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1$ VICTORS ■HOUSE VOTE ■RESOLUTION lloßi inu Out RusoKn Has 1< Notes; K r)S Minter 22 < ■T TEST g |X 12 YEARS ■ bulletin ■piaigton. D. C. Mar. 14. ■Linda'-' ■-‘(•■’tatives ■to consider the BeckK eu m prohibit.on as fol ■, Boehne. G' iswold. Petvestal and Wood. Hinst Crowe. Canfield. Greenwood. Hogg. Lar. ■~. and Parnell. ■jiington. .Mar. 1 I— ( U- R [ r i-i-ls Imlay Keir moti"ii t• • I’i'ing the ■Linthicum p -'hition he ■he house imt mustered ■nexpected strength of ■tes in the first dear cut ■ nrohibitu'ii in 12 years. ■ house voted 227 to 187 ■t discharging the judic■nmmitiee from cons'd■of ilu- lesolulion. The ■ i„’ submission to ■|... ".Ine nt to the ■ninn • ftt returning to ■t'< I!.'- of the liquor ■ committee would ha v e ■till" r»-<”lmi 'ii directly beKu house. ■ r.u. took ;>l.i. ■ to an a, eom■e? : fiery - ■■; lies ..nd reHr, that this "is the ides of B-staii.l ftp he counted." ■«ral.trs -a< it efforts as Hak- in sp- .ik met with jeers Hterriiptinn- !'r..in a militant ■tnority. ■er.-i- acre crowded with men. ■omen sitting in the aisles, ■at had beet: • ypeeted l>V the ■ohibitionists only the most ■atie wet leaders thought the Mty would be able to gather ■sttHigili as it did. It repre- ■ the largest wet strength in ■l>e since 1917 when the 18th ■aest was submitted. ■ anti-prohiii: I.mists wore aid■terially by a number of rep■ttives listed as dry who felt ■ uti- Reck-Linthicum repeal ■lion should be brought before ■ue for a direct vote. The ■ lever before has come so ■ B voting directly upon a re■nposition ■rtothi- roll , all estimates of ■ft possibilities ran all the ■from ISo tn 190 votes. The ■ generally expected not ■ than 175. The total comes ■ three votes of the outside yrnxi'Eti ox page six* Brigade Withdrawn ■o. March 14 il'Pi—Emperacceeded to pleas of ■innese general staff today ■fflmandei! withdrawal of the ■Jivision and a mixed brigade ■tided by General Shiniomoto ■ tbe Shanghai \Ar area. ■ Jin-aburo Mazaki, assls■iff of the General staff, conr *ith the emperor before the • •as is inert. || wag understood Bftifral staff had asked the re--10,10,I 0, ! * le original Shanghai expe■r) force commanded by Lt. f 1 Kiakichi Uyeda. t" ° 1 kBISGHOFF DIES SUNDAY I nion Township f an Expires at Huntpion Sunday P. M. ” l '* m Bischoff, 69, Huntington. _ 1 resident of Union townsihip. )atQ° U . nty aftert Death was due to f„.° llble and dropsy. Mr. Bis ' veU known <n this coun ind ps " n<le of Anton Thie ln<t Ed Thieme. tVM SChoff res 'ded in Adame « .;. l nUlnber of - vearß ' Sur fMher ,* Wid ° W and aix sOns dchitrt *° slsters and .seven dren also survive. fcesdav“ rVi<!eß wtll be held ekaiu mornin g at 10:30 o' i. T” l,,t 'Ston. Burial will b* 1 Huntington cemetery

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I I BANQUET PLACES The banquets to he held nt six o'clock this evening in connection with the Democratic I rally will be held nt the followI ing places: | | K of C. Hall, third floor. K. j of Building, corner Second ; and Madison streets • I Methodist church, basement, corner Fifth and .Monroe Sts. Reformed church, basement, corner Third and Jackson Sts Christian church, hanement. , corner Second anil Jefferson ' Streets. Elk's Home. North Second St ' Masonic Hall, third floor. | Schafer Bldg.. Second Street. Evangelical Church, base- i ment. Winchester Street ♦ ♦ NEW PLANS ARE SEING FORMED Lindbergh Meets With Police Agencies; No Word 1 From Stolen Babe f| . (I Hopewell. N. J.. Mar 14—(U.R) J The law began the 13th day of Its futile hunt for the kidnaped Lind-1 .bergh baby with new plans plans . I drawn up in a conference of all poellice agencies cooperating in the; a I search. '■; The conference was called by i 11 , Colon '1 Lindbergh himself Sunday r i afternoon. It followed 12 days of 'police work and private undencov- i R |er work which so far has failed to ' 'disclose “any definite information I !of a concrete nature leading to '■ j solution of rhe ease." ( . Progress announced earlier in the „ | week was discussed. The progress cnnsLslcd i hiefly of the elimination' s 'of thousands of false elm*, false reports, and hundreds of babies; erroneously repor'ed as "the lilt’dr ! bergh baby." I Three incidents over the week..lend had been the basis for revived t jhopes the baby soon would be p l found. These were disposed of by r jColonel H. Norman Schwartzkopf * ,Jas follows: n 1 "The picture of the child held , hl at Crossville. Tenn., was sent byi ( I telepnoto to New York city and j I- has just been received by special , >- messenger at Hopewell. This pic- j t ture was shown to Colonel Lind;l bergh who after careful study fay; e that it is not a picture of his son. e This was in refutation of a wideo ly published report that the baby ' •-{had been found in the eastern Ten nessee village. >f Another statement read: e “Continuous investigation is he-1 e ing conducted and numerous leads j t have been traced down without dis ! tCONTINCP.P OX I’AOt: FIVE) i KREUGER DEATH .1 CAUSES CRISIS y | e Financiers Move Quickly 0 To Prevent Complications Over World 1 Paris, March 14- (UP)—Govern- ’ e ments and financiers moved today , ;i to prevent world wide financial ( complication threatened by the .mi- ’ ride of Ivar Kreuger, whose mighty L fortune built on tiny matches had strengthened the financial frame-1 work of 12 nations, including world . powers. Kreuger, dominant figure in the [ ( immense Kreuger and toll interests I killed himself Saturday, his heart | depressed by world economic distress, his shoulders bowed by the weight of the responsibilities his own fortune thrust upon him. P Illness was the immediate cause of the suicide, Kreuger'S friends maintained. “Suicide while despondent," was the police verdict. , Krister Littorin. a business asso--1 ciate and close friend, said the efr' feet of the world crises on Kreu- l o ger's companies "leek him to make B . the decision." Kreuger left a letter 1 . for Littorin. s . None ot the dead man s financial associates or business friends expected financial repercussions as r . suicide normally would indicate. 9 . they said. Moves te prevent such repercussions. however, were taken in Swe(l den, where a government moratorhim was declared lor the benefit of ie Kreuger and Toll Companies, and y- (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Tigers Retail^ Regional Title W llßWx' mm** ' Jk"- 'tL, (Ml P K 3b 5 fir t-Wu lr ■* W Bluffton High School Netters Bluffton it taile d th- Fort Wayne regional bask etl .ill title nt Fort Wayne Saturday night by heating Ihiatur. 27 2.'. it a closely contested basketball game. The Tigers will enter the state finals at Indiandpoli.i next Friday and Saturday.

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EIGHT ENTER LATIN CONTEST .. Adams County Pupils In District Meet: Winners To Enter State Meet Bloomington, hid.. March 11. (Special) Eight Adams county j high .school students will lie enter- . ed in the district meet of the state high school Latin contest to he held , Saturday. March 26. Students who will take part in the district meet . of the laitin contest which is be- ( ing conducted under the auspices ij <f Indiana luiversity are the win L tiers ot the county meets which ! were held Saturday. February 27. | Tlie Adams county high school 11 latudents who will compete in the ( 'district meet at as follows: Divis- ] ion 1 Dorothy Summers, Decatur; ] Helen Hutter, Jefferson. Division ; II Chester Smitley, Jefferson; I Etna Lehman, Bertie. Division IV , — Mary Zimmerman and Minnie ( [Moyer. Decatur; Herliert Zuercher , j and Anna LJeehty, Herne. | The Latin contest is divided inIto four divisions, representing the , various stages of Latin which are covered by high school pupils, according to Mi's. Adele K. Bittner of |the I. I’, extension division, who is iin complete charge of arrangeiments for the contest each year.. I The pupil receiving the highest grade in each division of the dis ( i trict contest will represent his dis- • trict in the slate contest. In the case of a tie. the papers will be regraded by an impartial and disinterested grader, and if the tie si ill remains both contestants will en- . i/JONTINVED ON PARK l-'IVK) Stauffer Home Burns Berne. March 14 The dwelling! j house ot William Stauffer, east of I Berne was burned to the ground. I Saturday morning, when a spark (from the chimney ignited the shingie root of the house. The Berne fire department was called to f.ie scene of the fir" and saved the other buildings on the farm. The damages were covered by insurance. -o *Pete Hockemeyer Gives i Democrats Hickory Pole Pete Hockemeyer, who resides on the River road north of Decatur, furnished the 75-foot hickory pole which will be raised on the Court House square at 7:30 o'clock tonight In connection with the Democratic rally here tonight. Pete accompanied Chris EiCner and several other Democrats to Decatur with the pole this afternoon and will assist in the raising tonight. The Hockemeyers have been Adams county Democrats for four generations.

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Adams County Has Been Garden Spot of Democracy Always The history of Adams County I Ihqnocraev is as old as the county [itself. ‘ Tri I’SSs when the stale legislature designated Adams county asj n unit of government, the first men l tc be elected were Democrats ] They were. John S. Rhea. Samuel; Smith and William Heath. Jr., who in April ot that year, were elect ‘ ed county commissioners. Samuel Rugg. founder of Been- ■ tur, was elected county clerk ini 18:16. and also served as county auditor. Mr. Rugg served as the, third state superintendent of pub-; lie instruction, his term dating ba k; to 1859-61. In presidential elections the] ; county has been carried by the | Democratic nominee, in every in- 1 stance except one. that being in | 1920 when Warren Harding, repub-1 llcan, carried the county by about ; 500 votes. Few republicans have served in county or judicial offices in Adams county in its neatly 100 years of existence. All the present county .(•ONTINI'ED ON PAGE FOUK) TAX PROPOSAL IS DISCUSSED State Tax Plan Would Save Taxpayers Great Amount of Money Indianapolis, Mar. 14 -(U.R)The taxation revision program outlined by the citizens tax relief committee would effect a net saving of 118,428.822.60 for the pocketbooks of Indiana citizens, sponsors of the plan said today. At the same time, the cost ot government which has increased sufficiently to create a general clamor for a special session of the legislature to provide relief,: would be shifted to relieve real] estate and personal property owners of approximately 25 per cent of their present burden, it is pointed out. : The plan was being studied today by state legislators, whose i approval will be sought before it ] is presented to Governor Harry G. Leslie with a demand that a special session be convened’ to enact its provisions. The plan provides for a cut of $35,628,882.69 in the tax revenue now obtained through levies on real, tangible and personal property. Os this amount, $26,018,882.69 would be saved through governmental retrenchment measures and re-distrib(ution of gasoline taxes and auto license fees, the committee explains. To make possible the remainder ot the cut in present revenue, the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

LOAN CROUP IS APPOINTED Farm Loans on Crops To Be Raised In 1932 Are Now Available E. W. Baiting.”tner, president 'of the Adams Conntj- JUuikcrs association; Victor Stucky, man--1 ager of the Equity Union Cooperative. and Jos. I). Winteregg. manI ager of the Adams County Farm ; Bureau, met recently with Countv , Agent L. E. Archbold and the following committee was suggested |as a county committee on crop i mortgage loans that may be made ! under the reconstruction act reI eently passed by congress, flics.. I men wer“ E W. Busche. F. \\ ' Baumgartner and Mayor George I Krick. They have all consent'd ; to serve. Tlie consensus of opinion of the ] bankers in Adams county is that 1 very little use need be made of I this type of loan here. The requirements of the loan are very 1 stringent and can lie made only to i farmers who have exhausted every other means of credit. The maximum amount of loan that can be made is $400.00 and ties up the 1932 crop on the crop mortgage. The money thus obtained can be only used for the purchase of seed, fertilizer, horse feed jfi necessary, or gas and oil for tractor use. The money cannot be used to discharge any other obligations. The borrower must also agree to make and maintain a garden or truck patch. This loan is not available to any one who I was not farming in 1931. Applications for such loans, if I desired, should be made at the county agent's office. o Mrs. Patterson Expires Funeral services for Mrs. Mary . Bailey Patterson, 74. former Adams . County woman who died at the . home of her son. W. E. Patterson ot Fort Wayne. Friday evening. ■ were held Sunday afternoon at 2 I o'clock at the home of the son. I Burial was in the Oaklawn ceme- ; tery at Ossian. . ■ Mrs. Patterson died of apoplexy Hat 5:45 o'clock Friday evening. She • was born in Adams County March 26. 1857. She was united in mar1 riage tj Colter Patterson, who«e death occurred in 1922. The family resided in Wells ’ county for a number of years, and ; five years ago moved to Fort Waytie Surviving are two sons. William ' and Daniel. Fred Amacher Expires At Adams County Home 1 Fred Amacher, 91. died at the Adams County Infirmary at 10 o'clock this morning of paralysis. Mr. Amarcher had been an inmate of the ' infirmary for the past 7 years. Surviving are two sons, John ' jf Fort Wayne, and Fred of Petosky, Mich. The remains were taken to the Bierie and Yager Funeral Parlors in Berne. Funeral arrangements will be made later.

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HINDENBURG LEADS GERMAN VOTE RETURNS Fascist Hitler Second In Sunday Election; Second Vote Forced MILLIONS GO TO ELECTIONS Berlin, Mar. 14. — (UR) — President Paul Von Ilindenburg, seeking re-election in. what may be the last battle of a glorious career, turned' back a fascist bid for power in! Ihe presidential election Sunday but failed to win an absolute majority over four candidates opposing him. Von Hindenburg led his nearest rival, the drapper Adolf Hitler, who heads the German fascists, by more than 7,000.(100 votes. Official figures in preliminary final returns showed the President had failed | by 165.453 votes to win an abso-l lute majority, so a second ballot will be necessary in April between the two leaders. Hindenburg and I Hitler. The total vote Sunday was approximately 37.660,377 out of 11000.000 qualified voters. It broke all German records. The election was orderly. The official standing of the candidates with preliminary final re | turns in from all districts was: President Hindenburg 18.661.736 | Adolf Hitler (fascist) 11.328.571 | Ernst Thaelmann (Com.) 4.971."79 j Theodore Duesterberg l Nationalist) 2.557,876 Gnstax Winter (Ind.) 111.477 t, Whiter, a lawyer now in jail in i Saxon>, represented the "League ■ ol Creditors of the lleichsbank - and demanded the valorization of • pre-war German currency. His i candidacy was not taken seriously. ' but Hindenburg supporters heliev- ■ ed that it split votes, preventing I the president from obtaining an ) absolute majority. ' Von Hindenburg, field marshal whose line across the western ' front was the last defense of imperial -Germany, received one of | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o—• Crewe Funeral Is Held ■ Funeral services for Mrs. Carl • Grewe. Adams County woman who ' died Wednesday morning, were > held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the home. 5 miles ant it- ■ east of Ossian, and at 1:45 o'clock ' at the Bethlehem Lutheran church ■ with Rev. Carl Stransburg. pastor ■ officiating. Burial was in the church ' cemetery. f • o TRUCE HOPES : STILL BRIGHT I J .lads And Chinese Ready For Combat If Truce Plans Fall Through Shanghai, Mar. 14 —(U.R) Chinese and Japanese trot ps still face ! each other ready for new hostili--1 ties northwest of Shanghai today with the league of nations Manchurian commission here, expect- ■ ed to help arrange a truce neutral ' diplomats failed to arrange. Chinese. Foreign Minister Lo Wen-Kan instructed Dr. W. W. Yen. chief Chinese delegate at the league of nations, to accept the ' league's resolution for settlement i of the far eastern dispute. He ■ explained that Dr. Yen abstained ■ from voting for the resolution only because of a delay in telegraphic communication between I Nanking and Geneva. , China and Japan have stated ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Weather Still Cold ' Indianapolis, March 14—(UP)— Unseasonably cold weather qontin- ■ tied in Indiana today although the : week of record frigity was temper- ■ ed o f by considerable moderation ■ over flip week-end. The 'heaviest snowfall was recorded in central Indiana to- • day. with cloudy weather giving - promise of additional precipitation. 1 Little change in temperature was ■ predicted for the first part of the week.

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CHIEF SPEAKERS Headliners on tonight's Demo- | cratic program are: HON. PAUL V. MeNUTT, 1 Dean of Indiana University j Ijlw School and candidate for | Democratic nomination for , Governor. HON. JOHN E. FREDRICK, Kokomo manufacturer and H Democratic candidate for Governor. HON. FRED VanNUYS, Indianapolis attorney and J candidate for Democratic j nomination for U. S. Senator. HON R. EARI. PETERS. Fort Wayne attorney an d Democratic State Chairman. |j HON D. B. ERWIN. Judge of Adams Circuit Court : ' will preside. Hon. Watler Myers, Indianapolis attorney, will be unable to attend because of an operation performed on him last week. CONGRESSIONAL RACE IN FOURTH IS HOT AFFAIR Seven Democrats After Nomination; Two Enter From Adams County NEW FOURTH IS BATTLE GROUND The seven Deiiioertitie conoressional candidates will attend the Democratic rallv in lliis cilv loiris’hl. The candidates will appear <.n the sneakim' proifrain to be held at the Catholic hit’ll school atidilorimn and will be .‘iteii the onporDinitv to address the voters. The candidates for the Demo-, cratic nomination aie: T. P. ' die. Ray. real estate end insurance; ' agent; Harvey Morley. Angola. I newspaper editor; J. 1 Farley. Auburn, retired manufacturer and| business man. James Adams.! Columbia City, newspaper publish-1 er: Glen Smiley. Fort Wayne.] I attorney; Thurman A. Gottschalk, j Berne, manufactmer and state | senator: A. R. Farrar. Geneva, former Methodist minister. Adams county is now in the new Fourth District and the race for the Democratic nomination is one of the most interesting in the state. With Adams and Wells counties added to the counties which formerly comprised the old Twelfth district, the Democrats have more than an even chance of carrying the district next fall. The counties which comprise the Fourth district are: Adams. 1 Allen. iSteuhen. LaGrange. Noble. Whitley, DeKalb, and Wells. Two years ago the Democrats in these eight counties cast about 25.000 votes. In all probability Representative David Hogg of Fort Wayne, who now represents the Twelfth; district, will he the. Republican I candidate for congress. So far I Mr. Hogg is unopposed for the (CONTINITRD GN PAGE SIX) r —.. ... — q— ■ i Schindlers In Accident 1 Berne, — (Special to Democrat,) — March 14 —Mrs. Reuben Schindler > and children Florence, Mildred and ■ Marion, were seriously injured Sunt day morning, in an automobile ac- ! cident. 2 miles west of Berne. t Miss Florence Schindler was driv- ! ing the car. west ot Berne, when • she approached a cross road. She ■ drove the car into a ditch to avoid ■ hitting another car. 1 The automobile was completely demolished and Mi's. Schindter was 1 rendered unconscious, suffering a deep gash on her head. The other occupants of the car were badly bruised and cut by the flying glass. —_o Ladies’ Night Will Be Observed by Lions i Ladies night will be observed by the Decatur Lions club Tuesday I night at the Christian church at - 6:15 o’clock. Members are asked to ; bring their wives and sweethearts. , A venison supper will be served i through the courtesy of Rev. Ben- ■ jatnin Franklin. T. A. Gottschalk | will be the speaker.

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BANQUET WILL START PROGRAM AT SIX O'CLOCK McNutt, VanNuys, Peters And Fredrick Are Among Early Arrivals Here PUBLIC URGED TO HEAR TALKS PUBLIC MEETING Those in charge of the Demo- ; cratic meeting here today announced that all Decatur and Adams county people not havi ing banquet tickets, are invited to attend the political ad- j I I dresses to be lield at < atholic auditorium at 8 o'clock tonight. Seven hundred seats will be reserved for those attending the banquet and the balcony and left side of the auditorium will be open to the public. Democrats began pouring in’” ] Decatur early this afternoon idr i the banquet ami fourth distric' meeting scheduled tor here at b i o'clock tonight. Here's the pn>I gram in a nutshell: — , 11 o'.lock Bamniet m the places designated on (he tickets. 7:30 o'clock —Hickory pole r.iisi ing at Court House square. ForI ntation of American Legion drum ! corps to lead parade to Catholic J auditorium. i 8 o’clor-k—Political meeting ar ; Catholic auditorium with Hon. D. ■ B. Erwin presiding. lj More than 600 tickets were - bl '; at noon today and only a few >-f I the 725 pointed had been returre.l •| to .1. L. Ehler chairman of the ) ticket committee. II Headquarters were established I] at noon today at the Rico hotel. ’ Two rooms at the )<>n of the stair- , way on the second floor are re- *. served for Democrats. An inform•’al reception started as soon as *; visitors began arriving. . I The seven congressional eandi- . dates were among the first to l] arrive and were circulatingthroueli .Ithe crowds. Three major state -I candidates arrive,; this aflernooti •i to take part in the Hg event. . j John Frederick and Paul V. M> - ' Nutt, gubernatorial candidates am! .I Fred VanNuys. senatorial candidate were busy meeting Demor crats from every countv in ■north- • tern Indiana. >i A delegation of 11 Donunrals >' from Marion, headed by Mayor ( Jack Edwards arrived early this t afternoon. Jav county and RanI dolph county sent several autonmf bile loads down to the meeting. , The biggest delegation outside of Adams county came from Allen ‘ (rONTTNCFtn GN PAGE SIX) Forbes To Leave .Japan > ‘ Washington. Mar. 14—(U.R) Am- ' bassador W. Cameron Forbes in Tokio notified the state depart- - ment today that he would leave . Japan for the United States on i. March 22 aboaid the S S Presii] dent Coolidge. • Emperor Hirohito will bid the t American envoy farewell at :i. luncheon next Friday Ambassador Joseph C. Grow, formerly assigned to Istanbul, has left Turkey for Tokio to succeed Forl'es. TEMPERATURE REMAINS LOW Weatherman's Prediction Fails To Materialize In Adams County Disregarding predictions of weather forecasters unseasonably cold weather remained in Adams county today with the temperature below the freezing mark. Forecasts for today were for much warmer weather I but the cold remained and snow foil for an hour here Sunday Weather bureaus at Fort Wayne . and Indianapolis still maintain that , spring weather is near at hand and , that before the end 0! the week, this part of the slate will say goodI bye to winter weather. The temperature here at 8 o'clock this morning was 16 above zero. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)