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W ar Scribr Greeted “'2/' s ’Si i ji W Jr ' *• fJ W" /• Bede< ked with the traditional leis, symbol ot Hawaiian hospital-■ tty, Floyd Gibbons, famous war correspondent ant' headline hunter, extraordinary, is shown as he was I greeted upon trs arrival at Honolulu front the Orient. Gibbons | ’ covered" the recent Sino-.lapan ese fracas in Manchuria and Shanghai. LOCAL GIRLS SING TONIGHT Local Trility Trio To Give Musical Selections At Muncie — | Ttm Tt Hity Trio, composed of: : Elizabeth Franklin. Sarah Jane I Kauffman and Edwina Shroll with I Louise iiauitoid. as pianist, left • today for Muncie accompanied by; Bernice Nelson and Helen Eady, l where the. trio will sing at a ban-i quet tonight being held in connec-i I tion with the Methodist conference. 1 All members of Epworth leagues will attend the banquet and each district has l>een invited to pre-} sent a part of the program. The Fort Wayne district invited the local trio to represent the district on the program. — Muncie. Ind.. Apr. 9 (U.R) I" terest in the 89th annual northern| Indiana Methodist Episcopal con ference convention will reach its! peak in services extending over, the week-end. Presiding Bishop Raymond J., Wade Will give the conference sermon Sunday. Other services will be held throughout the day. Monday the annual appointment of pastorates will he announced. Delegates elected to the general Methodist Episcopal conference in; Atlantic City. N. J., next month) were: Rev. M. O. la>ster. Wabash district superintendent; Rev. J. D. Edwards. Huntington: Rev. L. W Kemper. Kokomo district superintendent; Rev. Charles 11. Smith. CCONTINt’Wn ON PAGE SIX’) ITALY MAKES NEW PROPOSAL Five-Year World Plan of Peace. Debt Cancellation Suggested Rome, April 9.- (U.R)— Italy advanced a "five year plan for world peace today, suggesting renunciation of war debts and reparations, revisions of peace treaties, elimination of tariff harriers, and fewer international conferences. The five-year plan of disarmament was sent to the League of Nations. The other resolutions were adopted by the fascist grand council in its capacity of supreme advisory body of the nation. The grand council met under the presidency of Premier Benito Mussolini. Its resolutions regarding the world crisis, "which now has a moral and political rather than economic aspect." were: 1 —The necessity of renunciation of reparations and cancellation of war debts: 2. —Suppression of restrictions of I international trade before they result in the strangling of trade of lall countries (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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}57 SENIORS SEEK DIPLOMAS D.H.S. Commencement to Be Held May 20, Principal Brown States Fifty-seven Decatur high school seniors are applicants for graduation in Mdy, it was announced by W. Guy Brown, print ipal. today, i The commencement exercises will; i be held on Friday. May 20. at thej } Decatur high school auditorium. Sam Grathwell. traveling historian from Cleveland. Ohio will be i the commencement speaker. He I is a professional lecturer and has 1 done considerable research work, 'and comes to Decatur • highly re< ominended. The seniors who may be graduated are: Ina Anderson. Elva Anspangh. Myrtle Jane Augenbaugh. Otis Baker, Walter Bartlett, Marcele Beard. Mildred Blosser. Marcella! : Brandyberry. Verlln Burk, Charles | Busse. Paul Clem. Doris Cook. Mary Coverdale. Mary Dehner. I Helen DeVor. Elizabeth Franklin; Gail Franklin. Elizabeth Frisinger. Agnes Fuhrman, Robert Gay, Clarice Gilbert. Earl Harmon, lamise Hattbold. George Helm, V- amond Hoagland. Carl Hurst, Clarice Jackson. Edythe Johnson. | Lucile Johnson. Rernadine Kolter, ! Laura Lankenatl. Lydia Lehrman, Lewis Litterer; Vivian Lynch, Ix>rna McGill. Edward Martz. Harold Mtttnma, Fred Musser. Ival Newhard. Richard I Odle. Richard Parrish. Lucile 1 Rigsby. Sylvia Ruhl. Bernard ' Scheimann. Richard Schug, Gerhard Schultz. Ethel Shady. Harriet Shockey, Mary Jane Short, Smith. Blanche Stevens. ; Dick Townsend. Alice Vance. Iverna Werling. Floyd WUsuu, Wood row Wilson and Ruth Winnes. Graders' Listed Thirty-four pupils of the efcth grade will be applicants for gradi nation this spring. Bryce Thomas, principal of Central building, anI pounced today. | A special program will Im plan- | ned tor the graduation, it was stated. Following are the names | of the pupils to be graduated: I Robert Ashbaucher, Herbert I Banning. Wilbur Debolt. Edwin (CONTINUED <>X PAGE FOUR! DREDGE CASE IS RECESSED Special Judge Kister Adjourns Hearing For Three-Week Period The Wabash river dredge case adjourned Friday evening until ■ Monday. May 2, on order of special I Judge Henry Kister of Princeton who has been preciding in the case. The last two witnesses for the remon rators were Joseph L. Graber of French township, Adams county and Jonas Nettenschwander of Vera Cruz, formerly of Adams county. They testified relative to the lands damaged below the terminus of the old drain. Testimony in the la-: week to do with certain lands affected by the proposed ( hanging of the channel and the damages resulting to farm lands in that district. The appropriation for the special judge is also exhausted and the county council will not meet April. A reque-it for $1,200 is made. The special judge receives $25 per day and the county is later reimbursed by the state for the money paid out of the general fund. >The case has been going on since last September and besides several hundred individual remonstrators, the county of Adams and the city of Bluffton are objectors to the dredging of the river. Bobo Store Is Robbed Thieves broke Into a grocery store owned by Mrs. Clemens at Bobo. Friday night, and escaped with a small amount of cash, some candy and cigarettes. Sheriff Burl Johnson was notified of the robbery and stated today he has several clues as to the identity of the thieves. The robbery was first noticed this morning when Mrs. Clemens opened her store. It is believed the robbers entered the store through a window, sometime during last night?

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 9,

Will Attend Mass Members of the II ly Name society of the St. Muy’s Catholic church will attend the even o’clock mass Sunday morning In a body. They will receive l| ,|y Communion and-are asked 1., meet at the Catholic school building ut o'clock and march i■, the church. Monday evening th< egular meeting will be held ai ;lie K. of hall at eight o'clock. August Willig of Fort Wayne will be the speaker and all m< mbers ate nvited to attend. MUSICALETO BE PRESENTED Comedy Presentation To Be Open to Public; Tickets Now On Sale The musical comedy. "All Baba and the Forty Tim ves,” founded ion the story of the Arabian Nights will be presented by the .Music Department of the Woman's Club, assisted by the Junior Arts Department. in Hie high school auditorium. Monday night. April 11. The play will begin at S: 15 o'clock. Included in the musical comedy, besides solo numbers, will be special songs by choruses of dancing girls, robbers and -laves, and maidens. The public is cordially invited to witness this fine presentation by local talent. Admission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children and high school pupils. All members of the Womans Club will be admitted tree on their membership cards. True Fristoe will b< >he pianist. The musical numbers io be used in. the two acts will be as follows: Act 1 ’ A Tlobher’s Life (’horn of Robbers the Captain of a Robber ) Band Shemseddin .md chorus 1 ! of Robbers Song of Vengeance ■[ Shemseddin and chorus Knowledge Song Abdul Hassan and Mr. and Mrs. Cassini Poor Relations 1 Mr. and Mrs. Cassim 1 Over the Plains of Arabia Morgiana ami Mustapha The Magic Cave Mustapha Egyptian-Ella Doyle Abdul Hassan Riff Song (From tie Dessert Song) Romberg Shemseddin and chorus Finale Shemseddin. Cassini .ml Robbers. Act 2 Hail Our Lady Fail Chorur f Maidens Dreaming-Dailey Fatima nd chorus , First Ballet Dancing Girls Where My Caravan Has Rested. I-ohr Mrs. Cassim The Desert Song I From the Desert Song) Romberg Morgiana ami Mustanah The Sheik of Aralty Snvder Prince ,nd chorus Procession of Slaves Bearing Dowry • i On the Road to M ndalay. Speaks Ali Baba Bagdad, Ager Mustapha ; nd chorus (CONTENTEI) ON P\GI: FOUR) 0 — LIBRARY BOARD IS COMPLETED School Board Selects Two Members to Make Membership Complete

M. Kirsch was reappointed a member of the Decatur Library Board for a term of three years, at a meeting of the Decatur school board. Friday evening. Dick Heller, of the Decatur Democrat, was appointed to sue feed Henry B. Heller, who recent ly resigned front the board, afteserving in that capacity forth past 25 years. Heller will serv for three years. The Library Board is 'Oinpoa. of seven members, two of whom are appointed by the school boar I three are appointed by 'he Jud ;e of the Adams Circuit (hurt, and two are named by the C y Council. The other members of the l;Oard. who were appoi ted recently by the City Counc include Herman Ehinger, Mrs d. B. Erwin, and those named By Judge D. B. Erwin are M. F Wrt|man. Mrs. John Niblick and ws. <■ D. Lewton.

’BANDIT ROBS FRANK BAILEY — McConnell And Son Employe Robbed of S3OO In Fort Wayne —- - Fort Wayne. April 9 I< i ■ I io drive onto a side street ■ bandit who jumped 01 tr i . when he halted for-a •'(ip -.. in ront of the Adams si X Haven avenue. Frank Hailer a driver for the F. M<< ■•) •i.-H w Sons wholesale met- h iu| tm •of Decatur, was rob ed , , ; and checks amounting tn i ulv I |aoo. at 3 o'clock I’ridar ..!(< noon. Police started an iimmdi.if search for the lon bandit, v. h ordered Bailey at t ■ point ■: gun to drive two bkxks - uh i New Haven avent’ n IT I avenue, and then search' i bin taking the money nd i he< Os the stint taken $24 wa in tli.-i k which Bailey had tdleited dm i_the tay while dellverim niK o liis route. "The man jumped onto my truck when 1 stopper at the Adamschool sign, and asked 'Can I ride?'" Bailey told Offiiers Bat tels Watson at Paris .1 >. ks<m vlio were sent n the Winm-t ro I eery at 3607 New Hav.-i- avenue, where Bailey v - waiting When. I ordered him (fl lie said ho would ride anyway ant pulled mit .i blue steel automat!' which h- pimited at me." “Then he ordered me to drive , on. I started to pull into the drv cleaning plant hut lie jabbed the , gun into my ide anil told ire to go on and turn fl road. We went two blocks south He searched nie, tons th*' n "m i . and checks, tnd then ordered me , to drive he k to New lUv.-o avenue." Biailey, who make- the route daily for the Decatur firm, sail’ tile bandit was al’ ' 'ears f . age. had light hair, a light ruddy ( complexion and was tout fi'.e feet 11 in'lies tall ami weighed ' 170 pound: ll'' said lie- man was, dressed in coat, and ‘trown oxfords Police believe that the bandit ‘ knew Bailei rout' .md was wait ! } ing for hint I" appro' at the; 'i •( >NTI x ' ■ '''' : 1 ' 'i : 1 HONOR SLAYING ! . TRIAL SLOWED l ' Arguments Over Introduction ol Evidence ‘ Consume Much Time Her uht, T. H April 9.—(U.R) - Swift conclusion to tlm honor slay- , ing trial of lout Americans appeared ifcmote today as a new conflict arose ever introduction of medical teeti- ony for a defense of tempori ary insanity. Prosecutor John Kelley, who eni gaged Clarence Darrow in a fourday battle over the "melting pot jury announced he will demand the pepviees of as many alienists as appeal for the defense. hdmittedlv unprepared to meet this type of defense. Kelley made hts announcement when he learne(j two" prominent Los Angeles psychiatrists had arrived here with IXe apparent intention of serving Hie defense when the trial resumes | Monday. If Clarence Darrow uses them for the defense I’ll most certainly •>sk for a continuance in order to

a bring equally famous alianists from r the mainland." the ruddy-faced t, prosecutor said. “I had hoped to t finish the territory’s case in three | da vs but >f ,hp tlefenae is golng t 0 r change its tactics I’ll ask the Counity supervisors for money to hire Jour own experts." r| Montgomery Winn, assopiate deJfense counsel, guardedly admitted ,i Dr « Edward H. Williams and i lameß Orbison were here to bolster I'the case of Mrs. Granville Fortes'l (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Oil Prices Higher Chicago, April 9 -(VPI- Tire Standard Oil Company of Indiana today announced an advance of 15 cents a barrel in. its crude oil prices in Kansas. Oklahoma, and North and Central Texas effective Monday and warned that gasoline prices may have to be boosted to maintain, the higher price for crude oil.

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♦ ♦! “Dad” Cramer Is XI I I. "Hail ’ Critnier, lunch room 11" ■: • • tor of this city wore a big -mile today and with good roa.on. i Today ids 81st birthday. Mr. [Cramer was born in St. Mary’s 'township, April 9. 1851. He has lived iii It.'catnr practically all his li ' and i enjoying gold health I now. It. friends were congratulal-1 ' im.: him and wishing him many more hap.iy birthdays. LOCALWORK NEARS FINISH Electric Improvements to Be Completed Within Next Three Weeks The new electric distribution sy.- | tern in Decatur will be completed I in three weeks. M. .1. Mylott. super- | lintendent of the City plant stated! ; today. t he new circuit is now in use on the west side of Second -treet and | ‘ Sunday connection will be made ' . with the circuit t.i he Cloverleaf , , Creameries. Inc. Employes of the city electric deI partnient have been making the I new connections to the circuit and ) next week will begin work on the i • a.-t side of Second street. The Deel Electric and ConstrueII ion company of Fort Wayne has the contract for building the new I lint • and after the circuit is put into ; ! use, work on cutting down the | old poles on Second street, from | ; Marshall, south to Adams street : ' will begin. Ail if the wires and brackets on I .the fronts of the buildings will be; i removed. The work of cutting down [ , the poles will commence week a flee ) ; next and the job can be completed . J th :i few thays. Mr. Mylott stated. The cost of rebuilding the lines is 'taid out o: the funds of the | . lectric department and more es- ■ ficient and satisfactory service is lassured i lectric users with the re- I . building, of the lines. Would Oust Mayor Anderson. Ind.. April 9. (U.R) — I I The Anderson Herald said this, ’morning that a group of Anderson, citizens planned to file ouster pro-1 li codings today against Major Jesse I jll. Mellett on grounds of “habitual) ! drunkenness." Mayor Mellett, who is ill at his; I home, was indicted on liquor! Icharges by the federal grand jury,; j which also indicted Mayor George' I;. Dale of Muncie and several oih |er officials of both cities. .Mellett.) because of his illness, has not been ’ ■informed officially of his indict ! I ment. The committee that will file the! | impeachment proceedings consists) lot three Democrats and three Re ! | publicans, according to the Herald. Mellett is a Democrat. Legion Will Meet There will he an important meet- ] ing of Adams post. American Legion at Legion hall here Monday night at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to attend. SCHOOL CENSUS TO BE STARTED

Rose Christen. Freeh Hower Named to Take Annual City Count Enumeration of all school children in Adams County will begin Monday, April 11. it was announced by Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent. today. The township trustees will have charge of the enumeration of each township, and special enumerators were appointed for the city of Decatur. Miss Rose Christen and Freeh Hower, who had charge of the work last year, were re-appointed at a meeting of the Decatur school board Friday night. They will begin Monday, and are to complete their count before April 30 when they will report to Dr. Burt Mangold, i president of the Decatur school board. Dr. Mangold will in turn report to Mr. Striker. The enumeration i conducted each year, and all children from the ages of 6 to 21 are included. Married persons under the age of 21 are not included in the enumeration. Mr. Striker stated

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Roosevcltian Debut 'iWxl - - >i ■ * / V* Z' Sarah Ilelano Roosevelt is here! presented as she made her debut) I before the camera. She is the | three-weeks-old daughter of James i I Roosevelt, son of the Governor of ! New York, shown in the arms ofi i her proud father at their home in Cambridge, Mass. The mot her and | babe have only recently returned home from the hospital ami tills ) is Baby Sarah’s first picture. MAN SUFFERS ~ SEVERE BURNS I). A. Baumgartner, Formerly of Linn Grove, Is Severely Burned

North Manchester. April 9. — I (Special) D. A. BaumguHnor- s*>. i owner of a hatchery near here ’ was burned probably fatally today when gasoline, with which he was i attempting to start a fire, ex- ! ploded. A son. living across tlie road, saw the flames and rescued his father who was taken to the Wabash hospital. Mr. Baumgartner formerly rei sided near Linn Grove, and was i a teachei of the schools in Adams j county. He is secretary of the i Berne Equity Exchange at Berne. PAULDING BEET MILL TO RUN Ohio Town Gets News Today That Mill Is To Operate Soon — I Paulding. Ohio. April 9 —(Special to Daily Democrat)—Whistles blew and bells rang here at noon today when the announcement was made that the Pauldinz sugar factory • which has been idle the past two years would operate this season. The entire matter was arranged during the past three weeks. The finances have been arranged, back j taxes paid and during the past ten j days between 10,000 and 12,000 [ acres of beet- have been conducted. [ practically all within trucking distance of the plant. | Work on putting the factory in 'condition ot operate will begin at • 1 elv.x

once and continue util the opening lof the company early in October. | The contracts are cooperative, based on a four dollar estimate, but it is expected will pay the farmer about $5.75 per ton for his beets. o ‘ Roosevelt Is Invited Indianapolis, April 9 —(U.R) —The executive committee of the. Indiana Democratic editorial association will invite Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York to speak at the Midsummer association, meeting in French Lick May 27 and 28. it has been announced. Should Roosevelt be unable to attend. John N. Garner, Texas, Speaker of the house of representatives, will be invited .to come as principal speaker, the Committee announced. Motion Is Overruled Montgomery, Ala.. April 9 —(UP) The Alabama supreme court today overruled an application for rehearing of the case against seven neg- ■ roes condemned to die on charges of attacking two white girls at Scottsboro, Ala., last year.

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PRESIDENT TO PRESENT PLANS TO COMMITTEE House Group Has Proposal; Mills To Sit in At Conference MAY LAST LONG TIME Washington, April 9. — <U.R) j— Two plans for governmentlal economy will be offered today when the President meets with the house economy committee, it was learned authoritatively. The President will present a program involving alterations in present laws to per!mit reduced expenditures. The |committee will offer one suggesting some three score specific reducitions including cuts in pay of govJernment employes. .1 Tile President expects that furth]er meetings will be necessary be--1 fore a final program is worked out. Secretary of the Treasury Mills. 1 Budget Director Roop. Secretary of 1 Interior Wilbur and Postmaster General Brown will sit with the President and the committee at today’s meeting. The President's conference began promptly at 11 a. nt. i J Members of the house commit- | tee as well as the President's advisers were non-commital. Rep. Wood. Repn.. Ind., said he believed the government pay cuts of 11 ’ per cent with sl.llOO exemptions should be included in the final program adopted. “We must have pay cuts," ho

said. Members of the hotlse (’ommilt-eo on economy, with the exception of Rep. Williamson. Repn., S. Dak., wno was out of town, were: Chairman McDuffee, Dem.. Ala., and Reps., Byrns, Dem. Tenn.. Cochran. Dem... Mo.. Douglas. Dem. Ariz., Wood, Repn.. Ind., and Ramseyer. Repn., la. Mill Not To Operate A telephone message from Toledo received at noon today -aid the. indications are that the Decatur sugar plant cannot be operated this year. The low price of taw ugar a drop having occurred during the past two weeks, has made it impossible to finance the i ropo-ition. it seems. A more complete statement has been promised for Monday's issue. Cashier Being Sought Chicago. April 9 —(UP) -Officers today hunted Josie W. Gregg, tieformer cashier of the Home Insurance Co., oifice here on charges of emliezzling $30,000 to bet on horse races and play the stock market. The charges were contained in a warrant sworn out by E. R. Hurd, manager of the Insurance office. He said Miss Gregg had been an employe of the firm for nearly 30 years before her recent discharge. A sister of Miss Gregg characterized the charge- "a frameup", SENATE PROBE : STARTS TODAY Richard Whitney To Be First Witness In Wall Street Probe Washington. April 9 (U.R) Reports that stock exchange shorts were organized or a $1,000,000,000 market raid which would have made today tlie "black Saturday of all trading history" were partly responsible for Senate banking and currency committee decision to begin the stock exchange investigation Monday, the United ITes was informed today. Senators with banking connections laid reports of the contemplated bear raid before the committee in an emergency meeting in the republican cloak room just oif the senate floor yesterday There were several telephone ealH to Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock exchange, culminating in the committee's decision to sitl>i>oenu him as the first -witness. The United Pre s was informed today that several committee mem(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)