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RANSATLANTIC PLANE LONG OVERDUE

l egion Favors Prohibition Repeal; Cash Bonus Payment

. •lon adopts ■solution of AIAW REPEAL n-K " v ! on a I * 0,1 * cn J lon for Outright ReKd I'th V>” ndment r>* -Hrs opponents ■adm DI I F VI ED ‘tee ‘’re.. Sept. 15.—j American Legion Ktion today adopted a, asking outright re-, - Ks the National prohibiand repeal of the' * also de--full and immediate of the bonus by the, •a'ataHjielnung k,l! <‘ 'd' EI6H gates voting against the wen- < .nine, ti. ut. N“ Caruliin and Haw vote. on Delaware. Missouri. Vermont and sent no column k ions ■p. r .,'the ■!• -ca' — and the) M Ki' well "a- outstand-, !av . r resolution ' •:'■■■' Henry I. Stev-1 . colei bad to. and '»:<•' had to ask .„ ■ » the anti bonus, l( to proceed. of tile vote was with a deafening roar of ■ !:J had c alled by stat >• che-r- vr-t-d each "yes” A tretiu boo was it when Nebraska, l-ader of attains' the bonus an-; its “no" vote. hm^K 7 ' ore. Sept 15 -(U.R) - - irniv will be introduced on of the American I-egiou ■nth,l, tiMi.iv tin- United Press ON PAGE SIX Id Men’s Congress I: l ort W a\ ne Sunday eighth annual Men's Con-1 Fort Wayne Classis of J .hunli will be he'd auditorium ot Central high in Fort Wayne. Sunday, I 25 Die Sdein Reform- • of Fort Wayne will be 1 Hu the meeting. !■( Little Ch >ir of Herne under of C T Habegger. spec ml musical numthe morning service quartet, Herne, which honors in the state fair win s i ng during the The Reformed Orphans Band will provide instru■u«lc. Earl Mann of Terre Haute |B|W the principal address at session and Bert E. Chicago, president of the [ Council of will address the men afternoon on the subject, M-. • irch Matc h H' ri u «H HELMER I DIES TODAY Adams County Resi■ttjt Dies at Home In ■ Wabash Township De ' 15 — (Special to Mrs. Sarah Helmer. 79. resident of Adims County W al her home in Wabash townWc three miles south of Berne ' a > morning. Death was due “Oplications of < u age and trouble. deceased was born in Wa- . °* n khip, the daughter of . Wll Aa “a Kelley. At the ‘'r'' death she was 79 years 'Bb s hß snil24 days old°KL ~ bil" u preceded Mrs. Ht 1- ,. death four years ago. Two and William reside In •■is;, J Un " al “erviees will be ■ck -i" r<a ' a,ter noon at 1:30 o''■burl. .o eyl ° n M ' E - Church 'Kde w be m ‘de in the Rivcemetery.

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Holiness Association Meeting Next Sunday The Adams County Holiness Association will hold the regular monthly meeting next Sunday September IB at 2 o’clock (CBT). The meeting will be held in the | Tabernacle at Monroe. Rev. Harry Gaunt of the First [Nazarene Church at Berne will be the speaker. Special musical numI berg will also be Inclluded on the program The publie is invited to attend. LOCAL CASHIER NAMED OFFICER Theodore G r a I i k e r Is Elected Secretary of Bankers Group Theodore Graliker. cashier of the First State Bank of this city was elected secretary of Group One ot the Indiana Hankers Association and Dacatur was selected as the meeting place for the 1933 annual meeting. The bankers in Group One met in Fort Wayne yesterday. Charles Bushing, cashier of the Lincoln National Bank and Trust Company of Fort Wayne, was named president of the association.

It is expected that more than 200 bankers, representing the 650 banks in the group will attend the meeting in this city. This is the first time that Decatur has ever entertained the bankers. The invitation to meet in Decatur was extended by Mr. Graliker. who is president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and by C. A. Dugan, president of the First State Bank. The day's program is devoted to a dlsclHlHon of hanking problems and the inaugurating of better hanking practices by participating banks. Counties which comprise Group One of the association are Allen, Wells. Huntington. Miami. DeKalb, Whitley. LaGrange, Noble. Koscusko ai.d Steuben. PROHIBITION IS SUCCESSFUL Dr. Wilson Says Prohibition Is Only Solution of Liquor Problem Vincennes, Ind.. Sept. 15—(UP) — Prohibition. Dr. Clarence True Wilson velleved. is a "Great successful experiment." the “only solution to c ntrol of the liquor traffic." Dr. Wilson, secretary of the Methodist board of temperance, prohibition and public morals, addressed the 101st annual conference of the Indiana Methodist church in session here. Char icterizing National prohibi tian as the "inevitable result of failure of other experiments." Dr. Wi's n said he believed it was deserv ing of “as long a tiial as was given the saloon." "Prc.hitbition has been sold out by dry agents, used as a football by politicians ami put in the hands of wets," Dr. Wilson slid. "But wo should judge it by what it was intended to do, not by what it was not Intended to do.” He called attention to the "10year prosperity under prohibition until gamblers and National Bankers ruined if and praised prohibition tor “having done more to cleat, up American life than anything else everd did." Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, president of DePauw university, was scheduled to speak today. .Also on the program where Rev. Merton S. Rice, Detroit, and Rev. C. E. Turley. Marion, O. ..... - o ■—-—- Lavonne Mattax Is Seriously Injured Lavonne Mattax of Geneva, an employee of the Geneva Herald, is slowly recovering from an injury she received on th large slide in the Lehman Park at Berne, Monday. Miss Mattax suffered a fractured spine when she struck the ground at the bottom of the slide with great force. The spine was broken at the base. The attending physician stated today that she w uld probably recoer, although she is suffering intense pain.

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Flyers Ixmg Overdue at Rome raw K . ."TwO' 118, ' fsß-\ w. W'""* <• •xr^-r.'»•»**•- t ■ - Ji Trans-Atlantic airplane American Nurse, pictured above with the occupants, is long overdue at Rome, he destination of the flyers. The plane may have landed in some inaccessible spot in Spain or Corsica. Tne plane had a fuel capacity for flight of slightly over forty hours.

CITY OFFICIALS AT CONVENTION I Decatur Officials Attend Indiana Municipal League Convention Gary, Ind.. Sept. 15— (UPlDiscussion of problems arising out of Public utilities opened at the Ind fana Municipal League’s .Tlr? annual convention here today. Girl D. Thompson, se -retary of ! the Public Ownership League of America was scheduled to lead the debate. Following him on the program were Mayor William .1. Hosey Fort WUyne, Mayor Thoma# Cooksey, Crawfordsville, and Mayor Joseph Kimmell of Vincennes. Several attacks on the public serI vice commission were ant’cipated, i Au indication of the trend of today 1 discussi n was given by H Carl Volland. Mayor of Columbus, in I yesterday afternoon’s session when he criticized G vernor Harry G. Leslie f r failure to sign a municipal ownership bill passed by the recent special legislative session. Volland referred to the public service commission as a "nonessential appendage f stile government and a . menace of local government.” Delegates planned to tour the Cal- | umet section steel mills this afterI noon and visit the site of the 1933 Worlds Fair in Chicago. J. Adam Bede, former representative in Congress from Minnesota, will be speaker at tonight’s session. Mayor Ge. rge Krick. City treasurer Ada Martin and City Clerk Alice Christen were among Decatur officials who are attending the meeting. SEVEN GUNMEN FIGHT POLICE Lour Bystanders Wounded When Gun Battle Is Staged In Chicago Chicago, Sept. 15.— (U.R) —Seven desperate gunmen who fought off three police squad cars in a thrilling automobile chase through the busy loop were hunted today as tour innocent bystanders were treated for bullet wounds. The 50-mile an hour pursuit through traffic-cbngested streets were watched by more than 50,1)00 J spectators. Scores of shots were | fired. The running battle, one of the most spectacular in Chicago police annals, started by accident when the carload of gunmen sped through a stop light on Michigan Boulevard in the mistaken belief a nearby squad car was trailing them. The traffic violation started the police in pursuit. At breakneck speed police and gangsters raced around the loop. Constant exchange of shots attracted two additional police machines to the fight. ’con'tinub® on PAGE SIX

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 15, 1932.

Thieves Obtain Loot | At Lenhart Dairy A thief or thieves broke into the I Lenhart Dairy Products Co., located in the rear of the building at ! Third and Monroe streets, Wednesday night and obtained a total of > 112.27. The money was taken from) two separate drawers. The robbery I gained entrance to the dairy by en- | tering a cellar grate and then forcing the cellar door. ■ The thieves also entered the Gilsoft shoe store, which occupies the (runt part of the building hut as* I far as could be ascertained, obtain- , led no loot. The rear door to the! ,’stere was forced open by bre iking I a padlock. Sheriff Burl Johnson was . called but few clews to the iden- , ' tlty of the thieves were available. I o SENATOR NORRIS FOR ROOSEVELT l 1 Republican Senator From Nebraska Repudiates President Hoover ■ New York. Sept. 15.—<U.R> —Sen-: , ator George W. Norris, liberal Re-: i publican senator from Nebraska. | . I explained today that he was sup-. .' porting Franklin D. Roosevelt for( j president because "President Hoo-I ver's attitude toward every vital | . problem is wrong and on most of' . these- questions Roosevelt is right.” i The Nebraskan, always a critic I of the administration, declared in > . his explanation published today in the magazine Liberty that he con-' ! sidered himself a “better Republi I, , can than Herbert Hoover or Calvin | Coolidge if fidelity to fundamental ■ principles and basic ideals counts for more than stanch adherence to j the Shibboleth of regularity.’’ “If Lincoln were alive today he ’ would support Roosevelt." He said Mr. Hoover and his administration stood for government of the people "by big business, for CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT O Trys To Enter Home, Sent Out of Town A tramp who gave his name as • Orville Brooks from Columbus who ; attempted to enter the Ed. Whit-; right residence on West Monroe ( street at 10:30 o’clock this morning was later seized, threatened with I arrest and sent out of town. Mus Gladys WMtright and Mrs. j Francis Howell daughters of Mr. ' | and Mrs. Ed Whitright were in the house when the tramp was walk j iftg about the yard li oking into the [ windows. When he arrived at the! back do. r which entered a porch he j attempted to get into the house by j ripping the screen from the door. I A foot and a half of the screen was | torn loose. I Receipts from the ice route con-' ducted In this city by Mr. Whit-1 ' i right, were lying on a desk on the I porch. Neibhbors assisted in fright- ' ’ ening the man from the door. H > 'I was later seized at the Hains Meat I ; Market on Monroe street by chief of ( police Sephus Meletti and sent out I of town.

WOMAN'S BODY IS IDENTIFIED Body of Drowned Woman Is Identified As Bern’s “Other Wife” Sacramento, Cal.. Sept. 15. —<U.R) —ldentification of the scantily-c'ad I body of an auburn-haired woman recovered from the Sacramento (river as Dorothy Millette. today | lent credence to the theory that the i “other woman" in the life of Paul Bern had joined the film producer in suicide. The l>ody of the woman Bern had supplied regularly with funds i for 10 years virtually-was identified today by Edward Sullivan, clerk of | the Plaza hotel in San Francisco. Miss Millette hurriedly checked out lot' the hotel Sept. 7 when news that Hern had committed suicide was published. Gordon Dye. a fisherman, found (the body entangled in weeds in l Georgian slough, an arm of the | Sacramento river. The body was clad in a black : silk skirt, b'ack silk hose and exl pensive underwear. i Coroner James R. Garlick an ! nounced he had summoned Henry ■ Bern, brother of the film producer, Ito come here from Los Angeles to .make the identification positive. I Meanwhile, word came from HolI lywood that the entire estate of the ' motion picture producer who committed suicide, was left to his j widow. Jean Harlow, platimum 'blonde film star. MINE PICKETS STONE WORKERS Four Mine Employes Are Injured When Striking Miners Stage Raid Coal City, 111.. Sept. 15—(UP)— One thousand pickets stoned employes of the Wilmington Mine of I the Illinois coal corporation today. I Injuring four and forcing suspension of operations. None of the injured was seriously I hurt, but the automobiles of three iof them were badly damaged. Operate n of the mine under the ' United Mine Workers’ new contract j reducing wages from $6.10 to $5 a day, drew members of the newly. | organized progressive miners of . America to the scene for picketing. Mayor William E. Brown, of GilI lespie, temporary heddquarters of I the 'progressive miners, led the | pickets. “We're here to stay until the emIployes j in with us. 2 Ute declared After the first outbreak, w-hich ■ occurred while workers were on their wjy to the mine, order was l restored without official intervention. The pickets lined all entrances to the mine, awaiting a mass meetI ing this afternoon.

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GOV.ROOSEVELT IS HEARTENED BY RECEPTION Democratic Candidate for President Heads For Denver, Colorado DEMOCRAT LEADERS ASSURE SUCCESS Colby, Kana. Sept. 15—(UP) —Govenor Franklin D. Roosevelt made a brief soeech today to several hundred farmers from the Western Kansas wheat belt gathered here to greet him. “My purpose is to make the agricultural dollar worth as much as, the industrial dollar The Democratic Presidential nominee said. He spoke from the rear platform of his special train, which left for Denver after a stop of a few minutes here. Aboard Roosevelt Special, en; route Denver, Colo., Sept. 15.—(U.R) —Spurred on by the assurances of Democratic leaders that he would sweep the grain belt in November. Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt headed for the Rocky Mountain country today intent on lining up Colorado for the presidential ticket. Roosevlt, his advisers said was amazed by the spontaneity of the reception accorded him in Republican Kansas, where he offered a six-point plan of farm relief and arraigned the administration for what he termed its "starvation” policy toward the agrarians. It was estimated 20,00(1 persons heard him deliver his address at Topeka, the home town of VicePresident Curtis, and in substance renewed his plea for the "forgotCONTtNtIFTD ON PAGE SIX HOOVER MAKES VIEWS PLAIN President Issues Strong Statement Against Immediate Bonus Payment Washington, Sept. 15. — dJ.R) Summoning the strongest words in his vocabularly, President Hoover has branded the proposal for immediate cash bonus payment as one involving a "fatal threat” to recovery, a "deadly blow" at the nation's welfare, and “an act of moral bankruptcy.” Regardless of the American Legion’s expected action in endorsing it, Mr. Hoover has given notice he will oppose it to the end. Its consummation, he believes, would be a "calamity" to the other 21,000,000 families not affected by veteran grants and might wreck the currency and financial system of the country. Mr. Hoover set forth his views in a statement issued while the American Legion convention at Portland, Ore., was considering the cash bonus proposal. “The proposal to levy over two billion of dollars and to pay it to a particular group constitutes a fatal threat to the entire, program ot recovery, to the success of which all must look for their wellbeing. security and happiness," Mr. Hoover said, "in my judgment the enactment of any such proposal into legislation would be a deadly blow at the welfare of the nation. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE O Former Adams County Man Dies At Evansville Muthias Kirsch received a telegram this morning, announcing the death ot a cousin, Mathias Stern, 68, of near Eviansville. Death followed an operation, Funeral arrangements were not stated but Mr. Kirsch and brother Peter are planning to attend. The deceased w s born near Heidleberg, Germany and Mine to Adams county with his parents, when a baby. He was reared in Preble township, moving to Illinois when a young man and later purchased a farm near Evansville. He is survived by the widow and five children.

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To Dedicate Orphans Home At Fort Wayne — Several people from this city are planning to attend the dedication of the St. Vincent’s Orphan Home at Fort Wayne. Sunday, iSeptember 18th. The Orpilans’ home will be known as St. Vincent’s Villa and the buildings and administration of the institution are marked departures from the old orphans home. Orphans from the Fort Wayne Catholic diocese will be housed at the Villa. There will be 14 cottages with a family of 32 children in each home. 0 JOHN SWANSON TO INVESTIGATE INSULL EMPIRE - - Illinois States Attorney Promises Thorough Probe of Utilities LOSS ESTIMATED OVER A BILLION Chicago. Sept. 15.—(U.R)—States Attorney John A. Swanson said today he would investigate thoroughly the three billion dollar utilities empire of Samuel Instill which collapsed with a loss to investors and creditors estimated at over $1,000,000.000. Swanson's announcement follow- | ed a new series of startling revelations in the complex affairs of the toppled utilities pyramid. The state's attorney called a conference of his chief assistants to map a program for the inquiry. He also was to be presented with a demand by stockholders of certain Insult corporations for a grand jury investigation of the collapse. Simultaneously, it w'as learned a federal postoffice inspector was watching developments in the case. U. S. District Attorney Dwight Green was at Washington, D. C., but denied his trip had any connection with the Instill debacle. Swanson said he felt it his duty to investigate instill matters. “The Insull affairs are the talk of the town,” he said. "All kinds of rumors are being spread. I do not mean to indicate I have any facts at hand which call for action but I feel it my duty to investigate these stories." Revelation that an official inquiry impended in the crash ot the vast utilities chain whose tenacles ' spread over virtually the entire nation came as receivers for Middle West Utilities Co., prepared to submit their first report to the U. S. district court. The Middle West Utilities Co., was the central ’ holding corporation of the Insull interests and had a capitalization of $300,000,000. A report on Insull Utilities Investments. Inc., a sister holding corporation, this week showed a $226,000,000 deficit. However, many operating corporations of the Middle West group are reported in good shape and hope has been expressed stockholders eventually may salvage something out of this concern. Receivers of Middle West shared this belief in a statement accomp ing announcement of appointment of Grover C. Neff. Wisconsin util- ' ities expert, as president of the 1 concern, effective today. Neff succeeds Martin Insull, brother ot Samuel, in this post CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE O Decatur Freshmen Elect President At the meeting of the freshman class of the Decatur high school the new officers for the ensuing year were selected. .Miss Lee Anna Vance was chosen as guardian for the class during the year. Officers chosen were as follows: ' Bob Engeler. president; Agnes Nel- ! sen, vice-president; Russel Butler, 1 secretary; and Ruth Porter, treasurer. County Vigilantes ( Hold Target Practice i The Adims county vigilantes held I their regular target practice at the - Stuckey miniature golf course in ■ Geneva this afternoon. The size of . targets has been reduced and all 1 practice is now at rapid firing at 100 and 200 yards.

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ITALIAN AIR MINISTRY IS MAKING SEARCH Authorities Are Convinced Fliers Have Been Forced Down MAY HAVE LANDED IN REMOTE SPOT Rome, Sept. 15—(U.R) I he air ministry canvassed the whole of Italy and islands in the western Mediterranean totlav for information about the trans-Atlantic airplane American Nurse, lone overdue on its attempted Hight from New York to Rome, without result. They were convinced the plane I must be down and only hoped it l had landed possibly in some in- ' accessible spot in Spain or Corsica. Since there was no hope of the ' plane reaching Rome non stop, vigilance at the airfields was relaxed. but planes were held ready in case of information that it had landed elsewhere. Rome, Sept. 15 —(UP) —The monoplane American Nurse en route from New York to Rome was feared a victim of the Atlantic today, hours overdue and not rep rted seen at any point on the European coast. Italian officials did not believe that the plane had fuel for more than 40 hours flight. This period ■ ended errly today, while beacons at airports from Rome to Paris flooded the sky. (The veritable flying laboratory aboard which a physician hope-1 1 to record the reactions of transAtlantic fliers, left New York at 1 6:16 A. M. EST. Tuesday. It was 1 known to have reached a point 450 miles northwest of the azores. The plane had altered its course to the south at that time to take advantage of favorable weather. The liner France reported sighting a plane believed to be the American Nurse about 450 miles west of Land's End, England, but if this was the "Flying Laboratory,” In was well off its former course. Aboird the plane are William Ulbrich, pilot. Miss Edna Newcomer, nurse and co-pilot, Dr. Leo M. Pisculli, New York physician, and “Tailwind,” a mascot woodchuck. Complete preparations were made here late yesterday and maintained through the night for receptio t of the plane at Ciampino Military airport, just outside Rome. Minister of air Gen. Italo Bal'bo, who has flown CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX SECOND REVOLT IS REPORTED Revolutionary Movement Is Reported From Northern Chile Today Santiago, Chile, Sept. 15 —(UP) — A revolutionary movement against the new Chilean goernment was reported today from Northern Chile, where Col. Meri.m Benitez, chief of the air force, fled by air yesterday followed by Chile's entire force of fighting planes. Unconfirmed reports said the garrisons of Iquique and Antofagasta, totalling 3,000 men. had pledged themselves to Benitez. Formation of a “revolutionary government” in the north also was reported. The attitude of the garrisons at ; La Serena and Arica was not determined, the reports said. The second day of the new government headed by Gen. B.rtolonu . Blanche, who ousted Carlos Davila found the air force and the army . in conflict bordering on open warfare. Benitez challenged Blanche's right to rule. The new provisional President ordered Federal troops to march on El Bosque airfield, outside the Capital. Benitez, with some 50 pl ines under his command, ordered the ships to fly to Golina flying field, North of El Bosque. He exacuated El Bos- ' que with 80 troops en route to the field. The government erected antiI aircraft defenses on important ‘ | buildings in II The govenment then assembled f a land force and sent it to Colina, 1 Benitez again took the air and his I men flew north, landing at Ovalle, | Anti fagasta, and other cities.