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SEN. WATSON OPENLY SPLITS WITH COOLIDGE Indiana Senator Belittles ’ ( ooperative Marketing Plan MMES that HE IS seeking PRESIDENCY Mt. Vernon, 111., Aug. 12.— ’(United Press) — Addressing ' 20 000 farmers here today. Senator James E. Watson openly split with President Coolidge O n the agricultural problem in outlining the farm relief poliI cies upon which he seeks reWatson belittled the administration’s cooperative marketing election in Indiana this fall, scheme as impossible. He charged teiasury Secretary Mellon with making “an erroneous conclusion" in his "celebrated letter” which is held respoivible for defeat of the McNaiy farm bill In the last I' congress. Watson pleaded for the nation to lift agriCulture to a parity with other, labor and industry by application of the protective tariff and the adoption of supplemental legislation. like the McNary bill, to make i it effective. Denies Presidential Aspirations Disclaiming presidential aspirations j Watson denied politics prompted his I stand. 1 am not a candidate for president I nid shall not be,” he said. ■ -sdM, l therefore, anything 1 shall say on this occasion cannot be ascribed to me as an effort on my part to pro- i mote personal interest or gratify selfish ambition. “Our problem is to lift agriculture up and not pull industry down. Abrogation of tariff schedules would do (tOVTIMEI) ON PAGE FOl HI o WCUTS FOOT " KGLASSW Berne Boy Painfully Injured When Tendon In His Kight Foot Is Severed Berne. Aug. 12.—Robert Braun, 10, son cf Mr and Mrs. George Braun. oT Berne, was painfully injured Monday evening, when, in hurdling a gladiola plant in the back yard of tire Braun home, he alighted on a glass fruit jar. The tendvn in his right foot was severed by the glass. The lad was taken to the Ilossman bosifltal here, where doctors found that ike upper half of the tendon had moved vp about three Inches. The tendon was sewed together and the phys.cians gave the assurance that the Injury win not cripple the boy. It is ihought that it will be five or six *eeks before the tendon has grown together.

American Co-ed Tells Own Story Os Her Marriage To Indian Prince Betty Kurlow, Former Northwestern University Co-ed. Tells Os Her Marriage Into Family Os Native Rulers In India. Her 1-ife In A Harem. Her Escape From India And Many Other Interesting Adventures.

Editor's Note:- This is the third of a eries of five articles written for the united Press by- Betty Kurlow, Chia K° Co-Ed, who married a Hindu and ent with him to India where she ’Perienced many ■ hardships. In her ,r »t two articles. Miss Kurlow told ow Abani Kumar Bose wooed her at “Wliwestern University. Chicago, j. her to India, and then sent to 18 ( astle” in Barodi, East Bengal, displeased a Brahmin By Betty Kurlow Written for the United Press Chicago. Aug. 12—The Castle I had ea rd about in America turned out to ll " nothing but a big. old shack when 1 saw it in India. It was located in an <l| most unbelievable dreary expanse l 'ice fields. The house was large,

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“Trudie” Ederle Will Not Accept Oilers ‘‘Out Os Her Real Character New York. Aug. 12. —{United Press) —Although Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim the english channel, has received theatrical and commercial offers worth a fortune, she will nd accept any offers “out of her real character”, according to Dudley Field Malone, her attorney, who has returned from Europe. "Gertrude was forced to turn porfesvsiona?’, Malone said. "She tried to raise funds to pay her expenses and when she failed 1 advanced her $5. 00 which she insisted should be a loan”. . — o— —— CORN BORER SENT TO COUNTV AGENT Purdue University Sends A Specimen Os Corn Pest To L. M. Busche An European corn borer, preserved in a small bottle of alcohol, has been received by L. M Musche, Adams county agricultural agent, from Purdue University. The worm was sent to Mr. Busche to aid him in identifying the pest if it is found in Adams county. The corn borer is a small, light colored worm, about a half to three-quart--1 ers of an inch in length. Mr. Busche has asked that all Adams county farmers watch for the corn borer and report all suspicious cases • to him. Already, Mr. Busche’s atten- ‘ tlcn bas been called to certain worms 41 wtU k bn.Uu- ear.iL.ut jtfsetl, cQm, but 1 so far, no corn borers have been found in this county. The borer, which is ! probably the worst enemy to corn, has been advancing steadily toward this state from Michigan and Ohio, for the last few years. Specimens of the pest have been found in Steuben county. Indiana this summer. Just as long as the corn borer is kept out of Adams county will the corn crop in this onnty be spared. AauW v-A;........ ■. d Faster; And Gets A Divorce Hollywoxl. Cal. Aug. 12.—(United Press)—Louise Gazenda, screen come-i dian. has been given a divorce from Noel M. Smith. Miss Fazenda told Judge Gates of tlie superior court that the last time her husband went out at night she tried to pursue him but he left her behind because lie drove a faster car. He "never came back, she said. This was in August 192?. No alimony was asked or allowed. - —o —— "Meter Burning Out Causes Fire Scare Berne, Aug. 12— Smoke caused by an electric meter buring out at the Carl Burley residence, here, caused an alurm to be turned in to the Berne fire department early this morning. The firemen made a run to the Burley home, but found no blaze.

dirty and entirely void of any conveniences. Its dark corners were used for nests by large droves of bats; mpsquitos came in swarms through the iron barred windows; poisonous snakes coiled about the damp foundations, vultures ' flew tn circles about the yard, waiting for refuse to be Yhrftjyn from the kitchens, and worst of all to me—-cut-side the windows the whole night through. Such was my husband’s feudal castle, the seat of Government for the ' Indian Province so Barodi. No white persons were within hund- ' reds of miles. I had no one I could (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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THREE NEW OIL WELLS BROUGHT IN NEAR BERNE I Harmon And Matts Get Well Expected To Produce 100 Barrel Per Day SCHULTE AND HANEY GET NEW PRODUCER Three new producers were brought in Tuesday in the oil field east of Berne. One of the new wells is expected to produce 100 barrels per day, as it made the best showing of any well drilled in the Berne field, so far. The banner well was No. 2 drilled by John Harmon and Dick Watts, together with their several associates, all of Mansfield. Ohio, on the William Smitley farm, in Jefferson township. The well topped pay sand at 1.075 feet and was drilled 45 feet into Trt-nton. There was a big showing of oil while drilling in and the oil sprayed for a long period after the shot. Eighty quants of nitro glycerine were used in the shot. In less than an hour, the well filled up with 500 feet of solid oil and two hours later, there was 800 feet of oil in the hole. Proves Up Producing Area Harmon and Watts have drilled five straight producers in the Berne field. Mr. Watts said today, in his opinion, the Berne field will be th most active spot in the entire trentoti rock area. He also states that this new smitley well, in his opinion, proves ftp a scrfpf. of Oil producing area, between the Niblick lease to the northeast and the KChy and Daugherty wells several miles to the southwest. Harmon and Watts will i at once elect a tower rail start pumping on the Smitley lease. No I Smitley came in several weeks ago at 24 barrels. Paul Schulte, of Chicago, and Douglas Haney, of Decatur, shot their No. 7 well on the Schulte farm, formerly the Eugene Runyon farm in Blue Creek township, Tuesday, and $ .■> (CONTI NI ED ON I’.WB TWO) 0 HANDLE FACTORY EMPLOYES PICNIC Employes, Owners And Families Enjoy One-day Outing At Park The employes and owners of the La Fountain Handle lotnpany, one of Decatur’s progressive industries, and their families took a day off Tuesday and enjoyed a family picnic at Bellmont Park. The mill was closed down for the day and Messrs. C. E. Bell and A. L. Frame, owners of the “ plant, arranged to give an outing for all the employes and their families. About 115 people attended the happy event.. A parade of more than twenty automobiles from West Adams street to the park took place in the morn ing and at noon a basket dinner was ■ served. So enjoyable was the affair • that the nrmagement has decided to • make the outing an annual eVent and every employe Is anticipating u happy time again next year. Games and contests tff all sorts were enjoyed during the day, includi Inga baseball game between teams 1 selected among the factory men. A ‘ varied program wks given and the 1 instructors and students of the Rop--5 pert Auction school assisted in pro- : viding entertainment for the picnickers. The La Fountain Handle company 1 has been running Steady for several years and the one-day shut-down Tuesday was one of the few days ’ that the mill has been Idle for several years. More than 50 persons are ’ employed by the company and it is 1 one of the fine organizations of which Decatur is justly proud.

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Seeks Guns __ ’’ ! *jj)*'W~ s jdh t tv® This is a typical scene In Mexico City during these days of religious strife. A policeman is searching a citizen for weapons. WHITTEMORE IS TO HANG AT MIDNIGHT 'Convicted Murderer And 'Bandit To Pay For His Crime Baltimore, Md. Aug. |2. —(United ITess) —“Alright. That's all I expected.” Richard Reese Whittemore sentenced to ba hanged shortly after midnight looked up from an adventure magazine he was reading when ' prison • iday told him >.f Supreme Justiice Holmes’ refusal to grant him either a writ of error or a writ of habeas corpus, and made that disinterested reply. A guard in the death house tooK the message to the bandit's cell. He spoke through the bars. “The warden pust phoned to tell you that your lawyers have been refused that writ.” Whittemore looked up from his reading and without bothering to remove his cigarette, answered: “Alright thafs all I exected.” And the magazine immediately reclaimed his interest. o STUMP MAKES A SPEECH AT GARY Democratic Candidate Predicts Defeat Os Watson And Robinson Gary.Jnd., Aug. 12.—(United Press) —That Indiana voters will not return James E. Watson and Arthur Robinson to the United States Senate this fall was the prediction of Albert Stump Democratic long term senatorial candidate. in an address here yesterday. Stump is a member of the Democratic “Flying Squadron" now touring Indiana in the interests of the Democratic party in the fall elections. Other members of the party include Zach T. Dungan, candidate for re-election as clerk of tlio supreme court; A. C. Woods, candidate for judge of the Supreme Court: R. Earl Peters, state chairman of the party, and Mrs. A. ’P. Flynn, vice-chairman. Stump attacked the. Republican Senators for opposition to the Senate slush fund probe and charged them with titakingi idle promises to their Indiana constituents.

TO LAY MEXICAN i CASE BEFORE MR. i COOLIDGE SOON Secretary Kellogg To Present Material On Oil And Land Regulations — AMBASSADOR TO BRING REPORTS Washington. Aug., 12. —(United | Press) — Secretary of State Kellogg, i today gathered material on Mexican oil and land regulations for representation to President Coolidge over the ' week end, while statements on the Mexican religious conflict were issued by the National Catholic welfare council and the American federation of labor. Kellogg's conference at the summer white house will be followed by study of a report winch Ambassador James R. Sheffield will bring from Mexico City. The statement by President William Greeen, of the American Feder-1 ation of Labor, asserted his organization had maintained a policy of: non interference in the rei ligious dispute and denied any con- , nection with the stand of the Mexican i 1 federation of labor supporting thei ' anti-church laws. ■ "The success of the American fed- . | eration has been largely due to a strict adherence to and a rigid ob-' servance of the great fundamental ' principal of ehgious freedom.” Green >! said - T-y A W. Edger (United Press Staff Correspondent! Mexico Citi, Aug. 12.—Archbishop I i Mora De! Rib, the aged leader of CaI thdicism in Mexico, may be summoned ! before the legal authorities on a ( charge of sedition in violating a lans-- , of the new religious laws. 1 Secretary of the Interior Alberto . Tejeda has ordered the Attorney Gen , er.il Io examine a ecent statement 1 given by the Archbishop to the Nev." fork World to determine whether the Prelate’s expressed sentiments violat- ’■ . > the prohibit: m ::.- ii>;.it—.members |ih Vi-i mm"'.l or the <ot Mexi.u. l | If the Attorney General finds the uti t,-rail'".-" tn h.iv< b. sed tions the (CONTINUED O.V I’AG, FIVE) J — VETS WILL HOLD REUNION MONDAY I Members Os 160th Regiment, Spanish - American Veterans To Meet Here Arrangements have been completed by the local post of United Spanish American war veten-ns for the annual regimental reunion of the 160th Indiana Regiment, to be held in this city next Monday. August 16. R. D. Myers of this city, is president of the reunion | Mr. Myers asked today that local | merchants and citizens display the ’ American flag in front of their business houses and residences Monday There are approximately 700 surviving members cf the 160th regiment but in recent yenrs, only about 150 or 160 veterans have attended the reunions. Many of them are accompanied i by their wives, making a total attendi ance of about 375. Register at 9 A. M. The rein ion will open at 9 o’clock Monday morning, wit.i registration at the court house. Dinner will be served at 11:30 o’clock by the ladies aid scidety of the Christian church. The business meeting will be held in the auditorium ot the Christian church at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon. The re mainder ot the day will be spent in renewing old friendships and visiting. The 160th regiment was recruited f:om the north central part of the ! state. Its members were obtained from Decatur, Bluffton, Huntington, Columbia City. Ossian, Tipton. Wabash Peru, Logansport, latfayefte and other cities through this ssetion of the state.

"Bulgarians Really Know What The High Cost Os ‘ Living Means At Present Washington D. C. Aug. 12.—(United Press) —As an aftermath of the war, America suffered from the high ; cost of living, with the general cost of existence at present about 59 per cent higher than before the conflict by the federal reserve ixiard today , showed. The cost of living in Bulgaria is 2.617 per cent higher now than before' i the war. Oretve wins second honors with an increase of 1.631 per cent and 1 Findland ranks thi.u with 1.165 per | cent Germany feels high costs less than I other nations. The cost ot living in Germany is only 41 per cent above pre-war level. HEAT WAVE IS BROKEN BY RAIN Cooler Temperatures Prevail Throughout Central Indiana Today Rain last night and threatening showers today, with predictions of snore rain before night, cooled of the high temperature, at h ast temporarily and brought some relief to a swelterI ing community. Until late last eveniing, there was no sign of a breeze and the air was sultry. While farmers are not in such great need of rain at present, last night's i showers came as a great relief from i the hot weather. The thermometer yesterday hovered in the nineties most of the at one time the mercury stretched itself to the 98 degree mark. Some thunder and lightening a>‘com J panied the rain last night, but no great damage in this community was reported. The breeze began cooling things off about midnight and the mercury remained about 10 degrees lower trio” of the m lining, cor. pared with yesterday. The fields in most parts of the county were too wet to work in today, bit 1 farmers believe that, if there 1’ no; additional tain, they will be dry enough to work in tomorrow. More than half the mid-summer farm work thresnin"". Indianapolis. Ind., Aug 12. —(United Press)—Cooler temperatures prei vailed throughout central Indiana toI day following a rain which last night broke the heat wave before it had j caused great inconvenience. Lightening which accompanied the ! thunderstorms struck A. B. Gardner I who was working at an ice cream : plant, severely burning him abont the I chest. He was taken to a hospital I where it was indicated his condition I was hardly serious. Temperatures in Indianapolis hover- ; ed around 93 degree i.iark for a >ime yesterday and it is believed that the timely rain saved the city from one of the worst seiges of heat and humidity ' suffered tills year.

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FIVE MEN LIVE ALMOST A WEEK IN MINE POCKET Stoical Kentucky Miners ’Belittle Their Experience; Not Suffering From It CLOTHING SOAKED WITH CHILL WATERS Salem, Ky., Aug. 12 —(United Press) —Five stoical Kentucky miners, trapped for almost a week in the chill blackness of a mine pocket, today belittled their experience. -After six days and seven nights of frantic labor the men were led out of the old mine shaft, in which they were imprisoned by a fall of rock, at 7:15 o’clock this morning. Wives, mothers and children made little demonstration as they saw the men whom they had almost despaired of as dead. There were no embraces, no hysterical sobbing. One Wrenched His Back Only one of the five miners appear ed today to be suffering in the least irom an imprisonment of more than one hundred and fifty hours. George Catillo fell in a step-off in the inky blackness on Sunday night and wrenched his back. A chill followed Catillo’s injury and his four companions, forgetting 1 their own discomforts, literally covered him with tbeir bodies to ward off the chattering cold that they fear(CUXTINI ED ON PAGE FOUR) ARREST NEAR IN HALL-MILLS CASE Warrants Charging Murder Issued For Two Men; ‘ Names Are Withheld .. . ... » . ed Press) —Wanatiis cliarginL uwo <nen with the murder f jfhf- Rev.. Edward W. Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills were issued this afternoon. Alexander Simpson, special prosecutor in the re-opened Hall Mills murder ease, announced. The warrants were issued by County Judge Frank L. Cleary, Simpson said, and were tinned over to State troopers with instructions Io serve them at once. Simpson refused to reveal the identity of the bo n named in the warrants. The names will be known as soon as they are under arrest, he said. “We have taken 57 statements in the last week from witnesses and it is on the strength of these that the warrants were issued.

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DECATUR hag two modern, clean and high clans theatres, showing up-to-date motion pictures. The seating capacity is 1.000.