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THE MUNCIE MORNING STAR, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1934. GIRL SCOUT TRAINING-COURSE CONCLUDED Grand Jury Presses Action Against 'Political Lawyers' BISHOP IN DENIAL OF CONSPIRACY Testifies as to Activities in 1928 Campaign. SEEK TO TRACE 'DEATH LETTER' Link Dillingers in Note to Ohio Governor. interest, and from representing any person or corporation engaged in interstate commerce. It would apply any federal official as well.

President Roosevelt has not expressed himself on this particular bilL but he made it clear months ago that he would like strong anti-lobby-ing legislation from the present Congress. He told congressional leaders then, that it ought to apply to congressmen, other officeholders and leaders of the political parties. NEED GOOD DRUMMER? HERE'S LOUIS, AGE THREE Minneapolis, April 19 JP) For his age, three-year-old Louis Lloyd Finn, is a rattling good drummer. While other, tots toddle around he displays nimble hands and feet and Five Involved In Rumored Cabinet Changes fT I tvir" tl i tjf'j I i i. it) ps I 1' fa- mi lLr yK vomer s- i ''iiinmins--- Vi -Martin ConlmyljE? i I i 4 V' f' te fff V.

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"The Girl Scout court of honor plan is a junior school of democracy, said Miss Alice Mulkey, representative of the national Girl Scout staff, in a talk yesterday afternoon to mothers -of scouts, committee members and1 -merit badge examiners. Miss Mulkey -spoke at a tea given in her honor In Forest Hall at Ball College. She closed a four-day course in leadership training last evening at the Burns School. In her talk yesterday afternoon. Miss Mulkey said, in part: "Girl scouting is a constructive leisure time program for girls the ages of ten and eighteen, an educational program based upon sound educational principles, under trained leadership, and backed by -z organized adults.

It affords an Inspirational program with a code of laws by which a girl measures her- self, a recreational program built around an all-year-round out-of-door -plan, offering recreation through games, hiking and camping. The pro-. gram of self-government permits girls to choose their own representatives who make plans for the "Girl scouting sprang into exist-. ence because girls wanted it. It has grown from eight girls to three hun- -dred twenty thousand in twenty-two years because girls want it; it will continue to grow because ttiey want it." All IRC keen ear when he goes in for calisthenics in a great big musical way.

Louis has been playing with drum sticks since he was eighteen months old. Now he can handle a set of traps, including snare drum, bass drum, tom-tom, two-tone block and cymbals. His grandmother, Mrs. Ruth Finn, his teacher. "REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING1 The Republican voters of the Fourth District, which Include River, aide.

North View. Neely Addition. Westwood and Normal City, will meet tonight, April 20, ":30 p. In the Emerson School, Riverside. All Republican voters in the district are urged to attend.

All Republican candidate of the city and county are Invited, so as the votera ran see and know what office yon seek. Know and study the candidates, then make your DECISION MAY 8. Short entertainment. Duties of each office will be explained by Mr. Manefold.

Ton can see the candidates for each office. There will be no speeches from any candidate. Come on, folks. I a I 1 Washington, April 19 (JP) Bishop James Cannon, testified today that separate state committees were set to handle the campaign against Alfred E. Smith In 1928, but that only one letter head was used to cut down expenses.

The churchman was replying to charges by the government that he conspired to violate the corrupt practices act by agreeing with Ada L. Burroughs, a co-defendant, not to report all of the campaign expenditures Tells of State Organizations. The government has contended there was actually only one committee bark of the campaign against Smith in the South, and had introduced the stationery as evidence this was true. Th.e bishop said a conference of opponents of Smith at Asheville, N. early in the campaign placed in his hands the responsibility for conducting the campaign.

"With these very broad and sweeping responsibilities laid upon me," he said, "I had to do considerable thinking as to what was the best plan. "I decided that every state in the South, so far as possible, should have Its own organization, entirely independent of the headquarters committee, so that it would not be called upon to make any report of any kind, any more than a Democratic state committee or a Republican state committee. "I decided that we could not have the committee (headquarters committee) scattered all. over the South. "I appointed a committee of three, which would be In Richmond, and which was composed of James Cannon.

chairman; J. Sidney Peters, secretary; Ada 1 Burroughs, "I knew that the law requires that there must be a campaign committee, with chairman and treasurer before any contributions can be received. Fnzzled by Contributions. The churchman said he selected Miss Burroughs as treasurer, because "I knew she was an accurate accountant, and because she was In the habit of keeping books for the Antl-Saloon League of After contributions started coming in, the bishop said he found himself uncertain how to divide them. "So I deposited a great many In the Citizens Bank, in Blackstone," he said.

"Miss Burroughs had opened an account under the name of the headquarters committee in the American National Bank. The bishop was still on the stand when court adjourned for the day. The bishop said C. Bascom Slemp, Republican national committeeman for Virginia, accompanied him to the office of Edwin C. Jameson.

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Walnut St. Pork Hearts BEEF B0ILlB-3iC VEAL CHOPS IB. 9c VEAL STEW IB. 5c I These five men are mentioned In Washington circles as being involved in possible changes in President Roosevelt's cabinet and the diplomatic corps. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, said to be finding the treasury post dull, Is believed to be harboring a secret ambition to become ambassador to France.

The French post now Is held by Ambassador Jesse Straus, who has been in ill health and Is expected to resign shortly. Another reported shift would remove Attorney General Homer S. Cummings from the justice department and make him governor general of the Philippines, or chairman of the Democratic national committee. If such a move was made, District Attorney Martin Conboy of New York, close friend of the President, probably would succeed Cummings as attorney general, and Con-boy would be replaced by Ferdinand Pecora. Washington, April 19 (JP) President Roosevelt's desire for a legislative blow at influence, exerted before government departments, has drawn support from a grand jury report suggesting action against "political lawyers." The report, now at the White House, asserts corporations and individuals have been guilty of "pernicious" activity regarding the sale and attempted sale of alleged influence.

Result of Army Contract Probe. It recommends administrative and legislative action, if necessary, to prevent political lawyers from presenting claims for clients to the friends of such lawyers in high public office. The recommendations were adopted by the District of Columbia grand jury, after an extensive Investigation of army contract awards. No indictments resulted. Holding that sale of surplus army goods by negotiation instead of bids was partly responsible, the report condemns continuation of a condition in the War Department, which it says "gave color to the belief that influence was valuable" in negotiating for army contracts.

Conduct of a motor "manufacturer who sought an army contract is described as "reprehensible," and dissension is reported between Harry H. Woodring, Assistant Secretary of War, and the army general staff. Cites Senate-Shunted Legislation. Woodring has figured prominently in a congressional investigation of the army air corps' use of $7,500,000, allotted to it by the Public Works Administration for equipment purchases. A sub-committee of the House recently agreed that Woodring's conduct in this matter was "above reproach," but criticized Benjamin D.

Foulois and H. C. Pratt, chief of the air corps procurement division. The grand jury report turned attention to legislation which was brought up in the Senate early this week, but later laid aside. This bill would prohibit members of Congress from acting as attorneys in cases in which the government has an Country Club Roll Kit lb.

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It was a glancing blow, however, and Beters was able to flee. The woman pursued him. Policemen Matthew Brennan and Fred Krueger, in an automobile witnessed the affair and overtook Beters, holding him until the woman arrived, whereupon she hit him again. Then the police locked him up. "But the lady," said Officer Brennan, "went away without giving her name.

She explained that her husband was jealous and might his way into jail to commit TUC DI Or THE WEEK! r-KJ- Standard TOMATOES 26c No. 2 Cans $1.23 Columbus, April 19 (fl1) A death threat, believed to have been from the John Dillinger gang, and aimed at Gov. George White, tonight was being traced by postal authorities. A letter, the handwriting apparently disguised and signed "friends of Harry and Charley." was received by the executive April 10, The disclosed today. Asks Pierpont, Makley Pardons.

The letter contained a threat that unless the governor pardons Harry Pierpont and Charles Makley, convicted murderers of Sheriff Jess L. Sarber, of Allen County, he would not live until the end of his term in office, next January. Pierpont and Makley are under sentence to die in the electric chair at Ohio penitentiary July 13. They were captured with Dillinger in Arizona, and tried in Lima, for the killing on October 12 of Sarber. The sheriff was slain when Pierpont, Makley, Russell Clark and three other Dillinger gangsters invaded the Allen County jail and liberated Dillinger, then held as a suspected bank robber.

Governor Not Alarmed. The governor said he turned the letter over to Postmaster Nate McCoy, of Columbus, "and he submitted it to postal inspectors." He added that he was not alarmed by the threat "as I still have a few months to live before July 13." For many weeks, two National Guardsmen have been on duty at the executive mansion. They were assigned there by Frank D. Henderson before Pierpont, Makley and Clark, who was sentenced to a life term for the Sarber killing, were brought here from Lima. Governor White said the force of guardsmen would not be increased, at least for the present.

The letter he received. White said, was mailed in Chicago, but was written on stationery of a St. Louis hotel. The governor's name and address were printed crudely on the envelope. At Washington, Postoff ice Department officials said they had received no official word of the letter.

Postal Inspector W. R. Briggs, of Cin-nati, also said he had not been advised, but added the letter probably would have been forwarded to Chicago. TO ATTEND A. A.

U. W. REGIONAL MEETING Several Muncie women are planning to attend the regional and state meeting of the American Association of University Women to be held at Cincinnati Friday and Saturday. Regional delegates are Prof. Mary Bee-man, head of the Ball State department of home economics, Mrs.

Roy Keever, and Miss Esther Bartlett. Miss Frances R. Botsford and Mrs. Ernest Myers. Professor Beeman will serve as chairmarTJui the state A.

A. TJ. W. nominating committee. Samuel T.

Milhollin Republican Candidate for RECORDER Was reared in Harrison Township. Was associated with the Keller Company for a number of years. Is a home-owner and taxpayer. And for the past several years state distributor for Slag trousers, union made merchandise. You Can't He Optomistic With Misty Optics VYOLTER7 VY OPTICAL -HOP 6p tome trie Specialists 108 E.

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The bodies of the dead, according to legend, never were recovered. CHIVALRY BRINGS HUSBAND $300 FINE Detroit, April 19. Being chivalrous cost Charles Grato. $300. He pleaded guilty to violating the prohibition law before Judge Ernest A.

O'Brien in Federal Court. "Why did you xsell liquor to this federal prohibition agent?" asked Judge O'Brien. "I didn't sell It, my wif sold it," said Grato. "Well, why did you plead guilty to the "I Just felt chivalrous and wanted to profect my wife," said Grato. "In day and age chivalry comes high," said Judge 'O'Brien.

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Jameson that we ought to have about $50,000 within the next two or three weeks to carry on the campaign in Virginia as it ought to be carried on. "Mr. Jameson said: 'Well. Ill furnish you with about $50,000. How would you like to have Well, I said, about $10,000 a week." He added that he told Jameson: "I want it distinctly understood in accepting this money that I be allowed to spend it when, how and where I desire.

"He said 'certainly, It's In your TRAIL ILLINOIS Continued Frem First Pe. employes to open the using pistols for argument. They got away, with speed enough to foil pursuit, and in typical Dillinger style vanished. Central and southern Illinois highways were pa trolled without success. Reports tha Dillinger and company were maraud ing around southern Illinois had put sheriffs on their guard last night, but a quartet of robbers, perhaps the bank robbers today, took $40 from a drug store at Odin, without Inter ference.

That young John had a game leg was confirmed by John Dillinger, Sr. at the family home In Mooresville. where he annoyed the eity and state police with the admission that they had had a reunion in the old home recently while everybody from the Attorney-General of the TJ. S. A down to the Squibbs Corners constable was keeping an eye peeled for "Slippery John." "Yes, John limped a bit when he was here, but not seriously," the elder Dillinger said reminiscently of the visit at the farm April 7 and 8 John Was Back Home in Indiana.

"He didn't aim to lie to and now that John was gone, there was no use saying he hadn't been back home. State officers at Indianapolis were shocked that the folks at Mooresville TtlL HER HOW IT MAKES WASHDAY EASY, TOO SO she told faec mother bow Rioso tsis out dirt caves scrubbing and boiling nukes clothes kst 2 or time ioagtt. Now her mother gea doches 4 or 5 shades whiter them in lioaa Get Kioto at your grocer" s. T1SHOP IN CONFIDENCE ATf Ovaltine Blue Ribbon Can Can 2 25C 3 17c Bulk Malt Extract Wheaties Jt Slfr Countrr Club rallK Tall Can would let John Dillinger come home and say nothing about it to the police. It was apparently common knowledge that the outlaw, with a desperate record as bank robber, killer and jail breaker, as in town, but the newspapers heard about it before the authorities.

simply can't understand, said Al G. Feeney, state safety director at Indianapolis, "why the good people of the town and its vicinity didn't notify the sheriff or some other police agency," but Capt. Matt Leach rather sadly admitted there was nothing much to do about it. John, was gone again and "besides, under the law the old man has a right to protect his son." Petition Amnesty for Dillinger. There was even a petition out In Mooresville to ask amnesty for Dillinger if he surrendered.

John Rowe, one of the neighbors, is circulating It, and many Mooresville and Indianapolis folks were reported to have signed. The petition would Inform Governor McNutt that Dillinger was given an unfair sentence, when first convicted of robbing a grocer, The senior Dillinger scoffed at reports that his son had "paid big money" to grease his way out of the Crown Point jail March 3. "When I was up there I asked John if he needed anything and he told me that If I could spare a ten dollar bill he would like to have It." said the father. "I asked the sheriff (Mrs. Lillian Holley) If it was all right to give John some money, and she said to give it to her and she would see that John got what he wanted.

'That's right," said John. 'She'll take good care of me, and John kind of laughed. It looks to me like they just made things too easy lor John up mere. That remark provoked Sheriff Hol ley, from whose custody Dilliniter eased his way out with a whittled wooden pistol. "That," she said, "is a funny atti tude for Dillinger's father to take.

He wasn't pampered: just the opposite." However, the woman sheriff of Lake County, had had her fill of that escape business and didn't care to re sume the topic. Anyway, the $10 didn't buy his way out. Sheriff Holley said he bought a couple of shirts with it. He was par ticular what he wore away. That's what Evelyn Frechetti, his sweetheart, was doing at Chicago today.

She is going for a trip to St. Paul, to be tried for harboiinft John in her apartment there. But the government let her have a day's respite while her sister bought her a new spring outfit to wear away. Hit by Poor War Bomb, He Invents Better One Syracuse, April 19. Lieut.

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