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INDIANA CITIES ORGANIZE FOR UTILITY FIGHT Whole State Represented in Group Battling for Rate Reductions. Organization of Indiana municipalities for a war on high utility rates proceeded today following a meeting in Martinsville Friday at which about 100 cities and towns W'cre represented by 250 mayors and other officials. All parts of the state were represented. The Municipal Rights League of Indiana was organized. Its officers are: Mayor George F. Schmidt, Martinsville, president; Mayor H. Karl Vollnnd, Columbus, vicepresident; Mayor Thomas L. Cooksey of Crawfordsville, treasurer, and Ralph Louden, Martinsville city treasurer, secretary. District Chairmen Named Chairmen for each congressional district were chosen as follows: First. Mayor W. Vincent Youkey, Crown Point: Second. H. E. Orr, city attorney of Plymouth; Third, Neville Williams, city attorney of Michigan City; Fourth. Mayor William T. Hosey, Ft. Wayne; Fifth. A. R. Eikenbcrry, president of the North Manchester town board; Sixth, Mayor Thomas L. Cooksey, Crawfordsville; Seventh, Mayor John McCarty. Washington; Eighth, Mayor C. B. McLinn. New Albany; Ninth, Mayor Henry Murray. Bedford; Tenth, Mayor Sidney Baker, Newcastle; Eleventh, Mayor A. C. Downing. Greenfield, and Twelfth, James E. Decry, city attorney of Indianapolis. With the officers, the chairmen constitute an executive committee which will direct the league. It is proposed to extend the organization into cities and towns throughout the state, regardless of their size.

Organization Nonpartisan Emphasis was placed on the nonpartisan aims of the organization at the meeting Friday. A declaration of its principles as stated by Mayor Joseph W. Kimmcll of Vincennes charged that certain utilities had invaded party councils; challenged the power of the state, dictated the appointment of public officials and corrupted the state legislature. He declared the league has no quarrel with those utilities which charge fair rates. Volland, who perfected organization details, stressed necessity for legislation to permit condemnation and purchase of utilities by municipalities and contended valuations for taxation also be the basis for rate making. He urged support of the league by all cities and towns.

INFLUENZA IS ON EBB Fewer Cases Arc Reported in Country in Last Week. B<y Science Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A slight decrease in the number of influenza cases reported to the United States public health service here this week indicates that the outbreak may have been a seasonal flareup, nearing its end. Total number of cases for the week ended Feb. 20 was 6,395, while for the previous week the total was 6,664. The highest figure this week was reported from Montana, 1,708. South Dakota reported only 228 cases this w r eek, although last week the state health officer estimated that there were 1,200 cases in the state. This “freak reporting” makes it difficult for health officials to determine the true extent of the outbreak, and they will not be sure for another week or two whether end of the flareup is in sight. Toss Tear Bomb at College Polls CHAMPAIGN. 111., Feb. 27. Class elections at the University of Illinois took on an appearance not unlike that of some municipalities when a prankster tossed a tear gas bomb in the polling room, throwing student voters into confusion.

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! This i the lait of iti exclusive utoi rics on President Paul von Hindenborc, Germany's greatest modern figure, who now is a candidate for a second term in the national election to be held in German? on SnndaT. March 13. BY MILTON BRONNER European Manager, NEA Service (Copyright, 1932. NEA Service. Inc.) TjERLIN, Feb. 27.—When Paul von Hindenburg, former commander-in-chief of the German armies, re- ! tired to Hanover and put on “civies,” j he dreamed of passing his declining ! years in peace and quiet. But this was not to be. Every time he walked down the street, a crowd followed him. He humorously growled: “Frau von Hindenburg has gone out shopping. I used to like to do this, too, but now I can’t. The crowds get in my way.” Suddenly, something happened in Berlin. The extremists in the monarchist camp and the would-be German Bolsheviks had been defeated and the republic established. A committee of the reichstag was appointed to inquire into the conduct of the war. Ludendorff was perturbed. He knew they would go after him. He besought his old chief to come, too. With his characteristic loyalty the old man agreed. In November, 1919, he appeared in Berlin. Taking his views from Ludendorff, who had been the active politician, h eblamed the government back home for not giving the army full support. Then came the celebrated sentence: “As an English general truly said: ‘The German army was stabbed in the back.’ ”

Out of that for years grew the legend that Germany would have won the war if it had not been for the home front. n n n IN 1925, Fritz Ebert, first president of the republic, died suddenly. A national election would have to be held to choose his successor. Ludendorff was nominated by one crowd and there also were several other candidates, but because of a technicality the race had to be run over. Somebody suggested that Hindenburg would be the very man. Emissaries were sent to Hanover. The old man turned them down. He knew they were trying to exploit his popularity. He told them he never had been a party man and did not desire to become one in his old age. Besides, he was bothered by a bronchial catarrh and was very broken up by his loneliness since the death of his wife. The Nationalists sent sly old Admiral von Tirpitz. He pictured to Hindenburg that it was his duty to the fatherland to run for president. Hindenburg was persuaded. IT proved a sensation, both at home and abroad. In Germany good democrats feared Hindenburg would be merely a figurehead until the monarchists could bring back a Hohenzollern to the throne. The allies feared very much the same thing. A rip-snorting campaign ensued. The old man took little part in it. In an Easter message to the people, he said that when he had been a soldier he never considered party interests, but always the nation. The head of the state, too, must stand above parties and administer his office in the interests of all the citizens. He appealed to every patriotic German to play his part in the revival of the fatherland and to preserve religious and social peace. His supporters and his opponents thought this was mere empty talk. The Nationalists hoped and the democratic forces feared that, if elected, he would be a power to overturn democratic institutions.

THE election took place on Sunday, April 26, 1925. The old man spent a quiet day with his family. He did not wait until returns came in. He went to bed at 10 and gave orders that he was not to be awakened. His excited family stayed up. The first returns were unfavorable. The big industrial cities were heavily against him. But later news came from Bavaria and East Prussia. Hindenberg was leading. At 1 in the morning his election seemed certain. When the newly elected president woke up the next morning victory was assured. On May 11 he was inaugurated as president in Berlin and took this oath: “I swear by God the Almighty and All-Knowing that I will devote my powers to the welfare of the German people, increase its benefits, avert danger from it, observe the constitution and the laws of the Reich, conscientiously fulfill my duties, and do justice toward everyone. So help me God.” What the old man swore to, he meant to keep. He did. tt n tt HE supported the constitution faithfully. He accepted the Dawes plan. He showed his mettle !in backing up acceptance of the Young plan. All the reactionary forces in the country, all the leading soldiers and monarchists urged him not to sign the bill accepting the Young plan. They insisted that he either should

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President Hindenburg Seventy years in the service of his country ... he swore to uphold the republic, and he has kept his vow.

NEW CANADIAN RADIUM VEINS AREJIEVEALED Rich Deposits Discovered at Great Bear Lake, Just Before Freezeup. Ey Science Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Two new rich radium-bearing ore veins were discovered at Great Bear Lake, in northwest Canada, just before the winter freeze up stopped further prospecting, Hugh S. Spence, Canadian department of mines expert, revealed here at conference with Washington geologists. Spence, as ofacial visitor to the radium strike in northwest territories, aided in discovery of the new bodies of pitchbblende ore. Earlier reports of the rich finds of Gilbert La Bine, discover of the original radium ore deposits, were authenticated by Spence, who declared to a Science Service representative : “Beyond any question, the pitchblende deposits at La Bine Point constitute a very valuable source of radium. At the present value of radium, ore easily could meet the S4OO ton cost of shipment to the railroad.” More and larger amounts of pitchblende than yet found, containing at present prices, $6,000 to SB,OOO worth of radium to the ton, may yet remain to be discovered, Spence predicted. Two of the veins have been traced for distances of 1,400 and 2,500 feet

and all four seem to run together like the fingers of an outspread hand. A still larger and more valuable deposit, he said, may lie at the “wrist” somewhere to the northeast of the present workings. Another new strike of the previous pitchblende, twelve miles from Echo bay, where the first vein of La Bine’s Eldorado Gold Mines, Ltd., was located, already has reported on the ground of the rival Northern Aerial Minerals Exploration Company.

Planes were arriving during all the time of his stay at La Bine Point on Great Bear Lake, Mr. Spence said. These were carrying prospectors on the lookout for further silver deposits. La Bine’s number two pitchblende vein interlaced with valuable native silver veins, the best so far discovered in the region, assaying some 9,000 ounces to the ton. had roused the hopes of these adventurers. Only two men are on the ground at present because of the freezeup said Spence, but mining operations will be started again next month. Fourteen surface pits were being worked at the time of his visit last summer. The ore obtained from these by hand picking averaged 50 per cent uranium oxide, or about one gram of radium to eight tons of ore. Police Dig Beer From Garage Isaac Butts, 2030 North Pennsylvania street, today faced a blind tiger charge after police claimed they dug thirty-three quarts of home brew from the floor of his garage in a raid Friday night.

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