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Mine Run wholly ditapprovo of what yon hut will dofand tm tho dmath 'our right to Volt In just a short time now the Candidate will be abroad in the land. There is already some in anticipation of the primaries in May. As time goes on the voter is doing quite a good deal more of thinking for himself than was formerly the case and does not blindly follow and dictations from the bosses or would-be bosses. This does not mean of course that party leadership is not to be recognized and considered when matters of policy or of the are concerned. When we look back over past history in Greene county we recall the bi-ennial charges that and dominated affairs sometimes of one party and sometimes of another and often there were bi-partizan rings.

These partizan rings weie combinations of a few powerful men of the two leading parties who in times past in Greene county had things pretty much their own way. Without assuming to know whether there is anything left of taal old system and without any intention of trying to create any such inference if is we think, the part of good citizenship to recall to the voter the dangers of such a reversion to old warn people who will soon be called upon to make choice of men- in all parties -who will have charge of county business to be cautious to not be swept off their feet in other words, to choose from the number of those seeking nominations those who seem best qualified and have the best background just as one would LINTON DAILY CITIZEN Printed in the Heart of the Indiana Coal Fields, In the State's Finest Corn and Fruit Belt, and Within 2 9-10 Miles of the Center of Population of the United States Weather Probably snow or rain tonight, and Wednesday turning to snow. Colder Wednesday. LINTON, INDIANA, TUESDAY, JANUARY ll. 1938 VOLUME XXXVII.

NUMBER 262. ROOSEVELT CALLS THIEVES WHO TOOK POTATOES SOUGHT GETTING COMPLIMENT DOWN PAT Discussion of Business to Be Conducted This Afternon. CONFEREES PLAN CONFAB White House Secretary Early Tells About Arrangements. WASHINGTON, I). Jan.

ll. (U.R)—Leaders of five of the na- largest industries were summoned to the White House today to meet with President Roosevelt I at 5 p.m. for a thorough discussion of business conditions. President Roosevelt sent telegraphic summons, inviting to the White House, Alfred P. Sloan, board chairman of General Motors Ernest T.

Weir, of Pittsburgh, chairman of the board of the National Steel M. W. lement of Philadelphia, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Lewis Brown, president of Johns- Manville and Colby Chester, chairman of the board of the General Foods and head of the I Local and county officials today are investigating in an ef- fort to locate the person or persons i responsible for the robbery this week of two bags of potatoes from I the relief commodity storehouse in Linton. The thieves made their entrance into the budding by forcing one of the windows. The potatoes jfederal goods intended for distribution to the needy of the I county.

Members of the Linton City police force and Sheriff Bert Caldwell and Deputy Sheriff Lorn Clark investigated. "ON DEPTH Drillers Are Said to Have Penetrated to 2,250 Foot Level. WK en; SHONG JAPAN DRIVE ut in BK tow Appointments Also Are Made by Commissioners This eek. IS FORESEEN IN MOVE OY AIRPLANES TODAY MISS oy choice FOK HEALTH NURSE Emmanuel Sanders Is Selected to He Constable. A number of contracts were awarded, appointments were made and other business was transacted by the Greene county Boart Commissioners, in session 'Bloomfield.

Miss Beulah McCoy, 'n Aition Thought Prelude to Drive to Stop Travel. ll Coalition Considered Opposition tor New Deal. as MOKE MAN POWER ASKED BY NIPPON WASHINGTON', Conscription Law for Increasing Ranks, Is Requested. of The senate filibu at anti-lynching bill i day present Drillers at the lest well which is being sunk on the Ford farm, one mile west and one mile north of nothing like a complimentary pat for a job well done to make Sandborn, have penetrated to a great man or small feel good. Vice President Gainer, wise politician depth of more than 2,250 feet, ac- that he is, puts the truism literally to walk he congratulates Pres- cording to a report received here is int Greene county health nurse, was re-appointed to that position.

parties wh Emmanuel Sanders wa- named scale with as constable for Wright township. Roosevelt The board parsed upon the esti- I mate and statement submittc I by Eskel Beasley, county auditor, showing the amount of money tales of I be i bf. ll. (U.R) against the ill raging to- in king political on a national South rhina today, apparently as of President SHANGHAI, Jan. IL (UR) planes and warships be ban widespread operations in choose an employe in private af- National Association of Manufac- fairs where capability and in- lurers, tegrity are required.

rn Too often we are inclined to today. The well, which is being drilled by the Worthington Petroleum company, was being drilled in the Niagara limestone at more than 2,500 feet, and it was expected The White House conference that the first in the deep representative national industrial 0 jj producing formation would be leaders is the first such within a short time, favor the fellow with little I summoned by President Roosevelt The teKt is bejnK drilled by regard for other considerations--! since earjy days of the New Deal. Joseph ghaffer, drilling contrac-1 even though there are many good stephen T. Early, White House toJ. with a cable fellows who are also capable and secretary, said the conferees would iy.

No indications of oil satura- deservmg of public trusts. I he in a general discussion of jon jt was reported, had been wise thing to do both from party the business situation. I found in any of the formations sake and the sake of good gov-, through which the drill had forced its way today. ident Roosevelt on his Jackson day dinnei speech at Washington, D. needed to defray current expenses where one thousand New Dealers paid I OO a plate to swell the Dem- and to pay current obligations for poor relief.

After consideration of cera tic coffers. Garner thus put his approval on his speech, pledging a finish fight on the business IT BASKETBALL STATE OFFICIALS EEA! WILL I HUN! FOR POISON Tourney to Be Held This Cooking Extract Sought 1932. process has con- mil serious observers I scene are sepculat- edibility of coalition opposition in 1940 to the Deal presidential ticket, whether the Sat- ter is leaded by Mr. Roosevelt in avail-I quest of a third term, by Robert racKin tinned now of the polit ing on the (the matter it was determined that a temporary loan of $14,000, in addition to funds already able, should be secured, and the board recommended to the council that a temporary loan be author- succession ny any of tm ized in that amount. The county auditor was directed H.

be Jackson, currently reported to White House favorite for the dher New Dealers who aspire to leadership of the party created by the the prelude to a drive to cut last main artery between Canton and the sea. Japanese planes poured hundreds of bombs on the ton- Hankow railroad 30 miles above Canton, severely damaging tho tracks and destroying telegraph and telephone wires. Other pianos bo ml led towns throughout Kiangsi province, north oi Canton. ty-four heavy bombing dropped IOO bombs on the military airport at northern terminus of the railroad. to call a special meeting of the president.

Warships shelled several towns I County Council, to be held on Feb. Mark dean os political jn Hainan island, off the extreme southern coast. eminent is to be deliberate in WASHINGTON. Jan. ll.

making your primary Secretary of agriculture Henry A. well as the final choice. Dr. Alexis Carrel, one OI the loading scientists of his generation, proposes a study of the process of ageing. He forecasts a longer human life when we lenin to regulate what he calls the Improved tissues and blood will make possible longer years for the average person, he says.

Dr. Carrel calls attention to the by which some persons of forty are really as old as others of sixty. He thinks that the hands of the clock are the blood and the works of the Hock the body tissues and he surmises that the mainspring is per Wallace today said that mists that a decline in government spending had dis- turned the balance between business income, employment and farm income, resulting in the present recession. Wallace told the -t nato unemployment and relief committee Niagara J.ime lopped The drill topped the Niagara lime at 2,160 feet, after pushing its way through approximately 170 feet of black and green shall' and 24 feet of cinnamon shale. Week in Gymnasium in Switz City.

Today in Southern Indiana. :8 to consider the temporary loan. commentate! Other Business 'on Other business considered by the commissioners was a petition presented by James Cleveland and others, asking for the location of advanced the coalit- High school basketball teams of the White River Valley conference will compete Thursday INDIANAPOLIS, an. a new public highway in Stafford I. I to I Iii ll Cline Bedwell ani Wil- Representatives of the state de- 1 ham E.

Grounds were named as partment of public health today are searching for cooking extract viewers for the road. Contracts which were awarded TOKYO, Jan. ll. (U.R) Tho Japanese war office today called I for a new conscription law to mob! ilize additional man power for the I war in China, while Emperor Hij rihito presided over an imperial 'conference on the conflict. I The ministry of war announced that the conscription bill to be sub- The formations, while conform- and Saturday in a team I conUt njni, die th lone blycil, po- included: the contract for county Work of Official During rnitted to parliament would swell ing with those drilled on the Robe- tournament which will be held in 1 us chemical used in the sui- poor asylum for the Vpnr of UCTT Is by restore son test well in Illinois, near Vin- high school gymnasium in Ifani I amide elixir which brought months of January, Februaiy and, ug the old twenty-four months varied somewhat in thick- that farm relief needs are rising that fund, for Th(j u.s, Ford agricultural aal may not br auf- sonu, timi.

ago. It is flhcient to cover demand, for tho of exp)oratory rest of the fiscal year. A deficiency appropriation may be necessary, he said. Col. leonard P.

Ayres, Cleveland economist, predicted that the nation should reach the bottom of Switz City. The Switz haw a record of twelve wins and no are out to win the tournament, school gymnasium in, tdealh to more 50 persons March, 1938, to Emeiy Spaiks, ct tht-oflrfc'rtotrt the country several Bloomfield. weeks ago. Several gallons a1-I The contract for bridge material f. Bani -aid tLat thnv wuidy have been confiscated.

1 this year to the olumbus defeats, have aulI that they extract was Construction company. win tournament, I I The contract for crushed lime- Year of 1937 Is Shown. I wells which have been or arc see- in Tell City and Vincennes, pected to be drilled in this region of southern Indiana in an effort to locate a of oil which is expected to be in this territory. med slated as outstanding favor- ifs in the two days of play. director reported.

Thus far no sickness has been Several thousands of acres are hap. the mind. Without poaing the recei.ion during the first half a. an expert, we revert to th. cur- of IWO.

He lather intel.este(1 in th. I The first session of the competi- tion will be staged beginning at Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state health of the Mid-West Rock Products company of Indianapolis. A graider and other items are to rent slang to remark that the good doctor seems have something recovery Certainly, the mental attitude of individuals has a great deal to do ith the state of health, the log of this work of (h illing, and new leases 7 Thursday night, and the semi-finals and the finals will I played Saturday afternoon and night.

utilites as the nvI are being filed almost daily in one economic jam. The schedule for the games fol- I I of the county seats fo the counties most productive contribu- A lows: adjacent to or within a short dis-, lion that congress could make, Ihursday Night said Ayres, Itance of Greene county. 'traced to the drug, he said. Investigations by Harold Darnel, the food and drug commissioner, revealed that a quantity of vanilla extract containing diethelene glycol was-shipped to Tell City from St. Louis by Forty-nine cases were I investigated in Greene county during 1937, a report made today by Dr.

George C. Porter, county showed. The month of December was the i i busiest during the year, the report be purchased during from the )indicated, for during the month J. I). companj coroner had charge of nine Stantz and Dauhenspeck, ol Switz City, are to furnish picks, files, and mattocks for the county cases.

All cases of death, Dr. Porter explained, where a physician is not in attendance, are investigated by be repeal of undistributed profits tax. Incidentally. Dr. Carrel is the Should the tax Le repealed I feel scientist who took a small piece it would go a long way toward of heart from a chicken in 1912, restoring to prove that living flesh will last forever.

The bit of chicken, washed I few days to remove waste products from the cells, is still growing actively and showing no signs whatever of The contemplation of such statements merely emphasizes the ignorance of human be in ga in regard to the vital processes of their own If men and women are given additional years to live, one should realize that the additional time adds tremendously to the value of the average life because of the experience that the has gained. I Mrs. Martha E. Huff Dies at Home in Owensburg Community. TICKET SELLERS IO FACE CHARGES Dante Promoters Will Be Tried by Court in Connersville.

Game I Clay City vs. Lyons Game Spencer vs. Jasonville in 1938. VV. J.

Holliday and company of the coroner. Thi-s includes, of course, a magazine company to be award- Indianapolis was awarded con- said ajj forms 0f violent death. led subscribers as premiums, (tract for slip-scrapers, bolts, wash Darnel confiscated all the ex- ers, chain, acid core solder, grind I still in possession of the wheels, shovels, scythes, sled! man and then made a house-to and axes. -house search for all that had been Game Switz City vs. Mid saturday Afternoon to new subscribers of the Game Bloomfield vs.

Win- hiagaxine. At mcennes, several gallons of I ll L. I Game 5 the ext act had bwn shlPPed t0 I Game I Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 Saturday Niitht (Game 6- 7:00 Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 5 Game 7 8:00 Winner Game I vs.

Winner Game 5. such as accidents, etc. The coroner stated that there is some general mis-conception of the public about the duties, and especially with reference to viol- a wholesale house which in turn delivered it to several bakeries. I Some of the extract has been used by the bakeries, Dr. Harvey 1 WILL BE HELD HERE said, but he believed that no one Greater Linton Club to Funeral services will be Wednesday morning for Mrs.

BRAZIL. Jan. ll. J. M.

Barry, age IO, and VV. G. Phillips, age 42, of Pennsylvania, promoters of benefit dances and floor shows, who have been held in custody by Bra- FUNERAL SFUN ICES CONDUCTED TODAY Funeral services were held this Robert Louis Stevenson once jny- fj-um a said that we live not by bread individual Martha Dobson Huff TS who for days while I thl. Sharkey church inuiviuu Martha G. Dobson liutt, ii, who activities were investigated, ri (died Sunday in her home near were turned over to Sheriff Hunt, VI vers bv vvho Da- away of complications ans- ()f i- Mytis, who A a a.

fall suffered a Weeki county Sunday late Sunday night in her home in ic a noon andI taken to onnersville to he Sharkey community. Her death alone but. principally by Mrs. Huff, who was horn a re if men with WHS attributed to cancer, Horn two men art Charged witn wbich she bad been suffering for ent death. Every case attributable to any form of violence, whether it be attended by physicians or not, is always a subject for investigation, that the placing or elimination of responsibility may I be made.

Cases Investigated The following cases were in- vesi gated during 1937: February: Gordon Clark, Arthur Woodall, John VV. Arthur, Arthur Cerin. A business session will be sub- March: Oral Agan, Charley Hen- 1 stituted Thursday evening for the ry Marshall, Victor Montgomery, customary program primarily of! Elmer Robertson, Andrew I entertainment when members and nuder, Nancy Elizabeth Hudson, 'guests of the Greater Linton club I VV. H. Welt rn.

a 1 111 )lu I1" i hold their regular monthly meet-1 April; Lev Anna Buschman, Fred had been harmed because of the extract was diluted so much by the baking All the extract found was destroyed, however. STOLEN VEHICLE RECOVERED HERE Assemble Thursday Evening. term of service instead of the present term of eighteen months. The former term was in effect until 1927 when the conscription law was revised. The imperial conference, the.

fifth held in Japanese history, lasted for one hour. It was one of the most solemn state gatherings in Japanese history. LEN ARE ME Bodies of Men Attended by Forest Rangers, Woodchopper. is good for them. am Tuttle of Linton was in charge of the funeral ser- Saturday night from John Reint jes, has been recovered by members of the Linton City police department.

The automobile, a 1936 model Ford coach, was found on the streets of Linton. Members of the words. It duos seem trait that in oui tho daughter of James sellin tickets for a time we are maki.iK certain.wolds Bnd Dobson. I hrouifhout anrt show iwn at Sand phaaoa carry more weight than mo8t of her life aho made her home nerSville for the benefit of the I in the Indian Springs community. nria.t rnnnersville and in cnaigt nnlicn and Sheriff Belt mixn a i Her husband James Huff, pass-! vices this a1 terne.

rn, and ounai uas in1, ok i I five present for the a I iu, int. a with fading to carry out their part nm ve aldvvel and Deputy Sheriff Lein I Aion, ed year, ago. the conSaet Sheriff Hunt Laid Gr0" are daily Surviving are a son, James ni. milph ten- speaker for the evening, Stab he did not know just how much money the men are charged with getting away with. The men are said to be wanted at Columbus, on 1 Consider the word combination: and Almost we hear this phrase used as if to with whom she made her home, love one were to hate the other.

We Final rites will be held at IO often hear about public Wednesday morning at toward or "makii.it Chapel near Indian Springs. alsn overtures to business Mort of us Wlth the Rev. bd McBr.de floor show know what is generally meant charge. Burial will be in the cemc- these phrases, yet to many they tory adjoining. The Sappenfield fu- tend to set up an antagonism that neral home of Newberry has charge does no really ex ast.

I of the Late Wire Bulletins One need not think very deeply to LSI I FAREN I understand that the interests of la- Miss Wilma spent tabor and is to say, the Jay visiting with her parents. Mr. employer are identical; that in the and Mrs. Thomas Pickard of Ly- long run their interests do coincide ons. Miss Pickard, who is a stu- because they are both parts ut the dent at Indiana university, has body politic.

What hurts one just returned home from spend- hurts the other; what is good for jug the Christmas holidays in one is also good for the other. We Tampa, Flu. need to be wary of such abtrac- 7 7 lions that set up friction between. ISI IS HERE these common interests, lest the arid Mrs. I).

M. Puckett phrase turn into a battle cry. Just returned from an trip in the south last An optimist is one who, desiring I tining visiting with Mrs. Braden By UNITED PRESS promoted a dance and floor show at Kokomo but the date was postponed and the event is to come off Jan. 12.

Disappear At Connersville the dance and floor show was for New Utroy the Democratic lv 1 1 1 Byrnes made new threats on far-reaching strife within BILL IS DISCUSSED WASHINGTON, D. Jan. James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, charged in the senate today the anti-lynching bill will create sectional hatreds and a pea red without providing the entertainers for the floor show or the orchestra for dance. Flu ('onnersville post, however, re- fused to let tile public down and I went ahead with the program and! stood the loss in order not to dis- appoint those who had purchased the majority party as he took up debate on the fifth day of the filibuster against: the lynch bill.

RELIEF ROLLS HIGHER WASHINGTON, D. Jan. Acting Works Progress Administrator Aubrey Williams today advised President tickets at $2 a pair. Roosevelt that between 250,000 and 300,000 persons had The promoters have been selling been added to WPA rolls since Dec. bringing the total on WPA relief to 1.700,000.

ing in the basement of the First Huffman, Kila Fulk, Joe Cobb, June Christian church beginning at 6:30 Bedwell. May: Ben Humphreys, and John is of the utmost Steele. Steve Stalcup, secretary-manager I June: John Holt, Bettie Saylor, of the club, said today, every Charles Wesley Enochs, Sam I. business man have a representa-1 Mrs. Nettie Herring, has.

D. Taylor. principal July: Terhune infant, Charles Stalcup Strosnider, Mary Alice Shoptaw, said, not be announced until 'Jacob Cicero West, William But- The Greater Linton cher. club, it was said, is considering August: Victor Drudgman. important changes in policy, and September: ire st Sarver, Le- these changes will be discussed Ashby, George ollett.

and probably acted upon at the I October: Josepl in Hahn, Hiram, gathering this week. In other regular monthly meetings of the local organization during the few months the lion ry Hunter, Newton Baker, Smith, Phillip Smith. November: Frankie Henry Par ivy. December: David Bullock. Carl Otis Wade Callahan.

BOZEMAN. Jan. IL and forest rangers, first men to reach the flaming wreckage, today attended the bodies of IO men who died when a Northwest Airlines luxury liner crashed during a blizzard yesterday evening in snow-banked Bridger Canyon. One of the dead, A. 1..

Croon- qiust, 47, of Billings, was an official of the airline and a personal friend of President family. He was a former secretary of the Dude Ranchers ation and was well acquainted with James Roosevelt, the son. In a level clearing of the forest, beyond the rugged foot peaks of Bridger mountains, the eastbound plane struck nose first an mpact that drove the furelage into the motors and scattered its fragments in all directions. Instantly, the big Locked Zephyr liner exploded. WELDERS TO PLAY HYMERA QUINTET sions have been in the main for entertainment purposes, but i Motsinger Thursday evening business objec- GPHillip Ison, Rebecca Coens, Ja ti vcs are to be stressed.

I Bibos, Lai Kid in get. During the of the ban-1 quet. Which will be prepared by COLLECTOR FINDS the ladies of the Christian church, vuu'r I ig IX' CT MB eau-e of in rank-, of MISTAKE IN SI AMI uam bv out (jf th(, game with an injured knee, and An error in Lewis, star center on the local jun- The Linton junior high school Welders basketball team Wednesday night will be seeking its tenth victory of the current season when they take the floor against the strong Hymera junior high five in a game to be played in the local high school gymnasium. The starting lineup for the Welders ill be changed somewhat lt) cook an omelet, would break the eggs directly into the skillet. A pessimist is one who may (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) and daughter, Mrs.

Ga-tineau of treet northwest. Bert Brown and his Recreation Orchestra will furnish a varied program of musical and entertainment numbers. All members of the club were urged to make plans bx attend. SYDNEY (U.R) HOSPITAL REPORT Laura Hollai w.ns talc, ii to her home in Bloomfield clay. tickets for a similar event to be given in Brazil at the Eagles hall next Friday' night but officials of the Brazil post of the V.

F. W. said they bad no complaint to promoters .,,,,1 iron. ned, dance would be huavv snows in Wisconsin and Michigan and colder weather, iVht, caring for Mrs IS LINTON VISITOR Mr. and William Pi rile of Cenl- (OLDER WEATHER AHEAD CHICAGO.

Jan. weather, driven by i winds, rolled eastward I rom Nebraska today promising ne(ly of street northwt t. fiat plans for carried out. for most of the north central states. at that address.

the new 2-penny stamps just is- jot high is confined to hts sued to commemorate with the flu. 150th anniversary has been dis- Garland Ladson, coach, has an covered by a stamp collector. (flounced that the have. He points out that the stamps been entered in a grade tourna- show aptain Phillip at Sydney merit which will be played in Vin- Ccve in 1786 wearing epaulettes, cennes on Feb. 5 and Feb.

12. whereas these adornments Thirty-two grade school of not worn as part of the naval southern Indiana anti illinois will uniform until 1795. be entered. 09398879.