Ligonier Banner., Volume 64, Number 13A, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 April 1930 — Page 1
MONDAY THURSDAY
2.00 PER°'YEAR
EDITORS ASKED T 0 UPHOLD DY LAW
WICKERSHAM SAYS THOSE ABETTING DRY LAW VIOLATION —- INVITE REVOLUTION
Denies That Citizens Have Any Inalienable Right to Consume Intoxicating Liquor
George W. Wickersham chairman of Pre.sident Hoover’s law enforcement commission appealed to the country’s newspaper editor Friday to exercise their influence for observance of the prohibition law. 7 Wickersham addressing the American society of newspaper editors declared those abetting violation of the 18th amendment are “inviting revolu‘tion and promoting anarchy.” He denied citizens have any inalienable right to consume intoxicating liquors called upon the press to demand observance of the law. ; The 18th amendment Wickersham asserted is as much an integral part of the constitution' as the bill of rights. ; ;
“If any considerable body of citizens object to any part of the constitution it is their right to organize and work for its change by the methods provided in the constitution itself’” he addod. Y “If they object to any law, it is their right to endeavor tG arouse public sentiment to secure its repeal. But there is no reserved right in individual citizens to select particular laws x X X and preach cystematic disregard for those laws.” v
Seetional Centers For H. S. Meet
Sectional centers for the annual state high school track and field cham pionship were announced by Arthur L. Trester commissioner of the Indiana High School Athletic association, The 15 sectional meets will be held May 17 and the final state competition a week later at the Butler University track at Indianapolis. . The sectional centers are Bloomington, Boswell, Hast Chicago Elkhart, Elwood, Evansville Fort Wayne Indianapolis (Tech) Kokomo, Linton, New Albany, Peru Rushville South Bend and Terre Haute Garfield.)
- Winning relay teams and individual athletes who place first or second in their events at sectional meets will be eligible to appear in the final competition at Butler.
Jail is Filled
The population record of the Allen county jail was broken Thursday with the housing of 131 prisoners.” The crowded condition has caused Sheriff George W. Gillie, and his. deputies to lay mattresses in the corridors of the cell blocks to accommodate a large number of the prisoners. The majority of the prisoners are “regular boarders” having been committeed to the jail as a result of court. Youth Dies of Spinal Meningitis Willard Harold Leete 17 son of Mr. and Mrs. William Leete of Elkhart died- in the Robert Long hospital at Indianapelis at five o’clock Friday morning of spinal meningitis. He had been taken to the James Whitcomb Riley hospital three weeks ago for treatment for spinal trouble and last Friday meningitis developed and he was removed to the Robert Long hospital where he died. .
Pleads Guilty Suspended
Albert Growcock Whitley county pleaded guilty Thursday before Judge Arthur F. Biggs in the Whitley circuit court to grand larceny. Growcock was sentenced to serve 1 to 10 years at the state reformatory the sentence to be suspended however during his good behavior. Growcock admitted taking a pockethbok containing $25 from Arthur Shelmadine. ;
Prison Popuplation Gains’
Census enumerator reports show that Indiana state prison has gained 249 per cent in population in the last 10 years from 944 to 2,353. Liquor offenses accounted directly for 25 per cent of the population and it was estimated that the liquor laws led indirectly to imprisonment of 25 per cent more. : ; :
Negro Boy Steals Car
A 10-year-old Negro boy so small he had to stand at the wheel to drive a stolen auto down the street of Indiana polis led police in a chase until he swerved into a sand pile. He was cheered in his mad journey by a juvenile companion. ;
Officers Held For Fraud | Capt. Hershel Cook commander of Co. L., Nationa] Guards’ unit in Warsaw was arrested on a charge of issuing fraudulent checks. He is being held in Warsaw jail pending his trial. " ~ Chickens Are Stolen / Chicken thieves have been busy around Wolcottville and on Wednesday evening visited the poultry houses of Ira Myers, Israel Rose and Mrs. L. Conly taking all of their chickens.
THE LIGONIER BANNER
LIGONIER. NOBLE COUNTY, INDIANA. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1930
BOY SCOUT WORK PLANNED Analysis to Furnish Basis For Develop ing Program For Next Five Years is the Aim
A thorough study or inventory is to be made of the Boy Scout work of the Anthony Wayne area council it has been anounced by E. G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne president of the area council. In his instructions to the council members, Mr. Hoffman says: ‘“The time has come when our council should make a thorough analysis of itself. Is it so organized and managed as to pay dividends to the community? Is it justifying itself? I« it a dormat corporation or is it a going concern with an expanding program? Scouting has passed beyond ‘hobby stage and has now become a ‘big business” and as such should have a ‘yard stick’ by which to measure its effectiveness—present and tuture.”l J. Earl Groth of Fort Wayne scout commissioner of the council has been appointed general chairman in charge of making the analysis . The actual work of making the inventory will be divided into mnineteen divisions with from three to five men studying each phase. Through this plan of organization a thorough study can be be made of all phases of the council’s work program and activities in a short time without any group being overburdened. :
Vallee, Band Gives Talents Music—music —music! Five lilting love- songs from the golden throat of American’s newest idol—Rudy Vallee! Saxaphone and clarinet solos by the same master of these two instruments! :
A complete col’qrrul orchestral background by the -Connecticut Yankeess who under Vallee’s’ leadership have charmed the world!
}- Such is the extravagant mausical ‘festival offered patrons at the Crystal theatre “The Vagabond Lover” ~ The songs which will be crooned !from the screen by Vallee are “I Love You, Believe Me, I Love You” “I'll Be Reminded of You” “If You Were the Only Girl and I Were the Only Boy” “A [Little Kiss Each Morning a Little Kiss Each Night” and “I'm Just a Vagabond Lover.” ; The selections were made by Rudy himself who inspected. more than 200 songs for his screen debut. Marshall Neilan, the director, with a colorful story based on incidents in Rudy Vallee’s life has produced one oi the most lavish musical shows ever seen on the screen. :
Total Eclipse of San Visible The people in a small part of the United 'States can witiness a total eclipse of the sun on the afternoon of April 28. In this section the sun’s diameter will be obscured 64 per cent at 2:06 o’clock. The path of total eclipse will extend from a point near San Francisco northeast across southern Montana and across Canada. On either side of this path the shadow will cover only a part of the sun, the extent of the eclipse depending on the distance from the line of total eclipse. At Denver 76 per cent of the sun’s diameter will be obscured; at Chicago, 64 per cent; at New York City, 54 per cent and at Atlanta 36 per cent. The total duration of the eclipse will be between two and three hours.
South Bend Radios Hijacked
A truck load of radios valued at more than $12,000 the initial consignment of the Kennedy Radio corporation of South Bend to a new Milwaukee distributor wah hi-jacked near Waukegan 111, late Thursday. The driver of the truck Al Walters of Mishawaka and his companion, Robert Huggins of South Bend were kidnaped and driven about by the hijackers who later released them unharmed. h
Would Sell His Body
A market for a human body with the heart on the right hand side was sought in a letter received by the United Press. .
James D. Cox Fort Wayne asked the press asociation to help him locate a medical institution that would buy his body with the heart he claimed on the right side which as everyone konws is the wrong side physiologically speaking.
Mrs. Susan Miller
Mrs. Susan Hashbarger Miller 64 who had resided in Sturgis for 35 years ~ died at herhome there after an illness of three weeks. Mrs. Miller was born near Shipshewana in 1865 the daughter of Noah and Susan Harshbarger. Mrs. Walter Wolf of Ligonier is a daughter of the deceased.
New Paris Graduafes
A class of 28 seniors will be graduated from the New Paris high school this week when the present school year will come to an end. Commence ment activities begin Sunday evening with the baccalaureate sermon and diplomas will be issued after a program Thursday evening April 24. " Koselusko 8. 8. Convention The annual convention of the Kosciusko Co. Council of Christian Education is. being held this year at the Methodist church in Syracuse April Ssad . o
ettt bt e e DOLLAR NOW WORTH 110 CENTS Ii Labor Department Figures Present Accurate Picture of Commodity Prices '
The high cost of living has joined liberty loan drives and other by-pro-ducts of the world war in the limbo of forgotten things, if labor department figures present an accurate picture. 'Figures just made public by the department’s bureau of labor statistics show that commodity prices in March reached the lowest level in 13 years. An the dollar long depressed is now wortlr 110 cents as compared with 102 a year ago. :
~ The weighted index numbers the bureau keeps on commodity prices fell to 30.8 in March the labor department announced. Wholesale prices have not been so low since September 1916 when they stood at 86.9. Meanwhile retail food prices continue a downward movement. They declined nearly 2 per cent during the last month. The bureau’s weighted index recorded a low of 150.1 on March 15. : i
STATE DELEGATES
Republicans Select Fourteen Persons and Demoerats Twelve to Atttend State Sessions
Delegates to the republican and democratic state conventions to be held at Indianapolis have been selected* by the party leaders of Noble county and are now on file at the office of Mrs. Frances Beane county clerk at Albion. The delegates aré: Republican ; ik Perry township—John L. Henry John H. Hoffman Ligonier. Washington and . Noble—Sam C. Kimmell, Wolf Lake. . ~ Sparta—Ray Eaton, Cromwell. ~ Elkhart and York—C. C. Palmer. ~ Green and Jefferson—Orville Pressler, Kendallville. : Orange—Mrs. Sylvia Donovan, Wolcottville. i el . Wayne—J. J. Cole, Herbert Newnam, Dr. L. S. Frurip, C. K. Kimmell, Swan—Bela Broughton, Jr. LaOtta. Allen+-B. F. Haines, Avilla, Albion—Fred B. Moore. Democrat, Perry—W. H. Wigton, Ligonler. Washington and Sparta—E. E. Kline, Cromwell. ' Elkhart and York—Jesse Bosg, Wawaka. : _ Noble—Mrs. Anna Prickett, Wolf Lake. 5 c o R Green and Jefferson—W. W. Dibble, Churubusco. Bl e Orange—Dora Conley, Rome City. Wayne—R. S. Emerick, J. W. Hart, Jacob Fetters. aa Allen—Peter Dolan, Avilla. Ve .Swan—Ford Gause, LaOtta. Albion—NMrs. Frances Beane.
The democratic state convention will be held June 10 and the republ-i--can convention about June 14.
Visit Mishawaka
Mr. and Mrs. Luther Fry of this city Mr. and Mrs. Lee Poyser, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Fry and Carol Fausnaugh of Kimmell Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keiter and Mr. and Mrs. Will Keiter of South Bend were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Cobbs in Mishawaka.
Death of Mrs. Brown.
Mrs. Anna Brown, 45, wife of Jess Brown of Noble township, died late Saturday night at the Wolf Lake hospital following an operation for appendicitis. Surviving are her husband, father, Cornelius Ott, and two brothers and two sisters. .
Wainwright Wins prize.
Lloyd™ Wainwright was awarded a big ‘mother hog as the prize offered by the merchants of Ligonier on the sale day last Thursday. :
Gypsies Rob Garage Ligonier police were notified Saturday to be on the lookout for four gypsies a man and three women who robbed the Drive-In garagé of Kimmell of $2O-in cash. r
Work Not Completed
“The census enumerators have not yet completed their work but expect to finsh up today. There is a report that ligonier has lost ten residents in the past ten years.
Training Horses
George Higgs is training seven horses out at the Dr. Timmis race course, Several of these are promising steppers that will be heard from dqring the coming race season.
130 To Graduate
~ Allen county rural high schools have a total graduating class of 130 pupils. ‘The exercises will take place during t«this week.
: Closed Season %o The clogsed season for fishing in Indiana waters begins April 30th and continues until June 16. : Bd Tyler and Dr. Lane will leave in in the morning for Rochester Minn,, where Mr. Tyler will consult the ‘Mayo Brothers specialist. s Many residents of Ligonier drove to the lakes and spent Baster at cottages.
GIRL S’I‘WBK BY BANDITS Two Men Enter Farm Home Near Auburn Frightened off Without Loot a 0 D‘M Robbery Two bandits at least one of them armed tied a 17- year old girl to a chair in a farm home near Auburn Thursday struck her in the face with a piece of wood and fled before they had a chance to rob the place according to a report to Sheriff Armstrong. : : : Two men approaced the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Lochamire on state road 27 about 10 a. m. and asked Miss Harriet Brown who was alone if the owner had any hay for sale. Then they grabbed the girl it was reported tied her to a chair with binder twine they found on the porch blindfolded and gagged her with a plece of cloth and then struck her in the jaw with a piece of wood. : '~ They started to seurch the house but ran off at the sound of an automobile they thought was turning into the driveway, it was said. Apparently nothing was taken. : , The girl was found an hour and a half later by Harold Grenagle grandson of Mr. and Mrs.. Lochamire. :
| NATIONAL PROHI SURVEY New $7,000,000 Project of Georgia Fo Find Out Public Pulse Is : Started Twenty widely known industrialists, financiers and educators it was announced today wil lform the board of directors of a new. $7,000,000 project to find out how more than 32,000, 000 citizens of the United States feel about prohibition. = - : . Edward Kennedy acting executive director said- the names of the men would be made known in a few days by the organizations which is called the National Prohibition Survey.
Working with the board he said would be an advisery committee of 7 members including the governors of several states.
Kennedy explained today how the new organization would function. It will be incorporated under the laws of Georgia he said and will have pranches in 20 widely scattered Amerjcan cities. Its purpose will be to “obtain - educational facts” for guidance of legislators, and any others who may desire them as referemce at no cost he said. : :
Th;iu;liiicyvof the organization will be “right down the middle of the ‘foad” satld Kenmedy. -~ < -
Senior Play.
Just one more day to buy your ticket to the Senior Play, “Go Slow Mary”. Advance ticket sale closes Tuesday night and tickets will then gell at regular prices 25 and 35 cents. But don’t make the mistake of not geeing Katie, the Abbey’s maid with Danny the ice man. They are a scream and worth .the grice of admission alone. Two other high lights are Bobby and Dolly, the two holy terrors. When they come in you will think it is a cyclone. . 5
Mrs., Wiliiams Il
Mrs. S. J. Willlams was taken suddenly ill Saturday morning and her condition was very serious for a couple of days. Mrs. Ball her daughter was called from Toledo arriving today and a trained nurse has-been employed. Today her condition is slightly improved. : : i
W. R. C. Meeting
There will be a regular meeting of the 'W. R. €. Thursday evening April 94 Mrs. George Longenecker is chair man of the entertainment committee. Picnic supper at 6:30. Hach member will bring a sandwich and one other dish. :
Ligonier’s First 29948991'0.
Vernon ' Ditman last Friday night bowled the first score in the 290 class which was 299 pins. Eleven strikes were perfect, for his twelfth hit he hit them in the head and number six pin refused to fall. d
Colts to California
Roy Blue of the Blue Stock Farm has shipped two high bred colts by freight to parties in California. He recently shipped two others to the Blue Ridge Stables at Rayton, Missouri. - : o :
Curtis Hire Hurt
While hauling fence posts out on his farm Friday the span of mules Curtis Hire was driving ran away and overturned the wagon. Mr. Hire suffered an injury to one of his feet.
Bank Yegg Found Guilty
The Yegg on trial at. Columbia City for robbing a bank there was found giulty by the jury and thirty days was granted the defense to prepare a motion for a new trial. : Lo John Murray Dies - John David Murray of Wolcottville was stricken with apoplexy ‘at six o”clock Monday evening at the C. O. Grannis pullery and died instantly. - Five hundred eggs in fancy colors were hidden to be searched for by the youths of Goshen on Baster. The 'search proved to be inferesting.
2 ; SOCIAL EVENTS. Items Gathered by Banmner Rej of Special Interest its, . Entertained Clu Mr. and Mrs. Donald Shearpr very pleasantly entertained members of their club Thursday evening at their home south of the city. ose present were Mr. and Mrs. Arlo Troyer, Mr. and Mrs. Joé Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Gannon of Elkhart, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schwab of Warsaw, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Zook of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Lon Brill of Millersburg. The evening s spent playing Pincohle and the favors for high scores were awarded Mr. and Mrs. Brill, A very delicious and attractive three-course lunch was served. At each place was a small candle in a favor which furnished the illumination. during the serving. : ; : ] &9
Dinner Guests.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Miller of Cromwell entertained at a delightful Easter, dinner Sunday the | following guests, Mr. and Mrs. Breiborn Clawson and children, Miss Beulah Mayfield, Harry Lerner of Elkhart, Miss ‘Mardelle Mayfield aid Parnell Bloom of Jackson, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Freeman - Bartress and children of Fort Wayne, Miss Dorothy Chrisman of this' city and Mr. and Mrs. Acee Meyers and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Meyers of Mishawaka. s 3. 8 @
Birthday Party.
~ Ambrose Gowdy was much surprised last Friday night when a party of friends assembled at his home on Road No. 6 to help him celebrate his birthday anniversary with a picnic supper and social evening. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reeves, Mr."and Mrs. Harold Bitner and family, Mr. and Mrs, Weldon }lßeeves and family and Mrs. Cecil ‘Gorsuch and children. Miss Cecil 'Gowdy, Mrs. Alva Cook and Vernice Cook of Chicago. : eR 8 i Surprise Party. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Selig were given a very pleasant surprise party Saturday evening at the h of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Selig when about twenty-five guests assembled there to welcome the newlyweds who were on a visit to his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sam Selig over Easter. After the delicious picnic supper tables were arranged and a social evening was enjoyed playing bridge.
Soecial Hour. | ‘ - Mrs. Graham Lyon, Mrs. R. K. Duke and Mrs. C. G. Keehn entertained fifteen members of the Social Hour at the home of the former Thursday evening Tango was enjoyed and Mrs. J. W. Draper, Mrs. John Haller and Miss Doyva Mitchell and Miss Madeline Denny received prizes. The refreshments were very attractive in Easter style. | : : 2% e ' o “500” Party. { Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Bowen entertained sixteen guests last evening at a plcnic supper followed by “500”. The table was decorated with ter flowers and after the serving of the delicious supper four tables | of “‘500” were formed and Mrs. Walter Robinson and Carl Nowels received high score and Mr. and Mrs. Len Koon ‘consolation prviz?. ET | & ®
‘Entertain For Guests. Mrs. Robert Shobe entertiained Thursday evening three |tables of guests at bridge in honpr of her guest Mrs. B. C. Unckrich of Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Unchrich wm% pregented with a guest prize. Mrs. Frank MgcDaniel first prize Mrs. Riy Loy second and Mrs. Fred Star gmsolaflon. Dainty refreshments were served. £ s “ s Dinner Guesu.l o - Mrs. Lucy Feldheiser entertained at an Easter dinner and also in honor of her birthday anniversery, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Kline an daughter Barbara of Chicago and Miss Edythe Wwilllams. Mr. and Mrs. Kline were accompanied home by Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Todd. s | ¢es s | Sunday Dinner Guests. Mrs. Izora Iden and daughter Kdith entertained at an Easter dinner Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Albert Deardorff, Miss Nadine Deardorff Mrs. Fredonna Barnhart, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Banta and Mr. and Mrs. Gary Iden and sons, 3 ‘e e e ity "~ Famlily Dinne;
Mr. and Mrs. Louis 'Zookl entertained at a family dinner Easter Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Halzoran Don Simpgson of Three Rivers, Mn;ih.. Mr. and Mrs. John Simpson and son Bob of Shishewana. ' : s eB| Marriage Annount : ' After keeping their marriage a se-j cret for four weeks ley “Pete” King and Jessle Stump Wolf have made the announcement to their many friends who are offering con‘gratulations. : S : ’ s ¢ i’ T S : i Mr. and Mrs. Emery Bennett entertained at supper Friday evening Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Hoffman of Chicago ‘Mrs.. Jesse Couts of Elkhart They are sisters of Mrs. ‘Benngtt,{ Jobn Lint a
- LIGONTER HERD LEADS LIST Produces Average of 44.6 Pounds of Butter Fat During Month of March It Is Shown .
The March report of Noble-Whitley Dairy Herd Improvement Asociation shows a total of 50 cows in milk and 46 dry cows. There were 164 cows produced over one pound of butter fat per day. The ten high cows made an average of 1,332.6 pounds of milk and 61.41 pounds of butter fat for the mooth- = :
[ The high cow, a pure bred Jersey is owned by Green & Mohler Ligonier and produced 1,342 pounds of milk and 80.5 pounds of butter fat. - o - Bernard Haines was third with a Holstein cow that produced 1,829 pounds of milk and §8.3 pounds of ter fat Perry Dicken with a Guernsey was elghth. His cow produced 1060 pounds of mily and 58.3 pounds of butter fat. i :
~ Of the ten high herds Green & Mohler Jerseys led the list averaging 796 pounds of milk and 44.6 pounds of butter fat. : - Bernard Haines was fourth his Holstein herd producing an average of 991 pounds of milk and 34.6 pounds of butter fat.. 2
Perry Dicken was fifth his Jersey herd producing an average of 693 pounds of milk and 33.9 pounds of butter fat. ; : o
. Green & Mohler are feeding a balanced ration of com,'qnd oats mixture with a dairy feed. : : B
PHYSICIAN FOUND DEAD
Dr. Woodward Hays 47 Dies Sunday at Alblon From Overdose of Medicine Coroner Decldes
~ Dr. Woodward Hays 47 a prominent physician of Noble county was found dead in his home at 6 o'clock Sunday morning by his sister Miss Olive Hays with whom he had made his home at Alblon. His death was termed. as accidental through self-administration of an overdose of medicine according to H. P. Shew county coroner who condueted an inquest in the case.
County Coroner Shew said that Dr. Hays had been accustomed to the use of drugs for some time and that no reasons could be set forth for a suicide théory. Miss Hays told the coroner that when she left the home Saturday night at 9:30 o’clock the doctor waa lying on his bed fully atired, When she returned Sunday morning he was still lying on his bed and had been dead for some time. S
" Dr. Hays was born in Albion. After graduating from the Rush Medical college Chicago he returned there where he began practicing medicine with his father Dr. John W. Hays. His father has been dead for several years.
Dr. Hays was a member of the Magonic lodge, the Noble County Medical association and the Albion Methodist church. . ek -
Coming to Ligonier,
The churches of this city have been fortunate in securing one of America’s outstanding speakers and writers, Dr. E. L. House, who is an expert in “The Psychology of Religion.” He will be in Ligonier Sunday, May 4th, continue eight days, speaking afternoons at three and evenings at 7:46 These lectures will be free to all with an oftering taken at each.
Dr. House is able to world and life problems and make them simple and understandable to all. His illustrative power is par excellence and his oratory rare. He has a message for all classes, young and old, clerk and proprietor, woman and child, teacher and doctor. e o
~ Few men have higher indorsements. He has been three times in South Bend and gripped Fort Wayne a few years ago, so that they were turned away from the doors of the church. iHe has been used by chautaugquas all over the west and east. He is engaged for summer assemblies this year. A few years ago he swept Winona Lake assembly. -
A noted preacher says: “No matter what you say about him or hear about him he goes beyond all expectations.” ~ ' To go with this man these coming eight days, is like taking a course in an institute, with the exception that he is putting into concrete form much in the days he is present in the ety - : :
brother of this city called in the evening. S L = = 2 z Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tyler of Breman and Mrs. Etta Juday were dinner guests yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Tyler. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. lether Fry and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tyler were callers. LB : > Mrs. Joe Knight and mother were dinner guests of the Waldron family least of town Sunday. g , es e _ G - The Progress Club will meet with Miss Dova Mitehell this evening at the Haller home. e esee A 5 : Mrs. “Jennie Drain entertained at Easter dinner yesterday Rev. Anderson and family. - o -
TWICE WEEKLY
VOL. 62 NO. 13A
PPEN REPUBLICAN PARYTY " BREAKS OVER CONFIRNATION FEARED AT WASHINGTON Chiei Opponents of Propesed Asseclate Justice Are Union Laber and Colored Race
. The uprising in “republican rauks over the nomination of John R Parker to be a supreme court justice reached such a stage Thursdsy that Republican Floor Leader Watson held a luncheon conference with 17 republican senators to discuss the situstion. , :
~ So embarrassing politically has become the opposition to Judge Johm J. Parker as a supreme court justice that two alternative plans of prevem:ing an open republican party bresk are being arranged by senate leaders. If they can the leaders wil] hoid the nomination in the senate judiciary committee indefinitely in order to prevent a discussion of the issmes raised by the nomination on the senate fioor. Failing in that and they fear they will fail, they will try to make an agreement for a closed executive session of the senate to consider the nomination. It would be the first secret session of the senate since the rwies were changed last spring after the United Press published the secret debate and roll calls on the Lenroot and West nominaticns.
Under the change in rules a msJjority of the senate must be lined ap in favor of the secret session before the doors can be closed. Some such steps seems necessary 1o the leaders since publication of a tele gram sent to Senator Patierson republican, Mo., by B. G. Voorhees republican state chairman of Missouri.
“In my judgment the confirmstion of Judge Parker means that the republican party might just as wel] say boodbye to Missouri for the next twe or three elections at least,” Voorhees states. :
~ “It will be. the first great affromt given by a republican president and = republican senate to the Negro race, since the days of Abraham Linceln “It was a long hard pull to put Missouri in the republican columm, Wt seems a pity that the fine results achieved through many yesrs of unremitting effort in Missouri on the part of the republican" state orgamization should ‘be thrown away in two short Ye&rs." 3 - Similar sentiments have been privately voiced by some of the leaders from the other so-called border states of West Virginia, Ohic, Kentucky Indiana and Illineois. . They have caused alarm to the senators from those and other state, who must decide whether Judge Parker shall be confirmed.
P. (. Oonvention June 25-26
Work" on the construction of the convention hall north of Sargent's hotel was begun last week by Cemtractor Leher of Bremen. .
* This new structure is being made ready for the use of the convemtion of the Indiana Branch of the Wational League of District Postmasters.
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~ The convention is to be held =t the Sargent hotel June 25 and 26 mccording to the explanation made by Mrs. J. M. Sargent today. ‘
Mishawaka te Vele
A referendum on the guestion of adopting daylight saving time will be held in Mishawaka in conmection with the primary elections on May §it was decided at a conferemce of city officials. Mishawaka is expected to voie for fast time following the-action of South Bend which will go on fast time April 27. ;
Rats Gnaw Mawn’s Face
Allen county authorities today were investigating the death of Thomas Lakey, 66 whose body was found =t the county infirmary with portions of the chin, lips, gums and tongue gnawed away by rats. :
Investigators said they imtended to determine whether mutilation wus done before or after death.
Earlier predications thai the Indiana peach crop would be & toial loss this year were confirmed tolay by Frank N. Wallace state sntomplogist Trees which shounld be in Sioom are barren, Wallace said alfhough other fruits did not suffer from The severe cold. ~ Caught Tn Three Ninutes ~ ‘Hammond poiice believe They esiablished a record last night when three minutes after they received & Teport of the holdup of a filling station =~ tendant they had the bandits in jJuil bandits were caught at 8:31. '