Vidette-Messenger, The (Newspaper) - March 17, 1934, Valparaiso, Indiana News The president too procrastinates Informs columnist Kark M Kalm He filed hLs In- come tax return Thursday just two hours ahead of the What price Is a question placed by Mr Kahn who recites Clarence narrow gets 25 a day as chairman of the national ad- research board that is big the little fellow in the NBA pays his ex- penses out of that Eugene Black gave up a year as head of the Atlanta al Reserve Bank to become nor of the federal reserve board at Government civil service es will be lucky if the president and congress give them back ten per cent of their fifteen per cent pay cut C L Bartholomew fs G 0 P Mayor PUBLISHED IN THE IDEAL RESIDENTIAL CITY OF THE GREAT CALUMET INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT VALPARAISO THE HOME OF VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY VOLUME 7 A DAILY FOR ALL PORTER COUNTY VALPARAISO INDIANA SATURDAY MARCH 17 1934 MEMBER Of UNITED PRESS L N NEWS SERVICES THREE CENTS INSULL WED TO FLEE Housewives struggling over the for the day dinner problem might get an idea or two were they to drop in and visit William Conners new manager of Bloch's restaurant who by the way is showing something new and different in things to eat daily and Sunday What captured the interest of the editor today was an attractive package containing fresh sized peas They came from New York frozen All the cook has to do is to let the small packs containing about the ber of peas packed in the standard sized can thaw out mix them in milk and butter and put them on the stove to simmer The finest fresh peas one ever Conners informs that all kinds of fresh vegetables and fruits are available at any time by the frosted foods process If paraiso are Interested he may offer the products at re- you can sample them any day now by taking a meal at Blochs CHANGES MIND ON PROPOSAl 5 NOW OUT Friends Successful in ting One of City's er Professional Men to Reverse Himself DODGES STATEMENT ENDORSES PLATFORM Dr C L Bartholomew today formally announced his decision to enter the race for the republican nomination for mayor The announcement came after ST PATRICK'S DAY MESSAGE IN REAL IRISH By EAMON DE VALERA President of the Irish Free State Copyright 1934 by United Press DUBLIN March ceann na heireann aim mile ar ar go leir ins na stait I la padraig agus him gach rath agus sonas CHANGES HIS These blessings and good es I send on behalf of the Irish people to our kindred and to all our friends in the United States We watch with interest and pathy their efforts to their economic life and we wish them complete success Every advance made by them is a source of joy and encouragement to us We in Ireland are doing in many weeks of consideration and j ture what the people of the contacting by which ed States are doing on a gigantic program Mr Bartholomew was convinced that his candidacy will have the active support of a sub- stantial and representative tion of the city's republican lowing Valparaiso has suffered so ly because the tration time alter time has de- fied the budget laws of the state appropriations contracting obligations when na funds were supplies at excessive costs to vor that the following editorial from the South Bend a Toledo Ohio editorial on the public funds ex- question as basis of comments is of especial local inter- est Under the Danger Signals It Time and the Toledo Blade comments editorially ledo city administrative officials have ignored these laws by legal agencies of expenditures before they are made not Large purchases have been made and some sizeable contracts have spilt Into numerous small contracts to evade the statutory minimum of and given td vored persons virtually without competition Now the Ohio court of appeals has ruled that a contractor seeking compensation for construction of a bridge which cost more than the legal appropriation re- viewed by the proper agencies not expect to recover from Toledo tax payers The practice of putting the tax payers and legal budget review on the spot by spending money and later saying in effect it lias been spent what are you going to do about is an old one Its practitioners are not all In Toledo The budget laws in Indiana and other states are reasonably ic They are worded for the tax payers protection The tions are not unreasonable The gist of them is that public officials are legally obligated to refrain from expenditures not in budgets approved by county councils county boards of tax adjustment and state tax boards If the Indiana law is interpreted literally every public official who spends without authorization in the Rumor on some inside cratic politics today was that had County Chairman F IV Morton had his way Attorney Ira C former county chairman would not now be a candidate for democratic for mayor but other party spokesmen bitter-end foes of Tilton blocked Morton's move and the democrats have a battle be- tween First Choice Lee E dale and Mr on hands The Morton plan it Is related was to obtain ment of Attorney Tilton as counsel for one of the farm aid boards and thus o remove him as a factor in ty and city democratic affairs Dr Bartholomew's decision to make the mayor nomination race represents a on his part as when friends first ed him on the subject he replied firmly in the negative However word that he might reconsider got abroad and continued pressure finally turned the trick resulting in today's declaration The republican mayoralty field now numbers five J H Wilson liam J Morris Councilman A W McDaniel Former Councilman Louis Oast and Dr Bartholomew From all indications the lists are now closed Former Mayor Louis Leetz has let it be known that he has reconsidered the question and will not seek the nomination The same is true of Dr E H Miller former county coroner No other names have been suggested in con- on page 2 column 3 Ind Mar 17 Rev John Wilson 51 prominent member of tlir Northwest Indiana Methodist Episcopal conference was the of sleeping at Ms home here He was stricken with encephalitis five weeks affl and had apparently recovered lit returned to bin pulpit to con- duct two works ago when he suffered a relapse and did not refrain consciousness Rev Wilson had served ales In Lafayette Star Brook lorl and A widow and three som survive Continued on page 2 column scale Our problem is not so com- plex as theirs because our country was not so developed industrially and the extension of existing in- and the creation of new ones to meet internal needs opened up new avenues of employment But our problem has difficulties of its own By substituting for a policy of drift an active policy of ic reconstruction like the al recovery administration in the United States we have in the past two years laid the foundations of an economic system designed to provide work and a decent ard of living for all our citizens Our policy is already being by results BLUNK CLAIMS CROWN POINT Ind March 111 Ernest Blunk fingerprint expert goes on trial in Lake inal court for aiding John Dillinger to escape he will attempt to prove that Dillinger was armed with a 45 caliber automatic pistol when he locked Blunk and other guards in the jail bullpen For Blunk is positive not only that Dillinger was armed with a more deadly weapon than a wooden pistol but also that the weapon was smuggled into the feat that Blunk says could easily have been done The wooden pistol story in tne opinion of Blunk is just a good yarn told by Dillinger to coyer up the assistance given him from out- ROSEN LOSES BATTLE OVER LIQUOR LAW Indiana Supreme Court Holds All Phases of Sate Statute Passed 1933 to Be Constitutional Guarded REBEL DEALER INVOLVED LOCALLY INDIANAPOLIS Mar j phases of the Indiana liquor control act were declared late yesterday in a ion of the state supreme The decision automatically quashed a Lake county superior court injunction held by Abe Rosen unlicensed Gary beer saler restraining county and enforcement officers from inter- i with his business i The case was appealed to th mm RULERS REFUSE DEFY PUBLIC ILL As a Result Former ty Czar is Allowed to Re- sume Journey on Ship that Was Forced Return BELIEVED BOUND FOR ABYSSINIA BULLETIN ATHENS Greece Mar Greek government to the amazed resistance of uel Insull fugitive Chicago cier against its efforts to deport him to America agreed today to A special police guard hiro his travelling papen and placed Conn around the Greenwich home of Mrs Fry Del Guercio above 000 heiress to the Timken roller bearing fortune following DR t L BARTHOLOMEW Doctor C L Bartholomew today had the distinction of being an an- candidate for the republican nomination for mayor in the pending primary after having firmly refused to consider the proposal He confesses that he changed his but insists that a host of friends had a big part in turning the trick IN HUGE MANHUNT TO RON DOWN DILLINGER ANG i Continued on page 2 column COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN IS CERTAIN OF VICTORY IN VALPARAISO ELECTION CAMPAIGN It seems certain that the Tilton former county chairman of I announced himself a candidate for mayor on the democratic ticket and thus upset plans of Chairman Morton City Chairman Edward J LIMA 0 Mar Charles Makley today was found guilty on charges of first degree murder in the slaying of Sheriff Jess L Sarber and will be sentenced to death The jury which resumed deliberation this morning after receiving the case last night did not recommend mercy Thus Makley became the second Dillinger gangster convicted on murder charges growing out of a gangster raid on the jail here last fall to liberate Dillinger Last week a jury which deliberated barely an hour convicted Harry Pierpont Russell Clark the third gangster facing the same charge will go on trial day Pierpont will be sentenced next week by Judge Emmit E Everett crats will elect the next mayor Valparaiso and a lull city council to support him this should help the whole democratic Ryan and his committee to unite j the party behind former county ticket materially Such are the inspiring words j man Lee E Ragsdale as the sent to all members of the County Democratic Central com- by its chairman Frank W Morton this week They were a part of an official letter calling the central tee into secret In Valparaiso today Chairman Morton however was hastily from the city and the ing was postponed The inspirational certain tory in Valparaiso message was written before Attorney Ira C cratic nominee The democracy of Porter BY KENNETH R Dillinger and three other men United Press Staff companied him here following the PORT HURON Mich Mar wooden pistol jail break at Crown Both sides of the international i Point Ind boundary were blocked today in a i Dillinger's negro pal died new manhunt for John ing jt out with three officers in notorious outlaw following the a small grocery store owned by grocery store gun battle in which his negro companion Herbert Youngblood arid Charles Cavanagh were killed Nearly 500 peace officers were supreme court by the sti Rosen obtained the injunction from Judge Virgil S of the Lake county court who held that the liquor control act passed by the 1933 legislature was The high court's opinion upheld all taxing licensing and sales re- striction provisions of the act Rosen had charged that the censing and monopolistic features of the section of the measure was in restraint of inter- state commerce He termed regulatory powers granted Paul P Fry state excise director a tion of legislative duties and ed that passage of the state law to become effective after action of congress was unconstitutional The high court's opinion was written by Judge Walter E nor of Bloomington In regard to licensing provisions of the act it held states were ally empowered to restrict or hibit manufacture and sale of in- beverages Terming the act a law applying to all beverages of any alcoholic content the court held that visions for importing agents a reasonable exercise of police powers and is though the effect may be to re- strict shipment into the state of alcoholic ages The license fee for importers termed by Rosen as was classified by the court as a special tax imposed upon ing agents for the privilege of doing business and measured by the amount of sales u MJ LIIV tate after tion a Plot to elther Del Guercio or her two-year-old let him sail away on the streamer The government's in a complicated international lion was influenced by a public opinion which had viewed battles for liberty with ad- 5 TOWNSHIPS Si Mrs Pearl Abraham on the out- skirts of Port Huron Youngblood mortally wounded Cavanagh and shot two other officers and a negro concentrated in the surrounding thumb section of Michigan store employe Deputy Sheriff Howard Lohr was in critical condition with son Police said a note m la Io manding on the of kidnaping had been BY ANTHONY by Mrs Del Guercio She was United Press Staff Correspondent divorced in 1933 from Eligio Deli ATHENS March Guercio New York lawyer Charges of bribery and of an can kidnap plot brought bitter re- today as Samuel In- sull once king of Chicago's ity empire frenzied and railing at fate approached Piraeus the port of Athens In the freight steamship he obliged to he did to avoid kidnaping by American de- here to take him forcibly to the legation in event did not leave openly They said also they would de- mand damages from the Greek government in Insull's behalf be- cause the recall of the to which he fled Wednesday was un- justified The lawyers seemed prepared for long bitter to prevent In- open deportation by a route that would permit him to be ped with an already waiting In some country along the route of the Orient ex- press train Newspapers openly charged ery of government officials The owners of the pressed by the government for details of the charter of the ship by the aged utilities magnate intimated ly that M J was dismissed yesterday as ter of interior acted as j diary Government officials from the cabinet down wrangled over their course as to Insull Premier Tsaldaris anxious to end the months of fW deporting him aboard the liner Aquitania Tuesday The liner is due at New York April 6 alter ing several However demetrious los the new minister of interior official in charge of said today that Insull would be permitted to leave the country Because of decreases in property valuations in recent years five townships in Porter county are at the present time beyond their con- bonding limits This was revealed today by C A Blachly county auditor when he compiled a list of the bonding ob- ligations of the twelve townships showing the property valuations bonding limits outstanding bonds 1934 bonding margin amount of bonds to be paid in 1934 and the 1935 bonding margin Auditor Blachly's compilation shows that the townships which have exceeded their bonding gins are Center Union ton Jackson and The amounts run from to All are due to the decreases in property valuations which ed the constitutional limit ed by law Taxables in Porter county In defense of passage of the law led a decrease from in SENATOR WILL BROWN PROUD OF HIS UNUSUAL RECORD HAS BEEN ON JOB EVERY MINUTE Will Brown of Hebron being one of the most influential j a ig his candidacy for men in the senate One reason is tion for state senator for the his wide and comprehensive grasp district of state affairs But tin 24 hours after the in I arrival by any route he ty on a real victory in November of 1932 we must the ground we gained and strive to capture several more offices in the coining reads the Morton letter calling upon democratic ers to get set for battle Yours for more and better it concludes Matters of importance were to be taken up and discussed The letter did not dis- close just what is In the air blockading all roads stopping and dominal wound sheriff William searching each automobile Van Antwerp and Eugene Fields a fifty-mile radius of the city son of tnc store suffered The intensive vigil was arm wounds tallied after Youngblood i from seven bullet wounds said in a hospital here yesterday keen not only has the distinction of j source of his power friends again not being opposed but j sist is that he to a good j even by ah j boasts of an unusual record of H having a single tardy mark elected in 1918 and available and him during his four terms and ing service ever since Senator Brown Kitted lawyers fighting lor nun is especially proud of the fact that j was indicated that InSull haa a Continued on page 2 column was absent from senate ings on but two occasions when It remained for another negro Continued on Page 2 Col 8 the creating Dunes States Park he attended funerals of friends bears his name The senator also Admirers of the veteran Hebron scored highly when he put through j also point to another of j the making Valparaiso j Mr Brown's unique sity a state institution only to have j las a man of public affairs Governor Ed double-cross to sign it Later 1.1 tor Brown lias never made a him and refuse THE in north ram changing to Rl hl ars of He the passed into the con- in south portion tonight and possibly in extreme south Sunday cold wave tonight NEWS FLASHES ON PAGE 2 boasts in that he orator This is not to state ever that Senator Brown cannot talk in committee and in ence He is widely credited with publican nomination of thp Lutheran Educational Association So far as is known Senator Brown will again be unopposed for the re- SATURDAY HAS PROVED JONAH DAY FOR SOUTHWEST j 1.111 iri ho mno in OKLAHOMA CITY Mar federal court hero to hear Judge Later Wilbur Underbill tri- w-wn he was taker ita has proved to be Edgar S Vaught one Saturday states a red and died In the prison from fateful to the sentence them to I if o imprisonment trail through the Southwest ran ho had formerly d Po ice C IM Ton lades died and Police night In one of tho officer A bandit companion was wounded nnd captured An organized hunt by southeast officers on a Saturday Several inter Aussie ranks of Southwest desperadoes for kidnaping K Into posse of federal and ODDITIES WASHINGTON Mar Twenty-nine years today a younj and Columbia university law ent Franklin D Roosevelt bj name married one of New York's prominent Anna Eleanor Roosevelt that student marked his ninth wedding of the United SUItt Mrs who has rioted tour of In- lands Miami train for a the dent Ibt treat Mr what kM
