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MN AWAITS SOSEVELT AND WER PARLEY Lsidenl-Elect Plans To -’lttend Informal Conat Capitol ad BR lEBT IS Nov. 15 <U.R) coullsel w;ls " a,l! Euredlf''' ''‘'I'' 111 Hoover as adOiisli ation to<l a y solution of the Knassi resulting from request for war ■it rewiou and the apparWilin' attitude of leaders. ■ 1 Roosevelt tele ir * ! he would be ■dtoUtll ,Ih ‘ «lel»t problem “’""'B htmjt th" White House. Ho however, that pi opose to assume readvance of his t«ion 1 J power on March 4. I 1 Ke <-onfe'< t' • probably will be . n W pafl next week. Hob .-nroute from C.ili i 1 Kua, w|l "111111 l.eic tomorrow > ’ in the dying days of JKailgjKtrjiimi with one of the Kst ySSpiid.ib'e and dyn-tmi |Khl«aßi has confronted. Britain .. revision ■r-iebtj, .H'l suspension of theii > ■ delicate B. . K|l • Ollies polit ic'l I ■” K eaMni' and Hie two appear ■re Atßrica. facing a billiouKllar M t in its budget, cannot ■ace! postpose payment ■ EtnSs debts. Many of them ■taittei themselves to this ■tai in I" nt campaign appeals. ■CiuiiWi Collier of the house means committee fcssed th" attitude of many con “If Europe can't pay. I her o4< us." he said. "I favor Bephift t obligation on our Wis. Sfc > day we may be able ■ Set ■tie of the money anylet in khe minds of some govfeient e nomists, there is doubt is tWv.i,-ilom. even from a selh view. toint of forcing debtors j if they cannot pay. Aciding t prevalent opinion in StiniAtiou circles. France can i p.vment of $20,000,000 <°idy th' United States withi But Great Britain a ''' e transfer its Seembei installment of $95,500,rUED ON PAGE TWO O •cits Plan Dance regular meeting of the Kappa fraternity held fraternity hall Monday is were made for a New ince to be held at the Country Club. Commitappointed to complete gements for the dance ill be a subscription I a large nuumber of ■e expected to attend, 'ere also completed Im 1 Turkey Trot, to be Ihe Country Chib on November 24. Mill) HEAR HIS FATE SOON .Mayor’s Appeal Is «■ ’ or Hearing "■ BWnesday Morning Muncie i nt | Nov 15 _( UR) ,_ Ap . the conviction of George , **'* [ ousted mayor of Muncie, . tomorrow in the fed J court of appeals at till be accompanied to ChiMessey, police chief, / nolice commissioner. I others who were conI lt h him on charges of conIgW. to violate the prohibition Massey received sens 18 months each in Leavand fined sl.F 1 Eliis was sentenced to servo council ousted Dale steadfastly refused to office pending outcome

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Newman Award to Kellogg H._ i l I j ;| fc. ’ ■' • ■■ » . iwaMraK Frank B. Kellogg, former Secretary of State, is shown here as lie ■ received the Cardinal Newman award at the University of Illinois for his work to outlaw war. Left to right: Governor L. L. Emmerson of! I Illinois, President Chase of the university, and Mr. Kellogg. ,

Play W ill Be Given The annual Thanks Offering play I I presented by the Girls’ Missionary | • Guild of the Cross Reformed church | at Berne will be given Sunday anid I Monday evenings, November 20 and , 21 at the church. The presentation . will frTgin at 7:30 o'clock each even- I ipg. , A . The play entitled. "The Woman . i Who Tunnedi Baeki,” —Janey deals I with the changed life of a Kentucky I . mountain girl after attending a mis- 1 . sion school and the wonderful Influ-1 . eince she has on h r associates. Musical numbers will supplement ■ ■ the lay. No admission will be • charged but a free will offering will I . be lifted. The public is cordially I . I invited, to attend. PLAN RELIEF j FOR HOMELESS Japanese Typhoon Caus- ! es Suffering; 26 Are Reported Dead Tokio, Nov. 15.— (U.R) — Relief 1 measures were undertaken by the ; government today to aid hundreds made homeless during the night | by a typhoon that lashed northeast ’ 1 ern Japan, taking 26 lives. An official announcement said; , 22 persons were missing after the) storm. In the six provinces at- j fected. 6.050 houses were destroy- [ ed and 42.495 acres inundated. Reports that 1,000 lives had been ’ lost on the Lu Chu Islands, north east of Formosa, where the wind at times reached a velocity of 60 ) miles an hour, were denied by the I governor of the islands, who was visiting Tokio. The governor said . private advices indicated property) damage on. the islands wts com . puratively small The government announces 1:’ were known dead at Yokohama., three were missing and 11 were in-, jured. Six were dead at Yokos- 1 uka. the official report said. The typhoon first struck the Lu. I Chun, sweeping onto the mainland j near Shidzuoka and extending as. far as Yokohama before it dimin } ished. The Osaka region was un-| touched. Landslides caused most.' of the deaths at Yokohama, at least | 20 having been caught under the | ••• • i CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE E. E. Zimmerman Still In Serious Condition ' IThe condition of E. E. Zimmerman, aged resident of Decatur, and a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital who Buffered injuries Sunday night in an yuto-i mobile accident, was reported to be about the snrne this afternoon Mr. Zimmerman suffered a pnnc- I tured lung and other minor in-., juries when the automobile he a was driving struck trail:::' 1 q '' b ‘ ed on the state road south of. I Decatur.

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iDEMOCRATSIN STATE CONFAB I — No Politics In Indiana Penal Institutions, New Governor Declares French Lick, Ind., Nov. 15—(U.R) 'Reports that Chicago and Indiana I Democrats would organize a I “Little Tammany'' in the middle- 1 | west were denied vigorously to-j day as party leaders prepared Io end their two-day conference and ; victory celebration here. I Indiana leaders in particular) | scoffed at the idea, declaring I they would gladly form an alliance i ! with neighboring states to effect savings on government but that I they would not help Illinois Dem- | ocrats win federal patronage. Most of the Democrats in sea-1 sion here plan to return to their homes tonight. A few. including! Paul V. Mclfutt, governor-elect of Indiana, plan to spend a few more days here resting. I Although he has received countless applications for state ! jobs, MctNutt declared last night ' that heads of the state penal, benevolent and education institu- | tions will be permitted to retain j their jobs under his administration. “These institutions are to be , maintained on a basis ot effli ciency,” he said. “No politics will be injected inCONTINUED ON PAGE THREE o NEW UPRISING THOUGHT NEAR I Oriental Armies Believed Near New Outbreak On Western Section I Tokio, Nov. 15—(U.R) A Japanese campaign to crush Chinese I commanded by Gen. Sit Ping Wen .between Angnncbl and Manehull, lon the western section of the Chinese Eastern Railway, was predicted today by the Vernacular Press. The campaign was expected to mean that the lives of 100 Japanese held captive at Manchuli would be sacrificed. i Japanese Consul Yamazaki is .among the prisoners, who were capI tured Sept. 27. There were women land children among refugees at 'foreign consulates and headquart'ers of Japanese organizations, but most of them were believed to have been transferred into Soviet territory through efforts of RusIsian consular officials. Su Ping Wen spumed invitations to peace negotiations with Japanese and Manchukuo repre-1 sentatives. Traffic on the western . section of the C. E. R. is irregular] beyond Hailar, as the tracks have i [been damaged in many places. |

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 15, 1932.

ADAMS COURT I JURIES DRAWN November Term To Start Next Monday Morning ( At Court House Grand and petit jury members ' for the November terra of Adams I circuit court which starts next | Monday morning, November 21, 1 were selected Monday afternoon by Commissioners J. A. Long, Ge--1 neva and James Bain, Decatur and Milton C. Werling, clerk of Adams circuit court. I The grand jury usually is called during the November term of i court, but no intimation has been forthcoming as to whether Judge Walters will call the grand jurors !fot investigations. I The petit jury draw includes: Daniel Kaehr, Monroe township; IV. AV. Hawkins, Washington township; John H. Duff. Hartford towniship; Melvin Malonee, Washington township; David Graber, Monroe township; Adams Miller. Jes- ! ferson township; Bert W. Bears, Hartford township; Joseph B. Barkley. Union township: Otto' Ewell, Preble township; Joe R. ! Isch, French township; Harry Moore, Wabash township; John S. I Peterson, Washington township. i j The grand jury will include: I Jacob Mosser, Hartford town(ship; Menno Eicher, Monroe township; Claud Harvey, Washington township; Sherman Kuntfel, Root (township; Bernard Beckmeyer, ; Root township. o Ed S. Shoemaker Dies i Word has been received here of , the death of Ed. S.Shoemaker of | j Indianapolis, who for several years 1 resided in Decatur. Mr. Shoemaker died at his home in. inldianapolis ; Sunday night following an extended I illness from (paralysis. ' While in Decatur the Shoemaker family resided at 313 Winchester street and Mr. Shoemaker was interested in the Ward Fence Factory here. H was a member of the First (Christi'ain Church -here. A daughter, Mrs. Don Smith of Indianapolis and a son lynn ShoeI'maker of lA'kron, Ohio, survive. TURNER BESTS ( FLIGHT RECORD — Coast To Coast In 12 Hours And 33 Minutes Is Nev. Mark Set Los Angeles, Nov. 15.—<U.R> —Col. Roscoe Turner, veteran Los Angeles pilot, dedicating his endeavor to President elect Roosevelt, flew (from New York to Los Angeles in 12 hours and 33 minutes yesterday' bettering by two hours and 17 minutes the old mark established two years ago by Frank Hawks. Turner, piloting a streamlined Wedell-Williams racer, averaged better than 200 miles an hour in spite of strong headwinds. “1 took an awful beating from the weather.” be said. “I was freezing one minute and burning > up the next. It was so cold at one point 1 thought the motor was going to stop." Turner left New' York at 4:46 a. m. (PSTt yesterday and made refueling stops at Columbus, Kansas Citv and Albuquerque. His actual Hying time for the distance was 12 hours and 3 minutes. He landed at United airport at 5:19 p. m. Turner said after making some adjustments on his ship ho would attempt to lower Jimmy Haizlip's west-east record of 111 hours, 19 minutes. He set out on such a flight last Saturday but a blown tire disrupted the trip at Columbus. Linn Grove Woman Is Death’s Victim Today, Mrs. Lillis/ Hodman, S 4, died, at her home in Linn Grove at 12, o’clock noon today from old age ■ and complications. Mrs. Hoffman, had been bedfast two weeks. Mrs. Hoffman's maiden name was Louisa French. She was born In lAdams county. She was • the wife of Peter Hoffman who preceded her in death several years ago. Surviving are three children, I Mrs. Lawrence Yager, Berne; Orlan Hodman. Linn Grove, Dr. Sterling Hoffman of Fort Wayne. Fuueial arrangements have not | been completed.

Oritz Babe Expires Little Mike Oritz, month and a | half old baby oi Mr. and Mrs. John I Oritz residing 2 miles east of MonI roe, died at the home at 6 o’clock [this morning. Death was due to j ■complications. The baby had been! ailing since birth. The child was born September 29, I i 1932, in Adams County, the son of , John and Elizabeth Oritz, who sur-1 | vive. Several brothers and sisters! ! also survive. 1 ! Fuinera-t services will be held I i from the St. Mary’s Cuth-oHc Church I here Wednesday monain at 9 o’clock | with, burial in the Catholic ceme-| tery. Rev. Father Hennes will offi- l elate. The body will remain l at the Lob- ; ■enstein funeral Parlor in Monroe I until time for the funeral. UNEMPLOYED I SEEK QUARTERS Local Men Desire Room For Recreation. Reading Here In City it 1 A movement ’among a group of | | Decatur’s unemployed has been !, i started for the setting up of a read- :■ ling and lounging room in. the busi-:’ I ness section. The suggestion will be forwarded to the directois of the h local chamber of commerce by a committee representing the unemployed men. The suggested plan is to mame i ' someone in charge of the room, I which will be open’ at stated hours for the purpose of unemploy.il (‘ gathering to read and talk over i ■ their problems. It also is hoped that ( ■I if such a quarters is established ( I people having odd jobs to be done I will call the quarters for workers. 1 II As each man receives a. job, his ' I name would be taken from the top |of the list and placed ’at the bottom, ■land each man than would receive • some work. The plain suggested here is sim-! ilar to that worked in many Indiana cities. Some o ft-he larger cities have instltutedi the unemployed , quarters in. the last month, both as a place for recreation and also I for part-time enuploymemt. Mrs. Peterson Is In t ritical Condition The condition of Mrs. Fannie! Peterson continued very serious | this afternoon. She has been ill | I the past several weeks from in-; fluenza and the ailment h.js | effected the heart. Relatives are I at her bedside, all the children i who reside at a distance having been summoned. .1. R. Arnold Expires Mrs. Mary Bentz-Arnold of Mercer avenue, has received word that her husband. J. R. Arnold of the Soldier’s Hospital in Wiscon- ( sin. died Armistice Day. November 11. Death was due to tuber ( culosis. Mr. Arnold had been a | patient at the hospital for the last four years. 0 BERNE MAN IS BADLY INJURED p A. C. Smith Suffers Frac-| tured Skull When Train Crashes Into Auto 1 •Angola, Nov. 15 (Special)— A. 1 Clayton Smith. 45, ll rnn travelling salesman, wis critically injured neir h?re early Monday night when ' the automobile in which he was rid-1 ing alone was struck by a Wabash ■ 1 train at a crossing eight miles | south of here. Smith received a (( fractured skull and other injuries. | ■ The imjurad man was removed to (' I the Angola hospital, where his con- ' Idition was regarded as serious. His 'brother O. N. Smith. Berne an'd his 1 |wife Emma were notified and ar- ; rived here to be with the injured ' f i man. The accident occurred about S o’clock Monday night. The car was demolished. Hospital attendants stated that he has a slight chance to recover. He is the father of four J 'children. Mrs. Walter Miller of De-[ catur is a daughter of Mr. Smith.; Smith is well known in Adams!: county and he has been employed as a salesman for a in.umber of years travelling in northern Indian';i 1 andi Michigan. |’

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lEUROPE HOPES FOR EXTENSION ON WAR DEBTS ! Disarmament Plans Are Hurried In Effort To Secure Postponement AMERICA IN KEY POSITION j By Harry Flory, UP Staff Correspondent London, Nov. 15. — <U.R) — American approval of post'ponement of European war i debt payments was expected I today iii official quarters here, w hile European statesmen en- ' deavored to impress congress I with their desire for disarm-1 ament in return for debt reI vision. Realizing that disarmament ; progress must precede any change ! .in the debts situation, statesmen ; iincreased their efforts to break, (the deadlock in disarmament, ne- j i gotiations. Diplomats were convinced that dramatic developments would be witnessed early in December, i These included an agreement be(tween France and Italy to adhere 1 •to the full provisions of the Lon- i don naval treaty of 1930. and the I return of the German delegation j 'to the Geneva world disarmament conference. I While these developments will be attributed ostensibly to a real ( desire by European nations to 'achieve disarmament for their own . good, the increased speed really is ( due to the desire of France and j ' Britain to, effect an earlier settle- ! ment of their obligations. : If America is convinced that Europe wants to disarm, it is believed here and on the continent I that the chances for postponement iof the December 15 payment will [be increased, and a more favori able atmosphere created for re- ( I consideration ot the entire ques-j tioti. For these reasons. France and i Britain showed recently a more I favorable disposition to meet Ger--1 many’s demand so r armament i CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO PLYMOUTH MAN IS MURDERED Virgil Barber Held After Shooting; Jealously Over Girl Hinted Plymouth. Ind., Nov. 15. —(U.R) — 'Arthur Pratt, 37. Plymouth restaurant proprietor, was shot and (killed last night allegedly by Virigil Barber, 26. who was arrested la few minutes later after threatening employes and customers in | the restaurant. The shots were fired into Pratt's (chest. He died almost instantly. | Jealousy over a girl was believ|cd to have been the motive. I Barber, according to Prosecutor[elect Don Kitch. who was dining lin Pratt's restaurant in downtown Plymouth, called the proprltor 10. a rear door. As Pratt stepped in- ; ito the doorway two shots were fir-( led. Kitch and William Hubbard, i I waiter, said Barber then threaten-1 ed them with a revolver He fired itwo shots, one of which peiii'trn* led Kllch’s overcoat. | Policeman Tim McKinney and , Ed Wright said they accosted Rar- , ber as they were .running to in- ' Ivestigate the shots. ‘ I asked Barber If he had heard (the shooting” McKinney said. ’’lnstead of answering he struck i me with his fist. !• “Wright felled Barber with his I night stick and we placed him un-, der arrest." Hubbard and Kitch identified him later as Pratt's assailant. Pratt, a married man, was alleged to have alienated the girl’s affections from Barber. I Hill Funeral Is Held Funeral services for John Hill, [59 who died at his home 1109 West ' Madison street. Sunday morning. ; were held this afternoon. A whort .service was held at the home fol--1 lowed with a sermon at the United Brethren Church by the pastor, Dr. C. J. Roberts. Burial was made In |th» Decatur cemetery.

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Seriously 111 g ..-re’s I l! i : lb / n jj ; - ja 1 B I Senator Smith W. Brookhart of i lowa, who is seriously ill of pneu- , monia at the home of friends in ; Hinsdale, Illinois, Chicago suburb, where, he was visiting when he was taken ill. So serious is the senator’s illness physicians decided that to move him to a hospital would endanger his life LOANSYSTEM' STARTS SLOWLY Home Loan Bank Has Not (Made Loan; Congressional Criticism Feared — j Washington, Nov. 15. —(U.R) —The Federal Home Loan Bank system (today completed its first month without having extended a single 'loan to a home owner or private ! financial institution. Established to meet a “crisis" in (mortgage banking and stop an [epidemic of home foreclosures, the central home loan board has been (in official existence for three | months. A potential credit reservoir of $1,500,000,000 (B) was plac- ; ed at the disposal of its 12 regional banks. They were empowered (both to make direct loans to dis- | tressed home owners and to con- | duct extensive rediscounting operI ationc. The regional batiks opened 30 'days ago. Yet latest reports reach(ing the central office here show !no loans made. Officials say' internal organization work still is underway. They decline to forecast the date when the institutions (actually will become active. Despite reports that members of I the board were dissatisfied with the 1 workings of the home loan act, : board officials insisted today that the act is “sound" and that results may be expected when the extensive details of organizations are out of the way. No detailed official announcement ever has been made of the number or amounts of private subscriptions to the banks’ capital. Chairman Franklin W. Fort, formler New Jersey congressman, announced a month ago the response (had been satisfactory. Original capitalization tor Hie | ’’’rON'nNUF.P (IN PAGE THttBE - ■ - (O Allen County Woman Expires This Morning Mrs Wilhelmina Sehoppmam, 75 Idled at 1 o’clock Tuesday morning at the home of her son. M.il'tlli • Schoppman of St. Joe Towship, Allien County. Mrs. Selioppman died of compli cations. She w ss a member of the St. Peters Lulher.t'i. Church. i The deceased was boriv in Marion (township, July 17. 1857, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Henry Berning. 'Her husband, William Schopiyiman died 29 years ago. [ One son. Murtin., a grandchild, i Wanda Kleirte, and three step- : children, Hannah Miller, Charlotte 'Fleming of Fort Wayne and Minnie of Los Angeles, California, survive. Funeral services will lx> held at the home im< St. Joe township. Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock and at 2 o'clock in the St. Peters Lutherin Church. Rev. A. C Dorffler will officiate, assisted by Rev. Waller Klausing. The body was brought to the W. H. Zwlck and son Fun >ral Parlors a d will be removed to the home Wednesday mornlnig where the remains may be viewed until time for the funeral.

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WIDOW OF HEIR TO BIG FORTUNE GAINS FREEDOM Nolle Pros Is Filed In Famous Murder Indictment in The South WALKER CASE ALSO DROPPED Winston Snlein, X. Nov. 15 (UR> Solicitor Carlisle Higgins today entered :i nolle pros in the ease of l.ibbv Holman Reynolds, former Broadway “torch singer, and Albert (AB) I Walker, charged with mur- | dering Miss Holman's late ( husband, Zachary Smit h ; Reynolds, youthful heir to '! tobacco millions. . ( The nolle pros taken today re1 1 moves the case from superior J court docket permanently unless .! new evidence is discovered, in . | which event the Indictment can J be reinstated on presentation to ; the presiding judge. In other I words, this action “leaves the door open.” Solicitor Higgins told newspapermen earlier in the morning that he was going to enter a nolle I pros in the case and that they could release the news automaticI ally at 1J o'clock. I Attorney James H. Pou. of I Raleigh, had failed to arrive in i court at 11 o'clock, however, and .' therefore Higgins had not formally entered his nolle pros at that hour, waiting Pou's arrival from Raleigh. The Smith Reynolds case involved the death of the heir of > [ | one of America’s wealthiest indus- | trial families. On the other hand. I it. entangled a leading stage star, known and popular everywhere. j Reynolds and Miss Holman ' were married secretly in Decern- ■ .... I rnVTTHTTKP ON PAGE TWO Hodle Funeral Will Be Conducted Wednesday Fumeral services will be held ■ Wednesday iftereioon for Phillip j'Hadlle, 68, of North Ninth street • who died Suinday morning from 1 heart trouble Two services will be ■ held, at 1 o’clock from the home 1 and' at 1:3(1 o'clock at th United 1 Brethren Church with the Rev. C. (J. Roberts officiating. I'literment will be made in the Marquardt cemetery west of Moeroeville. | 0 . Wynn Funeral Planned ; Final services for Mrs. Elizabeth | Curtis-Wynn, 88, a resident of \d aims County for many years, who died at the home of her son, Ru ben |Wy,nin at Monroe, will be held We lI nesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at (the Reuben Wynn home, and at 2 [o'clock from the Si;’.ringhi!l Church Burial will be made in the church [cemetery. Rev. Jay Smith, assisted (by Rev. A'ernon Riley will have ' charge of the services. OHIO WOMAN DIES MONDAY Mrs. Melissa Barkley, 71, Known In Adams County Expires Monday Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa 'Barkley, 74. of east of Decatur across the state line, who died at her home Mo,:rduy mornl .it in :i' o’clock will be held Wednesday a- - ut 2 o’clock, Ohio time. (Burial will be made in the King cemetery. Rev. Glen Marshall of ,' Decatur, pastor of the Cnureh of God, will officiate. 'I Mrs. Barkley had been a member of the local Chlreh of Go.l. Her ..death was due to cancer. She was born In Harrison township, Va.ll Wti’t County, Ohio, July 16, 1858 the daughter of Mr. aind I Mrs. John Sheets. She hid spent 1 her entire life In Vtn Wert county. • She was united In marriage to . I James A. Barkley who preceded her in death. Surviving is a son. Orley Barkley ( of Vain Wert Couinty, Ohio; and : three brothers, Josiah Sheets, Con- - voy, Ohio; Aaron Sheets, Loma. 1 Colorado; C. I V. Sheets of <’oll- - voy.