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I Large Crowd Attends Tuesday Hand Concert A large crowd enjoyed the band concert given Tuesday night by a band, composed of Decatur musiI cians accompanied by Miss Mild k red Wolfe, xylophonist ot Willshire, ’ Ohio. The concert was presented from a stand located on the noith side of Monroe street, in front of > i the Niblick lots. • I A number of local stores remained open during the concert. Another band progiam will be given In this city next Tuesday evening. CHORUSES TO ■ GIVE CONCERT J i Organizations Competing '! In Chicago Festival To J Give Concert at Berne » r The second annual Festival ot r Sacred Music will be held Sunday ■ I afternoon. August 14, at Lehman'* Park, Berne. The, program will beJ gin at three o'clock. s | Three choruses will participate II in the program and iticlude those' J who later will go to Chicago to) (compete in the Chicagolatid Music r Festival. David Embler, graduate ( of the Westminster Choir School, land Mrs. Evangeline Rohrer-Emb- . ler will be the conductors. , Last year the Men's Chorus won , first place in the Chieagoland Festival and this year all three choruses are prepared to make a favorI ,able record. I The public is invited to attend. 'Following is the complete program: I ’(Come Thou Almighty King Wesley When I Survey The Wondrous ’! Cross North The Orchestra i Processional Hymn All Hail the of Jesus Name ’! T»ue—"Coriutatioti ' lO Sing Unto the Lord Hassler Community .Mixed Chorus ' The Invocation Rev. C. H. Suckau, pastor First Mennonite Church | The Doxology by the congregation f and the Chorus. The Scripture Lesson: Psalm 95:18 Speaking Chorus. ( 'Salutation Gaines . Ave Maria Brahms I Praise Ye The Natne Os The Lord .. Gorokhoff Community Ladiea Chorus , | Bless The Lord Ivanof I The Ismt Chord . Sullivan •The Builder Cadman Swiss Male Chorus . i ’ Built On A Rock Christiansen I I Were You There Burleigh ( I Send Forth Thy Spirit Schuetky •Hail To Our Native Land Verdi Community Mixed Chorus (The Offering Rev. R. Paul Miller. Field Secretary Missionary Board] i of the Brethren Church.. Hallelujah Chorus, from “The Messiah” Handel Community Mixed Chorus , Prof. G. Adolph Lehman, guest conductor. The Benediction Rev. H. E. Tropf, Pastor Missionary Church. The Response Lutkin •Contest numbers in the Chicagoland Music Festival, August 20. SIX BILLS GO TO GOVERNOR . Amended Gas Tax And Auto Tag Division Law Ready for Leslie’s O.K. Indianapolis, Aug. 10 —<U.R>—The i amended McKesson gasoline amt 1 auto license fund diversion bills, altered to remove features which were found unconstitutional by Attorney General James M. Ogden, were approved in their new form by Ogden and sent to the governor. They now provide that money returned to local units may be used only for highway construction and maintenance, not retirement of road bonds. Five other measures were passed on by Ogden and returned for the governor’s signature. They would provide for a SIOO,OOO appropriation for national guard activity in the mine area, a moratorium for three years on issuance of county unit road bonds, prevent cancellation of academic rating of schools that failed to obey the state board of education on building orders, and two measures that would extend time for piyments under the Barrett law and place penalties in “delinquency and deficit fund” instead of being re- , tained by the collector.

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EVANS WOOLEN HEADS FINANCE COMMITTEE Indianapolis Banker Named As Director of Democratic Campaign Fund TO OPEN OFFICE IN NEW YORK New York, Aug. 10 <U.R) 1 Evans Woollen, Indianapolis I banker, today was appointed ! chairman of the Democratic I finance committee. she appointment was announced bv .lames A. Earlev. chairman of the national committee. Woollen is president of the Fletcher Savings and Trust company, of Indianapolis. He is one of Indiana's leading financiers. His committee will function under the direction of the executive committee of which Governor ] Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia is L chairman. Woollen is to come to New York next week to confer with Frank Walker. Democratic treasurer. He will then announce the membership of his committee. Indianapolis. Aug. 10 —<U.R) —Evans Woollen, who was named ■ chairman of the national finance i committee of the Democratic party today, has a record of numerous I public activities, many with a | national aspect, dating back to his appointment as president of the Fletcher Savings & Trust companv here in 1912. Woollen has long been vice president of the American Central Life Imsuiance company, with headquarters here. He organized the Indianapolis Foundation in 1916: During the war Woollen was called upon so become federal fuel administrator, which post lie held in 1917 and 1918. He was a member of the Indiana state council of defense, and for a time acting director of the bureau of state organizations in fuel administration in Washington. D. C. He was chairman of the Indiana committee of the war finance corporation CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO O ESTIMATES OF GAS TAX GIVEN Adams County Would Receive $105,678.26 In Division of State Funds It is estimated that Adams county will receive $105,678.26 for highway repair purposes if the legislature passes the proposed House bills diverting half of the money received from gasoline tax, auto and license fees to the counties. A provision of the measures is that if the 50-50 diversion of gas tax and tag funds is made that all local levies for county highway repair be eliminated. This would save the taxpayers of Adams .county a neight -cent tax on the hundred dollars. The highway department has not filed its budget for next year, pending action of the legislature. The department received $49,000 from gas tax funds this year and the eight-cent levy produced about $24,000, giving the department approximately $73,000 this year, plus the balance it carried over from the previous year. Amounts which other counties will receive under the new law are estimated as follows: Allen. $201,906.55: Blackford, $43,746.36; Huntington, $104,387.35: Jay. $119,546.79; Wells, $101,207.08; Whitley, $83,322.94. Final action on the bill must be taken between now and next Monday. — o Seven Strip Mines Close Near Brazil Brazil, Ind.. Aug. 10.—(U.R)~Seven strip mines working on a nonunlon basis in this district have been closed at the request of union representatives, pending settlement of wage controversies, it was announced by the three owners. Union men toured the mine region yesterday, and succeeded in obtaining the promises to close down, by peaceable persuasion.

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Doctor Held in Wife’s Death F! ’ M ■■■■■■■■■KS » :■ —• Dr. William A. O’Brien. 41, Chicago research radiologist, who was booked for murder Monday, by police after a coroner’s jury had returned an open verdict in the death of his wife, Vera Spafford O’Brien (right), who was found dead a week ago in circumstances first pointing to suicide.

12 GRADUATES ENTER COLLEGE Small Percentage of 1932 High School Graduates To Attend College Twelve members of the 1932 graduating class of Decatur high school will enter colleges and various institutions of learning this fall, it was announced today by W. Guy Brown, principal. Four will enter Indiana University Extension Department at Fort Wayne; two will go to Indiana Central college; one to Indiana University; one to Purdue; one to Franklin; -one to Michigan University one to Ball State college, and one will enter nurse's training. Following are the graduates and the colleges they will enter: Miss Doris Cook, Elizabeth Franklin. Gail Franklin, and Louise Haubold, Indiana University Extension, Fort Wayne. Miss Alice Vance and Harold Mamma, Indiana Central college, I Indianapolis. , Miss Mary Madeline Coverdale. Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Miss Elizabeth Frisinger, Franklin college, Franklin. Miss Rosamond Hoagland. Riley Hospital Nurses Training, Indianaipolis. Lewis Litterer, Purdue University Lafayette. Ival Newhard. Ball State Teacher’s college, Muncie. Richard Schug, Indiana University, Bloomington. There" were 57 students in the graduating class. ANOTHER WAGE REDUCTION DUE Railway Executive Plan Another 5 Per Cent. Cut For Million Employes New York. Aug. 10 —(U.R) — Another wage reduction for a million or more union railway employes was reported planned today as railway executives met to discuss the loan of $300,000,000 (M) for equipment and repairs urged on them by the administration. The new reduction is reported to be’s per cent or more. Wages were reduced 10 per cent last February by agreement of the railways and the unions on the railway promise to spread employment “as far as possible.” The new move, it was understood today, is planned to make effective a wage scale next February 1 that will be at least 15 per cent under the scale in effect when i the first reduction was approved. I The reason for the second re- [ duction is the same as advanced for the first — steadily declining' revenues which in some cases failed to meet interest charges carried by some roads. Presidents of eastern railroads CONTINUED ON PAGE~f3VE*~

Ope Killed When Truck Strikes Pole Anderson, Ind., Aug. 10. (U.R) — One man was killed and tour persons were injured,'two seriously, when the truck on which they were (riding crashed into a utility pole tysar here. Ira Barnes. 41, Indianapolis, driver of the truck, was killed. Ernest Barnes, 26, Indianapolis, and Mrs. Virginia Dovey, 23, Anderson, were brought to a hospital here. Little hope was held for their recovery. Violent Deaths Claim Two Lives LaPorte, Ind.. Aug. 10. — (U.R) —- Violent deaths took two lives in LaPorte during the last 24 hours. Walter Harper, 12, was shot to death accidentally when a rifle he was cleaning discharged. Charles Derringer. 70 was killed instantly when tiie truck he was driving was struck by a Grand Trunk express train. HITLER SEEKS HIGH OFFICE Fascist Leader Wants German Chancellorship; Up To Hindenburg Berlin, Aug. 10. — (U.R) —Dynamic little Adolf Hitler bid today for the second highest office in the nation, backed by most of his Fascist brown shirt militia mobilized in Berlin and Brandenburg province. Hitler awaited impationetly for today’s scheduled conference between Chancellor Franz von Papen and President Paul von Hindenburg. at which von Papen is expected to oppose the Nazi chieftian's demands for the chancellorship. The present government doubts that Hindenburg will be able to talk Hitler into accepting the vice chancellorship. If such an effort fails, it is considered likely that the president will accept tiie resignation ot Chancellor von Papen and his ministers, and designate Hitler to form a new cabinet. Meanwhile both von Papen and War Minister Kurt von Schleicher are reported to have suspended temporarily negotiations with Hitler because of the massing of the brown-shirted storm troopers. The Fascist militia has been ordered to remain in a 'state of alarm,’ Von Papen and von Schleicher, according to reports, hold this to be an improper method of bringing pressure against the government in order to insure Hitler’s chancellorship. Von Schleicher let it be known today he Is fully in accord with the new government decrees providing death for all persons convicted of violent acts inspired by political passion. The war minister, in fact indicate dthat he is prepared to use the national army against possible excesses by the stormy Hitlerite element. Von Papen, who until this week CONTINUED ON PAGe"fIVe”

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HOOVER TAKES DRY SLANT IN j ACCEPTANCE Informers Say President Hoover Will Please Organized Drys DELIVERS SPEECH THURSDAY NIGHT Washington, Aug. 10—(U.RX— President Hoover is 58 years old today. He is certain to have at least three birthday cakes and several more probably will I arrive at the White House be- ( fore dusk. He will get one from the United States shipping line, one from a troop of ( Boy Scouts and one from Mrs. Hoover. | Washington, Aug. 10 —(UP) — President 'Hoover's acceptance ? speech tomorrow night will satisfy -la majority of organized drys, aci . cording to best information here. ■ | 'Drys regard Mr. Hocver as their _ I friend. They are prepared to over- | look concessions that he is compellI ed to make to anti prohibitionists in i ' endorsing subbmission of a repeal j amendment. They supported him _ passionately in 1928 because he de- . dared against repeal of the 18th | amendment when he announced his . I candidacy and when he accepted the . nomination. He reiterated his oppoI sition to repeal when he submitted J the Wickersham report to Congress ; Some republican leaders believe , : the support of the organized drys . I will prove second only to a busi--1 ness upturn as a factor in aiding H President Hoover. This view is held I by’-those who believe the Democrats . overeat hed themselves in declaring for flat repeal and immediate re- | storation of beer. Some states, notI ably Kansas, are expected by Re- : publicans to be held in line for Mr. -i Hoover largely on prohibition i: argument. Though satisfactory to the drys, 1 ; the speech is expected to pay suf- ' ficient Up service to anti-prohibi-I tion sentiment to permit eastern ' w-et republicans to do their stuff. ' i The eastern director of the Repub1. lidm campaigp, senator Herbeit of Rhode Island, a wet, said the acceptance speech will satisfy him on prohibition. Dry leaders have said the same thing. Though this was the President’s 58th birthday, chief activity around , the White House had to do with the ' I accepance ceremonies t< morrow. Numerous arriving republican I leaders called at the White House ■ to bring reports—all of them glowCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE Business Houses Will Close During Funeral All business houses will close Friday morning at 10:30 o’clock and remain closed during the funeral of John T. Myers, it was announced today by T. F. Graliker, president of the Chamber of Commerce. STOLEN PAPERS ARE RECOVERED Valuable Documents Taken From Burk Elevator Found In Ditch Checks, drafts waybills and other papers valued at $1,384.37 stolen from the Burk Elevator Company's safe on July 29, were recovered today by Avon Burk, Sheriff Burl Johnson, and Chief of Police Sephus Melchi. The papers were found in a ditch on the John Schwartz farm, a short distance southeast of Monroe. Part of the ipapers were found Tuesday afternoon by a 12-year-old son of John Schwartz, who saw them lying in the ditch when he returned from Monroe. He notified local authorities and this morning a thorough search was made and all of the papers were recovered. The robbery took place at the Company’s office South Winchester street, between 12:10 and 12:20 o’clock P. M. just after tiie secretary had gone to dinner. The thieves escaped with between SSO and $55 in cash and the valuable bank drafts and checks. Local police have not obtained any clues as to the identity of the robbers.

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Fort Wayne Lads Bicycle Here Today Jerome O'Dowd and Frank Wemhoff. Jr., of Fort Wayne visited in Decatur this morning while workI ing for cycling merit badges. The ’ requirements for the bjdges are I I that the boys must ride 50 miles on a bicycle in ten hours. These two , lads rode 25 miles in two hours. ' While here the former visited with his aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. William Bowers, and the latter with his aunts and uncles, the Wai and George Wemhoff fjmilies. They , were luncheon guests ot Mr. and Mrs. Wai Wemhoff and returned to Fort Wayne this afternoon. o COMPLETE PLANS FOR COUNTY4-H CLUB SHOW HERE Calf And Colt Show And Domestic Art Exhibit to Be Held Aug. 18-20 MANY ENTRIES ARE EXPECTED i All arrangements for the colt 1 and calf show and the domestic 1 art exhibits of the members of ’ the Adams county 4-H clubs, to 1 be held in Decatur August 18, 19. 1 20, were completed today, County > Agent L. E. Archbold announced. The colt and calf show will be 1 held in the Community sales biarn > on East Monroe street. Lewis ' Murphy, proprietor of the sales > barn, donated the use of the place ■ for the three days and insurance ; was taken out covering the livel stock. ’ The project exhibits of the girls, ; in sewing, canning and baking will be displayed in the Schafer Hardware Company store. Projects ■ will be exhibited by 150 girls and . it is estimated that more than 150 i items will be entered. Mr. Archbold stated that 15 to , 17 Head of yearling colts would be entered by members of the Gold Medal colt club and that at least i 60 head of one and two year old calves would be entered in the 4-H club calf show. Four Breeds will be entered in the show, Ayr-

' CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE LEGION POST ASKS PROBE Want Federal Grand Jury To Settle Insicious Rumors at Kokomo Kokomo, Ind., Aug. 10.—<U.R)—A federal investigation of the recent Indiana state convention of the American Legion here was requested in a resolution passed by the local post last night. The resolution, presented by Mayor Henry Quigley, himself a legionnaire, was for the avowed .purpose of silencing insidious rumors which have spread throughout the state. Denial was made by the local post of authenticity of most of the rumors. Responsibility for admitted liquor law violation, was likewise disclaimed by the local legionnaires. The federal investigation would | establish definitely that there was no unusual liquor law violation, Quigley predicted. : O Scottish Rite Masons Will Attend Funeral All Scottish Rite Masons are to meet at the Masonic Hall Friday morning at 10 o’clock to march in a body to the Methodist Episcopal church where they will attend the funeral of John T. Myers at 10:30 o'clock. o Decrease Noticed In U. S. Steel Business New York, Aug. 10 —(UP)—Unfilled orders of the United States Steel corporation as of July 30 totaled 1,966,302 tons, compared with 2,034,768 tons at the end of June, a decrease of 68,466 tons, the 16th consevutive monthly decrease and a new record low. The total at the end of July a year ago was 3,404,816 tons and at | the end of 1929 4,022,055 tons.

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SPANISH ARM! CALLED TO PUT DOWN UPRISING 1 1 Movement To Restore King Alfonso Gains Headway in Country TROOPS MARCH ONTO SEVILLE Madrid, Aug. 10— <U.R) — I Spanish army units inarched Hon Seville today to put down a monarchist rebellion, after suppressing an uprising in Madrid with eight dead and about 30 wounded. An official announcement gave the death toll as six rebel soldiers ' and two rebel officers. Seville fourth city in Spain with a population of 220,000, was in the hands of Gen. Jose San Jurjo, leader of the rebellion, who controlled the army units and civil guard. A battle was in prospect. Manuel Azana. premier and war minister, In announcing the march on Seville, said he did not know exactly when the troops w-ould arrive. Other towns in the . Andalusian region, embracing Se , ville, were calm, he said. , The monarchist revolt, the most serious effort to restore King Al- ' fonso, since the republic was established, apparently was well- , planned. The government, how- [ ever, ’ had advance information , I and put the movement down in J Madrid with vigor. By early after,l noon, 82 arrests had been made, , including important rebel leaders. Cadiz advices said an outbreak, of Jerez, center of the Sherry wine district and not far from I Cadiz, had been suppressed quick- .! ly. the colonel of the Jerez civil , guards and various important I monarchists were arrested. • Madrid, Aug. 10. —(U.R> —Royalists , today began their long-awaited re- , volt intended to overthrow the republic and restore the Bourbons to the throne of Spain and in the heavy fighting that resulted, at least six were reported killed. At least 30 men were w-ounded during one battle near the post office here, it was estimated.

Then at 9 a. m. Minister of the Interior Santiago Casares announced that the situation, both in Madrid and in Seville, was under control. 1 (A United Press dispatch from 1 Gibraltar, however, said General 1 San Jurjo’s rebel forces at Seville still were in rebellion.) The revolutionary movement in Madrid was quickly quelled by police riot squads here, but hours after the movement began •at 4 o'clock a. m. fighting waas reported underway at Seville, with the. royal rebels in control. , The revolt was led by General Jose San Jurjo, commander of the , Carabineer corps, and a group of retired monarchist army officers . who still hope that Alfonso XIII will return to the throne he left April 14, 1931. Several minor revolutionary movements hadd preceded today’s inspired possibly by a manifesto issued last spring by Alfonso XIII ’cONTINUro’oN PAGE SIX MRS. CARAWAY LEADING FIELD Nomination of Democratic Woman Senator Assured In Arkansas Race Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 10.—<U.R) — The re-election of Arkansas’ “little woman senator,’’ Mrs. Hattie Wyatt Caraway, was forecast today on the basis of returns front half the state’s precincts in yesterday's Democratic primary. Mrs. Caraway, who was elected to the unexpired term of her husband, the late Senator Thaddeus H. Caraway, early today had piled up almost as many votes as all of her six men opponents combined. Judge J. Marion Futrell, Paragould chancellor, took the lead in ■ the governor’s race over his six I opponents. He led the nearest by | nearly two to one. Nomination in the Democratic primary is tantamount to election in Arkansas, where nine out of every ten people vote the Democratic ticket.