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iSjSI DROUGHT 1 HISTORY OF oIIMSMT id ■ Months' Ke co rd Scant Rainfall In Midwest AKE ■ 1N BAD SHAPE Sept. 5.--<U.R) ■ fnited States today is ■ng into it v fifth month cond'tioiis Ahuh ■k consider to exceed in v a ii pre\: ' I' droughts |His' country. rainfall first was not■tiav.’re weatm r bureau the United Press, ili'pai"! ■ I |! experts, ■e/explain-l fairly '"II s l iintinucd - June. |K LI ai”l increasing- . moisiuo' began to re- - , irl , Sll( , .Vr< ng- gen was greater than in prevuri'l this marcrop retile lev. levels Ilf I'-" 1 ! up to this sear set the Ml record forth United ■ ; h..‘rmar. Stone of the FedBrail drought r - one parts of |Ho:>ri"'- I'.' \ H '' rains ii.id see. merely to past ires and had not resprings. of Agriculture Hyde Aigno rainfall and it states, most ■en: in 'lie Mi.~-s-ippi valley. : t tin area into Mtrn IL:ii"\V.-otisin. anil led Hyde suggest a in pros 'lie no!:.. ''. of states SO tar have . .. „p..,| serious which in .• . ■ cotnp.irKBir -arly. csi A most of the daniaa and the country -■ - overproof line' \e . an farms. . . •• ■ ' . I n ought -n cro; prospects from bushels on July 1 to A l ,.;a - Agricul- ■ u ; s . xpei t the l'i lep.at io show reduction because of con di t i . s throughout here show that in the strii Ron areas there ON PAGE TWO) — ■iff Sue> Gasoline Co. la l„ Sept. 5 I CP) — seeking s2o,not) damages |V a gasoiiiu. distributing comhis been filed | ■> Ivan p u n eu ■j 1 *- "" ,!i " 1 mtention that poor at gasoline uas delivered to which resulted in a crash asks $5,1)01' for loss of his lii.Oliii for loss of expected ■ ' from it. am] .Jlii.iiihj for d an ,. jM* 0 “is reputation as a pilot. ■ldweatker I is PREDICTED ■ather Forecaster Says ■ temperature Will * » Nrop Sharply ia «polis, Sept, 5. — (U.R) — ■LiTs her Was Predicted for ■L ndiana Saturday by United ■\, r bureau officials to- « Hie forecast sa i d temper■L. ? range from 10 to 12 ■L. ' Je ‘° w norma l following Fms toui kht. ■4K ov ,llermnm eter readseveral 6 > State this moI- ning of th Bl ' e<?S higher tllan ’■normal h » rßday ' they stlu were ■a ap L C(,,,rding t 0 J - H. Arm- ■ senior meteorolgoist. here today wa « ■ !k >- ws clea^ V V° rniaI ’ an " ■t' are nr J. Show ers, howB»00h d ‘ Ct6d f ° r late this af ’ ■; hw fonoX ‘ ght w!th colder ■ 55 e S atUr r wIII be about ■ sta te wenTh her ® Satllrtla y if eather forecast is cor-

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Vol. XXVIII. No. 210.

Coach “Tiny” Horton Is Guest At Rotary The members of the Rotary basehull team were entertained by tne Decatur Rotary club at the regular luncheon meeting of the club last evening. All of the members were present and each player was introduced by Ed "Pat” Coffee, manager of the team. Burchard “Tiny" Horton, football coach of the Decatur Public high school gave a short talk to the boys. lie stated that determination had much to do with success and emphasized the fact that boys should always play for the sport of the game and the good they obtained from athletics. He urged all boys to continue their school work and take advantage of the athletic facilities offered by the schools of today. C. J. Voglewede was chairman of the program. o— DEATH CALLS FRANKKELLER Well-Known Decatur Man Dies This Morning At His Home Frank J. Keller, 50, well-known Decatur meat cutter died at his home. 715 North Walnut street, at 3 o’clock this morning from cancer and complications. Mr. Keller spent his entire life in this city where he was employed as a meat cutter, first with Simeon Hain, Schmitt’s meat market, and for the past twenty years with the Mutschler meat market. He worked until two weeks ago, when he became seriously ill and since that time was bedfast. About a year ago he underwent an operation and has been ailiirg from time to time since then. Mr. Keller was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Red Men and Moose lodges of this city. Mr. Keller was born in Seneca county, Ohio, on September 17, 1579, the son of George and Barbara Bogner-Keller, both deceased. Surving is the widow, Mrs. Mary Shafer-Kelier, and two sons, Charles Keller of Fort Wayne, and Franklin Keller, Jr., at home. Six brothers, John Keller, William Keller, and Edward Keller of this city; Otto Keller, Fred Keller, and Anthony Keller of Hammond, and six sisters, Mrs. Pauline Roop, Mrs. Lillian Shanahan, and Miss Bertha Keller of Hammond; Mrs. Gertrude Hetzer of Jackson. Michigan; Mrs. Mary Foos, and Mrs. Emma Perry of this city, also survive. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Mary’s Catholic church, with burial in the St. Joseph's cemetery. o Woman Gambler M ins Richmond, Ind., Sept. 5 —(UP)— Richmond's first woman dice expert, Mrs. Margaret Johnson, 17, was still $220 ahead after a conflict wdth twe men and the law. She had been gambling with the men and had won $225 from them when arrested, it was said, Her fine was sls. o Fire Is Threatened Bloomington, Ind., Sept. S—(UP)5 —(UP) A cigarette stub fired leaves in tne fork of a willow tree on the university campus and nearly destroyed it. The tree is 100 years old but was expected to survive. Chaney’s Will Probated Los Angeles, Sept. 5 — (UP) — Property valued at $550,000 was bequeathed to relatives and friends by Lon Chaney, screen character actor, according to terms of his will on file today for probate. The bulk of the property, which included $275,000 in life Insurance, $150,000 in real estate and $125,000 in personal property, was left to his widow Mrs. Hazel G. Chaney, who was named executrix. A bequest of $1 was left the actor’s divorced wife Cleva C. Bush. o Fliers Prepare Plane Dallas, Tex. Sept. S—(UP) Capt. Dleudonne Coste and Maurice Bellonte had their trans-Atlantic plane fueled and ready to start to New York today long before they had arrived at Love Field. Another plane was made ready to carry their manager, Rene Racover. Shortly before 11 A. M. the fliers themselves arrived at the field and planned to start east byway of Louisville before noon.

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COMMUNISTS A N D BANDITS ABE ATTACKED Chinese Government Forces Report Victory After Hard Battle ARMED PLANES ARE IN BATTLE Shanghai, China, Sept. 5—(UP)— A combined attack of government armored planes and gunboats on communist and bandit forces near Changshi was announced today by Nationalist military headquarters. The announcement said 10,000 of the forces menacing Changshi had been killed and the rest fled southeastward. Military headquarters simultaneously claimed that Gen. Feng YuSiang. who has been co-leader of the Rebel government set up at Peiping, was withdrawing northward along a wide front. Feng was said to be evacuating the Lunghia, Peiping and Hankow railway fronts, while the government forces were advancing northward as well as defeating the Communist and bandit forces at Changshi to the South. The chief government objectives on the north were Kai-Feng, ChengChow and Lo-Yang. Residents of the city of Changsha sacked recently by Communistic troops aided by bandit forces, had been greatly alarmed by the battl.-s (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o ‘MOST CRIMINAL’ MANJSHANGED Government Exacts Penalty at Leavenworth Federal Prison Federal Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kas., Sept. 5. —(U.R) —Showing contempt for life until the end, Carl Panzran, who proudly referred to himself as “the most criminal man in the world,” died on the gallows here today. He was the first man to be hanged in Kansas in 40 years. The trap was sprung at 6:01 a. m. He was declared dead at 6:20 a. m. The scaffold was constructed in a secluded corner of the prison yard, out of sight of other prisoners. Hidden machine guns were trained on the surrounding cellhouses from turrets around the yard. A grey mist floated over the scene, obscuring the sunrise which was the signal for Panzran's death. Panzran spent his last hours reading magazine stories which he never finished. He was sentenced to die for the murder of a prison foreman. Robert Warlike, of the prison laundry. Warnke w , as clubbed to'death after he had reprimanded Panzran for infraction of rules. The defiant manner which Panzran exhibited during his prison term, first invoked for robbery in Washington, D. C., did not leave him as death neared. He had demanded the death penalty or freedom so that he might “rid the world of humankind.” A federal jury, acting on a crime committed on government property, gave him the death penalty despite Kansas' laws not providing for capital punishment. When officials went to his cell to read the death warrant, Panzran refused to listen, saying: “Don’t bother me with that stuff.” The condemned man was a physical giant of middle age, his exact years undetermined. He weighed 212 pounds. Panzran seldom took his eyes from the magazines during the night except to scowl at a guard •or light a cigaret. His last request, apparently in fear of being buried alive, was that a complete autopsy be performed on his body. Although the condemned man was malicious, he did not begrudge his fate. He had asked for death. "I deserve my fate,” he had said. "I killed Warnke because I hate people and would kill everyone if I had a chance. I get pleasure out of seeieng them die. 1 believe every human being should be ex(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 5, 1930.

In Hurricane’s Path -vat* ml - • — » r < W 1 I! -xw ■. • i r . 1. ? i I * 1 W The National Palace in Santo Domingo, capital city of the Dominican Republic, is one of the many beautiful buildings it is feared were destroyed in the tropical storm tliat is sweeping through West Indies.

U. B. CONFERENCE DRAWSCROWDS Annual Meeting Hold At Winona Lake; Pastors To Be Assigned Hundreds of members of the Un ited Brethren church in northern i Indiana, attended the annual St. Joseph conference at Winona Lake this week heard Paul Rader, famous evangelist as the headliner of the Thursday meeting. The attendance at each conference meeting has been good, according to Rev. R. E. Vance, pastor of the local United Brethren church who has been attending the meeting. The conference will close Sunday afternoon. H. C. Beauchamp of South Bend was named president of the conference for the third consecutive year, and is presiding at the present meeting. The conference will close Sunday with assignment of pastors for the coming year. oBANKERS PLAN ORGANIZATION County Association Revived At Meeting Here Thursday A group of Adams cqunty bankers met in the First National Bank of Decatur, September 4th, with the following banks represented: The First National Bank of Decatur, the Peoples Loan & Trust Company, Decatur, the Bank of Berne, Berne, Indiana and the Farmers State Bank of Preble. A banquet was served at the Peoples Restaurant after which a meeting was held in the directors room of the First National Bank. The Adams County Bankers’ Association which hae not been active for several years was again revived and the following officers elected: E. W. Baumgartner, cashier of the Bank of Berne was elected president, and L. S. Armstrong, secretary of the Peoples Loan & Trust Company, was elected secretary of the county association. The meeting was full of enthusiasm throughout and it wae agreed to hold monthly on a fixed date. The next meeting to be held at Berne on the night of October 10th. Some important matters were discussed by the group and a spirit of enthusiasm was manifest throughout the meeting. o Accident Victim Dies Cynthiana, Ind., Sept. S—(UP5 —(UP) — One man was killed and two others injured late yesterday when a stock truck crashed into a bread delivery truck at a road intersection near here. Jake Brodedel, 35, Albion, 111., driver of the stock truck died almost instantly. C. L. Boechle, Evansville, driver of the bread truck, and R. J. Jacobs were badly injured.

Commissioners To Ohio County commissioners B. F. Breiner, John Hoffman and George Shoemaker went to Celina. Ohio, where they met with the Mercer county commissioners relative to building a road along the Ohio-In-diana state line. The road is in Blue Creek township and both counties will share in the expense of building it. o ‘RAIN PRAYERS FUTILE' BELIEF American Clergymen Believe Praying Does Not Cause Rain Chicago, Sept. 5. —(U.R) —Prayers for rain are futile, in the opinion of a majority of prominent American clergymen who took part in a symposium conducted by the Magazine Christian Century. One fundamentalist leader, however, Dr. Mark Mathews of Seattle. declared that God has answered prayers for rain in Biblical days and that he could do it again if He so desired. Another answer on the positive side came from Dr. James M. Gray, president of the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. He upheld the possibility of Divine intervention in meteorological affairs by declaring that since God made the weather he also could change it. Dr. Harrj’ Emerson Fosdick of New York, John p. Rockefeller’s pastor, led the doubters. He scoffed at prayer as a meant? of getting rain. “No imaginable connection exists between a man’s inward, spiritual attitude and a rain storm.’’ said Dr. Fosdick. He pleaded for an abandonment of “crude, obsolete supernaturolism in this benighted and uncivilized country.” Dr. W. P. Ijemon of Minneapolis called praying for rain an attempt to involve God in “a cooperative scheme to maintain present American living standards.” It is. he said, too much like asking God to send an earthquake to air in excavation or a hurrican to complete a wrecking job. Other pastors who answered the Christian Century’s question negatively include Prof. Walter M. Horton of Oberlin (Ohio) Theological Seminary, Prof. Henry M. Weiman of the Chicago Divinity School, and the Rev. Samuel Harkness of the Winettke, 111., Community church. — o Six Hurt In Mishap Mt. Vernon, Ind., Sept. 5 —(U.R) — Six persons were injured, three seriously, in an auto collision on state road 62 four miles east of here last night. An automobile driven by J. Stuart Yow struck a car driven by Elnora Folz, 14, and turned over three times, according to witnesses. The Folz car was demolished. The injured were Edward F. Alles, publisher of the Mt. Vernon Democrat, who was riding with Yow; Mildred Folz. 7; George Folz Jr., Sylvester Folz, 9; anil the drivers of the two cars. Alles received a lacerated arm, broken jaw and head wounds.

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BRIDGE CASE IS COMPLETED Evidence Taken To Tax Board For Final Decision On Remonstrance The hearing of the remonstrance against the building of the Scheimann bridge in Preble township was concluded at about four o'clock yesterday afternoon. James Showalter, representative of the state board of tax commissioners .presided at the hearing which was held in the court room. A number of persons testified in the case. Following the hearing of the arguments for and against the bridge and the proposed bond issue of S3O. 000, Mr. Showalter made a second trip of inspection to the bridge. Maqy of the remonstrators favored the repair of the bridge, while a few contended that a new location should be secured, in case a bridge was constructed. o BARGER LOSES IN BANK CASE Appellate Court Upholds Wells Circuit Court In Case Samuel Barger, of west of Decatur, who deposited $383.99 in the Wells County bank at Bluffton, a half hour before the institution closed its doors, a few years ago, lost an appeal case in his suit to recover the total amount deposited in the Indiana appellate court. Barger filed suit to recover, first in Wells circuit court, basing his suit on the theory that the bank officials knew the condition of the bank at the time his deposit was accepted. The Wells court filed against Barger and he appealed the case. Tne higher court held that no evidence of fraud or insolvency had been brought out in the appeal. — o Will Abandon Mine Benton, 111., Sept. s—(UP)—Removal of machinery from Peabody coal company’s mine No. 18 here went ahead today preparatory to sealing the mine. The sealing of the mine will leave 700 miners unemployed. The decision came after efforts to operate with miners working part time failed. The miners would not agree to a part time schedule proposed last July. o Heads Insurance Co. Jmwis, Sept. 5—(UP) — United States Senator Harry B. Hawee of Missouri will accept the presidency of the Wild Life association to be organized under a $10,000,000 endowment arranged by Joseph P. Knapp, New York magazine publisher, he has advised friends here. Some of his friends say he told them he will not seek re-election in 1932. Hawes, his friends say will head the association without salary until his term expires in 1933. After that it was said, he will be paid $50,000 yearly.

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All Culinary Articles Go To Hensley Bldg. All articles for the Women’s De part meat of the Street Fair, are to be in tile Hensley building on South Second street, where the display will take place, by 6 o’clock Monday evening, with the exception of butter and the bhked goods which are to be brought in by 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, as those articles are to be fresh for the judging. The building will be open Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock and each morning following it at the same time. All women planning to enter articles in t’ r ? exhibit are aske 1 to call for their entry blanks at the Chamber of Commerce building or at the Hensley building on Saturday. A large number of entry blanks have already been taken out and the exhibit promises to be a popular one with the women. FLOWERSHOW PLANS MADE J. W. Calland Predicts Greatest Flower Show Ever Held Here Six weeks ago it looked like the flower show, which is one of the pleasing features of the Street Fair might have to be called off, but J. W. Calland who is Superintendent of this department, reports that last month’s rains have made plenty of blooms available and even more flowers are expected than were entered last year. Both the flower show and the child health institute and nursery will be held in the basement of the Christian Church, and this combination of babies and flowers should easily prove to be one of the most delightful features of tjie Fair. The committee in charge of the flower show includes Mrs. J. H. Heller, Mrs. George Flanders, Mrs. W. E. Smith, Mrs. Dan Tyndall and Mrs J. W. Calland. The following ladies have been selected by the committee to act as hostesses during the flower show Wednesday night: Mrs. Elizabeth Markel, Mrs. Jesse, Sutton. Thursday Afternoon: Miss Madge Hite, Mrs. Herman Ehinger. Thursday night: Mrs. J. R. Horton. Mrs. J. W. Tyndall. Friday afternoon. Miss Carlisle, Mrs. O. L. Vance. Friday Night: Mrs. A. J. Haney, Mrs. L. A. Graham. All entries must be presented between 7:30 o’clock and 11:30 A. M. Wednesday morning, September 10th. Judging will take place Wednesday afternoon and the show wih be open to the public Wednesday evening.

0 BULLETIN Indianapolis Sept. s—(UP)—Additional names of persons alleged to have had an active part in the lynching of two negro youths at Marion, August 7, have been given to attorney general James M. Ogden by Walter White, New York, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Ogden said today. The information was turned over to Merle Wahl and Earl Stroup, deputy attorneys general, who are Now assisting in the grand jury investigation. Probe Auto Mishap Fort Wayne police are probing an auto accident which occurred in Fort Wayne Tuesday night. A car driven by a man whose name was not learned struck an automobile driven by Albert Shady, of Preble. Mrs. Shady was injured and was taken to her daughter’s home in Fort Wayne. Shady immediately reported the mishap, but the driver of the other car did not report. Two Fires Do Damage Washington, Ind., Sept. S.—(U.R) —Losses suffered in two fires at Washington total nearly $13,000, it was revealed today following examination of the damaged properties. Fire, believed to have started from a short circuit in electrical equipment, damaged the mill room and machinery of the Reel-Blue Lumber Company. Most of the SB,OOO loss, company officials said, was due to damaged machinery. A representative from the office of Alfred M. Hogstom state fire marshal, was expected in Washington tomorrow or Monday to investigate the mysterious fire which destroyed a vacant two-story residence, with a loss of $5,000. The owner was Mrs. William Beck, Washington.

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1,000 KNOWN TO HAVE DIED IN HURRICANE Little Danger Felt For Twister Reaching Florida Coast RED CROSS TO TRANSMIT All) Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Sept. 5 'U.R) The casualties in the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo Wednesday were estimated todav at more than 1.0(H) killed and about 1,000 in hired. Manv of (he injured were so seriously hurt they were expected to die. Late surveys of the capital showed the devastation to be even more extensive than originally believed by officials. With about three-quarters of the population of more than 40.000 hohieless, the sanitary authorities ordered destruction by fire of all wreckage likely to cause disease and other precautions were taken against pestilence. The American, British. Cuban. Mex’can. French and Haities legations were demolished. The Haitien minister and his family are living in the cellar of the wrecked legation, without food or clothing. The buildings of the bank cf Nova Scotia, offices of the Bull Insular Steamshin line and manv other large buildings were demolished. Banks were closed and all business activity of the city was ceased to permit the hastily mobilized relief forces to function. The government announced that three vessels were expected here from Porto Rico early tomorrow, bringing supplies and medicine. Medicine and physicians were expected by airplane from Cuba and the Haitian government has dispatched supplies and medicine by airolane and land routes. The fate of the interior regions still was uncertain and it was feared the restoration of communication lines woud show the hurricane struck violently along a wide path northwestward across the island. Washington. Sept. 5. —(U.R) — Chairman John Barton Payne of the American Red Cross today issued an appeal for hurricane relief funds from cities along the Atlantic seaboard, instructing chapters there to accept contribution s. “Undoubtedly," Payne said, “business firms and others along the Atlantic seaboard, aroused by suffering in Santo Dqmingo, will want to express their sympathy in a practical way by making contributions.” Government officials were notified that three relief ships from San Juan—the U.S.S. Grebe, th© (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o ILLINOIS HAS WET-DRY RACE Three Senatorial Candidates In Field And Fourth to Enter Chicago, Sept. 5— (UP) — The complicated senatorial race in Illinois was further entangled today with anouneement that a fourth candidate, Abe Lincoln Wisler, Chicago, a wet, was circulating petitions and probably would enter the contest. The third candidate, Mrs. Lottie Holman O’Neill, entered the race yesterday as an independent to oppose Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick. Republican, and J. Hamilton Lewis. Democrat. Wisler said he will be the candidate of the Liberal Party, a new organization. With Wisler adde to the list, the candidates will include two men opposed to prohibition, one woman who probably will be backed by tne Anti-Saloon League and Mrs. McCormick, who lias announced she will be governed on the prohibition question by a state referendum ! which is to be held. Mrs. O'Neill, regularly a republican, entered the race because she said, the Republican state conven- ■ tion had been controlled by wets ‘ and had repudiated the Hoover poj- . icy as regard the eighteenth amendment.