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Adams County (Jiri Is Featured In Photograph A picture of Miss Amv Schenck, Adams county girl appeared in i Wednesday's issue of the Indiana istlis Times, with the title “Faires* lot the Fair" written beneath it. Miss Schenck is shown with othcer girls who are attending the In dianu State Fair School of Home Economics. She is a member of S'. Mary’s township Girl's 4 II Sewing club. Miss Huth Yake was the official delegate sent by the Hom ■ I Economics Clubs of Adams count.’ but Miss Schenck also attended the fair. BRITISH HEAT WAVE INTENSE — i Seven Die in One of England's Most Severe Warm Spells London, Aug. 28 —(UP) —The severe heat wave in England and Wales had caused seven deaths today, while swarms of strange looking insects plagued the heat tor j mented natives in Glamorgan county. Wales. , The insects were described as half b-etle and half ant. They swarmed through houses and settled down on people walking in th ; I streets. The plague was so severe jat Mountain Ash. Qlamorgan, that I children were unable to attend I school. Many weather records were broken in London when the temperature i reached 92 degrees in King's Way i in the heart of the city, at 3 p. m. yesterday. The reading made yester dav was the hottest August 27 in 90 years, the hottest August day since 1911, and the hottest day in London l in seven years. FTance also suffered from the heat, with temperatures of 95 degrees in Paris and 102 in the Seine valley, a new summer record. At | Ben Guerir, Morocco, a temperajture of 131 was recorded. o — Bluffton Adopts New Auto Parking Laws The Bluffton City council, at its I meeting Tuesday evening, adopted ' an ordinance to regulate parking on the city streets of Bluffton. In the ordinance, specifications are made in which parking of vehicles on only one side of certain streets is allowed, and violators of the parking laws will be subject to a fine. Those streets affected by the new ordinance are portions of Wabash. Washington, Marion, Main, and Johnson streets. It was also decided that parking should be next to and parallel to the curb on Market street, between Main and Marion | streets. o Cattle Are Poisoned Newcastle, Ind., Aug. 28. — U.R) Cyanide, one of the most deadly of poisons, was blamed for the death of at least three of five head of cattle on the Hoosier farm, in a report submitted the Mayor Sidney E. Baker, by Lewis S. Finch, chief engineer of the state board of health. It is believed the cattle received the poison from water in a creek. A sewer into which waste is dumped at the automobile plant of the Chrysler corporation empties into the creek. Waste plating solution used at the plant and which contains cyanide, is put in the sewer. While analysis at the state laboratories showed traces of the poison in stomachs of only three animals, it was explained, it is highly probable there was the same cause of death in the other eases as traces of cyanide rapidly disappear in decomposing organic matter. o- — Woman Laughs; Gets Additional $25 Fine Gary, Ind., Aug. 28. — (U.R) Laughing in city court where she was on trial for a dry law violation, cost Anna Ellick an additional $25 fine for contempt, her sentence being a fine of $125 instead of the usual SIOO with a suspended jail term of thirty On the witness stand the defendant laughed at the judge, the bailiff, the prosecutor and even her own attorney. Memory of perspiring policemen digging up liquor in the garden at her home was especially mirth provoking. Special Judge Samuel F. Moise, his patience at an end when the woman refused to heed his warnings, imposed the sentence.

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ED AHR VICTIM OF MAO ANIMAL Local Stock-Buyer is Hurt When Bull Attempts Runaway Ed Ahr, well-known Adams conn I'y stock buyer was nursing injuries today sustained at Berne Tuesday when an angry bull tussled him down a street. The injuries are not believed to be serious. Mr Ahr, who ships cattle with Eli Reason and Lewis Sprunger of Berne, was attempting to load the bull into an automobile trailer. The bull became angry and turnled toward Mr. Ahr. The animal | made a break for freedom and Mr. I Ahr threw a rope about the bull. llt lunged forward, however, ami dragged Mr. Ahr several hundred feet. Several people came to Ahr's aid and the animal was captured. The injured man was taken to a physiIcian where his injuries were dressed He was able to be up today but his legs are bruised and his body is cut in several places. Church Plans Program A week-end program has been planned by the members of the South Pleasant Valley Church, located southeast of Monroe, to take place at the church. The meeting will begin Friday night. August 28. ami will continue Saturday evening, and all-day Sunday. A basket dinner will be served Sunday noon, and addresses will be given by a number of ministers each evening of the program. Song service will also be a feature of the week end, and everyone is invited to attend the meeting and to bring well-filled baskets to the Sunday program. n Moose Members Convene Huntington, Ind., Aug. 28.—(U.R) —The eighth annual meeting of the state department of the Loyal Order of Moose opened in Huntington today to continue through Saturday. National officers and delegates numbering several hundred had registered early this morning. Business sessions occupied the attention of the visitors today and a tour of the city was planned as part of the program. SCOW SINKS IN NEW YORK BAV .Captain Lost When Boat Goes Down; Crew Is Safe New York. Aug. 28 —(U.R) — T ' ie Clyde - Mallory freighter Neches rammed a scow at the entrance to the bay early today and sank with the lo&s of the captain, but the 25 members of the crew were fished out of the water in one of the harbor's most thrilling night rescues. The Neches, outward bound for Key West, Tampa and Mobile, was slipping silently through the narrows shortly after midnight. The night was intensely dark. As the vessef passed Fort Wadsworth at the entrance to the bay the scow’ loomed ahead, and before Captain Eber Estes could slow down or swerve, the crash came A great hole was torn in the starboard bow and the ship began sinking immediately. Officers on the bridge began blowing the whistle furiously to summon aid, and the hands fought to reach the deck. So swiftly did the vessel sink, however, that some had to escape through portholes and the others, unable to lower lifeboats, had to jump. A police launch and two coast guard cutters, playing their searchlights across the water, picked up the survivors as they swam about. Samuel Stalsen, first mate, and E. Carey, first engineer, said Captain Estes went down with his ship when a load of pipe rolled and crushed him. Stalsen, slightly injured in diving from the ship, was taken to the marine hospital, Staten Island. Twenty-one other survivors were taken to the Clyde liner Mallory at its pier and the remainder to the Stapleton, Staten Island, seaman’s Institute. The scow was being towed by the tug Dauntless when it was rammed. Both scow and freighter were resting in the main channel after the crash, a menace to shipping.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 28, 1930.

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Joan Lawes. 10-year-old daughter of Warden Lawes of Sing Sing prison, photographed in Chicago upon her arrival there from Hollywood, where she was starred in a motion picture. Joan was on her way home to New York to return to school.

JUNIOR BAND CALL ISSUED New Members Asked To Communicate With Mr. Rice, Director M. F. Worthman, superiiVendenr of city schools urges all boys and girls wishing to take lessons on band instruments to get in touch with David Rice, band director and music teacher at once. Mr. Worthman also stated, “ths instrumentation in a band should be balanced. It will therefore be necessary to select the major and minor instruments. If any of the students are buying second hand instruments, they should also see < Mr. Rice for a “check-up”. New members of the Decatur Junior band will be received at the opening of the fall semester and Mr. Worthman will be glad to coopera*’ ' with the boys and girls who wish to 1 join the organization. 1 Mr. Rice has directed the band 1 for several years and is making fine 1 progress with the members, most ■ of whom are. Pupils of the public ■ and Catholic schools. 0 Hoosiers Sees World Rensselaer, Ind., Aug. 28 —(UP) George Reed, Jr., is back at his home here after traveling through several European countries during the summer, mostly on a bicycle. He .left here June 8, sailing from New York four days later. He , landed in Cherbourg)!, France, June 19. Among countries visited w*ere , Holland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. He , said he found no World war resentment against Americans in Germany and said the general Europeans admire Americans. Will Ban Politics Gary, Ind., Aug. 28 —(UP) — Complete divorce will be granted the ' Gary police department from political influence, announced Inspector Albert S. Woods. Examinations are being prepared by Woods for each rank in the department and all officers of the force will be required to take them within three weeks. Failure to pass will mean reduction in rank but if the candidate is able to pass the test for offices above his present position he will be promoted, Woods announced. The' examinations will effect 14 men. all of whom received their present position through political appointment. Woods expects to substitute the fingerprint system for the Bertillion system of criminal identification, now in use.

COL. LINDBERGH INCHICACOFOR 1930 AIFIRACES Precaution Take n To Avoid Further Fatal Plane Disasters LINDY WILL BE HONOR GUEST Curtiss-Wright Airport, Chicago,] Aug. 28 —(U.R>— Extraordinary pre cautions were taken today to pre- j vent a repetition •of yesterday's ' disaste at the National Air Races, in which a pilot and a spectator were killed, ami 12 onlookers injured when a stunting racing plane fell into a crowd. Because the accident, the first fatal one of the 1930 air races, occurred when Lieut. Jack I’. De 1 Shazo, 29, navy pilot, saluted the crowds over which he was ending a race by roiling his plane, officials forbade needless stunting, and ordered all ships to stay clear of the grandstands. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh, when they arrived today from Columbus, I)., by airplane, probably will have to idle around in the cluods for some time in observance of the stringent safety orders. The rule that no non-contestants planes shall land or depart during any of the events was clamped down with such determination that even Lindbergh would have tp wait at a safe distance until one of the brief .periods when the airport is "open" permits him to come to earth for the ovation that awaits him. Lindbergh, however, may choose to end his trip from Teteboro, N.J., by descending at the Municipal airport, diagonally across Cook county from the air races. Although expected to draw the biggest crowd of aviation's biggest spectacle, Lindbergh's arrival early this afternoon was to be the I occasion for no formal ceremon-1 ies. He will be treated as the guest of honor, but speech-making j will be taboo. Whether he will give the throng' a thrill by performing in his plane j was uncertain. Equally a matter j of conjecture was the answer to i the question of the .women spectators: will Mrs. Lindbergh let us (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) MAN KILLER IS BULLET VICTIM Woman Who Killed Husband Shot by Lover In New York New York, Aug. 28—(U.R)—Mrs. Francis Kirkwood Van Cliff, who stabbed her husband to death two years ago in a jealous rage, was killed yesterday by the man she married less than ten months later, police believed today. The woman's body, with a bullet (wound through the temple, was discovered last night in a Brooklyn rooming house. Beside it was the body of her husband, Eugene Van Cliff. 35. who had died of a wound near the heart. Investigators said Van Cliff apparently had killed his bride and then taken his own life. Neighbors said the shooting followed an all-night quarrel between the couple over Mrs. Van Cliff's jealouhy. She was heard to accuse her husband of being friendly with another woman. It was this same jealousy which figured in her acquittal two years ago when she stabbed Dr. Glenn Kirkwood. 26-year-old veterinary, in their cottage at Sunnyside, L.I. The jury in that trial, which attracted nationwide interest, listened sympathetically to her stories of "other women.” For a time today police were inclined to believe she had killed Van Cliff also, but a note left by the husband to a small daughter by a fbrwier marriage indicated he had fired the shots which ended their lives. "Dear Ide,” it said, "please forgive me for what I have done. This is the best way out. Your Dad.” Police investigated the possibility that both were murdered, since the dead woman’s mother, convinced of this, said Van Cliff told her that two gunmen had entered her daughter's life.

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SECOND BANKER IS INVOLVED Hammond Bank Cashier Says He Was “Dupe” For Higher-up Hammond, Ind., Aug. 28. —(U,R) — Directors of th- Northern Trust! and Savings bank and its allied Building and Loan Association I were to consider a statement by I Boleslxaw Salik. cashier of the two, I firms, involving another official in I I embezzelments amounting to morel ithan $200,000. Salik is alleged to have made | the statement last night as bank examiners continued their invisti gation of the two companies. The directors held a stormy session yesterday afternoon and heard accusations of Joseph Conroy, attorney for Salik, that the cashier i was merely a "dupe" for another (officer of the institution. Total defalcations today amounted to $226,511.36, examiners said. Saylors Organizes Lions Glee Club In Decatur Clifford Saylors, local automobile dealer, has organized a Lions club which promises to be a real community asset. The club showed its ability last Tuesday at the Lions club meeting and in a few weeks will be ready tor public appearance Mr. Saylors stated that several members of his organization have had college glee club experience. The new organization will announce a public entertainment soon. BULLETIN Indianapolis, Aug. 28. —(U.R) — Attorney General James M. Ogden today declared that he may take personal charge of the state investigation of the Marion lynch-' I ing when the Grant county grand jury is convened. He will send two deputies. Merle Wall and Earl Stroup to Marion to attend the grand jury ■ hearings, in answer to the invitai tion of Harley Hardin, the prosecutor, he said. I "If the evidence brought before i the grand jury, the date for "which ' has not been divulged, is of suffi- | cient importance to warrant my attention, I shall go to Marion my- ! self,” Ogden said. — o Indiana Bandit Killed Mount Vernon. Ind., Aug. 2S. — (U.R) — Barney Caldwell, 33. notorious Posey county criminal, was shot and killed by a posse in White county, Illinois, yesterday as he attempted to make a get-away after robbing a bank at Omaha, 111. The bank was robbed yesterday morning and Caldwell fled with a woman believed to be Mabel Patrick, Mount Vernon. As the posse gained on the couple. Caldwell abandoned the car he was driving and ran alone into the woods near the road. He was surrounded and shot when he refused to surrender. Exchange Club Elects Indianapolis, Aug. 28. — (U.R) — Election of officers was scheduled for today’s session of the National Exchange club. Thomas C. Imeson, city commissioner of Jacksonville, Fla., is the only member so far to announce his candidacy for fh»> presidency of the, organization. Speakers today include Rev. Stewart W. McClellatpT, past president. Monroe, Mich.; Walter ..Hubbard, Nt w York City; John Awtry, Dallas. Tex.; and Coleman Marfin,' Charleston, S. C. 0 — Movie Star Figures In Fight Escapade Hollywood, Calif.., Aug. 28—(UP) Rex Lease, motion picture cowboy who recently paid a SSO fine for blacking the eye of Vivian Duncan, member of the famous sister dancing team, nursed a black eye himself today, reportedly inflicted by Tai Duncan, brother of the actresses. A dinner hour crowd in an exclusive film colony case was thrown into confusion last night when Duncan met Lease. Charles Euton, ower of the case, described the battle one-sided, saying only the single eye blackening blow was struck. “Are you Rex Lease?” the brother of Rosetta and Vivian Duncan was quoted as inquiring. The actor admitted his identity . and the next moment he was sprawl ing on the floor. An unnamed friend picked up the fallen actor and took him away.

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Mencken Is Married Baltimore. Md.. Aug. 28—(UP) - Henry L. Mencken, editor and for many years regarded as a "woman hater” because of bis tirades lon marriage was embarked today on a honeymoon. He had wedded Miss Sara Powell Haardt, Montgomery, Ala, writer, a week before the scheduled date after leaving to adorn the records of Mencken literature a credo which (declared that "getting married, like get'ing hanged, is probably a great Ideal less dreadful than it has been , made out.” FAST TIME TO END IN MONTH Daylight Saving Time To Finish Last Saturday in September Daylight saving time in Decatur will end at midnight, Saturday. September 27, after having been in effect for five months, and central time will he resumed. Under the terms of the ordin- , ance passed in the city council, the fast time prevails in Decatur from the last Saturday in April, at midnight to the last Saturday in September at midnight. The busses, trains, and local post office did not change their time to the daylight saving plan during the five month period, so they will re tain the same central standard time. Korne Funeral Held , Funeral services for Lewis Korne > at th<“ Adams County lr. ■ firmary Tuesday, l were held this ■ | afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Coun--1 ty Infirmary with Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann, pastor of the Reformed . church, officiating. Interment was ’(made at the North Salem Cenie'l tery. MINNESOTA HAS FOREST FIRES ——— Hundreds .loin In Effort To Control Costly Woodland Blaze Duluth, Minn., Aug. 28 —(UP) — Forest fires which in some sections of North Minnesota have driven farmers from thei rhomes continued to rage in three north central states Unless strong winds hamper their work, the rangers hoped to bring the flames, which are creeping through the timberland of the up per Michigan peninsula and northern Wisconsin under control today. The worst blaze centering near Brainerd, Minn., continued to menace farm buildings. Farmers near Brainerd and Merrifield, began evacuating their homes yesterday when rising winds caused smouldering brush fires to break ■ out anew. [ More than 500 men fought a fire raging four uiUes north of here. — Poresters dynamited huge holes . in the ground in attempt to obtain , water to fight the fires streams and . small lakes were dried up during the drought. In Todd county, Minn., fires continued to surge through hundreds of acres of cut over and second growth timber. Old time woodsmen '. said the pine trees seemed to ex ' plode when touched by the fire, the bark of the green trees was so dry that heat from a large fire 500 feet away set it smouldering. , Municipal judge Elmer Hodeviti of Duluth set a precedent in forest fire prevention, when he sentenced , two men, charged with starting . blazes because of improperly constructed camp fires, to workhouse ] terms. o Six Die In Crash Chicago, Aug. 28 —(UP) — Six ■ persons were killed and two injuri ed one probably fatally, when the ■ automobile in which they were riding was struck by an Indiana , Harbor belt line freight train here , late yesterday. The dead: Charles Cecenas, 53, driver of the car; his wife Sophie • 50; Joseph Crosinski, 47. Mrs. Magi daline Ciozinski, 40 and Emma and Ulga Sawicky, age 3 and 9 respect- ■ ively, all of Chicago. I Ruth Sawicky received injuries I which physicians said probably : would prove fatal. Crosinski's sor. Joseph, 11, also was injured.

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FEDERAL LOAN UNAVAILABLE FOR INDIANA Financial Advisor Elmer Stout Says No Funds Can Be Had IS BLOW TO STATE PLANS Indianapolis, Aim. 2X (U.R) A loan of federal funds lo finance Governor Harry G. Leslie's drought relief oroL'rain is unavailable, Elmer \V. Stout, financial advisor for the special drought relief commission, reported from Washington todav. In a telegram to John J. Brown, highway commission director, Stout said: "No plans here for relief except by existing channels already known to you and Governor Leslie. Federal farm board money unavailable." The telegram came as a surprise as Governor Leslie previously had announced that the borrowing plan was ready for operation, following his conference with the president a few days ago. Stout went to Washington after receipt of a telegram from secretary of agriculture Hyde. He will return soon and continue the state relief organization. Washington. Aug. 28—(U.R) -The problem of convincing $25,000-a---year business men that they ought to accept $12,000-a-year jobs with the government is proving a perplexing one for President Hoover. The governorship of the federal reserve board, the president ot the Emergency Fleet Corporation and four vacancies on the new tariff commission must be filled within the next two weeks. Mr. Hoover wants men of vision and tried ability so all of these posts, but the men desired prefer to remain in private life where they can make considerably more than the SII,OOO or $12,000 a year offered by the government. The situation was strikingly illustrated late yesterday when Roy A. Young resigned from the governorship of the reserve board because ho eould make more money as governor o: the federal reserve bank of Boston. The fleet corporation post was left vacant only the day before by the death of John R. Gordon, who was looked upon by the President as one of the most efficient men in the government. Young’s successor must be a man with a. wide knowledge of the banking situation. Gordon's post must be filled with a shipping executive who would be able to command from a private interest probably twice the salary the government will offer him. The tariff commission vacancies offer a similar puzzle. Five mon turned down the chairmanship before Henry P. Fletcher, veteran diplomat, finally was induced to take it. Private corporations pay h : gh salaries for tariff experts to look after their interests. The (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ■ o — STATE FAIR TO OPEN SATURDAY Livestock Being Moved To Grounds; Great Exposition Expected Indianapolis, Aug. 28—(U.R)—Indiana’s livestock was moving to Indianapolis today by wagon, van and train preparatory to opening of the 1930 Indiana state fair on Saturday. Nearly 600 head of cattle hail been assigned stalls today and more were arriving hourly. Quartering of hogs and sheep will In made tomorrow. Six thousand head of livestock are expected. Judging will begin tomorrow in the exhibits of the home economics department. Under direction of W. R. Amick, Purdue University, the annual > boys’ club camp, with 165 youths enrolled, will open tomorrow. Gates to the fairgrounds will open at 8 a.m., Saturday and at the same hour daily, with the closi ing hour at midnight. The opening day has been called "children's day,” with all youngsters under 12 years of age admitted free.