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I Huntington Moose Plan Dedication of Home Huntington, Ind., Aug. 23—<U.R) - Hundreds of persons from all parts of Huntington county are expected to attend the dedication of the new Huntington Moose lodge home tomorrow, with open house from 9 in the morning until three in the afternoon and formal dedication at 3:30 p.m. Dr. Elmer Ward Cole, pastor of the First Christian church at South Bend, formerly a Huntington pastor, will be the Principal speaker. Officers of the lodge will act as a reception committee. MANY ATTEND EXPOSITION Chicago Filled With AirRace Enthusiasts of World Curtiss-Wright Airport, Chicago, Aug. 23. — (U.R}—This vast airport became today the center of the aviation world as thousands of persons gathered to witness ths start of the tenth annual national air races, the first “olympiad of the air.” Notables of land, air and iea were here and hundreds of airplanes, large and small, single and multimotored, stood about the field or roared overhead in flights preliminary to the official opening at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Race off cials were confident the presence of such an array of aircraft and American and foreign notables would attract a crowd of 40,000 persons, the number the specially built grandstands will seat. The weather was clear and warm. The day’s activities included: Inaugural ceremonies, parade, bands, etc. Arrival of two of seven national air derbies. First of 50 racing events to be held during the 10-day meet. Daring tactical exhibitions and maneuvers by army, navy and marine squadrons, with bursting of ballons. Flight of Jimmy Doodlittle in a speed "mystery ship.” Doolittle arrived late yesterday from Washington, carrying the personal well wishes of President Hoover for the success of the great “olympiad.” The message was delivered’last night at a banquet given in honor or Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd and attended by 1,500 persons. Admiral Byrd was presented a life membership in the National Aeronautical Association. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Dr. Eckener and Orville Wright are among the select few who have been thus honored. In an address broadcast throughout the nation, Byrd predicted the doom of the three engined airplane unless great improvements are made immediately and hinted he was planning some new advent ure. “I wish to announce,” he said, "that I am in the market for the first airplane built that will fold up its feet like a bird and carry its engines in its wings. Such a plane can and will be built. I have a very definite use for it.” He paused while the assemblage grasped the importance of his announcement, then added, smiling: “I am not, however, saying just where I am going to use it.” Verdict Is Expected Newcastle, Ind., Aug. 23 —(UP) — —A coroner’s verdict is expected within a few days in the death of Mrs. Carrie Huddleson, whose charred body was found on the floor at her home several days ago. Coroner Ralph Niblick said today be had virtually completed his investigation. That autorities have very little direct evidence against Turner Huddleson, 78 busband of the victim, who is held in jail on a first degree nlurder affidavit, was admitted today by Franklin George prosecuting attorney. Huddleson probably will be held for a grand jury investigation, George said. o Is Killed Instantly Brazil, Ind., Aug. 23.—(U.R)— Frank Pollom, 50, Harmony, was killed instantly when struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train east of Harmony last night. Pollom was walking alone when the accident occurred.

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SCHOOL CITY'S TAX ESTIMATE IS UNCHANGED 1931 Rate Proposed Ls ,$1.42; Same as Present Rate WILL RESULT IN SAVINGS The Decatur school city’s lax rate, pavable in 1931 will not be increased, the propositi rate being $1.42 on the hundred dollars, the same as the levy in effect this year. Although figured on a lower city valuation, the school board; was able to hold the tax rate down to this year's levy, because of an incrtxise in tuition and transfer fees in the high school. The transfer fees from other townships amounted to about $6,500 this year, an increase of nearly $4,000, M. F. Worthman, superintendent of schools stated. The total of the budget is about $5,000 less than a year ago. The 51.42 rate will yield approximately $92,500.00. To this amount is added the transfers and the congressional and common school fund interest, which will give the board a little more than SIOO,OOO to operate the schools with during 1931. The school rate is divided into three funds, namely: Special school 55 Tuition .75 Bond and interest 12 Money is borrowed from the school fund and placed in the tuition because the 75 cent levy does not yield sufficient funds to pay the teachers in the schools. The 75 cent levy is the limit which may be levied for this purpose. The largest item of expense in operating the schools is for teachers. The bill for teachers is a li’tle more than $63,000 for the year. Other operating expenses, including coal, water and lights for all the buildings is $28,000. Although the school rate is not reduced, there will be a saving to (taxpayers because of the lower valuation and the cut in the budget of expenses. The budget and tax rate will be finally adopted at a meeting of the board on Tuesday, September 2. Bluffton Schools To Open September 3 The schools at Bluffton will open for regular classes Wednesday September 3, at 8:30 o'clock in the morning, Supt. O. M. Craig announced yesterday. The pupils will asemble at their respective school buildings, Tuesday to receive their assignments. FLETCHER WILL REVISEJARIFF Is Named to Direct Commission’s Revision of Bill Washington, Aug. 23. — (U.R' — President Hoover has placed in the hands of a veteran diplomat, Henry P. Fletcher, a Pennsylvanian, the task of directing the tariff commission in its revision of the Haw-ley-Smoot law. The appointment of Fletcher as chairman ,of the commission, announced by President Yloover yesterday, was received with favor today by Republican protectionists. It was not so well received by those who have opposed the high tariff ideas usually held by congressional delegations from his state. The tariff commission assumes new importance with its enlarged powers granted by the HawleySmoot act. President Hoover has emphasized that he wants it to use these powers to correct any delinquencies in the act. Fletcher comes to this important post after 20 years of service in the diplomatic corps, which was concluded last year as ambassador to Italy. He served also as ambassador to Chile, Mexico, and Belgium, and as undersecretary of state, and before that in 'minor diplomatic assignments. He was a member of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 23, 1930.

Girl Dies for Ix)ve Wil i Hu MaaaaawaMaMM' • ..-.rae aa at * Marjorie Angermeier (right), Ne<w York society girl who ended her life by drinking poison in a Chicago hotel after Lord Edward Montague (left), her fiance, had wed another g:rl.

FIRE HOUSE TO BE READY SOON Engines Will Be Moved in Ten Days to Seventh Street House The moving of the fire department from the city hall on Monroe street to the new fire engine house on South Seventh street will be started in about 10 days, Jack Friedt, fire chief stated this morning. Work on the new building is progressing nicely and although all the details will not have been completed by that time, it will bo in shape to house the trucks. The council wishes to make the city hall room available to the street fair association, it being planned to hold the art exhibit there. When the new 1 engine house is completed in all details a housewarming will be held and the public invited to inspect the place. . Yost Bros., contractors of this city hare the general contract. The council is buyfng furniture for the engine house now. The engine house is so arranged that living quarters are provided for tha-dfremen, besides a two car garage for the trucks. The trucks will be housed on the north side of the building. Former Owner Expires Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. Aug. 23. — (U.R) — William B. Smith, 55, of Pittsburgh, Pa., former owner of the Indianapolis baseball team of the American Association, died suddenly here late yesterday of heart disease. He had been vacationing here with his wife and children. Smith, who was afflicted with heart trouble for seven years, was ill in bed at the time, but his death was unexpected. Private funeral services will be conducted Monday from St. Peter’s church, after which the body will be shipped to Pittsburgh for burial '. o DEMOCRATS TO MEETTHURSDAY Advisory - Finance Committee to Meet With Chairman Bosse Democratic county chairman Ed A. Bosse today called a meeting of the Democratic finance-advisory committee for next Thursday night at 8 o’clock. The meeting will be held at the law offices of Mr. Bosse on South Second street. The committee including Mayor George Krick, Huber DeVoss, Sheriff Harl Hollingsworth, David Adams, Herman Gillig, Thurman Gottschalk and J. A. Long will be called to make preliminary plans for the campaign. Chairman Bosse stated he would immediately notify each committee member of the meeting. It is understood that a general meeting will be held early in September at which time all precinct commit teemen, candidates and other Democrats would complete campaign plans. Chairman Bosse reiterated his statement of urging unemployed men and women be given first opportunity to serve on the various election boards In November.

Women Urged to Plan For Culinary Show The committee in charge of the Woman’s Department at the Decatur Free Street Fair next month, urges that all women begin to prepare their articles to display at the Fair immediately. The list of articles to receive awards this year have been greatly changed, and those planning to exhibit articles at the fair are asked to note the change in the premium lists. Entry blanks may be secured the week prior to the fair from County Agent L. E. Archbold, the Chamber of Commerce room. o Humbargers Leave City Mr. and Mrs. Heber Humbarger, daughters Maxine and Joan, and son George left Thursday for Huntington. where they will make their new home. Mr. Humbarger has been transferred from the Clover leaf Creameries, Inc., in this city to tire plant at Huntiugton. Jewel Thief Returned Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 23 —(U.R) —James Mcßride, 55, Chicago barber, was returned to Chicago today to face grand larceny charges .there after his arrest here several days ago for the theft of h:s wife’s jewels. Mcßride, according to his story to police, went on a "spree” and took the jewels while intoxicated. He said he Intended to return them when he became sober once again. It is not anticipated that charges against him will be pressed, all the jewelry having been reeov*' ered. KENNEDY WILL NOWALTERED Evangelist’s Mother Will Not Leave Money to Angelus Temple Los Angeles, Aug. 23. — (U.R) — Mrs. Minnie A. Kennedy, suffering a slight relapse today after a nasal operation, aimed another verbal missile at her evangelist daughter, Aimee Semple McPherson, by announcing she had changed her will Killips has a lead of sin minutes Angelus Temple. The operation and the will alteration were definitely connected by "Ma" Kennedy, who said she would leave her estate to others because Mrs. McPherson allegedly struck her on the nose and broke it. Mrs. Kennedy told of her new will after she had threatened to make public a "secret document” purporting to tell the truth about the McPherson kidnaping case four years ago and the affairs of Angelus Temple. She said the document will be given out if her temple opponents "continue to make dirty cracks about me.'’ Mrs. Kennedy’s relapse was caused by a second operation, made necessary because the injured member was not "setting straight,” as Mrs. Kennedy explained. It caused intense pain and a slight fever. Far removed from her mother's room in r>rentwood sanitarium, Mrs. McPherson was convalescing from a nervous breakdown. Visitors were denied the eyangelist because of her need for quiet.

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CHILDREN TO BE ENROLLED IN INSTITUTE Registration Coupon Is Printed In Daily Democrat Tonight HEALTH EXPERTS WILL EXAMINE One feature of the Adams County Child Health Institute to be held in Decatur during the street fair, September 9 to 13, will be the awarding of blue, red and white r bbons to children (age 2 to 6 years) who come up to required health standards. The free physical examination of the children will he given by Dr. Teal and Miss Gibbs, R. N., of the State Board of Health. In order to avoid congestion and long waiting on the part of mothers. the committee in charge decided to ask parents to enroll their children for this examination. after which a definite time will be given to them. Coupons for enrollment are found on another page of this paper. Parents are requested to fill them in and send them at once to Mrs. Charles Knapp. Decatur. The requirements for the ribbon awards are as follows: For a Blue Ribbon award, child must be of normal weight, that is not more than 10 per cent below nor more than 20 per cent above average weight for height and age. Normal eyes, ears and throat; tonsils healthy or removed. Healthy condition of teeth and gums. No unfilled cavitiei. Teeth must be clean. Nasal breathing unobstructed and no chronic discharge from the nose. Protected against smallpox and diptheria. The requirements for a red ribbon are the same as for a blue ribbon, except the final requirement is removed. White ribbon requirements are: The body must be suntanned. Face, arms, chest, back and legs must be completely tanned by the sun. Two other features will comprise the health institute: a nursery where mothers may bring their babies for rest and care; and a child health exhibit similar to that which is shown at the state fair. o— For Direct Collection Indianapolis, Aug. 23—(UP)—A plan to bring oil inspection fees under govenmental control, instead of being left in :he hands of appointed inspectors, was advanced today by Lawrence F. Orr, chief examiner of the state board of accounts. Orr's ideas may be incorporated into a bill to be introduced at the 1931 session of the legislature, he said. It would provide that oil companies would pay the inspection fees direct to the state, through the oil inspection department head, instead of paying individual inspectors as under the present plan. The only check-up of fee collections are the inspectors own report and even these show thousands cf dollars in shortages, Orr said. Aged Couple Elopes Indianapolis, Aug. 23.—(U.R) — "We’re just a couple of kids trying to get along,” Mrs. Cerilda Clark, 82, of Kewana, Ind., and her husband, William Clark, 86, of Crawfordsville, told reporters today when questioned about their elopement Tuesday and subsequent honeymoon. “It was pure-down puppy love that made us do it,” they said. "We were lonesome. My wife, half sister of Cerilda's husband has been dead three years. Her husband had been dead 15 years,” Clark said. “I sold my farm and property. Both of us had big church weddings before so we decided to do like the kids do now, run off. We went to Rochester and were married there Tuesday.” Clark was a Confederate soldier under General Bragg. i o Has Tonsils Removed Bobby Schnitz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrell Schnitz, underwent an operation in the offices of Drs. Harry and Dailey Jones at Berne, yesterday for the removal of his tonsils.

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Fliers Resume Race Augusta, Ga., Aug. 23. —(U.R) — Three entrants in the Miami to Chicago air derby, delayed for al-j most 24 hours by poor visibility be-1 tween here and Nashville, took off: from Daniel field today on the fifth | lap of their Chicago flight. Their I next stop is Nashville. They will spend the night at Cincinnati. Art Davis, Lansing, Mich., flier, took off from the landing field at 8:01 a. m.. followed by Art Killips, La Grange, 111., and G. T. Burrell, Jr., also of La Grange, at one-min-ute intervals. Killips has alead of six minutes. MOTOR GLOB TO MARK HIGHWAY Fort Wayne Club Will Furnish State Road 54 Signs To Ohio The Fort Wayne Motor Club will furnish signs and have them erected designating the route of Ohio road No. 54, through Decatur, according to a letter received this morning from J. P. Flutchens, secretary. Mr. Hutchens in his letter to J. H. Heller, editor of the Daily Democrat. stated, "We have been sending quite a number of tourists into Ohio through Decatur and in view of the fact that the road from Willshire so Decatur is not a numbered highway, it is a little difficult for motorists to find their way. There, we have ordered signs for marking this road and have ordered them shipped to you. If you will notify me when they arrive, I shall have them properly placed." Several weeks ago Mr. Heller wrote to Mr. Titus, chief engineer of the state highway commission tequesting that the state highway department mark the road. Mr. Titus replied that since the road had not been taken over by the state that it would be impossible to do it at present. Much traffic passes over the route, connection being made with Ohio road 54, one of the principle highways running east. o ’ Racing Cars Arrive Rockville, Ind., Aug. 23 —(U.R) — Sixteen racing cars arrived here today to participate in Indiana’s second night dirt track auto racing program at Jungle Park speedway, east of Roqkville, tonight. RELIEF STUDY IS CONTINUED Hoover Seeks Quiet of Fishing Camp to Complete Plans Orange, Va., Aug. 23. — (U.R) — President Hoover is devoting another of his week ends at his mountain camp on the Rapidan to consideration of drought relief, this time in connection with the additional unemployment problem created by the long dry spell. The president arose early to begin a series of conferences with army engineers in an effort to map, out a plan to accelerate the Mississippi flood control building program as an aid to employment in states hit by the drought. Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of army engineers, and Col. George R. Spalding, army engineer in charge of the upper Mississippi and Illinois river projects, ace guests at the camp who are expected to take a leading part in the discussions. Hanford MacNider, new minister to Canada, also was a guest, and it was considered probable that he would discuss with Mr. Hoover the problem confronting him in reopening negotiatipns with the new Canadian government to revive St. Lawrence waterway development. Although inclusion of Spalding in the conferences indicates the whole field of inland waterways may be explored for employment possibilities, the principal flood control project to btf considered today is understood to be creation of a large reservoir in North Dakota to hold waters of the Missouri river. proposal, suggested to Mr. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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2,508,151 WERE JOBLESS WHEN COUNTWASMAOE Figure Does Not Include Those Laid Off Temporarily IS IMPORTANT . FOR CAMPAIGN Washington. Aug. 23 (UP) — The nation’s uiuinploved numbered 2,508,151 when the census was taken in April, the census bureau announced today. This was 2 per cent of the country’s total population and 5.2 per cent of the estimated number of workers. The figure includes only tltose without jobs, able to work and seeking employment at the time the census was taken. It does not include several other classes, such as those with jobs who were la'd off without pay. The count of. unemployed was the first undertaken in this country, and provides a basis for estimating the extent of hardships resulting from business depression. Previous unofficial unemployed estimates had ranged from 3,600.000 to 6,000,000, and Republican leaders were quick to take advantage of the fact the census showed a smaller number than administration critics had charged. "We at last have an accurate statement of this question,” Senator Hatfield, Reph., W. Va., declared in a statement. "It brings into high light the malevolent character of the statements made by Democratic senators and Democratic leaders last April, through John Raskob's Democratic propaganda bureau, that there were five or six million unemployed.” Unemployment figures for each state and the District of Columbia showed Michigan had the highest percentage of unemployed. 160,506 out of 4,842,280 inhabitants, or 3.3 per cent. United Press computations also revealed a higher percentage of would-be workers were out of work in Michigan than in any other state, 8.2 per cent. South Dakota and Mississippi had the lowest percentage of unemployed, 0.5 per cent of th'eir total population. Only 1.3 per cent of Mississippi’s citizens were out of jobs apd 1.5 per cent of South Dakota's. New York had the greatest number of unemployed. 364,617, or 2.9 per cent of the total population. This represented 6.6 per cent of the workers. Six other groups are to be added to the list of unemployed. They include persons having jobs but laid off; unemployed persons unable to work; persons having jobs but idle because of sickness or disability; persons out of work and not looking for it; persons having jobs but voluntarily idle without pay; and persons having jobs and drawing pay, though not at work. The first of these is particularly important, the bureau pointed out, because -it will include some who are in "very much the same economic position as the jobless announced today.” REVOLT OPENS AMONG TROOPS ■ 1 ' o — — Arequipa Is Scene of Troop Revolt, Official Word Reveals Lima. Peru, Aug. 23—(U.R)—An official communique today announced a revolutionary uprising of troops of the garrison at Arequipa. The rebels captured the government authorities at Arequipa ami took possession of the city, which is the second largest in Peru. / The government announced that it expected to restore order at Arequipa and issued a decree closing the port of Mollendo to all merchant ships. All commercial aviation fields at Arequipa and in ■ the vicinity of the captured city ‘ also were closed. ■ The announcement said Commandant Sanchez Cerro had insti- : gated the uprising. He was said to have told the troops that the government would not pay them ' - _ Commantlant ’ General Leopoldo (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)