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LEVEE BREAK INCREASES FLOOD DANGER

Uj s. Takes Step To Preserve Peace Between China. Japan

NiKES PEACE ! PAtT TO BRING ABOUT RESULT jU®. part merit Invokes Kelikt Pact In LatPeace Etlort Ctlx TAKEN TODAY embassy — he Uiitcd States tixlav in- 1 (iketllllie Kellogg Peace) , af (j n an etlort to preserve eace [ix'tween Japan and 'Mr the Illis action was taken iter Aug consultation with lher lowers and alter the '■niietfStatis <>..■! a period if lit I made urgent I to Japan in halt its course in Man-! jhurll I intßatinn that the pact hail ] <1 was obtained at the] Itatdßsartment. | SetS i for* statement on the Man *ariH situation later today. | Thßction was taken through rn/iLU

African embassy in Tokio. | ring "Deep Concern’’ ' ngton. Jan 7 —(U.R) — The 1 i in tiie far east is giving I pneern to the* American km " President Hoover lay in welcoming China’s , Lister. Dr. W. W. Yen, to ( ou’s capital. r - 11 ~ ’< d Jackson Killed I Fla., Jan. 7 —(UP)—A hun- t rs nt on with the show" ] Jacks u. noted stunte.* and ( r of t)m endurance record, j in the cast. in crashed to his death here erday in a ’warm-up” flight Ify to nil g tiie All-Am- 1 )ir races today. His plane i rimental Curtis Amphibian part as Jackson tried his I stunt, an inverted spin, i ng» collapsed and the tail Idded and the wreckage ( ' a planet from the alti--3,090 feet. ins mutilated li.-iy was t the wreckage, one finger I it nisli t!u> ritii- o~hJs paraP cord. ve:s id the noted flier's ( In said Jackson had put the irougii several looks, snap ow rolls and an inielman ore lie tried his last stunt. 1 he Plane. ’ M been warned against 1 in the plane. 1 o Beats Five Then Kills Self L — i Girardeau. Mo., Jan. 7 j. liver Davenport, a farmer, i rith loss <>f his mortgaged , *at five of liis children to I *’ith a hammer today, serinj'ired his wife and rn■/ i'il'i. then committed sill- . Hi a shotgun.

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■ s ain in Connection ■ h Robbery at Bank |> unkirk Believed to ■ Member of Notor>otis Gang. Sn In h d ’ Jan 7 ~<U-R>- A ■ » ain here after robbery of ' a / e Rank ,lp cember 24 ■ N ’ PW Vork 's widely ■tmji ' 5 ki " ers ’ authorities ■“'“'need tl)(lay |ri!d n a 8 r p bber W “ identlfied ■ ‘" I asquel Enerco. On j ■hnH t < elatiV< “ S in R,,ffal °- NI o ;V IP< ' i,,eil ,h " victim Bern P "'°- tabulation Kr,? • they iearned »<• ■ tl»e men sought in New | fl ghts whlch ( . laiin y . ar Ros several children I a k'° revealed that Lberv'' "'a nN ' CBplured after ■ Wa y .’ Haid tht> y heard Spiro rTrnlw*^* 1 Npw v,,lk baby killings.- Following

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Kin of Missouri Desperadoes I Jt_ r e*. *** %. ■ * L*r JR- / 1w k /w ~ 1 1 £ Irimf J Here ari some of (lie women members of the Young family that ■ has leaped into notoriety rivaling that acquired by the Jesse James I 1 hAi some years ago. Mrs Albei Conley (left I and Vinita Young j iright) are sister., of the desperadoes who killed six law officers at , Springfield. Mo . when a posse surrounded the farmhouse where they 1 '.ere hiding in an atten.pt to ariest Harry Young, wanted for murder. | Inset is Mrs. J 1). Young, mothei of the killers.

Suit Challenges Rights of Justice Noblesville, Ind.. Jan. 7. —’U.R)A suit challenging the right of a J justice of the peace issuing a liquor search warrant without an affidavit was on file in Hamilton circuit court today. Tiie action was brought by Fred Evans lun<-h roi m operator. I against Hugh Maker, justice of tile pt ace. and the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland Evans asks $2,000 damages. — o —— _ I J. ROSENWALD SLEEPS AWAY Chicago’s Richest Citizen Dies, Leaving Millions In Funds Chicago. Jan. 7. — :U.R' Julius I Rosenwald who peddled newspapers for a living as a liny died yesterday. Chicago’s vczlthiest citizen and gr-'itest philanthropist. In I’.is death, the 69-year-old donor of more than 60 milions from the tremendous fortune built by his merchandising genius left a code to guide those who seek to iH'nefit mankind witli their wealth. “Give for tiie living," Rosenwald, whose last thoughts were of his! charities, said. "Those who seek I by perpetuities to create for them-1 selves a kind of immortality will fail, because no institution etui live forever." All his endowments must be ' spent within 25 years of his deaths The Alger like story of Rosen-] CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

the murders. Spiro went to Italy I and after returning remained in j ! hiding in Hammond for three months, his companions said. Spiro’s relatives asked that his I body be disinterred and sent to Buffalo for burial. Local officials [ ! denied the request. j I Robbed Highland Bank ■ ilndianapolis. Jan. 7- (UP) —Roh-j i bery of the Farmers and Merchants t bank of Highland. Ind. on Decent i I her 15 1931, has been solved, with ' i guilt pinned upon three of the par- . ticipants in the recent Dunkirk, Ind. ; i robbety, E. L. Osborne, of the state t[criminal bureau, announced today ' • Bank officials have identified, ■ ■ Pasquel Enrico, who was killed in ! ■|the Dunkirk robbery, and Frank | i i Valentino and Frank CapelM, as the j ' trio who tabbed the Highland bank. : I Osborne said. Valentino. Capelli •land their confederates likewise are F charged with robbery of a Hartford : City bank. They are In jail at Port ■ II land, Ind. |

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HARVEY BAKER HIT BY AUTO Decatur Man Suffers Injuries; Is Confined to His Residence Harvey M. Baker, 241 North Sixth street, is confined to his home . suffering with injuries whch he re ■ ceved when he was struck by an automobile Wednesday night, as he was crossing a downtown street. He suffeted a broken rib and one .sactured rib on his right side, besides minor bruises and injuries. M . Baker was crossing North ; Second street at the Monroe street ' crossing, walking west, about 9 o’clock last night when he was ; struck by the automobile driven by Mrs. Miles Roop of this city. As Mt. Baker walked across the street 1 the signal light at the corner changied and Mrs. Roop drove over the intersection, striking Mr. Baker. He was removed t' ’he office of a local physician where his Injuries l were dressed, later being removed , to his home. □_ FEAR CRISIS IN FRANCE I Death of War Minister May Bring Resignation of Premier Laval Paris. Jan. 7 —(U.R) —-The death I of Minister of War Andre Maginot j early today was believed likely to ; cause a cabinet crisis resulting in 1 the resignation of the ministry of Premier Pierre Laval. * Maginot. 54, entered a coma at | Id p. m. Wednesday and died at 2 ia. nt. today in a private clinic ! where he had been taken suffer- | ing from typhoid fever. The loss of the "big army" war i minister and the illness of For- ' eign Minister Aristide Briand made the situation critical for Laval, for the two ministers were i expected to do much of the work i ‘CONTINUED OX PAOB TWO, —a — Mary Mclntosh Will Continue Nurse’s Study Miss Mary Mclntosh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Mclntosh of this city, who has bee na probation nurse at the Methodist Hospital in Fort Wayne for the last four months, has passed her examination and been received into nurales training, it has been learned 1 here. Miss Mclntosh received her cap and apron and will remain at the hospital for a three year's training course She was graduated from the Decatur high school two years {ago.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 7, 1932. .

UNEMPLOYED RECEIVED BY PRESIDENT Hoover Greets Father Cox And Army of Unemployed At White House SENATE TAKES UP EMERGENCY BILL Washington, Jan. 7.—<U.R)—* ' President Hoover received the leaders of Washington’s greatest unemployment demon- | stration today and in a friendly meeting at the White House assured them the problems of the jobless were close to his heart. Father James R. Cox, militant Pittsburgh priest, emerged from the interview with expressions of pleasure at his reception both at the White House and on Capitol Hill, where petitions demanding federal aid were presented to the senate and read on the ’ House of Representatives floor. Must Aid Jobless Washington. Jan. (U.R) A | miltant but kindly priest, leading 1 the largest gathering of unemployed demonstrators ever to march upon Washington, laid before conI gress today a prediction that revo- j I'.ution would sweep the country if the government did not come to 'the aid of the jobless. Senate Takes Up Bill Washington, Jan. 7. — (U.R) —The I senate shortly after noon today be- ■ gan consideration of the admlnisi (ration's $2,000,000,000 emergency 1 credit relief program while thouslands of unemployed marchers from : Pennsylvania demonstrated with[out disorder outside the capitol for • CONTINUED ON PA(M? SIXi CENTRAL PLAY OPENS TONIGHT I Annual Eighth tirade Production to Be Presented Tonight, Friday . The play, "Meet Uncle Sally,” will be presented by the pupils of , the seventh and eighth grades of Central School tonight and Friday night, at the Decatur High School auditorium. The curtain will rise on the three act comedy at 8 o’clock each night and Decatur High cliool orchestra will present a recital in the auditorium at 7:45 o’clock, preceding the I play. J Between acts of the production I the 7A quartet will sing a group of songs. James Vance will play sev- ’ I eral selections on the harmonica, and a flute solo will be played by Betty Ruth Uhl. This comedy will be the annualeighth giade play piesented by the 1 —-■ — t 1 CONTINUED ”N PAGE SIX) > . 0 MRS. SIMMONS’ FUNERAL TODAY — Porminent Bluffton Woman Dies Tuesday After Short Illness ' iFuneral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. Abram Simmons 65, of Bluffton, who died at her home Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock. Services were held at 2 o'clock at the home, with the Rev. Matthew Worthman, pastor of the First Reformed Church in Bluffton, officiating. and burial was in the Elm ’ Grove cemetery. Mrs. Simmons was the wife of Abram Simmons, senior partner of the law firm of Simmons and Simmons and former state senator. She was prominent in social and civic affairs of Bluffton and was an active worker in the Reformed church Surviving, besides her husband, are two sons Rep. Virgil M. of Bluffton, Democratic chairman of the old Eighth District, and Joe L. of Bluffton district automobile license distrbutor.

j Court’s Action Gets To New York Papers A story concerning the action of Judge D. B. Erwin of Adams circuit court forcing divorced men who fail to pay support money to work for the county at SI.OO a day until the back payments are made, appeared recently in New York newspapers. J An account of the action, appearong in the New York He. aid Tribune was read recently by Rev. and Mrs. (1. Reynolds, Elizabeth. N. J., and , i the account was forwarded to Mr. ’ and Mrs. F. V. Mills of this city. REEL ACREAGE GROWS RIGGER Total Reaches 10,514; Farm Bureau Pledges 2,000 More Acres One hundred ten acres of beet pledges were turned in this morning, only about half the solicitors reporting. This makes a total of 10,514. Mr. Oksen will call the men in during the next day or two for a complete check which it is expected will increase the totals to close to 11,000 acres. The following telegram was rei ceived at this office last evening: Indianapolis Ind. Jan. 6 ' Daily Democrat, Decatur. Ind. Have pledges foi 10.414 acres in. I Have .wi;ed Col. Gallagher a guarantee of 2,000 more acres by January 15th. Must have by that d'ate. Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperativel Association. --By E. J. Fricke. This tells the story up to date. . No word has been received today as to the results of Col. Gallagher’s . trip east but every one interested is confident he will be successful and that the plam will operate this year, which is what we are all in-1 terested in most. The taking of pledges amounting to 2,000 acres still to be secured will require a lot of work and your cooperation II is urged. The solicitors are out again today and will continue to canvas until the quota is secured. o Unpaid Taxes Grow • 'ndianapolls, Jan. 7 —(UP) —Taxi delinquencies in Indiana for 1931 show an increase of $3,320,305.70 over those of 1930, complete returns to the state auditor disclose. This represents about 8.5 per cent of total tax levies. Delinquencies In 1931 totalled $11,916,035.92, compared with SB.595,730.22 in 1930. — o — A. H, LAMMERT DIES TODAY Decatur Man Succumbs To Tuberculosis After i Year’s Illness Anthony Henry Lammert. 33, a resident of Adams County for the last twenty one years, died at his home on 310 South Eleventh street, this morning at 5:45 o'clock. Dentil was due to tuberculousis, with which Mr. Lammert had been ill since last fall. The deceased was born in Preble township February 26. 1898, the son , of Mr. and Mrs. William Lammert, both of whom survive. He was united in marriage to Veda Chronister and one daughter. Norma Coleen. was born to the union. Mr. Lammert had been an employee of the General Electric company for ten years. He was a member of the Loyal Older of Moose, and was confirmed in the Zion Reformed Church by Rev L. C. Hessert. Surviving are the parents, his ’ wife, and daughter, and two sisters and two brothers: Otto of Pleasant Mills: Albert of Decatur; Mrs. Fred Llniger of Decatur; and i Rhoda at home. One sister. I Hilda • preceded him in death. , Funeral set vices will be held Sat- 1 urday afternoon at 2:15 o’clock at • the residence; and at 2:30 o'clock i at the Zion Reformed Church, with the Rev. A. R. Fledderjohann officiating, assisted by the Rev. R. E. i Vance of the United Brethren church. Burial will be in the Deca- I tur cemetery. i

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AVIATORS CRASH ON SHERMAN MOUNTAIN Adventureous S o c i e 1 y Women Killed: Bodies Found In Plane WERE FLYING TO NEW YORK CITY By Paul Cotnley French United Press Staff Correspondent. Newville. Pa., Jan. 7 (U.R) — Ruth Stewart and Debbie Stanford, adventureous society aviators, crashed and were killed on j Sherman mountain, we found today when after sighting their crumpled plane from the air. we returned to the scene of the crash by automobile. Their white Lockheed monoplane crashed into the dense timber of the 1,400 foot mountain after they left Pittsburgli Tuesday, en route to New York, from where they planned to start a leisurely air tour to Soutli America. They left St. Louis last week Solution of the mystery of their disappearance was made by the United Press ami J. Paul Lukens, pilot for the AutoGiro company, as we soared on a rescue mission over tiie dangerous tnid-Pennsylvania mountain gaps The plane had crashed in dense woods on the very mountaintop. The wreckage was only a few hundred feet from a narrow mountain road that led to a fire tower neur the wreckage. Lukens, an expert pilot, viewed the'' wreckage and the terrain and had little difficulty visualizing the last moments of the two <continued on page stxy HEARING ON CASE IS HELD Suit of Depositors Against Linn Grove Bank to Be Tried Jan. 9 Arguments in the case of Samuel Gentis vs. The Bank of Linn Grove, et al, occupied about two hours before Judge Dore B. Erwin in Adams circuit court today. Attorneys C. J. Lutz and Herman Myers appeared for the plaintiff and Ferd Litterer. H. M. DeVoss of this city and \V. H. Eichhorn for the defendants. While only the Gentis case was heard tliis morning the same rulings apply to twenty-six oilier eases fil'd by depositors. Tiie Bank of Linn Grove was organized is a common law partnership regulated by certain statutes and permitting the issuance ot stock. Tiie bank closed in June 1930 and up to date three distributions have been paid to all stock holders and an additional one to all lint those who have filed these suits to recover. This morning a motion was filed by Muri Lybarger. liquidating agent, to postpone hearing on the cases until tiie assets have been disposed of and the cash distributed. After hearing the arguments tiie court overruled tile motion, stating that since a number of the stockholders were also depositors and have been receiving distributions with tiie others, that he felt settlement should be made at this time. Tiie defendants filed an answer in general denial and tiie case was set for trial January 9. o — George E. Little Forced To Resign Madison, Wis., Jan. 7.— (U.R) George E. Little virtually was forced to resign as director of athletics at tiie University of Wisconsin, it has been revealed by tile legislative committee investigating athletics at the state school. Prof J. F. A. Pyro, chairman of tiie athletic council, could not give one reason why Little’s resignation had been desired in answer to questioning yesterday by assemblyman Oscar Schmiege.

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Jailed in Error? Hl > Following a reputed death-bed j i confession of a man who said he' | had tiie girl slain after she had | rebuffed him, Anson Best (above),; I wiio has served eleven years of a [ life sentence in Marquette Prison.! Michigan, for tiie crime, may be 'freed. Best was convicted of, slaying Vera Schneider, in Pon-| ; tiac, Michigan, in 1920. DEPARTMENT SHOWS PROFIT Conservation System In State Makes Over Million Dollars i Indianapolis. Jan. 7.—lU.R)—Operation of the state conservation department during the past 12 years resulted in a tangible profit of sl.1 j 174,059.87, it was disclosed today, , despite the fact that only one major division has earning capacity. An audit of Hie department's [ books by Ross and Teckmeyer, i field examiners of tiie state board lof accounts, showed tiiat the. $3,409,000 appropriated to tiie depart- | tnent from taxes had been convertJed into holdings and cash balances 1 , totaling $4,583,098.42. The audit . covered the period from April. 1919, when the department was created, to September 30, 1931. Teckmeyer's report said the in-! I ventory of land, Improvements and : [equipment amounted to $4,405,903.-. i,73. On September 30 tiie depart-] ment had a cash balance of $112,-' 005.51 and also had on deposit in] 1 ; Chicago, donations for the Dunes I I Park amounting to $65,186.05. ‘ It was shown that tiie original 1 conservation department holding of; "12,766 acres in 1919 had been ex-I ’ panded into a total of 47.243 acres, ll (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) I 1 Miller Funeral Today ) Funeral services for Paul Miller, - retired farmer who died at ills home ■I in this city Sunday night, were i ‘ held at 9 o'clock this morning at | ' the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Bur-i ■[ ial was in tiie St. Joseph Cemetery. I

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I Newton 1). Baker Takes Up Case of Newspaper Against Ruling of Judge to Bar Reporters. Frankfort, Ky.. Jan. 7 —(U.R)-A newspaper fighting for freedom of the press and a judge fighting for I absolute control over his court waged battle here today in the Kentucky court of appeals. Newton D. Baker, wartime secretary of war and potential presidential candidate, led legal counI sei for the Knoxville, Tenn., NewsSentinel in its petition to set aside a dictum barring representatives of the paper from reporting delibs erations of Judge Henry R. Prewitt’s circuit court—at Mt. Ster- > ling. 68 miles oast of here. i Prewitt banned News-Sentinel I representation from his court be- ’ cause of alleged "libelous. sland- • erous. false" editorial statements, i sent his two sons. Allen and Reid Prewitt, attorneys, to join issue i with Baker. The paper's petition was sched-

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SCORES OF LIVES IMPERILLED BY I FLODD WATERS — Nort he r n Mississippi Flood Area Stretches Over Lowlands NEGROES RESCUED FROM HOUSETOPS ■ Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 7.—■ I (U.R)—Scores of lives were imperilled in the northern Mississippi flood today when a [break in the Mathews Bayou [levee sent flood waters over a ;wide stretch of lowlands. 1 The United Press corres- | pondent at Glendora, Miss., ; said motor launches were takling negroes off housetops and others were rescued from precarious I perches in trees ! Water six to ten feet deep wis [reported surging in the immediate ivicinity of the break —two miles north of Swan Lake. Miss. Boats plying in the new flooded area, were reported to have found persons on floating trees, barn [ roofs and hen houses, lifted from [their foundations by tiie flood. Red Cross officials said more boats were needed immediately to prevent a large death toll. i More than 5,000 persons live in the district endangered by tiie break above Swan Lake, and 50,000 ; acres of land are threatened with rnN”iM’rn nN paGF six O State Department Replies On Loans I Washington, Jan. 7—(U.R)—Th i state department replied today »o congressional critics of its foreign loan policy in a formal statement declaring it had never "passed on tiie security or merits" of foreign loans. TWO MYSTERIES ARE UNSOLVED Indiana Murders Still Baffle Authorities; May Be Dropped I Indianapolis, Jan 6. UP) Two I cases apparently destined to go j down in Indiana police history as : unsolved, were added to the state's I criminal records during 1931. ' Tn addition, two other baffling i mysteries, one of them more than '.two decades old, flared momenta!lily, but at the conclusion of the year were no nearer solution. A I possibility arose that death has closed one of them. Tiie poison murder of Virginia and Alice Jean Simmons at a family reunion in Lebanon last June doubtless was the year's major crime in Indiana. Tiie girl's mothI er, Mrs. Carrie Simmons, was indicted on two murder charges and I <r’GNTTNTTRD ON PAGE FIVE)

uled for oral argument at 3 p.m. The action grew out of editorial comment of trials of conspiracy to murder cases resulting from a spectacular labor war in southeastern Kentucky coal fields last spring. Judge Prewitt cited John T. Moutoux, staff correspondent of the News-Sentinel, in contempt of court, but dismissed the citation on Moutoux's assertion he did not write the objectionable editorial. Although held not in contempt, Moutoux was barred from the court along with Jack Bryan, and other News-Sentinel reporters. * Meantime the News-Sentinel editorially refused any retraction, declaring the case struck at the heart of the constitutional right of freedom of the press—an interpretation. incidentally which Judge Prewitt dismissed ns untenable. Furthermore, because of several asserted conversation- tl.miouc CONTINUED ON PACE KXI