Ligonier Banner., Volume 70, Number 12, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 April 1936 — Page 4

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Robbers Go To Reformatory Four members of g youthful burglary gang were under sentences to the Indiana state reformatory after admitting participation in series of house robberies. ' Judge Dan Plye of St. Joseph circuit court sentenced Francis L. Imus, 17, confesséd leader of the gang, to 10 years. He has bheen on (fprobation in juvenile courts since he was 10 years old, Judge Pyle said. Everett Emmons, 21; §larvey Patterson, 17 and Gerald C. Fetters 20, each received one to ten-year terms under the Indana minorg act for cri:n. inals. e

Bert Bjoras, 19 pleaded not guilty to first degree burglary charges. He was implicated in the robberies by the others. -

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~ Students May Vote Ruling - College studentg are eligihle 1o vote under a new version of the Absent Voters’ law. =~ The state election board’s ruling follows: . A ' “Under the section 1 the foilowing persons may vote the absent voter’s ballot:, A voter who by reason of the nature of hig busiress :s ’absent or expects,to be absent from the county on the day of the pri'mary. The wife or dependents of !a voter who by reason of the nature of his business ig absent or expects to be absent froom the county on the day of the primary. College students soldiers, seamen and marines. Federal and state employes and their wife or dependents. . Members of the Civilian Conservation: corps. “In all of the above instances they must first be legally registerea voters. In the case of voters absent bccause of business, and their wives, and college students, ths apgplicant for absent voter’s ballot must secure the« signatures of two legal resideut freehold voters of the precinct in which the applicant resides, and siznatures of the two legal resident freehold voters must be duly sworn te.”

The county election board had been informed under a.prior ruling of the state election board. that college students were not to be authorizeq to vote. Join Indiana Poultry Club. L Enrollments in the 1936 4H Poultry club projects are expected by W. Amick, assistant state club leader on the agricultural extension staff of Purdue university to far exceed the 2,141 set in 1935. The increase is expected because of the renewed interest in poultry keeping and the new rules, record books and bulletins prepared for the 1936 club program.

The poultry club which is onw the fourth ranking 4H agricultural project in the state, hag been so organized that it can now be handled by the young boy or girl during the first two years. With thig experience it is possible for the club member to do poultry work on a year-round basis during 'his last three years. . Ag outlined the club member keeps a record of the feeq used and eggs and birds sold from the farm flock during the first year., The next year he keeps a record of the chicks lost, feed fed, fuel used and broilers sold from May 1 to September 1. In the third year, the club member is responsible for the care and management of the laying flock for the entire year, beginning October Ist.

Ashley Plans Water System. A water works system is to be establieshed at Ashley at an estimated cost of $45,000. It is a PWA project with the government allotting $28.000. Contracts for the construction of wells has been let to the ILayne Northern company of Mishawaka, for $2,350. Contracts for the construction of maing and the erection of a derrick and supply tank will be awarded later. Heretofore there has heen no public water supply there.

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DR. J. S. WELLINGTON _ OPTOMETRIC EYE SPECIALIST Eyes Examined — Glasses Fitted Limmerman Building Every Friday Evening 6:30 to 9 Phone 273 for Appointmcnt

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Arthur Claudon Crustee Perry Townshsp Office in the Mier Bank Building Office Hours—Friday Nights, by appointment only

O. A. Billman \ Well Drilling Water Supply Systems Phone 333 Ligonier, Ind.

W. H. WIGTON - Attorney-at-Law Oice 'n Zimmerman Block LIGONIER, «ND

Harry L. Benner

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TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT Formation of League Is - Announe- ‘ by George L. | Berry Powerful union leaderg within tke American Federation of Labor swung into action to support President Rooseveit and fight his foes in the election campaign. - The. formation of “labor’s nonpartisan league” und the start of its drive came in the thick of republican activity including the important New York primary, the Maing convention, ang the filing of petitions for both Senator Borah of Idaho and Goverror Alf M. Landon of Kansas in the New Jcrsey presidential preference primary. iCreation of the new lesgue = was announced by George L. Berry, president of the printing pressinen. His associategs are Jchn L. Lewis, president of the United Mine workers, and Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamatec’ Clothing workers.

Berry, head of the president’s council for industrial progress, referred apparently to the American Liberty League’s attacks on the new deal when he declared his group’s move was prompted by the actiong of “other leagues which had as their purpose the defeat of the President ang his policies.”

Berry agreed his league would be a medium of'A. F. of I. support for Mr. Roosevelt. Only once has the federation endorsed a - presidential candidate—in the case of Robert M. LaFollette in 1924.

Berry dispatched several thousand letters to union leaders Berry said special ‘attention will be given to the campaigns in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio ~and Illinois although he said he did pot regard the states ag doubtful.

“It is my impression,” Berry declared, ‘“that labor throughout the nation fully appreciates and commends the efforts and the accomplishments of President Roosevelt in the reconstruction of our ecnnomic system which contemplates the development of an orderly, constructive reform in industrv and finance to the end tha tunemployment and distress shall be reduced to the extreme minimum—if not cliinated—in our country.” 2 :

Senator Borah’s backers, after a vigorous campajgn awaited results of efforts to get support from among the 90 national convention delegates to be picked in New York. In the Maine G. O. P. 2onvention it was expected tha. an urinstructed delegation partial to the nominaticn of Colone] Frank Knox of Chicago would be selected.

_ Denied Application For $250:000 An application of the state for approximately $250,000. benefits from the federa] government for old age and bling pensions hag been denied, Edward P. Brennan state budget director announced. Indiana’s benefits from the federal government will not begin until next month.

The state did not qualify for benetits for Febrnary and March as state officialg had hoped and wil! ‘not’ receive approximately $250,000 for which’ they -applied, he said. Denial was based on the ground that old Imdiana pension laws in effect during February and March did not confonm: to the federal act. Legis lation emacted at the special session of the legislature convened ‘March 5 met federal requirements, however.

County Buys Six New Trucks. ¢ Six ‘General Motors trucks for use in Noble county were purchased by the coufty cemmissionerg in their regular monthly session. The contract went to ‘Roy Riddle, of Albion for $7,975. Other routine work of the board consisted of allowing. old-age pensions in the sum of $2,771; allowing bills of $13,591 and gravel road repair bills of $18,868. . A report showed 40 inmates at the county infirmary at present and contracts for supplies were let. The voting place in precinct No. 8 was changed from Cosperville to the North Elkhart school. o ~ John Fisher was appointed fustice of the peace in Allen township.

; Wwill Get Scholarships- ? 'A letter received by county schoo! officialg from Dean David A. Rothrock of Indiana University siates that at least two scholarships to L U. will be awarded high school graduates from this county. The scholarships take effect next fall and run tf_or one year. <

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SIGNS OF THESE TIMES By Dudley A. Smith

_Leading farm authorities and conservationistg are waxing eloquent in their praise for President Roosévelt's new agricultural aig program. While all the detailg for itg operation have not been worked out, the vision cof real good it can do is inspiring. It combines a cooperative plan for control of disasterous economic Influefices affecting farmers . generally with a soil conservation program that will have lasting and ever increasing benefit to' America.

.In short, the new soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, will pay subsidies to fanmers for doing something consiructive for their own personal and mutual benefit, and for the enrichment of the agricultural resources of America. The plan is simple. American has some 300,000,000 acres of fanm- land now beinig harvested. Too much of this land is planted in commercial, soil destroving crops. Much of it never should have beer planted at all such as that of the Western piains which was taken out of pasturage in war time and is now a shifting sand desert. _

The Coagress has appropriated $440,000,000 with. which subsidies will be paid to States for payment of fanmers who, in cooperative associations, wil] take some 30,000,000 acres out of production »f th: main soilusing cropg such as wheat, corn cotton, ete., and plant them in clover, grasses, hay and such ieguminous soil building crops, or ever in soil conserving crops. Here is a program which permis cooperation by al; kinds of farmers not merely corn, hog, wheat and tobacco growers. The old AAA cooperative county organictions form the nucleus for the bullding of this new program. The farmer signg up agreeing to classificatior of his lands as to whether crops ‘planted are soil-depleting crops, soii-conserv ing or soil-building crops. In the North Central group of States of which Indiana is & member farmers will be eligible to reczive as much at $56 an acre for soii-building crops and an average payment of $lO an acre for shrifting land from soil depleting to soil conserving crops.

Thus, by practiicing the wellKnown scientific formule of “crop rotation” already practicel by most successful farmers, and without leaving any lands lying idle, the American farmer has been given a paying method for control of Ji«sterous nationa] farm surplaszes, for con trolling his own economic destiny, while at the same tima building up the fertility of hig soi'. Payments, coming from the Federal Government to the States and from the States to the farmer will provide the farmer with a cash reserve against seasona] disasters. For a number of years, conservationists have been depioring the land wastage and the pace of sgil-depietion that hag been going on in "his country. The destructin of forests and grazing lands has left behind reeded hills rust deserts droughths and floods. They have warned that America in another country would be as barren as China and as poverty stricken if her people failed to awaken to the need for soil conservation: . They have weeped to see the fertile top-soil of the Missisgippi valley states go flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, ¥

President Roosevelt was p'adged when he took office to do something about the control of farm surpluses, which piled up and unsalable, destroyed prices of now-season crops. A former federal agency tried the ‘experiment of buying up the . surpluses, holding them against rising prices, but lost the taxpayers’ money so expended ang finally had to ship the unweildy surpluseg off .0 China. The AAA tried the experiment oL paying farmerg not tu raise grains and produce of the type in which urpluseg existed. This wae criticiz‘ed because it put a price on idle acres and rewarded unproductivity. It was successful, however, is raising farm prices to double thelr level of. the Hoover panic era. 3

! Another pledge made hy President ‘Roosevelt was the conservation of natural resources would become ‘a federal policy. Now, he has combined the two, conservaticn and farm aid. The present program has a two year experience course (o run before being made pernmianent.. It representg the recommendations of leading non-partisan farm autiorities It gives the farmer, in community, county and state cooperative assoclationg the right to work out their

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own galvation. It is the farmer’s own program and will succeed or fail according to wha. he is willing to put into it. It iy an oppertuni ty for co-cperative agriculture. Any one who opposeg it for persona. politica] gain will deserve the electoral threshing he ig sure to receive from Apnericd’s independent farmeors

To Open Bids

Bids on construction of six grade separationg and 14 bridges costing approximately $578,000 will be received by the state highway depurtment April 28 jt was announced. Bids on highways and bridge work costing nearly $2,000,00¢ will be opened by the tiepartment The April 28 letting will include grade separations in Lake, Putnam, Clark and Hendricks counties. Two ot the separations are on state road 6 in Lake county, one of the major east-west highways in northera Ivdiana.

One separation will carry state road 6 traffic over the C. & O and C. and E. railroads and the other will be over the New York Centrai tracks, both located in Higbland. Another project will be replacement of the presert grade separation over the C. 1. & L. railroad on U. S. road 40 near Putnamville. The bridge will be reconstructed to permit four-lane trafice and sidewalks for pedestrians. The existing narrow underpass for U. S. road 21 traffic wunder the Pennsylvania railroad tracks north of Jeffersonville will be replaced The bridge has been the 3cene of numroug fatal accidents. The letting will include 26 miles of paving and six grade geparations. Counties in which the work will be located include Noble, Clay, Bt Joseph, Lake Gibsou, LaPorte Warrick, Vigo Whitley Adams Wabash and Allen counties.

Tony Montino, 30, arrested last week as a “peeping Tom”, will be turned over to immigration authoritieg for deportation to Italy, Sheriff Virgil Yeager of Kosciusko county announces. He claime Montino is in this country illegally.

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Clab Work Discussed Over 2,000 Noble county grade school pupils and high school students were addressed last week regarding Noble County 4-H Club work by members of a committee represent ing the leadership of the work in Noblg county. ; Schools visited were Washington Center, Kimmell, Cromwell, Parry Certter, North FElkhart, Wawaka “York Center, Wolf Lake, Merriam, Rome City, Brimfield, Wayne Center, Avilla, LaOtty Haag, Hopewe!i Green Center, Summit, Sugar Grove, Charter Oak, Stanley, Huckleberry Green and Checry. This is the first time a 4-H enrollment week hag been set aside 'n Noble county. Results have been gratifying report leaderg and it {s oxpected a full enrollment weerk and concentrated effort in visiting schools of the county during this week will become an annual plan In WNoble county 4-H Club work. Killed in Crash. Mrs. Martha Merrill, 35, was kiiled instantly and her hushand, Russell Merrill, 32, prominent South Bend labor leader, was injured critically when their automobile struck

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By Richard Lee

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:“ truck traller and careeneq into a ~ Maribell Merrill, 15, a daaghter, wag Injured slightly. Merrill is president of thg Studebaker local of the United Aitomobile Workers of America. ety Uneover Age Pension Fraudg A report showing that an Eikhart resident who has been receiving a monthly old aga pension of $750 since April 156 1935 is employed part of the time and hag a son who claims ownership of geveral pleces of property was placed on file at the county auditor’s office in Goshen dy Wi'liam J. Bigerfoos of Elkhart, old age ps2sion investigator. - Mr. Sigerfoos also placed on file recently a report zhowing that another man, whose addresg was given a 5 Wakarusa and whose application for $750 per month was ganted Augnst 30 1934, “has not been & legal resident of Elkhart county for 30 years.” . Triplet female calveg weéra horn to a six-year old Jersey cow owned by - Ira C. Cook of Concord township Elkhart county.