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Many Pet Measures Thrown In Hopper (Staff Correspondent) State House. Indianapolis, July 'll.— (Special! —If anyone has any | pet tax legislation. Just send the proposal iu to your favorite senator lor representative and it'll just I make one more in the muddie of : proposed legislation already introduced. That the 1932 special session will make a concerted drive to repeal the Wright bone dry law and place f c 50 cents a pint tax on medicinal l whiskey is almost a foregone con- ' elusion. After that, nobody seems to know just what will happen. The House Ways and Means committtee has i been working frantically on a score i Os proposed measures, but no con ; elusions have been reached and it I 'is highly probable that no conclus- i ions will be reached in the next two weeks. Popular bills in both Houses call tor salary reductions, but the sponsors are keenly disappointed when a statistician reveals to them that the pay cuts will save only a little of the taxpayers’ money. Several commissions appear dimmed to be dissolved and there is much talk of consolidating some of the county and township political offices. One bill Introduced Friday calls for the reduction of circuit court judge’s salaries from $4,200 to |3,-1 500 a year, but many legislators are ! of the opinion that if the work of] . * ''•ux-'jx'i eV on page two NOMINEE HEADY FOR VACATION Gov. Roosevelt Prepares To Take Boat With Tw o Sons Tuesday* Port Jefferson, L. 1.. July 11 — tUP, —Franklin Roosevelt bundled together his fishing rod and bathing suit today for his one week i ocean cruise with three sons in a 40-foot yawl, rented for $l5O. The Democratic candidate for the Presidency, who intended to forget poitius for seven days and to swim, fish and acquire a sun burn planned the trip carefully, even to the type of food laid in. “We are going to have a swell time and that is all there is too it,” he smiled. The sons. James, John ind F.anklin, Jr., who will complete the Yawl's c:ew made the boat ready last night. "He sure,” Roosevelt warned the boys, "That there are plenty of potatoes and good drinking water aboard —we don't want to get typhoid you know.” The Governor said he planned to loaf on the boat’s deck in “seinty attire," "so," he declaied, "We can't have any photographers snooping around." Roosevelt will be the skipper, wash his own clothes and help prepare the meals. “We won't have any trouble at □ 11 —we will all sail her" he told i reporters." The Yawl, named the Myth IT. j may, howe.ver, become something I of a “floating executive office.” | Before pointing the Myth sea- l wad, Roosevelt again declared that it mayor James J. Walker of New York answers chatges nude against him by Samuel Seaibury, counsel to a legislative committee which investigated the city's government he would spend much of his 'time scrutinizing the reply. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX — o Program For Band Concert Announced The Junior Band of Decatur will present the usual Tuesday evening concert tomorrow night. July 12, at 7:45 o’clock. The concert will be given at the Central school grounds. Following is the complete program: March. "Lost Spirit" Lameter Selection, “War Songs” Meyer Waltz, "A Waltz Dream" Mayr Danse. “Oriental Witchery” Auson Popular numbers: "Good Night Sweetheart” Campbell “Just Friends” ... Connelly “Bells of Avalon" Cherney "The old Gray Mare" Panelid Finale, “Star Spangled Banner”.

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CALIFORNIA IS BATTLE GROUND INFLECTION State Which Elected Wilson To Be Invaded By The Democrats HOOVER DOES NOT PLAN TO V ISIT IT (Copyright, 1932, by UP) Washington, July 11. — (U.R) — California is to be a real battle(ground in the presidential election this year. Democrats are preparing to carry i their tight into President Hoover’s home state. At the White House it Is said President Hoover does not intend to go to California during the campaign. He cancelled plans to open the Olympic games at Los An geles. But his opponent. Governor Roosevelt, is going. Speaker Garner. the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, is going. t The prize is greater this year than ever before. California will cast 22 electoral votes next November. Nine votes were gained through the recent reapportionment under the new census. This is the first time Democrats ' have given more than perfunctory thought to California since 1916 when Republicans, through one neglected handshake, lost the senate and the White House. Remembering that it is the firm intention of the Democratic nomination to sh-ave no hand unshaken. iu_CaliIfornla this year. Normally the state is at least two-to-one Republican. Sometimes it is three and four-to-one. Democrate hopes ire built on these considerations: 1. Senator Hiram Johnson, idol of California Progressives, has condemned President Hoover and lauded Governor Roosevelt. He las not bolted the Republican ticket but he has publicly told his I friends that he likes Roosevelt better. Should he openly support Roosevelt later, Democratic chances in California would be rated good. 2. Republican registration in California dropped 238,000. Democratic registrations gained 389,000 according to Democratic national figures. In the recent Democratic primary, Democrats polled a total of more than 520.000 votes, not far short of the total vote for Alfred E. Smith four years ago. These signs lead Democratic politicians to believe that California voters are preparing to desert Palo Alto's first citizen in large numbers. 3. Democrats have a new aggressive state organization. William G. McAdoo is the candidate for senator. One of the best politicians in the state. John B. Elliott, is one of the managers of the Democratic campaign. This team has long had a feud with the San FranCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE GOLD STANDARD IS FAVORED World Bank at Basle Recommends W orld Gets Back To Standard Basle. Switzerland. July 11 — (UPJ-j-The board of the World Bank voted unanimously today for a resolution recommending that a return to the gold standard is the best solution of the world crisis Montagu Norman, governor of the Bank of England, was one of those endorsing the resolution. Sweden and Japan also signed It The resolution was considered the first public announcement of the non gold nations of their attitude. and particularly of Britain s intention of re-establishing the gold standard. The resolution said restoration of the gold standard requires firstly, freedom for the movement . of goods, services and capital; Secondly, completion of the reparations solution reached at Lausanne by a satisfactory solution of war debts, and thirdly, equilibrium of national budgets. A special meeting of the league on page six

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Sentenced lh—Mßh-- V riftt J J&i ■ j'» F >- j Baf’lFl'lMW it— 4 i t Christian P. Paschen. former building commissioner of Chicago, who was sentenced by Federal Judge John P. Barnes to two years . in federal prison and fined SIO,OOO for evading $43,000 income taxes. Petition for probation jvas denied. NO ADDITIONAL ARRESTS MADE Warrant For Man Chargi ed With Death of Robbing Cars Not Served ' No additional arrests have been made in connection with the robberies at the Erie railroad freight t cars last Wednesday night, Sher--11 iff Burl Johnson stated today. The warrant for the arrest of ani other Decatur man, said to be an . accomplice of Floyd Death, who t was shot in tlie leg by Officer Ed I Miller, when he attempted to run • away, has not been served. It is i believed that the man had left the • city. The affidavit on file in the I Adams Circuit court charges him ■ witli the same crime as Death is i held on, second degree burglary, i Death still remains at the Adams i County Memorial hospital and word from that place today was to the . effect that he was progressing nice- ( ly. It was not known when he will ■ be removed to the Adams county jail. i Death’s bond was set at $5,000 - and his arrest was made Friday afi ternoon by Sheriff Johnson and C. . E. Jennings. Erie railroad policeman. who filed the affidavit against him and the other Decatur man. Wage Cut Accepted By Newspaper Men Chicago July 11 —(UP)— Typographical Union No. 8 of St. Louis has agreed to accept a 10 per cent wage reduction for members employed on Daily Papers here. The St. Louis Newspaper publishers association had asked that the men take a 20 per cent reduction. o 1 Begins *55-I)ay Jail Term 1 Wallace Schoonover, Geneva, t was found guilty of public intoxi- , cation and sentenced to 55 days in the Adams County jail it*y Justice of the Peice Janies Barr, at Geneva. Saturday. Mr. Schoonover , was brought to the jail by Sheriff Burl Johnson, Sunday afternoon and began serving his sentence immediately. 1 r i SHUT OFF WATER ; i ' City water will be shut off tonight beginning at 8 o’clock. ' i The water will be off for at | least two hours, during which ' | time repairs to the mains are being made. Patrons are asked 1 | to take notice. ♦ ♦

MANWANTEDFOR MURDER SHOT BY SOUTH BEND COP [ Fugitive Wanted for Murder of North Baltimore Marshal Wounded TRIED TO ESCAPE FROM POLICEMEN South Bend, July 11—(U.R) — James Storey, shot by police here today after he had broken from custody, revealed his real name as James O'Keefe of St. Paul, Minn. After being taken to a hospital in critical condition from bullet wounds inflicted by police O’Keefe believing he was dying called for a Catholic priest and revealed his identity. South Bend, July 11 <U.R) James Storey, 25, who was 1 sought as the murderer of .lav N. Davis, marshal at [North Baltimore, ()., Friday i night, was shot and perhaps' r fatallv wounded hv South' J Bend police here todav. lj Storey was wounded while < fleeing from police after ); being captured and handcuffed. Storey came here Saturday! • morning in an auto in which he| had kidnaped John Hova, 45, To-| ledo, 0.. and his nephew, William | Keesin. Dearborn, Mich. He was believed to have stayed ! home of relatives in Mishawaka since that time. Police this morning receivedjnformation that Storey would ap- . pear at a South Bend telegraph office to file a telegram. They! met him at the door, took an auto-[ matic pistol from him and took; him to the police station. i While Being taken upstairs to - be questioned. Storey, who was t handcuffed, broke away from police and dashed through the police garage to the street. With police in pursuit he dashed through the downtown business , section to a bridge over the St. ! Joseph river. There he jumped over the St. Joseph river bank. 50 ' feet below, and dived in. With his ’ movements still hampered by the handcuffs he swam the river amidst shots from police revoli

> CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE O Harry Thompson Gives Address At Van Wert ' Harry Thompson, former Decatur minister, delivered an address before members of the Van Wert Rotary club today noon. Hr. Thompson’s subject was “Industrial Slavery." He was accompanied by C. ' A. Dugan, president of the First State Bank, who was a guest of the Van Wert club. CURTIS GETS ONE YEAR TERM I Lindbergh Hoaxer Sentenced To 1-Year In Prison And Fined SI,OOO Flemington, N. J., July 11 —(U.R) —John Hughes Curtis, the Norfolk, Va., shipbuilder, was sentenced to a year in state prison and SI,OOO fine here today. He had been found guilty of obstructing justice in the Lindbergh kidnaping case. 1 Curtis, convicted July 2. had faced a maximum of three years ’ In prison and a SI,OOO fine. The jury, however, recommended 1 mercy. 1 In imposing sentence, Judge Adam C. Robbins overruled a motion by defense to set aside the ’ verdict and ignored a plea of Lloyd Fisher, of defense counsel, in which Fisher presented 18 technical points in favor of his motion. Fisher argued the verdict was contrary to the Judge's charge, contrary to the weight of evidence, and that it was the result of passion and prejudice. Curtis, .at the time of his arrest CONTINUED ON RAGE SIX

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: * I DROWNING TRAGEDIES Since 1928 four death from | drowning have taken place in and year Decatur. | Besides tlie double tragedy at the Jay Cline sand pit Sunday afternoon which claimed the lives of Mrs. Lucinda John- ; i son and Richard Harker the , other two drownings were. William Murtaugh. 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Murtaugh, died of a heart attack August 9, 1928 in the City . | swimming pool. Glen Hurst, 17. son of Mr. ; l and Mrs. Frank N. Hurst of south of Decatur, drowned July 20, 1930 in tlie old Haugk stone I quarry. CLIMAX NEAR IN REYNOLDS SUICIDE CASE ' — Expect To Clear Mystery With Testimony of House Guests Today VEIL OF SECRECY BEING MAINTAINED Winston Salem, N. C... Julv 11 — (U.R) — Blanche Yurka, New York actress, has given I at least partial corroboration of the claims of Albert WalkI er that he was in another part of the Bevnplds house last Wednesday morning when Smith Reynolds was shot. Walker is held in jail here as a material witness in the shooting of the 20-year-old heir to the R. J. | Reynolds tobacco millions and ! husband of Libby Holman, BroadI way 'Hues singer. Miss Holman I is kept under guard at the Reynolds home also as a material witness. Winston Salem, N. C.. Jnly 11.— (U.R) Mystery and secrecy enveloping the death of young Smith Reynolds. including a vague report that he received a bullet hole in his shirt during a Long Island party last year, may be cast aside today. This latest report increased interest in tlie investigation of the death last Wednesday which was resumed today. It said that the

heir to the many Reynolds tobacco' millions, and Libby Holman, the glamorous stage star destined to become his bride, rented cottages ’ near each other. Thg throaty-voiced singer, the report said, lived at Barkers Point road. Port Washington, near Long Island Sound. Her 20-year-old friend, drawn by her voice and stage appeal, lived near the seaplane base on Jandorf the two spent a month’s vacation the reports said. These vague reports also added an interesting interest to the romance of the Broadway night life figures, first reported married in Honolulu, but revealed Sunday to : have been married in Monroe, Mich., five days after Reynolds' first CONTINUED on page five* * Berne Man Invents Threshing Device Berne, Ind., July 11.—Harl Smith, of Berne, has invented a new way to do a lot of threshing this summer. He has mounted a separator on rubber tires. He purchased a truck which is powered with a 36- . hoursepower motor. After a threshing job on one farm is finished, he hitches the threshing machine to I the rear of the truck and transports it to the next farm at a speed of [ r 30 miles an hour, saving a lot of I time. The machine is also equipped with springs and rides almost like an automobile. It is the first ' outfit of Its kind in this part of the country. ‘ Mr. Smith is able to thrash about 1,500 bushel of grain a day with his ' new machine. Last week he thrashed at the George Strickler and Henry Coyne farms south of Deca- ' tur. ’ Wheat threshing has started here and the crop is one of the heaviest in recent years. Some fields average as high as 40 bushels per acre. The quality of the grain is excellent.

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HOOVER VETOES GARNER RELIEF BILL QUICKLY —■ ” — Brands Measure As Unsound And Dangerous To Public Good HAD BILL LESS THAN 10 MINUTES Washington, July 11.— <UR> —President Hoover today sent ito congress a prompt and vigorous veto of the $2,122,000,000 Wagner - Garner unemployment relief bill. The President’s veto message was dispatched from the White House less than 10 minutes after the bill had passed both houses in defiance of Mr. Hoover's relief views was received from congress. Mr. Hoover said the WagnerGarner bill "violates every sound principal of public finance and of I government.” "Never before has so dangerous a suggestion been seriously made to our country," the President said. Washington. July 11.—(U.R) —The senate today adopted the conference report on the $389,000,000 war department appropriations bill including $60,000,000 for river and harbor projects and $32,000,000 for flood control. Washington, July 11. —(U.R) —The senate today rejected without a record vote the Blaine amendment to the Home Ixian Bank bill to authorize expansion of currency by issuance of approximately $1'500,000,000 of additional federal reserve bank notes. Washington, July 11.—(U.R)—The i senate voted today 53 to 18 to expand the nation's currency by al-' most one billion dollars by Issuing bank notes to national banks with federal bonds bearing 3 and % interest or less as security. Washington, July 11. —(U.R) —The senate today authorized a select senatorial committtee to investigate campaign expenditures of can-1 didates for the senate and for president. Republican leaders forced reduction of the investigation CO.NTINI’KD ON PAGE SIX O_ Mayor Anton J. Cermak Sutters Setback Today Chicago July 11—(UP)—A setback in the condition of Mayor Anton J. Cermak. who is in St. Anthony's hospital, was reported today by Dr. Frank J. Jirka, his son-in-law and physician. Dr. Jirka established a “no visitors' ’’ rule, explaining the setback late yesterday occurred When, a series of conferences left Cermak nervous. YODER FUNERAL i HELD AT BERNE Services For Mrs. Elizabeth Yoder Held At Berne This Morning Funeral services were lield today for Mrs. Elizabeth Yoder. 85. mother of Joseph and Amos Yoder of this city, who died at her home in Berne, Friday night at 8:15 o’clock. Services were held at 9:30 o’clock from the home, and at 10 o’clock at the Defenseless Mennonite Church, west of Berne. Burial took place in the church cemetery. Mrs. Yoder died Friday night, the result of a stroke of paralysis. She was ill one day. The deceased was born in Wayne county, March 1847. She was united in marriage to Christian Yoder who preceded her in death 19 years ago. She livet} in Berne for the last 25 years. Surviving are the children, Jos- . epli and Amos Yoder of Decatur: David. Johas K., Samuel, and Clara Yoder of Berne; Mrs. Christ Roth and Mrs. Fred Fox of Wauseon, O. Three brothers and two sisters also survive.

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: CONSOLIDATION OFOFFICES IS PLANNED IN BILL Legislature Gets Bill Today; Township Duties Go To Trustees COUNTY AUDITOR WOULD BE ASSESSOR Indianapolis, July 11.— <U R) —By unanimous vote today , the house ways and means committee approved the bill I of Earl Crawford, Democrat, of Milton, to abolish approxiJmately 74 county and 900 townshin assessors in the state. The measure would affect only townships with populations of 10,000 and uner and counties of 35,000 and under. Adams county would be affected by the bill. Work now done by the township assessor would be performed by township trustees and that of county assessors by county auditors. One major stumbling block facing the special session of the legislature in event the bill is adopted is that wholesale ousting of assessors is to take effect January 1, 1933 while the majority of assessors recently were elected for a two-year period. Committee members could not determine definitely what the saving would be but the majority seemed to think at least $350,000 per year would be taken off the tax load. Expect 200 Bills Indianapolis, July 11 —(U.R) —The fast moving special session of the Indiana legislature, already with 83 tax relief bills before it. went into its first full week today with at least 200 more relief proposals impending. The rapid pace at which proposed measures were poured into both houses during the first two days’ sessions was certain to continue for at least a few more days. Although virtually every type of relief conceivable lias been provided in bills now before the legislature, representatives and senators said they had many more to introduce. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX FATHER AND DAUGHTER DIE 60-Year-Old Cobbler Kills Daughter And Takes His Own Life Terre Haute, July 11—(U.R) — Carl Moody. 60 year old cobbler and Alice, his 17 year old daughter were found shot to death in an abandoned store room here today. Police said indications were that Moody had killed his daughter and then committed suicide. Moody and his daughter have been making their home in the store room. Police learned that Moody had quarreled with his I daughter's sweetheart Edgar Melloon, 20, and had threatened that “there will be more trouble.” Last night Melloon told police Alice warned him that her father was seeking him. William Kreischer who operated a soft drink establishment in tlie same building found the bodies. o— Bids To Be Received For Garage Building Indianapois. July 11—(UP)—The state highway commission announced today that bids would be received August 1 on construction of « sub-district garage buiding at Richville, Randolph county. o— Attempt To Arbitrate Coal Field Troubles Terre Haute, Ind., July 11—(UP) Another attempt to arbitrate long standing difficulties in Indlanals coal fields was started today byAbe Vales, president of District No. 11. United Mine Worker® of Ameri,ca, when he invited operators to a conference with the miners’ scale committee. Vales’ invitation wuis sent to John Templeton, president of th~ Indiana coal operators’ association, and Harvey artwright, secretary.