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FI6HT LOOMS IN CONGRESS OVER DRY FUND BILL Is In Prospect nil LIS TABLED IN LOWER HOUSE TODAY Washington, Jan. 24 —(UP) — The reapportionment bill recently passed by the house was taken up in the senate today on motion of Sen Vandenberg, Repn.. Michigan The vote for consideration was 53 to 23Washington. Jan. 24.-CU.B~A determined contest between the house ,nd the senate over the proposed 524 2W 000 prohibition Increase and the’ tax refund publicity -clause was in prospect today. The first deficiency appropriation 1 11 with these two. provisions objectionable to the administration included was sent over to the house by the senate this afternoon. The bill was put on the table temporarily but not until Rep. Jack Garner, of Texas, the Democratic “watch dog of the treasury" secured the consent of Republicans that they would not take it nn without giving public notice of 24 hours. Garner announced he wants an expression of sentiment from the house on the senate’s two new clauses and that he is determined to get an expression before the house decided to appoint conferees to thresh the matirnsnvi'Rn on imrr "wm ————<o Home Talent Play Is Pickle Romance Pickles and music, Used in th* same sentence, they don't sound so well together. Hut the cast of the musical comedy ,'Pickles”, to be given in the Catholic school auditorium, Sunday and Monday nights, by the St. Marys parish, insist that the romance of pickles in a musical operetta is different. The play has to do chiefly with the domestic trials and tribulations of a Vienna pickle manufacturer. Mrs. L. A. Holthouse is director of the production. Eight principal characters and thirty-five chorus members form the cast « Lieut. Cornish Plans To Open Aviation School Here Lieut. Clarence Cornish, of the Swebrock aviation field. Fort Wayne, was here last evening, planning to open an aviation school here. If he can secure six or ten pupils, he will start such a school, giving complete instructions here, will lease the Meyer grounds south of the city, and make every effort to Increase the class to such proportions that it will continue indefinitely. Ueut. Cornish Rare number of exhibitions here last autumn and is recognized as one of the best instructors cf aviation of the middle west. To the first two or three who apply, he will give special tates. Persons interested, are asked o write or see Herman Meyers, route Decatur, telephone 873-G. FUMIGATE TWO SCHOOLS TODAY Steps Taken To Prevent Diphtheria Epidemic At Kirkland And Peterson Due to a death from diptheria in land C ? mmU u! ty yesterda y- the KirkPeier a ° WnShlP school and the div °® Brade schools were closed towe« r < the two Bchool buildings X, fu , miga t*d. It is planned to reFrXy Ch ° ol W ° rk ' n the two buildings and’ n X V « e , ber ’ 4 -year-old son of Mr. short <i'f S » Webpr ’ residing a of dinti 8 ? nCe north ot Peterson, died in the famn ye ® terday - Other children Kirkland and b n d been attendln K the yesterday mJ^ terson spools until the Woi, . , WPVer ' all members of the child' ,hP pxce Pti°n of f °r diothm ■ lO ! leii ’ were immunized health aS*HH b ° Uta year and i 3 laa eh danPe e cf tV°B belieVP theFP ing in the Ber Cf th ® disease spreadbeen in e T? unl,y ' No pnp had Physician h ° me eXCept she duri ng the sickneM erS ° f the fam " y

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Train Kills Indiana Man At Edwardsport Edwardsport, Ind., Jan. 2-i —(UP) - Harry Freiley 35, mine foreman, was killed and his daughter and two other children were injured when the au'omobile in which they were riding wag struck by a passenger train near here. The children, Nellie Freiley, 16, Virginia Keller. 14. and Warren Jennings, 16. tecelved serious cuts. Tyler Luk'ing, 35, a fifth occupant of the machine, escaped uninjured. PRIZE FIGHT IS FEATURE OF PLAY Two-round Bout Occurs In Play, “Is Zat So”, To Be Given Here Feb. 4 Arrangement for a prize fight to be staged in this city on Monday night, February 4, at the Decatur high school auditorium, are fast nearing completion. The bout will be staged under the auspices of the Civic Department ot tlie Woman’s Club, and will be a leading feature of the home talent play, “is Zat So," which ran for more than five hundred nights on Broadway The high light of the play is an actual prize fight on the stage. For two rounds of three minutes each, the audience is regaled with the exhilerating sight of two boxers going at each other, hammer and tongs. It is not, of course, a brutal exhibition, for boxing today has been stripped of that feature, but on the contrary is a most interesting and exciting demon-| stration of the manly art of self-de-fense. However, no punches are “pulled,” and as a matter of fact, the bout winds up suddenly with a clean knockout. And in this connection, let it be added with emphasis, it is not the hero who administers the knockout. o ■ — Gasoline Tank Explodes, Injuring Three Welders Fort Wayne, Ind., Jan. 24 —(UP) — three men were injured here when an airplane gasoline tank which they were welding, exploded. Marvin Bennett, the welder, was taken to a hospital with serious lacerations. Paul Hobrock, head of a local airplane manufacturing company, for whom the tank was being welded, and Guy Bennet, were injured. It was believed that the tank which had been freed of gasoline, contained fumes which became inginted by the torch. o Manuscript And Lyrics For I. U. Play Written Bloomington, Ind., Jan. 24 —(UP) — Miss Maragret Hecker, Indianapolis, and Howard Matman, Marengo, are authors of the manuscript and Lyrics for the annual Jordan River Revue, annua! musical show at Indiana university. Miss Hecker wrote the lyrics for the show while the two together collaborated in the wiiting cf the books. The Revue will be presented in Bluocmington March 11, 12, and 13, with its road trip beginning March 18. ————o — Leo Kirsch Qualifies As Fireman; Extinguishes Two Blazes Within Month The name ot Leo Kirsch local automobile dealer, is being proposed for a position on the local fire department. Hr. Kirsch has all ready successfully combatted two blazes in his neighborhood in the last month with the aid of a small fire-extinguisher. Friends of his believe that if lie had only have had the reinforcement of a hook and ladder wagon he could have put out the great Chicago fire with no difficulty what ever. Tho first fire occured on January 2. among the cotton trimmings in the show window of Motts Sether’s soft drink parlor. Mr. Kirsch happened to be walking by and seeing the blaze, hurried to his garage where he kept a small fire extinguisher. Returning, he empied the contents on the flame and had it under control by the time the city firemen arrived. Yesterday, employees were removing a gasoline pump in the rear of Campbell’s Service Station when a short circuit, caused by defective electric wiring, ignited the gasoline with n small exploson. The resulting wire threatened the large gasoline tank underneath. Mr. Kirsch, when he heard the noise, rushed over with his trusty fire extinguisher and put out the fire.

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New Theory Os Origin Os Man In Explained Noted Biologist Maintains That Man Appeared Suddenly On Earth In Same Form As He Is In Today; Differs With Evolutionists And Creationists, Accepting Some Ideas Os Both Groups

Editor's note: Dr. Austin H. Clark, noted biologist of the Smithsonian institution, who startled the scientific world a few days ago with a new theory of life in which he maintained that man appeared suddenly on earth in the same form as he is in today, lias written the following article for tlie United Press, explaining his new theory. Evolutionists throughout the country have attacked his theory as without foundation while creationista have found it a new basis of argument for their beliefs. Actually, Dr. Clark differs with both groups, accepting some of tlie ideas of the creationists and combining them with a radical idea of evolution. By Dr. Austin H. Clark Written for the UP Copyright 1929 by UP Washington, Jan. 24. — (U.PJ —The essence of this concept of evolution may be stated in a few words. In the first place, it is rather a harmonizing of previous theories than a new idea. While the idea of linear evolution involving a time element is in general quite valid within restricted groups, as for instance in the horses, yet it must undergo a certain modification, for gaps are found in all of these YOUNG BOY DIES OF DIPHTHERIA Four-Year-Old Son Os William Weber Dies At Home Near Peterson Elmer Weber, 4-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Weber, residing near Peterson, did at 3 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, January 23, 1929 from cronpus diphtheria. The child had been ill since Friday, but his condition grew worse and the doctor was summoned Tuesday night. Other members of the Weber family have been immunized against the disease. Surviving are the parents and seven brothers and sisters, Wilma, Clarence. Martha. Robert. Mildred and Irene, all at home. Private funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the heme, the Rev. Mr. Geister officiating. Burial will be made in the Preble Lutheran church cemetery. o SHIP HORSES FROM DECATUR Carload Os Fine Animals Shipped By Local Buyers To Wilkes Barre, Pa. One of the finest carload of horses ever shipped from Adams county was loaded out of Decatur, Thursday morning. These horses were bought by Carl Bailey, assisted by Ed Ahr and Leo Weber. The horses were shipped to Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania where they will be sold to eastern buyers. The horse industry, which flourished ten or fifteen years ago in Adams county, is coining back, according to local buyers. Included in the load shipped from here today were three fine sorrel Belgians that were as good as can be found anywhere. These horses weighed 2,180, 1,750 and 1,920 pounds respectively, which shows that Adams county farmers are still raising good horses. Mr. Bailey stated today that he would be back again in a few weeks to buy another car load. Pi ices on good horses are ranging from $l5O to $275, depending on their size and age. The local buyers state that only an average number of colts are found on farms throughout the county indicating that the horse business should be very good for the next several years. It was largely through several advertisements which Mr. Ahr and Mr. Weber ran in the Daily Democrat that they were able to locate these fine horses. Assistant State School Inspector Visits County N I I —— G. F. Huffey, assistant state school inspector, spent Tuesday and Wednesday visiting schools in Adams county.

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evolutionary lines which seem to be real, that it were never, so far as we have been aide to learn, bridged by so-called missing links. Tliis is a mollification of tlie commonly accepted ideas of evolution in the direction of the theory, known as the Mutation theory, upheld by DeVries. It is obvious that the gap between cats and dogs and I heir immediate relatives is quite broad, and it remains broad throughout the fossil record. Cats never become dogs; imt noth are carnivorous mammals. • Between the backboned animals and the invertebrates, such as the insects the gaps are very broad, and those peculiar types which are intermediate between them are widely different from either. Bet wen the invertebrate groups, as insects, shells, starfishes, and so forth the gaps are still broader. These gaps go back unchanged to the earliest fossils that we know. So that so far as these creatures are concerned we have no justification in assuming a time element in the evolutionary process. So wide are the gaps between these various types of humbler creatures that these cannot be arranged in any sort of evolutionary line. But they do seem to fit perfectly well into a somewhat complicated diagram showing each to have affinities witli several others, not merely with a single one. This portion of the idea is wholly new; but it is very technical and it deals with creatures with names familiar only to specialists in zoology. It might possibly be described as an exaggerated application of the views of De Vries. Regarding man, lie is in structure very close to the manlike ape, but no Ink between the two ever has been (CONTINUED ON CAGE FIVE) O M. E. REVIVAL IS WELL ATTENDED Pastor, The Rev. R. W. Stoakes, Is Doing Preaching; Interest Is Good The revival meeting at the Methodist church is being well attended by a very interested group of people. The service Monday night was, of course, very much handicapped on account of the weather conditions, but last night the auditorium was well filled in at least two of its sections of seats. The pastor, the Rev. R. W. Stoakes, is doing his own preaching and leading of congregational singing. A change has been brought about in the program of music. The piano has been moved into the auditorium and the choir is occupying seats immediately in front of the speakers platform instead of the side choir loft as has been customary. This is proving to be beneficial in the matter of direction of music. Last night, the pastor spoke very forcefully on the question of the ever present enmity between the church and sin. He direefed his hearers attention to the fact that the church must ever be loving toward the sinner. but hatefnl toward sin. because sin is destructive toward life and that the Christ of the church has made it plain that “#{e came that ye the world) might have live and that Ye might have to more abundantly.’’ In commenting on the interest of the meting, Mr. Stoakes said that he felt that the present interest, especially on the part of the churches young people, was an omen of a great meeting. o All Churchmen Invited To Hear Dr. E. Stanley Jones Pastors and members of other churches are invited' to attend the Monday night service ot the two-day Missionary meeting to be held at Fort Wayne by the Methodist Episcopal church, next Monday and Tuesday. Dr. E. Stanley Jones, ncted author, missionary and evangelist, who has just returned from a series of successful evangelistic meetings throughout the principal countlies of South Amerca, will speak Monday night at the Shrine Auditorium. The doors will be open at 7 o’clock and the service will start at 8 o’clock.

LINER EFFECTS HEROIC RESCUE OF CREW AT SEA U. S. Liner “America” Rescues Crew Os 32 From j Abandoned Freighter RESCUE MADE IN PITCH DARKNESS By Harry Zander (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Jan. 24 —(UP)—A new chapter in the heroic sagas of the sea was written today as tlie United States liner America ploughed its way to New Yolk with 32 members of the crew of the abandoned Italian Freighter Florida. The America, commanded by Captain George Fried rescued the crew in pitch dankness last night in a full gale upon the high seas 700 miles off the Virginia Capes. Ship Left To Eink The Florida itself waterlogged, rudderless, and loaded wtih pine pitch, is probably at the bottom of the sea. It was listing badly and could not much longer contend against the violence of the gale. A brief message from Capt. Fried, received by the U. S. Liner sal dhe expected to reach New York some time Friday. The American tanker Dannedaike, reported sinking 100 miles farther off the Virginia capes Tuesday, had effected temporary repairs and was limping into port in the Bermudas under her own power. The British freighter, Tesbridge. with a crew of 30 men, was given up for lost 300 miles cast of Race, after ships which responded to an S. O. S. failed to find any trace of her. The President Garfield, cf the Dollar line, refloated from the Little Bahama shoals, was enroute to Nassau to pick up the passengers, which the Pan America had rescued Sunday and to contnue the around the- world cruise The rescue of the Florda’s crew occurred on the third anniversary of Captain Fried’s rescue of the crew' of the freighter Antinoe under almost similar circumstances n the north seas. Fried then was in charge of the United States liner President Roosevelt. Those who remembered the abashed demeanor of the master when he was acclaimed for that feat accomplished at the cost of tlie lives of two of hjs own men and five of his life boats, considered characteristic his brief radio message last night giving credit to his chief mate. “Rescued full crew of Florda, 32 men. Chief officer Harry Manning in charge. Full cold west gale. Life (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE, MRS, BEITLER, OF NEAR BERNE, DIES Mother Os Five Children Dies Following Birth Os Still-born Baby Berne, Jan. 24 —(Special)— Mrs. Fred Beitler, 33, mother of five children, died at 3:10 -o’clock Wednesday Afternoon; January 23, 1929, at her home seven miles northwest of Berne. Death followed the birth of a stillborn girl baby. Prior to her confinement. Mrs. Beitler li;gl suffered from infleunza. Mrs. Fred Beitler formerly Miss Ida Dailey, was, born October 22, 1895, in Arkansas County, Arkansas. When eighteen months of age she moved with her parents to this community, where she had since resided. On November 21, 1913, she united in marriage with Fred Beitler. Five children, together with the husband, survive as follows; Erma, aged 13 years; Luther, aged 11 years; Carl, aged 10 years; Andrew, aged 5 years; and Alfred, aged 4 years. Two children, Harold and Dorothy, were burned to death more than 3 years ago, when a pig pen in which they were playing with matches caught fire. The father, Andrew Dailey, and a step-mother reside at Ceylon. The following brothers and sisters also survive: Mrs. Francis Nevil, of Ceylon; Albert Dailey, of Findlay, Ohio; Elmer Susie, Sylvia, and William all at the parental home. The body of Mrs. Beitler will be taken to the Fred Mettler residence here and funeral services will be held at that home at 1:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, and at 2 o’clock at the Reformed church, the Rev. Mr. Sauerwein officiating. Burial will be made iu the M. R. E. cemetery.

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Man Acquitted On Charge Os Murdering Officer Madison. Ind., Jan. 24 —(UP)—Clarence L. Jackson, of Lawrenceburg, has been acquitted on a charge of murdering Leonard Eads, Ripley county deputy sheriff, after the officer ejected him and two companions from a dance hall near Versailles more than a yearago. John Ryan, and William Merhoff, Jr. companions of Jackson, and indicted with him, will not lie tried, officials announced following the acquittal. o SCHOLARSHIP PINS AWARDED Eight Pupils At Central School Get Gold Pins; Other Awards Made Eight pupils received gold pins, significant of high scholarship horrors, at the Central grade school, at the end of the first semester, last week. These pupils had won leader pins consecutively for six six-week periods of school. The gold pins are the final awards. The pupils receiving gold pins were; Roland Reppert, 8A class; Mary Maxine Brown. Virginia Miller and Glenice Tindall, 7A class; Mary Katherine Tyndall and Maxine Humbarger, GA class; Fern Zimmerman and l.Joyd Myers, 5A class. The award of leader and digger pins for the last six-wek period was as follows: 8A Class Leaders: Roland Reppert and Claudine Gallogly. Diggers: Wm. Merriman and Marcile Shoe. 8B Class Leaders: Minnie Moyer, Maxine Manley, Dorothy Little, Kathryn Hower, Eileen Burk. Dick Sutton, Theodore Sovine, Stella Bartlett. Ruth Elzey, Miriam Haley, SaYa Jane Kauffman, Mary Catherine Toney, Pauline Marshall, Edwina Schroll. Mary Kohls. Diggers: Franklin Keller, Tommy Burk, Clois Eichar, Byrl Hunt. 7A Class Leaders: Mary Maxine Brown, Virginia Miller, Glenice Tyndall, Marion Baker, Eugene Knodle. Diggers: Odes Bodie, Gerald Strickler, Ozeina Drake. 7B Class Leaders: Marie Teeter, Ida Mao Steele, Barbara Krick, Pauline Hakey, Roselyn Foreman, Ruth Foughty, Marjorie De Voss, Mary Cowan. Paul Strickler, James Cowan, Miles Parrish, Mildred Hesher. Diggers: Helen Suttles, Genevieve Koos, Harold Blythe. Dale Johnson, Ellen Gephart, Marcella Gilbert, Mary Meyer, Vera Porter, Helena Rayle, Joyce Riker. 6A Class Leaders: Mabel Keck, Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Mabel Parmer, Martha Christen, Maxine Humbarger, Doyle Smith, Junior Kelly, Etta Ansuagh, Fern Irwin, Paul Hendricks. Diggers: Clark Wm. Smith, Charles McGill, Mary Foreman, John Bauman. Jacob Moyer, Jeanette Beery. 6B Class Leaders: Martha Erma Butler, Vera Clevenger, Gladys Doan, Harriet Fruchte, Mildred Gause, James Harkless, Helen Jones, Forest Kenworthy, Madeline Spahr, Richard Brodbeck, Louise Kiess, Alice J. Archbold, Martha J. Linn, Eula Myers. Diggers: Katherine Hill, Sephus Jackson, Calvin Magley, Kathleen Odle, Evelyn Kohls, Mary Leßrun, Marciel Leatherman. 5A Class Leaders: Lloyd Myers, Fern Zim(UONTINUKD ON PAGE FIVE, ■ ■■ o 23-Year-Old Mayor Os Minnesota Town Fights Ouster Move Columb’a Heights, Minn., Jan. 24. — (U.R)—William H. Foster, 23 year old mayor of this village, night student at the University of Minnesota and a fu l fledged accountant in a Minneapolis business firm, today found time to plan a fight against the "old guard" which seeks to oust him. from office. The “schoolboy” mayor laughed at the possibility of a recall election called for March 2, by the city council upon a court order granted to 368 petitioners, and said that if the state supreme court denied his appeal to set. aside the order he would beat the “old guard” at the polls. Fosters’ opponents charged the youthful mayor with failure to enforce the gambling laws, mismanagement of police, and unbecoming conduct at public meetings. The mayor, they said, swore at council meetings.

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21 OTHER BILLS INTRODUCED IN LOWER HGUSE “Bootlegger Bill” Passed By Senate By Vote Os 27-22 Today HOUSE PASSES BILL TO DREDGE WABASH Indianapolis, Jan. 24.— <U.R)— Legalizing of actual prize fights in Indiana with decisions by judges or referees, accompanied by a W per cent tax on gross gate receipts and the strictest set of regulations ever proposed, was provided in a bill introduced in the state house of representatives today by William Fisher, of Anderson. The bill does not apply to amateur events. Prize fighting now is illegal in Indiana, the only thing of the kind permitted being no decision boxing, sparring and wrestling. The bill provides for appointment by the governor of three commissioners who would have almost absolute power over who shall fight or wrestle, who shall stage the matches and where and when the exhibitions shall be held. The house introduced 22 hills, passed one and then adjourned until tomorrow. House Favors Dredging River A resolution calling upon congress to authorize the widening and deepening of the Wabash river, as provided in a measure now pending, was passed unanimously on third reading today by the house of representatives and ordered taken to the senate for action. Establishment of a state live stock farm in proximity to the state school for the feeble minded youths, at Fort Wayne, and an initial appropriation of SIOO,OOO for that purpose was proposed in one of the bills introduced in the state senate today. After passing three bills, including the debated measure to make the sale or gift of liquor to a minor a felony and adopting committee reports on nine others, the upper house adjourned at noon until Friday. Without debate. Senator Carl M. Gray's “bootlegger bill” passed the senate today. 27-22. It makes the sale or gift of liquor to a minor a felony rather than a misdemeanor and increases the penalty from 30 days to six months as it now stands to from 1 to 2 'years in prison. The other two bills passed by the senate today reduced time for keeping an estate open from 1 year to six months within the discretion of the court and repealed the judgment note law. A minority report of judiciary A committee favoring passage of the old age pension bill supplanted a majority report for indefinite post(mNTINUF.n ON »«AGB 'I»VO; TEMPERATURE IN MIDWEST RISES Mercury Moves Upward After Near Zero Weather; More Snow Forecast Chicago, jan. 24 —(UP) — Rising temperatures brought relief today to Chicago and tlie middle-west after a brief siege of near-zero temperatures and severe winds. Temperatures in Chicago area generally were above zero, and still further rises and snow were forecast by government weather bureau reports. Two firemen were killed in Chicago Ernest Heide, 35. was electrocuted when a freak wind hurled a power line against him. Charles Seifert, 25, was killed while fighting a fire in an abandoned brewery. 0 Chicago Girl Beaten To Death With A Club Chicago, Jan. 24—(UP)—Police and citizens searched the marshes and prairies of Blue Island, southwest suburb, today for a “big man" who seized Laura Bucholz, 26 year-old office worker near hei home, beat her to death with a heavy club and dragged ■ her body to a vacant lot several blocks away. A medical examination giving no evidence of a criminal attack, authorities were convinced that robbery was the motive.

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