c, 30c and 60c. Ail druggists.—Advertisement.

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