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Odd Fellows To Picnic Sunday at Sun Set Park The annual picnic for members of the I. O. O. F. and Debekah Lodges their families, and friends will be held at Sunset park, Sunday, July I 27. Several special features, including baseball, games and refreshments have been planned by the committee in charge. AU Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from this city and neighboring vicinity are cordially invited to bring basket dinners and attend the picnic. Those not having a means of transportation to the park are requested to be at the Odd Fellows Hall. Sunday morning from 10:30 to 11:00 o’clock (Daylight Saving | time). JUNIOR HIGH “ AWARDS HERE Central School Pupils Get Palmer Method Certificates, Buttons Fifty-three Central school pupils have received writing awards and certificates from the Palmer Method Writing Co., it was announced today. The buttons, badges and certificates have arrived at Central school and all pupils receiving awards are asked to call at the school Friday or Saturday after 9 o’clock in the morning to get their awards. s Pupils of Miss Grace Coffee and Miss Matilda Sellemeyer received the awards. Those getting final certificates are: Martha Christen, Fern Irwin, Mary Leßrun, Catherine Brown, Marceil Leatherman, Kathryn Hill, Charles Dishong, George Heare, Paul Hendricks, Lawrence Michel, Jacob Moyer, Mary Jane Schafer, Martha Elizabeth Calland, Sephus Jackson, Helen Gay, Jeanette Beery, Mary Katherine Tyndall, Marcella Rupert, Chalmer Hart, Alice Jane Archbold, Fern Zimmerman, Naomi Ladd, Eileen Wells. The pupils receiving improvement certificates are: Marjorie Johnson, Doyle Smith. Louis Cook. The following received merit buttons: Lenore Teeple, Elizabeth Meihls, Robert Meyer, Robert Aeschliman. Six pupils obtained Palmer Method buttons. They are: Mary Ogg, Ralph Peterson, Ellis H. Squier, Lee Anna Morrison, Lloyd Myers. Phyllis Krick, Lily Hodle. The following were awarded progress pins: Kathleen Odle. Evelyn Kohls, Mildred Gause, Eula Myers, George Heare, Madeline Spahr, James Beavers, Junior Freeland, Clark Smith, Mary Foreman, Harold Kolter. Three received student high school diplomas. They are: Maxine Humbarger, Mabel Keck, and Mildred Hesher. b Cline Funeral Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy A. Cline who died at her home in Root Township, Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, will be held Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock (Daylight saving time) at the home. Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of this city where the deceased was a member, will officiate. Interment will be made in the Decatur Cemetery. 0 Road Stretch Completed Berne July 24 |-( Special)— Contractors Hinton and Smalley, contractors on Federal Road No. 27, finished paving the road south of the Wabash River yesterday afternoon. The loading equipment was moved to Berne today and work will begin at the North side of the Wabash river this afternoon. A stretch of three miles from Berne to the Wabash river is to be paved yet, and the work will begin at the river bridge and continue toward Berne. o Detective Is Wounded Marlon, Ind., July 24—(UP) —Robert White, Peru, C. and O. railroad detecive today was in a Marion hospital recovering from buck shot wounds suffered when fired upon by a man who allegedly had stolen a ride on a freight train. According to the detective’s story he caught Ernest Parks, 35, Marion World War veteran, and several other men riding the rods of a freigh train. As the man fled from the railroad yards, tho detective ran after Parks, firing several shots into the air.

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TAX FIGURES FOR EAST AREA AREANNOUNCED Wells County Pays Highest County Taxes; Huntington Valuation High ADAMS SHOWS SLIGHT RISE Indianapolis, July 24. — (U.R) — Valuation of taxables in Huntington county was higher last year than in any of seven counties in the eastern section of the state, according to a comparison of county finances made today by the Indiana Taxpayers' Association. The Huntington valuation was $51,010,840 as compared to $47,- • •02,110 for Randolph, $45,334,385 ■ for Wabash, $33,248,750 for Adams, $32,096,350 for Wells, $31,342,065 for Jay, and $23,254,125 for Blackford. Population and per capita valuation for each of the counties was given in the following order: Huntington, 29,066 and $1,754; Wabash, 25.162 and $1,801; Randolph, 25,051 and $1,876; Jay, 20,839 and $1,504; Adams, 19,959 and $1,666; Wells, 18,382 and $1,746; and Blackford, 13,630 and $1,706. Residents of Wells county paid higher county taxes than any of the others. The average per capita taxes were $12.92 as compared to $10.33 in Adams county; $9.05 for Huntington; $9.01 for Wabash and Randolph; and $8.19 for Blackford. County taxes were lowest in Jay county where each resident this year paid $6.76. Jay- county residents also paid lower total taxes per capita with an average of $37.61. Total taxes in the other counties was: Blackford, $41.40; Adams. $43.89; Wells, $45.79; Randolph, $47.51; Huntingten, $49.80; Wabash, $54.83. In a statement issued with the figures, Harry Miesse, secretary of the associatio nurged that counties endeavor to pare their tax levies when budgets are made this fall for next year. He urged that the counties with high rates lower theirs correspondingly with the low counties. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) BORER PATROL STARTSTODAY Guards Will Search Motorists For Corn on State Roads I Indianapolis, July 24 —(U.R) —Indiana’s corn borer patrol assumed its posts today around the areas infestiyi by the European corn borer, Frank N. Wallace, state entomologist, announced. Some 50 state guards were stationed on main highways to prevent transportation of green corn from the quarantined counties and townships. At the same time a force of 100 federal scouts began a survey of other sections adjoining infected sections to determine the spread of the pest. Federal tabulations showed 292 townships in 30 Indiana counties were Infested last fall. In addition, 22 townships adjoining or surrounded by infested sections, were added to the quarantine list. The quarantine list includes 314 townships, 100 of which were not included in the ban a year ago. Counties shown .as totally infested by the corn borer are: Adams, Allen. Decatur, Elkhart, Huntington, Jay, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall, Noble, St. Joseph, Steuben, Wells, Whitley, and Wabash. Counties reported as only partly infested are: Laporte, Porter, Starke, Fulton, Howard, Madison, Delaware, Henry and Union. o To Attend Services Charles D. Teeple, M. E. Hower Sylvester Everhart and W. F. Beery left this afternoon for Lake Webster where they will attend a special ses sion of the Epworth League Institute tonight. H. L. Clase, who is well known in this city, having led the singing during the Honeywell Tabernacle meetings a number of years ago, will have charge of the singing tonight.

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Trying to Repeat ■ Kb' 7 v ♦ JW• “7 r * ’ X k. □ •' ft i Il X *' « *- If 4 "Red” Dale Jackson (left) and Forrest O'Brine of St. Louis, who are trying to regain the endurance flying crown won by the Hunter brothers of Chicago. They have been up two days now.

| Major Earthquakes Some of the major earthquakes of history with the years in which they occurred follow: 157 —Pontius and Macedonia, 150 towns destroyed. 742—Syria, Palestine, 500 towns destroyed. 1137—Catania, Sicily, 20,000 killed. 1268—Cilicia, Asia, 60.000 killed. 1456 —Naples, 40,000 killed. 1531—Feb. 26. Lisbon, 30.000 killed. 1626 -July 20, Naples, 70,000 killed. 1667-Schamakl, 60,000 killed. 1693—September, Sicily, 100,000 Killed. 1703—Feb. 2, Tokio, 200,000 killed. 1716 Algiers, 20,000 killed. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) SWIMMING POOL OPENS TONIGHT Cooler Mater Will Be Used For Rest of Season In Pool Decatur's municipal swimming pool will be re-opened at 7 o'clock tonight, after a shut-down of several days for a thorough cleaning, it was also announced that regular city water would be used in the pool starting tonight instead of boiler water formerly used in the pool. The new water will be considerably cooler and official.-, of the pool urge parents to not permit their children to come to the pool too soon after eating. The water temperature was reported to be 70 degrees. The old water was about 75 degrees. It is believed that the water change will greatly increase attendance at the pool because there was some complaint about the warmer water. Thousands of local people and visitors have availed themselves of the supervised pool during the hot days of the last few weeks. W. Guy Brown, pool supervisor stated that the entire pool and the dressing rooms have undergone a complete cleaning and have passed a rigid inspection. The public is invited to visit the pool tonight. —o Heare Funeral Held Here This Afternoon Funeral services for Mrs. Charles Heare, who died at the Adams County Memo-rial Hospital Tuesday morning, were held this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the home on North Second street, and at 2 o’clock at the First Evangelical Church. The Rev. M. W. Sunderman officiated at the services. A large number of people from Berne, where Mr. and Mrs. Heare made their home until four years ago, and many others from the southern part of the county, attended the funeral, as did many relatives and friends of the family from this city, Portland, Ohio, and Michigan. The Pocahontas lodge and the Women of Mooseheart Legion attended the services in a body. Mrs. C. E. Hocker’s class of tho Evangelical Sunday School of which Mrs. Heare was a member, also attended the services. Burial was made at the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne. o Bandits Make Haul Cleveland, Ohio, July 24 —(UP)— Three bandits held up the downtown Rotbart Bros., jewelry store here today and escaped with jewels and cash estimated at 10,000. The trio entered the store on pretext of buying a watch, bound and gagged three employes, locked them in the basement and leisurely rifled the store.

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DEATH CALLS BERNE WOMAN I . Mrs. Ardella Broadstalk Expires at Home of Daughter Near Berne Mrs. Ardella Broadstalk, aged ' 75, died at the home of her daugh- ! ter, Mrs. Ed Affolder, of south of I Berne on Federal road No. 27, • Tuesday. Death was said to have I been due to cancer, with which ■ Mrs. Broadstalk had been bedfast for the last three months. ! The deceased was born in Sanducky County, Ohio, and was a sister of Clark Fink of Geneva, who died Sunday evening. Mrs. Broadstalk was married twice, both hus- (| bands proceeding her in death. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ed Affolder of south of Berne; two sons, Jason Adams of Dunkirk, and Guy Adams of Lagrange. Two , brothers, George of Montana and Ellis of Idaho also survive. Funeral services for Mrs. Broadstalk will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock at the Ed Affolder ; residence with the Rev. I. G. Roed- • erer, pastor of the Evangelical ■ church officiating. Burial will be . made in the M. R. E. cemetery, ’ west of Berne. Industrialist Expires I Kokomo, Ind., July 24. — (U.R) — . John N. Loop, 84, former Howard , county representative, and Koko- . mo manufacturer, died at his home . late yesterday. ; The widow, three daughters and six grandchildren survive. . o SEEK TRANSFER : OF TAX FUNDS Ogden to Rule on Possi- ( bility of Transferring Gas Tax Money » — Indianapolis. July 24. — (U.R)—An opinion regarding the legality of transferring gasoline tax funds belonging to cities and towns into , the general highway department ’ fund to prevent a $4,000,000 deficit, was asked of Attorney General James M. Ogden today by the state finance board and Gov. Harry G. , Leslie. At a joint meeting yesterday of the finance board and the highway commission, director Brown outlined the rapid progress being made this season in road construction. He said the progress was unprecedented and had resulted in much heavier expenditures than had been anticipated in the first of . the year. The share of the gasoline tax which is distributed to towms and cities is not paid until March 1, 1930, it was pointed out, and by that time the highway fund would be reimbursed. , o Coolidge Will Address American Legion Meet Indianapolis, July 24 — (UP) — Former president Calvin Coolidge will be the guest of the American Legion at the opening session of its 12th annual national convention iu Boston, Actober 6. i Acceptance of the invitation from O. L. Bodenhamer, national commander, was announced at National : Legion headquarters, Indianapolis, today. Coolidge, then president, addressed the seventh national convention at Omaha in 1925.

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PICNIC PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Many Local G. E. Employes To Attend Annual Fort Wayne Party The program for the ‘‘All G. E. Picnic’,’’ given for the employed of the Fort Wayne and Decatur works of the General Electric company at Franke Park, Fort Wayne, Saturday, July 26, was announced today. Tlie concessions will open at one o'clock and the field events will begin at two o’clock. There will be events for both men and women, girls under 16 years of age and boys under 16 years of age. There will be a baseball | game, horseshoe pitching contest, archery exhibitions, tennis match, soft l>all game and other athletic events. Many attractions are included in tlie concessions. There are four events each in the men, women and children’s field contests. In the evening a band concert will be given and there will be dancing in the park pavillion. Many of tlie Decatur G. E. employes are planning to attend the outing and picnic, which is sponsored by the G. E. club of Fort Wayne. Edgar Mutschler Hurt; Hearing Is Postponed Edgar Mutschler participant in an automobile accident on state road 27 near Fort Wayne yesterday was confined to his home on Four’h street today. His physician stated he was suffering from several fractured ribs and a slight skull concusion. The hearing on a charge of reckless driving filed against Mutschler following the accident has been continued until Thursday, August 7. Jesse Brett, Fort Wayne, who also was injured was reported to be greatly improved today. R. A. Stucky of this city who was to report this morning at 8 o’clock was asked to return when the hearing is set. Mutschler's bond was fixed by Judge Burt Fagan at SSOO. —o Authorities Probe Finding of Body Indianapolis, July 24 —(UP) —The body of a girl found in a locked car on a lonely road near Indianapolis today led to an investigation of a possible murder, or a Lover’s suicide pact which the man failed to carry out. Identity of the body was not established immediately, but it was believed to be that of Miss Francis M. Thompson, 25, Indianapolis, a driver's license and certificate of title bore her name. All doors of the car were locked and persons living in the neighborhood said they had seen the woman and a man sitting in the car last night. About 20 feet from the body an empty poison bottle was found in a field. o Stunt Flier Killed Indianapolis, July 24. — (U.R) — Stunt flying by an inexperienced and unlicensed pilot today was blamed for an airplane crash at Indianapolis yesterday in which Theodore B. Madden, garage man, was killed. Madden, with only five hours solo flying time, put his low-wing Barling NB 3 monoplane into a loop at a dangerously low altitude, and it dived to the ground out of control, witnesses said. The plane was torn to pieces and Madden’s body crushed. He died within a minute after the first spectators reached the wreckage. Airport attendants said Madden had been warned repeatedly by flying instructors that his lack of experience and construction of the light plane made acrobatics hazardous. Macklin-Zehr Awarded Road Building Contract Hartford City, July 24. —(Special) —Macklin and Zehr of Decatur were awarded the contract to build the Franklin street road, almost three miles in length, starting near the center of this city and extending east. The Decatur contractors were low bidders, submitting a price of $57,299. Ten other firms also bid on the job.

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i Park Attendance Is Showing Large Gain I Indianapolis, July 24 —(Special) Unusual hot weather In the past i two weeks boosted state park attendance, figures announced today by the state conservation commission show. For the last ten days total at ten I dance was slightly in excess of fifty thousands, compared with 18,000 attendance during the same period a year ago. Lake parks and those where swimming is possible took the lead, 23.000 people visiting Dunes Park on Lake Michigan alone. Records also were broken at Pokagon Park o.i Lake James and at McCormick's Creek Canyon park where there is an artificial bathing pool. STRANGULATION CAUSES DEATH Schulte Babe Is Found Dead at 6 o’C'lock This Morning Daniel Henry Schulte, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schulte of this city was found dead at 6 o’clock this morning at the Adams County Memorial Hospital where it was born last Monday morning. The attending physician and County Coroner J. C. Grandstaff stated that the baby had died about 5:30 o’clock this morning and fol(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Man Reported Critical Indianapolis, July 24 —(UP)—Condition of Douglas D. Hall, Indianapolis, wounded in a gun battle late yesterday along U. S. road No. 52 between Lebanon and Lafayette, was reported as critical after an operation today. A rifle bullet had shattered one hip and traveled upward into his body. Hall said he picked up two hitch hikers near Lafayette who later held him up, shot him and pushed him from his car to the roadside. Residents of Clark’s Hill, where the shooting occurred, said Hall apparently was pursuing another cardrew alongside and stopped it. It was said that occupants of the other car opened fire, wounding Hall. He was left by the roadside while a man fro mthe other car drove off in Hall's auto, it was reported. 'PROBERS CALL | NEWSPAPERMEN Three Chicago Newspaper Executives Testify Today at Hearing Chicago, July 24. — (U.R) — Three Chicago newspapermen have been called to appear today before the Cook county grand jury in connec-1 tion with the investigation into charges of racketeering in the ranks of reporters, the United Press learned. Those called were Robert M. Lee, city editor of the Tribune, the newspaper on which Alfred, Lingle worked before he was', assassinated by gangsters; Harry I Read, city editor of the Evening I American, and Harry Reutlinger, assistant city editor of the American. James Bickett, managing editor of the American, said both Read and Reutlinger would appear before the grand jury, waive immunity, and answer any questions the jurors asked. ' Read was named in stories recently published as having visited “Scarface’’ Al Capone in Florida and having accompanied the gang leader on an airplane trip to Havana that resulted in questioning of the party by Cuban police. American said Read was in Florida on vacation and met Capone as a newspaper man rather than as a friend. The newspaper men were called, it was reported, in line with the grand jury’s investigation of charges made in newspaper articles by Harry T. Brundidge of the St. Louis Star, that certain Chicago newspaper men were profiting from racketeering. Brundidge Appeared before the grand jury early this week. It was understood that he named several newspapermen to whom he had referred anonymously although this was not confirmed officially.

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ITALIAN QUAKE ONE OF WORST EVER RECORDED — South-Central Part of Nation Hardest Hit Territory DEATHS GROW AT FAST RATE Benevento, Italy. July 24— (U.R) The lull extent of tho terrible destruction wrought by yesterday’s earthquake in southern Italy began to be . made clear today. One million persons were iestimated to be homeless in the stricken region. The casualties could not be estimated accurately, but approximately 3,600 dead were listed in unofficial counts, while the government officially listed 1.778 dead and 4,264 injured. The terror of the homeless victims, for whom only rough preliminary relief had as yet been organised, was multiplied by the intermittent shaking of the earth, making them fear fresh disaster. Two new shocks were felt in this region at 9;15 a m. and 1:15 p.m. today. They were not severe, but strong enough to cause already weakened houses to collapse. The government was speeding relief by every possible means, but the torn highways, railroads and bridges made communication (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— BULLETIN Cnicago, July 24.—(U.R) —By a vote of 12 to 1 the scientists appointed by the city health department to determine the parentage of infant sons born on the same day three weeks ago to Mrs. Charles Bamberger and Mrs. William Watkins at Englewood Hospital decitL i ed today that the babies had been mixed by the hospital. The parents of the two mixed infants had agreed to abide by the decision of the scientific board and it was understood that they would exchange babies tonight at the Watkins home. — o BULLETIN Detroit. July 24. — (U.R) — Three Italians suspects in the murder of I Gerald W. Buckley, radio foe of Mayor Charles Bowles were arrestI ed today near Ann Arbor. Police said the men were Frank ! L. Itore, Riverside, Michigan, and j Frank Orestieri and Anthony Missouri of Benton Harbor. Police also are holding 29 other men rounded up in adrive on gangsters and hoodlums. Detectives said they had learned Buckley, a radio announcer, was paid $4,000 to keep Frank C. Ammarata, Detroit underworld character and Thomas L. Icavoli out of jail in 1927 and had failed. It was pointed out gangsters with a grudge against Buckley may have waited until the successful conclusion of his recall election fight against Mayor Biowles and then used it as a cloak to cover their movements in the murder. HEADLESS BODY IS IDENTIFIED Akron, 0., Boy Finds Randal! Woman's Body In Bushes Akron, Ohio, July 24.—(U,R) —The headless woman's body found in a berry patch near here last evening by a youth picking blackberries was identified today as that of Mrs. Myrtle Smith, wife of Marshall Clyde Smith of North Randall, O. Clarence Collins, 13, discovered the body just before dark last night. He found the woman's head and legs, a few feet away from the torso in the berry bushes. Marshall Smith identified the body of his wife by fillings in the teeth this morning. The body was badly decomposed. A bullet hole was found In the head. Authorities believe the murder was not committed in the berry patch, but that Mrs. Smith was killed somewhere else and her body brought there.