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I Latest Happenings HOME EDITION Of World Events VOLUME 89, HOME TOWN KEWS3PAPER. ALL THE WORTH WHILE NEWS AIX DEPARTMENTS PHONE Hi LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL S58BB 1 5iS? 1 (Member A. B. Price 3 Cento OUTLAW TRAIL GROWS WARM President's Air Policy Bill Passes Senate Passage In House Promised Commission of Experts Will Be Selected To Determine Future Ariation Course Two Successful Merchants. Ralph Dayid and Charles Lowe Have Built Up ide Acquaintance and An Enterprising Hardware and Hoof ing Business April Black-McKellar air mall bill, embracing President Roosevelt's recommendation for appointment of a commission of experts to develop a permanent government air policy, was passed by the Senate today.

The measure now goes to the House where speedy action has been promised. There waa no record fcote. Passage came after administration forces successfully beat down counter proposals for immediate restoration of mail contracts to former operators and creation of a federal commission to control the entire aviation structure. In its final form, the Black-McKellar measure provides that within nine months after enactment, the interstate commerce commission shall assume jurisdiction of air mail routes and Issue certificates of convenience and necessity similar to those granted to railroads. Pending commission control, mail would be flown under temporary contracts on which bids recently were opened by the post office department.

The bill was brought to a vote after more than a week of debate. TWO BROTHERS DIE IN BLAZE Two Orchestra Members Trapped by Flumes While Asleep In Boadhonse KENOSHA, ivls, April brothers, members of a Kenosha orchestra, burned to death today In a roadhonse fire on high- 41, I'lTe miles south of here. The victims were Ralph King, 27 and Louis King, W. The roadhouse, known as the Lneoon, wag dlacorered in flames by a motorist who stopped and aroused those asleep In the place. HE 3ROA0NAY STOHC OF THE LOWE DAVtO HARDWARE CO.

IMPORTANT or THE M- or LOW AN DAVID iS THE ap KH J-OUlg TAKES CHARGE THCV HAVE ROOFED LO1N6S WlTHttM A OF LOGANS PORT ft.CHA*. LOME If A MASON.A MEMBER OF THE KIWANIS CLUB, AND A DIRECTOR. of THE JIT FEOgatAi ANP LOAN BANK- om 77 ATI ON fiOLFJ AHfl HUNTS HARDWARE STORE, IS RAPIOL.V suppi-ANTee ay MCWTf -JVCH WHICH Aftfc St DEPARTMENT JN'HOWC J. DAVID ONCE Aft AM AOCNT THE HlftBARO AND SARYteTT CO, fj rt ENJOYf GOLF Some ten years ago when Charles about fifteen years personal con- BREAKS DOOR GLASS TO COMMIT ROBBERY Breaking out the lower section of the glass in the front door at the Carl Warnke soft drink parlor, 1201 Erie avenue, a thief stole sixty-five cents in change, several cartons of cigarettes, chewing tobacco and razor blades during the night. are that the thief crawled through the door from which he had broken the glasa both to gain entrance and to leave the place.

The breakin was discovered early Saturday morning. DENY SUMMER RATES AT LOCAL RESORTS INDIANAPOLIS April Indiana Public Service mission has refused to permit the Indiana Service Corporation to establish summer resort rates at Pottawattomie Point and Logansport Country Club. The compiuy was ordered to furnish electrcity to the two points under the present rural rates. WEATHER FORECAST a i and warmer to. night and Sunday.

for the region of the Great Lakes: Some precipitation begJn- of week, followed by cool weather until middle of week; narmer latter half, a nhower period. Lowe and Ralph David combined their business talents to form the firm of Lowe and David they began an enterprise which has since grown to a completeness seldom found outside-o-f the metropolitan cities. Previous to the founding of the firm, Mr. Lowe, a native of Fulton county, had been employed as cashier of a local hank. Though a tact with its citizens through business and civic work has given Mr.

Lowe an exceptionally wide acquaintanceship not only locally but throughout the fifty mile radius within which he does business. Mr. Lowe is a-ctive in Masonic and Kiwanis-work. The firm of Lowe and David thoroughly covers two distinct, though related, fields of business; resident of Logansport for only I that of roo-fing, of which Mr. Lowe takes complete charge, and of hardware, Mr.

David managing this branch. An idea of the success ot Mr. Lowe's department may be had from the fact that, in the last ten yeara, he has roofed 3126 houses and buildings within a fifty mile radius of Logansport. The company maintains a branch roofing store in Frankfort. Ru-ber-oid and Aaphalt Surface roofing and siding (Continued on Page 6) BULLETINS LOOT ILLINOIS BANK Joliet, 111...

April bandits in a car bearing a "Wisconsin license held up the Peoples Loan Homestead Bank in the heart of downtown Joliet today and escaped with between $400 and $500. Fred Foehl. secretary of the bank, said the bandit who seized the money was about 33 years old and unshaven. FATAL AUTO CRASH Hartford City, April M. Smith, 64, Montpelier, was fatally injured and four Detroit residents were injured in a cross-roads automobile accident today at Adelpbia Gardens, seven miles north of here on State Eoad 3.

WOMAN BUBNS TO DEATH Milwaukee, April lola Lonstorf, 48, a member of a wealthy Milwaukee family, burned to death today in her room at the Schroed'er Hotel. She was believed to have fallen asleep while smoking a cigaret. QUAKE BOCKS SAN JOSE San Jose, April Boose- Telt is prepared to sljrn the Costigan-Jones Sugar bill Monday, the White House said today. INVESTIGATE PRISON Michigan City, April Wayne Coy, secretary of the State Clemency Commission, today opened an investigation of recent escapes from the state prison here. BABES KIDNAP PLOT Columbus, OHio, April about an alleged plot to kidnap Governor George White and hjs daughter, Mary, involving John Dillinger, has been received by the governor, William Moore, his secretary, revealed today.

DEATH CLAIMS JOHN GUGLE Retired Farmer Dies at Home of Daughter; Funeral Services Monday John Gugle, 86 wear old retired farmer, passed away this morning at the home of his daughter Mrs. Gertrude Baines in Wabash after a prolonged illness. Deceased spent almost his entire life as a resident of Washington township, Cass county. Surviving are two sons Barley Gugle of Wabasih and James Gugle of Logansport and two daughters Mrs. Baines and Amanda Hamilton of Logansport.

The body will be returned to Logansport Monday and will be taken to the Pierce and Easterday funeral home where services will be conducted at 2 o'clock. Burial will be made in the Clymerg cemetery. CALL LINCOLN CLUB MEETING MONDAY The Lincoln Club will hold its regular meeting Monday night al the Club Rooms starting at 8 o'clock. Each candidate present will deliver a short sipeech. All Republicans as well as Lincoln Club members are invited to attend.

Following the -egular meeting a special quartet will tertain the members to be followed by musical number by Stewart Gordon and Wm. Huckel'berry on the- educated saw. POLITICIAN ARRESTED IN BREWER CASE John (Boss) Mclaughlin Charged With Conspiracy in Kidnap- ing- of Banker CHICAGO, April J. (Boss) McLaughHn, prominent Democratic politician, will be arraigned today on charges of conspiracy in connection with the kid- naping of Edward G. Brsmer, St.

Paul banker. McLaughlin's arrest. last night came after William E. Vidler had been taken into custody with more than $2,000 of the Bremer case $200,000 ransom payment. The Bremer kidnaping case today was being charged against a gang of Oklahoma outlaws led by Alvin Karpia, Fred Barker and his brother, Arthur Barker, who now are believed to have allied themselves with John Dillinger.

The politician is under indictment on robbery charges in connection with a $250,000 mail rob bery which took place in the Chi- cagK) loop in December, 1932. The warrant for McLaughlin's arrest was sworn out by United States district attorney Dwight H. Green and immediately supreseed until McLaughHn was taken into custody. The mail robbery indictment named scores of persons throughout the country in connection with charges that McfcangHKoroperated a ring for the disposal of stolen bonds. Involved the indictment was Edward G.

Lebensberger, a wealthy night club owner, who committed suicide shortly before the indictment was returned. Vidler, it was revealed, will not be charged with any crimes. Agents expected to release him. He was believed to have blamed McLaughlin for his possession of the money. Vidler, 34-year-old ex-convict, was arrested at a bookmakers' establishment with $2,600 of the kidnap ransom money in his pocket.

Federal agents said he also carried $500 which was not part of the ransom money. AGAIN SCOUR INDIANA FOR PUBLIC ENEMY Two Widely Separated Searches Are Instituted in State for Dilllngwr INDIANAPOLIS, April widely separated sections of Indiana were being searched today by law enforcement officers checking reports that John Dillinger had been sighted. The lake resort region in the extreme northeast section wag being searched for three men and two women, believed members of the Dillinger gang, who threatened a Noble county farmer when he followed them in an automobile. The other investigation was in Greene, Sullivan and adjoining counties along the southwestern horder following a report that three carloads of heavily armed men had obtained gasoline at a Sullivan filling station. The search in the lake region was instituted after repeated reports that members of the Dillinger gang had been sighted near South Bend, Kendallville and Fort Wayne.

Perry c. Granyil, Noble county farmer, said he was threatened by a machine giun from the rear seat of an automobile containing three men and two women. One of the men resembled Dillinger, he reported. Granvil'a report came shortly after A. E.

Forsyth, Fort Wayne, reported that he had directed three men and two women, believed gang sters to the central district of that city. Police were inclined to believe the two men had seen the same automobile. Another tip from Fort Wayne said that Homer Van Meter, known Dillinger associate, had been seen on a road near there. A South Bend filling station proprietor said he sold gasoline to a man resembling Dillinger. Child Held For Ransom Believe Two Men Trapped Authorities Attemut To Close In On Two Ganirsters Who Stole Car Today at Pine City, Iffinn.

June Robles, 6, of Tucson, heiress granddaughter of Bernabe Robles, millionaire Arizona t'attie baron, who was seized Wednesday afternoon by a lone kidnaner while on her way home from school and held for $15,000 ransom. Family Anxiously Awaits News From Kidnap Gang Forces of Law Are Withdrawn as Robles Family Accedes to Demands of Abductors that $10,000 Ransom Be Paid. TUCSON, April The anguished of June Robles, 6-year-old kidnaper victim, reassured by a new communication from the abductors, awaited hopefully today specific instructions for the delivery of in ransom. Authorities, having called off extensive searchers for the kidnapers to give the family a clear path for negotiations, questioned two suspects arrested in Phoenix. They were owners of an automobile that resembled the one in which the child was carried away.

A telephone call received at the home of Fernando Robles, June's father advised the family to "stand by'' for further instructions. Lights burned brightly in the home all night. The father kept the vigil with the baby's grandfather, Bernabe Robles, wealthy retired cattleman. Both anticipated further word from the abductors. The $10,000 ransom money demanded, in the denominations specified, awaited the kidnapers' instructions.

In tlie all-night vigil the family was unhampered by civilian posses. The posses were withdrawn, imposing a state of tense stillness over the town where earlier threats ot violence were voiced against the abductors if and when they were Two suspects arrested at Phoenix, Graham, 35, and Jack Pattie, 48, were released today. They were taken into custody, at a tourist camp on information they owned a dark green sedan similar appearance to one several motorists said they saw on the Tucson-Phoenix road with the two men and a small girl several hours after the kidnaping. Questioned separately, both 'denied knowledge of the abduction. DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME EFFECTIVE MIDNIGHT SUNDAY ST, PAUL.

April trail of George (Baby Face) Nelson diminutive machine-gunner of the Dillinger gang, grew hot today when two men, one believed to be Nelson, stole an automobile at Pine City, Minn. "Use every precaution in apprehending-," a police radio broadcast warned. Pin 6 City i on the highway between the Twin Cities and Superior, near where Nelson is believed have had a gun battle with Al Johnson, special deputy sheriff, Friday night. Minneapolis and St. Paul police immediately ordered blockades thrown up along all highways leading to the northern part of Minnesota.

Bridge heads along the St. Croix Mississippi rivers also were under heavy guard. The two men, dressed in old clothes, stole a 1934 gray Ford V-8 coach, the police broadcast said. They appeared to be about 30 years old, one of them answering to Nelson's description. They headed north o'u highway No.

1, toward Duluth, where officials also were warned of the theft. Report One Hiding in The license plates on the stolen automobile were B-147-538. The hunt at Lac Du Flambeau was delayed temporarily yesterday by darkness. More than 100 federal agents and Price and Oneida county deputies were confident that their man was safely within their lines in a four-mile square The fugitive was believed to be one of the gangsters who made their way through the woods from the Little Bohemia Lodge last Sunday night when federal agents unsuccessfully raided, the place. Nel.

son and possibly another gangster wer 6 believed to have been in the i region until last night. Deputy Sheriff William Yeachet organized the hunt after the fugitive was sighted by B. Lee of Powell and an engineer of the northwestern railroad. Six Indian guides were deputized at the Lac Du Flambeau reservation and lumberjacks of the region brought along their double-bitted axes for the hunt. Placing of Nelson in the Ashland area came last night when the diminutive, blond outlaw stopped at the home of Ernest Scott of Ashland to inquire for directions to Superior, Wis.

Nelson was accompanied by another man, Scott said. The gangster was driving an automobile stolen Thursday in Lac Du Flambeau, a Plymouth sedan bearing license plates 37-31. Police at Ashland believed the gangster would stop overnight somewhere near Ashland. NEW YORK, April Daylight saving time, placing some 30,000,000 persons on a new schedule, goes into effect over the week-end. Clocks and watches will be turned ahead one hour tomorrow night.

They will remain one hour ahead of Standard time until Sept. 25. In New York the specific hour at which clocks are to be moved up is 2 a. In some localities the change will be made Monday. Most of the states oh the eastern seaboard are affected by the-time change.

I. U. BANQUET DATE IS SET Alumni Association to Hear Dean of Sten at Annual Event May 2 ONE MAN PERISHES AS FIRE SWEEPSJSTIIIERY LEXINGTON. April old Pepper Distillery here burned to the ground early today with the loss of one life. Property damcge was estimated at five million dollars.

Stanley Pravis, 24, night watchman, was the victim. The plant was owned by the Schenley Corporation, of the largest distilling concerns in America. Firemen fought the for more than five The annual Foundation day ban. quet of the Cass county Indiara University alumni association will be held at the high school cafeteria at 6:30 o'clock Wednesday licht. May 2, it is announced by Harold C.

Mull, president of the local organization. Charles Sembower. deari of I and professor of English at Indiana university, will he the speaker. All persons who have I the state school are invited to attend. Reservations are to be made by Tuesday evening with Miss Georgia Davidson, phone 142 or with Miss Amelia Hartz.

at the Rjley school building. HAND IS NOMINATED CENTRE POSTMASTER Nomination of Frank B. Hand to the seuatft by President Roosevelt and Confirmation of the nomination of Hugh McMahan as postmaster Rochester were announced today news reports received fron Washington..