Logansport Press (Newspaper) - February 10, 1931, Logansport, Indiana r MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ESTABLISHED BY THE CASS COUNTY JUNE 14 1921 f m MEMBER A B C PEOPLES PAPER It was the Fort Smith Ark Feb 9 that Tulsa is a bear there last night lo exactly thirty thousand dollars at o n e single per making one hun dred the state of Oklahoma paid in the one week wasnt the attraction it cause These people down in these states know that there is folks that are hungry and they going to feed em as as they are able And say they got a great down here they dont just open up a soup kitchen and feed a lot of profession al bums They make era work and then give cm the money to buy some food Played my wifes town Rogers Ark today and Ft Smith tonight VOL NO 202 Always Lead LOGANSPORT INDIANA TUESDAY FEB 10 1931 Subscription By mail a year outside of state 50 a In I carrier for 2 PRICE THREE CENTS Believe Fire Has Burned 20 Years In Garbage Dump Its A Godsend For Unemployed Nmv York iVb underground which o Is has been Miming for liO UMM today by workmen for mnv city inry build on Hikers Tho fire won believed by of tho ror to why hind part of fho municipal farms bounteous crops nwl also snow always melted on he as soon fis It fell spot was mid refuse Frank i GRIEVES OVER WIFES DEATH U Frank Beard said to be the last of the town characters of a score and more years ago died tho county poor farm n last old only since he why spot New York Feb 9 AP Snow shovels clanged a metallic paean of praise to the weather today as 20000 New Yorkers rejoiced that they had jobs at last i A s n o w f a 11 j which in other years would have been unwelcome was by city as a used gari splendid chance to the dump 18 yenrs I UKS Twenty thousand of them ore put to work at a day hey had been summon CM to J job by radio and by ing officials who made the j rounds of employment bureaus and Tho cost lo i the is a day it looked as if the jobs might last a few clays for the forecast for tonight was snow or rain Moro The snow followed by a cold rain today brought from another quarter City engineers worrying over the low of water in me roton aud water sheds folt slightly But tho billions of gallons of mots tune Is a drop in tho bucket compared to tho needs of the citys water system Unless there further sub stantial precipitation in the next dom farm He was years Tho poor farm was tho home Beard had known was 17 years old Sam Nutter present superintendent of the in said Beard had been reg in there in In his days Heard scl his bunk at the in tho but was a ir hoarder every winter lie in boxes on park or anywhere ho could crawl in during warm weather and pied himself at odd jobs now and then for a little spending money Older residents will recall that never a band concert was played but Frank was in tho tront row with his hat off They ho could hear tho opening of a trombone clear out slept said blaro at infirmary if the concert were impromptu but it it were sched tiled he was in the front row i from first lingering of the flute until tho Star Spangled Banj nor IJo followed the band wagon j at avery circus parade for years Beards father died when he was IT Frank was not of great depth mentally and the poor farm loomed as his only refuge If he lias any surviving relatives none who know him can say where they are Mr Nutter said often told him ho had a living but ho didnt know or what her name is Beard had not been of the best health for some years lie suf from heart disease recently and his ai 8 oclock last night was not unexpected The body was removed to the Chaso Mortuary from where serv ices will bo held probably on Wednesday Burial will be in ML Hope cemetery Beard sister where One of the biggest liquor hauls in recant months re from a raid yesterday ttwo of water Otl the Jack Nell will bo next summer house seven miles east on stare The raiding party was Goal Of May quire Personal Can vass Head Says With a showing of Lo officials said l ho Jail built and in Sol of tho double between was tho En through la In tho and the south about two under made ami two policemen They brought in lob a JaclO Sellers 41 to face rhurjps ot possession of liquor cans of uncut al and exactly fifty pints of bonded whisky were stored m basement m await dis of the case Hidden In The liquor was discovered In a compartment garage One end building had been sheriff said walls the liquor cacho was located The hiding place was located difficulty declared Sellers upright on tho ot tho partition and made falso wall appear Uko wall of tho garage trance to tho oaso a concealed door The Sellers place pulse of a filling station refreshments stand on hide of tho pavement miles west of lino was bond To Plead Carl 44 facing his fourth third offense liquor vio lation in court as a VD of a raid by Sherift Zerbo jt laco on road 25 north Saturday night declared yuster day that he will plead The for to years in prison ac cording to Prosecutor Miller admitted ownership of the several pints of liquor tak en from behind a partition of his filling station oasis at tho line His bond yes was fixed at by Judge Smith and he been to it last night Prosecutor Miller declared continued disrespect for the law has been almost Helent to brand him an criminal tho penalty i3 life imprisonment Others activities against local violations brought two ad arrests over the ond tho police nabbing May Logan in an early morning raid day while the sheriff James Gaumor GS in jail ing trial for sale and aa a result of f T oc Quarter Planned the Washington Peb 9 A hill re place George Washing tons I Ikon ess on quarter dollar was introduced today by Chairman Perkins of tho house coinage committee The design would bo to corn the two hundredth an of Washingtons on last only ior the Cross emergency t Hot campaign crisis loomed be fore local leaders The is less than one tenth tho national set quota j Pitiful tales of the intense suij rering In sections of Wio country and in southern ana continue to pour into office in Logansport ln part of the state is actual want in a host ol farm families there aro depicted herds unfilled cribs and bins dry wells and streams lu S uru of the country there are pople on the verse of starva tion and without Local people have done all can to relieve the situation An appeal to the Red Cross only solution AVant Volunteer Plans for the the national Child Health and Welfare movement now under way were formulated at a ban of the Cass County Dema association held at Earnes Hotel last night Fifteen mem bers attended Dr Troy Bab cock Tho national project Which is being sponsored by medical men all over the United States is for the of sanitary condi for school A was appoint ed as follows Dr Troy Bab cock Dr R L Swin dler Dr J P Kirtz Dr F M Bozer Dr L U and Dr W W Horn Double Funeral Held For Mr and Mrs Henry J Kruse Monday Royal Centre Feb 0 Special j over the comparatively sudden death of his wife lust j Friday was blamed for the yesterday uf Henry J Kruse prominent farmer of this vicinity j was found dead in the I com crib at his residence two miles west of here about 7 n m j yesterday H wound from a 12 gauge shot gun just above the heart Tie is thought to him the shoi about two hours A burning lantern and llu barrel weapon used by Kruse beside body Body Found by Friend lie was found by Ben Ulfers a resident of the vicinity who had stayed at Hie during the night to assist work due tto Mrs death Dr Donald was called Coroner M Stewart was Members of the family Jvey and Coroner Stewart that Kruse had taken the death oJ his wife bard he had mentioned nothing regarding his intentions Xn notes were found about the house or near tho body to ex plain the a el Finances Good His condition was good Or ivey mid Coroner Stow jut were told Survivors three daughters two side at home of the family said Mr U previous day Mr said He stated someone had up during tha ighr Mr leave the house Inn torn shortly on fired double wore home with n nd Measure To Eliminate Truant ers Survives D ay In Senate Indianapolis Feb 9 senate today the Indiana supreme court the Market Street Drink Parlor Is Entered No Loot Thieves broken into soft drink parlor it 430 Market sorno tinio before oclock Throb bery was discovered by Vd merchant UKin amount ins moro than was taken from cash rojr ister The operated by Ray Sheridan officers said No merchandise was missing an employe said The door at Markel street had been broken poa The bad I trance down the back i a invar to a door where refused to to the state n elude of whom re say who may practice law m The measure over which attorney members in the up per chamber were about equally divided failed ol passage The vote was 21 to 21 As was promised two new income tax bills one deal ing with individual and the other with corporation incomes were introduced in the house and quickly advanced to sec cmd treading 4111 An amendment or two likely will be attached by the them to incorporated in what its sponsors say are the best features of si ro il a r m e a s u r e s i n t rod u ced earlier The senate after Lengthy de bate declined to kill or amend a which would abolish stale ami county school attendance of Lieutenant Governor Ed D Bush cast tho vote which broke a tie and kept from Ire ins indefinitely ed floes o Oleomargarine for the past several sessions subject of much debate in the legislature caus ed another wrangle in The senate today A regulatory sur vived an effort at indefinite post and passed engross ment after that section An ur LWU m Democratic majority who hope to send the by the middle of the week The bills have As Rum Runners liad broken been made into a lock through street Escape a side Hope Compromise On Veterans Problem Can Be Effected the Keel and to Mostly fair s I I colder in ex e P o r t i o n Tuesday Wednesday in cloud L ness and warm er Koyal Contro Bureau of Agriculture G 7 S 0 10 m in m in m 11 12 1 o m m rn m m 33 guilty Cense is 7 a m Midnight Humidity 12 noon Precipitation 32 71 suf habitual for which p m One year iigo Maximum wind velocity midnight to 3 p m 32 miles honr from northwest Temperature u Year Ago 40 Minimum Trace Trace from ner Gifts In Cass county nave tipped t0 obtain our through contributions Mrs A I local president declared last night have from making it a personal from setting sums as quotas for certain groups and individuals We hoped the people of Cass county would realize how urgent situation they would fool it their duty to peo ple aro in tho midst of long drawn out suffering The thing is uot is a tor ture Had the catastrophe been a flood or an earthquake the money for relief would probably have been raised at once The local chapter wants to thank all those have donated in the drive must raise a larger soon Wo urge organizations and var firms over county to contribute bulk Individual contributions fow cents will bo havo established at the Farmers Merchants bank corner and Broadway checks should be made payable to the American Red Groses H within tho next few days receipts do not total a great deal Continued on Page Five Orders It Given Kus Feb 0 pus today placed mothers charge mid out of jurisdiction of a woman Mm as security for his Hicks of she had two years ago She said she A writ of Nn mo n David Walker in a woman who held boaid Mrs on custody of the ins to return him to Mrs Hines the boys mother whenever his bowel of two years was paid H granting n wbich restored mori to bis mother declared n security for ft debt if one giv was will existed child was hardly the ions Gass sums even a wel been and of and Named By King George To Take Charge of Province of Canada his has await possession arrest at Warsaw Woman Dies Of Injuries Hartford City Ind Feb 9 Mrs Bruce Harvey Warsaw Ind died in county hospital night from injuries Dec 19 in a dont near Katon Ind i vertebras were m accident Of New York Feb 9 elevator went bears scrambled to ge In a turnover of approximately the largest since the middle of December prices advanc tors London Feb 0 George today appointed the Lar ot a distinguished Irish peer to sbe oE Canada succeeding Lord Will who has been named vic eroy of India Tho announcement the ap pointment caused surprise for Lord name had uot been mentioned in connection with tlie post date of his departure for Canada was not announced Family of Soldiers Lord ninth earl of that name and comes of a distinguished family which gave Ireland and Great Britain many noted soldiers parliament arians and lawyers He in and suc his father to the title in 1930 Hewas educated at Har row and Cambridge University and became a barrister in 1903 but never practiced the war In the campaign in 1915 and staCC in Franco from 1916 to Pie ho fla number foreign decora tions ed to nearly a snare m scores 01 common stocks including United 1 States Steel Bethlehem Steel j closed to I tho i Electric and North American close to The average gain of for vcd i record for a single session so Press N the highest level of the new year at 1347 M since early last December has that figure been equalled the issues did not set a 31 but the standard composite price at 1347 Washington ident Hoover today added a vig alien deportation drive to tho restriction policy adopted to conserve employment for American labor Rochester Girl Believed Eloped Goshen Ind Feb 9 Officers here were asked today by Mr and Mrs Clyde Shafer of Rochester to search for Wilbur 30 of this city they say disappeared yes with their daughter Faye Officers here were informed Flager had been calling on tho girl for some time and they believed it pas sible the couple had eloped Dhe n Ford Coupe Taken Here Last Night The theft of a 1921 Ford coupe was reported to police yesterday evening The car owned by B E was taken from where it was in Fifth street accord ing tothe report E E Tate above and Tooley below both 19 students at at Lawrence and sons of families faces charges of vio lating the prohibition laws They were arrested witli two suit cases filled pints of brandy and 10 pints of and admitted running from Kansas City to Lawrence according to police TO SELL TAPER Chicago Feb 9 F GeU receiver for the Chicago Evening Post to day announced would ask Judge Denis authorize sale of the newspaper BLAST 2 Butte Feb S lost their lives and two others were seriously burned m a gas explosion and fire at the Russell Refinery here t early to day Indianapolis Feb 0 hill proposing to repeal the three mil o gravel road law is scheduled to bo killed house tomorrow in the which would prohibit its use institutions had been out The seeks to the and sale of margarine and requires notice of lise in public eating places The house killed a to abolish free automobile license plates lo state officials and em ployes passed four bills or nature and until tomorrow on a permanent j Eleven New Kills Of eleven new bills in trod ne ed in tihe senate one would pro vide for n law and the other would give to cities and towns until April I J D 3 3 approximately 000000 annually for automobile licenses The money j now goes to the highway depart j me nt j The which would give the supreme court exclusive tion over who shall be admit ted to bar ih Indiana was sponsored by commis sion and the Indiana asso ciation Sen ait or Win field T Miller Re publican Indianapolis challeng ed it on the ground that he fear ed it would he an invasion of the constitution Both Republicans and Demo crats in the house held caucuses tonight The Republican minor My considered tax matters to ahead legislation Touch ing on The senate passed two bills one fixing the open season on musk rat and mink from Novem ber 30 to February 10 and the other requiring holding of spe classes by school officials the number of rcl anted in the school district is 25 or more The senate also concurred in a resolution requesting tire war Continued on Page Five Fob mingled to day with by full cash pay ment ns congress pre pared for the next in tho to avoid an extra relief Longworth and Chair man Snell of the house said they favored al loans costing about 000 lead ers for a compromise Object ions Pull in the house and senate voiced objections to I ho present situa tion However Senator Watson of Indiana the Republican leader predicted some form of veterans ion AVO u Id be enacted be fore the Marrh 1 adjournment Senator Caraway Democrat Arkansas author of one of he bills proposing to pay full face value of the adjusted compensa tion certificate served notice he of move to discharge the action i committee if it has not voted on let werk bv Tuesday of next Must Have New Ones On By Tomorrow nhan si ill m ore automobile license issued in the coun cial There are 2000 places to ho judging from the number sold during years with day remain in K for use of the old licenses C O charge of the distribution said More than 5 plates h a vn been distributed to There were 8200 plates received at the local bumin office Nine hundred four truck 11 a n d 5 5 1 n u ff on censes liave been There were truck received and SOO li issued to the local office February 10 has been set by the state department as the last day in which motorists may use 1930 plates Word has also heen received by he state department that law will be rigidly en forced by state police 2 Tex Food Feb today credited with killing two and making live members of the family critically ill to the bed rock by the ons jor former William land citizens for a solution killers Every available mysteri Council E Cleve clamoreS and arrest of smali other Jones GET Fire trucks answered a call to Second street and Melbourne avenue about S oclock last night A flue fire prompted the call detective was put on the case with Police Chief Matowitz in command suspects were arrested and persons w e r e t but no proven three p la nation of the murder has been found since Potters body found as slain to seal his against testimony in Clevelands notorious playground j scandal which already has seiu prominent men to prison and which might have sent oUij ers Another theory offered was j that Potter too about some other moneymaking racket and was killed by sters who were afraid of him Potter himself had faced trial times in the playground case but each time was acquit ted He had been scheduled for Three Meet Death At Rail Crossings Hammond Fob fl Three persons were killed by trains iu the Calumet district to day Mrs Emma 72 was kill ed by a Michigan Central passen ger train in Hammond 1 D Farly 32 was in jured si ruck by a train at the Pennsylvania railroad yards Manuel urer was at Indiana Har bor when a Pennsylvania train struck his automobile in an apartment last h hole through his head The theory on which were working of trial again today on a charge perjury in previous testimony former councilman had the JeI been nearly five days be that fore his found Farm Conditions Seen To Improve Lafayette Ind Feb 9 Gradual return to normalcy of agriculture during the current year was of farm ers economists and county agents who at Purdue Univer sity today io consider Indiana farm prospects for the future j particularly during 1931
