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MRSECRETARY MISES AID |||«ATER CASE B&Vill Permit ChiEjgo J ake Water Di|Kion. Claimed ■lon will MAI)E 1 VI,K IMw.u Hurley said to.lai, ■HHi.'ke administrative Wbefo' midnight Bee. ,".1. to K« ( . w „ to llivi-l KoflaJo water pendim; tieK- m<? M,niria decision in Hie <1 tie Charles the who the quo say what limitation ,11-ed OU the I iiii-o mi | l’iiL' l it tie. , ml.-t for extension nKjgJKs li ed with Hnrb-.v <mno K protested ext.-II K on the 'he Liiewnrt and out of Hurley's I woubl take adminisi rat h e ( if circumstances He said shown such ai-tuni to Suffers | Vrom Heart \ttatk I*|mjHexander Pantaue- the mil judeville executive who of ass.mH in-' 17 y,-:u ' ' Pringle was t tmiveil . ward of tin- eouti'r ; ■ as. er jailers had icell to lh ‘ ""” ,ll ‘ 1 ' 1,11 attorneys release on ’he liis heart is lt,H ' l ' l ' -o-ii'-ioc !i > k-i-i remains in SBsBr ,;g an i'l'l’e-o fimn hi - , .>:. — o Boxer I Captures Bandit ■MSwayne, Ind.. Dee. :T> Jarr Carrb-d -jfrMS” 3 ' boxing pro n-ss on' ring last to capture of a Sim. single-handed. He leave $4 111 l i’" 1 t s, ' i '®''d ,tJt -9 bs - ,llll k s :ll " ; and Taylor works up station to ; robbery. HMER LOCAL WAN EXPIRES | e |B Stein, 57, Dies at I Hr 11 ’ O hio ’ Christ- | Emas Morninjj i | b «WStein, 57, former ri'siib-ni i K '3B C ,y died at his home in . HHBhio. Wednesday mm nine at ■ i) MBk. Death was dm- to com was employed as a Bftaßker in this city for several for the last fifteen years | at Lima. Ohio ■ by th widow ami |"' Mrs. Eva Davis. E B| ® )llio: nilly ’ Herbert, John. jf l:, Stein at home. Sev f **' and sisters itieludim' t. ’ M b| istine Weber of Fort F' survive tin- deceased I sir Htein was a brother In-law of (Jhronister of this I services will be held f'"By morning -at the Catholic f'l'.irißjn Lima, Ohio. Burial will ■*'!Bfc at Lima,

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Vol. XXVII. No. 305.

Standard Oil Heir to ed Philadelphia Deb 1 14 Nelson Rockefeller, youngest son of J. D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose engaggeinent to Mary Todhunter C’ark has been announced by Miss Clark’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy H. Clark of Philadelphia. The engagement is the result of a romance which had its origin at Northeast Harbor, Me., where both famines have cottages. The marriage will be celebrated in June after Nelson finishes his course at Dartmouth College. BANDITS GET $75 IN CASH Two Men Hold Up Filling Station Attendant Here Tuesday Night Lawrence Wolpert, employed at the Standard Oil Co. filling station located at Five Points, in the south part of Decatur, gave a $75 ■ash Christmas gift unwillingly to two unmasked bandits, Tuesday night about 6:30 o’clock. Wolpert was alone at the station at the time of the robbery. Two men drove up to the station in a coupe and asked for a quart of oil. Wolpert paced the oil in the engine and went into the station room to make change. Both men followed Wolpert into the station and when he turned *o open the safe, one of Hie bandits placed a revolver against Wc'ioert's back, demanding that he give them all the money he had. Wolpert surrendered $75 cash, including the change in his money belt, for which the men thanked him and returned to their waiting automobile. The bandits left the station and headed north down Second street. Police officials were notified at once, but no trace of the men was found. Man Blots Out Entire Family Walnut Cove. N. C, Hee. 26 — (□.p>—C. D. Lawson, 43, well-to-do farmer, chose Christmas day to blot out the lives of his wife and six children and commit suicide. Before taking his own life, Lawson carefully laid the bodies of his wife and children, side by side, on the floor. Then he went to a nearby' field and tired a rifle bullet into his head. _ Ship Goes Down London, Dec . 26 (U.R)-A Lloyds di patch from Alexandria, Egypt today said the Bulgarian steamer Varna sank in the Sea of Marmora after a collision with the Greek steamer Chryssi off the coast ot Turkey. The report did not mention loss of life, Street Cars Destroyed Indianapolis, Dec. 26 (U.R)—One 9treet car was destroyed and three others damaged, with total damage of SIO,OOO. by fire Indianapolis Street Car company e barns early today. Company officials believe a c garet. dropped in a car. •” ar,pd tb * blaze after the ear had been placed in the barns. Former Resident of Bluffton Is Dead Franklin, Ind., Dec. 2«.~ (U.R)H h Wasson. 70. assistant postmaster here who formerly teld the same position at Bluffton, was dead today He served 20 years as a postal inspector.

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CANDIDATES ARE BEING GROOMED . FOR PRIMARIES I Political Gossip Heard in All Parts of Country Last Few Days I MANY CONTESTS ARE PREDICTED I With the first of the year apI piouching, the usual political gosI sip is heard throughout the county. 1 Candidates for various county of- 1 ■ flees are being groomed, and from ' ! the pre-announcement talk, it Is | i likely that there will be a great] '' number of office seekers at the pri-; ntary elect ons next May. I Most of the county political talk] I is heard concerning the Democratic primary. It is understood that practically all office-seekers will have opposition, with the probable exception of two present officials, Nathan Nelson, prosecutor and Ralph Roop, surveyor, who have served only single two-year terms. It is not considered likely that the Democrats will oppose these two of ficials inasmuch as their offices are two-year terms. Chief talk is heard concerning the offices of judg<, | clerk, sheriff, treasurer, assessor, township trustees and second and ' third district commissioners. No inouncemeuts have yet been made concerning candidates, but ’ several have signified their iutenI'icn of announcing January after | January 1. I.i’tle talk has been heard conI reining state represents! Ive and state senator. Adams county is in n i jo'nt district for representative with . 1 Wells county and with both Wells • and Blackford for state senaitor Thurman Gottshalk, Berne is the ’ present state senator and George Saunders of Bluffton is the present rept esentatlve. 1 i Before many candidacy announce1. ments aae made one Important poli--1 ical appointment will be made by ■ the board of commissioners. A county road superintendent will be seI lected. It is reported that there are 22 II (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) AIR CRASHES CAUSE DEATHS Intoxication Is Blamed For Death of Two Missouri Fliers West Plains, Mo., Dec. 26. —(U.R) —Flying a plane while intoxicated - was blamed today (or the deaths of Sam Bartel, World War stunt pilot of Springfield, and W. B. Al- ' len, Mountain Grove, Mo., student . aviator. Bartel died several hours after he fought in midair with Allen J near Cabool, Mo., for control of , the American Eagle Dal control biplane which finally crashed. Al- , len died en route to a hospital. The fliers, operating the plane owned by George Hartley, a farmer. had gone to Cabool to take up passengers but'permission was re- , fused after complaints were made that the two were intoxicated. Dunn, N. C., Dec. 26. -(U.R) -An ; amateur pilot’s attempt to loop- ’ the-loop in an old plane cost three lives here. i The dead were Worth StephenStewart Curtis of Raleigh, and Ales son of Angier, N. C„ the pilot, Bloalock of Angier. Stephenson had no license and had been flying . onlv a short time. I Flier Is Hurt . Michigan City, Ind., Dec. 26- , ((jp)—-Doctors held little hope today for recovery of Thomas Hill, ■ 28, Kalamazoo, Mich., who was . seriously injured Tuesday] night . when liis mail plane crashed west of here. The plane was en route to Cleve’and and carried seven bags of registered mail which were tinI damaged. Hili said lie became lost in a ' snow’ storm and attempted to land ■ to learn his location. When wlth- ■ in 200 feet of the ground, the I plane went into a spin, and crashi ed, he said. He was taken to a nearby farm house in a sleigh.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 2G, 1929.

BERNE WOMAN DIES TUESDAY Miss Matilda Sprinujer Dies After Long Illness At Home Funeral services will lie held at (lie Mennonite church at Berne Friday morning at| 9:30 o’clock for Miss Matilda Sprunger, 41. of Berne, who died Tuesday. Death was due to tubercu'osis, with which Miss Sprunger suffered for 35 years. Miss Sprunger’s condition had been serious since la.-t August ami ] death had been expected since ] last Sunday. Miss Sprunger’s illness had been a peculiar one and since August of tills year she had been compelled to live almost her entire time on | her hands and knees. Her spine was affected in such a manner that she was unable to sit erect, stand ■up or lie down. Matilda Sprunger was horn in Monroe townsliip. July 7, 1888. She was tlie daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Sprunger. She resided her entire life in Adams coun- ; ty, having moved to Berne several years ago with her father. The ] mother died 36 years ago. Surviving are the father and the - following brothers and sisters: ] Emil Sprunger of Wabash town;ship; Philemon Sprunger of Chiicago; Jacob Sprunger of French i township: Menno Sprunger of Berne; Delphine, Emma and Thelma Spi linger, of Los Angeles, Cal. 'and the following half brothers and sisters: Martin Sprunger of ' near Decatur: Albert Sprunger of Van Wert: Simeon Sprunger. Jr. or North Liliexty: Mrs. Herman ' Hit's by, Gerhart, Elvina and Mrs. Wi liam Burry of Berne. Burial will be made Friday mCM'iiing at the M. R. E. cemetery at Herne. I Commissioners Will Meet Here Friday The county commissioners will me°t in special session Friday at the county auditor's office for the purpose of allowing bills and closing the record for the year. The commissioners will meet on New Year’s d.iy to complete an organization, elect a president of the board ind then adjourn for the purpose of taking the annual inventory at the county farm. The regular monthly session of the board will be held on January 6 and 7. Spanish War Vets Choose Officers A' a meeting of the member of the lArthur R. Miller camp No. 52, United Span’sh War Veterans, of- , fleers for the ensuing year were chosen as follows: Commander Alfred G. Hahnert. Monroe; senior vice commander, J. M. Lenhart; Junior vice-commander, Jesse Roop, adjtit mt. Harvey L. James; Quaitermaster. Charles F. Kitson, Members participated in the SpanishAmerican war in 1898. —z o Rotarians To Meet The regular meeting of the Rotarians will be held this evening in the K. of C. Hall, at 6:15 o’clock. o ONE IS DEAD ’ I Ch'cago, Dec. 26. — (U.R) - | I liquor was better tills Christ- ' ] mas, or merrymakers did ' : not consume so much, or 1 | luck was with them. A survey ot the nation's drinking and its aftermath revealed only one deatli di- j ’ | rectiy attributed to overin--1 | diligence in alcoholics. j The victim was a laborer ! who was found dead near a | railroad camp at North Hav- j | en, Conn. Scores were taken to hos- I | pitals for treatment after : celebrations in various cities I and towns and many others ] j awaited the morning after in jail for drunkenness, but the I toll ot dead, blinded and ] paralyzed claimed by Chrlst- | mas stimpulants in other i | years was conspicuous by Its | absence. In New York 100 persons j | were given hospital care as j j a result ot excessive holiday j drinking. I ♦— ♦

Will Lose Royal Diadem For Her New Religion **■ J X A 4? ''-'M d w 1,- \ 'CTra&Sta-A. The b aiitiful Ex-Queen Sourya, deposed sovereign of the rebelswept country of Afghanistan, wearing the gorgeous crown jewels which, it is said, she must give up all hope of ever wearing again if she persists in her intension of embracing Roman Catholicism. She has taken steps toward relinquishing her Mohammedan faith in favor of Roman Catholicism. RESTRAINING ORDER ASKED Present Gary Mayor Seeks To Restrain Both Candidates Gary, Ind., Dec. 26—(U.R)—Petition for an order restraining either Roswell (). Johnson. Republican or Emmett N. White, Democrat, from as-timing mayorship of Gary until their fight for the office is settled, has been filed in Lake circuit court by present Mayor Henry G. Hay. Johnson, who received a majority of votes in the Nov. 5 election, was declared by White, ineligible to hold office, by reason of his having served part of a sentence in the federal prison at Atlanta, (la., on conviction of conspiracy to violate the federal prohibition law. White based his contention on an act of the 1921 legislature, which decreed that any person that lias served six months or more on conviction of a felony, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) SNOW QUICKLY MELTING AWAY Warm Weather Is Predicted For State Until Friday Afternoon Indianapolis, Dec. 26. —(U.R) —Indiana’s battle against the snows, which lias cost more than $75,000 to the state highway department alone, in addition to tile thousands of dollars expended by municipal ities, may be ended by warmer weather, forecast for today and Friday Indicated. For almost a week the state highway department has worked to open Irgliways. Four thousand five hundred mon have been employed, 2,000 extras being hired, at a payroll cost of $13,000 daily In addition to this cost,'the highway department spent.sls,ooo for a carload of chains for highway department trucks, to aid in the snow battle. New snow removal equipment, costing $50,000, was used by the state for I he first time. The highway workers- are employed still widnenlng the narrow cust through snow drifts in northern Indiana, whpre the major battle was fought.

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CHRISTMAS IS OBSERVED IN QUIET MANNER Family Dinners and Santa For Kiddies Were Big Features ALL BUSINESS HOUSES ( LOSE!) Christmas day passed quietly in ] Decatur. The business section was I doser.ed most of the day. Confer- ' tionery stores were open fuirt of the day and theatres opened during the fternoon and evening, but fur •he most part, people remain d at home to ce'ebrate the annual Holiday with heir f iinil et and friends. Many family dinners were hell yesterday, and Tuesday night. Simla Cl ns made his annual trip to Decatur for the childreib and reports from all parts of Decatur were to the effect that no one was forgot en. I The Good Fellows club sponsored by Delta Theta Tan sorority ami the Basket Dinner committee of the local Elks lodge played Santa Claus I for the needy families of the city. Many individuals also remembered I many poor kiddies in the city. Decatur’s Christmas decora!ions were elaborate this year. Almost every home contained a lighted lighted Christmas tree and many yards were decorated with beautiful lighted trees. Several stores in thej , business sec ion hud special out- ■ side decorations and Second street was lined with several hundred col- , ored lights. Santa Claus made a hurried trip eirly Wednesday morning, and hundreds of grown-ups got up early with their kiddies to watch them unwrap Santa’s gifts. Lcm iI stores reported a heavy vtife of toys ot all sorts, unchiding mechanical devices, sli ds, skates, 11 balls, puzzles and in fact every | im iginable sort of contrivance. The weather was ideal and for a few hours during mid-day the temperature ndvanced above th ■ fie, zing mark. Little snow however vanished, and rural roads still weie •■eported to be in only fair condi(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) FIGHT PLANNED BY DEMOCRATS House Leaders Prepare Attack On Hoover’s Commission Plan Washington, Dec. 26. (U.R) Democratic leaders in the house are preparing to make a stand as--1 ter the holiday recess of congress ’ against what they call “President 1 Hoover's commission form of govern ment." ’ The president’s numerous commissions, they believe, are usurp ing the functions of both the legislative and administrative branches of government and shottid be checked. Their objection to commix i mions extend also to Joint congressional committees. The functions of hot it in most eases, DemocraCc leader Garner said today, are to find facts justify- ■ ing something the president wants to do. Republicans and a considerable number of democrats, however, believe the president, in setting up commissions to help settle con- ' troversial questions, has instituted 1 the best possible system of hasten--1 ing government operations and ac--1 compliahing necessary results. So convinced they are that resolutions calling for creation ot ' three new joint congressional committees will be brought before the house shortly after it convenes ’ Jan. (1. Chairman Snell of the rules committee plans to report ' measures authorizing appointment ot committees to study the public lands problem, military pay schedules and consolidation of prohibition enforcement agencies The prohibition resoluton already has passed the senate but the other two originated tn the ' house. Garner's objection prevented action on the public lands resolution last week but it is scheduled tor early consideraTon after the recess. The military pay resolution was recommended last week i — (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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_ , I Defeated Mexican Presidential ( amliilatc v * W An exclusive photograph of | Senor Jose Vasconcelos, who was ] defeated in the Mexican presiden- i Hal election by Pasqunl Ortiz Ru- ( bio. Vasconcelos is op Ills way to take up residence In lite United State . lie said that he had been ’’cheated" out of the election and ] that tlie Mexican people had been ‘‘cheated." Vimconcelos said that ] he had been offered troops and the means of starting a revolution but for tlie sake of peace he had I refused.DEATH CALLS JACOB SHUEY Tocsin Resident Dies Following Illness of Several Days I —— Jacob M. Shuey. .82, prominent retired farmer and Civil War Veteran died at his home north of Toe- , sin, Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock Death was caused by double poem - monin. M.. Shu y was a Civil War Veterin, hav’ng sei veil in the 147th Regl- - ment of Indiana Volun eers. He was born in Mercer County. Ohio. Apiil lb, 1847, the son of ' Thomas and Eliza Hines Shuey bota deceased. While he was still a boy his parents moved to Indiana where he resided the rest of his life. He *w s united in marlage to Nancy Swope who died fifty years ago. One step-son, George Swope, i preceded the father in death. t>ne bro her, Jam ■ K. shm-y ot I Kansas survives the deceased. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock at tlie I ] Horn - one mile north of Toi-sin. Re-. Elzey of Ossian will officiate. Burial will be made in the Ossian Cemetery. —o Whaling Boats Are Reported Crushed l % Lindon, Dec. 26. (U.R) -Exchange ] telegraph dispatches from Well’ngton. New Zealand, reported that the supply ship Eleanor Bolling of . the Byi f Antarctic expedition hn.l i received a wireless message stat- . ing “(wo Antarctic whalecltnsers had been crushed In the ice." Captain H. 11. Rafley, New York representative of the Byrd expedi- . tion, said he had no knowledge of 'any whaling expeditions from the , Byrd party. He explained the whaling ship Neilson Alonzo left | , her base recently In New Zealand . with a quantify of supplies to be , transferred to small whale “chas- . eiß” and taken through tlie Ross I Sea to Little America. Captain Hailey said that although . these boats had been lost, Byrd and his men would suffer no hard- . ships through the loss of the sups plies. . O (’oast Guards Kill Son Os Policeman Buffalo, N. Y . D e. 26 -(UP) — * The first law enforcement slaying on the Niagara river since enaei- ' ment of prohibition stirred Buffalo ■ today. Eugene F. Doney, Jr.. 27, son of a - Buffalo police lieutenint was niortt ally wounded last night when coast i guards opened fire on the motor - boat in which he was cruising. An i. unidentified companion escaped . ashoie after grounding the craft , and leaving the dying man behind. Coast guard officers said Dowt ney’s 26-foot boat answered descriptions of one suspected of smuggling aarcotics t'roni Canada.

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PLANS WILL BE SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS SOON Und e r Secretary Mills Outlines New Enforcement Plans ALMOST READY FOR PRESENTING Washington. Dec. 2fi— ( U.R) —Plans for more effective enforcement of the Volstead act are being prepared by the treasury for submission to congress. Under Secretary M :,, s said today. The announcement came after Attorney General Mitchell and prohibition Commission Doran both hud issued statements takng Issue sharply with a charge by Senator Borah, Itepii , Idaho, that prohibition could not be successfully enforced under the present dry personnel. The treasury's plans. Mills said, call for unification of the border patrol agencies and for limiting the ports of entry on N>th the Canadian and Mexican borders, lb* said an agreement with Canada would bo necessary to accomplish . this. "Instead ot permitting persons to enter the United States from Canada at any point on the international boundary as we now do." Mills said, “we should designate certain roads for entry purposes am! prohibit persons from crossing the border at any other point.' Persons are now required to report at the nearest customs house but wo have to maintain a large patrol to see that they do so.” Mills said he felt that the joint coHgreusioiiaJ coniniitteo which President Hoover asked congress to appoint seme months ago would lie the logical agency to which the treasury should present its idea on prolilbtion enforcement. Tlie treasury's plans be added, are practically completed and only await Hie committee s selection for presentation. Mitchell ami Doran in their statements defended the "loyalty’’ and "earnestness" of enforcement agents, and asserted there was “no lack of will to enforce the law, either' at the top or bottom." “I cannot for the honor of hundreds devoted public servants allow to pass without protest a wholesale charge of indiffereilce to prohibition enforcement which has been leveled against United States attorneys, marshals, and other officers of the department of justice," Mitchell said. "These un n are generally known In their own communities as men of integrity and courage doing their best to enforce the law. There have been w al: spots; we have been working hard to eliminate ]Hle"-. (CONTINUED ON PAOB SIX) RAIL MERGER PLAN OPPOSED Canadian Says Principle Is Wrong; Thinks It American Domestic New York, Dec. 26— (U.R)—Sir Henry Worth Thornton, president of Hie Canadian National Hallways. who is leaving for Montreal today, is opposed in principle to the nation-wide railroad merger plan of the Interstate Commerce Commi sion. the proposed plan would group railroads into 21 systems, two of which would be primarily Canadian, with tributary linen, in the United States. "The Interstate Commerce Commission's plan is purely a domestic American affair, ’’ Sir Henry said at the Canadian National offices here. "Any word from me would seem an Intrusion comparable to settling a fight between a neighbor and his wife.” "Yet, in principle I am opposed ' to huge consolidations. They destroy a railroad's personality. You I have got to preserve the presonul contact of direction to excite the will and desire of the men to do well. If a railroad becomes too • large, it loses its Identity—there is nobody to kick and no soul to die."