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2 31 .79 and to la, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934 WATER1.00 DAILY COURIER, WATERLOO. IOWA T. C. Debaters to Ames NEW SYSTEM OF ARGUMENT WILL BE INAUGURATED Eight Students from Cedar Falls, Eight from Ames in First lowa Trial. (Courier Special Service) Falls, Ia.

-Eight students Cedar from Teachers college will participate in the first congressional Thurstype debating meeting in Iowa Eight Iowa State college deday. Ames will share the exbaters at Dr. F. W. Lambertson, perience.

assistant professor of public speakaccompany his students to ing, will Ames. "Naval Preparedness" is the topic will meet to disall representatives during the morning session. In cuss they will be divided the afternoon, into sub-groups, which will pick out the exact phases of the question to be discussed. Teachers college is alIowa State for this type of deready preparing bate to be introduced on the campus here during the fall term. Students chosen from Dr.

Lamspeaking classes who bertson's public will participate Ross Randall, Julian Colby, Edwin Wenner Waterloo; and Edward Corton, all of Martin, Colfax; Ruth RobinRobert Kensett; Edgar Wassam, Hudson, son: and Ann Peterson, Elkhorn. Harry Bruhn Will Represent Rath's in S. C. and Georgia (Courier Special service) Cedar Falls, Ia. -Harry Bruhn, for a number of years partner in Bruhn Bros, Meat Market, has disof his interest in the busiposed ness to brother Clarence.

Mr. 'and Mrs. Harry Bruhn will Jeave next week for South Carolina where they will make their home. Mr. Bruhn has accepted a position with Rath Packing company and will be its representative in South and North Carolina and Georgia.

Pastor's Brother to Deliver Lectures at Bethlehem Church (Courier Special Service) Cedar Falls--Rev. Svend Jorgensen, Detroit, will speak Sunday morning and evening at Bethlehem Danish Lutheran church. Monday evening he will lecture in Danish the church gymnasium. Rev. in while here, will visit Mr.

Jorgensen, in the home of his brother, Rev. Ottar Jorgensen, 1410 Main street, pastor of Bethlehem church. Cedar Falls Gun Club Plans Shoot for Memorial Day (Courier Special Service) Cedar Falls, -The board of directors of Cedar Falls Gun club Tuesday evening completed plans for classified shoot to be held May 30. All entrants will be classified according to skill. Shooters are invited to participate whether they are members of a gun club or not.

Phi Sigma Phi Gets Scholarship Award (Courier Special Service) Cedar Falls--Phi Sigma Phi sororfty at Iowa State Teachers college won the scholarship trophy, "Lady Victory," the highest award of three presented at the sorority tea in the college Commons Tuesday afternoon. Pi Tau Phi sorority won the second place plaque. The V. O. V.

Sigma Phi, whose pledges ranked first in scholarship among sorority neophites, won the silver loving cup for pledges, The winners of the "Lady Victory" statuette had a grade point average of 2.7, and the second place winners an average of 2.6. The difference between the average of the winners and that of those in seventh place was only 0.25 grade points. Theta Gamma Nu pledges ranked second with 2.47. The winners had an average of 2.48 grade points. 'Cedar Falls High Plans Graduation (Courier Special 8ervicel Cedar Falls, -Cedar Palls high school, Wednesday, announced its program of activities for the remainder of the school year which closes June 1.

The commencement calendar ineludes the senior class play which will be presented May 10; the boys physical demonstration May 11; and an operetta May 24. Graduation week will begin with the junior -senior banquet May 25, followed by the class exercises Tues. day afternoon, May 29, at p. m. and the graduating exercises May The manual arts exhibit will be on Monday, May 28.

LICENSED TO WED. Kenneth Simpson, Cedar Falls .23 Mabel Crain, Riceville 21 Lester 'E, Hillard, Janesville 22 Grace Bannister, Janesville 19 BUILDING PERMITS. Wade H. Roberts, garage, 1831 Locke, $100. H.

A. Greifnow, garage, 222 Quincy, 8200. TEMPERATURES. Maximum Tuesday (official. 84 Minimum Tuesday night (official) 54 Wednesday, 7 a.

m. (official 60 Wednesday, 11 m. (downtown) Wednesday 3 p. m. 84 COMMITTEE PUTS TARIFF BILL THRU Senate Amendment Added to Provide Hearings for Industries.

Washington, D. )-The senate finance committee Wednesday approved the reciprocal tariff bill with an amendment providing hearings for affected industries before any tariff reductions are put in force. The measure, to empower the president to negotiate trade agreements with other nations in an effort to promote prosperity, already has been passed house. The committee gave speedy indorsement to the administration's plan without a record vote. The amendment providing for hearings, which President Roosevelt favors, also was accepted without a roll call.

Buchanan Farm Woman Trampled by Cow Is Dead (Courier Special Service) Independence, C. E. Meythaler, 59, died about noon Wednesday in People's hospital here from injuries received when she was knocked down and trampled by a cow at her farm home south of here evening. Monday were no witnesses to the accident. the She was barnyard found by her uncon- husin band and examination by a cian indicated internal injuries.

The first six ribs on the left side were broken, some in pieces, injuring the lung tissue, and both clavicle bones were fractured. She also was wounded at the base of the skull. Imprints of the animal's hoofs were clear, showing it had tramped on her after she was knocked down, All the cows in the herd on the farm were regarded as gentle. Mrs. Meythaler was a daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. H. Warburton, prominent in an early day in this section, She was born Feb. 2, 1875, in Sumner township, south of here, and always resided in that vicinity.

Her marriage to Mr. Meythaler took place Feb. 18, 1899. He survives, with two sons and two daughters, Irvin, Omaha, William and Elizabeth, and Mrs. Lamotte Masteller, Independence.

Surviving also are her father, a brother, Dr. C. W. Warburton, Washington, sister, Mrs. Aven Harter, Independence, and three grandchildren, State University Made $122,065 on $3,505,659 Income Des Moines-(P)-A report made public here by state checkers shows that the total expenditures of the State University of Iowa for fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, were $3,383,593.62, and that the university finished the year with $122,065.48 in excess income.

The report, turned over to State Auditor Storms by W. D. Worden, supervisor of state audits, also shows an increase in the net income of the University hospital amounting to $76,362.82. During the previous fiscal year the hospital operated at a defcit of $15,067.31, the report said. No discrepancies were shown in the pay roll records of the institution, Worden said in the The endowment fund of the versity at the end of the 1933 fiscal year was $96,961.54 less than at the end of the preceding fiscal year, the report showed.

Total revenue derived by the university from all sources during the 1933 year was $3,505,659.10, according to the report. Incumbents Win in So. Dakota Primary Pierre, S. -Democratic incumbents of state offices and congressional seats appeared to be renominated almost without exception Wednesday, with more than onehalf of the state's precincts reported Gov. Tom Berry led Lieut.

Gov. H. A. Ustrud for renomination on the Democratic ticket, with a pluralof about three to one. William C.

Allen, Aberdeen farm paper publisher, seemed assured of the Republican nomination for governor in a field of four men. The vote thruout the state was light. Trotzky Permitted to Stay in France -Leon Trotzky, refused entrance by every country in Europe and three of America, will be allowed to stay in France, the government decided Wednesday. However, he will be restricted to a definite atea and must promise to refrain from politics, including his "fourth Internationale" project. Trotzky will be forbidden all visitors.

cow WAR FIGURE 1S DEAD AT BURLINGTON Burlington. Ia. (INS) Saint Vaughn, widely-known farmer who achieved prominence in the southeastern Iowa "cow war" several years ago, was dead Wednesday of heart disease. He was 70 years of age. BAD MAN GONE.

of Tucker Prison Farm, Harback, western Kansas was perado under a sentence for bank robbery murder, was slain in a break for freedom here day. MANY DOGS UNLICENSED. There are more than 1.200 Black county dogs yet unlicensed 1934. according to Miss Anna treasurer. Dog taxes are paid at the treasurer's office.

0 0 0 000 FUNERAL. FRIDAY IN WATERLOO FOR VICTIM OF CRASH Condition of Mrs. Boughton, Hurt in Wilmette Auto Accident, Critical. Funeral services for Elmer E. Higley, 32, Evanston, policeman and son-in-law of Mr.

and Mrs. G. W. Nauman, 136 Gates street, Waterloo, who died early Tuesday morning from injuries received in an automobile collision at midnight Monday, will be conducted at the Nauman home Friday at 2:30 p. m.

by Rev. Thomas R. Niven, pastor of First Presbyterian church. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Mrs.

Frank Boughton, Evanston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Maynard, 828 Fourth street west, was reported in critical condition in an Evanston hospital as a result of injuries received in the same accident.

She had been a guest in the Higley home Monday evening at bridge party and being driven by Higley to her home, 802 Ingleside place, at the time the accident. Cars Meet Head-On. None of the survivors were able to tell how the crash happened but Evanston police believe that Higley was driving south on Skokie boulevard when his machine was struck head on by an auto containing two privates from Fort Sheridan, Clyde Williams, 30, and Carl Holmes, 35. The crash took place at Skokie boulevard and Wilmette avenue, Wilmette. Mrs.

Boughton was reported to have fractures of both legs and one arm and injuries head. The two soldiers also suffered fractured arms and legs and were in the hospital. An inquest was to be held at Evanston Wednesday. Probation Officer. Higley was juvenile and probation officer for the Evanston department and a former director of the city's safety bureau.

He was the son of the late Dr. Elmer E. Higley, pastor of Methodist Episcopal churches at Des Moines and Ames, and Mrs. Higley, Centerville, Pa. It was during Dr.

Higley's stay at Ames that the Methodist church was built on the campus of Iowa State college. He died four the Methodist Park Ridge, years ago while serving, as pastor of Ill. Born in Colorado. Higley was born March 13, 1902, at Denver, Colo. He was a graduate of Morgan Park Military academy, Morgan Park, and had attended Northwestern university, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

He married Josephine Dec. 27. 1924, and they had resided in Evanston for the last seven years. Surviving besides his widow two children, James and Nancy, and mother, are two sisters, Mrs. his Russell Noveety.

Evanston, and Lois, Ames. Streamline Zephyr Hits Truck; Dents Show on Front End Detroit, -(P)-Tangled wreckage of a motor along the right of way, and two slight dents on the front of the "Burlington Zephyr" supplied evidence Wednesday of what happens when one of the new, streamlined trains finds an automobile on the track. The accident happened near Essex, as the train, of stainless steel and powered with a Diesel engine, was being brought to Detroit for exhibition. The driver of the automobile truck, Thomas Wright, jumped to safety. The train was approaching Essex 60 miles an hour, but slowed 40 about 1,000 feet east of the staat there.

"Persons aboard the "Zephyr" reported they were not aware of the crash except as the wheels of the train jolted slightly on passing over some fragments of the demolished motor truck. SUSPENDS SENTENCES OF ALIENS TO BE DEPORTED Des Moines--(P)-Suspension of sentences for deportation were approved Wednesday by Gov. Clyde Herring in the cases of a dozen alien inmates of state penal institutions. The federal labor department in Washington will be notified of the action and will arrange to deport the men, the governor said. The suspensions will be in effect only as long as the men stay out of the country.

MORE THAN 200 AT CHURCH CONFERENCE Cedar Rapids, than 200 are attending the ninety-fifth annual meeting here Wednesday and Thursday of the Congregational church conference of Iowa. Principal speaker at the sessions is Dr. Albert W. Palmer, president of Chicago theological seminary. HEAD OF NOTRE DAME DYING AT SOUTH BEND South Bend.

Ind. (U.P.) Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, C. president of Notre Dame university and one of the leading Catholic educators the civilized world, near death in St.

Joseph's hospital here Wednesday. Last rites of the church were administered Tuesday. WELL DRILLING An abundant supply of good, pure, fresh deep well waterfree from surface contaminationis a real asset. Estimates cheerfully given. Waterloo Drilling Company 412 Chestnut Waterloo, la.

Phone 240, Res. Phone 384-J. Hermann Miller Honored at Rites Life Marked by Courage, Intelligence, Kindness, Says Minister. Tribute to the national life, the community life and the home life of the late Hermann Miller was paid by Dr. J.

Richmond Morgan, pastor of First Congregational church, in his sermon Wednesday afternoon at funeral services in the church for the deceased vice president of the Iowa Fire Insurance company. The church was crowded with fellow citizens and friends of Mr. Miller. Dr. Morgan based his eulogy on a text from Isaiah, "A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place." "Fulfilled Vision of a Man." are here to pay a tribute of affection to the memory of a man who in a peculiar sense fulfilled Isaiah's lofty vision of a man," said Dr.

Morgan. "We see him as a man who lived such a quality of life that it gave character, regnant and august, to everything he touched. "There was a note of romance and adventure about him, which is typical of the average American at his best. He represented something deep in our American character in that early in life he looked beyond the limits of his birthplace, was courageous enough to uproot himself from his native surroundings in Germany and adventurous enough to launch out into a new land, and intelligent enough to adjust himself to it. In his attitude to his national life, Mr.

Miller was typical of the best in our American citizenship. Protest Against Ugly. "The same lofty spirit expressed itself in his life in the community. A dump on the riverside is now a lovely park that bears his name, and as often as we pass it his spirit will shout in protest against the ugly, sordid and unclean. "His personal life gave him distinction that raised him above the level, He was clever in saying not the brilliant word, but the kind word." Mrs.

Arden Akers, all of Mrs. Marie Earlywine and Myalleg Junction, attended the rites. The body was taken to Reinbeck for burial in the family lot. Michigan Battling 100 Forest Blazes Lansing, and coo workers Wednesday battled more than 100 forest fires in three districts in peninsula with the flames thider control. The most serious conflagration was us near Prudenville.

Fires in the Newaygo, Traverse City and Baldwin districts were smouldering after being checked. BRIDGE CANCELLATION DECISION DUE TUESDAY Ames, of the state highway commission on requested cancellation a $165.000 contract for erection of a bridge at Des Moines, will be next Tuesing on proposed meanceliation, was day at its regular hearheld at the request Moines labor and Gov. Clyde L. Herring, groups, was charged that the Wisconsin Bridge Iron Milwaukee, had paid less than the NRA minimum wage scales for this area in carrying out its contract to erect the bridge. AWARD ROAD SURFACING JOB ALLISON TO GREENE Ames, state highway commission announced the awarding of 14 bituminous road surfacing projects, the bids for which were received in April, The projects total 115.9 miles in 12 counties at a cost of $329,064.20.

The awards include Butler, 11 miles No. 14, Allison to Greene, Koss Construction company, Des Moines, complete, $35,135. EAST BAND WILL PLAY AT 8:30 A. M. THURSDAY Final rehearsal of maneuvers of band before entering the state music contest at City Saturday afternoon may be viewed at the East High school athletic field Thursday at 8:30 a.

Herbert Goodwin, director, announced. The public is invited to attend. Unwritten Law Does Not Cover Biting of Nose Cleophus Bryant, 22, Negro, 251 Jackson street, pleaded the unwritten law Wednesday in municipal court when arraigned on a charge of assault and battery; but the decision of Judge George J. Sager, who gave him his choice between a $10 fine and three days in jail, indicated that the unwritten law does not justify biting out a piece of a man's nose, Bryant said he sought out William Thomas, Negro, after the latter had repeatedly paid unwelcome attentions to Bryant's wife. In the ensuing fight it was a case of bite or get bit, Bryant said.

Thomas failed to appear in court. Grover Howard, 28, Negro, Bates street, charged with assault and battery for beating his wife, denied that it was a stick with which he beat her. "It wasn't no stick, it was switch," he told Judge Sager. The explanation netted him 15 days in the county jail or $50 and costs. Dr.

Hemsworth President Iowa Examiners Dr. C. Hemsworth, 415 Columbia circle, Waterloo, Wednesday at Cedar Rapids was elected chairman of the Iowa state board of dental examiners. He succeeds Dr. H.

D. Coy, Hamburg, who will retire following the May 28 meeting of the board at Iowa City, Dr. F. B. Whinery, Iowa City, was elected vice president and Dr.

Hardy F. Pool, Mason City, reelected secretary. Dr. John J. Booth, Marion, continues on the board.

Dr. Erling Thoen, member of the University of Iowa dental faculty. Wednesday was chosen presidentelect of the Iowa State Dental society at its convention at Cedar Rapids. Dr. Roy S.

Sommers, Des Moines, will be installed as president Thursday. Tornado in India Kills 20 Persons Calcutta, India-(P)-Twenty persons were killed Wednesday when a tornado struck the town of Sylhet in the province of Assam. Hundreds were injured. Many were reported missing. The town, which has a population of.

14,000, is the capital of district of the same name, in the northeastern part of India. ENDS LIFE ON GRAVE OF WIFE WHO DIED JAN. 18 Des Moines- -Levert Aulgur, 55, Des Moines, died in a hospital Wednesday after he had taken poison and shot himself in the chest. Aulgur, despondent since wife's death Jan. 18, took the poison and fired the shot as he slumped over her grave in Glendale cemetery.

Beside the grave he left a note saying his daughter, Mrs. Amelia Harvey, should be called. RAIN FALLS IN NORTH DAKOTA, MINNESOTA St. Paul, drenched the northwestern corner of Minnesota and scattered sections of North Dakota Tuesday night and early Wednesday, ending four weeks Acting as an effective deterrent to threatening brush and forest fires, the precipitation totaled 1.04 inches at Crookston and one inch at Bemidji, the two points reporting the greatest fall. MT.

AUBURN SENIORS TOUR COURIER PLANT Eleven members of the senior class of Mt. Auburn high school toured the Waterloo Daily Courier Tuesday afternoon. The group charge pianin of Superintendent Engleman and Mrs. Harley Greenwalt. NOMINATION PAPERS FILED FOR BURR TOWNE Nomination papers for Burr C.

Towne, assistant county attorney who is seeking the Republican nominacounty attorney, were filed Wednesday afternoon with the county auditor. They bore more than 1,500 signatures. AT DENTAL CONVENTION. Dr. Cecil R.

Bruggeman, 2114 Fourth street east, left Wednesday to attend the Iowa State Dental society's annual convention, which is in progress at His brother, Dr. Carl F. Bruggeman, of the University of Iowa, will give a clinic on orthodontia at the convention Thursday morning. Reports on Wirt Bear Beliefs that Some Lying Done (Continued) T. C.

Mother's Day Events Feature Huge Choruses (Courier Special Service! Cedar Falls, singing becomes mass singing at the Jocal muMay 11, of those festivanderd the Fullerton choir plan of music instruction, the tem used in Iowa and eight other states and recognized internationally. C. A. Fullerton, head of the music department at Iowa State Teachers college, has spent 21 years developing this plan, using the rural schools of Iowa as his laboratory, and their pupils and tenchers principal equipment, Fifteen hundred Black Hawk county singers trained under this plan will join in a festival at the Iowa State Teachers college AS the first event on the college Mother's day weekend celebration. the sixth grade pupils in the county, approximately 600 in number, and 300 rural school students, all trained under the choir plan, will demonstrate its efficiency when with only one short rehearsal together they all join in great chorus.

one, addition to the programs presented by the rural and sixth grade chorus, there will be a concert by Teachers college band, under the direction of Myron Russell. In the evening the six college glee clubs will combine with 10 high school glee clubs in Black Hawk county after individual selections have been completed, and the festival will conclude with singing by all clubs and the audience. Geo. Tubbs, Greene Farmer, Found Dead on Top of Hayrack (Courier Special Service) Greene, Tubbs, 64, farmer who resided one mile north of here, was found dead at noon Tuesday on top of a load of heart hay, attack. apparently the victim of a He was found by a passing motorist, Toby Kyle, Greene, on the Powersville road, near Flood creek bridge.

The horses had turned into the driveway of a farm formerly operated by Tubbs and his brothers, and had stopped there when a wheel of the wagon caught against a gate post. Tubbs was returning from a neighbor's, William Shafer, with the hay. Tubbs was born Dec. 12, 1869 at Delhi, Ia. He lived for a time at Mason City, but had spent most of the latter part of his life in this vicinity.

His was the fourth death in the family within about 13 months. A brother, Elmer, died in March, 1933; a sister, Mrs. Oscar Perry, last September, and another brother, Elijah, Feb. 28. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.

J. G. Fleek, Cedar Rapids; Mrs. Peter Wilson, Bennezette township, county, and Mrs. John Moorehouse, Greene, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be Thursday afternoon from the Rembold funeral home here. Grundy Youth Hurt When Wind Upsets Wagonload of Hay (Courier Special Service) Grundy Center -Everett Rogers, 22, working on the Eldon Hasbrouck farm south of town, was injured Tuesday afternoon when a strong wind upset a wagonload of hay on which he was riding two miles west of Grundy Center. He suffered a broken right shoulder and painful jaw and head injuries. He was taken to the local hospital where attendants reported he was resting comfortably Tuesday night. Father Coughlin to Address Farm Holiday Meeting E.

Coughlin of the Church of the Des Moines- The Rev. Charles Little Flower in Royal Oak, will address the National Farmers Holiday association convention here Thursday, the Holiday office announced Tuesday night. Milo Reno, national president, and Governor Langer of North Dakota, also will address the gathering. Delegates from 26 states will attend the convention, Holiday officials predicted. Slips on Soap and Slides Out Window Gary, -(P) -The next time Mrs.

Beulah Hopkins takes a bath she'll lock the bathroom window. Mrs. Hopkins went into bathdisrobed, and turned the water room, the tub. Suddenly her husband heard a scream. He dashed into the bathroom and hir wife was gone.

He peered out the open window. His wite had fallen three stories and was atop a sand pile on the ground. At the Gary hospital Tuesday, Mrs. Hopkins explained that she stepped on a plece of soap and skidded right out the window. Her only injury WAS a wrenched back.

GRUNDY MAN'S AUTO DESTROYED BY FIRE (Courier Special Service) Grundy Center, Ia. -An automobile belonging Fred Greenfield was destroyed by fire late Tuesday afternoon near Fern. The automobile was being driven by Jack McIntyre, who had borrowed the car make a business trip to Fern. McIntyre stated that as he was driving along he noticed smoke coming from underneath the body and stopped the car but before he could do anything the car was a mass of flames and was totally destroyed. The car, a 1930 model coupe, was not insured.

HERE FOR YAGLA FUNERAL. day for the funeral of Mrs. Philip Yagia were Mr. and Mrs. W.

H. Critchfield, Winona, Mrs. Hawk George H. Jarvis, Clinton. Mrs.

for Charles and King. Buffalo. Wal- Decker. ter Wallace Gibson, Aurora, Ill. now MRS.

PHEBE E. PARSONS. Mrs. Phebe E. Parsons, 83, died at 8 a.

m. Wednesday at the home of her niece, Mrs. Charles W. Cotton, 505 Oak avenue, with whom had made her home since the death of her husband, J. A.

Parsons, Dec. 25, 1910. Phebe E. Reed was born, March 17, 1851, at Utica, the daughter of Wesley and Katherine Reed. While a small child she came west with her parents to Illinois and then by OX team to a farm in Black Hawk county, a mile east of the present site of Dewar.

arrived here in the early '50's. "Here Miss Reed lived the pioneer life of the western frontier. She attended school in 8 neighboring farmhouse. She was married to J. A.

Parsons in Waterloo in 1870. Her husband was a carpenter and contractor in Waterloo and later established a coal business, Mrs. Parsons was a member and regular attendant of Grace Methodist Episcopal church for many years. She was a member of the Home and Foreign Missionary 50- ciety and the Outlook Sunday school class. She is survived by a brother, Wesley Reed, Washington state; sister, Mrs.

John W. Heiple, 610 Vinton street, and 11 nephews and nieces. The nephews and nieces living in Waterloo are Mrs. Cotton; Dr. Harold Heiple, 610 Vinton street; Mrs.

George, Wood, 306 Park road; George 1012 Seventh street west; Mrs. Bertha Harmon, Jefferson street, and Mrs. Clara Williams, 515 Longfellow avenue. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m.

Friday at the Kearns chapel by Rev. H. C. Travis, pastor of Grace M. E.

church, with burial in the family lot in Fairview cemetery. CHARLES LESTER PICKENS. DEATHS Charles Lester Pickens, 46, 716 Indiana street, patrolman on the Waterloo police force, died Tuesday at 11:05 p. m. at Rochester, where he had been in a hospital since April 19.

Death was caused by pneumonia following a hernia operation. Several months ago he had an operation on his gall bladder. Pickens had been a member of the police department since Dec. 7, 1921. He was born July 6, 1887, at Kellogg, and resided there and at Newton.

Ia. He also lived for four years at Philadelphia, where he was a calker in a shipyard. He married Ila Gorkow at Canton, S. Aug. 6, 1917.

They have lived in Waterloo since 1920. Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Barbara and Lucille, and one son, Charles, all at home, and mother, Mrs. L. E. Simpson, Newton.

The body was brought to the O'Keefe Towne funeral home here. Funeral services will be in Immanuel Lutheran church. The time has not been set. MRS, GRACE W. FRIEND.

Mrs. Grace W. Friend, 70, 730 Park avenue west, died Tuesday at 6:30 m. at a Waterloo hospital, of carp. cinoma.

She had been seriously ill since January. Mrs. Friend had been a resident of Waterloo since 1896 and had been president of the Presbyterian Hospital Women's auxiliary for a number of years. Her husband, Frank E. Friend, who died here Feb.

15. 1900, was a Waterloo lumber dealer and was secretary and manager of the NeelyBryant Lumber company. Grace W. Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Samuel Wilson, was born at Sedgwick, Jan. 20, 1864. She was married to Frank E. Friend, July 23, 1890. They lived for a short time at Anamosa, moving Waterloo in 1896.

Surviving are one son, Wilson B. Friend, Harlan, one daughter, Catherine Friend, living at home; three sisters, Mrs. H. F. Echternocht, Marshalltown, Miss Marian Wilson, Sedgwick, and Mrs.

Henry Jukes, Medford, and one brother, William H. Wilson, Sedgwick. Burial will be at Anamosa. The family requests no flowers. The body was taken to the O'Keefe Towne funeral 1 home.

MRS. RAY WHITE. Mrs. Ray White, 25, 211 Oneida street, died at 10:40 p. m.

Tuesday at the sanitarium at Oakdale, of tuberculosis. She had been at the sanitarium for two months. Katherine Muzzetta Carpenter was born Jan. 25, 1909, in Waterloo, the daughter of William and Katie CarShe was married Aug. 24, penter.n Waterloo.

Surviving besides her husband are two daughters, Lavonia and Lorrine: four brothers, Grant, William and Fred Carpenter, all of Waterloo, and Clifford Carpenter, Buffalo, N. Mrs. Jeanette Crawford, Waterloo. Funeral services will be Friday afternoon at the Kearns chapel. Sabelli and Pond Plan Hop Thursday on N.Y.-Rome Flight New -Cesare Sabelli announced Wednesday an intention to take off Thursday at 9 a.

m. on a nonstop New Yorkto-Rome flight with Capt. George R. Pond. The flight has been postponed from time to time since last August.

The two men plan to take off from Moyd Bennett field in a Bellanca monoplane, the Leonardo da Vinci. FRECHETTE GIRL PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGE OF HARBORING OUTLAW St. Paul, a courtroom that fairly bristled with machine guns behind which watched a score of grim-faced federal agents and deputy marshals, Evelyn Prechette, dark- eyed belle of the Menominee Indian reservation. Wednesday pleaded not guilty to charge of harboring John Dillinger, America's public enemy No. 1.

Evelyn was then led back to her jail cell. said by any of them was one sentence by one person. XXX "The majority members of the committee in accepting the testimony of these six witnesses and denouncing the testimony of Dr. Wirt disclosed their determination in this proceeding to protect and exonerate those who were not in sympathy with traditional American government under the constitution." Says Howe Wants War. The majority, referring to Doctor Wirt's report of a conversation with William I.

Westervelt about Frederick C. Howe, farm administration consumers' counsel, held that the talk could not have figured in Doctor Wirt's original assertion. The reason given was that Doctor Wirt talked with Westervelt in March and that the manuscript which started the investigation was dated March 17. But McGugin said but one conclusion could be drawn from the majority members' refusal to summon Howe and Westerville. "That conclusion," he said, "is they were fearful or believed that the complete truth of this statement would be established, and zen of the land would was having been established, every.

citithe purpose Frederick Howe, consumers' of AAA, to retard recovery for the purpose of bringing about a revolution." Turner Proposes to Cut Tax Burden to Half 1931 Load Des -Proposing to cut the tax burden of Iowa to just half of what it was in 1931, former Gov. Dan W. Turner, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, outlined a three-point program here Wednesday, elected which to he office. proposed to inThe three bulwarks of Turner's plan are: Reduction of government expenses by $10,000,000. Raising of five to 10 million dollars by equalizing assessments, particularly on public utilities and other large, Collection properties, of five to 10 million dollars thru a net replacement income tax.

Turner said, "We can reduce taxes 10 million dollars by consolidation of departments and elimination of needless expenses." "Wefare Striker" Had $51.95 and 15 Orders for Butter Sioux City, -Six men were held in jail here Wednesday without bail on open charges following May day disorders which resulted in the temporary closing of the family welfare bureau. A group of 300 strikers protesting relief project wages staged a demonstration in front of the Social Agencies building here, One man arrested front of the building after a fist fight was found to have $51.95 in cash, two watches and welfare bureau orders for 15 pounds of butter and one pound of lard in his pockets. Others were arrested in the courthouse by police. Bishop Cannon to Fight Ouster Move Jackson, James M. Cannon, was on trial again Wednesday--fighting ouster from his office--as friends and foes at the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, mapped battle plans.

Friends rallied to his support AS soon as word spread that the committee on episcopacy had recommended, by a vote of 43 to 28, that he be superannuated. The bishop, in a personal statement published April 13 in the Christian Advocate, official organ of the church, anticipated the ouster attempt, and announced his intention to fight it, FOSHAY AND HENLEY TO GO TO PRISON FRIDAY St. Paul, B. Foshay and Henry H. Henley, former president and vice president, respectively, of the defunct Foshay utilities empire, are to leave St.

Paul for Leavenworth penitentiary Friday, Bernard Anderson, U. marshal here, announced, The two, each under a 15-year sentence for using the mails to defraud in connection with the collapse of the Foshay enterprise, are in the Ramsey county jail here, NO MORE FRAZZLED NERVES I WAS ALWAYS HAVING FRAZZLED NERVES. A FRIEND SAID, "TRY CAMELS." SO I DID. NOW I ENJOY SMOKING MORE, AND MY NERVES ARE O.KI CAMEL'S COSTLIER TOBACCOS YOU CAN SMOKE THEM BECAUSE THEY NEVER GET ON YOUR NERVES NEVER TIRE YOUR TASTE.

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