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lOSEVELT HAS |C LEAD OVER ILL ASPIRANTS r York Governor Near!g Victory In Democratic Contest yCHANGE PARTY RULE fcago, J u,,e 23. — (U.R) —I Hiior Franklin p. RooseofNew York had victory but not quite—wit hiis grasp today. s with the army which adjd within gunshot of j, the decision depends on [her he can haul up the jsarv reserves to batter n’ his former ally and eal teacher, Alfred E. Smith, tith the seven other opposing He son aspirants, form tin Hue of defense which blocks till to the Democratic presi- , il nomination. i general staff may attempt to j the traditional two-thirds -» risky experiment but one are prepared to change if, »try. omens point to a po'itical »of the Marne when the Demo- , > convention opens Monday, depending feud colored every us Democrats swung into conpn business preliminaries toMembers designated to sit on resolutions and credentials littees were called to meet for , Binary organization. tmer Senator Gilbert N. Hitchof Nebraska was informally e4 upon as chairman of the jnn committee. He is an atrtiIMtionist and conducted the n League of Nations fight in mate. erest in the platform writing as. which begins today with rst meeting of the resolutions littee. revolved around the fthion question. The developI of strong sentiment for a ght repeal plank has been fol i by considerable sentiment in rof a plank advocating itnmednodification of the Volstead Some would like to see the modified to permit the manure and sale of beer and wine W alcoholic content. Others Bred to tavor even greater libtttkm of the law. Btnany holds the balance of r in the candidates' fight at Mnent. e word by John F. Curry, the of Tammany Hall, would end b's hopes and send Roosevelt ring down the last stretch to st inerdabble nomination, t there was an ominous silence be subject in Curry's suite at llackstone hotel. osevelt's manager, James A. ff. made a midnight visit to F The only information was. •try's words: ' ntmany is endeavoring to seek best man available for the •cratie nomination." hat means that you have not decided for whom Tammany rote?” he was asked. wetly." Curry answered. tile Roosevelt managers ap’d a little uneasy over this dainty, they were determined ise every resource even to iking down tire historic two-1 ds ru’e to win if necessary, •osevelt has within 161 votes inough to win the nomination bNTJNUKD TO PAGE FIVE lINK CONFERS MTH OFFICERS Tax Board Repreentative Here For Inspection Tour ■J Shank of Angola, represent’of the state board of tax comtoners was in the city today sering with members of the i ,(l of review and County Audi Uhert Harlow. Mr. Shank made F to Jefferson township where h’estigated the need for the dement of the Lon Weaver The petition t*jissue bonds ®is be pre“d to the state board. Wer in the day Mr. Shank cond *ith the county board of re relative to the assessment of f’ty in Adams county.

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1 aggart To Chicago Indianapolis, June 23. — (UP) Thomas D. Taggart, Democratic! national committeeman, left today' for Chicago to prepare tor the Indiana delegation's part In s ■lection of national candidates ami a platform. Headquarters of the Indians I Democratic Club will be i» the! Stevens hotel Taggart and other!] |leaders, will be in the Congress Hotel, site of Democratic national headquarters. Indiana's delegation is scheduled] for its first formal meeting at 811 o'clock Sunday night. 1 1 11L0CALMEN TO BE HONORED ( p Knights of Columbus To • Confer Honorary De- , grees Next Monday p Eleven Decatur men will receive! honorary degrees from the Knights 1 1 of Columbus at a district meeting t to be held in Fort Wayne, Monday, i June 27. ( Three of the men, Tise Ulman, < E. L. Carroll ami Alphonse Kohne ’ will be honored with honorary life 1 I membership and eight with the de- ' gree of iionorary member. The honorary life membership* is avail ' able to men who have been niem-lt hers of the lodge for 25 years and > Lave reached their 75th birthday. I The honorary title is given to men t who have been members for 25 years and who are 65 years old. f The men to receive the later hon- ' or are D. D. Coffee, Dynois Schmitt, t John Yager, lato Yager, J. W. < Bosse, Joint Colchin. John Smith, t John Geimer. 1 The honorary life membership t exempts <<iiembers from dues and ’ per capita tax, while the, honorary members’ dues are reduced from I $7.50 to $3 a year. i The Decatur men and others from 1 over the district will receive the degree at the Monday meeting, i Transportation will be provided i those who do not have automobiles. Joe Lose, chairman of the committee stated. The meeting will be held at eighth o’clock, daylight sav- . ing time. — o — i Kidnaping Is Probed i Indianapolis, June 23.--(U.PJ—ln-dianapolis and state authorities today searched for the purported kid-1 t apers of Raymond Hazlewood, 12.1 acting on the boy s story that lie was taken against his will from Indianapolis to Veedersburg. Ind. The boy was found by C. A. Sherer, Veedersburg night policeman, who notified the father, Harry Hazlewood. Indianapolis. According to the boy. a man forced him into an auto at Indianapolis before noon yesterday. He said lie . was released at the edge of Veedersburg. Dividend Is Declared Chicago, June 23.—(U.R) Regular quarterly dividends were '•’■‘■Ured by the Northern Indiana I üb-ic Service Company and Public Seivice Company of Indiana, both ot the Midland United Company group, at the regular meeting ol the directors yesterday, it was announced. Northern Indiana declined 14i per cent dividends on the . per cent preferred. 1% Per cent ou the 6 per cent preferred and IS. Per cent on the 5% per cent preferred Stock payable July 14. 1932 to hold ers ot record of June 30. Public Service declared dividends of $1 75 on the $7 cumulative prior preferred ami $1.50 on the $6 cumulative prior P re(err . ed ld 8 e t r^ k of icable July 15. 1932 to holders of rec, ord of June 30. 1932. Attend Priest's Retreat The Rev. Father J. A. Seimetz, pastor ami Rev. Father J. L J nes. assistant pastor of St r-itholic church, arc al X nual priest's retreat. They wi be gone until Friday in K ht _ Bridge IsWrecked Sullivan, Inti. Dynamite ch.ges wrecked Sch running "Xi i»

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HITCHCOCK TO BE CHAIRMAN ON PLATFORM Nebraskan Chosen Chairman of Important Committee by Democrats IS BOOST FOR GOV. ROOSEVELT Con vent ion 1 leadquarters, Chicago, .June 23.—<U.R>—Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska today was named chairman of the Democratic national convention platform committee in a preliminary meeting at which factional rivalries burst forth with the promise of bitter fights to come. Hitchcock, a former senator, generally is classed as a Roosevelt man. Governor William H. (Alfalfa Bill I Murray, of Oklahoma, one ot th. favorite son candidates determined to block the nomination of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, sat on a front row chair and with a show of apparent suspicion challenged the proposals of the Roosevelt group. After a whispered conference witli Murray, William G. McAdoo, California's platform committeeman, proposed appointment of a l provisional platform sub-committee g ol seven. | s Senator Hull, Democrat, Tennes - see. and one of the senate coterie I working for Roosevelt, challenged I that procedure and Senator Wheel-1 <r. Democrat. Montana. — a Roosevelt man complained that all com-1 mittee members had not arrived and that to attempt to go “ahead with a rump convention is foolish.” Murray jumped up: "We recent- I ly had a convention of postmasters in this town to nominate a Republican candidate," he exclaimed. “We don't want it said that this is a convention of senators and congressmen.” “And governors." shouted Hull, ' who was sitting across the aisle. "Yes. governors,” Murray replied. "But the governors are fresh < from the people and the senators are six years behind." >STIXI i:l> TO PAGW TUIIEB I MIAMI GREETS HAUSNERTODAY Ocean Flier Returns To Home City Amid Big Celebration , Miami. Fla.. June 23—<U.R)—This vacation city declared a holiday of its own today for Stanislaus Hausner. unknown motion picture operator who clung seven days without food or water to his wrecked plane, then told folks here that "If I had a plane, I'd be willing to try the same flight tomorrow.” The flier had Been forced down at sea on an attempted non-stop flight from New York to Warsaw financed bv friends. He was rescued by the tanker Circe Shell ■lfter seven days during which his wife, praying daily in Newark. N. J., “never gave up hope." Hausner was reunited with that | wife, in a dramatic scene aboard the Circe Shell here just before midnight, some 92 miles off shore where the Circe Shell paused en route to New Orleans. She and the party of forty had left Miami on a yacht. She was Hi ven glasses, and was one of the . first to sight the tanker. Stars twinkled overhead in a blue-black sky. The sun not long before had sunk behind the Florida horizon. And in that setting, the party transferred to a sea going tug. just two miles from the ' The tug soon reached the Circe Shell and was made fast. Mrs. Hausner rushed aboard, and there bv the light of a brilliant Florida moon and flickering, booming newspaper flash- *’' CONTINUED TO PAGE 'I'WO Firemen Will Meet There will be a special meeting ■ of the Decatur Volunteer Fireman in the engine 'house of the Fire department on Seventh street tonight at 7 o'clock. Every volunteer firemen is requested to be present.

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Good Democrats - Y ’W. •’“V ’ W fl 7Mk. Josephus Daniels, foinier secretary of the navy and delegate ai large to the Democratic national convention from North Carolipt greets Tex Morrissey, portraying the Democratic mule. Mr. Daniel arrived in Chicago Wednesday.

UNION MINERS HAVE OBSTACLE Indiana Operators Say They May Go Non-Un-ion In Near Future Terre Haute. Ind., June 23—(U.R) —The threat of Indiana coal mine operators to “go non-union" unless a $4 wage scale is adopted hung over the re-convened session of the scale convention ot district No. 11, United Mine Workers ot America, here today. The scale committee which two weeks ago negotiated a tentative agreement witli the Indiana Coal Operators' association, reported to delegates from Indiana local U. O. W. A., the proposed cut of 34% per cent from the former $9 scale for conveyor men and $6.10 for band men. The proposed scale is $5 and $4. respectively. It was predicted that the new scale would gain adoption by a small margin. Strip miners, nuntbjering about 1,500 in Indiana, generally opposed the new wage as they have continued to work throughout the strike, on the $6.10 scale. Their wages would be reduced by the new scale. Thirteen thousand idle shaft miners are lined against them, however. Adoption of the $4 scale, it was believed, would increase the roster of union mine workers through accession of the present non-union shafts in southwestern Indiana. Fears of miners that the lowered wage scale would result in inCONTINUED TO PAGE THIiEE CHURCH PLANS SUNDAY MEET Local Church of God To Hear Visiting Pastors Here Sunday Special services will be conducted Sunday at the Church of God, with Rev. and Mrs. A. T. Rowe of | Anderson, as speakers. Followinig j the Sunday .School session Mrs. Rowe will give a talik (pertaining to Sunday School work. |At the noon hour the congregation will go to the Legion .Memorial Park fo.-' a basket dinner. iMrs. Rowe will also Conduct a story hour in the park for the benefit of the children. An afternoon service will be held in the church at 2 o’clock with Rev. Rowe as speaker. Sevetttl out of town persons are exipected to attend, also a number 'of ministers and visitors from the various churches in this community will be Ipresent. The evening service will ibe ommitted. The public is invited to attend.

To Give Calvary Service i A sacred Calvary service will be presented Sunday eventing, June 126 at 7:30 o'clock at the Union Chapel Methodist Epi»cc|,|il church. Following is the evening’s pro-Ig-am: , Song—" The Old Rugged Cross", i.J Comet Solo —Warren Monroe,. Boys- -Quartet. ilnvocation —Rev. Bryan. Trio —Zimmerman Sisters. Boys—Quartet. Duet —Eversole Sisters. Address —Rev. Elzey. T Sacred Number. ' ( Dedication of The C oss Rev. . Elzey. j Communion —Rev. Fallas. Song—Lead Me to Calvary. , Benediction —Rev. IHorner Studa- | baker. ( MEXICAN CITY |] IS DESTROYED Tidal Wave Completely Destroys City And Takes Heavy Toll Colima City. Mexico. June 23— (U.R) —Many residents of Cuyutlan were killed, the city was wrecked, and many bodies were carried out to sea by a tidal wave, refugees arriving here today said. Cuyutlan is on the Pacific coast. Authorities were unwilling to estimate the number of casualties pending reports from relief parties. The refugees were unable ■ to tell coherent stories. Advices from Manzanillo said the mayor had been informed by Cuyutlan officials that 30 bodies had been recovered. Other reports placed the number of known dead as high as 50. Representatives of the state government at Cuyutlan said no structure was left standing within half a mile of the seafront. ED TO I'AGE FIVE ] _ O — Bert Green In Custody Sheriff Burl Johnson and Policeman Tom Dowling found Beit Green, Decatur man who escaped from the veteran's hospital at Chillicothe, Ohio, Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock. They are holding him in the Adams county jail awaiting representatives from the hospital who will come to this city to apprehend Mr. Green and take him back to the institution. o— John Felty Is 111 John Felty, county assessor is seriously ill at his home southwest of Monroe. Mr. Felty took ill Tuesday and was unable to come to his office in the court house yesterday. Although his was reported serious, the attending physician stated he expected him to recover. He is suffering from a kidney and bowel ailment.

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INDIANA AND NEW YORK ARE • KEY TO MEET: g I Roosevelt’s Success Is De- ! pendent Largely on Two '' States’ Votes j j BOTH REMAIN UNINSTRUCTED Chicago, June 23—(UP) — New ’ | York and ind.nna, according to ai" United Press survey of the Demo-! cratic presidential situation today, > I May deride whether or not Fiauklin 11 D. Roosevelt of New York can win | the Democratic presidential nomiuation, If Roosevelt can hold in line his own strength, swing Virginia and Missouri, which are said to have I r learnings toward him once they hnve done their duty by their favorite sons, then with the support of New Yo:k and Indiana he quite certainly can <onie through a winner. But if on the ether hand, the anti-Roosevelt forces, can hold in line the states of Mliryland, Oklahoma. Ohio, Caliornia, Texas, New Jersey. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Islnnd, and the Canal Zone, plus 16 votes in Pennsylvania and 40 in Illinois, then with help from CONTINUED TO PACE TWO

26 NATIONS APPROVE PLAN — Japan Chief Nation To Oppose American Plan j For Disarmament Geneva, June 23 —(UP) — The ; American |plan to reduce the < world's armaments by one-third and i r( .|i,.ve the warld of an expenditure j' of from ten to fifteen billion dollais '■ in 10 yeais had the approval of 26 I < Nations today. Either publicly or (privately, the i tepresentatives ot these nations had informed amhhssador (Hugh Gibson that their governments approved the American proposals. I Japanese opposition was the chief I tea: of the American delegates to | the world disarmament conference. ! Tokio was expected to ofifer greater . I. -position to real disarmament till in the French. Tlte Japanese considered exist- | ing naval ratios only provisional until 1936, when they would be subject to revision. Tlte American plan might provide that ipiesent relative naval strengths continue indefinitely. The (Americans believed that French opposition, intensified by the Paris Press and French (politicians could be overcome through New offers ot security. This might be achieved through a unillrteral security pledge which, combined with another purely European security pact, 'would meet the French requirements. (Italy was the first nation to give the plan conlplete and unconditionCONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE ——o — FOUR CHICAGO BANKS CLOSE Small Banks Liquidating; Others Plan To Form Mergers Chicago, June (U.R) —Four more Chicago banks closed today increasing to 10 the number that have been taken over by national and state bank examiners in two days. The Hyde Park-Kenwood National bank was the largest closed today. It was capitalized at $600,000, had reserves of $400,000 and had deposits of $3,200,000. The others were the Jackson Park National bank, capital $200,000, surplus $50,000. deposits $800,000; Cottage Grove State bank, capital $200,000, surplus SIOO,OOO. and South Shore State bank, capital $200,000, surplus SIOO,OOO. deposits $500,000. ■ The Commonwealth Trust and Savings bank, with $540,000 ini deposits, closed yesterday, the' TO PAGE THREE

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Quiet Rules In Jail ■ Chicago. June 23.— (U.R) — Quiet I teigned in the county Jail today as guards quickly calmed inmates after a brief one-man jail break had ended in two deaths. The dead were Jack Lawrence, 23. prisoner awaiting trial on murder charges, and Leo Nicholas, 50, a guard. The riot was started by I .aw- _ rence as he was being taken to the * sick bay for treatment of slight Injuries. He drew a revolver, shot Nicholas fatally and terrorized the cell tk r. > A few minutes later, finding him- ’ self unable to break out of the jail, Lawrence turned the gun on him self and committed suicide. G.A.R.ELEGTION IN SPOTLIGHT' Two Veterans Seek Hon- ]; or of State Commander ; 1 At Session Today , BULLETIN , Richmond, Ind., June 23.—(U.R) ( — James Bowden, Muncie, to- t day was elected commander of the Indiana department of the ( Grand Army of the Republic in ( annual encampment here. He defeated Frank Hay and ( William Coop, both of Indian- ( apolis. | Other officers chosen includ ( ed: Senior vice-commander, I < William Mathews, Centerville; ' junior vice commander, Jasper f N. Callicott. North Vernon; t medical director, E. H. Cowan, Crawfordsville; chaplain, Q. A. Hunt, Terre Haute, and j assistant adjutant gneral, J. B. Henniger. Indianapolis, re-elect-ed. I Richmond, Ind., June 23.- (U.R) — ed the attention o Civil War sold- ' I ed the attention of Civil War soldiers attending the annual G. A. R. encampment here, as James Bowden, Muncie, and Frank Hay and i William Coop, both of Indianapolis. ' I sought the office of state commandler at the business session today. Also to be elected were five of the nine men nominated yesterday CONTINUED TO PAGE' THIiEE i o— EUCHARISTIC MEET STARTS Thousands of Catholics Gather at Dublin For Annual Congress Dublin. June 23.— (U.R) -Thousands of Catholic pilgrims crowded St. Mary’s pro-cathhedral today for | the celebration of poutificial mass on the second day ot the international eucharistic congress. General meetings and lectures in which the holy eucharist and its significance were discussed were held at local theaters and at University college. The papal legate, Cardinal Lauri, was to take the I salute this afternoon from thousands ot men participating in a mass meeting at Phoenix park. Great crowds assembled at all meetings, but only a small percentage of the million or more pilgrims her«’ gained admission. At the official opening of the conference at St. Mary's, thousands stood outside! while Cardinal Lauri moved through the kneeling crowd. When night fell over the Emerald isle, millions of candles were lighted to burn until dawn, and the sky was emblazoned with prayers ast iby powerful electrical projectors. The church’s greatest ceremony became the most spectacular in modern history. Before a common altar, a million men, women and children knelt in affirmation of ’ ' CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE o Local Young Woman Is Graduated At Franklin Miss Vivian Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Thomas ot this city, was graduated from Franklin college, Franklin. Indiana Monday, June 13, receiving her A. B. degree in home eonotnics and chemistry. Since her graduation she has been visiting with friends, and arrived in this city Wednesday to j spend part of the summer vacaI tion. She will also visit her ! brother in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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MEASURE MAY BE VETOED BY PRES. HOOVER Republicans J o i n With Democrats In Senate To Pass Measure VOTE WILL COME SOON Washington. June 23 - Routing the opposition at every turn, senate Democrats were confident of obtaining passage today of their $2,000,000,000 (B) unemployment relief program. 'l'he senate debated the bill continuously for 13 hours yesterday, voted down every attempt to change the major aspects of the program, ami then at 12:15 a. m. this morning recessed until noon. Just before adjournment. Democratic Leader Robinson secured adoption of a “gag” rule limiting further debate to five minutes for each senator. Indignant insurgents declared they would try to have the rule abrogated today. Senator Norris, Repn., Nebr., charged that a coalition of Democrats and Republicans had “got together to carry out the command of someone in the White House." Senator LaFollette. Repn.. Wis„ threatened to vote against the relief bill if the “gag" was continued. Before resuming consideration of relief, the senate was slated to approve finally the $150,000,000 economy bill and send it to the president. This was expected to be done quickly, as the house has given in to the senate on the only controversial point: substitution of the Hoover "five-day week'* plan for flat government salary reductions. Administration .senators were overwhelmed. 57 to 19. when they tried to eliminate front the relief 1(11 the $500,000,000 public works bond issue which President Hoover opposes. The funds would be used for construction of highways, public buildings, army and navy improvements and river and harbor projects which congress previously has declared desirable. The other major section of the bill would double the reconstruction corporation's lending power to $3,000,000,000 (R) Io enable it. to finance state and city construction of self-liquidating projects. Illinois senators were defeated without a record vote when they sought an amendment to permit CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE 0 Hensley Babe Buried At Decatur Cemetery Funeral services were held at 12:30 o'clock this atfernoon for Thomas Hunsicker Hensley, monthold babe of David and Hensley of Marcellus. Mich . who died Tuesday night at 9 o’clock, following a short illness. Services were conducted by Rev. Benjamin Franklin, pastor oi tho Methodist church of this city at the Decatur cemetery. The funeral party tirrived here at 12 o'clock. FORMER BERNE CHILD EXPIRES Joan Neuhauser, 7, Dies After Short Illness; Burial At Berne Berne, June 23. — (Special to Democrat) — Joan Neuhauser, 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mis. David Neuhauser of Ridgeville Corners, Ohio, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the Memorial Hospital in Nqpoleon, Ohio. The child underwent an operation Monday for appendicitis and peritonitis developed and death resulted. The deceased was born in Berne, August 12. 1924, the daughter of David and Wilma 'Habegger Neuhauser. Surviving are the parents and grandparents of Berne, a sister, Evelyn, and a brother, Paul. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Mennonite church and burial will take place in the M. R. E. cemetery.