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Ilion named bassador to hi BRITAIN Lrv Secretary To Jeed Charles Dawes Kt Foreign Post IsMAVBK I ms sr< < essor I bulletin Kiinjton. Frb. 4 —(UP) ■rtecreury o' the trewury Kl, Mills* a wealthy memK, one of America’s leadKmilti.'. wdl be promoted E treasury cab.net when E* W Mellor becomes Esador to Great Britain. Euncement to that effect ■ made informally at the ■ ( House today. At the K t,ne Mellon confirmed ■ previo.s announcement l h( would accept the Lon LnMr.sadorsh .p. jshington. Feb. 4.—<U-»— ■ent Hoover has selected Kw W. Mellon to lx* amKqi' at laondon, and MelK accepted. ■ succeeds Charles Cates K who resigned to be-■presidr-iit of the ReconHen Finance Corpor■n President Hoover’s) ■weapon in his campaign j ■t the depression. ■ jeieraliy under stood Ogden I ■g. under secretary of the Ky. will Ire advanced to full I ■ rank. Mills for some time Krfifcrnl much of tlie actual ■of die treasury administra■M a looked ilium by many Kike stoving spirit in units- ■ ■lection ui Mellon for the ■ post removes from the cab-) K of its most picturesque ' ■oieriiui.-. figures, and gives I ■not st. James such an Am- ■ ambassador as it probably ■has seen before. | ■ one thing, Mellon is an old J not okl, none hut his inti- ■ how for certainty. His of■iozi.i|,lij in the cougression■rtur) says he will be 77 in II Who's Who adds three Ito that. | another, he is one of the ■ men in the United States, ■her, his reticence has been ■ the most outstanding personjrarteristics since lie has been ■shington — now nearly 11 I He has assiduously avoided ■ contacts as far as possible, ■has entertained when neces|»nd has dined out when pry, but otherwise has ent- ■ Irani the luxurious seclusion ■ rwhiy appointed apartment collection of Rembrandts ■> *ali; to work and hack. Ihe will fit j n the formal so- ( ,X PAGE FIVE) bptist Men To Meet BMt-ng Brotherhood of the ■ ! will meet at the f-’ home of Charles Sundern lining. AU members of the Prhond are asked to meet at r^" 1 at 7 o’clock to go to the Ps hoop. I SUSPECTS ffIER PLEAS .Davis, Hayden Cully ; ad L Not Guilty To ‘ Jobbery Charges L?” 1 , 8 and Hayden Cully, th. ? 1 larceny ,n connection hold-up and robbery of •re»taurant at Monroe Mon [ir . l ,.,* ere arra| K n ed in Ad*?n hl C ° Urt before JudKe D ’ ln this morning. Mu' ! he defen, iants Pleaded j 0 the charges. The af»sworn to by F. H. Tabi wh„ • * ere 9ix oth(j r witi allo. ’! gned ’he complaint. »P and s Was lhat the lw ° •ran Lns ed Tabler at his b . ~7 nda V night of money ,( »f each >l>d * aS fIXPd at ted man and both were He of hl. A ? ams county jail ShLw r inablllt y to post is Mcir> Burl J ohnson and “Cmm ea,Pd the Pa ‘ r

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Barger Escapes Injury Sariwiel Harger I'oininent fnrj nter of Kirkland township escaped injury In an auto accident Tuesday evening wlilh- driving homo from Bluffton. lis aiitoinolili ■ struck the banister o. a bridge mar the Elm Grove cemetery and topp led over. Mr Harger was confused by the lights on a e.<r driving w -i. Ho was thrown opt of the auto bill was not Injured The auto was dam aged. JAP TROOPS REINFORCED AT SHANGHAI Strong Chinese Offense Drives Japanese Back; Chinese Hold Lines CENSORSHIP RULES TOKYO Shanghai, Feb. I. (U.R) Japanese marines rushed strong reinforcements into the front lines lorltiv in a desperate effort to block a fn r ions Chinese offensive which threatened to overwhelm them. The Japanese prepared for a counter-offensive to throw back Chinese shock troops who had claimed victories over a wide front. The Chinese reported they had trapp-ul two battalions of Japanese marines. The Chinese held their lines at North Station, center of a renewed Japanese aerial attack in Chapel. Their ammunition supplies seemed near depletion at nightfall. Gunfire slackened after a day of artillery dueling which shook Hie »*4>. Chapei hurst into flames in a (CON TIN! El > <>N PAGE FIVE. ORCHESTRA TO GIVE CONCERT N. E. I. All-District Group Plans Concert At Fort Wayne Sunday The Northeastern Indiana high school orchestra will give a concert at th* Shrine auditorium in Fort Wayne. Sunday a.ternoon, February 7, at 2:30 o’clock it was announced by Edward Martz, president. Hex Arlington of*'Huntington is director of the orchestra which consists of 125 student musicians from the various towns in th* association. Those from this city uho are members of the orchestra are Edward Martz, clarinet; Vera Porter, baritone; Dick Wertzbergsr. trombone, ami Roselyn Foreman, tram bone. The Decatur high school Trility Trio, composed of the Misses Sara Jane Kauffman, Betty Franklin ami Edwinna Shroli will sing “Our s.-t---retary," to he dedicated Io M. F. Worlliman, am retary. Mis. Louise Haubold will accompany at the piano. Other spovial numbers will Im' given by a Co-ed string trio of Indianapolis. Tickets for tile concert may be secured trom any of Hie local people who are partieiphting in the program or at the door. Officers of the orchestra other Shan the president, are Miss Margaret Foland of Fort Wayne, secretary, and Dick Guthier. Huntington, vice-president. —— —■ o — Jap Jones Appointed Indianapolis, Feb. 4—(UP) —Appointment of Jap Jones. Martinsville as investigator in the state auto license division, was announced today by James Carpenter, chief of the department. Jones, who will take office February Id, succeeds Waiter Mentzer, Fort Wayne. Carpenter said Mentzer was dismissed “for the good of the service." - New Peace Proposal Paris, Feb. 4—(UP)—The foreign office today announced that the French ambassador to Japan. Count De Martel, had made new representations to the Japanese government requesting It to respect the Shanghai international settlement and French concession.

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Cuban City Rocked hy Earthquake I ■WVAJMMB - ene looking toward the harbor over the rooftops of Santiago. Culm, where a series of earthquakes Mi, >u <la> morning wrecked buildings, t iking a toll of al thirty lives, possibly fifty. The numb.'i I of injured was estimated at 384 k ' , _____

FLOOD MENACE ! IS RETURNING — Pocket Area of State Faces Isolation; River Rise Continues i Evansville, Ind.. Reb. 4 (UP) i Flood water of the Ohio river today menaced the entire "pocket" : region. Tlie water fur over tlie floo 1 stage of 35 :eet. still was rising Two schools in Union township were isolated and elos*il. Children tin several other communities wet" 4Ld’< (hL-U> i lu*«-aip»u ul ■flood'd highways. Boats and skiffs were being used in some places to take children from their homes to busses. Virtually every road leadin'.’ form I’vansvill > was covered witli water. ] itlligliway crews directed traffic over ; I US-41 to Henderson, Ky. Road 62. i | was closed at Mt. Vernon and als >| least of Leavenworth. Road 68 was, | block' ll near ITlneeton and road 69 was clos'd north o: Mt. Vernon. I ear.; were being pulled through ! high water on road t r between PalI myr;i and ('orydpn. I Ferr boat operations were irretgular. The Wabash Ferry x\as haltled and the Henderson Ferry was on ! |a two ho ir schedule, during the day . I only, w itii its landing live miles up | the l iver. MINERSWAGE DUES BATTLE Pennsylvania Group Is Defeated In Effort To Change Per Capita I .. IndianapoHs. Feb 4 (U.R) Anthracite miners of Pennsylvania lost in their only proposal before tlie international mine workers convention here, when delegates voted today to accept a resolutions eoinnnltee report submitting the matter of division of dues to] Hie executive board for further! consideration. Anthracite miners had sought, to reduce tlie per capita dues paid) to Hie international union by local unions, from 50 cents to 49 cents. ’ Illinois insurgents stood almost solidly behind the anthracite region in its demands, and the debate rivaled in bitterness the factional dispute between Illinois rebels and international officials, earlier in the convention. With this question out of the way, only wage agreements remained to tip disposed of before | (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Kentuckians Are Sought Madison. Ind., Reb. 4 —(UP)— Three Kentucky youths, implicated by Ovle Stephenson, 17, in five extortion plots in which, he said, he obtained $l2O. were sought today Stephenson was arrested by a depluty Sheriff who trapped the youth as he came to get money cached by Georg • Antle, accordingto directions received in a blacksnail letter. Antle said it was the fifth such letter he had received, each demanding a small amount.

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Decatur. Indiana. Thursday. February L 1932.

Boxing Bill Passes — Stringfield. 111... Felt. 4 (UP) —| | The boxing bill legalizing 15-round | ; heavy weight championship CioiNs | | seemed likely today to lie a law by I : th • end of Hie week. Tlie Illinois bouse passed the bill ] yesterday by a vote of 110 to 0 and i was returned to tin* senate today | for concurrence in amendments. : The senate previously had passed tlie bill by a vote of 38 to 3. It is understood GoV. Emmerson will sign the bill, which will raise the state I tax from in to 15 per cent on 15- ] round bouts. Passage of the bill will enable] Chicago to bid for a'big heavy-] weight limit in September and an-, otll'er in 1933 ilnring tlie World's, Tfair. 1 WINTER GAMES START TODAY ! ; Gov. Roosevelt () pe n s Winter Olympic Games At Lake Placid Lake Placid. N. V. Fell. 4 (UP) ] While the strains of tlie National ' lAiithem echoed through tlie frozen I valleys that surround this little village in the heart of the Adtrondacks, governor Franklin I). Roosevelt today formally opened tlie 1932 Olympic winter games. Nearly 5.090 spectators, bundled in tlie heaviest of furs, were in tlie 'stands of the Olympic stadium when ] ■ the grand march of tin* contestants ; 'The t'irist event on tlie program.] was held against the glittering back j grgonnd of ice and snow. Marching ■ in alphabetical order the 359 ath-j letes of 17 nations, their vari eoior- I ed uniforms offering a brief relief I from Ihe white background, paradied slowly past the reviewing stand. As the contestants of each nation passed, they were saluted by , tlie national anthem of their coiin- ■ tries. Adding further color to the inimarch were the various U'ON’I'INI'ICD ON PAGE SIX) 0 • FIREMEN BET CAPITOL CALL Congressman’s Office Is Scene of Excitement At Washington Washington, Feb. 4. — (U.R) —A| fire alarm was sent in from thej capitol today when the office of j Representative Finas Garrett, Democrat, Texas, became tilled witli smoke from an open fireplace. Garrett, one of the older members of the house, lias an office in the capitol instead of tlie house office building. His clerks started the fire to take the dampness of the air but neglected to start the fan which creates a forced draft in the chimney. The office quickly filled with smoke and the fire department was I called as a precaution when a few wisps of smoke drifted into the capitol rotunda. The chimney over sight was remedied quickly and the smoke cleared.

FARM RUREAU NAMES LEADERS More Than 400 Attend AllDay Meeting At Monroe Wednesday The election of officers was held I at tlie allday meeting of tlie Ad-] ams County Farm Bureau which i was h-ld in Hie Monro - Hatchery i I building. Wednesday. | The meeting was largely attended and more than 490 persons were I [ resent at th ■ dinner which was ' i served al Hie noon liom*. Reports | were given, and Indications Jimru i that a dividend would lie paid the I stockholders in the near future. Jerry Leiehty was re-eleeted pre- J sident; Noah Rich, vice-president: jo. V. Dilling, secretary; Edwin Neu lianser. treasurer. Three directors] lat large were named. They are] I Hugo Gerke, V. A. Seesengiitli and , | Noah Rich. | A tux committee of twelv * men i l wa ; chosen and will include Ralpii | Myers, Rufus i. loser, Daniel Rumple) i Rolla Raudenbnsli. Edwin Gilliom. lotto Kliekman. William Yager. Ern- j lest Busche, Henry t'rownov-i', C. I>. jspuller. Harlow Mann and • ''»'lnl j Zwick. Mrs. Charles Sewell of the nation- : al farm bureau was [resent at the; meeting and give the principal add- i ress. HOOVER SCORES HOARDED MONEY iUrges People To Help In Panic By Investing Unused Cash Surplus Washington, Feb. 4. — (U.R) War , has been declared on Hie "slack-) ed dollar." President Hoover lias called upon American citizens as a patriotic duty to bring $1,300,990,000 (billion) out of hoarding and put it to work in a "war against depression." He urged all hoarders to put then money to work —either conservative investment or by deposits in school institutions." These dollars are hidden under niatresses. in stockings, cookie jars, and safe deposit boxes. They are earning no interest for their owners. They are tieing up billions of dollars in credit. They are keeping men out of work. They have caused hundreds of other sound banks to fail because of runs by frightened hoarders. President Hoover now summons 1 American citizens to muster wartime unity and courage and enlist in a nation-wide war to put these “slacker dollars" to work. This appeal was made in a White House statement last night. Mr. Hoover also called on lead(CONTINUE'D ON PAGE SIX) —p — Official Is Acquitted Evansville, Ind., Feb. 4 —<UP) — Thomas McGutchan, former county | commissioner, was acquitted by a ' jury verdict on a charge of conspiracy in courthouse remodeling 1 work. It wfis alleged that false i claims for work were fil 'd by Me- i Cutchan. |

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(11l TANKER IS ffIECKEOiMANY ARE MW Four Known Dead; Over i Score Unaccounted For Following Blasts ONE HOOSIER DEATH VICTIM BULLETIN Marcus Hook, Pa., Feb 4 — (UR)— Seventeen men were killed when the Sun Oil Companies tanker, Bidwell, was ’ chattered by a series of terrific explosions today at the Trainer, Pa., docks, officials of the company announced. With this announcement the company officials said ail those aboard the ship at the time of the explosions have been accounted for. Marcus Hook, I’a., Feb. I. .—(U.R) Four terrific explo-1 sions of oil and tjiis, shakingj windows 18 miles away. | wrecked the Sun oil tanker: Didwell todav and many of the (>0 men and one woman! believed aboard at the lime: I w< re reported missing. Four men were known to liavej been killed. Five men and a wo-1 | man lay seriously injured in Chester hospitals. Nearly a score I were unaccounted for. Siephi ii Marks, 28, Philadelphia I died a few minutes after being ! admitted at Crozer hospital in ' Chester. Roy Hamilton. "J, of Marietta.! (la., and Edwin F.. vsell. 35, Mar-' ) ms Hook, died seven hours later I lit’the Chester hospital. Eilwai'.l i Gillow. Indiana, died a Littje Ufier. Thirty-three survivors were | — — | ICONTINCED ON PAGE FIVE! CONGRESSMEN DIE SUDDENLY I — Two Democrats Die At Washington Os Heart Disease Today Washington. Feb. 4 (U.R) -Two • Democratic memiiers of the honso i of representatives, Percy E Quin' : of Mississippi, and Samuel Ruthj erford of Georgia, died today. I Both suffered sudden heart | attacks, Rutherford at liis hotel and Quin at (lie naval hospital where he bad been undergoing treatment for some time for an acute illness. Rutherford died it 7:15 a.in. and Quin at 8:20 am. Quin was (hairman of the house military affairs committee. Rutherford was chairman of the commit tie on election of the president, vice-president and representatives in congress. Tile deaths reduced to five ttie Democratic majority in the house. The standing now becomes: Democrats, 218: Republicans, 21": Farmer !.abor. 1; vacancies, 3. Rutherford was preparing for Ills bath when the heart attack (('(iNTIN’UEH (>N PAGE THREE) MAIL PILOT IS DEATH'S VICTIM F. R. Rust. Found Tuesday In Plane’s Wreckage Dies Today Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 4.—(U.R)—Francis H. Rust, 34, reserve air mail pilot, who was found in the wreckage of his plane Tuesday, 16 hours after he crashed on the Kalamazoo, Mich.-Chicago run. died in a Kalamazoo hospital early to day. Trans-American Air Lines officials announced here. Death resulted from exposure and loss of blood. Rust, who did his first flying as a stripling of 17 in 1914, had accumulated more than 5,000 hours in the air. He completed the army school of military aeronautics course at the j University of Texas in 1918. The same year, he entered the army | air service, and was stationed at I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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! A. W. Heidrich Expires Anthony W. Heidrich, 80 years old r'Sideiit of Fori Wayne, ami father of llooerl llendrich, well known in this.cil y, died Wednesday I evening. at 9:55 o’clock al Ids hoaie (2307 North Clinton street. Death I was due in senility. Mr. Heidrich had been critically ill for the last week. He is survived by ids wife, five I sons and five daughters, one half ! brother and thirty thrie grand. ' children. I Funeral arrangements have tint ! been announced. Friends are asked Ito omit flowers. EARTHQUAKE TOLL GROWING [ AT SANTIAGO Death Number 12; Injured List Grows to More Than 500 Persons MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED Santiago De Cuba, Feb. 4.— :(U.P.)—Trembling, fear gripped! residents of this quake-shak-en city came back front 4 heir shelters in the open spaces today after a sleepless night while martial law ruled the | ;district and relief was organ-' lized for hundreds injured and the thousands left homeless by Wednesday’s earth shocks, j The official death toll remained , lat 12 and was not expected to ex-, ceed 2d. . Injured were estimated at about! ’ I Tlie low number of casualties I was remarkable in view (if the de-] struct ive nature of the quake, whiciil ■ ’ destroyed many buildings and dam-] laged almost every structure in San-1 jtiago. Property damage was esti-1 1 mated in millions. American Ambassador Harry F.' Guggenheim arrived here by air-1 plane from Havana and collaboratled with Governor Jose Barcelo and] I Mayor Arnaz in directing relief, j Tlie Cuban house of represent-, 'atives and senate at Havana met Jin special session to pas a bill givling Santiago credit of $1,001),0<l0 jfor relief. Tlie governor was in-1 structed to establish field kitchens to feed refugees at government exII pellse. I United States warships and naval airplanes from Hie Guantanamo base brought food supplies, doctors i | (CONITNI'ED ON PAGE THREE) , CHICAGO HAS MEATLESS DAYS Housewives Join In Effort | To End Depression; Give To Needy Chicago, Felt. 4. —(U.R) — House-] ’ wives of Chicago are helping toi defeat Hie depression hy orguniz-| ing to share food from their) ' kitchens with their 500,000 hungry] : neighbors. As in world war days,, the move-1 meat is the result of a campaign] and lias its slogan. Tlie slogan is 'One pioneer meal a week for 10 weeks in 250.000 homes.” A "pioneer meal" is one ample and nourishing but low in cost. | The saving effected by serving a meal that costs about 35 cents instead of costing $2.50 or so is , to be turned in by each housewife to the joint emergency relief fund for distribution to the 125,000 destitute families in Chicago. Society matrons, club women, • wives of millionaires are joining ' with the host of women who do ■ their own cooking in a revival of i pioneer thrift for the benefit of * the unfortunate. Husbands are 11 helping. They are eating food they haven’t tasted since boy- - hood on the farm —and liking it. 1 Would Operate Busses 1 Indianapolis. Feb. 4—(UP) — A ’ petition for authority to operate ’ busses on a contract passenger basis in a 200-mile radius ol Indiana--1 polis was filed with tli“ public ser- ' vice commission by the Indiana ! I tours company. The company, ' which operates three contract bus--1 ses. is owned hy J. H. Gregg and Andrew V. Carli, both of Brazil.

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SUFFERING IS INTENSE FROM GOLD WEATHER • Chicago Has 3 Deaths Due To Blizzard; Indiana Also Stricken ZERO WEATHER IS PREDICTED Chicago, Feb. 4.— <U.R)—- A blizzard unparalleled this win |ter lashed the tipper central i-tales today, piling up a sixinch blanket of snow and |crippling transportation. I Tnree deaths in Chicago I were attributed to the storm ■and two street car motormen, 'blinded by the wind-whipped i uriahi of flakes, sent their cars into collision on the near west side, injuring a score, three seriously enough to lie taken to hospitals From five to seven inches of snow lay over northern Illinois and Indiana ami southern Michigan. Vl'he fall began last midnight in Chicago jand continued until 10 a. m. Mounting drifts slowed transpor- ] tat ion to a crawl, caused numerous i minor accidents and brought tin nn- ] expected boon to huudreds of unemployed who found jobs clearing 'the carlines. Suffering of the destitute was intensified. Jolt seekers tramped Hie streets in paper-thin shoe soies. Delivery of food’by relief workers to impoverished and hungry families was delayed. Dormitories and relief shelters I were crowded. New Star Lodge I housed 2.9(H) men and led 2.61 H). A West Randolph street siieler loos in 1,309 for the night and fed three ! times as many. , The Chicago surl'ace lines ord; ered out 194 mechanical sweepers. ! 16 plows and hundreds of shovellers. The Chicago Motor Coach ] Company had 25 plows creasing tlie | l.oiiievards it traverses and 2') .trucks were spreading sand. A Chicago pedestrian, struck by Ln snow Minded motorist, died in a (hospital; a negro burlier was sufilocated in a fire in his South Side shop, and an elderly man died (if overexertion after plodding through deep snow. The Chicago Motor Club warne.d that driving in open country within 300 miles of Chicago was hazardous because of drifts and w.irned against sleet-coxered roads beyond tlie snow area. "Many highways in Hie area will j become impassable it more wnov. I K'ONTINI'I'M >ON RAGE SIX) — — Moser Funeral Today — I Funeral setvices were li'ld this I morning al 10 o’clock for Mrs. Kath lerine Moser. 82. of Fort Wayne, anil for many years a resident of French | township, who died Tuesday morn |ing at 1:30 o'clock at Hie home of her daughter, Mrs. G. W Thomas in Fort Wayne. Services were held in tlie home at Fort Wayne, and burial was I made in tlie M. R. E. cemetery west | of Berne. Tlie Rev. It. A. Worthnian | of the Salem Retornu.d Church of- ■ ficiated. ' She was survived hy one daiigliI ter and six -onDIVORCE CASE DRAWS CROWD Contested Suit Brings Many Spectators to Adams Court Today A contested divorce suit more than half filled tlie court room of Adams circuit court with spectators and witnesses today. Tlie cause was that of Martha D. Liechty vs. Joseph Liechty. Judge Frank Gordon of Elchorn, Gordon and Edris. Bluffton, repro-' sented the plaintiff and H. M. DeVoss. Decatur attorney represented the defendant After answering numerous questions for almost an hour. Mrs. Liechty was cross-examined for some time by De Voss. Mrs. Liechty charged cruel and inhuman treatmen in her complaint and also charged that her husband cursed at her. Several neighbors of the estranc ed couple were in court both as witnesses and spectators.