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MN & CO. I low BIDDERS, SET LOG 01 JOB tract Price is $53,012 r Stone Front Build* ing—Site Cleared RK TO BEGIN IX NEAR FUTURE aJiington, Jan. 17.—<U.R) rd to the Anderson Con■tion Company of Chi’of a $53,012 contract building the new poste at Decatur, was aniced today by the treae bid accepted by the governls tor a stone face building, company's bid for brick faqo |51,900. e Anderson Construction comwas low bidder on the job. than 20 contractors submitt■cposals. including Yost Bros, is city. > bids were received by th» ury department on January e postoffice site, corner LabWay and Third streets has cleared of the buildings and be ready for the contractors ever they wish to go to work, e new postoffice building will Liberty Way, locking toward Court house. e appropriation for the buildis $85,000. The building will a frontage of 61 feet or ty Way and extend north, wuth 72 feet. — o >sia and Turkey Invited to Meeting neva, Jan. 17—(UP) —A subtnittee of eight, appointed to rmins whether to invite Ruamd Turkey to participate in Are Briand’s proposed European 'ration today recommended an ediate invitation be sent to no Grand!, Italian foreign mln--7 thereupon immediately prod that sessions of the organizatneetings be suspended until arrival o' the Russian and Turtlelegates. ——— — o Vrong Prices Given transposition of figures gave erect prices in the advertiset of the Home Grovery publishu Friday’s Daily Democrat. Tne ake was made in correcting the 't The advertisement is pubsd again tonight. The price on it should have been 10 pounds, ftits; Nut oleo two pounds 25 • Your attention is called to corrected ad. ath Warrant To Hang Negro Issued Ruth Bend, lnd„ Jan. 17.—<U.R>death warrant for Frank Scott, to, sentenced to die March 26 the murder of Isham Hampton, sent to the state prison In higan City yesterday by Frank Bovins, St. Joseph county clerk, forts are being made to have its sentence commuted to life risonment. HE REPORT NEXTWEEK ickersham Committee 1 Report to President Early Next Week ,a »hington. Jan. 17—(UP)—The iowaited Wickersham commis--1 Prohibition report will not be jH’tted to President Hoover until ' week, it was learned today, 'eport is expected to be given 116 press forpublication in news ers of next Tuesday or Wednesafternoon, n b three of the 11 commission Roers wer? in Washington today one of these was expected to e ®t an early date. The report, c , is known to be completed * delayed only by some last 9 details of editing and print-

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Republican Candidate • fir* £ 05 • ■ ■■■ 'w • < Dillion Myers Bluffton florist and president of the Chember of Commerce in that city, is the Republican candidate for state representative, in the special election to be held tn Adams and Wells counties, January 22. TWO CANDIDATES DROP FROM RACE Oscar De Priest is One of Two Men to Drop Out of Chicago Race Chicago, Jan. 17 —<U.R>— The number of men opposing William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson for the Republican nomination for mayor wks reduced to seven today with withdrawal of Charles V. Barrelt. and Oscar De Priest, negro congressman. Barrett, who was the first to • file, announced he was withdrawing in an effort to unite all of Thompson’s opponents behind one candidate in the hope of "ridding; the city of Thompsonism.” Ds Priest, who Is in Washington, withdrew because he said his petition had been filed by a practical joker. "It is false, withdraw it at once,” he telegraphed after hearing that the petition had been “signed” by all the presidents, living and dead, of the United States • CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o More Money Voted For Buildings Washington, Jan. 17-*- (UP) — A bill authorizing an adltional SIOO. 000,000 for public building cons:ruction throughout the country was introduced jointly in the house and senate today by chairmen Elliott and Keyes of the house and senate public buildings. o McLean Ordered to Pay Big Alimony Washington, Jan. 17 —(UP) —Ed ward B. McLean, newspaper publisher, was ordered today to pay his wife $65,000 back alimony and $7,500 a month for support of her self and three children. The ruling was handed down by Justice William Hitz, of the district supreinbe court in separation proceedings between the McLeans. o — Exports Show Big Loss Last Year Washington. Jan. 17 —(UP) —United States exports decreased sl, 399,788,000 during the calendar year 1930 falling off from $5,240,995,000 in 1929 to $3,841,207,000 in 1930. Imports also decreased. From $-4,399,361,000 in 1929, They fell to $3, 061,396,000 in 1930 a decrease of sl,337,992.000, —— -o Indianapolis Woman Killed in House Indianapolis. Jan. 17 —(UP) —Police were without clues today in >e murder of Mrs. Mary Jane Phillips 64, who was struck down from behind as she stood over a kitchen table in her home yesterday. First examination of the house gave indications that robbery was the motive, but detectives were in- , vesigating other angles. Pocketbooks had been opened and at least $37 was missing, accord Iry to the husband, Alva Phillips, who found his wife’s body.

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140 DILLS WERE INTRODUCED IN FIRST WEEK Legislature Adjourns Until Monday After Receiving Many Bills TAX QUESTION IS MOST IMPORTANT ONE Indianapolis, Jan. 17. —(U.R) — Completion of the first full week if activity by the seventy-seventh general assembly, find* both branches face-to-face with a number of highly controversial issues, over which innumerable skirmishes between the politically divided house and senate are considered | inevitable. One hundred and forty bills 103 in the house and 37 in the senate —had been introduced when the law makers adjourned Friday until 2 o'clock Monday afternoon. Among outstanding measures Introduced are those demanding outi right repeal of the Wright bone dry act, creation and operation of an old age pension system, fixing of a state Income tax, providing of unemployment insurance, assessing a tax on malt, wort, cigars, cigarets and other tobacco products, licensing of real estate brokers and salesmen, making Armistice Day a legal holiday, and several designed to further tax and regulate the operation of motor trucks and busses. No definite plan on taxation has been introduced as a party measure, although discussions of th®. vital features for such a pleasure form the principal (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX IT'GIRI LIKES HER JEWELRY Bought SIO,OOO Ring For Herself and $4,000 Watch For Dentist Friend Los Angeles, Jan. 17 —(UP) —Details of the private Hie of Clara Bow were written into the records of Los Angeles county today In words as flaming as her famous red hair. Daisy De Voe, the screen star’s former secretary, had promised she would “tell all' when called to testify at her grand theft trial and she kept her word. Among the things Miss DeVoe, charged with appropriating Miss Bow’s money to her own use, revealed, were: Clara paid $10,900 for an engagement ring everyone thought one of her men friends had given her. She bought a $4,000 watch and locket for Dr. Earl Pierson, a young Texas physician. She favored Harry Richman, New York Night Club King, with a $2,000 diamond studded watch. She celebrated the birthday of Lothar Menes, film director, by giving him a S9OO star sapphire ring. Clara's hair was not red when she was a little girl in Brooklyn, but Daisy made it that way by using liberal applications of Henna. The Star’s liquor bills ran Into big figures. Clara loved to gamble and her losses sometimes were very large. After Miss De Voe had expanded on many of her declarations, Judge William C. Doran recessed the trial until Monday, when Miss De Voe will continue her recital. To Start On Manila Flight Next Monday Shanghai, Jan. 17 —(U.PJ—G. W. Brophy, manager of the aviation department of Le Gale Company, will take off from Kungjac aerodrome here Monday on his proposed flight to Manila, he announced today. The trip, to demonstrate the feasibility of a regular commercial airline, will be made In Brophy's plane, The Phoenix. It will be equipped with wheels instead of pontoons. Brophy said he expected to reach Manila Wednesday or Thursday, via Foochow and Canton.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 17, 1931.

ICold Bath Nearly Fatal To Hobo South Bend, Ind.,’ Jan. 17. —(U.R) —A bath was nearly fatal to a hobo here last night. Francis E. Englehaupt, Kansas City. Mo., was drenched when the i train on which he was stealing a ride took on water "on the run’’ at Terre Coupee, west of here. He ' was riding between the tender and first coach of a New York Central passenger train, and was badly ( frozen when the train pulled into South Bend. Englehaupt was in a local hos- 1 [ pital today, where his recovery was 1 expected. ' • DENIES MELLON ' 11 i IS TO RESIGN I I ! Treasury Secretary Not To Retire™ Dawes Also Makes Denial I Washington, Jan. 17—(UP) —Sec- ' • retary of the treasury Andrew Mel- ■ lon today unequivocally denied re- • ports published here that he would 1 resign March 4 and be succeeded : by Henry M. Robinson of Pasadena. : Calif. The reports .which also said that , ambassador Charles G. Dawes : • would return from London to be- ■ come chairman of the Republican • National committee his diplomatic post to be filled by secretary of I navy Charles Francis Adams, met ■ denials in all official quarters, in- . hiding the White House. i Washington. Jan. 17. — (U.PJ—Re- ! ports that Secretary of the Treasi ury Andrew Mellon will resign on : March 4 "have no foundation In fact as far as I know," David E. Finley, Mellon’s confidential secretary, said today. Other attaches of Mellon’s of- ! flee likewise denied the reports, ■ which said Mellon would be euc- ' ceeded by Henry M. Robinson. I Pasadena, Calif, banker. Assistant Secretary of State Castle, In charge of western European affairs, under which the Lon ■ don embassy comes, said he hadi 1 received no Intimation that Am- , bassador Charles G. Dawes would resign his post to become chairman of the republican national ( J committee. This report was pub- ' lished along with the one concern- , ing Mellon and said that Dawes i would be succeeded at London by Secretary of Navy Adams. i The report that Dawes planned > to relinquish his London post created considerable surprise at (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o I Bullet That Killed Man is Produced Princeton, Ind., Jan. 17 —(UP) — : A steel-jacketed .38 calibre bullet, i alleged to have caused the death of Simon Carle, Vincennes policeman, 1 was introduced as evidence during : the fifth day of the second trial of Dreyfus Choades, on a charge of ’ fatally shooting the policeman April • 1, 1926. W.C.T.U. MEETS HERE SUNDAY ’ To Observe Anniversary of Signing of Eighteenth Amendment i i The local Women’s Christian 1 Temperance Union will hold a ' meeting Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the First Evangelical Church, to celebrate Victory Day or the eleventh anniversary of the passing of the Eighteenth Amendment. A program has been planned 1 for the afternoon and will be in ’ charge of the local president, Mrs. Delton Pass water. The special ’ meeting will be opened with song, and devotionals will be led by Rev. B. H. Franklin. Special I musical numbers will be features , of the afternoon’s program, and , Rev. M. W. Sunderman will glv’ f the principal address. The meeting will be closed with the bene > diction. All members of the W. . C. T. U. and the general public are Invited to this meeting. <

RETURN FROM PURDUE MEET Fourteen From Adams County Attend Agriculture Conference Adams county residents who at-’ tended ‘.he agricultural conference i at Purdue University this week re-1 ttgned home this morning. Fourteen from this county were present; during practically all the sessions. E. W Busche, well-known Adams county farmer received recognition as one of the eleven farmers of the state to receive the Honorary Degree of Master Farmer. This recognition of achievement was given, Friday evening at the Master Farmer's banquet held at the Fowler hotel in LaFayette. This degree is given by the Prairie Fanner In cooperation with Purdue University. Mr. Busche led the response for this new class of Master Farmers, giving a large share of the credit for his achlayement to his wife, his family, his desire to have the community better for his having been there, for making use of the farm papers, information promulgated by Purdue University and disenimlnated through its extension staff and county agent. Adams county residents attending the conference were: Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Busche, Roy 1,. Price, cow tester, of Monroe township. Leland Ripley of Blue Creek township, Otto D-. Bieberich of Kirkland township, Reinhold Koldewey of Union township. Wm. Johnson. Peter B. Lehman, Orland Smith of Washington township, Henry Aschleman of French township. Ralph B. Henry of Kirkland townxlUp and County Agent Archbold. o LACKOFCHILB WORKSCORNED Hea ,f h Onf°renc<» Sneak--v er Points Out Defects in State’s Program Indianapolis, Jan. 17. —<U.R>—Defects in Indiana’s child health work, general welfare work and institutionalism, were pointed out to Indiana officials and citizens at tho sttae child health conference here last night. Extended use in Indiana of orphans' homes, the paucity of mother's aid and lack of provision for full-time official health leadershin, were condemned. "I don't believe many persons closely related with the work in this state will find much satisfaction with ’ progress made during the last 20 years of institutionalism,” James E. West, New York, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America, told the conference. "You still have orphans’ homes. You still are buying congregate orphans’ asylums. In many states such institutions are being closed up or else ths population in them is decreasing. “It would seem that someone should take up this matter in Indiana and work it through to final solution." Dr. C. C. Carstens, New- York, executive secretary of ths Child Welfare League of America, maintained that the extent of mothers' aid and widows' pension work in Indiana was at about the lowest point in the nation. He presented figures to show that 40 children of every 10,000 population in New York state re(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Fear Mob Action In Marion Again Marion, Ind., Jan. 17.—(U.R)' —Mob j action has been threatened in Marion for the second time since j the lynching of two negroes last • August, it was revealed here when authorities announced that Char-1 les Lennon, 30, lynching suspect,! had been transferred to the Huntington county jail in Huntington. Authorities feared that action might be taken on reports that the Grant county jail would be stormed to free Lennon, who was unable toj furnish bond.

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RELIEF VOTED TO RED CROSS ! BY SENATE Bill Appropriating $25,000,000 to Organization Passed Today TOOK SENATORS BY SURPRISE Washington, Jan. 17— ( U.R) The senate today adopted without a record vote, the Robinson amendment appro-1 printing $25,000,000 for the Red Cross relief fund. The amendment was adopted with scarcely 60 ( ! senators in the chamber. It apparently took opponents , who had bfen absent by surprise. Senator McNary, Republican, ( Oregan, immediately moved to reconsider the vote. Senator Robinson, Democrat, Arkansas, com-1, plained that McNary was out of order “in view of the fact that the 11 ’ roll was called for a quorum." I Senator McNary apparently took ;' the stand that the amendment . 1 had been slipped through without I some member of the chamber be- I ing aware of the proceedings. “1 do not want to take advant--1 age of any senator,” Robinson ' said. "But in view of the fact that ’ the roll was called for a quorum ' and that the matter had been ‘ under discussion. I see no reason i to rescind the vote.” 1 ■ o Commerce Professor I Named At Indiana 1 i Bloomington, Ind.. Jan. 17. —(U.R)' —Harold F_ Lusk. Grand Rapids, . Michigan, attorney, will succeed Professor M. J. Bowman, of the Commerce School faculty, at In- I diana University next semester, it I I was announced today. ' Professor Bowman will assume the position in the law school left 1 by Professor W. E. Treanor, recently elected Indiana Supreme Court s ■ judge. o 1 Schroeder To Be ( Tried February 23 i i Indianapolis, Jan. 17. —(U.R)--Trial . . of Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mo- ‘ , bile, Ala., on a first degree murder - . charge, has been set for February • . 23 in criminal court, by Judge ' Frank P. Baker. Schroeder is charged with the death of an unidentified man whose 1 . body was found in tlie burned , wreckage of Schroeder's auto near , n J Indianapolis last May 31. | o Auburn Tourney ( Kendallville 29, Bluffton 16. . . | Decatur Yellow Jackets will < , meet Auburn in the second game < i of the tourney. Kendallville will I play the winner in the final game . tonight. Bluffton will play ths ] - loser at 7 p. m. i q JURY DISAGREES I FOR THIRD TIME 1 Deadlock Occurs in Case of New York Judge Accepting Bribe New York, Jan. 17 —(UP) —A jury ’ in supreme court reported after 18 1 hours of delineratiou today that if ’ could no( agree in the case of former magistrate and Mrs. George F. Ewald, charged with paying $12,000 for an appointment to the bench. It was the third jury disagreement growing out of the trials re- , suiting from the state grand jury ( I investiation of Ewald's appointJnjent. Both trials of Martin J. Healy and Thomas T. Tommaney, Tam- ■ i ntany politicians accused of accept ‘iing SIO,OOO from Mrs. Ewald to urge 11 'lthe appointment, ended in jury dead ' ■■ locks. ' Dr. Francis Schirp, political committeeman of the Steuben society which recommended Ewald's nom- ’ ination to Mayor Walker, is under 1 indictment in connection with the ’[alleged acceptance of $2,000 to fur-1 ther Ewald’s endorsement.

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Democrat Candidate € Virgil L. Simmons Bluffton attorney and eighth dis-1 trict Democratic chairman. Is the i Democrat candidate for state rep-| resentative to succeed George L. Saunders, deceased, who represented Adams and Wells countiec in the state legislature. unlontownship WOMAN IS DEAD Mrs. Nellie Walters, 54, Died at Hospital Early This Morning Mrs. Nellie Walters, 54. wife of Oliver Walters, Union township farmer, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 7:45 o'clock this morning following an operation she underwent last Monday morning Mrs. Walters had been in failing health for about six weeks and when her condition became critical she was removed to the local hospital and an operation was performed. The deceased spent her entire life Hn Adams county, living on a farm in Union township since her marriage. She was a member of the Union Chapel United Brethren church for many years. She was born in St. Marys Township, January 9, 1877, the daughter of John and Carolyn Cramer, both deceased. On March 4. 1897 she was united in marriage to Oliver Walters who survives together with two sons. Forrest and John Walters of this city. Two granddaughters also survive, together with a sister, Mrs. Anna Brodbeck. a brother, George Cramer and a half brother. U. E. Cramer all of near Decatur, and two half sisters. Mrs. Emma Mauller of Wren, Ohio, and Mrs. Sarah Sheets of Marion. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home 3 3-4 miles northeast of this city, and at 2 o’clock at the Union Chapel United Brethren church. Rev. T. H. Harmon, pastor will officiate and will be assisted by Rev. M. W. Sunderman, pastor of the Evangelical church of this city. Interment will be made in the, Decatur cemetery. Brown Speaks to Farmers at Purdue Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 17—-(U.R)— Agricultural credit corporations to secure loans for farmers, with personal property and live stock as security, were proposed as a solution to the farm credit problem by A. G. Brown, president of the intermediate credit bank of Louis- i ville, at the closing session of the | Purdue agricultural conference. o Head of Lutheran Schools Is Dead Indianapolis, Jan. 17.—(U.R)’ —Otto Schroeter, 53, national supervisor of the Evangelical lutheran Parochial school, died early today at his Indianapolis home. Death was due to heart disease. Schroeter was known for his work in the schools throughout the country. He suffered a heart attack recently and had been confined to his home several weeks. o Special Meeting For Women Sunday A special women’s meeting will be held at the United Brethren church at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Miss May Paul will speak lon "Tlie Ideal Woman." The public is invited to this service.

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IDENTIFIED BY A. M. ANKER AS HOLO-UP MAN Earl H. Friar, 22, Fort Wayne, Failed In An Attempt Ip Rob Anker ARRESTED AFTER TUSSLE LAST NIGHT BULLETIN Nathan Nelson, Adams county prorscutcr, late this afternoon filed a charge of "automobile bandit, y” against Earl H. Friar, who attempted to hold up Al Anker, local filling station attendant Friday night. The charge carries a penalty of from 10 to 25 years upon conviction. Earl H. Friar, 22, is lodged in the Adams county jail, charged with the attempted holdup of Al Anker, owner of the Anker filling station, a Winchester and Ada m ; streets, in this city. Tho •attempted holdup occurred (shortly after 7 o’clock Friday ' night. Young Friar confessed to Sheriff Burl Johnson this morning ’<> his part in tlie holdup. Al Anker,_ tilling station owner, was called 1 i the county jail about noon today and positively identified tlie youth as tlie bandit. Mr. Anker was alone in tlie station a few minutes after 7 p. m. Friar drove into the station in his • Ford coach, walked into tlie sta- ' tion and asked for a package of : cigarettes. When Mr. Anker hand--1 ed him the cigarettes, the ban lit • took them in his left band, and 1 with his right hand pointed a gun 1 at the attendant. Friar said "l’)l ' take what <-ash you have also.” Mr. Anker grabbed the young ; man by the throat and dragged him into a corner, choking him . until the bandit said, "Man, you r i , killing me, I give up.” Mr. Anker released him and when Friar dodged behind the counter. Auk r . threw magazines at him, knocking him down. The youth struck at Mr. Anker and tlie attendift hit him over the head with a flashlight. Friar again got up and rat (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Hold 17 Year Old Boy For Murder Chicago Jan 17 —(UP)— l-yea? old boy was held today by police who said lie had confessed stabbing his 16-year-old pal to death in an argument over a few cents which they had left after pooling their funds to see a movie. Officers said that John Zartmrlek 17, repudiated his cofession a short time after admitting that he had killed Tony Bohniak. 0 400 Miners Quit Work in Illinois Freeman. 11l- Jan. 17 —(UP) —■ State patrolmen and Franklin county deputies patrolled Taylor Mine No. 5 here today, following the walk out of 400 coal miners, due to a controversy over recognition of the reorganized National Union headed by Alexander Howat. Only 172 men out of 600 normally ' employed at the shaft, went to work today as a result. —— o WILLIE REED FOUND GUILTY Jury Returns Verdict; Fines Defendant $25, Sentenced to 30 Days Willie Reed, Decatur resident, wa , found guilty of driving.an automobile while intoxicated, by a jury in the Adams circuit court late this afternoon. Reed was fined $25 and costs and sentenced to serve thirty days in the county jail. Hearing of testimony stated Friday and was continued this morning. Arguments by counsel wet * finished and the case went to the jury at 10:30 o’clock. The jury reported shortly before 2 p. tn. Willie Reed was placed under arrest September 11,. 1930, after he was alleged to have started a fight over alleged interference with his trucking business.