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j Union Service Sunday The next union Sunday night worship serviced will he held at the Zion Reformed church on Sunday night at 7:30 o'clock. The service I was originally scheduled to be held ;at the Baptist church but because of some improvements that are bejing made there, the service lias been changed to the Reformed church. The Rev. C. R. I,unman, pastor of the Christian Church will preach the sermon. He has announced tHat lie will speak on the subject, “Salvation By Grace Through Faith” Special musical numbers will be tendered ami the üblic is cordially invited. “Russia" topic OF CHRONISTER Local Man talks to Rotary Club; Spent 18 Months Abroad “Russia is ruled by fear and the . people are afraid to talk or tell you what they think". Fred Chronlster, i Decatur man who spent 18 months in Batum. Russia, stated in a talk before members of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. Chronlster was employed by the Foster-Wheeler Construction company of New York and assisted 1 in the construction o flarge oil and gas tanks for the Soviet government in and near Batum. Mr. Chronister told of living conditions in the Batum district and related several experiences while in Batum. He stated that due to poor train facilities he was not able to travel much over Russia, his longest trip being about 350 miles from Batum. Food .and clothing supplies were meager in Batum and the dozen or ' more Americans employed by his j company imported much of wiiat they ate. Americans were not molested, hut Russians were forbidden to associate with them. The Soviet government or the Union of Socialist Soviet Republicans has succeeded to a great ex-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)! Bee Causes Accident Indianapolis, August 14 — (UP) — A Bumblebee, which flew down the open shirt-front of Edwin Gentry 17 while he was driving in an open car with three companions late yesterday, caused him to lose control of the machine, which overturned. Paul Morgan. 15. was inje/ed critically in the crash, and Velma Maryott. 15, and Belarus Easly, 15 suffered cuts and bruises. Gentry was thrown clear, and escaped injury. x LINDT PLANS WORLD TOIIR Famous Flier and Wife to Go from China to Europe and Home Nome, Alaska, Aug. 14.—(U.PJ — Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh today considered extending their aerial vacation trip around the world. Lindbergh indicated he was planning to go to China fcom Tokio, then across India to Europe, testing there a while before returning over the Atlantic to America byway of the Azores. Hoping weather conditions would permit them to continue their flight toward Toklo today, Col. and Mrs. Lindbergh were early, getting ready for the trip. Storms have kept them here since Tuesday morning, an improvement in weather last night (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) BULLETIN ~ Portland, Aug. 14 —(U.R)— Paul Garwood, 25, Hartford City, who was arrested Wednesday after an attempt with two other youths to rob the Pennville State Bank, today pleaded guiity to a charge of attempting to commit robbery while armed. Sentence was withheld until Monday by Judge Frank Gillestie, when his alleged companion, Les- ' ter Walker and Lewis Walker, 1 will be arrainged. Lester Walker, driver of an auto uaed in the hold-up attempt, has admitted his part In the plot, authorities said, but his brother, Lewis, has refused to talk.

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BODY, BELIEVED TO BE CRAMER'S IS DISCOVERED I Reported to Be Floating in North Atlantic* Ocean Today REPORT TO BE VERIFIED Copenhagen, Denmark. : Aug. 1 I (U.R) A body dressled in an aviator’s suit was seen floating mar Foula j Island in the Atlantic, reports I reaching here today said. The repo r t s confirmed similar advices reaching Oslo Norway, which said a hotlv had been seen in the vicinity of the route supposedly taken by Parker D. Cramer, American transAtlantic flier, lost since last Sunday. A Norwegian fishing vessel reported sighting the body late Sun- | day, drifting west between 20 and 30 miles northwest of the islands. Tlie weather made it impossible tb recover the body. Cramer and Oliver Pacquetto, his Canadian radio operator, disappeared while on the last lap of their trip from Detroit to Copenhagen. They were mapping a proposed air mail route from America to Europe. O- ' ■ . - . School Gets Land Greencastle. Aug. 14 — (UP) — DePauw University will receive a' section of land in Rarber county, Kansas, valued at $50,000 according to the will of Ira B. Blackstock, Springfield 111., who died July 31. He was a trustee of the University. Mr. aud Mrs Blaekstja k. *ere donors of Black stock field, DePauw football gridiron and track. At one time Blackstock was manager of the Springfield 111.. News. FATHER KILLS GIRL'S SUITOR Confesses to Shooting Daughter’s BoyFriend in Park Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 14 —(U.R) —Hoy C. King, 41, was held today by police who said he confessed killing Lewis Palmer, 19, after he discovered his 18 year old daughter, Glenda, in an automobile with Palmer in Prospect Park the night of July 20. “Sheriff, 1 did it," officers said King blurted out after hours of questioning during which he was directly accused by Glenda. Reports of the girl's accusation spread throughout Colorado Springs and a crowd of nearly 1,000 milled excitedly around the jail when announcement of the confession was made. According to police, King said he went to the park on a bicycle to "protect Glenda,” and found the pair. Palmer made a threatening move' and King shot him, father and daughter agreed. Still living. Palmer was loaded into his own automobile by Glenda and her father, and Glenda drove away. iShe said the youth hied to death slowly while she drove about through deserted streets debating whether to take him to a hospital. At one time Glenda was only a block from a hospital, she said. Then, she claimed she went out into the country and found her father and he concocted the story she told an hour later when she drove to a home in the residential section and declared a roughly dressed stranger killed Palmer and attacked her. King denied he helped his daugh(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Mishap Proves Fatal • Hillsboro, jAug. 14 —(UP)—One man was killed and three persons were injured when their auto collided with a truck on slate road 34, east of here. The dead: Joseph Chatt, 56, Hillsboro filling station owner and driver.of the auto. The Injured: Mary Louella Chatt, 13, Veedersburg, a niece, and Roland Chatt, 21, Veedersburg a nehew It was the third fatal accident on roads near Crawfordsvllle recently.

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Rare Ailment Claims j Young Chicago Woman i Chicago August 14 — (L T P) — The body of another prominent woman victim of a strange and rare disease which destroys white corpuscles in the blood was brought back today to Chicago. The latest victim (the seventh recoided by medical science) was Mrs. Lillian Caldwell, wife of Wal- ' lace Caldwell, a member of the Chicago school board. She died at 0 o’clock last night at Grand Rapids Mich. Numerous blood transfusions had been made during the last week 1 in an effort to save her. WARM WEATHER j ( WILL RETURN ; i Weatherman Predicts Re- t turn of Higher Ternperature Soon !j Indianapolis August 14—(UP)— 11 | Rising temperatures in Indiana to- f I day indicated that the cool weather • of the past week was coming to an ’ end, with temperatures in the nine- * ties expected according to the U. S. ( weather bureau here. Tiie warmer weather, expected * Saturday, will be general over the ‘ eastern and central states, J. H. | 1 Arinington, of the weather bureau | said. I* Temperature of 85 degrees was ' expected at Indianapolis today, with * the forecast indicating fair weather. - Washington August 14 —(UP) — 1 The weather bureau today issued an advisory huricane warning that a ' small but intense tropical distur- ' bance is south of the Island of Jamarica and moving northwest. , Weather ogservers have been plott- ‘ ing the course of the disturbance sos several days as it moved over the Caribbean sea. o McCoy to Be Freed San Quentin prison, Calif., Aug. 14—l UP)-*—Norman Shelby (Kid McCoy) former world's champion 11 prizefighter who was sentenced to! | prison six years ago for killing his sweetheart, will be paroled out on Dec. 33, 1533, according to' an announcement by the state prison board. The famous “Kid” who whipped Tommy Ryan for the disputed mid-dle-weight title in 1896, will be 59 years old when he leaves prison, a job as athletic director for the Ford Motor company will be awaiting for him. Men whose names are prominent ! in business and politics all over the nation joined in pleas to the prison board to look with favor upon Sel- j by’s plea for leniency. SCHOONER HIT BY LARGE SHIP I Captain and Crew Are , Saved, Report to Ship ( (Mices States New York, August 14 —(UP) — 1 The Swedish American liner Grips- 1 holm sank the fishing schooner Al- ' bert W. Black, from Portland. Me., 1 in a collision. Captain Steve Landmark. of the Grrpsholm. notified the line’s offices here today. Catain Levi Eastman of the Al- 1 bert W. Black, and his crew of eight 1 were saved, the message said. Time and place of the collision were not given. .The Grlpsholm carrying 534 pas- 1 sengers, left Gothemburg, Sweden, 1 August 6, for New York via Halifax, and was due tomorrow. It is a ' twin screw steel vessel of 17,760 tons. The Albert W. Black was 72 feet long, gross tonnage 54. o — BULLETIN I Indianapolis, Aug. 14—(U.R) —The 1 state tax board today set dates for i remonstrances hearing on several 1 proposed bond issues: The cases and dates set were: • Monroe and Washington town- i ships, Adams county—s2s,ooo issue i asked for construction of the John i Hocker road. Hearing August 25, 11 a.m., county auditor’s office. I Monroe township, Adams county I —514,900 issue asked for con- l struction of Reusser road. Hearing ' August 25. 10 a.m., county audi- l tor’s office. j

SCHOOL BOOKS ARE ANNOUNCED FOR FALL TERM Striker Compiles Lists for all tirades in Adams County System NO RADICAL CHANGES MADE £ A list of school books re- ] quired by grade pupils of , Adams County for the com- i ing fall term of school was published today by Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent. The Adams Coun- ! tv schools will open Monday. 1 September 7, and every child in the county is urged to have 1 his books for the opening day. j Mr. Striker stated todny that j the list of books is being announc-! ed early so that pupils and their j parents may check the list with i the hooks used last year and :le- j termine what new hooks are needed. Pupils are urged to gather together all books from last year that may be used again this year and have them ready for the opening of school. There is no change in the books from a year ago, Mr. Striker stated, and many of the books purchased last year may be used again this year. Following is the complete list of books required: First Grade Book Price Story and Study First and \ Second combined $ .61 Baker & Baker PPrimer .. .50 Zaner-Blosser Pencil No. 2 .05 Zaner-Bloeser Writing Practice Book I 15 Primer Seat Work _ 22 Second Grade Story and Study Second Readers 49 (CONTINUED ON “AGE TWO) U. S. AVIATORS i TO BE FINED — I’angborn, Herndon t o Be Fined in Tokio, Group Recommends Tokio, August 14 —(UP)—The j procurator recommended today that | a fine he imposed upon Clyde E. j Pangborn and Hugh Herndeon. Jr., i American aviators accused of hav- i ing photographed Japanese fortifications from the air. The recommendation was believed to have lessened the possibility the fliers might be imprisoned. A verdict in the case will be handed down by the court tomorrow. The procurator said he had decided to proceed with their prosecution because his Inquiry definitely showed they took pictures of Japanese forests in the vicitinty of Hakodate, on the island of Kokkaido to the north. The trails-Atlantic fliers were charged with taking the photographs while flying to Japan from Kaborovsk, Siberia, where they abandoned their attempt to set a world flight record recently. The fliers indignantly denied published reports that they took pictures with a view to selling them to a “certain power.” The United States embassy sent a communication to the foreign office on Monday, expressing official regret for the incident and promising that it would nor be repeated. Three cabinet members — The Ministers of communications, war (CONTINUED UN PAGE ElGH’l! — O Social Is Announced District No. 3 of the United Brethren Church wil hold a Social Meet tonight at 7:45 o'clock In the local cliurch. A program has been arranged and a social time will fol low. O. L. Vance of the Vance and Linn Clothing store will deliver an address oil the subject, “Comparing and Contrasting the Trials of Jesus and Stephen.” All Uuited Brethern families and friends of the church are, invited from this district, to attend. Those living in the south west part of the city, west of the G. It. and I. Railroad and south of Madison street are especially invited.

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Woman’s Body Found Franklin, Aug. 14 The body of Mrs. Eliza Jane. Zook, 83, missing since Saturday, was found by 'a | scathing party in a weed patch two miles east of Morgantown. Search was started when it was learned Mrs. Zook had not attended a funeral to which she had started. HAWKS REGAINS SPEED RECORD Famous Flier Makes New Mark from Chicago to New York Roosevelt Field., L. I. Aug. 14— (UP) Captain Frank Hawks whose speed dominance on the nation's air lanes lias been recognized even by the Sioux Indians has recaptured the Chicago-To-New York speed record. Hawks streaked out of the fading sunset last night to complete a nonstop flight from Chicago Jo New York in 3 hours and 46 minutes. James Goodwin Hall, flying opponent of the 18th amendment, claimed the former mark of 4 hours and 4 minutes. Captain Hawks had set a new speed record between New York and Chicago the day before, covering the route in 4 hours and 4 minutes to recapture a record established by Hall nine days ago. From Chicago the speed merchant flew to Hot Springs and attended a campfire council of the Sioux Nations at which he was made courtesy chief of the tribe. He was chiistened Chetan Kinyan, which means “flying Kawk.’’ , ■ i. Q . Two Sisters Held Hammond, Aug. 14—Two Duluth Minn., sisters hitchhiking to New .York attired in beach pajamas were held in jail here today with Dettmar Harvey, Cheyenne, Wyo, who is charged with buying each l girl an auto, making payment with forged checks. The girls, Evelyn Laverbonce 18, j and Violet Laverbonce, 19, were | arrested in a hammond hotel room j which police said was filled witn i gifts from Harvey. Governor on Vacation Indianapolis August 14 —(UP) —! Governor Harry G. Leslie has left I the confines of his Hoosier domain | for a two-weeks vacation in the Canadian wilds. With him are Fred Cunningham, ; Martinsville road contractor; C. ! Dolly Gray, Indiana representative |of the American aggregates comjpany; Bert Byers, Indianapolis belt (railroad official, ami Senator Byron K. Huff, Martinsville, members of the state budget committee. PRISON SCRAP TO HIGH COURT Prison Made Goods Is Topic of Long Court War in State Indianapolis, Aug. 14 —(U.R) — A fight to permit state penal institutions to manufacture products for the open market, will be carried to the Indiana supreme court by James M. Ogden, attorney general, he announced. The attorney general’s decision to continue tlie fight was made after the state aptpellate court denied a petition for rehearing on its ruling of a year ago which held that tlie state farm at Putnamville can manufacture only those products to tie used by the state’s own institutions. Tlie case came from the Putnam (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Burglar Is Killed Cleveland, 0., August 14 —(UP) — Joseph Geiacl, 15, walked into an automatic burglar trap at the rear entrance of a grocery store here today and was killed instantly as a double barrelled shotgun emptied its charge into his body. His crumpled body, a screw driver clinched in the hand, was found by James Testa, a passerby. Carl Oottosanti, proprietor of the store, told police he set the trap after his store was burglarized a month ago. He said the shotgun was trained on the rear entrance and arranged to fire when the door was oened.

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District Meet Planned The District Meeting of the Sheet Metal and Furnace trades for the Muncie District will be held at Mancie on Friday, August 28th at 6:30 P. M. The hotel committee has not turned in its final report, but the place of meeting will probbaly be at the Hotel Roberts, Howard and High Streets, Muncie. The Muncie District takes in the following counties: Tipton, Hamilton, Grant, Madison, Delaware, Blackford, Wells, Adams, Jay and Randolph. It entertains the sheet metal trade with a District Meeting every other year. The meeting two years ago was held at Marion and was attended by approximately 100 men engaged in the sheet metal and : furnace trades. POLITICIAN is BADLY WOUNDED New Jersey Senator Is Shot and Wounded in Girl's Apartment New York, Aug. 14 —(U.R)—Senator Roy T. Yates, one of tlie youngest members of the New Jersey upper house, and prominent as a club inan, broker and barker, was shot and critically wounded some time before dawn today in the elaborately furnished apartment of Miss Ruth Jayne, an attractive blonde. Not until three hours after the |>olitic ian was taken to a hospital J in a private ambulance, were police ] notified of the shooting. Six hours later, police knew 1 little more of the shooting than they did when Detective James Cotter, entered Miss Jayne’s apartment and found her, in vividly colored pajamas, hysterically pacing the floor. 1 Miss Jayne, by alternately bursting into tears and breaking 1 into fits of temper! resisted all efforts to question her. Finally Inspector Francis Kear (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o — GHANDI MAY ATTEND MEET I j Indian Leader Might Reconsider and Go to Round Table , Bombay. India, Aug. 14.—(U.R) — . A possibility that the Mahatma M. K. Ghandi would reconsider his , previous decision and proceed to , London to attend tlie Second India Round Table Conference was seen here today. The executive committee of the All-India Congress, a Nationalist body, decided to adhere to the i Ghandi-Indian accord, despite its boycott of the round table gathering next month. Vallabhai Patel, Congress leader, was authorized to act on behalf I of the congress at London “in the event of an emergency.” These ryoves. receding sharply from the earlier attitude of the congress, were regarded as highly ‘ significant, and it was inferred that ■ Ghandi might alter his decision I and yet proceed to London in time 1 for the conference ’ Ghandl’s decisioir was made be- . cause of the attitude of the new Viceroy, I»rd Willingdon, in rei gard to the peace agreement he > signed with" the former Viceroy, i (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) I o Pays with Own Life i Huntsville, Tex., Aug. 14 —(U.R) —Joe Shield, who orphaned his 1 two girls by murdering his wife, died in the electric chair today praying for their forgiveness, unaware that a kindhearted warden had spared him the anguish of knowing that one of the children had written, “1 never want to i hear from you again, I’m still my ' mother's child.” The letter that Shield never i received was written three weeks I ago In the scrawling handwriting of a seventh grade girl, the grim ’ address, “Joe Shield, death row, Huntsville, Tex.” slanting across - the envelope. i Thanks to Warden Walter i Wald, Shield never knew his child * had turned against him. He went s to the death chair still praying—i ns lue had done for weeks—<or his daughters' forgiveness.

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THREE SLAYERS PLEAD GUILTY; ARE SENTENCED Officers Keep Mob at Bay with Tear Gas Bombs COURT FLAYS MEN’S ACTIONS Jackson, Mich., Aug. 14.—. | (U.R) — Three killers saved five i times from a hideous death by troture at the hands of shouting, fighting, cursing mobs found safety today behind the steel barred windows of state prison here six hours and forty minutes after they confessed their crime. They are enroute to Marquette prison sentenced to four life terms each for the Ann Arbor torch murder of two boys and two girls in their teens. Their confession yesterday, was followed by arraignment, and sentence in record time —Michigan law fighting a running battle with vengeance-seeking mobs so that Michigan justice might prevail. The three killers, Nathan Blackstone, giant Negro hot tamale peddler of Ypsilanti; Frank Oliver and Fred Smith, the latter an ex-con-vict, were trapped as a result of a “dream” by a Negro acquaintance 1 of Blackstone, and another Negro's | eye for rewards. j The convicts arrived here near midnight, their clothing in tatters, their faces scarred and scratched by contact with struggling thousands at Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and here, their bodies bound together by chains—all fearing for their lives. One hundred extra guards patrolled the area outside the prison. They had been called by Warden Henry Jackson to hold hack a crowd here which, unlike the surging mobs at Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, was more inquisitive than hostile. The prisoners probably will be started to Marquette today, there to serve their sentences with no hope of parole. Their terms are the most severe j punishment possible under the j (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Links L T . S.-Germany Greencastle, Aug. 14—(UP) — A close link of friendship between Germany and the United States is depicted by Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam president of DePauw University, in a cablegram received from him here after he and his family had completed a 3,000-mile motor tour of that country. Dr. Oxnam viewed the French policy of "injecting political issues into economic questions” as a “grave menace to economic stability and peace.” The economic condition in Germany is critical, Dr. Oxnam cabled adding that “the Hoover-Stimson-Mellon policy is acclaimed.” “The economic interdependence of the world is clearly evident and united action is essential of worldwide depression is to be removed,” j he advised. CUBAN LEADER SEEKS PEACE Efforts to Stop Bloodshed Extended by President of Republic Havana. Cuba, Aug. 14 —(U.R) — President Gerardo Machado continued his urgent efforts today to arrange a permanent peace and prevent further bloodshed in tho revolution which threatens his regime The president spent the night at S#nta Clara conferring with rebel leaders. He effected a truce which he sought to extend while he and those who oppose him discussed terms. The country remained calm under martial law. Heavy patrols were on duty In the capital. The president hurried to Santa ( lara, his birthplace, in an effort to end the revolution which in less than a week has resulted in at least 60 dead, scores wounded and 'CONTINUED UN PAGE TWOI