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page eight GARRETT CLIPPER, GARRETT, INDIANA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1930 V5 if MOTORIST DESTROYS MAIL ZSZ52S2525Z52525252S71S2SZSZSZ525Z5; GOV. LESLIE WILL FIGHT REMOVAL OF REPUBLICAN HARD TO TURN CORNERS Chicago, December 3. On the stratff-htwnv tha wn Tret- BAXTER TO SELL LICENSE PLATES INDIANA WOULD GET $10,000,000 OF U. S. MONEY CAPITALIST CHARGES HE WAS DUPED BY WOMAN Doesn't Remember Marriage to Former Indianapolis "Charmer" Last July Indianapolis, Dec.

3. The brief marital difficulties of Hugh W. Thomasson, 73 years old, St. Louis (Mo.) capitalist, were rehearsed here yesterday, as attorneys completed taking of depositions for Mr. Thomasson's annulment suit which will come before the St.

Louis circuit court in January. Thomasson is seeking to annul his marriage of last July to Carolyn Mahood. former Indianapolis woman, who. it is charged, duped him into LTI PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS The grade cards for the second six weeks period were issued Tuesday. HONOR-ROLL 5 A's Barbara Briggs Hope Swalley Eleanor Meyer Florence Miller 4 A's Mary Lou Abram Thais Cobler Dorothy Eric ks on Margaret Hudson Beverly Johns Mary Kennedy Ruth Kennedy Charles Lumm Ruth Milks Edwin Noel Mary Treesh Susan Voorhees Marie Wells 3 A's iDorothy Bowmar Gertrude Brennan Marjorie Brinkman Marguerite Conkle Bonnie Pansier Fred LeesOn Virginia Longbrake Lowell Mann Edna King Bernard Tuck TWTITATIA OT0T.

OF "FF.W STATES TO EXEMPT WOODLAND TRACTS Indianapolis, Dec. 3. Enactment of laws providing tax exemption for farm woodland tracts were recommended to the central states forestry congress by R. C. Hall of the taxation research bureau, United States forestry service, today.

Hall told the representatives of eleven states and wood using industries that it was necessary to encour age farmers to improve their wood- lots. The most effective means for doing that, he said, was to make the wooded land virtually tax exempt. He pointed to Indiana as one of the few states which already has ta ken up this plan and the Hoosier farmers have been attracted by the inducement, he said. "No small part of the effectiveness of the Indiana plan lies in the fact that the forestry aspects of its administration are vested in the state forester's office." Hall made his recommendation af ter reviewing the various possible means for stimulating preservation and cultivation of farm woodland tracts. NEW CORN KING HAS BEEN RIVAL OF HIS FATHER Tipton.

Dec. 3. Corn king of 1930, Herbert C. Watson, living about ten miles northwest of Tipton, has worked his way to the top in his chosen field of endeavor because he takes corn-growing seriously. Watson has been a rival of his father, Frank E.

Watson, for years in the production of championship seed corn. Both have been competitors, and have shared honors, for the championship of the Purdue university ifive-acre corn contests. Father and son confine their major agricultural efforts to growing seed corn in one of the best districts for that product in the state. The new corn king is married. His wife, Neva, a former school teacher, is a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Elmer Dawson, farmers of Tipton county. They have two children, one five years and the other seven months. SHERIFF FILES ANSWER TO SUIT FOR DIAMONDS Fort Wayne, Dec. 3.

Sheriff Geo. W. Gillie has filed an answer in the action brought against him by Iva Thompson in superior court No. 1 to replevin two diamond rings. The sheriff, in his pleading, informs the court that the rings were given him by the plaintiff as security that either she or her sister, Evelyn Bell, would pay the fine and costs assessed against the latter in a liquor case in the Allen circuit court in December, 1929.

The sheriff says that after he received the rings he released Mrs. Bell and she was not compelled to serve out the fine and costs, which totaled $196.05. The amount has not yet been paid and for that reason the sheriff still has the diamonds in his possession, it is stated in the answer. Merle Holcomb, who formerly operated a job printing plant at Kendallville. has filed a petition in bankruptcy in federal court at Fort Wayne, listing liabilities of and assets of $459.75.

He claims all of his assets as exemption. Wm. Surfus appeared in the DeKalb circuit court Tuesday on a citation for failure to make support payments, but the hearing was continued until further order of the court, inasmuch as Surfus is out of work and has no income. His attorneys are Stump McClintock. while Capt.

H. C. Springer appeared for his wife, Vada Surfus. The left hand of Eugene Baker, 2 6. son of Bert Baker, living near Montpelier, "was amputated Friday afternoon at the Cameron hospital at Angola as tho result of injury to the left wrist, when a shotgun which the young man was cleaning was accidentally discharged.

Baker was cleaning the gun at his home when a shell which he did not know was in the gun exploded, shooting him through the left wrist. Some of the shot entered his right shoulder. While hunting. Dale Lenz of Hicksvllle. accidentally shot two bones out of the ipalm of his right hand (besides lacerating the flesh, making an ugly wound.

Mr. Lenz set his gun over a fence and when he went to climb over, thoughtlessly put his hand over the muzzle. This moved the gun in such a way as to touch off the hammer, sending the entire load through the hand. Had the hand been a few Inches farther away It Is believed he would hare lost his whole member. BOX IN SOUTH AUBURN A U.

S. mail box was completely destroyed and its contents scattered on the street, a post 4x6 inches was broken off and the front of the Potter grocery store on South Main Auburn, was scraped as an auto mobile careened onto the sidewalk about 11 o'clock Monday night. The driver of the car, said to be a Chevrolet 1929 sedan going north on Main street, has not been apprehended. Postoffice and city police officers are looking for him. In addition to breaking off the heavy post, a sign in front of the Potter store was torn down.

The mail box was sup ported by a rigid iron post set in concrete and this was bent over. The only evidence which officials have to work on is a handle to a door of the car which was torn off. After the crash, the driver of the car is said to have speeded toward the north without reporting the matter. LIST OF UNCLAIMED LETTERS. Following is a list of unclaimeu letters remaining at the Garrett posi-jffioe: Mrs.

Clyde Geiger, Andrew Skir-cosky, Miss Dorothy Kennedy, Miss Rosalie Warford, Geo. H. Crist. W. B.

HAYS, Postmaster. WATERLOO WOMAN PASSES AWAY AT AGE 66 YEARS Mrs. Edith Smith, 66, wife of Frank Smith of Waterloo and grandmother of Mrs. Alva Rainier of East Seventh street Auburn, passed away Saturday night at 10:30 o'clock fol lowing a heart attack. The husband, one son, Arthur Smith of South Bend, Mrs.

Rainier, who was raised in the Smith home, and several grandchildren survive. Funeral services were held Tues day morning at 10 'o'clock from the home on Union street, Rev. Ernest Llewelyn officiating. Burial was made in the Waterloo cemetery. DOCTOR PAYS WITH LIFE FOR WHIPPING HORSE Knox, Dec.

3. An attempt of a horse to save his aged master from death proved futile late today when Dr. William J. Kelsey. 95-year-old Monterey physician, drove onto the Gary railroad tracks.

A southbound train demolished his horse and buggy and Dr. Kelsey was instantly killed. Witnesses stat ed that when Dr. Kelsey approached the tracks the horse balked and stop ped. Dr.

Kelsey, unaware of the ap proaching train, applied the whip and forced the animal and himself to destruction. Dr. Kelsey who had practiced medicine in this vicinity for many years, was well known. Despite his advanced age, he had been except ionally active and was on his way to visit a patient when the accident occurred. GIVE JOB AS CHRISTMAS PRESENT, LESLIE URGES Indianapolis, Dec.

3. "Give a iob as a Christmas present" was urged by Governor Harry G. Leslie today in addressing the county employment committee chairmen from the 92 counties in conference at the statehouse today. As a further contribution toward providing work, Leslie suggested that the Sunday before Christmas, every citizen who is well provided for should search for odd jobs that might be done about the home and then get a man out of work to do it. This, he pointed out, will give many persons Christmas money who would otherwise have to accept charity.

The meeting was called by Klmer Stout, chairman of the state unem ployment committee, for the purpose of exchanging ideas regarding job creation and to stimulate action on the part of county committees which are latent in their efforts. Dr. James H. Greene and William Austin explained "what is being done in South Bend and St. Joseph county, where programs are being pushed by the city governments and various industrial plants.

Dr. John W. Hewitt, secretary of the executive committee, has compiled a list of 100 odd jobs that might be done about the home to aid in the governor's program of "give a job for Christmas." Chairman Stout assured the con ference that both democrats and republicans will support the Hoover program to aid unemployment by public work and to finance the drought stricken farmer. Leslie said the fedral authorities are citing Indiana's program as out standing among the states. A number of DeKalb county Shrin- ers will attend the semi-annual cere monial of the Mizpah temple.

An cient Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine at Fort Wayne, on Friday evening, Dec. 5. Mrs. Harold Shepler and her chil dren of Warsaw, will receive compensation from the City of War saw at the rate of $12.68 for a per iod of 300 weeks, according to an agreement just announced. Mr.

Shepler, who was a city fire truck driver, lost his life when he was suf focated while fighting a basement fire at the C. W. Thacker home in Warsaw several weeks ago. Federal officers from South Bend swooping down on three Ligonier establishments arrested several per sons. The first raid was made at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Lint where a quantity of beer was found. A quantity was kept for evidence and the rest destroyed on the premises. Both Mr. and Mrs.

Lint were arrested. The next raid was made at the S. D. Smith apartments and the raid at the Log Cabin Inn. At the latter iplace the officers failed to find any evidence.

Both officers in the raids claimed knowledge of purchases at both Lint's and Smith's. The Lints and Smith were taken to Fort Wayne for arraignment. Smith has a case pending in the circuit court at Albion on a liquor charge. His attorneys took an appeal. a ceremony which he did not under stand and then indulged in series of "gold digging" episodes which dented his $10,000,000 fortune somewhat.

The principal witness interviewed by S. C. Rogers, Thomasson's attorney, was Conrad E. Friderich, also a former Indianapolis man, who admitted being the former sweetheart of Mrs. Mahood.

He retold his story today as follows: "She was a charmer." he said. "She could nod her head to a man and he would follow. She wasn't very pretty, but she had a charming personality 'Madonna like, that's it." Friderich said that he met the wo man at a local hotel, where she was staying, about a year ago. (Later they went to St. Louis, where they lived as man and wife, and Mrs.

Mahood met the St. Louis capitalist in a hotel there, he said. A series of notes were exchanged and Mr. Thomasson, after visiting Waterloo, 111., with her discovered that he was married to her. His wife had a marriage certificate to prove it, al though he insisted that he had not heard it read.

Thomasson is some what deaf. When Thomasson refused to ac cept Mrs. Mahood as his wife, the "charmer" picked him up in an auto mobile one morning, met Friderich later and the three went on a "honeymoon." Friderich posing as the chauffeur. The first day of their stay in Chi cago was celebrated with "the receipt of a $10,000 check from Thomasson. Later, although he protested, his new-wife took him on to Milwaukee and came back with a contract from Thomasson granting her $1,000 a month, a $35,000 home in St.

Louis and an automobile. The three then returned to St. Louis. Mrs. Thomasson purchased jewelry valued at $73,000, fur coats costing $17,000 and Thomasson ev entually provided the $35,000 home in a fashionable suburb, and the au tomobile.

When she disappeared a short time later with Friderich. Thomas son smelled a rat. declined to pay any more of her bills and filed the anullment suit. She' attempted to commit suicide and now is said to be in a sanitarium convalescing. Friderich insisted today that his erstwhile sweetheart is "nol as bad as they paint her." "She was all right as long as she didn't have any funny ideas about making the old man for money but when she got that jdea she went hog wild." he said.

I don know-where she is now probably her law yers have her hidden some place still believing that they can get a 'cut' of what she will get from Thom asson." STATE CLAIMS MONEY TN DEFUNCT BLUFFTON BANK Indianapolis. Dec. 3. The ap pellate court had before it today a case which will decide whether state funds in a defunct bank hold a preferred claim over general depositors and should be paid in full by re ceivers. The case is an appeal from a de cision of Judge A.

W. Hamilton in Wells circuit court in which it was held the state was not a preferred claimant. It ws filed by Frederick Schortemeier, Indianapolis attorney who has joined with Attorney General James M. Ogden in seeking to have the state's position definitely settled. Funds involved were approximately $8,000 which had been collected in auto license funds and placed in the Wells county bank preparatory to being transferred to the state treasurer.

The suit names Xorris Stultz. receiver for the bank, and the Wells county bank as defendants. Schortemeier said today that a large number of states have held state claims in defunct banks were preferred, but the question has never been definitely settled in Indiana. Sentence of from one to ten years in the Indiana Reformatory was imposed on Howard Morton, age 22. at Terre Haute, when he pleaded guilty to a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill.

Morton was charged with stabbing his wife with a butcher knife. The wife is receiving treatment for her wounds. Two alleged communists were found guilty of contempt of court and one of them on an additional count of inciting a riot, in municipal court at Indianapolis Friday. Theodore Luesse, appearing in court for the second time in two weeks, was fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail on the two charges. Robert Spillman was fined $40 on contempt charges.

The two men were alleged leaders of a disorderly crowd that gathered near the court during a trial Tuesday, Indianapolis, Dec. 3. Frank Mayr, new secretary of state, will appoint a democrat as chief of the bureau of criminal identification and investigation, he said today, despite the desire of Governor Leslie to retain E. L. Osborne of Lafayette.

"If any member of my party can qualify and is properly recommended and meets with the approval of bankers of the state, I will appoint him." Mayr said. "I believe that where a democrat can fill the -post, he should be appointed." Mayr's statement was viewed as a challenge to the governor, who has said he "would fight for retention of Osborne." Whoever -Mayr appoints must meet the approval of Leslie, however, as provided by statute, and the governor is expected to withhold his approval of any democrat that might be appointed. If this is done, the question may be carried to the legislature, where an attempt might be made to strike out the clause giving the approval power to the governor. "I don't believe the governor could refuse his aproval if the man is properly qualified," Mayr said. Earl Spradley, BoonvilLe police chief, and Warrick county chairman, is the outstanding contender for the position.

1 MILLION-YEAR-OLD TREES FOUND IN HOOSIER CLAY BED Brazil, Dec. 3. A trace of a forest of trees estimated to be millions of years old was unearthed in the clay beds of the Big Bend Coal company near Center Point. Three of the trees were well preserved in form, the trunks being about a -foot in diameter and twelve to fifteen feet high. The workmen endeavored to take out one of the trunks as a whole, but it was shattered by a discharge of blasting powder.

The trees had been bent over and were buried at an angle of forty-five degrees and the trunks slightly flattened. The bark is pited and resembles that of a palm tree. The fiber was also ap parently soft and the grain is dif ficult to follow. Workmen brought pieces of the trees, which had been turned to clay, to the city for dis play. SLICK FAVORS ANOTHER FEDERAL JUDGE IN STATE Hammond.

Dec. 3. Proenects that Indiana would have three sit ting federal judges loomed today with the announcement that Federal Judge Thomas V. Slick of the northern division of United States Circuit court, sitting in Hammond, South Bend and Fort Wayne, would recommend to Attorney General William Mitchell that an additional iudee be assigned in Indiana. Recently the attorney general's office sent questionnaires to all United States circuit court jurists regarding the need of more iudees.

It was thought prob able here that recommendations for twelve additional judges would be made to congress. In event that a new judge is ap pointed for Indiana, he would come to Hammond, it was said. In that case this extreme northern division would ibe known as the western division of the United States Circuit court of Indiana with division points at Hammond, Lafayette and Terre Haute, Judge Slick declared that tne increasing mass of civil cases and the lare-e amount of time given to the criminal dockets, clogged with liquor cases, has made the need of another jurist imperative. Complaints have been turned in by attorneys and law firms because of the crowded docn- ets and the long delay of cases com ing to trial. "KEY IN BOX," SAYS NOTE; BURGLARS MAKE NOTE OF IT Hammond, Dec.

1. Mrs. Marie MeKenzie left the following note conspicuously displayed on the front door of her home: "Dear John You'll find the key in the mail box." When John MeKenzie returned home he found the key in the door, the door ajar, and the house burglarized of jewelry and clothes." He called his wife at the home of her sister. "Mv fondness. John." she said ac cording to police.

"How in the world did they find the key 7" HEART ATTACK IS FATAL AFTER MATE DIES IN FERE Nohlesville. Dec. 1. Mrs. Edward Evans, 65 years old, died today of a lieart attack brought on, the attending physician said, by a shock resulting from the fire which destroyed the Evans home three days ago when Mr.

Evans was ournea to death. Clipper classified ads pay. Infection from a scratch on the back of one of his hands has resulted in the critical illness of Charles Studebaker. living near Bluff ton. Blood poisoning has developed.

The Harlan State bank Monday secured a Judgment of $119.48 on a note against Rev. Lynn W. Young of Garrett, in the DeKalb circuit court. Russel R. Ridenour is attorney for the plaintiff and Richard W.

Sharp-less for the defendant. The Pennsylvania railroad wants to replace three crossing watchmen at Decatur with 24-hour light flasher signals. The railroad representa tives, appearing -before the Decatur council, promised that the flashers would give 24-hour service and they would work from a central man-controlled tower In order that there would be no mechanical defects. aught by a cave-in of a 12-foot trench, James West, age 55, of North Manchester, was injured Saturday. An X-ray examination showed that his right leg was broken two inches above the ankle.

Mr. West was acting as town Inspector of a sewer being dug at North Manchester by the John Dehner Construction Co. of Fort Wayne. ty well, but it was rather diffi- cult Jo turn corners, Myron Turnquist, age 18, explained as they took him to a hospital, suf- fering from half a dozen cuts inflicted when he attempted to shave himself with a butcher knife. MRS.

F. F. KEMP TO HEAD G. A. TO B.

OF L. E. IN 1931 The G. I. A.

to the B. of L. E. held its annual election of officers Wednesday afternoon, resulting as follows; Past President, Mrs. Fred E.

Hays. President, Mrs. F. Kemp. Vice President, Mrs.

H. L. Tib-bals. Relief Secretary, Mrs. Mamie Van Houten.

Secretary, Mrs. J. w. Rider. Treasurer, Mrs.

Kitty Creviston. Chaplain, Mrs. Molly Gillis. Guide, Mrs. Lena Shaffer.

Sentinel, Mrs. Harry Caffrey. Trustees, 1 year, Mrs. S. D.

Harvey; 2 years, Mrs, S. T. Kline; 3 years, Mrs. Lena Shaffer. CONDUCTOR FRANK A.

SMITH HAS RETIRED Frank A. Smith, for forty years a Baltimore and Ohio conductor, has retired from the service. Mr. Smith made his last run Sunday. For many years he worked on local passenger trains 67 and 68 and after they were discontinued he was In charge of Nos.

31 and 32 between Garrett and South Chicago. He formerly resided In Garrett, but after be ing promoted to passenger conductor he went to Willard to live. Mr. Smith was born in Concord township, OeKalb county, in 1857 and entered the railroad service as a brakeman April 17, 1888. He is a brother of Mrs.

D. B. VanFleit of Garrett. NEW OFFICERS OF L. S.

TO B. OF L. F. E. INSTALLED The L.

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held a joint installation of officers Monday evening in the hall above Uer's, fol lowed by a potluck supper and dance. The following officers were installed: President. Mrs. Mary Chllders. Vice President, Mrs.

Ethel Lewis. Past President, Mrs. Geneva Hyde. Secretary, Mrs. Clara Garst.

Collector, Mrs. Grace Her. Treasurer, Mrs. Pearl Alley. Delegate, Mrs.

Mary Childers. Alternate, Mrs. Clara Garst. Warden, Mrs. Laura Jones.

Conductor, Mrs. Beatrice Spertcer. Chaplain, Mrs. Leona Witherspoon. Trustees, Mrs.

Bertie Bowerman, Mrs. Laura Bishop and Mrs. Caudas Fenstemaker. Inner Guard, Mrs. Beatrice Siders.

Outer Guard, Mrs. Minnia White. Pianist, Mrs. Marjorie Hughes. Magazine Correspondent, Mrs.

Bes sie Faletta. Medical Examiners, Dr. D. nolds and Dr. W- K.

Templeton. Rey- TAX COLLECTOR INJURED WHEN AUTO RUNS INTO TREE Warsaw, Dec. 3. Edwin Mil-er, aged 50. a special collector of delinquent taxes, who has been working in Kosciusko county.

Mishawa-ka and South Bend, is in a critical condition at a Mishawaka hospital as the result of an automobile accident. His car skidded on the icy pave ment and struck a tree just south of Mishawaka. He suffered fractures of the jaw, hip and all rfrbs on the right side, as well as severe lacerations and internal injuries. His wife, who was in this city, was notified and went at once to Mishawaka. Mr.

and Mrs. Miller have resided here since last June. LIGONIER BOY ACCUSED OF MANSLAUGHTER GIVES BOND Youth Who Killed Goshen Girl Faces Sentence in Reformatory Ligonier, Dec. 2. Harold Hite, 16, son of Mrs.

Bessie Hite of Ligon ier, who was arrested Saturday af ternoon by Chief of Police Thomas Cass, here has been released on a bond of $3,000 furnished by. friends. Hite was taken into custody about 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon on chargs of involuntary manslaughter. filed by Prosecutor R. W.

Probst of Kendallville in the death of Miss Grace Fowler, 16, of Goshen. The charges are the outgrowth of the fa tal shooting of the girl a week ago Sunday night. Kite's arrest followed the verdict of Coroner H. P. Shew of Kendallville, who held that while the act was committed unintentionally and without malice aforethought, yet it was committed unlawfully.

Hite pointed and discharged the shbt gun at the girl in an unlighted room without first being certain there was no shell In the gun. The girl fell mortally wounded and died before medical aid could reach her In collecting all. the evidence and testimony Coroner. Shew found that Hite's part in the tragedy is specifically covered by the statutes regarding manslaughter. According to law it is a criminal offense for any one over the age of ten to point a weapon or firearm of any kind at another person, whether the weapon is loaded or not.

Conviction of the manslaughter charge carries with a sentence of 2 to 21 years, which in Hite's case would mean imprisonment in the state reformatory. The Brandon Lumber Co. states in a complaint filed in the DeKalb circuit court that Harvey M. Dawson and Harold DePew have failed to pay $503.02 for materials used In the erection of a filling station on lot 91 in the original plat of Anbnrn. An order for the foreclosure of a me chanic's Hen is demanded.

The plaintiffs atttorney Is Howard Grimm. Indianapolis. Dec. 3. Miles Baxter, chairman of the DeKalb County Democratic committee, will be the new manager of the automobile distributing licenae bureau in Auburn.

The appointment of Mr. Baxter was announced here this afternoon by James Carpenter, new head of the auto license division of the secretary of state's office. The office in Auburn at present i3 in charge of Mrs. Geraldine Kingsbury, who was appointed by the republican regime. With the election of a democratic secretary of state all republicans are being replaced by democrats.

Harvey Morley was named as manager of the bureau at Angola. Joseph C. Kcssell at Ligonier. Martin H. Spangler at Albion and Mrs.

Walter Welmeyer at Kendallville. HOW TO AVOID COLDS Indianapolis. Dec. 3. Grand- mother's precaution against con- traction of cold by wearing red flannels and extra-heavy under- wear was struck a heavy blow by Dr.

Herman G. Morgan of the Indianapolis Board of In commenting on the pre- vention of colds. Dr. Morgan said: "The mistake is frequently made in wearing too heavy clothing next to the skin. Secre- tions from the body are absorb- ed by garments of heavy texture and on going out doors a wet, moist surface is next to the skin.

This is conducive to chilling and lowered resistance, thereby making the individual more susceptible to the invasion of cold-producing organisms. "The better plan is to wear lightweight clothing next to the skin and wear outer gar- ments corresponding to the de- mand for warmth made by the outside temperature." BANDIT GANG MAKES BIG HAUL AT FRANKFORT BANK Frankfort, Dec. 3. A bank bandit gang held up the Farmers Trust company here late today and escaped with an amount of cash estimated between $10,000 and $25,000. Five men entered the bank and two men and a woman were believed to have remained on guard outside in an automobile parked nearby.

The five men carrying large revolvers walked into the bank lobby and corralled a dozen customers and seven bank employes in the rear of the room, where they were forced to lie upon the floor. There was little confusion and no shooting while the bandits collected the money quietly and swiftly. Bank officials could not immedi- ately estimate the amount of the 4 money taken. The bandit car was believed to have been driven westward from Frankfort. AUBURN AUTOMOBILE CO.

TO PAY REGULAR DIVIDEND The regular quarterly dividend of the Auburn Automobile company was declared Wednesday of $1 per share and the usual additional quarterly dividend of 2 per cent, payable in stock. The dividend is payable January 2, 1931, to stockholders of record December 20. 1930. Appraisal of the estate left by William P. Breen of Fort Wayne, at $518,479, has been announced by county officials in fixing the valuation for the purpose of determining inheritance tax.

Mr. Breen. who was widely prominent as an attorney and was president of the Peoples Trust Savings Co. at Fort Wayne. died on April 22 of this year.

Forty-three heirs were named in Mr. Breen's will. Good Cleaning at Low Prices Ladies' Coats Men's Suits Overcoats Dresses DRY CLEANED AND PRESSED under Economy Service GUAR AN TEED to be as good as any $1.00 cleaning you get anywhere. Phone 283 OePew's Cleaners Dyers Tailors Auto Company Auburn, Ind. 90 Washington, Dec.

3. More than $10,000,000 of federal money is involved in Indiana projects under the government's construction program which President Hoover would speed in order, to relieve unemployment. The projects in Indiana have been authorized by the congress. In most cases an appropriation to start the project has been made. Actual work on a dozen or more projects, not yet started, will start early in the new year as a result of the speeding up which has been ordered.

Plans for new buildings authorized for Indiana are being prepared, and sites are being acquired. Several contracts have been let and bids for others will be asked soon. The Indiana program includes new federal buildings in seven cities, enlargements in three other cities, a veterans' hospital in Indianapolis, a memorial to George Rogers Clark at Vincennes, flood control work in the Ohio, Wabash and White rivers; continuation of highway building under increased federal aid, a government fish hatchery and harbor improvements. The program may be set out in detail as follows: Indianapolis Veterans' hospital, first unit to cost $500,000. Site has been selected in Riverside park and plans are being drawn.

Next step is conveyance of title by Indianapolis to federal government. Proposed increase of capacity from 150 to 500 beds would increase cost to Vincennes George Rogers Clark memorial, to cost not less than The Clark sesquicenten-nial commission has asked the congress to increase the amount to $1,750,000 in order to provide the kind of memorial contemplated by plans drawn and approved. Acquisition of additional land also is sought for extension and remodeling of postoffice, to cost $145,000. South Bend (Federal building and postoffice on present site enlarged by the acquisition of additional land, $1,100,000. Negotiations for the purchase of adjoining real estate are under way.

Fort Wayne Federal building and postoffice, $1,000,000. New site has been acquired and plans are being prepared. Evansville War department is expending $200,000 on improvement of Ohio river at this point to prevent a cut-off. East Chicago Continuation of work on Indiana harbor at an ultimate cost of $583,000. $115,000 for Auburn Auburn Postoffice, $115,000.

Decatur Postoffice, $85,000. Greenfield Acquisition of site and postoffice, $100,000. Lebanon Postoffice, $90,000. Muncie Extension and remodeling of postoffice, $180,000. Warsaw Postoffice, $95,000.

Fish hatchery Site to be selected in Lake or Porter county, $50,000. This is part of a five-year program to improve and enlarge government fisheries. For a survey of flood control works in the Wabash and White rivers, the war department has expended $105,000 and authorized an additional expenditure of $200,000 out of the flood control fund. Report of the survey is expected in January, whereupon the congress will be asked to authorize improvements recommended by the war department in its report. Preliminary surveys for a waterway from the Great Lakes to the Ohio river have been authorized by the congress and now are being conducted.

Rivers included in the preliminary surveys are the Wabash from the Ohio to Fort Wayne; St. Joseph from its source to Lake Michigan, St. Marys, and Ohio, and Maumee, from Fort Wayne to Toledo. On September 30, Indiana had to its credit federal aid highway funds In the sum of $5,300,374. This $3,172,253, which is the state's allotment for next fiscal year, allocation of which was advanced in order to meet the unemployment emergency.

Government dollars must be matched by state dollars under the federal aid high-Tray law. The supervising architect's office in the treasury, which prepares plans and specifications for government buildings, is working overtime in order to advance the public building program. At Fort Wayne and other cities, outside architects have been employed to prepare plans and supervise construction in order to prevent delay of the project because of congestion In the supervising architect's office. Use of Indiana limestone by the government in its public building program, which is the most elaborate ever formulated, is calculated to keep the quarries in Monroe and Lawrence counties busy for years to come. Believed killed when struck by a train Sunday night, the body of Walter Rigsby, 26, was found lying on the Pennsylvania track near Terre Haute, Monday.

The mangled condition of the body indicated death was instantaneous. There were only 19 In DeKalb county during the month of September this year compared to 26 in the same period last year. The total number during the first nine months of 1930 was 228 compared to 252 during the same period last year. Of the deaths in DeKalb county in September eight were 65 years of age and older and four were from the ages of 5 to 15. Ruby Richardson, of Lafayette, excels in 4-H club sewing and canning work, but she's very ordinary just now.

Three days before she was to be rewarded for her outstand Ing club work by a free trip to Chi cago to attend the annual 4-H ciud congress, she was taken ill with mettles. Her plans were cancelled i 1 Genuine CHRYSLER Service for Chrysler Plymouth DeSoto at- Holben-Trindle 215 E. 7th St. Phone 55 2H5E5ESi25ZSZ5ZSES25Z5252SZSZSZ5ZH52SH5 i..