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I # 4« HOGS GO UP Chicago, July 8 — (U.R) —Hog prices at the Union Stock Yards resumed their advance today, jumping np 10 cents to a new high of s3.ao. Prices ’ I have advanced around $2.20 with scarcely an interruption in the past four weeks and now are the highest since last OeI I tober. I Cuttle touched $9 today and sheep $7.50. new highs on the I movement. STORM CAUSES MUCH DAMAGE ; Farmers Busy Today Clearing Debris; Crops Greatly Damaged I Farmers in the sections struck [by the hail and rain storm Tlnirs-' I day morning were busy today clear-! , | ing their farms of tlie debris and repairing where possible the dam- j ■! age done. The storm cut quite a swath in ; . Preble, Hoot and Union townships I and greatly damaged corn, oats - and wheat. Fruit trees were also, • damaged, farmers stated. The] damage was estimated at several j . thousand dollars, t The -leaves on the trees were ] i torn by the hail and yards were! -jcovered today. Several oat fields] 1 ! looked like pasture fields and farmers estimate that the crop is ruin- 1 i led. In many places the corn was - 1 riddled, but reports today were that, -.the stalks were not Injured as bad-] i ly as the oats and wheat fields. ■| The hail storm was one of the! most severe ever seen In the county | and carried over to Van Wert eoun--1 j ly. It,' did considerable, damage U» I (that section. Plane Misses Barn F Henry Hleeke, prominent Union | township farmer, who is serving as . a member of the county board of I i review, stated that the Western 1 Air (’raft airplane which landed in, j the Whittenbarger field Thursday . I morning, missed striking his barn i'ouly a few feet. John Hleeke, his - j son was In the barn yard when the II plane flew over. The plane was j headed directly for the barn, but 1 ] the pilot was able to nose it upjward. The lightning rods were] i' bent over as the plane passed over j i[the barn. The plane carried nine] E passengers, the pilot and mail j clerk. It landed about a mile from ] I the Hleeke farm and was able to -.tty to Fort Wayne following the - storm. Rainfall Report ’ The precipitation of rainfall in Decatur since 8 o’clock Thursday morning was 1.20 inches. Miss Mary Yost, keeper of the water guage in this city reported this morning. The river rose two feet and seven inches during the storm which struck Decatur and Adams county Thursday. /

two native fishermen had brought the survivors—exhausted seamen who had drifted an hour at sea with only two life belts amongi them. The ship had gone down within two minutes—so quickly the radio operator didn’t have a chance to flash word of trouble. All hope for the men aboard has been abandon--1 ed. Lieutenant Oouespel Dumesnil. commander of the submarine, told Admiral Malavoy: “About noon, I heard a noise above me. I rushed to the deck and felt the ship literally sinking 1 under my feet. I was immediately blown Into the water with the six i other men who were with me on the deck. O fear that the craft sink so fast that was little chance for , those below to extricate themselves.” The men, stunned by the exp'.os- ‘ ion and forced to watch the submarine disappear with their comrades aboard, agreed to share the two lifebelts. Three men hung to , one belt and four to the other. . Each man took turns holding on to a belt for the belts were not , strong enough to support all the . men at one time. The channel waters were unusually calm, and the men shouted ! " T continued' on'page five

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PLANE WRECKED* • WORLD FLYERS ARERESCDED ■ -■ (.Mattern And (iriflin Land In Russia Near The Polish Border WORLD FLIGHT IS ABANDONED Moscow, July B.—-<U.R)—.The iattempt of James Mattern and Bennett Griffin to beat the round-the-world t%ht record •of Post and Gatty ended at I dawn Thursday in a rain i storm when the tliers crashed in a forced landing near Borisov. No word of the fliers had reached the outside world for (37 hours—since they left Berlin (Wednesday night. The fliers hail completed half jthe third lap of their schedule, the 1 projected non-stop flight of 1,000 •miles from Merlin to Moscow, when [their controls jammed soon after I they crossed the Russian frontier. They were forced to come down lin Soviet territory near the Polish [frontier. Their machine was j w recked. The men received only superficial bruises. | Mattern and flriffin received (treatment for their bruises and | proceeded to Minsk, from where (they expected to start for Moscow • by train tonight. | All hope had been abandoned | here that the men would reach ' Moscow. when they were almost 3d i hours overdue. A careful check bby S viet officials to th * east, md jby air line officials between Moscow and Berlin, brought no new of j them. The "Century of Progress” (should have followed the lighted ; airwav so the east Prussian f-Wrttffr [at Koenigsberg, but was not sighted. I It was feared the fliers might ’ CONTINUED ON PACE FIVE NORRIS BLOCKS REPEAL BILL V ote On Repeal of 18th Amendment Blocked By Senator’s Action Washington, July B—(U.R8 —(U.R) — Action on the Barbour resolution for repeal of the 18th amendment was blocked in the Senate today by Senator Norris, Republican of Nebr. Congress Considers Bill Washington. July 8. --YU.R) -Both houses of congress today continued to give large attention to the prohibition question. In the house. Representative LoGuardla, Repn., of N. V. formally filed soon after noon a petition signed by 77 Republican congressmen asking Speaker Garner to permit the house to vote on the question of modification of the Volstead law. The senate, at the same time, awaited calling up of the Harbour i resolution for repeal of the prohibition laws and later planned to vote on the Bingham rider to the home loan bank bill which would legalize 3.2 per cent beer. LaGuardia obtained unanimous consent to read the- modification CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX Captain Yancey Is Lost On Flight Sheyenne. Wyo., July 8— (UP) Captain Lewis A. Yancey, New York-t Rome flier, was tinreported eariy today many hours after he should have landed here ou a 200 mile flight from Newcastle Wyo. flt was feared the filer had been forced down in the mountainous country over the 200-imile stretch. Annual Homecoming At Union Chapel The sixth annual homecoming of • tin Union Chapel Church will be • held Sunday, July 10. at the church Former pastors and members are planning to mend and renew 1 friendships. An appropriate program will be ' rendered and a baskiet dinner will • be served at noon. Everybody is ' welcome to attend the se vice.

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Flyers Are Rescued i _ ' ? f M, 'xEllk ' Missing for more than 30 hours, Bennett Griffin (left) and Jimmie Mattern (right), aviators who attempted an around-the-world flight, . seeking to break tlie Post-Gatty record, were picked up in Soviet Rusi sia this morning. Their plane was wrecked near ttie Polish border, j The flyers were uninjured.

ENGLISH RECTOR FOUND GUILTY Rev. Harold Davidson. London Divine, Guilty of Immoral Conduct ' London. July 8-<U.R)—The Rev. I { Harold Francis Davidson. 60-year- [ old rector of Stiffkey (pronounced . Stewky) was found guilty today of r Immoral conduct and improper • relations 'during his “rescue I work"'among young London girls. 'Hie rector was found guilty on . three charges; the first of alleged immoral conduct and relations [ with Rose Ellis-, alleged by the , prosecution to have extended over a period of 10 years. The second, of misconduct with waitresses in a teashop. The third, of misconduct with a girl in a Bloomsbury restaurant. Two other similar charges against the rector had been withI j drawn recently, but the cliancelj lor found Davidson guilty of them I also. He also was found guilty of misconduct with Bargara Harris. Chancellor North was the sole jlldgfe of the consistory court. There was no jury. The Bishop of Norwich brought the charges seeking to unfrock the rector. The chancellor will submit his findings to the bishop, who will summon a bishop's court to pronounce judgment. The women in the sensational case which proved the biggest j attraction in .London for weeks I I narrowed down to two. Barbara • Harris. 18, baby-faced beauty who i told the court of her many lovers, varying in nationality and color, built up a story of systematic intimacy with the rector. The other woman. Rose Ellis, did not testify, because the prosecution admitted the unreliability of her evidence. While Chancellor North was (studying the evidence for and | against the rector the Rev. DavidI CONTINUED ON I'AGE FIVE TALKS BEFORE ROTARY CLUB — C. V. Soreson Shows By Chart Growth Os Electric Industry C. V. Soreson, Indianapolis, sales inanagier for the Indiana Electric I Corp., gave an interesting talk on the utility tnd electrical industry before membiars of the Decatur Rotary club last evening. Mr. Soreson showed by charts and ‘drawings the service rendered by utilities and stated that Indiana was amply prepared to take care of all demands for power. Fields which hive not yet been developed by the industry, Mels. Soreson stated were thie violet ray development and air conditioning of homes and offices by electric energy. E. F. O'Brien, manager of the local office of the Northern,lndiana Gas and Electric Compaiy was chat: man of the program. A. R. Ashbaueher, new president of (he club presided during thie business session.

Finds Fault With American Juries - South Bend. Ind.. July 8 dJ.R) — I Juries were decried as “No longer I representative of our citizens.” in j a talk before the Indiana State I Bar Association, in its 36th annual | convention here, by Guy A. Thompson. St. Louis, president of the I American Bar Association. Thompson urged lawyers to ■ i give the constantly waning qual- ■' Ity of jurors more serious conaid--11 eration. ’ Bills placing power of prescrib- ', ing rules of procedure with the “ supreme court, and establishing a . j judicial council, both of which will i come up al the next regular sesI sion of the legislature, were ex- ' plained and supported l|y Frank ■ N. Richman, Columbus, president '; of the association. SENATE WANTS ;! A COMPROMISE 1 Senate Democrats Decide To Confer With Garner On Relief Bill , — I I Washington, July 8 — (UP) — • i Senate Dem crats deeid tl today to ' intercede with Speaker Garner in 1 j an effort to obtain a relief bill which will l>e acceptabl - to Presij dent Hoover. ! i!n a Democratic conference it was : decided that Senators Bulkley, 0., ’I Wagner, N. Y„ and Robinson, Ark., 1 j should meet Garner as soon as pos- ’ I sible in an est >rt to break the dead- ’ i lock which is delaying relief and '! adjournment of congress. _ Garner soon afterward 'same to the senate inside of the caipitol. j Senators were hopeful i compromise bill could be agreed upon. . An Extra Session Washington, July 8 (UP) —President Hoover will call a special session of congress if that body adjourns without passing relief legislation acceptable to the administration. The President, in open battle with Speaker Garner of the house, Iplievesl relief legislation is the most vita question still liefore congress. He is not willing to see CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX — o 5,084 Loans Made By Reconstruction Corp. Washington July B—(UP8 —(UP) — The Reconstruction Finance Corporation on June 30 had loaned $1,540,814,486.59 in loans to 2,096 institutions it was shown today in the second quarterly reprfft to eonggress. Funeral Is Held Funeral le-vines were held Thursday for tile premature hoy baby born to Mr. and Mrs. William Drummond, Wednesday, July 6. Tine baby lived 11 hours following birth. Surviving are the parents, A! . and Mrs. Willium Drummond, Hie brothers, 'Hairy and William Fred, and g: andfathers, Fred Stuckby and Ulysses Drummond. The services were in charge of Rev. R. E. V'jnce, pastor of the United Brethren Church. Burial was made in Decatur cemetery

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DEATH CHARGED WITH BURGLARY; ARREST IS MADE | Sheriff Johnson And Erie Police Arrest Floyd Death at Hospital WARRANT ISSUED FOR ACCOMPLICE Floyd Dead), former bootlejjfjer. who w;is shot in the left left by Policeman Kd Miller Wednesday night at die F.ric railroad tracks, was arrested this afternoon at the Adams County Memorial hospital by Sheriff Bur! Johnson on a second degree burglary charge The charge was filed by Prosecuting Attorney Nathan C. Nelson on affidavit of Clarence E. Jennings, detective for the Erie, who charged Death with breaking into n freight car and removing merchandise from it Wednesday night. An affidavit for the arrest of 1 another man. said to be an accomplice of Death's, was also issued this afternoon. The arrest had not been made at press time. 1 Death’s bond was fixed at $5,000. Death was removed to • the hospital following the shoot- • ing. The bullet passed through the lpg about three indies above the knee, grazing the hone, but > not shattering it. It is expected - that lie will lie confined to the - hospital for a week and will then he removed to the Adams County . jail. . DL. Sturrock and R. P. Steen , of the Erie police force were here [ today with Lieutenant Jennings , and accompanied Sheriff Johnson . to the hospital to arrest Death. . The Erie officials expressed their appreciation for the assistance and cooperation given hy Decatur police and Sheriff Johnson and j stated that they were working on the case lint did not have any an- | nouneement for the press. , j Death was shot after lie refused to halt on command of Officer ( J Miller, who with Officer Arthur I < lark answered a call to come to Hip Erie tracks near the Thir- , | teentli street crossing. Death • started to run east and Officer Miller gave two orders to "halt”. He shot twice in the air and then leveled a shot at Death’s leg. . Death was about 200 feet from the i policeman. Deatli formerly operated a large ' still east of Decatur and was found guilty of violation of the prohibition law and sentenced to Leavenworth prison bv Judge Thomas 1 Slick, returning about a year ago. Licenses Not To Be Renewed At Once i Indianapolis, July 7—(UP) —Exi isting drivers' licenses will Ha con- . Unued in force indefinitely, and . <lTtainly for seve:al months yet, Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state announced today, Inis setting at rest reports that new ones would . lie required this summer. I Licenses issued three years ago, • were revolt)ble this month, at the discretion of the secretary of state. . Mayr said that the estimated $350,001) which would accrue from a reissue is not needed now. Funeral For Decatur Woman On Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Arthur M. Fisher, who died at her home in this city Wednesday will be held Satu day afternoon at one o'clock 1 at the home,'227 Fourth street, and at 1:30 o'clock at the Christian [ church with Rev, C. R. Lanman, [ pastor officiating. The body will be placed in the Fpsher mausoleum ] at the Decatur Cemetery. Mr. Fisher who was in Kansas on a business trip at the time of his wife’s death returned to Decatur Thu: sday. Mayor Cermak Shows Little Improvement Chicago, July 8 — (TTP)— Mayor Anton J Cernnk, who entered a , Hospital yasterday to recuperate from the strain of his recent actir vities, showed little improvement today. Dr. Frank J. Jirka his phyt sician reported . Jirka said the , mayor had a slight fever and .must . have complete quiet and relaxation. [All visitors were barred.

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♦ ♦ JOHN D'S BIRTHDAY i — ; Tap-ytown, N. Y„ July 8. — ( (U.R) —John D. Rockefeller, Sr., j got up at 7 o'clock this niorni ing, ate a hearty breakfast and hurried out for nine holes of I golf, disregarding the fact that it was his 93rd birthday. He said he expected to live to be 100 years old anyway j and couldn’t see any reason , for making a fuss over his ( birthday. COMPARISON OF : VALUES MADE i County Compares Farm Valuations With Figures Submitted By Croups The county board of review today released a comparison table of 1 figures relative to the assessed ' valuation of farm lands In Adams 1 county. ’ The Adams County Farm Bureau and tlie Taxpayers Association, sub- | 1 mitted a “recommended value per I acre” for assessing farm lands in ’ the county. The board after completing its totals compared these figures with those submitted by the two groups. ( In several cases the local hoard’s average assessment, is lower than t the “recommended values.” In Jtwo townships the values are the t ! same. In a few townships the valI ue is higher. The board did not use the recommended values in ar- ; ( | riving at the average assessment ~ per acre, but for a comparison released the figures today. Ttie figures of the board of review include the increases added to the assessments in several of [itlie townships. The totals per acre j are: ’ I Unit County Others [ Blue Creek $38.50 $42.00 * I French 41.40 40.00 , I Hartford 44.63 44.00 (Jefferson 41.80 40.00 j ] I Kirkland 42.30 45.60 (Monroe 47.10 47.00 . (Preble 44.50 42.00 , Hooi 48.10 42.00 'St. Marys 38.80 • 38.00 j Union 44.10 4 1 00 I Wabash 36.30 36.30 ! Washington 47.00 47.00 The board of review will conclude its annual session on Wed- ' nesday, July 13. The estimated [valuation in the county this year ’ i it-: about $25,000,000, a shrinkage of I Approximately $8,000,000. ,j » j • Bowers Funeral Held Funeral services for Simon Joel! ! Bowers, retired Kirkland township farmer who died at his home in this city Wednesday morning, were held this afternoon at two o’clock , at the home. 109 South Eleventh street, and at 2:30 o'clock at the United Brethren church. Rev. R. E Vance, pastor, officiated and was [ assisted by Rev. E. L. Johnston, pastor of the M. E. Circuit. Burial ] was made in the Antioch cemetery.

I Indiana s Big Free For - All Opens With Variety Os Opinions

(Ry Dick Heller) Indiana's big summer free for all, the session extraordinary of the General Assembly, 1932. opened at 10 o'clock, Thursday, July 7. The House and Senate immediately organized by retaining in office all elected officers and for- , mer committees. . The usual form resolutions w-ere presented and passed and within a half hour after the opening gavels brought the houses to order, Gov. Harry G. Leslie was delivering his words of wisdom to a joint meeting. Gov. Leslie urged the legislators to forget politics and pass some legislation which would benefit taxpayers. The Governor did not . recommend a program but indicated he would soon in case of a deadlock. The first excitement in the House came a few minutes after the governor had departed. J. Henry Monnig and a group of Liberal Democrats introduced a bill for repeal of the Wright bone ’ dry law. Rep. James Knapp, minority leader moved to reject the bill and not permit it to be assigned to a committee. After much 1 argument, a roll call was demanded and the bill was permitted to be introduced. The vote was 5932 and indicated that th» wets are

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LEGISLATURE PETITIONED TO SAVE MILLIONS Appropriation For Special Session $50,090; Employe’s Wages Cut SENATE REPORTS ON FOUR BILLS Indianapolis, Julv 8. (UR) Bills designed to save mili lions of dollars were intro- ( dturd in the Senate today ] while the House r ush e d I through an appropriation for $50,000 to defray cost of the ] special session. House members balked upon a proposal to slash their salaries 50' < from $lO to $5 a day but approved a 'provision for reduction of House employe’s salaries from $6 to $5. Consolidation of townships und absorption of township roads by counties would be affected by two Senate bills. The consolidation would be brought about by cornlining two or more contiguous counties. A moratorium on issuance of county highway bonds running from Sept. 1. 1932 until Sept. 1. 1935, is sought in a bill by Sen. J. Francis Lochard, Dem. of Milan. A bill to place gasoline tax distribution under control of the Board of Works or Common Council of cities and towns was introduced by Senators Edgar A. Perkins, Dem. of Indianapolis and George Sims, Rep. of Terre Haute. Revision of the state county j agent '.aw so as to make optional employment of agents was provided in a bill by Senator Earl Rowley of LaPorte. 1 Absorption by counties of all 1 township road systems effective 1 Sept. 1 was sought in a bill spon--1 sored by Senator Walter S. •ChamI bers, Democrat of New Castle. Four bills were reported favorably in the senate. They provided for limitation to straight salaries of the amount of money given county treasurers; filing fee of 50 cents on mortgages; a reduction 1 of prosecutor's salaries, and re--1 duct ion of county councils from seven members to six. These were ready for second reading. A deluge of bills, 34 in all. were poured in the House after the deflate on the appropriations men's.-, . ure. Unemployment insurance the ! cost to be defrayed hy a start* excise tax and by assessment against employers and employes was sought in tw'o bills introduced by Fred Galloway, Dem.. of Indianapolis. The insurance would not effect dimestic and governmental employes or persons receiving wages totaling more than $1,500 a year. Bills which would provide a means of voters’ registration and assess a poll tax on every person CONTINI Eli ON PAGE SIX

very much in control of the House, r It was amusing to note that at f the special session many members - who had dodged the roll call in . 1931 in order to straddle the pro* - hibitlon question this year joined l the wets with loud voices. In - contradiction to the wet plank in the Indiana Republican platform . every Republican member of the [ House with the exception of . Howard Grimm, Auburn, voted dry. > Other bills introduuced on the , first day included a measure to > abolish the three mile road law and not permit bond issuances 5 for a certain period; a decrease 5 in all county, township and state t employes' salaries; a bill to aboll ish the state industrial board and . a number of others. t The House met until 1 o’clock and then adjourned until 10 o’clock , Friday. The Senate divided its . time into two sessions, but is marking time until appropriation f bills come over from (be house. t There is an attitude of un* » friendliness among several groups . of legislators this summer. Some 5 still cling to the belief that the . special session was unnecessary; , others favor income and intangi- . hie taxes; a few favor taxation on , true appraisals of properties anil . others favor the complete aboli* ! continue!!) on page seven *