Logansport Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1931, Logansport, Indiana SAFETY OF NEW HOOVER DA FRECKLES and FRIENDS Read It Every Day ASSOCIATED PRESS ESTABLISHED BY THE PEOPLE CASS COUNTY JUNE 14 1921 MEMBER A B C VOL II NrO 22 in the Lead LOGANSPORT INDIANA SUNDAY JULY 12 1931 Subscription By mail a year In Indiana HOO a year outside of state by carrier for 2 weeks PRICE THREE CENTS t TUESDAY Press Carriers Shove Off Early Monday on Falls Trip Proctor Death Quiz Ar ranged By Coroner An investigation was be ing conducted by police yes to determine the ac during few months of William Proctor 29 of 723 Wheatland ave nue who was fatally shot oclock yesterday moiling he ran from Patrolman Sherman Ever ling Coroner Stewart will hold inquest in courtroom at 9 a m Proctor in the alloy near the rear of the Chili parlor Third and him to restaurant Third Ptroet to patrol Proctor leaped through the and ran I kid Gun In The Investigation wild prompt hy the finding of a 38 calibre revolve with a j Second row inside roat pocket nnd Cotner ere Mo also had in hia Otho police said a four inch jimmy bar which was tucked inside of his trousers jt a light Police did not tho na fure of the probe yesterday hut that it had revealed Mt Je Two youths wore taken to headquarters for nng after the shooting but wore inter released Jn Proctors they found to hatchet a circle saw punches pind seventeen cartridges of tho used in the gun found in his of the load man taken yesterday morning Hole On lody Coroner M B who called shortly after shoot witnessed a postmortem initiation at Chase fing parlors yesterday morning Tho examination was made by IDr J H Reed and Dr Marion The fatal bullet entered Voo head above base of the from the Jnirk slightly to Continued on page column Perilous No Aid Asked Of Hoover Declares US Cecil Jamison row reading left to right Back Murphy Robert Quinn Robert Edwards Francis DHara Herbert Morals Rife Peru Gailen Frederick 11 einrich Raymond Peterson Wendell Don Hill George MaThill Holland MayMil Milliner Rochester Jerry MeUler Roger Thomas Hoffman Flora George James Hott Peru Peru Sam Peru Roscoe Newport John Douglas William Walton Charles Joseph Blackburn Lloyd Jamison Donald Ayres Flora Vernon Paul Via Delphi Roy Vincent Via Delphi Hoben began Re Herbert Pfaff Don Thomas Kins Robert Wilbur n i KocK Hold Robert Hard In Dale Russell Tyre Walton Karl Jackson Robert Newman Do mi Id son Max McMillen Marvin Zabst Fulton Waller Adorns Oscar Corsa ut Ke wanna Rassner Peru Bernard Brown Cai card Lets Contracts 2 FILLER WITH Out Less than Hour In Mississippi Collins Miss July 11 Covington farmer convicted 01 iho nnn deof L federal prohibition agent The jury de than jiu The vsr the Wverett was slain on May as he drove along a titar to Miss 10 before a federal Brunei Jury His plumed the railing of a bridge into body was found slugs in the head Now is the time for all able townships to build roads to be five moral growing out of the opening of bids yesterday on two gravel Bethlehem township Continuing the low offers eleven were i again far under engineers the five miles in the two roads both in township going at little more than a mile regarded aa low The roads the William Creek and Or able The Creek road wan awarded to Dudley Delzell of Twelve Mile on of while Conn received the road on hid of The total cost of it he two roads will be under including expenses on both Bonds for the Grable road will j total and nor Creek j The will be sold by treasurer on will pay four cent Interest Superintendents The appointed 1 Russell Coffing of the but named no superintendent tor road at this session The matter of appointing a of the county hospital With the Monday 12 carrier 59 m to will be ex The trip is the reward to the carriers Cor persistent ef fort in the of hew subscribers to The Press in Logans and the towns of territory and tire Oh at the Y W P 1931 FESTIVAL auditor and August I They and a Quarter per Details Of Next Wednesday Revealed By board to succeed David Price Democrat was considered but delayed until the next regular meeting probably will bo named for another fouryear leim How Bid Bids on tiie two Bethlehem township roads were as follows Tombaugh Continued on page 1 Find Body Of Man In Wabash River Near Lafayette Tho body of un unidentified man found in tho river near Lafayette Friday is ed to have no connection with local suicide note of day The unidentified man to 70 of fully and eren had on glasses which had been bought la Jackson Mich If anyone really drowned here 10 body probably would be found It could hardly get to with the river as low asit and in any case the body have floated In two days Goss Will In Washington Harry Goss local farm bureau muringer will doliver the princi pal address at the monthly ses sion or the Washington township farm bureau in the consolidated it is an by Paul Tones chatrman Tipton township will en Members of the boys club also will convene with the bureau Promising to be civ ic activity the second annual Y W C festival will be presented Wednesday evening July 11 near the triangle at the foot of Broadway The event 1s sponsored by j Council of the Y W C A and Miss Mary Hedde is general chair man of arrangements Representatives of F S I club Tri Gleam Girl Reserves and other Y organizations will asj sist in the festival and more than i fifty children will participate in j interpretation and dance numbers Music is to bo furnished by the American Legion band and by he Cass County Sun day School orchestra and seating arrangements for the several thousand people expected to at being The street will be roped off and a canopy of lights is to be hung Others in Others aiding in every worker its going on trip shows how well their ef forts niet with success Commencing the campaign with the works until every worker goes the race developed Cor The Press or a group or real car Tier salesmen several of whom oversold their quota of thirty new subscribers by three times This outstanding group were closely followed by a much greater number who worked courtesy til they won and then added a more for good measure and to help the few who lacked the salesman knack Every means of travel except the airplane and horse bug gy wiU be used in the varied route to be followed Leaving on two luxurious chair carson the crack and Detroit fast train the party will arrive in Detroit at G 15 a m Monday Will See Detroit The first order of business in Detroit will be breakfast This over the will board a bus to see the sights in the city Fords factories the great Ford Greenwich Village and other interesting points Atj the Ford Million dollar office building The afternoon until 5 p m will be spent in talc TO SET Fisher building At 5 p m the party will board the great D C Line steamer Greater Detroit bound for Buffalo N Y Supper will be banquet for the carriers through the of E H McCracken the D C Lines This will be served in the dining room of the great steamer as it slips down I Detroit river to Lake Erie The carriers will spend a happy hour and half in the dining room making merry over a five course luncheon and enjoying scenery such as only Detroit river anc the shores of the great lakes can give Will Water Trip Night will find them sailing over the waters made famous Perry and it is safe to imagine that every car rier willbe enjoying the trip on the lake as they have never en joyed any event in their lives A night sleep on Hope To Make Paris Tokyo Flight With out A Halt Le France inly 12 Sunday Lebrix and Marcel Do ret hopped off from j LeBourget at 3 a m on their nonstop flight to Tokyo Japan The getaway was without j incident The motor of the Hyj phen was started at a m j and after a short warming up the piano started down the runway lifting slowly after a long run under its heavy load of fuel Friends and aviation fans be to arrive at the by Berlin July U AP Chancellor Heinrich Bruen his cabinet sat late j tonight to were called Spartan moves to forestall a in Germany The cabinet session began after of Reichs baJik President Hans Luther Dy airplane from Paris Luther came home without having obtained French assistance for a German loan with no hope of obtaining it without what were consider ed impossible political conces sions moves considered tonight by the cabinet was the appointment of a special of Devisen foreign ex change with authority to seize foreign currencies and other med ia of payment including precious metals in interest of nation al safety The advisability of abandoning the gold standard i all German exports under govern nient monopoly also was by the cabinet Must Guard HanU pressing problem be the govern nient however was what to do Monday to safe guard the Cabinet members feared the public reac tion to todays phenomenal out flow of which amounted lo approximately might the form of a stam away from the mark Hope that international banks would come to the rescue with shortterm rediscount credit suffi cient the Reichsbank through next week at least dwindled as the members of the on page 2 column f New York July 11 AP of the Hoover dam is said to risk repetition of theSt dam the July issue of Civil Engineering publication of the American Society of Civil Engineers The M H Jr a consulting of San Francisco and member of the society roover Dnm 72 feet high tho greatest hydraulic structure is still in the blueprint stage but the design has been selected and the oon let and the safety ques tions are raised about this de sign danger is said be due to the rook upon will i civ the ciam will rest rather the structure itself This the article claims oau he wiped out for of or less Like St Francis It should not be forgotten says the writer that I years ago the St Francis dam built by the city of Los Angeles did fall and without uhe slight est Evena cursory examination of the plains now proposed will convince engineer that the Hoover dam is designed in accordance the school of thought and on al together similar lines Like the St Francis dam is deficient in gravity scctfcn when uplift is la curved in plan on the same ami it is designed same general theory concurrent arch action place and lim of the widely disputed by engineers Hoi ivy Enough The in gravity section when uplift is considered means weight is lo keep it from sliding with the weight of water pushing it from The uplift is upward push of water u n d er dam push of power when the water is deep behind five dam This uplift of pound a square foot i of It is equivalent to a large reduction in weight of the dam N The dams weight Mr Gerry gives 00000 tons the push of water behind it pare 9 column S CLOSE DEAL FOR PROPERTY Marion Negro Is Given Years Walton Over League Takes Cass Farm A n cl ers o n In d u 1 y J 1 Herbert Cameron 17 Marion negro who was the companion of other negroes lynched by a mob at Marion today waa sentenced to the state 3 a m reformatory two to 21 years eel mechanic who kept as In watch over the Claude Deeter 21 of Fair night while Lebrix and Dore slept X noon dinner will be served on page 9 column 1 EXPERTS TEST CASS SOIL FOR PURDUE MAPS Task Here To Occupy Station Men For Months Off i The fliers were up er three oclock however and gave the plane their last tion as mist disappeared of rest and and the en stern sky began to the boat will bring fe Just before they took off Le brix said they had no plans be yond the attempt the worlds distance record They said they carried fuel for 70 hours flying and that they hoped to make Tokyo in less time Daisy Must Go Back To Lockup in and Continued on page Miss June 2 column 6 Fall Must Serve Terin Ruling Of Trial Judg Search For Body Of Missing Man Gary nd July 11 Continuing the search for the 25 al Gary racketeer missing authorities to preparing to drag the Little Calumet river near Lansing Til just across tho State Hue abandoned car was Cound In a thicket near lithe river today Washington July 11 his long struggle to es cape prison came today t0 Albert B Pall Hardings secretary of the interior Justice Bailey in of court re fused to suspend sentence be cause of from Edward L to influence tho lease of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve to a company The former cabinet officer was sentenced to a year in and fined In an to locate the dif ferent kinds of soil in county and to make a map show ing the boundaries of these var jous types D R Kunkel of are Miss Faith Stevens purdue University man Miss Emma Ash Miss Claud turaj experiment station and Rockwell Smith of depart in ent of agriculture a weeks work on a several job in the county yes Early in week T ivr of the ag staff and Mark Bald win of the department of agri culture inspected this area The purpose of the soil sur Mr Kunkel explains is to make an Inventory of the soil resources of the country with tihe view Of helping the de velopment of its agricultural in survey shows Continued on page 9 column 3 S an F ran cis co 7 July 13 The state denied the petition of Daisy De Boe convicted of grand theft on complaint of Clara Bow the mo tion pictureactress for a re on her application for a writ of corpus The actress former secretary who has been at under a must return to jail to complete an sentence She has served two months He has not asked a presidential pardon President cen sure oC the men who betrayed Harding was taken as an tion that any appeal to him on Falls behalf would fail One thing remaining to be set tled be disposed of Vk f Fall was is whether he is will ing to have his sentence changed to a year and a day in a peni This would give the at torney general the power to send a prison where the cli mate for him of Newspaper Workers Honor Vet Employe Indianapolis July 11 Era ployes of Kews tonight at a banquet given n recognition oC the years OC service of Hilton U Brown as a member of the staff Mr Brown is now urer of the News LIMA DEATHS May Released Others To Be Quizzed Lima 0 July 11 slaying of Earl Truesdale 20 and Miss Thelma Woods 17 day remained a mystery to night with the release of James May 22 a former suitor of Miss Woods from a first degree mur der charge County officials said they were convinced May was innocent aft er they had questioned him two days Don Truesdale of Blida father of the slain youth with drew the warrant after the made other men Elmer and Fred Hubbard the former a watchman at the quarry where fifty i Mites Woods and Truesdales bodies were recovered were held for questioning but officials would make uo statement of what they expect to learn from them Of Shoppers Here Last Night i i j The largest number of biles parked in the lot east of the city building in the past several weeks were handled last night police said The lot and bile were parked in the drives end of the city build ing clea out streel THE WEATHER SUNDAY TU 1 I n c r e as i ng cloudiness fol lowed by ers in west t i o n Sunday Monday partly i cloudy preceded toy showers lit change temperature Tlie deal of the Walton league in which they purchased Robert Shields farm north of the city for a chapter was closed yesterday Martin in charge of the action said Martin said tho property in cludes 3861 acres of land Plans are under consideration for the construction of a rearing pond shooting range and other at tractions by the league A meeting of the Cass coun ty chapter will be held soon to arrange definite plans the place Members and their families and others interested in the or are invited to inspect the property Martin said in Showers Royal Centre Bureau Department of Agriculture 6 7 S I 10 a a a a a m m m m in 55 60 65 70 72 II 12 1 a p P P m m m m POUCE MAKE LOTTERY RAID Arrest Two For Operat to North Idaho forest sector blazes were raging uncontrolled but on other fronts reported Humidity 7 a m 82 32 Noon 38 Midnight 3 p m 00 Year ago 00 inches Maximum wind velocity from midnight to 3 m 7 miles per hour from northwest Year Ago Maximum 92 Minimum Indianapolis July n police claimed to have uncovered a lottery 76 j to operate I throughout Indiana 79 Ohio Kentucky and Michigan as a raids here today resulted in arrests John Krause Indianapolis wan sought by officers as the headof the alleged lottery syndicate aft er they found a barrel half full of pool peas lottery tickets and a box of receipts showing how much money agents had collect i ed Kranse was said to be in i Louisville Suicide Likely Verdict In Muncie Death Case H G Meister a cleaning establishment and A R Mitchell who policie said was a road superintendent for Kranse were arrested Meister was chorg ed with keeping a gaming house and operating a lottery and gift enterprise Muncie Ind July 11 skeleton found Thursday in a ven shaft at Central school and identified as that of Perlie Hogg missing since 1922 was buried today in a plot donated by Ridge cemetery Coroner C G a mor arranged for bur ial since Mr Mrs Charles Cooper the boys uncle and aunt with whom he had lived were unable tq bear the expense The coroner said he probably would return a verdict of suicide Sig was attached in some quarters to a bottle found in the airshaft but which subsequently disappeared presumably having beeir taken bya souvenir seeke The boy 1C years old at of bis disappearance moody and morose and threatened to end his life The possibility that he might have taken poison in the secluded crypt at the school Woman 85 Killed By Her Grandson Bryanv O July 11 Theodore Taylor 27 of Striker lias confessed killing his Mrs Douglas as an act of mercy the i Sheriff Carl Ragan said tonight was j Taylor arraigned before a had the peace today pleaded not guilty to a but in a signed statement has admitted poisoning the aged woman the sheriff
