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The Decatur Daily Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 23

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Decatur, Illinois
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THE DECATUR REVIEW PAGE TWENTY-THREE Tuesday, February 4, 1936. ABOUT TO SET NEW COLLEGE RECORD Edie in county court here Monday. Lawrence H. Wessler, Mansfield, was named executor. Mr.

Smothers' daughter, Mrs. Edith L. Swartz, and his grandson, Wayne E. Swartz. were named beneficiaries.

Vhe will also provided for payment of $200 to the Mansfield Methodist church. Report Scarlet Fever Case in Assumption By Staff Correspondent ASSUMPTION One case of scarlet fever was reported here over the weekend and the home of Supt of Schools E. C. Coatney, 'whose daughter, Dorothy. 6, has contracted the disease, has been placed Coatney is staying at the David Re-ber home.

One case of chicken poxtwas discovered through examination of all pupils in the grade school Monday morning. After examining the throats and taking the temperatures of all the pupils, teachers sent several home and to physicians. File Will of Mansfield Resident in Monticello By Staff Correspondent. MONTICELLO The will of Alvin T. Smothers, Mansfield, was admit Indictments Of Local Officials In U.S.

Survey Charges Against Public Men in Dozen States Range from Murder to Drunkenness. Methodist church will meet with Mrs. Lena Heiserman Thursday afternoon. The ladies' aid society, of St John's Lutheran church will meet with Mrs. Katherine Connolley Thursday afternoon.

The monthly meeting of the Mt. Pulaski library club was to "be held Tuesday afternoon in the library rooms. The art unit "of the Mt. Pulaski Woman's club will meet in the home of Mrs. R.

Bertoni Friday afternoon. The study will be English period furniture and the program will be in charge of the chairman, Mrs. Oswald Brooker. Mrs. Natalie Pegram of Lincoln will conduct a school of instruction List Club Meetings in Mt.

Pulaski This Week By Staff Correspondent. MT. PULASKI Meeting of Church, societies and other organizations scheduled for this week are: The Sewing Circle of Zion Lutheran church will meet Wednesday afternoon in the church basement with Mrs. G. C.

Schahl as hostess. The Lutheran Workers of St." John's church will meet Wednesday afternoon in the home of Mrs. A. F. Lipp.

The ladies' aid society of the Christian church will meet with Mrs. J. Wayne Staley on Thursday The ladies' aid society of the Highest Cash Prices for Get cash for useless trinket OLD GOLD Gebharf-Gushard Third Floor in Central Rebekah lodge room Friday, Feb. 7. The opening session will be at 2 p.

and at 6 o'clock there will be a potluck supper. ted to probate by Judge Burl A. I ar If mm. 1 Inside Facts gggr iked mcuf kelp you In selecting a remedy for headache. DROMEDARY Donald MacMurray, 21, New York City, who registered at the University of Chicago last October, has passed seven of the nine exams which normally cover the work done in four years.

Should he succeed In passing the two remaining exams he will establish a new record at the university. MacMurray registered under the "new plan" at mmi FRUIT .1 periodic pains, and other nerve pain use one that soothes the tense nerves. Capudlne Is Ideally suited for simple headache, neuralgic pain, rheumatic, or periodic pain because it relieves high nerve tension and brings welcome relaxation. Also remember that Capudlne Is quicker because it is a liquid Its ingredients are already dissolved. No The first step toward relieving simple headache is to understand its cause.

Pain is the cry of overtaxed nerves for rest. And when we realize that the nerves spread throughout every part of the body (see head diagram) we understand how serious a nervous disturbance can be. XO. 2 CANS the U. of whereby a student may progress as rapidly as he is able.

narcotics or opiates. IONA STANDARD QUALITY principal speaker of the evening will be Oscar J. Carlstrom, Aledo, former attorney general of the state of Illinois. The meeting opens at 8 p. m.

mm 16 1 NO. 2 CANS IONA STANDARD QUALITY PEAS 16 1 NO. 2 CANS Blalkeimey Pflmnran STANDARD QUALITY Indictments pending against Mayor Harry Barber and State's Attorney Arthur Frazier are included in charges of graft, malfeasance and extortion fac'ng public officials in a dozen states, a survey by the United Press today shows. An indictment against former Chief of Police Jack Cooper' was dropped last week, two days after he had resigned. Mayor Barber is accused of malfeasance, misstatement in campaign fund reports, end embezzlement of township funds while supervisor.

State's Attorney Frazier is charged with malfeasance, accepting a bribe, and embezzlement. Murder to Drunkenness. The poll of the nation shows cases running from Florida to California, with charges ranging from second degree murder and embezzlement' to habitual drunkenness. In Colorado a former secretary of state, James H. Carr, will go on trial Feb.

18 charged with conspiracy to extort money from a wholesale liquor dealer. In Iowa an assistant attorney general, Walter Maley, is fighting in the supreme court to quash an indictment charging a gambling conspiracy. L. A. Works, a liquor Healer, was credited with forcing the investigation which resulted in a special session of the Colorado legislature and the resignation of its youngest state official, James H.

Carr. Caught in Trap. Works complained to Denver authorities that he was the victim of a "shakedown." A trap was laid and William E. O'Toole, brother of a member of the legislature, was arrested. Taken from him was a letter- allegedly signed by Carr accepting a $3,000 check in settlement of excise tax claims and payment of a new wholesale liquor license.

With the check was $3,000 in cash which Works said he learned was to be split three ways. A crusading Iowa editor, Verne Marshall of Cedar Rapids, bared the Iowa charges. In screaming front page editorials he accused state officials of connection with a statewide slot machine ring. Attorney General Tried Twice. Atty.

Gen. Edward L. O'Connor twice was tried on gambling conspiracy charges and finally was acquitted. The indictment against Maley and 30 other defendants of lesser importance still stands. In Cleveland, Alex Berstein, Cuyahoga county treasurer, is on trial accused of a $500,000 shortage in his accounts.

In nearby Brooke county, W. two members of the county commission, William Leib-farth and John W. Owens, were removed from office in impeachment proceedings brought by a group of taxpayers. Leibfarth was charged with "habitual intoxication" and Owens with "waste of public money." Accuse Bookkeeper. In Dane county, Wisconsin, Waiter Iller, bookkeeper for the highway department, was charged with forging county checks in amounts involving several thousand dollars.

An investigation was ordered. Frank L. Brothers, former chief of the accounting division of the Ohio conservation department, will go on trial Feb. 7 on charges of embezzling $13,000 in state Charges of embezzling $1,755 from the cemetery endowment fund face Rey L. Swinderman, 35, former city auditor at New Philadelphia, Ohio.

Chief of Police R. G. Tittsworth, of Tampa, has been charged as an accessory after the fact to second degree murder in the lash-murder of Joseph Shoemaker, one of three labor organizers attacked by a gang of masked men. Six of Shoemaker's companions received TOMATOES IV GULF'S BEST 1 n.s 1 a simJar treatment but survived. Milton H.

Welling, secretary of state in- Utah and old-time Democratic party leader, is on trial for presenting a false salary claim for $100 to the state board of examiners. Charges that they illegally licensed unqualified barbers and permitted insanitary shops to operate have been lodged against Otto Sheffler and Elijah E. Main, members of the Michigan state board of barbers. Charge Illegal Collections. Andrew Sheuland, former county official in California, is on trial charged with using public equipment funds in building highways for a private real estate development; and ouster suits are on file in Stoddard county, charging Sheriff G.

M. Barham and Treasurer R. K. Briney with illegal collection of fees. Charges of fraud were lodged against Mayor A.

D. H. Fossey, of Miami, along with two of his commissioners. Orville Rigby and E. G.

Sewell. They charge alleged city tax certificate manipulations. Violation of registration laws was charged in Nashville, against Magistrate John Omohun-dro, City Councilor Harry Cohen and two city employes. Twenty others were arrested recently in an investigation of registrate practises. Constable J.

W. Yearwood, Davidson county, was charged with extortion. A year and a half to five years prison term was meted out to William Herbs, 50, former city treasurer in Hudson, N. on charges of misappropriating funds. VAN CAMP'S ff To $2.25 ff To 75c Special! I MUFFLERS Wool Socks PAJAMAS A I Fine wools, silks im- I If Lisle-lined; fancies- jl I Outings! Broadcloths! II II ports Wednesday II II 3 prs.

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