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I rims budget I WDHIGHERTAX I RATEPROBABLE I “S L j.!",S"S.“ I $155,487.50 I COUNCIL MEETS I I NEXT TUESDAY I Estimates in the Adams counI lv general budget for 1029. inI dulling the appropriations tor I bridges ami bonds, total $!.>.».- I 47850. The estimate for the I countv highway repair fund I totals $156,15(UM1, less a credit I O s $35.(W Iron) the gasoline I tax. leaving a total of I h be raised by taxation. I These estimates will be subI milled Io the county council on I Tuesdav. September 1. Io r I changes or adoption and the tax I ra-cs'will be fixed by the council. I To raise the amount of money I needed for the county budget, based I on a valuation of $32,911,210, approxI imately $3,000,000 less than a year I apo, the proposed rate is 47 cents on the SIOO. To raise the amount asked fcr the county highway repair fund, based on the same valuation, a rate I of 37 cents on the hundred dollars is | necessary. Proposed Rate Higher The total of the county budget this , year, as approved by the county conn- : ell, was $149,482.00. The tax rate providing ths amount of money was I based on a $36,000,000 valuation. Tire rate adopted last year, payable this year in taxes was .406 on the hundred dollars. The proposed rate for next I 'year is .064 higher than the present, rate. The county highway repair tax rate I this year is .214 on the hundred dollars. To raise the amount of money asked for in the budget for next year a rate of 37 cents on the hundred dollars is necessary, an increase of .156 on the hnudred dollars. State Requires New Form The state board of accounts ie- , qures municipalities to' use a new I form in compiling the budgets this* year. The items are not segregated as last year. For instance, instead of listing the salaries of the county officers seperately, the salaries and I deputy hire and other expenses are grouped. Under the head of county commissioners, all the appropriations for bridges, bonds and all the appropriations made by the county commissioners are listed in six items. Loss in Valuation • ■ The loss in valuations of about $3.Mti.OOO this year is accountable for Proposed increases in the tax rates. For every million dollar loss in valuations, a one-cent rate would raise SIO,OOO in revenue. The county council will take up the appropriations and budgets on Sepember 4 and will go over the differdems asked for in the various departments. SET OATES FOR TEACHERS' MEET Oft -18,19, And 20 Are Dates I* or Northeastern Infl,ana Association Meeting tljVows'’ llßl leachers ’ convention of sociuo astPrn ,niliana Teachers’ as--1 be ? el,i in Fort w^neahn 8,1,1 a,l| i 20, according to an made b,vE E. Eyste" Preside,t J '.‘J’" SCh °° ( 1 ’ Port Th» >°, tbe ass ociation. gram trfth" 1 11® 1 Bpeaker » J>" tll(? proCB iL conf erence will b e Dr. v ‘Tsitv- Dr wtrn* B^ 6 ”' ° f Ohio uni ' "nt of’school ' S Sutton - sxperintendBishop EdwTn H ‘ h A " anta ’ Ga ’ and ’'■bools nt °n tb " lan ' superintendent of slirp 7 of at necatur, is secretary treaGreen, sup P rint BSO . eiatiOn ’ and J A ' DeKa lb com v7sv? ° f BChO ° lß ln Between , vice -persident. '‘•'■’ected to attend'h 3 '"°° teael, ers are dates are nJ d le conv ention. The •‘ate eonvemLn ame , ,hosp ° f th < teachers win i Bnd tbe Eort Wayne w| "ch they w- their cholce as to ,lls, »>ssed' Mr ,h tten<l ' School will be Other S nn7 he conference. " the "esßions o? th l " be arran S ed for “"w officers win J Co,lVentioi > and ,cc ®ing year be elected for th e

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The establishment of a new bank for the accommodation of the Negroes in New York City by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., marks the entrance of John D. Rockefeller, 3rd. into the business world. He has been appointed a director of the enterprise and, although still a student at Princeton, he will spend much of his time learning the banking business by actual practice.

FREIGHT RATES ON HAY REDUCED "" Lower Rates Expected To Open Up Market For Hay Producers Here Avon Burk, of the Burk elevators, j who has l>een a member of a commit-1 tee of the Indiana Hay and Grain ! Association which has l>een trying to secure a lower freight rate on hay for several years past, announces that they have finally been successful. The new rate, as nearly as it can lie estimated, will allow a saving of about one dollar per ton and gives the hay dealers of this section a I market. t For some time past, the rate from 1 the east to the south lias been so much lower than in the middle west that it prevented competition and I consequently left this section without a market much of the time. The new rates are expected to become effective September 14. although this has not been officially ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission. o Public Service Company Wants To Issue Stock The Northern Indiana Public Ser : vice Company today filed a petition I with the Public Service Commission asking for authority to issue $300.00" ' par value 5% (>er cent preferred stock ! and 180.000 shares of no-par value i common stock. The 514 P e i‘ cent preferred stock will take the place of 7 and 6 per cent prefer; ed stock repurchased by the company and retired. The common stock will finance capita! expenditures made by the company in extending its facilities for service. »—o Rev. Stratton Demands Right To Name Place For DeMite With Smith Greenwood Lake, N.Y.. Aug. IS.— (U.R)—Dr. John Roach Stratton today stood on the code of the ancient feudist and demanded the right to name the place where he was to meet Governor Alfred E. Smith in debate. The debate challenge came over Stratton's recent sermon in which he charged the governor was a foe of moral progress. Smith challenged and urged the debate be in Calvary Baptist church in New York, where the sermon was delivered. "The challenged party,” Straton wrote Smith, “I stand on the timehonored privilege of naming the place for the discussion and shall name a place that will not arouse secterian bitterness nor drag the religious issue into the contest." o — Boy, 5, Held As Security For Five-Dollar Loan Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. IS. —(U.R) — A 10-year-old boy was held as security for a loan of $5 which Mrs. Emma Wheling made to Mrs. Blanche Sullivan, youthful mother, here. Mrs. Sullivan, who was said to have obtained the loan to pay for a permanent wave, asked police to recover her son.

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Author Os "Bone Dry” Law Is Married; Rev. Shumaker Ties Knot Indianapolis, Aug. IS. (INS)—State Representative Frank E. Wright, author of Indiana's famous "bone dry” law, and Mrs. Ethel Virginia Motley, wealthy young widow of Bowling Green, Ky„ who in recent years has made her home here, were married at the bride's home this atI »;>rnoon. The Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, tied the wedding knot. It was Representative Wright's fourth matrimonial venture and the bride's second. Immediately after the wedding, they left for a month's honeymoon to be spent at Petosky, Michigan. . Normal Temperature And Showers Are Forecast Washington. Aug. 18.—(INS)—Weather outlook for period Aug. 19-25, Ohio valley —a period of showers at the beginning of the week and again Wednesday -or Thursday. Near normal temperatures most of the week. HOOVER LEAVES HIS HOME STATE — Republican Nominee Goes To Arizona To Discuss Boulder Dam Project By Paul R. Mallon (U. P. Staff Correspondent> Aboard Hoover Special Train nearing Williams, Ariz., August 18—(U.R)— Herbert Hoover bade farewell to his home state of California early today and moved into Arizona for a roundtable discussion with Republican county chairmen here about his endorsement of the Bourder Dam flood control and power project. The Republican Presidential nominee epects the chairman to bring him the reaction to his Los Angeles speech for Arizona is as deeply interested in Boußrder Dam as California and is on tlie other side of the issue. The filibuster of Arizona Senators twice defeated the Johnson-Swing Boulder Dam as California and is dam built at Black Canyon, further up the river, so that she will get a maximum share of the water to irrigate herarid lands. When he arrives at tbe Grand Canyon after a side trip from Williams. Hoover will be between the two proposed dam sites, with Black Canyon to the northeast and Boulder Canyon to Uie southwest. o Famous Singer Killed Rome, Aug. 18.—(INS)— Mme. Emma Carelli, one time famous Soprano and later the Worlds only woman opera impressario, was killed today while motoring from Florence to Rome. She gave up the operatic stage when she was 35 years old and became manager of the Rome Opera. She entered into business partnership with her husbandMocchi, former manager of the Buenos Aires Opera, and tor fourteen years they successfully conducted operas.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 18, 1928.

Indian Chief Takes Dime ToD For Viewing Frances Slocum Grave By International News Service Peru, Ind., Aug. 18.—Camillus Bundy. 75-year-old Miami Indian chieftain and grandson of Frances Slocum, the kidnapped Pennsylvania girl who became the “White Rose of the Miamis" is still standing guard over the Bundy Cemetery on the Francis Slocum Trail near here collecting dimes from tourists who Wish to see the Slocum grave. Chief Bundy grew incensed over the actions of some tourists who refused to pay the dime admission fee and viewed the Slocum monument from the roadside and took camera shots at it from that position. The chief countered this maneuvering by driving stakes around the monument and hahging up old carpets and canvas thus hiding the monument from the view of all who refused to pay the price of admission. NOTE AIDS IN MURDER PROBE Police Speed Investigation Os Murder Os Girl Burned To Death Chicago, Aug. 18—(U.R)—A note, hastily scrawled on an envelope, and the number of an Indiana automobile license plate, speeded a police investigation today into the death of a young woman believed to have been burned to death near Crown Point, Ind., Wednesday. The note, found on a dresser in the room of Adeline Zaccard. said: “Red, * wait for me. Went out for a sandi wieh." It was signed “Ade.’’ Miss Zaccard was the sweetheart |of Angelo Francisco, who was shot and killed by a vigilante while fleeI ing in an automobile with four com panions after the West McHenry, 111., bank robbery Monday. Police believed the “Red" of the note to be another member of the bandit gang. An effort was being made to learn his full identity on the theory he made an appointment with Miss Zaccard. which later led to her murder, to prevent her from "talking to police." concerning the McHenry robbery. The charred body of hte murdered girl was identified by relatives as that of Mrs. Zaccard. Police doubted however, that a ’positive identification was possible. Meanwhile police sought a car with an Indiana license number which Marshal Louis Hartman o[ Dyer reported pursuing toward Crown Point shortly before the girl was believed to have been murdered. — o Large Barn Door Falls On Child Near Berne Berne. Aug. 18. —(Special)—Sarah Wickey, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wickey. Jr., was seriously injured Friday morning, when a large barn door on the Sam Wickev farm, two miles north of here, fell on her. The child's right leg was broken, just below the knee. Mrs. Wickey and her little daughter were feeding the chickens when the accident occured. Mrs. Wickey was closing the barn door when it rolled off the track and fell on the child. FLAGS MUST BE ORDERED SOON Legion Must Have Orders By Monday Night To Get Flags By Old Home Week Members of Adams Post. No. 43. of the American Legion, today stated that all orders for flags, poles and sockets like those used in decorating the business district of the city, must be in by Monday evening, as the orders must be Sent in Monday night in order to receive the flags before Old Home Week. The Legionnaires have been making a canvass of the residential district, but have been enable to see everyone. < Persons who watlt to order flags and who have not been called on by a member of tlie Legion, are asked to telephone their order to either Paul' 11. Graham or Ferd O'Brien before Monday night. A large number of orders have been received, all ready.

SENATOR CURTIS TO BE NOTIFIED THIS AFTERNOON Political Spotlight To Be Focused On Topeka, Kansas Today CEREMONY TO BE .AT STATE CAPITOL Topeka. Kans.. Aug. 18. <U.P) 't he iniilill'’ west, with Topeka as Ihi' hub. held the spotlight today in the national political ramoaign. Al 5 o’clock this afternoon. Charles Curtis, senior senator from the Sunflower slate, will be notified officially of his nontinalion for vice-president on the Bepublican ticket. A canopied platform awaits the ceremonies on the south steps of the state capitol. It faces a statute of Abraham Lincoln, set in the center of a park. Many Farmers Present is built around Capitol ' square, center of the state’s political life. Beyomt the city are Hat prairies and mile after mile of the richest j wheat lands in the world. Today’s celebration was a magnet for farmers and their families, from the remotest corners of the state. The program this afternoon will open with music by eight bands. Governor Ben S. Paulen will review briefly the political rise of Senator Curt s. The notification address by Senator Simeon I). Fess of Ohio, will follow. Curtis' acceptance speech will end the public program. A dinner will be given for visiting political friends of Senator Curtis and later in the evening a dinner and <<ovrt\t s ro.i: rut:. L. o — U. B. Sunday School Picnic Well Attended If any one happened past the United Brethren church last evening, they saw a happy bunch of children eating icecream, and crackerjack. The attendance at the church picnic was good and the ’fellowship fine. The Sunday school provided ice-cream and crackerjack for the boys and girls and icecream for the adults. The lawn to the real of tile church grounds were well lighted with special wit ing. The verdict of those who were present was| “Lets have some more good times like this". SMITH PLANS TO DENOUNCE CRITICS Expected To Issue Statement Regarding Rev. Stratton And White Soon By RAYMOND I. BORST I. N. S. Staff Correspondent Albany, N. Y., Aug. IS.—ln a statement which he is expected to make public within forty-eight hours, Governor Al Smith will vigorously denounce Dr. John RoachStraton,pastor of Calvary Baptist church, New York, and William Allen White, Kansas editor, for picturing him as a deadly foe of moral progress and a friend of the saloon, gambling and vice. There are indications that the statement may become an important document, according to the governor’s confidants. Almost on the eve of lite ceremony at which he will be formally notified of the presidential nomination, the governor will tell the voters of America that his two major critics, Dr. Straton and Editor White, have gotten things completely changed about, and that he is a friend and not a foe of moral progress. The governor, according to his friends, will point to a number of laws which h(> has approved during the eight years he lias occupied the chair of chief executive of New York. He will challenged his critics, his confidants assert, to point to one law that has been placed on the statute books while he has been governor which, by any stretch of imagination, would indicate that he is a foe of moral progress. Because he expects that charges similar to those made by Dr. Straton and White will be hurled at him in the coming campaign, the governor, his friends assert, welcomes this opportunity to throw down the gage of battle to his critics.

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•Slayers Seek Pardon WVk V A J * After serving nine months of their sentence in the State Prison in New Jersey for voluntary manslaughter in the killing of Dr. A. W. Lilliendahl, Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl and Willis Beach have applied for pardons. Dr. Lilliendahl was killed in a wooded | lane near Hammonton. N. J., hint i September. The board of pardons will consider the applications at the semi-annual meeting this September. INSTITUTE TO OPEN AUG. 27 Noted Educators To Speak At Annual Adams County Teachers' Institute - Tile program for the annual Adams countv teachers' institute, to Ire held iin tlie circuit court room of the AdI ams county court nouse here August 27-31, has been completed by Clifton R. Striker, county superintendent of schools. Programs, containing the names of the speakers, trustees, in structions and other information hav been printed for distribution among the teachers. The speakers for the week are: Dr. George Tilden Ragsdale, University < f Kentucky, entire week; Dr. C. O. Lehman. Ohio State University, entire week; Homer L. Iliimke, Evansville college, Tuesday and Wednesday; T. R. Stonecipher. Indianapolis, Ind., Thursday; Arthur I. Beriault, Beriault School of Expression. Indianapolis. Ind., Friday. All teachers in the county must enroll on the opening day. August 27. The institute fee is $1.25. Teachers will keep their own record of attend ance. Visitors will lie welcomed at all sessions of the institute. Thursday has been designated as former teachers' day. Those who formerly taught in the county are invited to visit tlie institute. The daily program for the institute is as follows: Moqning Session 9 A. M. —Opening exercises. 9:15 A. M. —Music 9:30 A. M. —Address 10:30 A. M.—Music 10:50 A. M. —Address 11:40 A. M. —Intermission. Afternoon Session 1:15 P. M.—Music 1:30 P. M. —Address 2:15 P. M. —Intermission 2:35 P. M.—Music 2:55 P. M. —Address 3:35 P. M. —Adjournment. 0 Young Minister To Preach Trial Sermon R. B. Hunt, a graduate of Lynchburg College, Virginia, and post graduate of Untler University, at Indianapolis, will preach at the Christian church in this city one week from ftmorrow, Sun day, August 25. morning and evening, as a candidate for the pastorship here. Mr Hunt is a fine young man. spleu didly qualified and the Decatur congregation awaits his coming with much interest.

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ILLINOIS FLIERS HOP OFF FROM COCHRANE. ONT. Make Perfect Take Off At Start Os Second Leg Os Flight To Sweden GREENLAND LIES 1,600 MILES AWAY Notta Way Bay, Quebec, Aug. 18. — (INS) — The trans-Atlantic plane, “Greater Rockford,” enroute from Cochrane. Ont., to Mt. Evans, Greenland, passed over here at 1:11 o’clock this after- ; noon. Cochrane. Ontario, Aug. 18 i(INS) 'the Iraiis.Atlantic plane. Greater Rockford, took off I from the runway here at 12:12 o’clock this afternoon, local lime, on the second leg of its proposed llivht to Sweden. The plane, piloted by Bert Hassel and Parker D. Cramer, of Rockford. 111., gathered momentum I rapidly as it swept down the runway and left the ground in a perfect take off as Hassell “gave it the gun". The Greater Rockford circled once I over the field and the two occupants waved to the crowd below and then the plane straightened out on Its course and disappeared toward tlie r northeast, in tlie direction of Green- , land, some 1,600 miles away, i j Hassell and Cramer expect to land at Mt. Evans. Greenland, by daybreak . tomorrow. Flight Is Dangerous 1 The plane was in excellent condit tion after its long flight from the s Illinois city and the pilots were sane guine of success. A dangerous flight • lies before them, however, as they will be passing over the wilderness of Northeastern Canada where a mishap might compel them to land in some isolated spot far from human I habitation. o Garage Attendant Robbed Indianapolis, Aug. 18— (INS)—While , the night attendant at the Pennsyl- ' vania Motor Inn here was reading a book early today, leaning in a chair against the window, someone reached through the window and tapped . ' him into unconsciousness with a I i black jack. When he awoke an hour later, he found the Inn had been robbed of slll. o I Nine Richmond Persons Caught In Liquor Raids r Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 18. —(U.R) — Nine residents of Richmond, Ind., arrested Friday in liquor raids by federal dry agents for hearing before John W. Kern, U.S. commissioner. Arrests were made on alleged prev- ’ ious sales to dry agents. The dry agents charged they bought liquor from one of tlie arrested the day he returned from the penal farm. ALBERT STUMP > WILL BE HERE Mrs. Meehan, Daughter Os Gene Stratton Porter, Acknowledges Invitation Albert Stump, prominent Indianapolis attorney and lecturer, who is the Democratic nominee for U. S. senator, iias accepted an invitation to attend Decatur’s Old Home Week celebration, on Tuesday, September 11, which will be observed as "Limberlost Day," in memory of the lato Gene Stratton Porter. Jeannette Porter Meehan, daughter of Mrs. Porter, the beloved writer, has expressed her appreciation for an invitation to be here on Limberlost Day and stated that she will be here if she and her husband are East at that time. Mrs. Meehan resides in California. Following are the letters * received from Mr. Stump and Mrs, Meehan: Claycombe & Stump ' Attorneys-at-Law 542-544 Consolidated Bldg. Indianapolis, Aug. 11, 1928 ' Mr. French Quinn. ’’ Decatur, Indiana. My dear Mr. Quinn: ' I am glad to accept your invitah tion to attend “Old Home Week, in (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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