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■ID FLIER S BYE ENGLAND; h AT POLE Ln And I’angborn K ve For Moscow At- ■ ter Short Rest If REAC HES ■ POLE H ENI)A\ Lon AirpnH Enj-LHuL Ed - (U - R) ( '/‘H ' Em anti Hugh I eruEl r continuing their Eeii flight around the ■’left lure al 2:13 p.ni. Est'ti". hv wav ol BerE fliers said they "ere ■ but ililil'' salisl ual " dll Eidit over the ocean. Kd they lost only about ■ day by t heir fore. <1 halt ant! to push on in an effort record of S>-. days set K y Post and Harold Catty Ks recent world flight. ■ July :t“—'-U.P- Tll< ’ Graf was reported to have ■ over Koenigsherg. en route ■the Arctic, at 12:40 pm. to- ■ ri>- i-'S'l Mayor's office anL the dirigible was expect- ■ Tempelhof airdrome at 7 ■ in passed ov.-r Lenin- ■ few hours earlier. ■ 7-:.p : u v iri Lenin■h..: ii had flown over Lake ■ s-.nie 200 miles northeast Kingrad at 10:30 p. m. last ■lt made rapid time from ■relic having been reported ■rrhangel at 8 p nt. ■ dirigible, carrying 16 pas■rs and a grew of 30. was ■aided by I>r Hugo Eckener.' ■de the brief cruise into the ■ without incident, making ■ft with the So; n : icebreaker ■n on Monday and proceed■ward the Pole and back ■U difficulty. ■t of the passengers on hoard ■ scientists, and considerable ■ were expected to be gained ■ the brief cruise from the ■p's home port of FriedrichLon. July :;n -U.R)-The Graf |li° touched the North Pole •Tuesday afternoon, on its It cruise, the Daily Herald ■today. lieves Get Small Loot Land. July 30—Attacking the fr T. L. Arnold, without any ■B, three young men robbed t neral s t° re a t Nottingham. north of here on state 3. early last night. They fr only $5 or 16 and Mr. ArIvho was struck between the frith a pistol wielded by one ot Ebbers was not hurt serious alF he suffered a wound which frofusely. The three men drove I the store in a Ford roadster, I®* l - and two went in. Mr. ■ followed them in and one f"' ’’tthout a word struck him. [took the money in the till and [outhward. One of the men was |‘«<l heavy set with a light hat pocoat and dark complexiont el was tall and of medium P’lott- Police in all nearby ['"•re notified. Hoes | NOVE HIGHER L?I ering Advance 5 Bushel; Is Up 13 Cents In Week St'^ y 30 — <UR) P another 5 cents on Mly wT® tOday and Bhorts tr ied to cover their holditJan'iw UP ( tO 72 * W tlo«e nn m Ce “ tS higher than ' on Tuesday. that the Farmer NationMi," corporation, farm board £ xx ins „ M; 'Wporatt Farn ’ ws National ‘ereX "° r lts B^sidiarie ß small am"' J , Uly C ° rn exce Pt "« Purpose’ 11 ., 1 W, ,‘ lcn was 80111 “founded." f making deHvery

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Lloyd George Plans Tour of The World London, JulF 30 —(UP)'— David Lloyd George, Liberal leader, may go on a tour of the world, visiting the United States, before attempting to return to his parliamentary duties, it was indicated today. Physicians attending him said it may be two or three months before he has recovered completely from his operation yesterdayThe doctors and relatives, however, were deligated with Lloyd George’s response to the operation. He slept peacefully and was believed on the road to convalescence. ARCHBOLD WILL SPEAKATMEET County Agents To Hear Poultry Problems Discussed At Conference L- E. Archbold, Adams county agricultural agent spoke at the annual Northeastern Indiana County Agent's associatio nmeeting at Fort Wayne today on the subject "How The 4-H Poultry Club May Be Strengthened." The meeting will start at 11 o'clock this morning and will continue the rest o fthe day. Sessions will be held at the Fort Wayne Y. M. C. A building and a lunch will be served at noon. Prof. William Kohlmeyer, of Purdue University poultry department will be the chief speaker at the all-day meeting. His subject will be "Poultry Prope' ts •” th SETA-ET- % Agricultural agents from all north eastern Indiana counties will attend the conference, which is an annual event Allen county agent H. S. Heckard will preside at the sessions and will have general charge of the meeting. It is expected that a number of farmers interested in poultry will attend part of the sessions.

COURT GRANTS DAMAGE AWARD Railroad Settles In Fatal Crash July 4 At Berne Crossing Fort Wayne, July 30 — Through friendly court proceedings negotiated in the Allen Superior Court No 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company paid a total of $4,667 damages to Ed Tricker, administrator of the estates of Charles O. Miller, his wife, Mrs. Della Miller, and three of their children, Dorothy, Elsie June and William, all of whom were killed in a crossing crash at Berne early the morning of last Memorial Day. The car in which the father and mother and three of their children were starting out from Berne for a holiday trip to Cleveland, was struck by a G. R. and I train at the Main Street crossing in Berne about 2 A. M. Five suits were filed by the administrator in the court today and judgments for amounts agreed upon by attorneys for the railroad and the estates were entered immediate(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Burglar Is Killed Winamac, July 30. —(U.R) —An unsuccessful attempt at robbery cost Clyde Miller, 25, his life last night. Miller was shot by Herman Hoyerman, bachelor farmer, as he crawled into a window at the Hoyerman home. His companion, identity unknown, was believed to have been wounded, but escaped in an auto. Miller was taken to a Logansport hospital by Hoyerman, where he died without revealing the identity of his companion. — o ‘Cheeks’ Myers Injured “Cheeks" Myers, star pitcher of the Decatur Legion junior baseball team suffered a broken arm when he attempted to throw a baseball from third to first base at the Lincoln Life-Legion game at Berne last night Myers was playing third base at the time of the injury. His arm had been sore for several days and the attending physician said that probably his effort to check the swing of his arm caused the bones to snap. zMyers will be out of the lineup the rest of the season. The Legion team lost the game 19-5.

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CAPONE SAYS HE'S ‘THROUGH WITH GANGDOM' Beer Baron To Be Sentenced Today; Refuses Many Offers SAYS HE WILL “GO STRAIGHT” By Robert T. Loughran, UP Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1931 by UP.) Chicago, July 30.—(U.R) —Alphonse (Scarface Al) Capone is "through with the rackets" and is determined "to become an honest man,’- he told the United Press today while awaiting sentence to Leavenworth prison. “When I say I’m through I mean I’m through—l am burning my bridges behind me,’’ declared the "world’s worst criminal" before entering Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson’s court to receive sentence on his pleas of guilty to violating the prohibition laws 5,000 times and failing to pay income tax on the millions he admitted he had made illegally. The only authentic interview granted on the eve of his departure for prison, the contrite Capone said his greatest ambition was to raise his son to b* a good citizen. He said he would be satisfied with any punishment the government decreed, would ask no favors in prison. and would emerge determined to build up a business reputation of which his family could be proud. The interviewer found Capone in a dingy room of the Lexington hotel, an unpretentious, box-like structure on the edge ot Chicago's famous "black-belt.’’ _ For years the words and phrases, “Capone-gangsterism- power-wealth-ooze seven men murdered in a row” have been synonymous .CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX, Federal Agents Active Ottawa, 111, July 30—(UP)-An army of 200 prohibition enforcement agents recruited from Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois raided seven northern Illinois cities yesterday, and arrested 74 men and three women on charges of liquor law violation. Directed by Col. J. F. J. Herbert, district prohibition enforcement officer of Chicago, A E. Aman and A. E. Hamilton, deputies from ’he Chicago office, the agents visited 64 soft drink parlors and two residences in the cities of Ottawa, Streator, La Salle, Peru, Senneca, Marseiles, and Utica.

TRAGEDY TAKES FOUR VICTIMS Edison’s Mythical Problem Becomes Reality On Mexican Desert Nogales. Sonora, Mexico, July--3O—(UP0 —(UP) —Four unmarked graves in the blistering wastes and three men who raged insanely in a Sonotia hospital provided a real and tragic answer today to Thomas A. Edison’s famous question at to what a group of assorted travelers would do if marooned in a desert with limited supplies of food and water. Edison's .question was imaginary. This tragedy was real. There were other slight* differences. Edison named a group of five. In t Iris group there were seven, including a 16old mother and her 45-day-old baby. The party set out from Nogales to Mevicali in a desert stage July 20 Five days ago, the stage broke down 150 miles from any town. Besides the girl mother and her baby, others of the party all were men. stranded as they were in the middle of a desert with food and water enough to last them only a short time. They faced in reality almost the identical problem which Edison propounded. Edison s question as directed to (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Will Give Social The Young People's Society of the Magley Reformed church will give an ice cream social at Magley, Wednesday evening, August 5. The public is invited.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 30, 1931.

From Belgium to Chicago bfj - Mwi ; Jp f aPi * - Fis ■KaF. . ml *■ Iff J IF T . - . .1 -? ~ 1 A puffing little tugboat is shown here towing the Swedish freighter, Anna, which left Antwerp, Belgium, on June 25, up the river from the Michigan av. bridge. The Anna, with 1,550 tons of merchandise for the Mjdd4e West, steamed up the St. Lawrence River and through the Great Lakes to Chicago, 1,000 miles from the seahoard. TThe freighter is to return to Antwerp with a full cargo of American-made goods.

CALF CLUB TO CONDUCT TOOR Members Will Join Other 4-H Clubs In Decatur Next Tuesday Noon The Annual 4-H calf club tour for 4-H calf club members and friends will start at 8 o'clock Tuesday morn ing. August 4 from Lehman's grove at Berne. The first stop after leaving the park will be with a member, Chalmer Baumgartner, following which the tour will proceed to Sherman Von Gulden's At 10 o’clock the tour will be' at the Eli Schwartz Home on State Road 27, and at 11 o’clock the mem- ; bers will make an inspection of the j Blue Creek Dairy Plant, east of De-' catur. The tour is due at the Legion Memorial park opposite Cloverleaf Creameries at Decatur at 12 o’clock noon for a basket lunch. The tour will be made on central standard tiipe. At the noon stop the club will meet with all the 4-H club members of Adams County and the women of the Home Economics Clubs and have a basket lunch. Following the noon lunch games such as horseshoe pitching, baseball and tugs of war will be in order. o Plan Model Airplane Exhibit Here Aug. 8 A model airplane exhibit and contest is being planned for Decatur, August 8 at the city field, along the Pennsylvania railroad tracks in the northwest part of Decatur. Various contests, including endurance flights, will be held. Two Decatur boys, Leo Miller and John Boch, both of whom have built a number of model airplanes are planning the exhibit. All boys who have built model planes are asked to enter them in the contests. Details can be obtained from either Leo Miller or John Boch. The public is invited to the exhibit. ■■ ■ —— '■■■• -O - ■ "— Leo Kirsch Presides At Lions’ Program The program for the Lion's Club meeting, Tuesday evening, was in the charge of Leo Kirsch. A saxaphone trio, composed of the Misses Mildred and Lillian Worthman and Violet Squier played several instrumental selections, under the supervision of Dave Rice, director of music.

Scholarship Awarded To Fort Wayne Youth Maynard Shiffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. George M. Shiffer, Fort Wayne I was awarded the 1931 Jack Mcrilat j Griffin Memorial scholarship to J Yale University. Mr. Shiffer is a I graduate of North Side high school. | Fort Wayne. William M. Griffin, donor of the fund announced that the scholarship had been increased to $4,000 or to SI,OOO a year. James Burk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Avon Burk of this city and a gradtii ate of the Decatur high school was one of the candidates for the scholarship and was one of three young men considered for the award. He passed a successful ex- ■ amination. Seven young men have j been given the scholarship since it was established in 1925. — o SHANGHAI HAS MARTIAL LAW Guard Against Rebel Forces Will Remain For Three Days Shainghai, China, July 30.—(U.R) —Martial law was proclaimed in Shanghai tdday. The proclamation said the decree would remain in effect three days. The order followed President Chiang Kai-Shek's recent declaration of war against rebel forces in Canton, to the far south, and the Peiping and Tientsin area in the north. The rebellions in the north and south have been aggravated by serious damage and loss of life in the worst floods in recent years throughout the rich Yangtze valley area. Communications have been disrupted, crops lost and hundreds drowned. Unrest, has grown in Shanghai as a result and trouble was feared. It is presumed the martial law decree referred to above affects only the Chinese area of Shanghai, around the large foreign sections of the city, ruled for foreign city councils and police. —o Bond Issue Approved Indianapolis, July 30 —(U.P.) — A $27,000 bond issue for a grade school building in Tippecanoe township Carroll county, was approved by the state tax board ‘oday, without alteration. ,

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REMONSTRANCES FILED AGAINST COUNTY ROADS Citizens File Objections On Two Paving Projects In County COPIES SENT TO TAX BOARD I Remonstrances against two road improvements in Adams county were filed today by tax-; payers with County Afiditori Albert Harlow. The remonstrances oppose the building of the Reusser road in the town of Berne and the John Hocker road improvement in Washington and Monroe townships in the town of Monroe. Copies of the remonstrance will be forwarded to the state J>oard of tax commissioners today and a date (or hearing the matter will in all probability be fixed by the board. The remonstrance against the Reusser road was signed by Jasper Wable and 17 other taxpayers, who objected to the improvement on the grounds that “taxes for the payment of the present bonded indebtedness is already too high and burdensome. This road improvement is not an emergency and should not be improved at this time,” the remonstrators contended. The proposed improvement begins at the intersection of Water and Springer streets in Berne. The estimated cost was $14,700. A "black top' 'surface was proposed. Raymond Bluhm and 17 other taxpayers signed the remonstrance against the Hocker hard surfaced improvement. This improvement begins at the intersection of Washington and Van Buren streets in (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

BOND ISSUES ARE SOLD HERE ■ High Premiums Paid On Two Road Issues; Local Bank Gets One County treasurer Ed Ashbauchefr sold two t oad bond issues this morning, both issues bringing large premiums. The First State Bank of this city was the successful bidder on the Bernstein road issue, $29,600 paying a premium of $1,278.30. The Peoples State Bank Berne, purchased the Huser road bonds, issue $3,600, paying a premium of $155 20. The Huser road is located in Blue Creek township and the Bernstein road improvement takes in the resurfacing of Second street in Decatur, from Adams street north to the end of the street and then west of Washington street to the corporation sine. Marshall street, Gloss street and Park street are also improved as approaches to the main road. Eight bids were submitted by banks in Indianapolis, Muncie, Berne and Decatur for the purchase of the bonds, acceptance belipg subject to the approval of the bank's attorneys. o Zwick Funeral Held Funeral services for Henry Zwick of this city, who died at Fort Wayne Tuesday morning were held at the Charles Zwick residence in Fort Wayne this afternoon. Rev. Treulsch, pastor of the St. John's Lutheran church officiated *<d burial was in the St. John's Cemetery, north of this city. The deceased is a former Adams County farmer. He lived in Fort Wayne the past 15 years. He is survived by a number of brothers and sisters including William Zwick of this city and Charles Zwick of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. William Zwick and son Robert attended the funeral services this afternoon. o Accident Proves Fatal Oakland City. July 30. — (U.R) — Collision of two autos near Somerville resulted in the death of Regen Tepe, 4, Oakland City. No one else was injured.

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Pays Alimony To Wife In Vegetables, Berries Elyria. 0., July 30.—(U.R)—Howard Walker, 20-year-old farmer and ex-husband, who paid alimony with weekly installments of turnips, cabbage and lettuce, was jailed today because his estranged wife grew tired of a vegetable diet. The young farmer was sentenced to spend five days in the county jail on a contempt of court charge after his wife complained of his failure to pay sls a week alimony. Walker said he had no money and didn’t want "Viola” to be hungry. “So I took her vegetables, and strawberries in season," he explained.

DITCH BIDS ARE RECEIVED Awarding Is Withheld Awaiting Decision On Owner’s Rights Bid Contractor’s bids for the building of the Henry Krick drain located wast ot Thirteenth street in Decatur were received this morning by County Engineer Ralph Roop and referred to the ditch attorneys, Fruchte and Litterer. Mr Roop announced that contract would not be awarded until the attorneys had passed on the matter of owner’s rights and other questions pertaining to the job. James A. Donohou and Co., Frankfort, Indiana, were the low bidders on the job. Their bid was $7,500. Charles Arnold, Adams county contractor, submitted an owner’s rights bidOther bids received were Yost Bros., $8,056; Clarence Sampsel and Otto Cesson, Macy, Indiana $8,098. In the opinion of attorneys owner's rights bids can be submitted be fore the contract is awarded and the contract awarded to the most reasonable bidder by the engineer The proposed drain, to be built of tile, runs from the Schnepp farm southwest of Decatur, north and west to Monroe street, where it empties into an open ditch. The estimated cost of construction on the drain was $8,192 Bids received about three weeks ago were rejected on the grounds that they were above the estimate. The lowest bid received was $8,200. o Former Judge Expires Indianapolis, July 30. — (U.R) — Charles T. Hanna, 61. former Marion county Superior Court judge, died at his home here last evening after an illness of several months. For 32 years Hanna had been associated with Thomas A. Daily in the law firm Hanna & Daily, which was the second oldest firm in the city.

DO AK FIGHTS CUT IN WAGES Labor Secretary Says Living Cost Reductions Is No Cause Washington. July 30.—(U.R)—Falling living costs are not a sufficient argument for general wage cutting, Secretary of Labor William N. Doak declared today in an interview with the United Press. "The argument is made,” Doak, himself a lifelong railroad worker, said, ‘‘that the cost of living has fallen and that real wages have therefore Increased. That argument might apply if we had ever in this country applied a fair division of income to labor. But there is more to the question of wages than what a man can eat and what he needs to clothe himself. Labor is entitled to more than a bare subsistence. The employe’s productivity has increased many fold, several hundred per cent in many industries. He is entitled to retain a portion of the gains thus made. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —o BULLETIN Brewster, Ohio, July 30.— <U.R>—Three men today held up the Brewster Banking company and esaped with $40,000 in cash and bonds. Included in the amount stolen were pay envelopes for employees of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway shops near here.

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BOARDMAN AND ROLANDO SAFE AT ISTANBUL 5,000-Mile Flight To Turkey Completed In Record Time PLANE GOES THROUGH FOG Istanbul, Turkey, (by trans Atlantic telephone from London) (U.R)—Two New England aviators, after a flight of approxitnately 5,000 rn i1 e s through fog and wind over the Atlantic anti down through Europe. brought their black anti yellow monoplane to earth here today. < laimants to the world record for distance fly in g in a straight line. The fliers, Russell N. Boardman and John Polando, left New York at 4:59 a.m. E.S.T. on Tuesday and landed here at 6:16 a m. EjS.T. today, making the flight in 49 hours and 17 minutes. Their arrival at their destination after what must have been th<iisands of miles of blind flying, was a remarkable achievement ot navigation. The plane, probably flying high and fast, was not sighted or reported at any point along the route, except when it passed out to sea over Newfoundland, and even then it was not identified. The Cape Cod came down at the Yechiikey airdrome to l.<e received by cheering throngs. Aided by a strong following wind, it circled in to the field in glittering brilliant sunshine, which had replaced a cloudy morning. Joseph C. Grew, the American ambassador, who had waited for the fliers since 3 am., was the first to greet them and shake their hands. The crowd closed in and the fliers were taken to the center of the airdrome, where they were given an ovation. The actual distance of their flight was estimated at 4.984 miles. The fliers emerged from the plane smiling modestly but delighted by their reception. They seemed a little dazed from their ‘CONTINUED ON PAGE SIXa No Relief Promised Indianapolis, July 30. — (U.R) — Showers which had been expected to relieve the heat wave in Indiana last night, failed to materialize, and the U. S. weather bureau predicted today that there would be no relief from the current high temperature before the end of the week. Yesterday’s high of 95 degrees w'as expected to be reached again today. Humility was high, but the heat was not as severe as during the two previous waves this summer. —— O ; Lehman Gets Patent Berne, July 30—(Special)—Tillman Lehman of this place was granted a patent on a soap shaver mashine .according to word received from the patent department at Washington D. C.. today. The device shaves soap from a cake into chips.

HOOSIER FACES MURDER CHARGE Vincennes Salesman Is Charged With Crime In State Os Kentucky Vincennes, July 30 —(UP)) —A warrant charging Harvey N. Carter Vincennes Salesman, with murder and asking his return to Carter county, Kentucky, to answer to the charge of slaying Jack Lane, aged deaf and blind man a year ago, was received here today. As related at the time Lane was supposed to have walked into the side of Carter's machine near Olive Hill, Ky. Carter took him to Grayson, the coiinty seat, where he died Civil action was started against Carter by the county coroner, who sought payment for burial of Lane, a pauper. Before the suit was to be tried, however, the county grand returned the murder indict(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)