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Liquidating Agent Makes Distribution i * Will tv Smith, liquidating agent [for the Monroe State Hank, which closed in February. 1930. today announced a distribution of deposits to be made October 1. The checks will be ready by that time and Mr. Smith will appreciate It if as many as can. will call for same. This distribution will be for 7Vi per cent and will make a total of 76 per cent paid to date. So far the total is 67>4 per cent and the amount to be paid this week represents one fourth of the balance due. Plans have been made to pay t>he balance in four equal installments, of which this is the first. The directors and officers will make an effort to complete the liquidation during the next eighteen months. AGREE ON TERMS OF SETTLEMENT Receivers For Sugar Beet Company Reach Agreement With Creditors An agreement was reached a week ago between the receivers of the Holland St. Louis Sugar Company, creditors and beet growers relative to settlement of their claims. The case as entered in the U. S. District court, western district of Michigan, southern division bears the title of "Resource Holding Company, a New York Corporation and Charles J. Welch, plaintiffs, vs Holland St. Louis Sugar Company. defendant.” The agreement is as follows: “In the effort to avoid additional expense and the delay which will accompany the determination by 11 tig also n of the respective rights and priorities of the beet grower and trade crediws tiwcluding the Receivers of The Continental Sugar Company) on the one hand and the stockholder creditors on the other hand, the intervening beet grower and trade creditors in the Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company Receivership proceedings have made application to the court for a consent decree settling and adjusting said respective rights and priorities with respect to the unmortgaged assets on the following basis, to-wit: “1. The beet grower creditors (including the Receivers of The Continental Sugar Company) will receive when, if and as the Receivers have funds available therefor an amount of money which, together with the amounts already received by them, will aggregate 17.00 per ton for beets sold and delivered to the Receivers herein, plus the established and agreed haulage charge tor all beets hauled and delivered to the factory, all as shown by the Receivers' books, plus interest at the rate of 6% per annum on the amount so determined from the dates such respective obligations were incurred by said Receivers to the CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE ISAAC STEVENS DIES MONDAY Preble Township Farmer Passes Away at Hospital After Long Illiness Isaac D. Stevens. 64. Preble township farmer, died at the Adams County Memorial hospital Monday night at 9 o'clock, follow ing a six months illness. Death was due to cancer of the bladder. The deceased was born in Elizabethtown. Ohio, the son of Charles H. and Eliza T. Dunn-Stevens. He was born on October 16. 1867 and his age at the time of death was 64 years. 11 months and 10 days. Surviving are a sister and one brother. Mrs. Lucinda Hostettler of Westport, and Standish Stevens of Kirkland township. The body was taken to the Zwick and Son Funeral parlors and upon the arrival of the sister, was removed to Westport for burial. o —* — Ossian Woman Hurt When Glass Jar Bursts Bluffton, Ind.. Sept. 27—(UP)— A glass jar containing hot gra.pe Juice burst in the hands of Mrs. Jesse Neuenschwander, Ossian, scalding her severely and cutting her arms.

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JUDGE THAYER ESCAPES DEATH IN EXPLOSION Massachusetts Ju d g e’s Home Wrecked by Bomb Early This Morning REAR OF BUILDING IS DEMOLISHED Worcester. Mass., Sept. 27. —(U.R) —Judge Webster Thayer, who pre- 1 sided at the internationally famous Sacco-Vanzetti murder trial 11 . years ago, barely escaped death early today when his home on the I fashionable west side was wrecked by a bomb. Almost miraculously, the whitehaired justice of the Massachusetts superior court suffered only | bumps, bruie.es, and shock when hurled from bed by the blast. The I explosion damaged property and rocked a wide section of the city. Although the judge's 62-year-old I wife and a maid. Miss Joan Ashe. 32. were taken to hospitals, neither I was seriously hurt. Mrs. Thayer! received five cuts on the forehead I when hit by tumbling debris. The ! maid suffered from hysteria. Judge Thayer received hundreds of death threats in connection with the trial and execution of Nicola Sacco, shoe worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, fish peddler, who were electrocuted at state prison in 1927 for the murder of a paymaster and his guard at South Braintree seven years earlier. Police were inclined to link the bornb--1 ing with the Sacco-Vanzetti case, 1 although conceding it was strange that vengeance should huve been 1 so long deferred. When firemen reached the Thay- * er home on Institute road, tn re- ' sponse to an emergency call, they found the judge, unhurt but sutferCO.NTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE PARTIESUPSET BY BROOKHART ■ lowa Senator’s Decision To Join Progressives Upsets Party Plans Washington. Sept. 27— <U.R) Republican and Democratic hopes . of carrying lowa in the presidenI tial election were unsettled today by the third party movement in J that state which Senator Swith W. Brookhart will lead. Brookharts decision to enter : the senatorial race as nominee of the “Progressive" party, comes nearly three months after his defeat in the Republican primary by ' Henry Field, radio station operal- , or and seed merchant. The insurgent Republican's action confused national campaign chiefs of both major parties. Democratic leaders had hoped that Brookhart might follow Senator George W. Norris. Repn.. Neb.. 1 senate progressive bloc leader, and come out for Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt for president. Brook hart's decision to run on a third party ticket was considered to him this chance. Brookhart will make his appeal for the vote of progressives in both parties. He has a large following among Republicans in lowa. In the senate primary he . received 146.000 votes to Field's 197,000. His decision to continue his ' fight for his senate seat also injected the wet-dry issue forcibly into the three-cornered campaign. ' Brookhart has been a dry of the i uncompromising sort. Field has cautiously given his support to the ' Republican resubmission plank, but with the proviso that he per- ' sonally has not yet made up his l * ' ’CONTI NUFyn* nN PAGE SIX f>— — I Craigville Lad Is Bitten By Dog Amos Meyer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer, of near Craigville, was severely bitten by a large collie dog at this home Monday morning. The dog was kicked by a horse and knocked under an automobile in a crippled condition. The Meyer family m ved it to the barn for attention iA short time later Amos went to the barn, the dog bit him in the leg and arm. He was taken to Berne to receive medical attention.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 27, 1932.

Open State Campaign ' ££SSSEE£SS£SESES ■ F jOi 1E « Ba ■. B ■, .1. ■. Fred Van Nuys (left) and Paul' V. McNutt will be the principal speakers at the formal opening of the Democratic state campaign, which will be Ifroadcast over a hookup of stations WOWO, Fort Wayne, WFBM. Indianapolis, and WGBF, Evansville, tonight at 8:30 p. tn. State Chairman R. Earl Peters will introduce the speakers. The I broadcast will originate in Fort Wayne.

ARRANGE’PLANS I ! FOR BIG RALLY ' I — I Committees Met Last Night To Complete Arrangements For Meeting Arrangements for the opening of 1 the Dem cratic campaign in Adams 'i county are rapidly being completed. The feature of the opening cere--1 monies will be the address of Colonel Paul V. McNutt, gubernatorial candidate, who will be the prin- • ciple speaker at the meeting to be held at the Catholic high school 1 auditorium. Wednesday night. October 5. The various ccmmittees met last night and with the exception of a few minor details arranged all plans. ('. J. Lutz will preside and will introduce the county and district candidates. Mrs. Charles W. Knapp will give a fifteen minute address and then Paul McNutt, candidate for gover- • nor, will give the principal address. At last nights meeting M J. Mylott reported that he had arranged fcr special decorations for the auditorium and will string col red 1 lights outside. Norbert Holthouse of the arrangement committee said plans for the event were going forward. Details will be announced later. R. A. Stuckey, reception, is arranging a big parade with features and music and will send six , decorated cars to meet the McNutt party. The bills will be out totn.r---i row and members of the publicity committee will see that the event r is well advertised over the couniy. f Special seats will be arranged for I t'he committeemen and their wives and visitors from out of the county will be seated on the stage. Mr. Mes Nutt will arrive about four o’clock in the afternoon, and will be entertained at dinner. He will spend the 1 CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE BLUFFTON FAIR ■ OPENS TONIGHT 1 I 26th Annual Free Street I Fair Will Get Underway At 7 o’clock ’ Bluffton, Sept. 27 —(Special) — The 26th annual Bluffton Free Street Fair and Wells County Agris culture Exhibit will open on the city streets here at 7 o’clock to- , night. Concession owners and show operators were busy ti day putting ’ on the finishing touches to their . stands and tents to be in readiness ’ for the opening of the big Midway tonight. Rain during most of Monday kept 4 many standowners from erecting their concessions but the work went on apace today. From present indications, this year's fair will be "bigger and better". p The fair will continue until midnight Saturday, October 1, wi|h something doing all tihe time. i In connection with the fair the : Bluffton News-Banner Monday pubj, lished a special Street Fair ediII tlon of 32 pages, showing many 11 scenes of previous fairs, pictures -! of officers and department fairs. -; This edition was made possible ( through the cooperation of Bluffton 11 and Wells county business men, > 1 whose advertising made the edition .' possible.

Disputed Claim Is Settled Out of Court Lebanon, Ind., Sept. 27- <U.R) —i Settlement of the long disputed; Will H. Latta insurance claim I sought by his fiancee. Miss Margaret Sanders, was reached in | ' Boone circuit court here just be-1 fore the case was scheduled to go' to trial. Miss Sanders accepted SB,OOO on • the $20,000 policy held by Latta, . ' who was killed in a crossing crasli I near Carmel. Ind. The policy had been taken out six days prior to I . • his death. The United States Casualty 1 , Company, which issued the policy, l , \ contended that Latta committed I suicide after drawing out the policy in favor of Miss Sanders. | In a trial of the case in Hen-; ; dricks circuit court last Novem-| ; her, a jury awarded a full jttdg-' I ment of $20,000 to Miss Sanders. | but the court ordered the verdict! set aside and the case re-tried. ADAMS COUNTY I FARMER DIES 1 •Chalmer D. Miller Dies Monday Night at Home In St. Mary’s Twp. i 5 Chalmer D. Miller. 37. farmer of ■ H Adams County for many years, died ; at his home in St. Mary's Town-, II ship. Monday night at 12:10 o’clock, I [following an extended illness. Mr. ■ | Miller had been ailing since Jan-, 11 uary with tuberculosis. He spent his entire life in Ad-' " arcs County with the exception of • i two years in which he was in camp ' during the World War. He enlisted ■ in Company A.. Fourth Indiana Reg-1 c intent June 11. 1017. and was later ■ transferred to Battery A.. f3sth F. * A. IHe was discharged from Com- ' pany D. 12th Battalion, U. S. Guards Chalmer DeWitt Miller was born in Union Township, November 9 1804, the son of Grand Miller and Nellie Freeh Miller-Mclntowh. He i was united in marriage to Lucille Fleming and six children were born to the union. Mr. Miller was a member of the Calvary Evangelical Chinch, east of t Decatur, and a memlber of the American Legion Adams Post, No. 43 Surviving are the widow and children. Eugene. D nald, Boneta, Fayma. Chalmer. Jr., and Paul all , at home. The mother, Mrs. Nellie Mclntosh, a sister, Mrs. James Darr , a half sister and two (half-brothers also survive, Nina Mclntosh, Mar- , shall and Harold Mclntosh. The , father and two brothers preceded ’ Mr. Miller in death'. s Funeral services will be held at r 1: 3>3 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the home one -mile east <f the Cal- . i vary Evangelical Church and at ; , 2 o’clock at the church. Th* Rev. ’ M. W. Sondermann, will officiate j and the American Legion will have j full charge of the service. Burial will be made in Clark’s Chapel. The body was taken to the Black , Funeral Parlors and will be removed to the Miller home Tuesday , 'night. where the remains may be viewed until time for the funeral. _o —i —. ’ Fort Wayne Youth Dies of Injuries i Fort Wayne. Sept. 27—<U.R) - , Paul Sebold. 17, died early today t from injuries received in an automobile collision here Sept. 25. ♦

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ROOSEVELT BIDS FOR VOTES FROM PROGRESSIVES I Democratic Nominee Seeks to Switch Republicans In New Mexico REVEALS PLANS TO VISIT THE SOUTH Aboard Roosevelt Special, en route to Lamy, N. M„ Sept. 27 — : (U.R) Governor Franklin I). Roose- ; velt today sought to switch to his ' support the Progressive Republican vote led by United States Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico. Cutting recently was represented as breaking away from the old guard Republican organization of his state and refusing to support it in the coming election. Roosevelt advisors believed the governor’s position on the tariff, agriculture and water power would I help him with the dissatisfied New Mexican Republicans. With j their support, the governor’s I friends argued, the state, which went for President Hoover in 1 1928, could be counted upon to fall 1 back into the Democratic column. The nominee, after a brief stop at Albuquerque, was to proceed to Lamy where he was scheduled to confer briefly with party leaders and advise them as to details of the national Democratic campaign. A concerted drive for progressive support, which was opened i in California when Roosevelt bid publicity for the support of the Hiram Johnson wing of the Repub- | lican party, has been carried for- ■ ward since leaving that state. The governor, who has obtained j the active backing of United | States Senator George Norris, proj gressive Republican of Nebraska, I is effected to perfect plans at a | meeting with the latter tomorrow i at McCook. Neb., looking to the| establishment of campaign maI chinery for an offensive that will CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE Petitions To Sell Waring Real Estate A petition to sell real estate owned by the late L. C. Waring in this city and at Rochester. Indiana, was filed t day by Ca! E. Peterson, administrator of the estate. Hearing ■ on the petition was set for Novem- , ber 21. The r°al estate involved includes t'.ie residence and Waring Glove, .factory building n M.nroe street and a factory building in Rochester.! I The island and cottage located in , ■Michigan is not included in the I ■ petition, separate suit being neces--1 sary in that case. I Heirs ■< f the deceased and the 'American Life Insurance Company Detroit, Michigan, are notified as parties in the cause. SEEK STRANGER AS MURDERER “Tall Stranger” Sought After Case Against Mine Leader Is Destroyed Springfield. 111., Sept. 27—(U.R)— A “tall stranger" was sought today as the slayer of Policeman Porter Williams during a miners’’ riot Sunday after extraction of a .38 caliber bullet from the victim's body apparently hffl destroyed the case against Garnett Smith, president of a Herrin mine local. Police said Smith first admitted, then denied that he fired the shot that killed Williams. Yesterday, the union local head, who is in St. John's hospital suffering from stab wounds, declared he had been under the influence of drugs given him by physicians to allay pain when he made his asserted confession. When it was ascertained that Smith carried a .45 caliber revolver, the search for the "stranger” began. Witnesses told of seeing such a man near the police officer when he was shot. Former State Senator William J. Sneed. Herrin, a representative of the United Mine Workers of America. and 22 other officials and representatives of that union, escaped by a ruse from the city CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX

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! Raymond Springer Makes Two Talks — Indianapolis, Sept. 27 — (U.R) Raymond S. Springer's campaign as the Republican candidate for governor carried him into two southern Indiana communities today. He planned to address a Republican rally at Loogootee this afternoon and a meeting at Jasper 1 tonight. Joseph B. Kyle, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, and Ben H. Watt, candidate for superintendent of public instruction. were scheduled to speak at Salem tonight. COMMISSION MEETS MONDAY Adams County Commissioners Meet Monday to Settle Right-of-Way Pay The matter of settling with the Indiana State Highway Commission for the right of ways along state road 16 east of Decatur and state road 27 south of Monroe, will be , determined by the County Commis- ( sinners in session next Monday. Agreement has been reached as to the amount due the highway commission, but the time of payi ment is to be determined. The total , due the highway commission is $7,- ; ! 740. which is about $5,000 less than the original bill. A clause inserted in the contract with the Commission by C unty Attorney (Henry Heller eliminated the cost of right-of-ways through Berne and Geneva. The Commission at first agreed I to accept $2700 on the account this , year. The Commissioners were willing to do this. Now the commissi,® requests that the entire amount be paid this year and the matter is to be decided Monday. I If the money can be spared, the commissioners will probably pay the bill in full, for the reason that CONTINUED O!| PAGE THREE 2.925 PUPILS ARE ENROLLED County Schools Enrollment Is Announced by Supt. Clifton Striker The total enrollment of pupils in the Adams county schools is 2.921. Cliftcn E. Striker, superintendent of the county schools announced today.. This number does not in'elude the city school enrollment. ! Os the total nunsis r, 632 are I high school pupils, 1,926 public eleImentary grade pupils, and 367 are ‘parochial school pupils. The number of pupils in the various townships and town schools is as follows: High School Enrollment Geneva 119 Monroe 112 Pleasant Mills < 93 Kirkland 91 Hartford r 85 Jefferson 78 Monmouth 54 Elementary Grade Schools Union 93 ■ Root 113 Preble 52 Kirkland 176 Washington 127 St. Marys 155 Blue Creek 128 Monroe 300 ■ French 175 Hartford 153 I Wabash 328 ' Jefferson 126 ' There are 61 pupiis in the Union ■ township parochial school. 34 in Root township. 220 in Preble and , 52 in Monroe. o Poland Fire Claims Seventeen Lives Warsaw, Poland. Sept. 27 —(UP) — 'Seventeen persons were killed, ‘ including six children, when fire destroyed 35 buildings in the village I of Rubiel today. Almost the entire village was homeless. , o— Rep. Crisp Named On Commission Washington, Sept. 27 — (UP) — Appointment of Rep. Charles R. Crisp, Dem., Ga., as a member of, ' the U. S. Tariff commission to sue-! ceed the late Lincoln Dixon of Indiana was announced by President ! Hoover today.

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EARLY REPORTS PRESAGE HEAVY TOLL OF LIVES Today’s Storm Is Declared Comparable In Intensit yto That of 1928 STORM ALSO HITS VIRGIN ISLANDS By United Press Puerto Rico, island of suffering anti trag e<l v , was struck today bv hurricane ot tin intensity said to be comparable to the disaster <»l 192 K in which 271 persons ! were killed. Reports to Red Cross headquarters in Washington anti Pan American Airways in New York said a battering wind of a velocity <>i from 120 to 130 miles per hour twisted through San Juan ami its environs. Dispatches from San Juan itself told of a terrific storm roaring in from the lesser Antilles. The U. S. weather bureau reported the hurricane probably would strike Haiti this afternoon. Many buildings and homes were : reported to have been razed in San Juan. It was feared human casualties were high. The Red Cross, which sent a relief expedition in the 1928 hurricane. requested further information and planned immediate help. San Juan. Puerto Rico, Sept. 27 —(U.R) —Puerto Rico has been devastated by a terrific hurricane leaving vast property damage and unknown toll of dead and injured. The staff of the newspaper El ’ Mundo expressed belief that the disaster was greater than the catastrophe of 1928 but the island was without communications. In three small towns just south of San Juan. 32 dead were reported up to 11 a.m. Except for reports brought in by courier from Bayamon. Rio I Piedras and Guayanabo all towns in the island were cut off from communication. San Juan and adjacent towns were without water and power. The storm, moving in an estimated rate of between 10 and 15 miles an hour, had approached from the Leeward Islands and. after damaging parts of the Interior to Puerto Rico, moved on toward Santo Domingo and northern Haiti. A hasty survey of the scene indicated property damage might be as great as in the hurricane of four years ago this Seutejnber when tens of thousands were left destitute. It was impossible, however, to make accurate estimates of the extent of the disaster immediately after the storm had passed. The Puerto Rician hurricane of Sbpt. 13 and Sept. 14. 1928, killed 271 persons and injured more than 3,01)0. Nearly a third of the popuCONTINUED ON PAGE SIX EARL BLACKBURN IS APPOINTED Decatur Man Is Selected 4th District Athletic Officer of Legion 'Earl Blackburn, member ot t'he Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion, was appointed district athletic officer of the Legion at the Fourth district meeting held at Garrett Monday night. More than 100 legionnaires attended last night’s meeting. Those attending from Decatur wre Earl Blackburn, David Adams newly elected commander of the Adams Post, Herbert Kern first vice-ccm-mander and James Staley, adjutant. Robert W. Bushee, of Ossian, commander of the Fourth district presided at the meeting, Other district officers are: Vice-crmmander, Kay M. Smith LaGrange, adjutant and finance. Franklin Buckner, : Bluffton; Service officer, William Deltrlck, Waterloo; Americanism. Shelly Seaman, Columbia City; conservati.'n, Elwoud Th mas. Wolf iLake; sergeant-at-anns, Robert I Young, Fort Wayne; C. M. T. C. offleer, James Leusley, Fort Warne poppy chairman, IHarold Morris, I Columbia City