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nVO HEARS •lbertson Itconvention Opens Wedat Monroe sod ' K WILL I B LOSE TONIGHT ■'<»fc a nv nieii’Jiei's of the varK Adi- county churches the opening meeting t'ounly Sunday ' held at the Methodist church. evening. Mr. E. •.Kiiahso”. -ecretary of the H of Religious v.., the principal C RMS* arc i , nut J Siipt-Tinlen- -■ message on "Am too * ' r.ligious for them, chinches today i - growth of its re»wth. which are: ■\E Http . a :kening : sect ml. m eliminate temptations ~"B«ir<vi!'! tuni third, wholeHLm- toward a spiritual ■kmc i: tin- Albertson address K|< Lehman of Monroe led a I£ By set ml Rev. Vernon Riley, /f Ker *f th" Friend's church at invocation. SpecBg|r was presented by Henry of young men of the KKf o" it church of this city. B w 1!; " : xpecial number was Kente: by the Boys' Glee Club mwnship high school. oni the various Brtbes of Decatur, Berne. Linn Monroe, and the of Adams county were Bhe»‘ m- t id.tv began at 9:30 Kdtlim morning for the fore■f.Bogrant. Miss Nellie C. ■tug. I superintendent of ChilMfl Division of Indiana Council I us i'diication delivered W •’iiitii address on "Some ■totals fi r Teachers of ReligB'y' Ai'm-rtson also addresscrowd on "Relaand Program.” Whe afternoon session began at and was d voted to a re■taiiw county officers. Mrs. ■w-'toll and Mrs. Eugene RunMid .his city furnished a special Following the asB meeting the nominating ■ee will meet, | ' 'clock tonight a banquet I served to about one hunBjoph at the Monroe high Building. The evening serBlght will begin at 7:30 ■and will be the final session ■cimvontion. Miss Nellie C. [will again deliver an adit the subject “In Tune With it and Mr. Albertson will i>i 'Creative Teaching.” ■ — o LIAN QUAKE [ILLIS TWENTY [. Injured Along Adtic Seabord; 60 Are In Hospitals Bl Italy, Oct. 30.—<U.R)—An pake of considerable intenI 1 ok central Italy today, par|y along the Adriatic seal fl 'om Rimini to Rome, ply persons were reported hi messages from Singaglia, 01 Ancona, where the most I shocks were believed felt, fur others were dead at AnSeores of persons were in- " being taken to hospitals Kaglla. 'make centered in the Adriia but was felt with diminishllp froni central Italy to the BK while experts said the Zarfecaii * — opposite ■ nS a ~~ was affected. I>n« P " a(l panic reault ed in An-fca-ei >'" i °'her damaged towns Eii»> ' in v ‘* w of tke recent 88, earthquake which destroyed I v* agf d many towns and killed NB, number of persons. ■h i deat hs reported by officeluded: on PAGE SEVEN)

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Worthman Is Reception Speaker at Berne Meet Superintendent M. F. Worthman of this city was a speaker at the annual reception of the Women's Christian Temperance Union for the Berne teachers, Monday even ing, in the social room of the Evangelical Church in Berne. Mr. Worthman spoke on the subject, “Precept and Example” and told of many of his experiences as the head of the Decatur public schools. The event Monday evening was the twenteith annual reception for the Berne teachers. Mrs. E. A. Lugin bill, president of the W. C. T. U., extended the welcome to the teachers, and a response was made by superintendent E. M. Webb of the Berne schools. — o ARAMS COUNTY FARMER EXPIRES William Lautzenheiser, 69 Dies Wednesday; Lived In Blue Creek Twp. William Lautzenheiser. 69. life long resident of Blue Creek township, and a deaf mute, died at the home of his brother-in-law Charles Passwater, 3 miles southwest of Willshire, Ohio, Wednesday. Death was caused by dropsy. The deceased had suffered with dropsy for the past year and for ine last five or six weeks his condition was such that he was unable to lie down and had to be strapped to a chair all of the time. His wife, also a deaf mute, preceded him in death five weeks ago. Since her death he had lived with the Passwater family. He was born and spent his entire life in Blue Creek township, near Willshire, Ohio where tor many .years he was a farmer. No children survive the deceased, but a sister, Mrs. Young and a brother, Aaron Lautsen+reiser tire in Blue Creek township. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock (Central standard time) at the Union church 2 miles south west of Willshire, Ohio with Rev. Bragg, pastor, officiating. Burial will be made in the Tricker cemetery: Mr. Lautzenheiser lost a habeas corpus proceeding in Adams circuit court this week when an effort was made through him by some of his relatives to move him to the home of his brother. Aaron who resides by himself. The court ruled that he would be better cared for at the Passwater home. His death was expected when the case was being heard. Road Being Surfaced Fast work is being done in the laying of foundation stone forth ■ hard surfacing of the new route of Federal road No. 27, near Monroe which was started Monday. The stone being placed on the road is furnished by the Meshberger Brothers Stone Company. The road will be completed next spring with a top dressing. o Carl Dick Is Winner The annual Wells County corn husking contest which took place Wednesday on the Frank Starr farm in Chester Township was won by Carl Dick of Lancaster township. Mr. Dick husked 24.90 bushel in the 80 minute contest, and had 1,800 pounds to his credit. Homer Schlagenhauf won second place with 21 bushels, and Charles Fosnaugh husked 20.22 bushels. o Special Priest Arrives The Rev. Father Bernardine, O. M. Cap., of Huntington, arrived in this city this afternoon to conduct the Forty Hours devotion which opens at the St. Mary’s Catholic church Friday morning. The high mass will be held at nine o clock. The Forty Hours continue until Sunday evening when the solemn closing will take place. Services will be held each evening at 7:30 o'clock. Millions In Gas Tax Indianapolis Oct. 30 —(UP) Indiana has collcted $61,267,254 gas tax since it as adopted in 1928, until January 1, 1930, according to Frank Hatfield, President of the Hoosier motor club, affiliated with the American Automobile association. * California, which adopted a gas tax in 1923 leads all other states in collections, with $134,116,759, collected in seven years.

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COUNTY JUNIOR RED CROSS HAS FALL PROGRAM I Several Adams County Schools Send Letters to Foreign Pupils MRS. THOMAS IS CHAIRMAN That the Adams county chapter of Junior Red Cross is active is evidenced by the many activities that the members are engaged in. There ate several hundred members to the organization, scattered in all Adams county schools. Recently the Adams county members sent a number of Christmas boxes to foreign schools. The boxes were planned and sent Ity elementary school pupils of various schools and they were sent from Decatur to New York last week, where they will be placed with thousands of other boxes to make up the Christmas shipment. Mrs. Bryce Thomas is countypresident of the Junior chapter and each fall she visits each school in the county, where there are members, and starts the autumn activities. The Riley school of this city recently received a “thank you” from the Junior Red Cross of Klasse der Volkschule, Allantesse. Meunsterberg school received a consignment from Tajiri school, Osaka, perfecture, Japan. These schools have had a number of exchanges. Japanese dolls, drawings, wrtings and small pieces of sink were received. Monmouth school recently received a portfolio from a Japanese school. The correspondence between Monmouth and the Japan school lias been in existence since 1928. The Junior Red Cross Journal, a publication for Junior members announced this month that it would teceive manuscripts from members in high schools or junior high schools and would pay $lO a thousand words for all acceptable material. Mrs. Thomas stated that she had a list of all requirements and would be glad to take the mat ter up with any members who desired to write for the Journal. o SMITH ATTACKS G.O.P. FAILURES Says Administration Failed In Three Promises of 1928 Campaign New York. Oct. 30—(U.R)—Former Governor Alfred E. Smith addressed the nation by radio last night, again criticizing the Republican party for its conduct during the business depression, for ite revision of the tariff, and for its leadership in prohibition. Pointing out that after his defeat by President Hoover in 1928 hu had asked the nation to withhold judgment of the administration until the president had a chance to put his policies into effect. Smith said be now offered what he believed an honest, fair, and just criticism. Mr. Hoover's law enforcement commission has got “asolutely nowhere with respect to the fundamental question" of prohibition after 18 months of work. Smith charged. Transfer of enforcement from the treasury to the justice department merely served to "compel the bootlegger to get acquainted with a new set of enforcement officials" he said. The administration failed in three points during the business depression, the former governor asserted. The first was that the Republican platform and speeches of 1928 "contained promises they knew they could not keep”; the second, that the administration “refused to face the facts,” Mr. Hoover having predicted in March that the situation would be cleared in 60 days; and third, “they did nothing to relieve the condition.” o Town Is Quarantined Sheridan, Ind., Oct. 30 —(UP) — Twenty-six cases of scarlet fever have been reported in Sheridan, and schools have been closed because of the epidemic.

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Home Again ' .mir- 4 IfSiRW Wwl , *■' 1 x/i -h < i ' J < I ' I 1.. 4 <MM xv. .MB Mrs. Mary Yocum breathes easily again for the first time since last Saturday night, for her husband, Earl L. Yocum, Galva, 111., bank president. who was kidnaped and held for ransom, ie home unharmed. Mr. Yocum was kept blindfolded so that he could not see h s captors nor locate the house to which he was taken. Yocum refused to comment on the report that a ransom of $50,000 had Iwen i»aid for his release.

K a Committees to Meet jt_ » Ail members of ali committees for the Callithumpian celebration here tomorrow night are requested to meet at the Rice hotel this evening to receive final instructions. Everything is arranged for a good tiific. Please ask every one to be as prompt as possible tonight, sai l Mr. Engle, so that those who have other engagements may fill them. The money has all been collected and if there is any thing that has not been done to complete the even' it is because it has been overlooked ind the boys don't think there is. Indications are for one of the most successful Halloween celebrations ever held here. Many w>ll participate. LESLIE N AMES RELIEFJROUP Senator Thurman Gottschalk on Unemployment Aid Committee Indianapolis. Oct. 30. — (U.R) — Plans for relief of Indiana's unemployment during the coming winter held the attention of Governor Harry G. Leslie today. In a letter to 186 Hoosier business leaders, he pointed out that distress is imminent in the state this winter as a result of the economic depression, and the summer’s drought. He announced plans to perfect an organization whicli would cooperate with a national relief organization, and said today that he hoped to stir the entire state to tlie necessity cf taking (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) 0 ___ Attend Missionary Meet Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mills Mrs. A. D. Suttles, Mrs. E. N. Wicks, and Mrs. C. D. Lewton have returned from Mishawaka, where they attended the forty-seventh annual meeting of the Women's Home Misxionaty societies of the Northern Indiana Conference of the Metho-i dist Episcopal church. At this meeting the golden jubilee of the societies was observed. The meeting was the largest convention in the history of the organization. Tlie principal speakers on the program for the two days were Mrs. J. C. Murray of the George O. Robinson Orphanage at Porto Rico; Miss Catherine R. Maurer of Angel Island. San Francisco, California; Miss Olla B. Davfs of Portland, Oregon; and Miss Hortense O, Sheldon of Boston, Massachusetts. The conference convention for next year will be held in Kokomo.

WOULD EDUCATE UNEMPLOYED Roger Babson Urges Opening of Schools For All Idle Workmen Bo ton, Oct. 30 —(U.R) —An industrial education program which he believes would convert the present unemployment problem “into a. blessing of achievement” was suggested today by Roger W. Babson. The statistician described his proposal before representatives of | Massachusetts universities called ’ to consider the unemployment situation. Babson’s idea is as follows: “Establish in each community a public employment clinic where the man out of work registers. Before he can be helped he shall be physically examined, and if he suffers from any remediable troubles let arrangements lx? made to improve his condition. "Then, during the period that he is out of work provide schools for adult education which he can attend. Our present school buildings would offer temporary facilities at night for this together with special industrial schools where he could improve himself in his trade or perhaps learn one. “In brief, instead of wasting the time of the unemployed, let them use this period of idleness in preparing themselves for the future.” • Babson declared “the tragedy of wasted manpower a t such a period sis tb.e present is a great one” and ; that the nation should be willing to face it “and capitalize the situation to the advantage not only of the individual worker but of the country as a whole.” Individual industrial concerns, running on reduced schedules, should start educational classes in the r plants, he said. These concerns should pay the carfare of idle employes to enable them to attend such schools, in his opinion. •’Such a step would not cost much and it would , take up the slack not only in a constructive way, but it would serve to keep the morale of men and women to whom the dreary repetition of daily trudging sidewalks looking for jobs when there are no jobs is a tragic reality," Babson (asserted. Idleness breeds crime, and crime not only degrades human beings but it increases the taxation costs of everyone since more money is spent on prisons, police courts, poor houses, hospitals and the like, he pointed out.

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DEMOCRATS TO MEET SATURDAY Smoker And Reception For Candidates Will Be Held Here The Adams county Democratic campaign will close Saturday night with a smoker and reception lor candidates at Democratic headquarters above the Daily Democrat office. Several County political leaders will give short addresses. Ed. A. Bosse, county (hairman will preside and will cal! the meeting to order at 7:30 o'clock. Immediately following the sneaking, a smoker will be held and various committees named during the campaign by the chairman will hold lilial meetings. x Mitch interest has been shown in the township and all-county meet ings and a capacity crowd is expected Saturday night. Both rooms of headquaiters will be used for the reception. All county candidates will atten 1 the meeting; precinct committeemen will be present and the public is invited to hear the speakers and take part in the reception of candidates. o Drum Corps Officers Installed For 1930 After the regular practice Wednesday evening the American Letion Drum Corps installed their newly elected officers for the ensuing year: L. V. Baker Manager, Harry Knapp assistant manager, Ed Adler Secretary and Treasurer, Chas Baxter, Herb Kern and Chas. Langston executive committee. Walter Schaffer the director who recently returned from the American Legion convention at Bosto,’ brought back many new ideas pertaining to Drum Corps work. Among th* several new goals set for the | coming year, one is to go to the 11931 National convention at Detroit I with a 4<> piece corps. I Eight new members have already I been obtained and new instruments are being ordered for other new I members.

iiitrniuri Committies were also appointed to take care of the Halloween Dance at the K. of C. Hall Friday night. o Yost Brothers To Move Yost brothers have purchased the old ear barns and yard located north of town in Root township from tlie Fort Wayne and Decatur Traction company. They expect to move the present location, on Nuttfrom the present location on NuttIman avenue to the newly purchased I lot within the near future. LIEBER FACES NEW ATTACK Fish, Game and Forest League President Is Attack Leader Indianapolis, Oct. 30 —(UP) —President H. H. Evans, of the Indiana fish, game and forest league, opened the organization’s annual meeting at Indianapolis today with an attack on the directorship of Richard Lieber as head of the state conservation department. Evans urged a change in the present law to provide for a full-time conservation commission of three men, instead of having the director handle the department’s affairs. In outlining his plan for the three-man full-time commission, Evans recommended that at least one of them be “an outdoors man and a conservationist of reputation.” Superintendent Walter Shirts, of the fish and game division of the conservation department, was scheduled to report on accomplish- , ments of his division at the after noon session. ♦State forester Ralph Wilcox: attorney harry Hendrickson. Indiana polis, league director, and James Tandy Ellis, of Kentucky, also were speakers. Tlie meeting will close with election of officers ami , adoption of resolutions. — Q i Patrolman Is Wounded Chicago, Oct. 30. —<U.R> —Gunmen I drove alongside a May wood st reet t car today and fired a sawed-off . shi tgun at Sergt. James Mcßride, > stat: 's- principal witness against . William "Three - Fingered Jack" 1 White, seriously wounding the officer. Tlie gunmen raced away.

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Would Centralize All i Law Enforcing Agencies Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 30-(UP)— Centralization ol all police agencies in one department was recommend ed by James Van Osdol, of Anderson. chairman of the state crime commission, as the first step in obtaining general policing efl'i ciency. TKe recommendation was made at the public service conference conducted by Purdue University. Police oficers are at present responsible to more than 590 diverse and distinct jurisdictions, Van Osdol said. He cited the professions which are under state regulation, such as teachers, physicians, surveyors, dentists, etc. BOARDS NAMED FORELECTION County Clerk Nelson Announces Appointments For Tuesday Democrat and Republican appointments for election board members for the general election next Tuesday were made public today by County Clerk Bernice Nelson, who by virtue of her office is head of the board of election commissioners. The Democrats o{ the county are entitled to an inspector in each precinct and each party is entitled to a judge, clerk and sheriff. The respective county chairmen nominate the officers and the election commissioners appoint. In addition each chairman names a clerk for the election commissioners. The Democrat clerk is Harry J. Knapp and the Republican clerk is Vernon Aurand. Following are the , precinct appointments: DEMOCRATS East Union Inspector— Edwin Krenkeberg. Judge—John Vanßuskirk. Clerk-JOtto Hoile. Sheriff —Martin Thieme. West Union Inspector —Philbert Case. Judge —Forest Walters. Clerk—John Blakey Sheriff—Frank Burger. East Root Inspector —Winifred Gerke Judge—Harvey Tieman. Clerk —Henry Fuelling. Sheriff —Oscar Christianer. West Root Inspector —Frank Rumschlag. Judge—Henry Selklng. Clerk —Martin Auman. Sheriff —John McAma. North Preble Inspector—August Scheffmann. Judge—Rudolph Buuck. Clerk —Erwin Fuhrman. Sheriff—Wm. Witte. South Preble Inspector—Rudolph Liunemeir. Judge—Martin E. Kiefer. Clerk—Ruolph Stolp. Sir. riff —Henry Kirchner. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) O BULLETIN Kewanna, 111., Oct. 30—(UP) — Zern Algren, arrested today as assistant in kidnapping of Earl Yocum Galva, 111., banker, confessed this afternoon, to chief of police John Krumtinger of Kewanne, said, that he had participated in the plot with three other men. 0 Newspapers To Merge Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 30. —<U.R' — Amalgamation of the Milwaukee Sentinel, morning newspaper, and the Wisconsin News, an afternoon publication, was announced today by William Randolph Hearst, owner of the News, and Paul Block, owner of the Sentinel. The combination will become effective Saturday, it was announced. Both newspapers will be under the direction of Block, the announcement said. The Sentinel will continue publication in the morning and the News in the afternoon. Q W. A. Lower To Act As Special Bank Examiner W. A. ( Lower was notified this morning to report at Indianapolis to serve as a special examiner in one of the banks which closed there recently. He was called by Thomas Bair of the state banking department and will begin duly tomorrow morning. Mr. Lower was for sixteen years the cashier of the People’s Loan and Trust Company here. How long his services will be required by the department was not announced.

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SENATOR GLEN DEMANDS QUICK EXPLANATION New York Newspaper Tells Its Part In Kelley Expose CHARGES TO BE PROBED Washington, Oct. 30.—(U-R> —Dismissal of Ralph S. Kelley from the interior department has been followed by a demand from Senator Glenn. Renn., 111., that Kelley make a full statement, under oath, of circumstances connected with his charge that favoritism was being shown large oil companies in Colorado oil shale lands. Glenn's statement said a senatorial investigation undoubtedly would he made, as previously suggested by chairman Nye of the senate public lands committee, but declared that Kelley should deldy no further in giving a complete explanation. Glenn also stated the newspaper which published Kelley's articles “would free itself from the implication tliat it has been involved in a political trick if, before election, it would publish a full stateim nt of the facts regarding its relations” with Kelley. Kelley - tendered his resignation as chief of t lie Denver land office last month simultaneously with making public his charges. Wil- . bur refused to accept it then but suspended Kelley. The dismissal . from government service came a day after President Hoover had denounced Kelley for what the .president termed “an infamous transaction.'’ New York. Oct. 30. ;U.R) —The? New York World, in its leading editorial today, defended its publication of a series of articles by Ralph S. Kelley which President Hoover had described as “reckless, baseless and infamous.” Kelley, who was formally discharged yesterday by Secretary of Interior Wilbur from his position as chief of the western division of the land office, had charged his superiors with maladministration of government oil shale lands. “The world has lio hesitation in meeting the president's challenge directed against its part in publishing tlie articles.” the editorial said. “For the World believes that it has performed responsibly and properly one of the functions of a free newspaper.” The editorial went on to describe how Kelley had approached the newspaper, told his story and said that he was unable to get a proper hearing from his superiors. He (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) PRISON SEEKS i APPROPRIATION t I State Institution Has Requests Totalling More Than Million 3 Indianapolis, Oct. 30. —(U.R) — I Trustees of the Indiana state prison at Michigan City today presentt. ed to the state budget committee a request for an appropriation of $1,643,092.74 for construction, im- ’ provements and operation of the institution for tlie next two years. The proposed appropriation is an increase of $545,441.96 over that granted the trustees for the past two years. The last was $1,078,650.78. '■ Os the increase, the trustees - proposed to spend $500,000 for a building program in an effort to relieve crowded conditions in cellhouses, dormitories and in the hospital for the criminally insane. ~ The construction program as outlined would include completion 3 of a cellhouse now being ere'eted, 3 $10,000; power house, $90,000; a solitary and seclusion quarters c and executive offices. $20,000. s The trustees said there were at ■’ present only five solitary cells and ' that conditions were such that n dangerous criminals were housed s -with others because of lack of v proper facilities. d Further construction would in(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)