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hIIVE state 111 L APPROVE Assessments lAx Board Intimates Mytittii' In Count) (Kill Be 0. K'd. iHers return I BI KOM MEETING . , ..nfcrence with the KMr.i .x commissioners A|r.rt M, ft jS» SHIPIItS Bhr' " and John Felty. v-terday and Philip board inETmLi.! -t.inJ one of the Slab-d Adams county Jit j, d tn arrive at a and county board of equalize the net valu property ■Ada* county will be about ■,277,11 -timating that the KX of railroads be $5.i>00.000.(h1. 'fts»«!’iati<ni of lands in the •K^Wl.-r*'! at f1u.410.1fi6; iniftrentfts. $:’.365.245; personal - . total s9l 177, e mortgage exemptions > $1,473,524. Harlow has certified figures to all the townees, school boards and ed towns and cities in r to the proper authori- : made ■RED AS life EXPI ODES dSat Large (las Tank Was! Empty Averted («. ( atastrophe mjaintree. Mass., July 27 — terrific and mysterious demolished a huge steel lie Cities Service Refininy's plant today. Seven were injured. Residents around were frightened gst. le fact that the vast 55,000 barrels capacity, y. probably averted a le, for there were 16 it tanks in the reserva’e the destructive blast seven workers injured e were taken to Quincy Doctors believed their not critical. Convention ill Open Saturday July 27 — (Special) — entire state is taking an the Indiana convention [ion to open here Saturpubllt is particulary two outstanding program the drum corps contests on Sun|te annual Big Parade on - ntesit attracted a thousand spect-i---m *B lldHrS> "‘- MoSt of thenl d' h Tllere is nothing in I> ovides rhythm, color, cadence 1 ld " le ,wo thousand '••Mrters who will participate. hundred thousand dolexpended in uniforms tor the sixty-odd that will compete. HHatson Reaches j ®&tury Mark Today '"'l ■ July 27—(UP)—Alea ter, caring little for iri .*f"eets, and living a good the only formula for given by Mrs. Watson the 100th dnniher ' ,?^B a *' s oni came here from Ohio, in 1837 iw " waa a settlement of ‘ set in the midst in which Indiana primeval life.

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Commissioners Sign Road And Drain Bonds The board of county commissionI ers today signed the bends for three I | road improvements and for the I J Noah Johnson drain. The bond is- | sues totaled $10,740.00 and the | drain bonds amounted to $5,999.00. j The issues were, John Drake road. Union township. $3,660; Finley Bryan road. Blue Creek township. $3,480; .Albert Huser road. Blue Creek and Monroe tow’nships, $3,600. The bunds were purchased i by Adams county banks. C. E. SOCIETIES TO HOLD RALLY Echo Convention of County Organizations to Be Held at Berne The Christian Endeavor organ- j .Isitfcns of Adams County will meet; i next Friday evening at Lehman Park, Berne for an Echo Convention and County Rally. A pot-luck supper will be enjoyed at 6;30 o’clock and the meeting will follow at 7:30 o'clock in the .pavilion at the park. Members of the Christian Endeavor Societies of the local churches lure especially urged to attend this I I special meeting for which an inter-1 esting program has been arranged. I Reports of the C. E. convention at Bedford will be given by Homer I Augsburger, district president and other persons who attended the I state meet. A feature of the rally will be the I presentation of a C. E. Shield to ; the society having the largest percentage of registrations at the state convention held the latter part of I | June. Reports will be made by county] 1 officers for the past year, and new officers will be elected. An offering will also be received. Everyone is invited to attend and to bring foot! for the supper. Fred Mutschler Is Slightly improved I Fred Mutschler. prominent meat j packer who has been confined to his bet! with illness tor several days is slightly improved today. He : is being cared for at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schroyer. . o — Annual Twin Reunion To Be Held Sunday New Castle July 27 —(Special)— The 13th .Annual Indiana Twin Reunion will be held Sunday, August 7th, 1932, at Memorial Park, one mile north of New Castle, Indiana on State Road 53. This is an all day affair, and all twins and triplets (White) and their families are invited to attend. Reunion will be held rain or shine. LIST OF DEAD STANDS AT 69 Searchers Fail to Find Additional Survivors of German Ship Kiel, Germany, July 27.— (U.R) — Warships, submarines, and airplanes searched in vain today for 69 German naval cadets and sailors who went down with the four masted barque, Niobe. which sank in the Baltic within four minutes after a sudden squall. Keepers of the light on Fehman lightship, only witnesses to the disaster, told how the barque was caught with full sail and laid on her beam ends before the cadets or crew could right her. If the masts had broken, seamen believed, the Niobe would have remained afloat, but the top-heavy weight dragged her down once she went over. The freighter Terese Russ, the nearest ship to the Niobe, rushed to the scene and picked up the only survivors rescued, numbering between 36 and 40. They were brought here by the German cruiser Koenigsberg. Among those known to have been saved were Commander Ruhfuss of the Niobe, 18 midshipmen, and 17 of the crew. Count Felix von Luckner, famous German seaman, first commanded the Niobe when she was commissioned after the World war.

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Essay On “Real Meaning Os Stewardship, ” Awarded National Recognition

Article Written by M. F. Worthman of This City, Places Third In National Rating And First In State Groups.

M. F. Worthman, superin-1 tendent of the Decatur pub-1 I lie schools, has received notice that his essay on “The Real] Meaning of Stewardship,” was] awarded third place in the| national Reformed church essay and poster contest which j was conducted from January Ist to March 13th. Mr. Worthman’s essay woni first in the Fort Wayne Classical contest and first in the Ohio-Indi-ana district. A similar contest will be held I next year and Mr. Worthman ex-1 pects to enter again at that time. His essay this year contains some J excellent t houghs and Is herewith I 'printed in full: i 1 "In my estimation Stewardship! is God s school for rearing men and i women. It is not a scheme for raising money, but a cultivation of one's whole life, namely: body, mind, spirit, time, strength, talents, personality and possessions. Os < ourse in relationship to real money, stewardship does cover acquiring. spending, saving and givI ing of one’s wealth. God does claim | giving’ whether it be expressed in jthe Old Testament in the term of | ’tithing’ or in the larger New ' Testament conception of dedicating the ’first’ of income in proportion as God hath prospered.’ “Stewardship means a careful keeping an account, in order to preserve a right proptroin between

CONTROL GIVEN TO DEMOCRATS Hoover’s Naming of Pomerene to Head R. F. C. Viewed Politically Washington, July 2J, — (U.R) — President Hoover’s bombshell action in giving Democrat* control of I the $3,800,000,000 (Bl Reconstruction Finance Corporation was hailed by Republicans today as smart political strategy tending to remove! the R. F. C. from the political l arena and spike some of the Dem-1 oeratic campaign guns. The President selected Atlee Pomereqe. prominent Ohio Democrat. as new chairman of the corporation directorate. This gives the Democrats four of the seven places on the board, reversing the previous line-up. Some Democrats had intended to center campaign fire on the Reconstruction Corporation, arguing that the administration was chiefly aidCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

Chancellor Von Papen Contends World Prosperity Depends On Restoring Germany To Place In Sun

Chancellor Von Papen’s views on World problems. (Copyright 1U32 by United Press in all countries). Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited. ‘ Speediest roid to world recovery is to restore Germany's place in the Sun. Germany must have a place timing the Nations as a "Moral, political. Economic equal.” "Monstrous discriminations” against Germuny i n Versailles treaty, such as "War Guilt Lie" must be rectified. Germany will battle "Relentlessly" to wipe out these discriminations. Remove tariff barriers obstructing world commerce. Meet President Hoover's reduction of armaments suggestion. France need not fear Germany tn view of Locarno pact, Kellogg treaty and other safeguards. Germany is too busy with other more important tasks to consider restoring monarchy now. Nation will fight communism, and is in position to deal with it. Woi id's gold supply should be redistributed. Germany, anxious to meet private financial obligations, will attempt no one-sided revision of interest. Berlin. July 27—(U.R)—The speediest road back to world recovery of prosperity is to restore Germany’s

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M. F. Worthman what is given, and what is spent] and saved, it really involves rendering unto society the things that are due to society and unto God the) things that due to God. "The Stewardship creed involves | two recognized never-to-be-forgot- 1 ten principles, namely: (1) God ls i the soverign owner of all things. (2) Man Is a steward and must ac-i count for that which is intrusted to him. “If we just could put reality into these two principles! If we could, only as church members feel with ; i the apostle Paul when he says: ’I

Relics Stolen From Holy Cross Sanctuary '! Indianapolis, July 27. (U.R) i {Theft of relics valued at more than I SSOO from the sanctuary of Holy I Cross Catholic church was report--led to police here today. The relics included a silver and gold plated chalice, more than 450 years old, a silver, hand-carved cross and a glass receptacle said to contain a piece of the original cross. 0 University Student, 20, Confesses Killing Aunt — I San Jose, Cal., July 27 —(UP) — ! A 20-year-old University of Califor- | nia student confessed today to Sheriff William Emig that he killed his and critically wounded her husband. After questioning George D. Templeton, Jr., most of the night, Sheriff Emig said that the youth had admitted that he slashed Mrs. Lilliam Babcock to death and wounded her husband. William R. Babcock, 44. wealthy Manila importer, while they slept in their home at Los Aites early yesterday.

place in the sun, Chancellor Franz Von Papen said today in an exclusive interview with the United Press. The world’s prosperity, he said never will be restored until Germany resumes her place among the nations as a moral, political and economic equal—tA buyer, manufacturer, and seller of goods and a big customer in the world's markets. “My government” he said, "Is convinced that its primary task is to recapture the economic and political place in international life to which Germany is entitled. "By fulfilling this function, we would not only enable europe to cope effectively with its tremendous difficulties but would also go far toward solving the world's economic Cristis. This means, of course, that monstrous discriminations imposed upon us on the basist of the Versailles treaty must be rectified in the interest of the world. For instance, the treaty's moral discriminations against Germany as exemplified by the 'war guilt lie’ and seizure of our colonies on the supposition we were worse colonizers than anybody else must be abolished. "Germany’s struggle against the discriminations of the so-called peace treaties will be carried on relentlessly. “tn order to hasten the rehabilitation of Germany and the world, besides the essential removal of

have a stewardship intrusted to me.’ Doctor Calkins says: ’To have is to owe', whether we are thinking of money, property, time, talent or of life all in all. If we, church members, could burn this ' word, ’Stewardship’, into our lives. | then there would come to us a new , sense of reality of our personal; soverign God and with this, there] would come a new purpose into our churches. "Isaac Watts once wrote: 'Most of us creep into this world, And know no reason why we're born Save only to consume the corn. The flesh, the fish, And leave behind an empty dish.” “Jesus knew why he was born. We know not why we’re born. Th .t is just the difference. Stewardship I was the philosophy of Christ's life. | Christ’s divine sense of mission was expressed in his first recorded words: 'Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business.! Christ came to do his Father’s will. The reason why stewardship has 1 up to the present time more or less i failed in its objective, is due to the I lack in planning a stewaidship life’ ils it not very foolish to build a ; house without a specification? Is | it not foolish to go someplace on a journey without knowing just where I to go? Is it not foolish for a business man to operate a business 'without a prescribed plan? Is it - not foolish to teach a class in Sunday School without the proper plan of instruction? If it is foolish, then I the legical demand arises in the CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

EVICTION OF ARMY FAILS Police Head Says He Is Without Orders to Tell Men To Get Out Washington, July 27 —(UP) —The, expected eviction of 1,800 bonus army veterans front governin' 4 buildings near the capitol failed to j materialize today when .police sir; -1 erintendent Pelham I). Glassford said he was without orders to clear , the grounds. Glassford permitted ■ the men to remain in their billits. Wrecking -contractors, scheduled to begin razing tlie buildings after they had been emptied of t ie veterans, abandoned plans to proceed immediately with the work. Glassford explained his action by saying he had no specific orders to evict the veterans if they did not depart voluntarily tn compliance with the treasury department’s order of evacuation. The peaceful and inconclusive CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE

: l turriff barriers obstructing world ■ commerce, the European powers) I can help gr-atly by meeting President Hoover’s suggestion for reI ductton of armaments.” The interview was given in the} > new chancellory building in histor- | ic Wilhemstraassa. where the chan- ■ cellor teceived the writer and ; Frederick Kuh, Central European manager of the United Press. H? i replied candidly iu fluent, arrest- i i ing English to questions asked by ■ both. , The Chancellor bedrs no resemblance whatever to the monocled > Junker figure sometimes depicted. > Far from wearing a monocle, he i used horn-rimmed spectacles. He • has a stooped, studious air of a pro- ■ lessor rather than that of a bristl- , ing ai.my officer. (He bears the title . of Lieutenant Colonel. His manner i i is informal and he has an easy way I as he answers questions in a dis- . armingly frank, blunt manner with . no diplomatic hemming and hedg- ■ ing. His non-military aspect is hlghten- . ed by a gray summer suit and loosi ely kpotted black tie. His office . lacks any governmental ippearance 'lt is a large pannielled room, severe- > ly plain, with chandeliers, and pic- | tures in the modern style. It seemed hard to realize that this gentle spoken man was the . same Chancellor who weilds virtuil- , ly dictatorial powers in Germany f today.

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VETERINARIAN’S CONTRACT TO BE SETTLED HERE Examining of Cattle By Local Men To Be Settled At Meeting I FEDERAL AND STATE MAN HERE A meeting with E. D. Wright, federal inspector of the department of agriculture, Frank H. Brown, Indiana state veterinarian and the board of Adams County commissioners will be held this evening at the county agent's office in the postoffice Hiildlng relative to employing veterinarians to conduct the tuberculine test in cattle in this county. The county commissioners insist that local veterinarians be employed to do the work. There are four veterinarians in the county. They would be under the. supervision of the federal inspector, whose salary and expenses are paid by the federal government. The Indiana department of live stock inspection contends that several state men be employed to do the work. The county commissioners recently signed a contract specifying that county veterinarians be employed to do the work. The inspectors are paid at the rate of S2OO per month for the days they work, plus mileage. The county has appropriated SISOO to do the work. To have the herds of cattle accredited in Adams county, 20 per cent of the cattle, equal to about 4.000 head, must be examined. The law is if more than one-half and less than one per cent of the cattle show tuberculosis only 20 per cent ] of the entire number in the county I need be inspected. Three years | ago when the first inspection‘was made this county was given such a rating and to keep the herds in the accredited class a test has to be made every third year. When the matter of employing veterinarians is ironed-out the work will begin immediately, the federal inspector stated. I o l Anderson Squatters Move to Courthouse Anderson, Ind., July 27. — lll.R) — Squatters today took up their abode lon the Madison county courthouse lawn. Mr. and Mrs. William Barber and their children, evicted from their home for failure to pay rent, arranged their household goods on the lawn and prepared to stay indefinitely. Sheriff Bernard Bradley said he would not disturb the "squatters" until ordered by county commissioners to do so.

Questioned regarding the permanency of his own government in view of the election next Sunday, he stated that owing to the uncertainity of the outcome at the polls, I his government remains in abeyance He mentioned the possibility that the Hitlerites and the Alflerd Hugenberg’s nationalists might obtain a majority of the seats in the coming Reichstag, or that these groups with tbs Catholic party, might either actively participate in the future cabinet or grant the present capinet support. He indicated that, in his opinion —despite the usual animosities of an election —the ether parties have not slammed the door to the future agreement with the Hitlerites or to cooperation with the present cabinet. Asked if, in his view other nitions of Europe were now ready to follow President Hoover’s suggestion and reduce armaments, Von Papen said: “Evidently not. The upshot of the disarmament conference to date, as embodied in the conference’s final resolution before recessing, Is poor” Replying to questions whether Germany’s demand for equ il rights in armaments meant that Germany would re-arm if others fail to reduce, he replied:i "No. We require an army merely CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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Delivers Message . j w ' f j B < JwTrti I Governor Harry Leslie Who appeared before the legislature today at a joint meeting of 1 the house and senate and in a speech stated that “the zero hour for tax legislation has arrived.” ‘ He urged action on passage of a ' tax bill. GALLMEYERIS RE-ELECTED Fort Wayne Man Again Named Head of Lutheran Walther League Los Angeles, July 27 — (U.R) — Delegates to the annual convention of the International Walther League of the Lutheran church . were to hear the finals of a . national oratorical contest today, in which seven speakers are enter- , ed. I Eight contestants were heard ■ yesterday. The award wITT’ Tift made today. Chicago was awarded the 1933 convention. On hundred thousand Lutherans are expected to be present at Soldiers Field, Chicago, when the 1933 convention opens. E. J. Gallmeyer, of Fort Wayne, was re-elected president of the league. Herbert Kuenne, Baltimore, Md„ was elected vice-presi-dent, east; Harry Wendland, Inglewood. Calif'., vice-president, west; John Albright. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, vice president, north, and W. R. Hecht, Miami, Fla., vice president, south. W. F. Fencke. Detroit, was named recording secretary; Miss Dorothy Sells, Milwaukee, Wis., assistant recording secretary; F. A. Schack. Fort Wayne, treasurer; Prof. E. H. Englebrecht, River Forest. 111., field secretary, and William Stradtmann. Maka te , Minn., and H. O. Klein. Springfield. 111., directors. Junior societies of tlie organization have increased to 508, with 14,000 members, W. E. Weiherman, junior director, announced. SENATE WETS HOLD UP BILL House Repeal Measure Considered “Too Dry” By Senate Members Indianapolis, July 27.—(U.R)—Senate wets looked with little favor teday upon the Wright law repeal bill passed by the house, because they considered it too dry. After the repeal bill was read before the senate public morals committee, Earl Rowley, Rep., Laporte, remarked: “I wouldn’t vote for that bill if it came before the senate. It is too full of holes. It wouldn't stand up five minutes.” Rowley is not a member of the public morals committee but attended the meeting because he is sheep-herding a similar repeal bill through the senate. It still is in committee, awaiting outcome of action on the house measure. The committee took no action. Lonzo Shull, chairman, regarded as a strong dry, announced that several state pharmacy board members desired to confer with the committee before it reported the bill. He said the committee might meet again today. When several senators protested against the bill on grounds similar to the opposition Rowley expressed, Addison Drake, Dem., Fairbanks, urged that *the bill be amended in CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE

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LESLIE MAKES PLEA BEFORE LEGISLATURE Executive Says "Zero Hour For Tax Legisla- , tion Has Arrived" BUSH HURLS ATTACK AT LESLIE Intlianupolis, July 27.—;<UR> I —Gov. Harry G. Leslie, in a I special message to the legislature totlav, warned that “the zero hour for tax legislation has arrived.” Milking a surprise appearance before the senate and liouse, Leslie charted a definite relief course. He outlined measures which he described as “constructive legislation” and criticized proposals he regarded as “futile and unworkable." The governor spent considerable time assailing the proposed income tax and the proposed $1.50 tax limit on each SIOO of property. He went to the extent of promising to veto any income tax measures laid before him. Word went quickly through the statehouse that the Governor was to speak and the House chamber was jammed to capacity when no mounted the rostrum. Leslie did not chide the legislators for delay in legislation, but cautioned them that “the executive department is waiting for those enactments which shall prove to the people of Indiana the good faith and capacity of the legislative department.” He warned that a "legislative jam" would not bfe accepted as an excuse for failure to provide relief. Sweeping reductions in all governmental operating expenses were called for. “You should provide for reductions in all salaries in all municipalities, including the state, and at the satno time there should be legislation to require a reduction in all other operating expenses in the several governmental units.” Bush Attacks Indianapolis. July 27 — (U.R) — Gov. Harry G. Leslie was chastized today by Lieutenant Governor Edgar D. Bush for leaving the legislature "high and dry” without an effort to exert leadership, and both state and national leaders were invited to help "Save Indiana." in a burning attack on critics of the state senate. Bush lashed forth at the opening of today’s session, with the most vehement pronouncement thus far during the session, qjid was greeted wilit hearty applause. "Realizing my position and that of members of the senate, working diligently for tax relief. I am inviting to come here to save Indiana, the men who are the real leaders of the state," Bush shquted. Registered letters were dispatched by him today to U. S. Senator James E. Watson; Frederick Van Nuys, Democratic candidate for the senate; Raymond Springer. Republican candidate for governor, and Paul V. McNutt, Democratic candidate f»r governor. “It is not fair to place on my shoulders the responsibility of bringing tax relief to the people, so I am asking these men, whom I regard as tax experts, to come here to help save Indiana," ha said. Governor Leslie was subjected to a bitter attack by Bush. "The governor has exerted absolutely no influence to bring about a program of tax relief, since he finally heeded our plea that a special session be called," he said. “In answer to ■ the frequent charges that there was lack of leadership, the governor has neither said nor done one solitary thing to point the way to those whom he summoned to help solve CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE Files Incorporation Papers For Elevator Attorney Ed A. Bosse returned from Indianapolis where he tiled papers of incorporation for the Reed Elevator Company, Inc., of this city. The members of the firm Include Jared J. Reed of this city, who is general manager; Stephen P. Reed of Fort Wayne, and Joseph McMaken, who recently moved to this city.