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EGIONNAIRES TO MEET HERE SUNDAY

■teen get ■LOMAS AT ■OENCEMENT •**— — — ■ father Schmitt Is at D. C. H. S. ■annual K* t,rc * Bes ■graders 9 (J I DIPLOMAS l l' - r: "i |i:,, ' s Catholic high ■,,1 lit the tenth annual exercise ■ iridin evening in the ■ .Jiool auditorium, the gß] l i| !1 ! Simeon Schmitt, ■mt pastor ol SI. Peter s ■i| ic church. Ma r ion. |H| the members of the "be loval to your |K and sirive always to live rt hy examples of her high , v a. re attended by »Ill' ll fiHe'l the large ■ r - 1!H I diplomas were ■.- . high school gradu ■,p .iirhth grade graduof respect, love and ■■■>, re paid by Father t,. the Rev. Father J. A. EKtz. beloved pastor of St. Catholic church, for his efforts in the building vo lfart- of the Cathie Hue to illness and inFather Seimetz - >,d the ex---i MRo Father .1. J. Hennes, pastor, distribut diplomas. •.;> the coinnieneenita sliort program, inclml--~.un.il of gradual t - Stage and the senior play- ■». shall be what we male- ' took .place. Music was by the Wertzberger and class songs were ■by ih> Seniors and Eighth ■t graduates. ■eakicg of the school. Father ■l.'' tvlu.irk'-d. "There is mm h tn a good school than just ■tabling and equipment, how ■ excellent that may be. The ■ school has a soul, a school ■t. That school spirit is increated and energized ■ dominated by some great and ■animnus human heart. a ■t that is willing to give its all ■the cause that is dear to it: ■ the heart that has gone into ■making of your school and ■ school spirit is the heart of ■ pastor, Father Seimetz." ■ the same breath I should in ■itstice. mention those saintly ■ »ho are a constant source ■nmurae.-tnent and inspiration ■hr Pastor in his endeavors in ■ school I refer, of course, to [ holy nuns, the Sisters of St. ■»■ How could our parish ■ols exist without them? Quiet unassuming, they shed their Pt influence upon the minds hearts of our growing boys girls from early childhood on those plastic and formayears of adolescence when act <*r is being moulded.” w the speaker. ltltW | Schmitt, who is a son of of this city, in his WrtNirpp nN p A( -. R stxt image suit IS COMPLETED rv Einds For Defendant n Stone Versus Lengerich Case J ui- y in Adams circuit court or the defendant in the $lO.linage and personal injury 0 W illiam Stone against Mary Dench and allowed the plainhothlng. The jury reported at J? oel{ Friday night after sev‘loura of deliberation. " IH ‘ brought the action as a reai> automobile collision near ! ," r tn September, 1929. Stone O'jured and was confined at a ®s county hospital for sev1 *eelts, lh T askeii ,or SSOO damages e Stone automobile and $lO,r Personal injury. The cause , ® days to try. One of the 8 nistructlons, based on Indi--8 stutes, dealt with conlribu.,n.e.Bligence > and after hearing 'pence of both sides the jury " <1 f <> r the defendant.

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Phi Belts Plan Stag * 1 ■ I The 'second anniversary of the Phi Delta Kaippi Fraternity of this ' city will be celebrated with a stag banquet and party at Sun Set park southeast of this elty, Monday even-1 Ing June 13, It was announced to-1 day. The affair will be In charge of ■ Glen Beavers, Tom Haubold. and , Bill Erwin, members of the social committee. Invitations are being sent to Phi Delt chapters in towns i surrounding Decatur, and a large i crowd is expected to attend the event. FOUR OHIO MEN I ARE ARRESTED Hucksters Alleged To Be Peddling In County Without Permits (Affidavits filed this afternoon by Nathan Nelson, prosecuting attorney, on information furnished by Ltwrence Cat ver, Ralph Burnett I and Herman Smith as prosecuting I witnesses charge Sim Egar, Walter j Heffner, Glen Spettler, Logan Wolfe | and Roman Heffner with peddling goods and merchandise with a motor vehicle in this county, without license. The men are hucksters and the charges apparently arose in retaliation because the Adams county men are not permitted to peddle in Ohio where the ive men accused re- ' side. Judge Erwin fixed the bond for each men at SIOO subject to the approval of the sheriff. Each day on I which the men peddled unlawfuly , is a separate offense. The penalty is a minimum fine of SSO with from I ten to thirty days in jail. RAIL OFFICERS SEEK MILITIA Pennsylvania Asks Aid In Removing Thousand Former Soldiers Cleveland, June 4 (UP) 4—Officials of the Pennsylvania railroad today appealed for state militia to d. ive out more than 1,000 bedraggled but determined "Bonus Marchers’ took possession of the railI road yard here, temporarily tying up all traffic. Three hundred (police reserves, eve-y available policeman in the efty, were ordered to the yards by safety director Merrick early today after police Lieut. Harry Weiss had been pushed aside by a mob that stormed the roundhouse. Gove, nor George White and Adjutant General Frank D. Henderson at Columbus, had assigned Col. William L. Marlin, commander of the 145th infantry, Ohio National Guard of Cleveland, to remain on the scene as an observer. The invaders, m st of whom were from Detroit and Toledo, had proposed to keep contr 1 of the yards and roundhouse until the radroad acceded to their demand for freight transportation, en route to Wasnington I). C. to present their demands for payment of the bonus. John T. Pace, Det-:oit” has in command if the veterans. The request for National Guard assistance was nude after the vet-, erans had demanded free transportation “or no Lain will move out i f the yards" they succeeded in delaying a passenger train while a conference was held with railroad officials. Order was restored temporarily when leaders of the marchers were persuaded to make no attempt to stop trains and deputy police inti,actor Stephen Murphy told James C. Poffenbe.ger, Division superintendent of the Pennsylvania iailroad that he would not order police to clear the yards unless there was violence* The ex-soldiers gathered here yesterday from Detroit Jind JToledo “TcONTINURD ON PAGE TWO' o ■ Mishap Victim Dies Word was received here today that Mis. Elizabeth Kline. 45. of Toledo, died this morning from Injuries she received in the Uhl automobile accident. Mrs. Kline was housekeeper in the Uhl home. C. R Uhl and six children who were seriously injured are progressing. Jr. Uhl still remains at the hospital.

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Speakers and Chairman of Legion Meeting

V 1 :• Affifi--.' Col. Ralph D. Cole Former Ohio congressman, orator and veteran of the world war who will deliver the principal address here Sunday at Legion Memorial park.

NOT GUILTY IS PLEA OF CURTIS Lindbergh Hoaxer Will Stand Trial June 27 at Flemington, N. J. Flemington, N. J.. June 4 —(U.R) John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk. Va., boatbuilder and creator of a gigantic hoax in the Lindbergh kidnaping case, pleaded not guilty when arraigned today on a charge of obstructing justice. Curtis' plea for a reduction in his SIO,OOO bond was denied and lie remained in jail. Tlie trial was set for June 27. It is understood that Col. Charles Lindbergh will be one of the state s witnesses in the hoax trial against Curtis. The Norfolk shipbuilder appeared haggard as the entered his plea of not guilty in court today. o — Bancroft Quits Post New York, June 4 —(U.R) —Dave Bancroft, assistant manager of tlie New York Giants, resigned today. Bancroft had been in charge of the club during most of the games this season. Bill Terry, who yesterday was appointed manager after tlie resignation ot John McGraw, accepted tlie resignation of Bancroft, and said >ie did not contemplate hiring a successor to McGraw’s former lieutenant. DISPUTES SLOW HOUSE ACTION Tariff Items Discussed As Final Passage Becomes Delayed Washington, May 4. — (U.R) —Bitter disputes over tariff items in the completed $1,119,000,000 revenue bill today slowed down final house action on the measure. Leaders, however, still were confident that the bill would lie approved in whole i nd sent on to the senate by early afternoon. Majority Leader Henry Rainey applied the spark which set off the oratorical explosion when he bolted his own leadership to attack the import duties levied in the bill upon lumber, coal, copper and oil. The house conferees, Rainey said, had “surrendered” to the senate on the tariff items and imperiled American foreign trade by antagonizing Canada with a heavy duty on lumber.

Bank Thief Sought Indianapolis, June 4.-r- (U.R) State police lent their aid today in search for a thief who robbed tlie Farmers and Merchants Bank ut Boswell. Benton county, of over $2,000 just as W. E. Palmer, cashier, was preparing to close yesterday afternoon. Police were notified by Palmer that a man of medium stature accosted him Just as he emerged from the vault, and took the money, all of which was in bills of large denominations. Only a small sum of money was overlooked.

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I ® ® JI J 9 Norbert R. Holthouse A member of Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion, hosts to ' Legionnaires from the Fourth and Eighth congressional districts, who is general chairman of the meeting.

Cars Collide At Noon An automobile owned and driven by Dwight Sheets and a Schafer Company truck collided at the intersection of Third and Madison streets at 12 o’clock noon today. No one was hurt in the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Sheets were the only occupants of the automobile and Robert Strickler was the driver ot the Schafer truck. Mr. Sheets was driving south of Third street when the accident occurred. The car skidded several feet in an attempt to avoid striking the Schafer truck which was going east. The car owned by Mr. Sheets was damaged on the right side. The left fender of tlie truck was also beot. 0 WOUNDS GIRL; ENDS OWN LIFE Art Student Wounded As She Enters Work At Exhibition ' Chicago, June 4. — (U.R) — Dorothy ;B. Smith, 21, art student, was in serious condition in a iiospital today after Gordon T. Caldwell, 26, 'a frantic and rejected suitor, shot her and then took his own life at an art exhibition in a loop skyscraper. i The tragedy culminated what I Miss Smith, daughter of a board of education official, described as "one of those crazy love affairs.” Caldwell appeared as Miss Smith was showing to friends a canvas which she had entered at the exhibition of the American Academy of Art. He called her to a corridor and a moment later the 100 persons thronging the exhibition hall heard shots ring out. They found Miss Smith seriously wounded in the neck and shoulder and Caldwell dead, a bullet in his temple. "I met Caldwell three months ago," Miss Smith, a very beautiful rrONTTNTTWP on page SIX) o Decorator Was Not Hired By Legion Men The decorator who was in Decatur today soliciting merchants to decoiate store fronts for the Legion meeting, was not appointed by Adams Post nor did he have the approval ot Post officials to do the wonk. Inforjnation that he was in the city was not learned until after he secured several jobs, members of the program committee stated this afternoon.

Proclamation TO CITIZENS OF DECATUR: We are proud to welcome to our city, the boys of the American Legion. Decatur is very happy to be chosen as your meeting place and we want you to feel that a feeling of sincere loyalty to you and the fine Organization that you stand for, prompts us to say that our gesture of hospitality is heartfelt. , r - As a signal mark of honor for the boys of the Legion, I ask that each home and business place display the American flag early Sunday morning. Please keep the line of march for the hoys free of vehicles on Fourth street from Adams to Marshall, and Marshall to Second, and from Second street to Memorial Park. As Mayor of the City of Decatur, I would deem it a mark of respect to the splendid American Legion Organization if all the citizens of Decatur would turn out en masse to give the boys a welcoming hand. Let’s show them that we are proud of the honor of entertaining the boys. Sunday, June sth. Sincerely, GEORGE M. KRICK.

B, J Ralph Gates Indiana department commander of the American Legion who will make a short address at the speaking program. Mr. Gates lives at Columbia City.

INSOLVENCY TO BE DENIED Bank Directors Petition For Liquidating Agent In Local Case A general denial of insolvency and a petition that a liquidating ' agent be named, will be made by the board cf directors of the Old Adams County Bank, which closed ' I May 17, action being taken at the , director's meeting Friday evening. 'Appearance in the case, in which Luther M. Symons, chief of the state banking department, requestjed that a receiver be appointed for i the institution, will be made next I Munday, the directors stated. ( 'Ths petition so ra receiver will be heard by Judge Dore B. Erwin of the Adims Circcuit court Tuesday morning at nine o’clock. It is the olpinion of the board of directors that the afafirs of the bank, both in the interest of the depositors and stockholder, can be more economically administered through a liquidating agent and the directors will ask the court for the privilege to appoint one. The report mode by ihe apprais- ■ ers, Cal E. Peterson and J. L. Koc- , her was filed with the board last I evening. Although figures were not obtainable it was understood that the findings of the appraisers showled the bank to be solvent. ______ o FIVE PEOPLE ARE DROWNED Ohio River Tragedy At Rockport Claims Five Os Two Families Rockport, Ind.. June 4. — (U.R) — Five members of two families were drowned, one swam ashore, and two children saved themselves by clinging to improvised life preservers, when the boat in which they were riding on the Ohio river late yesterday, overturned. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lynn and a 10-year-old son, and Mrs. Louis Parsley and young daughter were drowned. Parsley swam ashore after failing in efforts to rescue any of the others and his son, Billy, 8, and a nephew of Lynn saved themselves by using inflated inner tubes for support until help arrived.

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REFERENDUM IS FAVORED BY INDIANA G.O.P. National Delegates Will Look To Sen. Watson For Instructions STATE MEET IS PLANNED Indianapolis, June 4. — <U.R) —lndiana’s delegates to the Republican national convention will favor a referendum on prohibition. Today members of the state Republican committee discussed with their district committees the referendum plank which was drawn up at a parley yesterday. It will be submitted to the convention resolutions committee which meets next Wednesday evening, the eve of the state convention. The 27 committee members spent the entire day discussing probable | platform planks. More than half cf the time, however, was spent discussing prohibition. I The Republicans, as in the last two decades, again will look to senior Senator James E. Watson, to instruct delegates. Although Watson has announced that he will be unable to attend the convention, leaders looked for the fiery statesman to address the Thursday sess-1 lon. at which he is expected to be re-nominated. “The Indiana delegation will go to the national convention instructed to vote for President Hoover it Senator Watson says so,” Ivan C. Morgan, state chairman, told the United Press. (CON'nNUE'D ON PAGE TWO) BROWN FUNERAL TO BE MONDAY Former Adams County Woman Dies Following Short Illness Funeral services will be held at Marion, Monday afternoon. June 6, at 2 o'clock for Mrs. Della Brown, wife of A. H. Brown of Marion, and a former resident of Adams county, who died at the , Marion hospital Thursday evening at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Brown had been a patient at the hospital for several weeks. About two months ago she was stricken with what was diagnosed I as yellow jaundice but her condi-i tion was not considered seriouss|< until about three weeks ago. A < week ago she underwent a surgical operation and it was discovered that she was suffering from a cancerous condition of the liver. The deceased was formerly Della McConnehey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McConnehey who about 30 years ago resided on a farm two miles east of De- ' catur. Mrs. Brown is survived by her husband, A. H. Brown, and four brothers: John. David and Harvey of Marion, and Samuel E„ of Van Wert, Ohio. o Buck Jones’ Parents Reside In Decatur Theater fans all know Buck Jones, favorite in Western dramas, whose apfpearance is a ways of interest, but perhaps few know that his grandparents were among the pioneel's of Decatur. His mother was Miss Etta Showers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Showers, who conducted a hotel on Winchester street known as the Showers House for many yeairs and later 'as the Park Hotel Miss Etta married a man named McClanahan and the man known on the screen as Buck Jones is their son. A film “One man law” is showing today, at the Cort theater in this city. o— — Hold Special Election Jeffersonville, Ind., June 4.—-(U.R) —The special session of the legislature called for July 7 to consider tax legislation will necessitate a special election in Clark county to fill the vacancy caused, by the death I of Representative Erasums T. Sage last year. Sage died soon after the 1931 general assembly.

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Line Os March The line of march for the legion military parade to be held here Sunday afternoon at one o'clock follows: Assemble on Fourth street, south of Monroe street, march north on Fourth street to Marshall street. East on Marshall street to Second street, South on Second street to Winchester street. South on Winchester street to Legion Memorial Park. The reviewing stand will be located on the Court House square. Prizes in the drum corps contest will be awarded as follows: First prize. 175 Second prize, SSO. Third prize. $25 Judges: Mayor George M. Krick. J. H. Heller, Theodore Grallker, E. W. Dr. Dailey Jones, O. N. Smith. Albert Winans, W. H. Shafer and James K. Staley. FLIER'S SAFETY STILLUNKNOWN Poor Flying Weather Is Facing Distance Aviator On Long Trip BULLETIN London, England, June 4— (U.Rl —Stanley Hausner, “flying Pole” seeking air honors in an attempted flight from New York to Warsaw, was unreported late today, so careful watch for him was set along the coasts of Ireland, England, and France. London, June 4.—(U.PJ —Poor flying weather was reported today by the Air Ministry Ast Stanley Hausner, an unknown Polish-American flier, was believed piloting his big flame-colored plane, the St. Rosa I Maria, over the Atlantic on a projected flight from New York to Warsaw. Heavy clouds with visibility between two and three miles in the middle and Eastern Atlantic, and wind between northeast and east with a velocity of 15 to 20 miles an hour, were reported. Then at 9 a in. British summer time (4 a. m. New York time) the air ministry reported overcast weather and a drizzle in the Atlantic from 600 to 700 miles ooff central Ireland. Visibility was about 12 miles with moderate northeasterly winds. From southern Ireland to 300 miles at sea, rain, low clouds, and some fog prevailed. There was poor visibility, with ! rain and low clouds in southwestlern England. The weather in westjern Ireland was "reasonably decent,” with good visibility beneath high clouds. Civic guards through Ireland kept (CONTINUFJD ON PAGE TWO) O ♦ ♦ I Men’s Brotherhood To Give Services j The Men’s Brotherhood of the First Evangelical church will have charge of the services at the church, Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock A special program will be presented and the public is invited. Mrs. Willa Friedline and her chorus, consisting of 25 voices, from Van Wert, Ohio, will assist in tlie program, which is as follows: Reading Psalm 73—Amos Ketchum Prayer —Rev. M. W. Sundermann Van Wert Male Quartet, “Climb Up, Ye Children, Climb” Grant Male Quartet, "I've Been Listening,” Rodeheaver Five Minute Address: “Lite of King Saul," — Martin Zimmerman Solo: “The Heart of God,” Str<>—?nton — Mrs. Willa Friedline Painter Offertory Five Minute Address: “Life of David” —Alva Buffenbarger Mixed Quartet: “In Heavenly Love Abiding," Wilson Five Minute Address: “The Life of Soloman” —Eugene Runyon Male Quartet: “Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet,” Herbert Music, Mixed Chorus, Van Wert. BiMe Story: “A Divided Kingdom” —Edward Martz Male Quartet: “Workers and Shirkers," Herbert Benedictory Prayer: Rev. M. W. Sundermann. 1

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GIANT PARADE OPENS PROGRAM ATONEOXLOCK Fourth And Old Eighth District War Veterans In Joint Session SPEAKING IS FOR PUBLIC * DISPLAY FLAGS , Merchants and citizens of l Decatur are requested to disI play the American Flag Sunday. Residents on Fourth, i Marshall, Second and Win- 1 I Chester streets are especially ' urged to display the flag as I Legionnaires will pass in , j parade on these streets. The . Chamber ot Commerce has j furnished merchants with ap- I propriate window cards for | display. Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion and Decatur as a whole made ready today to entertain the 1,000 or more Legionnaires expected here Sunday for the big Legion conference and reunion. N. R. Holthouse, general chairman of the event announced that every committee and chairman thereof was functioning perfectly and that with a “break in the weather," Decatur would see one of the largest military parades ever held outside of a state convention. At least eight uniformed drum corps and tlia Fort Wayne Legion band will be in the parade. The parade is scheduled to start from the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, proceed north on Fourth street, east to Second street, south on Second street to Winchester street and then south to Legion Memorial park whera Colonel Ralph D. Cole, orator and fighting colonel of the World War will deliver the principal address. State Head Coming Headed by State Commander Ralph Gates of Columbia City, Legionnaires from at least 50 Posts in Indiana arc expected here for the parade, program and picnic to be held later at Sunset park, east of Decatur. The parade will be headed by Paul Saurer, chairman, his committee, state legion officials, including the Fourth district commander, Harry Ritter, of Angola, and will be escorted by seven etate motorcycle policemen sene here by Grover C. Garrett, Indianapolis. chief of the Indiana police force. Mayor George Krick today issued a proclamation urging citizens to display the American flag, to turn out for the big parade ami in general extend a hearty welcome to visiting Ijegionnaires. It. is expected that nearly 1.000 legionnaires will be here, several Posts from Ohio sending representatives, together with the Indiana, delegations. Officers and members of Adams Post have completed elaborate preparations for the entertaining of visiting Buddies. The eats committee through 11. P. Schmitt, (CONTTNURD ON PAGF, TWO) SENATE GROUP IS APPROVED Economy Committee Is Upheld In Test Vote On Salary Cuts Washington, June 4. — (U.R) —Tha senate today upheld its economy committee in the first test vote on government pay cuts. A proposal of Senator Johnson, Repn., Calif., to exempt al Isalaries of $2,5000 or less from reduction was defeated. 51 to 25. Senator Moses, Repn., N. H., then offered as a substitute for the pay cut the furlough plan approved several weeks ago by President Hoover but rejected by both houses and seuate committee in charge of the economy bill. The details of Moses substitute could not be immediately learned. It will not be considered at the 'present time.