4 Quotations Appear in The THE MARION CHRONICLE Snow Tonight, and Thursday. CLOSING MARKET WEATHER Chronicle, Page: 2 (More Much Weathet Colder on Thursday, Pare) 1. It de VOLUME LXIV. No. 257 MARION, CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB.
12, 1936 10 Pares it Today. 80 Columns. PRICE THREE CENTS El 4 SECURITY BILL IS RIPPED APART SEVEN DIE IN. FIRES: MANY ARE INJURED LAKEWOOD, N. Feb.
12. (INS) -Three persons--a man and two women-were burned to death and more than 25 lothers were injured when flames today destroyed the threestory frame Victoria mansion, formerly the 3 Embassy hotel. Eleven: persons were missing. Only one of the bodies was immediately identified, that of Harry Gerlach of York City. The arce bodies were taken to the Westmorgue in Lakewood.
Seven persons were taken to the 'Paul Kimball hospital, seriously burned and otherwise injured. More than 20 others were treated for burns. Most of the guests were believed to have been from New York and to have come here for the birthday holiday." One young woman was killed when she. jumped from a third story window, her nightclothes aflame. his a six-year-old hoy walked onto fire escape and climbed down: to safety.
He was taken to the hospital suffering from cold and exposure. The thermometer was close to zero. The fire, discovered at 7 burned fiercely firemen from Lakewood and nearby communities fought the flames. There, were 65 roomg in hotel. Thirty-five guests occupied rooms at the time the fire broke out.
A DIE IN BLAZE JACKSON, Feb. 12. (A)- Four members of the Paul Poelart family. burned to death when a fire of mysterious origin destroyed their farm home 14 miles from here last night. Poelart, suffering a head wound, was held.
under guard in a hospital here. Word of the tragedy, in which Poclart's mother, seventy-five; "his and two infant children apex: shed, wrought hereby Theodort Alt, a hired man, whose arrival was delayed thy blocked roads. Alt told authorities Poelart sent him for a load of straw late yesterday, recalled him and then sent him to a neighbor's house to call a doctor, sheriff and coroner. Upon his return, Alt said, the home was in a mass of flames. Locked doors prevented his Poelart was in the barn wounded and in a semi-conscious condition, Alt said.
Authorities found the charred bodies after WPA workers had opened the road to the place. They said Poelart's head injury appeared to be a gunshot wound, bu'. might have resulted from an explosion. Physicians doubted he would recover. Efforts to question him were unsuccessful.
COUNTERFEIT CASE PROBED SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. (AP)Three paroled San Quentin convicts were held here today as federal agents and prison 'authorities investigated alleged manufacture of 000 fin bogus $10 bills inside the penitentiary. Secret Service Capt. Thomas B.
Poster said ho planned to file comint3 against the three paroled Convicts, now held. on suspicion of complicity. co covered, Only 50 of Capt. the bills Foster have said. been The reothers, he said, may' be circulation or cached somewhere in the prison.
The suspects are Thomas Bell, forty-two; Dan Wilson, thirty-six, and C. J. Parr, thirty-nine. The money was turned out in the prison's photographic department, Foster said, PEACE BILL IS APPROVED WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.
(INS)Seeking to avoid trouble and delay on the floor, the senate foreign relations committee today unanimous-ly voted to extend the existing temporary neutrality act for another year. As expected, the committee changed the present temporary which would automatically expire Feb. to include a ban on loans and credits. Except for this, the existing law would not be materially Ghanged under the proposal. of the emmittee.
Senate leaders have agreed to give the neutrality legislation right of way for speedy action as soon Chairman McReynolds (D) of Tennessee of the house foreign affairs committee revealed that he intended to introduce. an identical resolution in the house. He said he believed his committee would report the measure favorably without delay and that it would be speedily lapproved by the house. Lincoln Day Brings Out Story MERCER, Feb. (AP) todieorge favorite Hamilton, story 91, of recalled President Lincoln and the days of the war between the states, in which he fought.
1 mules, drawing the president's carriage plunged into a mudhole, Hamilton said, and the army driver released flow of profanity that ceased only when the carriage reached dry ground. "I never heard better, except from one of my cabinet members," Hamilton quoted Lincoln as saying. FORREST KNOX DIES IN CRASH AT CONVERSE CONVERSE, Feb. 12 -Forrest Knox, forty, was killed instantly at 9 a. m.
today when his automobile was struck by a west-bound C. 0. wood train at a grade crossing here. Mr. Knox's car was demolished by the train.
Knox, a resident: of Converse for many years, was in charge of the race horses quartered in the Converse track barns. He is survived by- the widow, Minnie; six children, Jack, Loretta, William, Ada and Mark, Other relatives include his father, John of Amboy, two brothers, Gerald Knox, local postmaster and Sill ver Knox of Washington, D. and two sisters, Mabel and Margaret of Chicago. CLAIM CAPONE 1. MARKED TO DIE SAN FRANCISCO, Feb: 12.
(INS) Al Capone 1 gangster of the United States, has been marked for death by fellow convicts in Alcatraz island. Reports which have filtered through the strict censorship on the federal "devil's island" in the middle of San Francisco Bay state that Capone is daily in fear of being stabbed -that he wears several folds of canvas an inch thick wrapped around his body from his heart to stomach. 1 Warden James A. Johnston refused to affirm or deny the reports, assuming a non-committal attitude as is his custom with reports concerning the life of the "bad men" on "the rock." A According sluringly to the referred reports, to: as Capone "the is grease ball." Among the convicts on Alcatraz are friends of victims of the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago in 1929 when seven "Bugs" Moran gangsters were mowed down by machine gun bullets.
A They have attributed this assassination to Capone's henchmen and coupled with a recent grievance against Capone for his failure to provide money with which they hoped to buy a boat in a fantastic plot of escape, and they have plotted his death, according to the reports. BEDFORD DEATH PROBE REOPENED BY CORONER BEDFORD, Feb. 12. Coroner R. E.
Wynne began another of investigation William Reuter, today into Bedford. the death, Reuter was found shot to death in garage yesterday and the corfirst announced a verdict of suicide. Later he said the investigation would be reopened because he had learned Reuter ejected persons from his garage recently when they were intoxicated. DEMANDS TRUTH NEW YORK, Feb. 12-(P)-Sam- COURT FIGHT WON BY TAXI DA DANCERS Feb.
12-(AP) her taxi-dancing companions. called The city appeared convinced today her who brought the long really. are broke session in to on a the climax. testimony of Weeping, another she its pretty, taxi dancers hard working wives and mothers, witness and declared: rearing families on 10-cents-a-dance "I am suporting two children incomes. dancing.
I go to church every SunThirty-five dance. hall "hostesses" day, I don't smoke nor drink and I marched to the city hall yesterday resent implication that I am in defense of their jobs, With them not as good as any of their daughcame babies, mothers; fathers and ters, as they would have you beother relatives proclaiming the girls lieve." their breadwinners. But the welfare workers were There were tears and occasional quick to offer testimony of another taunts but after four hours the coun- nature. cil declined to rule on a demand of Mrs. Iona Gibson, a former "hostclub women that the dance halls be ess," said "she had resigned two closed as menaces to public morals.
weeks ago because of advances made The dancers returned to their jobs to her by men and because she was unmolested but more closely polic- urged to get patrons for the bar. ed. The dancers said their weekly It was Mrs. Euzelia: McKinley- earnings ranged from $10, to $30. uel S.
Leibowitz, New York criminal lawyer, said today he had agreed to enter the Hauptmann case after a conference with Mrs. Richard Bruno Houptmann, "if Hauptmann would tell the truth." NEW COLD WAVE IS SEEN FOR THURSDAY Rising this afternoon brought Marion and Grant county residents a brief respite from three weeks of frigid weather which has claimed a death toll of 84 and caused more 'than a million dollars in fire losses. At recorded" today mercury was at eight above according to the Indiana General Service thermograph. It continued its upward course this afternoon, after soaring to a 13-degree level at noon today. Additional snow tonight and Thursday and much colder Thursday and Thursday night was the weather bureau's forecast.
Al survey the state's fatalities during the 24 hours revealed that seven persons in Indiana died during that period from causes directly or indirectly attributable to the cold wave. Four lives were. snuffed out instantly at Maynard, when an automobile, the vision of its driver obscured by frosted windows, was struck by a Grand Trunk railroad train. The dead: Garret Vanderhook, fifty-five, father of five; Cornelius Verbeck, forty-eight, Peter Meeter, fifty, and John Kritl All were WPA workers returning from a federal project. Herbert Turner, forty-two, Florence, was injured fatally when his automobile skidded on icy pavements at Vevay.
A heart attack believed have superinduced by the cold was blamed for the death of Robert Blayres, Putnam. county, who was found in his barnyard. George Smith, Goodland, died of exposure after suffering a heart attack induced by the extreme cold. The Methodist Episcopal parsonage at Peru was destroyed by fire, causing a $4,000 loss. Another blizzard swept into the northwest today adding a new layer of snow which already had blocked hundredwof highways and isolated dozens of towns.
In many localities a fuel shortage had become acute, with many cities burning wood and corn. I Two men and six boys were rescued from an island in the Ohio river near Owens-1 boro, where they had been marooned since Thursday. Another ice gorge formed near Paducah, causing an 11-foot rise in the, Ohio river. Nine men were isolated on a work boat there. Three car ferries and three other vessels were held fast in the ice of Lake Michigan near Muskegon, Mich.
An increase in the number of pneumonia and scarlet fever cases was reported in Illinois and Iowa. AIDS RUSHED BY DESTROYER BALBOA, Canal Zone, Feb. 12. (A) -The United States navy destroyer Tatnall raced into the Pacific today, bearing physicians and serum to the training ship California State which appealed for assistance against an outbreak of meningitis. The training ship, bound for this port at the Pacific end of the Panama Canal, was about 1,000 miles al In its call the vessel resea.
ported the first case of meningitis, an inflammation affecting the thembranes of the brain or spinal cord, arose Saturday and the victim died Monday- -the same day 1. on which a second case was reported. The navy destroyer was expected to contact the training ship some time tomorrow. Three physicians from the Gorgas hospital of Balboa were aboard the destroyer, carrying an ample supply of serum. CRASH KILLS 13 Thirteen SOFIA, persons Bulgaria, were Feb.
killed 12-(AP)- today when a passenger train crashed into the rear of a freight train at Asparachuvo, southern Bulgaria, during a blinding snowstorm. Brewery Is Substituted for Capitol LAWRENCE, Feb. 12. -(A)-Editor. Fred Ellsworth had a hunch the picture on the cover of the University of Kangas graduate magazine wasn't the state's first capitol, as he planned it to So, with 250 copies already off; ordered the presses stopped, and discovered the was that of Kansas' first brewery, But magazines cost money.
So Editor Ellsworth sent the 250 "mistakes" to unsuspecting Misouri subscribers. LINCOLN CLUB HEARS TALK BY CAPT. DANCEY Declaring that America faces a crisis, Capt. S. N.
Dancey, author and World War veteran, lauded the faith of Lincoln and the courage of Washington at the annual Lincoln Club banquet held last night at' Hotel Spencer. Amattendance of near-, ly 200 was reported. The speaker painted America as a nation of extremists whose citizens are themselves to blame for the depression. It followed, he said, one of the greatest periods of prosperity in history, and consequently the reaction was that of a deep wound. "As we built up the greatest prosperity in history," he said, "so we created the greatest depression!" Her advocated proper home training and environment as essential to the development of a good citizenry.
Parents must share the responsibility with the schools, he said. Richard' E. Boyce, re-named to head the Lincoln Club, presided. Other officers installed were Hildreth Mullens, Gas City, and Clint Ballenger, Matthews, vice-presidents; Fremont Moore, Richland township, treasurer, and Dragoo Marion secretary. Visiting Lincoln Club officers were Kenneth Ware, Huntington, Fifth district president, and James Fulton, Hartford City, Fifth district Republican chairman.
Music was furnished by Don Bowser's orchestra. Barbara. Jean Jardine, Bobbie Cochran and Janice Gaber, Converse, entertained with tap dancing. KIWANIS CLUB HEARS M'KEE Induction of five new members was a highlight of the weekly meeting of the Marion Kiwanis, club at P. Hotel Mott, Spencer Thomas today.
Regan, were William a N. nors. Stahr, Phil E. Simons O. and Harrold Billy was Con- in charge.
Paul McKee, Hartford City, past governor of Indiana district of Kiwanis, reviewed the objectives of the Kiwanis program and "commended the Marion club on its leadership. He said: "All Kiwanis members may be instruments of good if they determine to put more into the organization than the benefits they derive from it." He introduced Herbert C. Blodglett, also of Hartford City, who spoke briefly on the life of Abraham Lincoln. In praising the Great Emancipator, he said that success is not measured by the heights which are reached but by the obstacles which are overcome. LINCOLN DAY ADDRESS IS PLANNED BY HOOVER, PORTLAND, Feb.
12-The Lincoln Day address of former President Hoover will be broadcast tonight over the network of the National Broadcasting from 9. p. m. until 9:30 p. m.
Central Standard Time. BARRACKS DESTROYED JASPER, Feb. 12- destroyed a barracks at the Conservation Corps camp here day. Camp prevented 'spread of the flames to other barracks. The fire is believed to have started from an overheated stove.
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LINCOLN SPEECHES AROUSE PARTIES WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (AP) Lincoln's birthday brought much political cannonading as President Roosevelt and the great emancipator were compared by the New Deal's friends and contrasted by its foes. Secretary Ickes Mr. Roosevelt was described as "The man who bravely tilts his lance against special, privilege and entrenched To Sen.
Hastings Del.) the president appeared as "This profligate son" who "rushes on in his wild career." The skirmishes within the Republican party livened with the news from Illinois that Sen. and Col. Frank Knox Chicago: publishwould compete in the primary there. They filed their declarations today. Coincidentally Gov.
Alf M. Landon of Kansas, another whose name looms large in Republican councils, was described as favored for president by 19 of the 21 Republican county chairmen in New Jersey. The Republicans devoted today, the 127th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, for the most part to 'attacks on the administration. In a speech prepared for delivery at a luncheon in Wilmington, Sen. Hastings.
declared that at no time in the nation's history, "Not even when war threatened the nation, did ever find so much confusion, 3-4 disorder and uncertainty as exists today." "The condition in Washington is pretty close to chaos," he said. "The administration is. bewildered. My own judgment is that Mr. Roosevelt is on his way out." Emphasizing the constitutional question, Ickes declared Gen, Clellan ran against Lincoln in 1864 on a "Save the Constitution" platform.
Quoting newspaper articles in 11862, the cabinet member said Lincoln had been attacked as a man "Who scuttled the American Constitution, set up a dictatorship, threw the supreme court into the Potomac river and declared al moratorjum of Congress." he hemently. Similar charges expressed," he said, have "More been vemade against President Roosevelt. The southern Democratic governor declared he wished WA man like Abraham Lincoln" were in the White house now. "We can go back to the rugged honesty of Abe. Lincoln," he said, "and it is the only thing on which we.
can depend to save the country. 'Turn To Page! Two! WAY TO CURB COSTS SOUGHT WASHINGTON, Feb. Critics and defenders of present government spending eagerly awaited today the results of a three-way search bf fiscal ledgers ordered by. President, chief Roosevelt. executive, said last night he had directed Daniel Bell, acting budget director, to conduct a triple quest for possible places to curtail spending.
The purpose, he said, was to determine what cuts can be made in appropriations or authorizations that effect the public debt; (2) appropriations affecting next year's budget; (3) authorizations for. government borrowing and lending. What reductions will be announced and what their effect will he on the current campaign arguments between those who condemn Deal spending and those who praise it were questions awaiting an answer. ADOPTS REPORT from Central ADOPTS REPORT WASHINGTON, Feb! 12-(P) The house today adopted a conference report on the $50,000,000 seed and feed loan bill sent the meaCivilian sure to the senate for final al. New Drive Against Catholics Pushed By German Nazis BERLIN, Feb.
-(AP) Charges of collusion between Roman Catholic olics and Communists were heard in Germany today as at least 100 Catholics and Communists were under arrest after simultaneous raids by secret police. Catholics were particularly charged with conspiracy with Communists in the Rhineland, center lof the police roundup. The official organ of Adolf Hitler's black shirt. "guards, Das Schwarze. Korps, issued a sharp challenge today to charges that the Catholic church in Germany was being persecuted.
I The fact that the "Catholic church feels itself menaced and persecuted in national Socialist Germany" can be clearly seen in sermons and pastoral letters, the publication said. In reality, the organ asserted, it was the old story, as "old as the church itself," which Das Schwarze Korps said, always raises a cry of "persecution" whenever its political ambitions were thwarted. The organ took its stand Serial Story Starts Today on Page Five "Cruise of The Chronicle's new serial story, begins today on page five. It is a story of a series of amazing adventures in the tropics. The story opens when Janel Weston sees the picture of the handsome young "sardine.
prince" newspaper. The son of a wealthy fish packer is visiting America on business. From the moment Jane sees that photograph the humdrum existence she has led is changed. Within 24 hours she is aboard a luxurious ocean liner bound for the tropics. Deck Morgan is the author of the story.
SCOUTS HOLD OBSERVANCES Continuing their observance of Boy Scout Week, four troops held meetings last night in which the value of Scouting asl wholesome boyhood activity' was stressed. Older members of the First United Brethern troop last night organized to become instructors for the younger scouts at the regular meeting. Plans for a hamburger fry were made. A hike will be taken Saturday. Parents' night was held I by the Jonesboro troop last night in connection with a meeting of the American Legion.
Forty-six badges were awarded. K. W. Tomlison reported on last year's activities. Motion pictures of Goose Lake camp were shown at a meeting of Troop 7 at the Grace Methodist Episcopal church last night.
Plans for enlarging the member. ship were made last night at a meeting of Troop 9, sponsored by the Anaconda Wire and Cable Co. Nine boys attended. Troop committeemen are Leo Gorman, Virgil Knight, Fred Thomas and Roy Holman. Experiences of his travels will be related by Dr.
C. Vaughn at a. meeting of the St. Paul's Catholic troop at 7:30 p. m.
today, at the Knights of Columbus Home. FINANCIAL EXCHANGES TAKE VACATION TODAY NEW YORK, Feb. 12. major domestic financial exchanges were, closed today in obseryance off Lincoln's birthday. Some commodity markets functioned as usual in some cities as well as all the Canadian and European markets.
GRANT COUNTY HONORS LINCOLN Marion and Grant county today, paid their respects to 'the Great Emancipator whose birthday anniversary was observed by a general suspension of local governmental activities and a number of business. institutions. Banks were not open today, county officials took the day off and the courts did not convene. Several organizations this week invited speakers to discuss the life of Lincoln. In schools special programs.
were given commemorating the achievements of the Civil War President. The following program was given at the Martin Boots junior high school today: "Tribute to Lincoln," Wilson Baker; acrostic, Juanita Gray, Georgia Lee Thompson, O'Neill, Louise Burns, Lolalr SOLONS OPPOSE CONTROL BY STATE Nazi secret police roamed the CathRhineland district, making what informed sources said appeared to be the greatest number of wholesale arrests since, 'scores of nuns! and monks were seized a year ago. WARS ON JEWS SCHWERIN, Chancellor Germany, Adolf Feb. 12. (INS) Hitler pledged Germany to conduct a war to the finish on Jews throughout the world today as he delivered a biting attack against Jewry over the bier of Wilhelni Gutzloff, Nazi agent slain in Switzerland.
1 Hitler accepted what he said he considered a direct challenge from the Jews themselves in the of Gutzloff, killed eight days ago at Davos, Switzerland, by David. Frankfurter, Jewish medical stur dent. 1: A 1 Gutzloff was buried as a tyr to Nazidom with highest honors, Hitler declared he was the first Nazi to fall abroad, and he characterized the Jewish assassin as being "for the first time symbolic and representative" of all anti- ele! ments. A FARM POLICY IS DEFENDED BY WALLACE INDIANAPOLIS, Fell, 12-- (AP) -Declaring the new proposed farm program is "a sincere to meet constitutional limitations set by the supreme court, Secretary Wallace today advanced three reasong for believing the plan would he valid. vine "We believe the supreme court will approve the new legislation," Wallace said at an Indiana farm bu.
reau meeting bere, "if it recognizes any one of three following pro positions: The fact the nation -wide interdependence of all commerce, from the humblest farm to the largest corporation. The extent to which the doctrine of states' rights is being used as the final refuge for anti social corporations. al responsibility for the post- -war agricultural dilemma." "If it was the proper function of the federal government in war time to encdurage farmers to plow up land which should never have been plowed, in order to produce wheat for our allies; if the federal government was justified in encourage ing the mining of our soil supply a European demand which has now disappeared; then it seems to no less the federal government's proper function to the return df that land to grass and trees; make it worth the farmers while to improve the soil's fertility by soil-building crops." Continuing his criticism of the supreme court's AAA decision, Wal'Most of us thought the adjustment, act constitutional when passed. 1: "Some of us, including three justices of the supreme court," he added, "think so still." PROBE OFFER TO FIX' CASE I MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 12 (INS) -Spectacular charges that the two Minneapolis policemen, one of them of high rank, offered to "fix" the Kid Cann $10,000.
were being investigated by the Henfirm which employed nepin county grand jury today. Meyer a Shuldberg, head of a liquor les while his employe was undergoing Cann" Blumenfeld, made the charge a battering cross-examination in hill trial for the machine gun slaying of Walter Liggett, crusading editor and publisher. 1. 4. Two policemen came to his home, Shuldberg declared, and offered to induce- Mrs.
Liggett to change her identification of Cann as the assas. sin if Shuldberg would give them $10,000. Peter S. Nielson, assistant county attorney, said one of the two policemen accused is known to. Kis of.
fice and is "near the The prosecution finished amination of Cann late yesterday and court was adjourned until tot morrow! RITES PLANNED FRIDAY FOR MRS. 'ANDREW WEYLER FAIRMOUNT, Feb. 12. services Mrs. Andrew Weyler, whose body arrived from Pennsylvania today, will be held at 2 p.m.
Friday at the residence, 509 West Second street: Rev. W. E. Sharp, pastor of the Gas City Baptist church, will be in charge, Burial will be in the Park cemetery. PLAN FROLIC TRYOUTS FAIRMOUNT, Feb.
12. Tryouts for the frolic which will be held Feb. 22 and 24 will be conducted Thursday and Friday at the V. F. W.
hall. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb. (INS)-Most of the provisions for a state-centralized administration of social security laws were being ripped out of the administration-proposed bill by the joint legislative committee in executive session (here today. Sen.
Walter Vermillion, Anderson, and Rep. Carl F. Woodard. of Michigan City, members of the committee, were challenging every sentence of the ladministration drafted social security bill which encroached upon the functions of township i trustees. or local officials.
After discussions of the committee disclosed that a majority members favored home rule stration of social security and poor relief, a sub -committee headed by Sen. William G. Hardy, of Evansville, today drafted a compromisel proposal. provided for the boards of childrens' guardians in each of the 92 counties of the state to administer the new laws. Hardy's committeeproposed the children's boards, pointed by the court having juver nile jurisdiction in the locality, over a proposal to have the acts listered by county commissioners who are elective.
Frank G. Thompson, of Bluffton, Democratic majority floor leader in the last session, frequently came to the defense of provisions "of the measure that would provide for strong deliberations, central herd. administration, in the Payment of the local hoard whether the plan of children's guardians or county commissioners! is 'selected will be $300 down per year, it was suggested. Proposals included the creation of a state department of public welfare, with a full-time director who would be. paid not more than $6,000 a year The state department would acti in an informative land supervisory capacity with the county boards in actual charge of all phases of social The committee members objected to the presence! of trained federal and state social welfare workers in communities saying that- the people wanted no "Experts with painted finger nails" delving into local re.
lief. Through the session, Ea P. Brennan, director of budget was appearing before the legislative committee and pressing for inclusion of provisions of the originally drafted bill calling for strong central control. The committee declined today consider abolishing the state mency commission or taking" over under welfare the functions that county commissioners exercise in administering infirmaries. NEW LEAGUE IS FORECAST LIE PICKETS SLOW.
WORK AT PLANT WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. "league of American nations' was, described by some informed, observers today a possible result of: a 'new Pan-American conference now under discussion. I. They believed its aim might be closen cooperation hy the 21 North and South American republics ini world affairs as welll as western hemisphere questions.
President Roosevelt! announced yesterday that he had broached the subject of 'a conference in personal letters to heads of all Latin-American governments. He declined to reveal the letters' contents until they reached their destinations. But learned they were formal as tol the nations! attitudes toward conference for perfecting the peace machinery of all the Americas. Carter, Marie Pennington and Marie Brunt; dialogue, "Jack's Dilemma," Robert Heavilin and Marleah Conway; Lincoln's Gettysburg address, Betty Shaw; play, A Present for Lincoln," Georgia Lee Thompson, Jack Druckemiller, Theron Owen, Ronald Gipson and Richard. Lester; reading, 10 Captain, My Captain," Leon Pegdon.
Martin Boots junior high school will combine its tributes to Lincoln and Washington in a program there next week. Sophom*ores of Marion high school will lead in the observance of Lincoln's birthday anniversary lat party to be given at 7:30 4. m. today in the high school gymnasium. a floor show and the selection of a "sophom*ore sweetheart" (Please Turn To Page TWO BLOOMINGTON, Feb.
12. (P) -Pickets of a striking I glass workers' union surrounded the Nurre branch plant today and defying a police guard, prevented all but a score of employes from entering the factory, A The pickets halted automobiles at the plant entrance and induced many of the employes to turn back. A few, under police protection, got through the lines. 13 Some minor encounters occurred but aside from a few bruises! there were no Police Chief Robert Eller reported. More trouble was anticipated later in the day as mine workers from nearby coal fields have indicated they, wilt join the bickets.
In. the event the situation beyond the control of the :10 policemen, a request for militia laid will be made Eller intimated..
