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XXXXIH. NO. 137. ELWOOD, FRIDAY, JUNE 9, 1933. FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK -3c COPY, OIL OH FEllOuJ LES Observe Oolden Wedding Date crou uxor STOCK Sil VMMMaMMMaHBHHMMMHHMMMHHM.

II II I 'i 'nwvin 111111' -iiwin nr i iii nnimimoei mm ill ill illi I I Parochial Students Complete i i -ii ssjj wssmet mi iniiiisnMisiiiie I iSMsnnnsjiiwiiSisiiisMstiiiiiiSjj I v. a Annual Memcrlal services the Odd Fellows lodge and Daughters of Rebekah will be held in the i. O. O. F.

hall In Mala street Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. An appropriate program has been prepared for the occasion and win. be presented under the efficient supervision of J. N. Nuzuni.

The ritualistic ceremonlep of both the Odd Fellows and the Daughters of Rebekahs will be presented in honor of jthe deceased members. AU members are requested to bring The public is extended a cor. dial invitation to attend the services. FUGITIVE 18 CAUGHT; Hotmill Department at Elwood American Works of American Sheet and Tinplate Company Will Open Week at Full Capacity, According to An-. nouncement of Manager Byus Today.

TO FILL ORDERS MR, and MRS. ROYAL NOTTS. Prominent Elwood couple, who will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary- Sunday at their at North Thirteenth street, Numerous friends are expected to call and extend congratulations during the afternoon when ''open house" will be held. INCREASE SCHEDULE All eleven mills, nine doubles STARTS WIATTERN HOPES GIVES in operation Kunday midnight at the hlwood American Works of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company, according to an official announcement, made today by Manager John Byus. i Material from the'hot mills of U4 after being closed since last February 11, will be ready for the tinhouse nex week and operations will be opened in that department'.

With the opening or tne tinnouse all departments In the large industry -will be In operation, providing employ, Titni tt a 1 a rtr nnmhii nf men And 1 j. women. i Until this week the industry' since re-opening last month has been oper- tins seven double mills on a nine- POTATO GROWER TAI KQ ill nilS IllkllV I II ULVUV ENJOY nun OF GOS Herbert Hughes, of near Alexan? drla, Madison county's potato grower, addressed an enthuB- )- Lamont Telia of Transactions Morgan and Company at Senate Probe, IKE TAKES DT PAID 4' Washington, June 9- Stocl transactions by which a young partner it the firm of J. P. Mor gan and escaped in- come taxes variously estimated af from 1,440 to were pre-" scnted with unexpected candor? today to a Senate investigating committee.

1 Thomas 1st- did a right- about-face from hiH stubborn, at- titude of last week and revealed without hesitancy details ot stock ltnvil SfJKl TV 11V 111 tM9 VlWHUl davs of Denemhir. 1930. Feriiiiiand committed coiuiHel, estimated that Lomant'sJ personal stock transactions enab-i led him to avoid a tax of $20,365 on his 1930 income, but Lament said he did not think it "possibly; coma nuvo ncen no large, Lamont said he had beetf "4.1.1 41. n1A. nl viib lain finale bci.ii;e his wife saved him $1,440.29 and his wife He disclosed eri rors in his and Mrs.

Lamont 's re turns which saved them $2,035,86. Despite examination of the te- tuniH by federal officials theser errors, which Lamont attributed to the general 'difficulty of un-4 derstanding income tax techm- que, apparently never were- cor- j-eete'd-i NvashlugtoHiiue l.f Senate HawIwmI voted powers squarely at personal stock transactions of J. pv Morgan and Company: partDrs, after learning oft a one-time $98,000,000 paper profit to Van Swerlngen railroad -interests from ah operation the Morgan Com pany Information about stock sales at fectlng the taxable Incomes ot Tho mas 8. Lamont, William Ewlng and Harold Stanley was the Immediate! objective of the banking committee, Earlier the Senate unanimously grant" ed It more authority for the purpose, simultaneously voting $100,000 to con tlnue the private bank Inquiry; through another session of Congress, Vsn Swsringer Ends Testfmony. Thorough an afternoon so hot that P.

Morgan Joined many others la' shedding his coat, O. P. Van Swew In'gen closed four days of testimony! on how be and his brother, M. J. Van Swerlnger, built a railroad domain from a $1,000,000 start In 1918, His story ended with testimony con.

cernlng the powerful Alleghany Cor poration which Morgan and Company helped organise In 1929 and out of which crew the selected client list on which appeared the name of WIK llam Woodin. 1 Ferdinand Pecora, the coufmltttee Investigator, showed that in return for $52,000,000. of railroad securities put in the corporation by Van Swer Ingen interest they received 000 In cash, 2,225,000 shares of Stock with a book value ot $45,000,000 and 1,750,000 option warrants carried af $1 each on the books. In addition, Pecora said, the Allet Continued on Page 8svsr.) a i 'i v. I Gencraly "fair tonight 'and Saturday: Continued TEMPERATURE IN ELWOOD.

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.90 Wcrkr and Prepare for Summer Vacation. 'v RECEIVE DIPLOMAS KM Active school 'work for students' of the St. Joseph's school for the 1932-SS term came to a close at noon today and Commencement exercises will be for. the high school and Eighth grade graduates Sunday morning in conjunction with the. regular 'morning services at the St.

Joseph's church. One of the most successful and pleasing events In the history of the school was the Freshman-Sophomore annual Reception last The course, of St. Joseph's school consists of eight grades and two years of high school. The educational institution is accredited by the State Board of Education. Receive' Awards Sunday, The formal presentation of tptomas to tie twenty-three Eighth grade graduates and the certificates "of credit to the nineteen high school students will at o'clock Sunday morning at the church.

A priest from St. Joseph's college, of Win, give the "address and the local pastor. Father Biegel, who la idlrector of the school, will award the diplomas and Certificates of credit Eighth Grade Graduate. The followiag twenty-three stuuenU have successfully completed the eighth grade: i Mary. Cole, Margaret Culp, Anna De Bonis, Dorothy Dyer, Genevieve Gmurk, Helen Hlckner, Mary Idelwirie EmeHa Kreck.porothy ietu Unen, nyrtle Llten keed, Ma rie WheatHey, Helen Youn, rreaVrlck Bllts; Eugene Blubaugh, OrviIl Bscci, Julius -Delll Colli, John Oilbert.

Robert i Grossestreuer, Richard Keller, Patrick O'Brien; Patrick Ormsby. Certificates of Credit The following nineteen, students will receive certificates oi credit for high school work. Seventeeirtif these have expressed their Intention of entering the El wood; Public OKlgh School during the ooming school term. Doris Cecilia Blubaugh, Agnes Lou ise Dauenhauer, Agnes Gertrude Faul- stich, Agnes Annabelle Hickner, Ly-dla Elizabeth Keller. Gertrude Alice Magers, Mary Frances Monaiian, Patricia Kathleen Mudd, Margaret Ann Palmer, Helen Frances Selbold, R1U Jane Snyder, Mary Antonla Ward, Therese Zelma Wheatley, Leo Patrick Marvin Charles Flllatreau, Eugene Joseph Glotzbach, Maurice Joseph Rlpperger, Bernard Emtl Schick, Stephen Joseph Sorba.

ELWOOD FAIR VISITORS RETUIH TODAY Eleven Elwood residents, who visit ed the Century' of Progress at Chicago, making the-trip via of the Miller Bus Tours, Of Windfall, returned UUs morning, i The fair visitors left Elwood Wed nesday morning, were eleven from SSI wood and enroute to tne World's Fair city thirty-two other pssseugers Joined the large, bus. In thr Elwood group we the following: Mrs. Frank Leisure, Mrs. Gerulduie Campbell, Mrs. Lyndall Mrs.

Esther Fox and daughter Jane; Mrs. Aubrey and sons. Junior and Thurman; Miss Vio let CIoss, Miss Helen GlotxbacJu and Mrs. Pearl Lynas. Another group of -Elwood resident will leave by bus Monday morning at 6 o'clock for the fair, -m SMALL BABY SCALDED, Mr, and Mrs.

Benjamin BlckeV re sidlna- at 4lt South street received message yesterday, stating that the 16-months-old. son of Mr. aad Harold Podge, of Detroit, jaich.y-was In a serious condition In a hospital. sufTerm'g with severe burns which lbs baby Sustained when he pulled a pan of bolllnf water over on im. TM mother was formerly Miss Grace BickeL Beecher Adams, of Elwood, who es capea rrom the Indiana prison at Michigan City May SO, was appre hended by local police in a wooded tract south of the city late yesterday afternoon.

Adams was returned to prison last February when apprehended on a charge of Issuing fraudulent checks. He was on parole at time. He will be returned to the institution Elwood Industry Will Manufac ture 1,681,000 Canton Flannel Cleaning Discs. REQUIRE SIX IVEEKS TB FILL The J. Lewis" Small Glove factory, 14 nuii sixteenth of canton laniiel cleaning discs tor the tinplate industry; from the Machinery and Equipment Com pany of Youngstcwri, 0 which will I require full time; operations fort at least six it was announced to day by Manager J- Lynn McCormick: It is the largest single order receiv ed In the history of the glove factor, officials of which said today that the outlook 'was exceedingly bright.

May Increase Order. 1 To fill the order the factory will be required to operate on a full time schedule for six weeks and it may be necessary to add a night shift. Manager McCormick said there was a possibility that the order might be increased. 87 Miles of MateriaL The Youngstown concern, which awarded the order to the local Indus try, Is engaged in the manufacture of machinery for the tinplate Indus try and the cleaning discs will be installed on new equipment, which is being turned out new by the Ohio plant Manager McCormick said that 000 yards of thirty-three inch wide eight-ounce canton flannel, representing approximately 185 bales, would be required in the manufacture of the large number of This amount of material would reach distance of approximately glxty-eeven miles, Local Industries Bright Industrial conditions In Elwood are verjf bright and consequently business Is steadily improving, citizens or ua-wood ate displaying a new spirit and from all Indications man depres sion" has received the knockout blow. The Macbeth-Evans Glass Company plant has.

been operating on a caiscily schedule for several weeks, the baer business increased activities at the plant The O. Sellers and Sons Company is steadily increasing its business. Prospects are brighter 1 at the local plant or the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. The American Works of the Amer ican Sheet and Tinplate Company, which re-onened last Monday, will start full operations next week. Bandit Get $10,000.

Pekin, June Three bandits held up a messenger and a guard transportinjf $10,000 inj cash and non-negotiable seeuri- ties from the.fpost. office the Herget Natiflnal Bank today and: cleaned with the funds after threatening ihe -men with a man -r cnuie guii. GLOV FACTORY OF EARLY 1IEF Weather Bureau Predictions Call for Continued Heat Wave in State Saturday. PERSONS PROSTRATED i Indianapolis, June 9. Hopes for any immediate relief from Indiana's record breaking hcuV wave were shattered today by predictions pf the Weather "(jf u-iuiJy ulul jSpturdayvV said the official fpre cast.

"Continued 1 Meanwhile the scorching sun and "90 to 100- degree tempera tures were blamed for 16 deaths- SflorpR of nersons were pros trated, by the heat and required medical attention, Livestock suf fered almost as much as human beings. Farmers took advantage of a full Indiana moon to do much of their work at- night when the temperatures had fallen, 'fev' City officials hurried to. open swimming pools so that suffering 'citizens might gain temporary relief, Among the latest victims, were sunstrokes and drownings- Indianapolis, June 8. Continua tion, at least through tomorrow and Saturday5 of the heart wave that has taken ten lives Indiana was predicted by the United StateV' weather bureau tonight. 'The only' sign of relief in "Hoosler- 0om said the forecast was in north era Indiana where temperatures generally may fall slightly below the 10 mark at which they have been almost stationary for the last few days.

Marlon Woman Stricken. Fatal heat prostrations and drown ings resulting when persons took to tne beaches for relief reached ten with tour more today. Prostration victims today were Henry Edward Feese, 60 of Columbia City, and Peter Haskell, 41, Negro, of near Jetfersonville, both of "whom suffer ed strokes while farming; Mrs. Lucy Hlldebrand. 66, stricken as' she drove an automobile on a Marlon street and John Illlngworth, iS, Newton county 1 Unable Release Missionary- Dairen, Kwantung Leased Ter ritory.i June 9.

An attempt to release-' Neils 1 Nielsen, kid naped American Missionary, fail ed today "when his abductors trap laid for them by JabanfeerMahchn The troops jwerf attempting to 1 sur the, Danans uicn movements were detected- a The and. two singles, will be placed the industry, which reopened May turn schedule weekly. This -week the operations' were increased to twelve turns. Increase Schedule Today. Manager Byus returned yesterday from the home office of the industry in Pittsburgh, and plans were announced for adding two single mills next week and operating on a twelve-turn basis.

Today the operating schedule was increased, whereby all hdtmills will start work Sunday midnight will be the first Sunday midnight turn in several months at the -city's largest industry. First Pay June 14. T''f first pnvdny at the tinplate i menta did not start operations at the same time. The first pay for all employes of the industry will occur on June 28. r' Citizens and.

merchants of Elwood are greatly elated with the recent upturn in local industrial conditions whish every indication of continuing The upturn has resulted in a dras tic decrease in relief activities in El wood and Pipecreek township. Act ing Township Trustee Samuel Wei-born reported that several families' been removed from his list and a similar report was made by Captain O. S. Cliff of the Salvation Army. INDIANA FEDERAL LOANS.

Approximately $50,000,000 Avail able for JETojects. (United' Pnai) Indianapolis, June 9- Ap proximately $50,000,000 in fed eral loans will be available in In diana for municipal' public works projects, Gov. Paul V. McNutt told local government representa tives called to the. statenouse to confer on a statewide public building program- In addition, another 000 will be available to the state hiffhwav department for road building.

Federal" money borrow for tjhe municipal projects must be repaid in bond issues to the fed eral eovernment which i will retire the first 20 per cent of the bonds maturine. lea vine Municipalities to nav only the remaining 70 per cent: t- Mayors, county commissioners, and auditors and other local government officials attended, the It was called so that buudini; activities may. start in Indiana as soon as the federal money is available. Present status of the setup liincres on congressional action, as8used because of administration support, McNutt explained. The national industrial recov ery act appropriates 000, of which is lor public works by.

local governments- 1 TRASH PILE AFIRE. The city fire department was sum moned at 7:40 o'clock last evening to North and Nineteenth streets to extinguish a burning trasn ptie. FLIGHT AGAIN American Aviator Leaves Siberia Airport After Making; Repairs to Plane- DELAY COSTS FIVE Moscow June J). Jimmy Mat-tern took off from the airport at Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, at 11:55 a. ml today, Moscow time (2 J5'.

a ut after a. five-hour refuel, nrid- pnmtOpffr 1 Ufoscow, June "James 'J. Mattern, flyng, around the world alone, landed pJ. Beloye Station, near at 3:45 m- today, Moscow me, (6:55 a. m.

Moscow, June 8. Sick and almost unconscious through breathing gasoline fumes which escaped through a leaking gas line, James. Matters, American flier, was forced to land near Prokoptevsk, Siberia, yesterday on his round-the-world solo aerial journey. The flying Texan came down a few hours after he had left Omsk on the fifth lap of his flight in attempting to beat the record set by Wiley Post and Harold Gatty in 1931. Motor Trouble Blamed.

Summoned to the at Belovo, a worker's settlement near Prokoplevsk, Mattern told the corres pondent at Moscow he was ready to resume his flight to the east after completion of repairs to ills airplane, Ce-ury of "I am still, sick from those fumes," Mattern said in explaining how motor trouble caused his, unscheduled land ing "I can't hold any food on ray stomach, but I expect to get off for Krasnoyarsk in five or ten hours. "I was four hours out of Omsk when I discovered a leak in the fuel line, and by the time I found out what the trouble was I was in bad ahape from the fumes." When he alighted on a small gency landing field, at, Belovo he was almost unconscious, the American aviator said. "When I landed I broke my stabilizer and cannot make permanent repairs here, vt "They have helped me as much as they can here, however, and I shall be able to get off from here with terapor. ary repairs within a few hours and run into Krasnoyarsk," where there are facilities for fixing the stabiliser. Loses Track of "I have already fixed the gas line leak 'and I am, almost ready to take off," as far as repairs are concerned 1 "The -only hlhg is- that I feel too SICK now ana 1 uiiok i win wmi.

new hours until I get Mattern was asked if he had yet obtained any sleep, replying: "No; much. I've, been working on the ship ever since ooming down, but pdk up some' rest at Krasnoyarsk, How Is my -elapsed time from New f'. (Continued age eight) members at the Senior High School last evening. He stated 'that the club members should not be In any hurry to riant thi-tr late potatoes as experiments in 1 Madison county showed t.hat tlfhet yields come from plots planted between June It And 20 He urged the members to obtain good certified seed and stated that It should be treated for scab before planting Good clay loam soir with a clay subsoil 1 should be for the garden, the speaker stated ke advised that the seed be planted deep in loose seed-bed. Mr.

Hughes advised spraying or dusting from five to seven times to assure' good foliage free from insects and diseases. Qamts' Are Eiijoysd. Following the address of Mr. Hughes, the Recreation committee of the 4-H clubs provided a program of numerous games and contests which was greatly, enjoyed. There were sixty-one member in attendance at the meeting and six guests.

Robert Gordon presided and George Jackman served as secretary. GIF CLUB HELOIAST TIGHT Members of the Klwanis club held a brief session at the Presbyterian church basement last evening, actlvi ties being cut short on account of the hot weather. Following the regular dinner a few business matters were discussed and plans were outlined' to send a large delegation to Riley Memorial hospital at Indianapolis; Sunday hen Klwanis Day will be observed. Between twelve and fifteen Elwood members will visit the noslptal" Following the club session the di rectors held'a brief meeting to transact some Important business matters, brigands presiimably am not verjr sleepy and I'll probably theiii Nielsen was ma- naped last April from the Danish-American mission near here- v. 7vr VW a..