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Sil county witute is «ELD FRIDAY ■ r Gsninasium Is K llt Annual Gath■'■j ns Here Today Jbhiritk. sl>E XK BTan.U’l-, I arl L.Harj president ■.ville College, were speakers at the iW.,: teachers' institute ■Las held in the DecaJKe. school as lilliasiuill ('.eiintv. DecaBerne school teaeli■temled the institute. . v.-r < lit - atternoon. • ■.. sue teach JB-.iminsrv n> the opening , |K«M&ty ' ' ,!1 Septemrhe schools on 6. afternoon ] '■t ha.: .hart, .f the sing-' j.-, -■ '• '.it selecE Wiggam in his mi.rnitu -ta'»-d that in college sas dying The uni< graving so rap|Mbt in a few generations ft gao an exam.>f i.ooo ut Yaie graduates were \ . later they fifty ’he other |H . i.corers propagate at rat. would mini K sHWivcc . .<. .1 that the gMy.aio:: !!•■ ~,;,1 "Unless beoni.-s nfu-ed with ■s* : w. .tare ununinant idea ‘ ;;V ‘dualism -- 1 f-ar. .... ialism to gr.-j' . .-niic ideal." talk, given by Dr. Harper, had as its subEH “khat is Worth While in |Hu<i Educat ion' Ur. Harper [ that all il.o fundamental o: •• < omprehend■*o seven divisions. were listed as: economc.ition. social. aesthetic and spirit|HHe put tremendous stress on as being the first of life. u e developed thoroughly. ■ ‘ conclusion he said. "I beevery man and woman ’Penalize in one of these Also he should have as an W 11 two or three of the T° 1,(1 well educated and it is necessary to have ■ knowledge of all of these V Pilots Crash ■ At (leveland Today ■eland Sept. 2-(UP) — Two K.' ere injured today, neither ■‘.’when their planes collided ■ air and crashed to earth. ■ “’ion occurred before 3,000 air race spectators dur- ■ ‘Portsmen pilots race. B‘Ojured were Paul S. Bloom rnpert, lowa, and William ° Cleveland. Bloom was *Wd. Warrick suffered a e K- head cuts and a posBC®»msion 8 C ®»msion of the brain "8 of Bloom's ship brush•M of Warrick’s plane. • Hospitals Have More Patients — I " nd - Sept. 2—(UP) the Li? 88 patlents w ere servIm . ree Indiana University hot ?. n<iiana Polis during the rtth IttVa* 1 >ear ' as compar ' Ing me J during the ec-rres-Mhe nt ' ' ast year > it was reLn tO(Uy by Dr - * T. »1 of’•« a > dmlnlstrat<>r of the ® f medicine. be^° r> exaini natioms made iaring th hoßpitals totalled 7, [ war? ?° nth ' Xray exam<lven 535 patients.

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Two New Decatur Ministers li **“ 1 ■•* Rev. George O. Walton Rev. Glen E. Marshall Rev. Walton is the new pastor of the First Presbyterian church, 1 arriving here today. He was graduated from Seminary in 1928 ’ and served as pastor of the Linn Street Presbyterian church, Cincin- < nati. He succeeds the late Rev. Harry H. Ferntheil who died Decern- 1 her 24, 1931. Rev. Walton was instrumental in merging two Presby- t terian congregations in Cincinnati. He is a graduate of Ashland 1 Academy, Ashland, Ohio, and this year received a doctor’s degree in , the department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati. Mrs. , Walton is a capable teacher, being an instructor in the Sands Week ( Day Bible school. Cincinnati. Rev. Marshall is the new pastor of the Church of God. assuming his duties a week ago. He had charge of the services last Sunday, p He and his family reside at 410 Mercer Avenue. Rev. Marshall was I graduated from Anderson Theological Seminary and served four years j ■ as pastor at Lorimor, lowa. f

SLAYER TAKES LIFE IN CELL Frank Tylius, Confessed Murderer, Commits Suicide Last Night Portage, Wis., Sept, 2 —(U.R) — Frank Tylius. former Kenosha. Wis., saloon keeper who confessed | implication in the slaying of Robert A. Wilson. Kenosha real estate broker, and named three men held here as accomplices, committed suicide last night. District Attorney Ross Bennett announced today. Tylius hanged himself in a cell at the Wisconsin Dells jail, where he had been taken secretly to 1 forestill attempts at jail delivery I by enemies. During a brief ab-l I sence of the guard, the prisoner! fashioned a noose with his belt: and handkerchief, fastened it to a ' cell bar and jumped off the bed. | Fear of vengeance by the three! men he named drove Tylius toi take hs lite, the district attorney | said. The ex-saloon keeper was i in terror when he and the other three prisoners were brought here last night from Kenosha. “Keep me away from them." he begged Sheriff Alfred E. Gil-1 bert and his deputies. “They said they would crack my head with handcuffs. They told me they'd finish me like they finished Bob Wilson in the woods." Tylius was taken to a separate! place of safe-keeping. The other prisoners, William Covelli, 25, Kenosha; Frank Consentine, 32, Kenosha, and Frank infusino, 24. Union Grove, were placed in se% arate cells in the county jail. Vigilantes and police stood guard ail night to prevent a possible CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX o Portland In Move For New State Park Portland, Ind., Sept. 2 —(UP)— IA movement to have a state park established near Portland, as a memo la! to Elwood Haynes, automobile inventor, has been started by the Inter-Club council, composed of the Kiwanis, Rotary and Business ■and Professional Women’s clubs of Portland. Under the proposal a tract of 800 acres of land along Butternut creek would be secured and a Lake about one mile long and one-half mile wide be constructed. Chicago Gangster Is Found Murdered Chicago, Sept. 2—(U.R>-The body of Walter Zwolinski. 27. known as the “Terrible Pole” in the back o' ' the yards gang precincts, was found today in the tonneau of an automobile, trussed and with a bullet ■ through the back of the head, a , few blocks from where he lived, i Zwolinski led a revolt a few months ago from Edward (Spike) i O’DonneH's gang fraternity and J since had seized a considerable stretch of the profitable back o' the 'yards territory as his own domain.

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I Striker Killed In South Carolina] Columbia. South Carolina Sept 2.1 (UP) —The first casualty in South) Carolina's two months textile strike controversy was reported to I. C. Blackwo.d today. State constable Fred Newman re- , ported a nightwatchman in the. Arcadia mill village at Spjrtonburg , had shot and killed a striker named Graham today. Brisk Rally Sends Wheat Prices Up Chicago. Sept. 2—(U.R)—A brisk rally in the wheat pit encouraged, by strength in the stock and cotton markets sent all wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade from 1 to 11,4I 1 ,4 c higher at today’s close. o ADMITS MURDER OF TWO PERSONS Ohio Youth Confesses To Slaying of Brother and “Girl Friend” Lima, O„ Sept. 2. —(Special)—A ! murder mystery which had baffled authorities for more than a year was solved here last night when a , signed confession was made to po- ' lice by Loren Ellsworth Truesdale. ' 23, who admitted slaying his brothI er, Earl Truesdale. 20, of Elida, 0., and his friend, Thelma Woods, 17, of Lima. Loren told authorities he killed bis brother and the Woods girl in a fit of jealousy. He claimed Thelma was his "girl friend" and that his brother had taken her away from him. Then he told how he followed the two to an abandoned stone quarry near Lima on the night of Memroial Day, 1931. murd-1 I ered them and tossed the bodies. into the water. Truesdale had been under suspicion for several months and had been trailed night and day by several detectives. The confessed slayer was taken to the county jail, where he is being held without bail. o Missing Speaker Shows Up Today St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 2. — (U.R) — William Z. Foster, communist can- ' didate for president, whose failure I to make a scheduled address in i Zeigler, 111., last night led to fears , he may have been abducted, arriv- , ed here today for a campaign address. 0 Oklahoma Miners Are Arrested i McAlester, Okla., Sept. 2.—(U.R)— i Wholesale arrest of strikers accus- ; ed of Intimidating miners attempt- i ing to return to work in the troub- i led southern Oklahoma coal fields i began today. Peace officers described the situ- ' ation as tense and "fraught with I danger." t

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 2, 1932.

REFUND COMING TO TAXPAYERS Auditor Has $109.28 Due Taxpayers in the Younkin Drain Improvement County Auditor Albert Harlow has a fund of *109.28 which the court has ordered him to distribute among the property owners who paid an assessment in the building of the J. K. Younkin drain in Kirkland township. The drain was constructed ini 1919 and after all expenses were paid a surplus of $109.28 remained in the fund. The later Judge Dore B. Erwin ordered the fund distributed. Auditor Harlow has figured out thKamount due each person. The refunds range from one cent to $11.12, the highest amount due any one taxpayer. It required the writing out of S 3 checks and since the amounts are so small Auditor Harlow requests that persons who were assessed in the drain call at his office and receive their checks. In several cases the postage would be more than the amount of the , check. The drain was one of the large improvements in Kirkland town [ship and was petitioned for under the name of the Younkin drain. LOCAL LEGION TO GIVE SHOW Three-act Comedy Will Be Presented by Adams Post Nov. 3 And 4 The Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion will present a three act comedy entitled "Henry’s Wedding.) in the Catholic high school auditorium, Thursday and I Friday nights. November 3 and 4. One hundred twenty-five local people will participate in the play which is a Universal Producing Company product. The comedy is of high type and extremely funny. The special groups including the Beaus land Bells of Grandma's Time, Breth- ! ren and Sistern of the Mystic I Shrine and the Girls' Choruses, are I entirely different than anything I ever produced and are laugh hits of j the show. The costuming of the play is unusual and unique. Ht pomises to be ' a success and an outstanding piece of entertainment. All of the Characters are important and are responsible for a great deal of fun and comedy. — —o Refuses To Shave Until Cubs Lose Gary, Ind., Sept. 2 —(UP)—Eddie Chapples is beginning to wonder if he will have to wear a long flowing beard to the world series baseball games. Reversing the college student custom of going without a shave "until the Alma Mater" wins, Eddie vowed not to shave until the Chicago Cubs baseball team lost a game. He has grown quite a beard in the 12 days since then. _____ _ 0 MINERS AGREE TO WITHDRAW Indiana And Illinois Miners Withdraw; Will Form New Union Soon Gillespie, 111., Sept. 2. — (U.R) — Miners of Illinois and Indiana atatending a conference to determine a future policy in the Illinois protest movement against a recently signed wage scale contract voted unanimously here today to withdraw from the present United Mine Workers of America and to set up a new union of their own. The action was taken at an executive session of the conference following a report of the policy committee appointed by the delegates yesterday. The name of the new union, which leaders hope to make international in scope, has not been decided upon but it is believed it will be called the United Mine Workers Amalgamated or the United Mine Workers Amalgamation.

[Dr. Fred Patterson Speaks At Meeting J A six point program of community service w.is outlined by Dr. Fred Patterson in a talk before members cf the Decatur Rotary chib last evening. The meeting was held at the Rice Hotel. "Every person should be willing and glad to serve his community, either individually or through a service organization. . A community service program helps everyone and instills Interest in your community", Dr. Pjtterson stated. ! o CIRCUIT COURT OPENS MONDAY Judge C. L. Walters Will Preside At September Term Opening Monday The September term of the Adams circuit court will open Monday ' morning. September 5, at nine o'clock. Judge C. L. Walters, recently appointed by Governor Les ■ lie to fill the vacancy created by the death of Judge Dore B. Erwin. . will preside. Judge Walters stated today that • while the court will open Monday, no regular court will be held as Monday is a legal holiday. Any routine matters brought up by attorneys will be considered by the court. Tuesday morning. September 6, the actual court routine will start. I A new calendar will be arranged, as many matters concerning details of pending cases with which the [ late Judge Erwin was familiar, must be studied by the new judge before these cases can be heard. Judge Walters also stated that no grand jury session will be held ? at the September term. Mr. Erwin , had contemplated calling a grand . jury investigation for several mat- ! ters which had been brought to his I attention but as no record has been made of these matters, no such j session is considered necessary at r this time. However, a grand jury r will be called during the November J. term, as one such session is conipulsory each year. ARE ENROLLING * IN HIGH SCHOOL Principal Brown Expects Enrollment to Reach 340; Office Open Saturday i For the accommodation of students who wish to enroll in the Decatur hign school, W. Guy Brown, principal, announced today J that the principal's office would be open Saturday evening from seven t to nine o’clock, f Many 'enrollments were made , this week and Principal Brown exJ pects the total to correspond with the number enrolled last year. t Three, hundred forty students were L enrolled in the local high school } last year and 57 were graduated last May. Nearly all of the former class members have signified their inten--5 tion of entering school next week . and Mr. Brown stated he was almost sure that the enrollment would be as high as a year ago. CONTINUED ON PAGE STX [ Indiana State Fair To Open Saturday Indianapolis, Sept. 2. —(U.R) —Bust- ■ ling activity at the state fair | grounds here today marked preparations for the opening of the 80th annual Indiana State Fair tomorrow. Fair officials expressed a hope that with favorable weather the at--9 tendance might reach a record of • 200,000. Last year's attendance , was 198,755. Fairs through the I country have reported increased attendance, they pointed out. ; Yacht Explodes In Chicago Harbor > Chicago Sept. 2 —(UP) —Six men r aboard the 50-foot motor yacht Sto- - way narrowly escaped serious in- > jury or death today when the craft > blew up and burned at the pier in i J’ackson Park harbor. William Creasy, steward, who. I was near the prow was hurled into | i the harbor his clothing aflame. He j ■ was rescued and his burns proved , minor.

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IOWA FARMERS UNMOLESTED BY PICKETERS Milk, Livestock And Produce Taken to Omaha Unchallenged by Pickets TRUCE AGREED TO UNTIL NEXT WEEK Omaha, Neb., Sept. 2— (U.R) — | lowa farmers bringing milk, live-1 stock and produce to Omaha markets moved into the city unmolested today, for the first time in more than a week. A truce in the farmers' strike caused picketers to open all except one of the lowa highways leading to Council Bluffs and Omaha. While the truce was not concurred in by Nebraska strikers, except as it applied to thd movement of milk and cream, most of the pickets on this side of the line gave up the fight when they saw they could accomplish little as long as roads to the east were open. Hundreds of trucks brought ! farm products into the city for the early markets today. The truce was announced at I Des Moines by Milo Reno and ‘ John Chalmers, officers of the | Farmers' Holiday association. E Sampson, a leader of the strike in Douglas county, Nebraska, (in' which Omaha is located) announced that a truce could be main-! tained here as far as milk and ■ cream were concerned. The truce was agreed to until, September 9. when the farmers will put their problems before the, conference of mid west governors I at Sioux City and attempt to work out some plan of relief with thei state executives. The cessation of hostilities also! will give the strikers a chance to perfect their organization, their CONTTNItpyn ON PAGE SIX McNutt Narrowly Escapes InjuryNew Albany, Ind., Sept. 2.—(U.R)' —Possible serious injuries were escaped by Paul V. MCNult, Demo-1 cratic gubernatorial nominee, and I Pleas Greenlee, of McNutt's cam-j paign staff, in an accident near: here. The automobile which McNutt was driving plunged from the road on a curve barely missing a utility pole. McNutt and Greenlee were en route here to attend the funeral of j John Christensen, former local Legion post commander. o Willard McConahy To Face Charges Willard MoConahy will appear before Mayer George Krick in this city court at one o'clock Saturday afterijoon; to- answer charges of possession of intoxicating liquor, filed as a result of a raid at McConahy's home ut Eight and Nuttman streets. One hundred battles of home brew and more than a gallon of . "white mule" were confiscated in the raid, which was conducted by night policemen Ed Miller and Arthur Clark. o MUNCIE CHIEF ASKS REMOVAL Muncie Officer Files Suit To Have George Dale Ousted As Mayor Muncie, Ind., Sept. 2.—(U.R>—An--1 other episode in the turbulent career of George R Dale as mayor of Muncie was started here with . the filing in superior court of a suit seeking to have the office of mayor declared vacant by city council. The suit, filed by Allbert R. Rees, city detective chief who was demoted to patrolman Wednesday night, asks that a member of the council be named mayor pro tern. Charges brought against Dale at his trial In federal court In Indianapolis in a liquor conspiracy case, Rees contended, made Dale in- > eligible to hold office. He also alleged that city employes were [assessed 10 per cent of their wages I j to defray cost of Dale's defense in .federal court.

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Found Not Guilty i I Ml j ml im JW I i ’ • • ..' - 1 1 k » w *'♦ I . J < Mrs. Dorothy Pollak, 26-year-old 1 Chicago woman, who was feund not guilty of murdering her hus- ' ifand, Joseph Pollak. She was acquitted by Chief Justice Harry 1 M. Fisher of the Cook County Criminal Court, who heard the case without a jury, after the | court confessed he could not tell from the evidence disclosed what . I happened in the Pollak home on , the evening of July 27 when Pollak ' was fatally shot. | FASCISTS WIN : l COMMUTATION ———— Death Sentences of Five Hilterites Commuted To Life Terms >1 Berlin, Sept. 2. —(U.R) —Death sen- ' I fences given five members of Adolf ' Hitler's fascist party were commuted today to life imprisonment. The five men were convicted of political terrorism by the special court at Beuthen. They were sentenced to be executed by axe men. The sentences, passed Aug. 27, 'had been the cause of further ser- | ious political troubles. It is believed that the five men i soon will be granted a new trial be- . I fore a jury in an ordinary law court, ■ rather than in one of the special .! anti-terrorist courts. I Announcement of the death sentences precipitated a furior demonIstration by Hitlerites in Beuthen. II It brought a violent condemnation > of the government s tactics from [ Hitler himself. Before denouncing the sentences, however, the Nazi leader sent a personal emissary to Chancellor Franz von Papen, asking that the I sentences be commuted. The Beuthen court was one of ■ several established by official des cree of President Paul von Hlnden- ■ burg as a result of repeated terror- ' istic acts. The anti-terrorist de- , cree provided the death penalty for ■ any person convicted of taking part . in a killing inspired by political passion. It stipulated that there > would be no appeal, other than fl directly to the government, from J the decision. -I The five Hitlerites were the first . to be given the death penalty under the new law. They were convicted 12 days after they had killed a communist and their only defense was that they had been drink-1 ing. Hitler Makes Speech Berlin. Sept. 2. — (U.R) —A crowd ( that jammed Berlin's great sports palace and overflowed into the streets, heard Adolf Hitler unleash . his most bitter attack upon the government of Chancellor Franz von Papen. Hitler scaled the heights of impassioned oratory, waving his arms, • fairly screaming his denunciation ; of the "lord's club" cabinet, and • shaking his fist into the air in the . meeting which lasted an hour and . a half last night. ' "President von Hindenburg," the fascist leader shouted, “may dissolve the reichstig ten times, a . hundred times for all we care. We - will emerge victorious!" ’ The national socialist party will » not lose its nerve under existing conditions, Hitler said and raising : his voice to its highest pitch, he ■ shouted: , "I have one advantage over my - adversary. He is 85 and I am 43!" Amidst roars of applause, Hitler ( declared that "we do not want to i participate in the government by i[sufferance. We claim the government is ours by jight."

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MAYOR MAY RUN ON VINDICATION PLANK IN FAIL Criticises Conduct of Ouster Hearing In Letter of Resignation ROOSEVELT ENDS HEARING TODAY State Capitol, Albany, N. Y., Sept. 2.— —Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt this afternoon officallv terminated the ouster hearing against Mayor James J. Walker of New York. The governor, who convened the hearing for the purpose of reading into the record the few words that brought it to a close summed up his action as follows: „ "The Honorable James J. Walker has resigned as Mayor of New York City. His action in so doing terminates the proceedings pending before me as Governor of New York.” New York, Sept. 2.—(U.R) —James J. Walker, mayor ot America's largest city, has resigned under I fire, to "seek vindication with the people." In a dramatic outburst against the forces seeking his removal from office on charges of official misconduct. the country's most pictures<iue municipal executive refused to I face the 13th day of his trial beI fore Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Walker will run for re-election of his $40,00b-year position at the earliest election prescribed by law, probably this November. The 96th burgomaster of NewYork. and the first to resign while charges were pending against him. was automatically succeeded by Joseph V. McKee, scholar'y Democratic president of the board of aidermen. Walker's resignation came with all the flair for drama and human emotion that has colored a spectacular career. It came not only while he was facing his 13th day in the witness chair, battling against an implacable host of state investigators, but as a climax to a day which saw him, physically and emotionally broken, weeping at the grave of his brother, who was buried yesterday. National politics, state politics, and the eternal c nflict that surrounds the local management of Tammany Hall had a hand in his decision. His action was a defiant challenge to a Democratic governor now seeking the presidency, and to another Democrat Samuel Seabury—who has been a consistent and bitter enemy of Tammany throughout his career. The very procedure Walker followed in, resigning to run again was suggested Thursday morning in a signed editorial by illiam Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher. Hearst was the only New York publisher supporting Walker against the charges of his accusers. He also was numbered among those supporting Franklin Roosevelt s presidential campaign. He was a political enemy of Alfred E. Smith, who had been mentioned as a possible candidate to succeed Walker, with whom he had been at "outs." Fifteen charges had been levelled against Mayor Walker as an outgrowth of the Hofstadter legislative committee's investigation into his operations as mayor of New York. They involved alleged acceptances ot stocks and money as bribes, and unexplained accounts of his alleged business agent showing a million dollars in deposits. Seabury had presented these 15 "conclusions" to Governor Roosevelt as reasons for the mayor's removal. They involved alleged acceptanca of stocks and money for alleged'/ improper considerations, which, however, Walker denied; and unexplained accounts, etc. And Seabury said today that Walker's resignation in the face, ot those charges was "equivalent to a confession of guilt." Roosevelt had ordered the mayor to trial on Seabury's findings, and ' for 12 days the dispute had raged in the hearing room at the state capitol. Throughout the trial, Walker’s counsel. John J. Curtain, had been overruled by Governor Roosevelt. And. taking the question of hfa "constitutional rights" to the courts for a decision, on the plea that he CONTINUED ON FACE THREE