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■V.SEIMETZ I APPOINTED ■UJCALPASTOR ■her .1. L Seimetz of ■esterton M ill Take || Charge Jan. 27 ■phew of late I REV. J. A. SEIMETZ ■e Rev. Father J. J. Sei- ■ for 12 years pastor at ■brick's Catholic church, ■terton, and a nephew of ■| P Rev. Father Julius A. ■pt? of this city, has been ■d pastor of St. Mary’s ■die church, the appoint- ■ made by the Rt. Rev. ■op John F. Noll, Fort ■ne. becoming effective ■ay, January 27th. ■her Seimetz will be succeed- ■ pastor at Chesterton by the ■Father Edwin F. Eisenhardt, years pastor at Good■tiee of the appointment was ■v»l here this morning by the ■ Father Joseph Hennes, acting ■>r of the local parish since ■er Seimetz's death on Decent■c ■ther Seimetz was ordained to ■>riesthood in It'll and his first £ ent was as assistant of ■itMeph's Caihoiic church. Lok■>rt. For the past 12 years he ■been pastor at Chesterton, ■ther Seimetz began his stud■or the priesthood at St. Jos- ■ college, Rensselaer, Indiana, ■completed his theology course ■<. St Mary s Seminary. Cin■ai. The same year he was ■iiml to the priest hood. 10 years ■ than his uncle, who was or■<l in Ihul. ■e newly appointed pastor of ■arc's parish was born in Mich■wnMi’En' on 'page five) MFARMERS El IAN. 25-26 ■nual Township Institute Will Be Held At I Luckey School V-nion Township Farmer's In■te will »e held in the Luckey ■ ■*l o' Union township. Wednes-I ■»nt«ry 25 and 26. The open aeusion of the institute will be Wednesday evening, followed i an all-day session Thursday. »o state speakers will address Bttting. They are Mrs. Harry *nson of Bloomington and rice S. Lafuze of Liberty. A I program has been arranged he event. uli prizes will be awarded for est io ears of corn, the longest ®< corn, the best peck of pota--1 the best dozen of white eggs ’’ill also be awarded to the «ls for the best hand drawn er and the best cutout poster. 1 oratorical contest will be eonW|| ‘ be conducted with the varill bools of the township com The winners will u lso re- * Prizes. *rge Crowd Attends he Hartford Township FarniMtitufe which was held 4y ; , Was we " attended, ap■‘tely 200 persons attending tn tl? oon anf * evening proThe gymnasium was filled Pacify during the evening. in n eW . °‘bcers chosen were Pontius, chairman. Eli Duiti„. VlCe ' chttirman ' Mrs - Ju »« t ,. h ' „ accretary. amd Goldie Uch alk. treasurer. W i, lnih ® r of goo< i exhibits weret IDIm tv re Were 110 sraln r( ... cakes of ail varieties. iihi» S I** inhibits of bread. 8 *rh? y J eiKht mpn tbers enrolled institute next year. Killed By Auto br k0 H rt : ,nd - Jan - lly | atM ynes - 71 was injured tele . Yesterday when he was '*y an automobile driven by rhna ßnee Nanc ®> mother of > «Sr n she was char^d a car P ? R ( ’ rivin fs and operator without » license.

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Baby’s Photo Wins Fame * ** ‘i , * A short time ago Master Roy W, Anustgnng of Champaign, I!!., itad his pioture taken. The result brought fame to Master Roy and tile photographer. The photo graph was awarded highest honors in a world collection of photography in London recently. It will appear as a prize winner in the American Annual of Photography for 19,13. WDLHONOR ROLL IS GIVEN Mildred Koldeway Leads All Students On Decatur Honor Roll —— - < Mildred Koldewey, a sophomore, led the Decatur high school honor roll fog tlie third six week's period of the second. xuanazt ; announced today. The sophomore class had the largest number of pupils on the list with 15 and the juniors were second with 14. There were nine and eight pupils respectively from | the senior and freshman class, niakI ing a total of 46 names on the list. Following is the honor roll: plus plus A A B ■Mildred Koldewey 5 Tom Allwein 4 Alice Jane Archbold.... 4 Eileen Burk 4 Jack Grether 4 Marie Grether 4 Kathryn .Hower 4 I Agnes Nelson 4 .Mary Kathryn Tyndall 4 ’ I j Mary Grace Zimmerman 4 TEula Myers 4 1 j Robert Coffee 3 2 Minnie Moyer 3 2 ’.Martha Erma Butler 3 1 (Charles Ehinger .... 3 1 | Harriet Finch.e 3 1 ißitth Porter 3 1 1 William Tutewiler 3 1 ■ Wilma Andrews 2 3 ' Virginia Dolch 2 3 Madeline Spahr 2 3 Rosemond Hard 1 3 Albert Keller . 1 3 William Schafer 2 11 1 Dorothy Summers 2 11 ‘ Marcella Gilbert 1 3 1 Esther Koenemann 1 3 1 CONTINUBD ON PAGE FIVE TOKIO POLICE ARREST 7.000 Many Prominent Japanese Are Included In Communists Arrested i Tokio, Jan. 18.—(U.R)—Tokio police today released the names of 238 alleged communists arrested in * a nationwide series of raids which began last October 30, revealing that several prominent Japanese ’(Were held. i Among those held for trial as ’ asserted communists were Dr. Ma- ’ time Kawakami, former professor 1 of Kyoto Imperial university, and I Noborn Ozaki, former justice of the Tokio district court. Thirtyfour women wore In the group. Police announced that a total of 7,0110 persons have been arrested during the past year as communists. including 107 women. The police drive against communisiic activities has been intensified during recent, months as ’ a result of asserted Increased efforts of communists to organize • | sympathizer s into a nationwide 'group.

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DENIES REPORT OF WITHDRAWAL ON FARM RELIEF I Democrat Senator Denies Roosevelt Has Withdrawn Influence ROOSEVELT AND HOOVER TO CONFER Washington. Jan. 18 (U.R) — Senator Smith. Dent.. S. (’., today emphatically denied reports that President-elect Roosevelt had withdrawn all influence for passage this session of the farm . allotment bill. I “There is not a word of truth J lin those reports." he said today. I >' “Mr. Roosevelt is extremely att- . xious that a farm bill pass." t Mr. Roosevelt was today charg--1 ed with “vacillalting leadership” -by House Republican Leadet . ■ Snell, despite Senator Smith's - denial that the president-elect had t withdrawn his influence front the i farm relief 'bill. • i “The president-elect has again ■ changed face absolutely." Snell i said "First it was on the sales ' tax; then the income tax anil now I the farm relief program is abandi oned. This is one more definite, I concrete evidence that lie is leaving ills congrssional leaders out on a limb all dressed up anil no i place to go." The senate agriculture commit4 tee met today to hear details of the bill explained by Chairman Junes of the lieuse committee, its author, and Eric England, assistant chief of the bureau of agricul- -. i tural economics. r Confer Friday ■-i Washington, Jan. 18— (U.R) — a.JTifeUlejlt Hooyer will confer again with President-elect RttbSb-' 1 ' p, velt on war debts Friday morning, FnVTtN’FET' OX PAGE SIX IMPEACHMENT . EFFORT LOSES J Second Effort by Republican To Impeach Hoover Is Defeated Washington, Jan. 18 —(UP) —The House for the second time this session brusquely swept aside Tuesday a new effort of Rep. McFadden (Rep.) of Pennsylvania to impeach President Hoover. The staunchly anti-administration Republican picked up three votes from the last test but saw his resolution tabled by an overwhelming majority without his even being permitted to speak for an hour as he intended. The resolution declaring Mr. Hoover guilty of ’Jiifeh crimes and j misdemeanors" that merited im- 1 peachment. was tabled by a noisy 1 house after a roll call vote of 3421 1 to 11. It contained the same charges ' ' as were embodied in the original 1 resolution which met the same fate on December 15 by a vote of 361 to 8. It was directed principally at alleged misconduct of the chief exetufive in international diplomacy I and war debts. McFadden already had been deprived of his patronage as a Pennsylvania Rejmblican for saying last session that Mr. Hoover “sold out” . to Germany and the international bankers; he had lost his secretaryship of the Republican Pennsylva"(CONTlNUED ON PAGE SIX) o t Uses Local Product i j The Fort Wayne Cooking School , is being held at the Catholic Com--3 munity Center in that city this week, and the afternoon sessions j open at 1:30 o'clock. The attend- . ante at the school Tuesday was r 2,800 I The school is conducted by Mrs. f Katherine Delaney, famous food ex- . pert, and cooking demonstrator. I This is the fifth year that Mrs. Def laney has had carge of the school i j in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Delaney is featuring Clover- . leaf ilce Cream, in the school, which .is a product of the Cloverleaf I . Creameries, Incorporated, in Deca-j s tur. The instructor is stressing eco-1 . nomy in cooking this year and Is » buying only those products that con , lain the largest amount of food! value. j

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 18, 1933.

Torture Victim !| Chicago, Jan. 18 - <(J.R) — Two ruthless women torture bandits! en.ered the home of Mrs. Rose Schmalzer, 22, today and burned ■ her feet with matches untH she! was forced to reveal'the hiding i place of her money. The women, one a blonde and! the other a vivacious red-haired i girl about 20 years old, broke into the home through a pantry, window and awakened Mrs., Schmalzer. They demanded iter money.! When Mrs. Schmalzer said she’ had only 35 cents, they applied I matches to her bare feci'; Scream-1 ing in agony. Mrs. Schmalzer finally admitted she had $lO hidden iu her husband's coat. The torture bandits took the money and fled. OLIVER STEWART TO SPEAK HERE Prohibition Leader Will Speak at First Christian Church Sunday The Honorable Oliver W. Stewart, president of lite Hying squadron foundation ami chief of its field force, will be in Decatur. Sunday, January 22. at 2:30 p.m. to address a community meeting in the First Christian church. Mr. Stewart is one of the fore-J moil leaders of the prohibition! movement now In active service in this country. Practically his! entire life has been devoted to this cause Moie than forty years ■ago he was released from his contract as a young school teacher in the middle of a term that he might, go out to do organized work in its behalf. While a young man he did what Was regarded as impossible in winning an election to the lilimdsj legislature on the w prohibition issue as a candidate in the city of l i Chicago. As a member of the ! house of representatives of hisj state, he rendered distinguished, service to the cause of prohibition. > Almost immediately lie became a; man of marked influence in that I CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE O Files Affidavit Hartford City, Ind., Jan. IS. -! (U.R) —An affidavit was filed in Blackford Circuit court today by| I’l useeutor James R. Emshwilier, against Carl Jarnigin. 36, of near Millgrove, charging assault and battery with intent to kill his brother, Arley Jarnigin. 42. whom he stabbed when the two quarrelled. Arley, who is in the Blackford county hospital, will recover from the stab wound which penetrated his riclit lung. Carl is in jail under heavy bond. He is also charged with larceny. The latter confessed this morn- | ing to robbing the Brown Grocery I store at Millgrove on four occaI sions, and the Ben Davis farm ! home, twice, and having entered, ! other business places. I

Democratic House Leaders Voice Opposition To General Sales Tax

Washington. Jan IX (U.K) De-1 spite President Hoover’s new bud-1 get warning. Democratic house leaders still are opposed to the| general manufacturers sales tux They are having (trouble in making major reductions in ex-' pc uses. So it is largely on deaf ears that President Hoover, in his latest budget message, released late yesterday. thundered a call to make both ends meet by joining new taxes and economies. Unless President-elect Roosevelt should reverse himself in bis conference wittli his legislative generals here tomorrow, the Hoover program lor handing the government over to his successor with expenses and income balanced appeared today to be doomed. When DemocJ’atic leaders re | cently decided the sales tax would have to Ire resorted to and it was I intimated that Mr. Roosevelt was sympathetic word came back that he was "horrified" at the thought Hints that Income taxes would be | made mote drastic brought sucn i a quick cry of anguish that ( his idea promptly was disowned by all parties. President Hoover's warning, i dispatched to congress within a

CITY COUNCIL ! MET TUESDAY Hold First Meeting In New Council Chambers At City Hall Tlie city council met in the now council chambers on rhe second floor of the city hall building last evening, it being the first meeting held in the newly remodeled quarters. - The room is a convenient one. with the mayor's and clerks desk at the southeast Conner of the room and the councilnien's desks i arranged diteciily in front of the mayor’s de-k. facing the south. I Seats tor visitors are placed at ! the west end of the room, facing i the east. A table will be placed in ■ the room for the newspaper repI resentative. Mayor George Krick announced. Take Up Insurance The matter of taking on’ a policy on the boilers and turbines at the city pkmt was presented by representatives of insurance companies. Local agents represented at the meeting were A. D. Sutt'.les, Ira Fuhrman. Fred Kolter and Ed Herling. On motion the matter was referred to the purchasing committee and it was announced that a meeting of the committee I would be held today to decide I about awarding the contract. i .etter from Miss Bernice ■ Nelson applying for the position ! !of bookkeeper of the citv light . and power plant was read and placed on file. Objection is Made Councilman Fred Linn objected l to the fact that the street departi ment had been allowed only 20 cents per ton for hauling coal for the months of October. November and December, w hereas, the reduced rate should not have gone i into effect until January 1, 1933, CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE SPEAKERS HERE j MONDAY NIGHT All Ex-Service Men And Legionnaires Are Invited To Meeting All ex-service men and legionnaires are urged to attend a special meeting of Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion at the Legion hail Monday night at 7:30 o'clock. Special speakers have been obtained for this meeting. These speakers are Clarence A. Jackson of Newcastle, past state commander. P. T. Haas of Fort Wayne, former vice-commander of the northern district and Roll Rushee of Ossian, present Fourth district chairman, j A quartet from tlse Chalies A. Anderson post, the colored veterans organization at Fort Wayne, .will furnish music for the evening I entertainment.

j few minutes after the senate had ' joined the house jn overriding his j veto of the Philippine independ- ’ ence hill, was to the effect I hot unless taxes are raised and exI penses reduced, there will be a I deficit of $920,000,000 to $1,120,000,000 (B) next year. It is this period for which congress is now making the annual departmental i appropriations. He would raise half of the deficit by new taxes and wipe out (the other half bv economies. This outlook confirms the picture drawn in recent United Press dispatches describing where the taxpayer's dollar goes. The government ran behind $900,000,000 in 1931. It fell behtnd $2,800,000,000 (R> in 1932. This year it is due to be $1,100,000.000 (B) short. Plus the estimated deficit for nex' year, this makes a total of $5,800,000,000 (Bi in four years. This debt makes it necessary for the government ti. borrow money by selling bonds and short-term securities. This year it will cost $725,000,000 to' canpt the Interest alone. Next' to the $1,000,000,000 (B) veteran cost, this interest charge is the largest single item in the national budget ' To reduce it Mr Hoover suggest- 1 on ‘page FOUR** I

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SAYS HALLORAN AIDED REMOVAL OF TWO BODIES Winnie Ruth Judd Accuses Man of Aid After Two Murders — HALLORAN FACES ACCESSORY CHARGE Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 18—(U.R 1 ! Hysterical and screaming, Win- : nie Ruth Judd, condemned Arizona trunk murderess today ! told for the first time under oath how she shot and kiiied Agnes Ann Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, her intimate friends. She punctuated her dramatic recital with the shouted accusation that J. J. (Happy Jack) Halloran at whose preliminary hearing she was testifying “was ; responsible for the deaths of three girls.” Phoenix. Ariz., Jan. IS. (U.R) Winnie Ruth Judd, standing under the shadow of tile gallows, was I called to repeat In court today uc i cusutions that John J. (Happy Jack) Halloran helped her remove 1 from the death scene the bodies of Agnes Ann Leroi, an d Hedvig I Samuelson, their mutual friends. The hazel-eyed Indiana girl, under sentence of death Feb. 17 on I eonvh tlon on a charge of murder-1 ing Mrs. I proi. described the] wealthy local lumberman as her I “companion-afier-the-crime” in testifying yesterday at his preliminary hearing on accessory charges. I Continually interrupting her own testimony with hysterical outbursts, Mrs. Judd brought her I stojy to a climax by uttering a | Hweat of suicide, it came under a relentless cross-examination by, Halloran's counsel, attacking her' contentions that the lumberman prepared the bodies for shipment to ixis Angeles where she was arrested several days later. “I'm telling you God's truth.” she cried bitterly. "I'm telling you what I will write when I intend to commit suicide.” The statement dropped like a bombshell in the crowded courtroom. Mrs. Judd faced another crossexamination today. Halloran's counsel was prepared to prolong the hearing until the end of the week, if necessary, in an endeavor CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX DISAPPROVES ’ BEER MEASURE Superintendent of Indiana Anti-Saloon League Makes Statement Indianapolis, Jan. 18 — (U.R) — Indiana will witness one of the greatest waves «of moral indignation in its history if the Democra'ic administration beer control bill is passed. L. R. York, superintendent of the Indiana AntiSaloon League, said today. Bitter denunciation or the bill, which also embodies Wright “hone dry" law repeal and medicinal whisky, was voiced by the Indiana dry chieftain. "This bill is the forerunner of; a general let down.” he said. "It will mean the liberalizing of our morals and an appalling increase in drunken driving.” "1 don't believe,” York challenged, “that sonic of the men who vote for this bill as an administration measure realize that they must answer to their constitutents. People try to tell me that Indiana has become wet, but I don’t blieve it. Look alt the fight a lot of drys put up in the last election. Take David Hogg nt Fort Wayne. He would have been elected to congress by a 6.500: rnNTTNITED GV PAGE THU WE Unemployed Riot Chicago Jan. 18 —(UP) —A crowd of 500 unemployed rained bricks and stones into the Jaiwndale depot of the emerency relief commission today, terrorizing the 120 officials and employes. i Two policemen were slugged in .the street battle that followed callling of emergency squads.

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Crazed Farmer Kills 2, Self M ' « Mike Lantarc (above), 67 year old farmer of Ross, Ind., who shot and killed a neighbor and Sheriff Roy Holley of Lake County, Indiana, and wounded seven others before his own bullet-riddled body was found Monday night follow- : ing a five-hour seige on his home i which started over a dispute on j tlie possession of a tree. senTEonoW’ RENEW ATTACK Huey Long Threatens To Resume Fight On Glass Bank Bill Washington, Jan. 18 — (UP) — Senator Huey Long, Dem.. La., Kingfish of the Senate filibuster, threatened to resume his attack on the Glass bank reform bill today as angry Senators awaited a vote on their effort to stifle him. Vote on a cloture petition signed by 29 Democrats is fixed for 1 p. m. tomorrow. No Republicans signed the petition. Republican leaders privately asserted they believe the senate will refuse to silence Long : Democratic leaner Robiiisoti, who; formally proposed the cloture, smilingly refused to predict the out-1 jeome. It is* doubtful that he can 1 muster the twothirds necessary to! limit each Senator to one hoyr of I ! speech on the pending Glass bill. Long told the United Press today he would return to the attack immediately, although there were reports that Senator Borah, Repn., Idaho, hoped to he able to nresuade Long to permit the senate to vote. CONTINUED UN PAGE FIVE 0 Lions Cluh Meets The Decatur Lions club held the regular meeting at the Christian Church Tuesday evening. Rev. E. E. Franklin of Muncie, who is aonductirg special serices nt the Methodist church here, gave a short address. During the business meeting, the members of the club decided to 1 meet every Tuesday evening at the Rice hotel. PHILIPPINES ARE APATHETIC Little Enthusiasm Is Shown Over Granting Os Independence Manila, Jan. 18—(U.R) —Filipinos, for the most part, greeted enactment of legislation granting them their long sought independence ; apathetically today —a strange ■ contrast to the stormy struggle [ they have waged since the begin--1 ning of the century for autonomy. Sharp differences voiced by political leaders during the day made it appear doubtful what action the ferr'iorial legislature would take when the Hawes-Cutting bill granting the islanders complete independence In 10 years comes before it for ratification. News that, tlie United States 1 " ’continued’ on’page f'ivb' v

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BEER ANO BANK MEASURES ARE GIVEN HOUSE Bill Provides Drastic Changes In State Control of Banks FOUR BILLS ARE PASSED BY HOUSE liidiuiuipolis. ,l;tn. 18 iU.R) -— Athuiiiistititiou bills dealing with beer and banks were introduced in the Indiana house of representatives today while Democratic members of the senate caucused. The long awaited beer bill was ottered bv lieprcsentative John F. Ryan, Democrat of Terre Haute, who introduced a companion measure repealing the Wright "bone drv" law. The beer hill also includes a provision for repeal of the slate enforcement act. Drastic changes in the state's control of financial institutions are provided in Ithev administration bank code bill offered by Representative Leo M. Gardner. Democrat of Indianapolis. The bill is based on recommendations of the commission appoin’ed by the 1931 legislature Io study tlie Indiana banking situa tion. It provides for abolishment of the str e banking department and establishment of a board of four non-partisan, non-salaried members to be appointed by the governor. 31 Signatures The beer bill contained signatures of 31 refiresontatives. Ryan's repeal measure had 58 names 'attached. An emergency clause is contained in the beer bill so thait it may become a law as noon as it is signed by the governor Its operation, however, hinges on action by congress. The senate caucus was callel in an effort to end confusion which lias resulted from introduction of three bills and numerous amendments on the proposal thaic county highway superintendents be abolished and their duties assumed by county surveyors. I The house passed four bills, advanced one to sei oud reading, I eight to third reading and killed GONTTNFED ON PAGE FIVE KILL GANGSTER IN LOS ANGELES — Three Suspected Gang Members Are Reported ‘Taken For Rides’ Los Angeles. Jan. 18. — (U.R) Eastern bootlegging interests were believed to have moved forcibly into Los Angeles today when throe suspected members of local combines were shot and killed. Harry Meager, 40. described as the "big shot'' of the prized HollyI wood rum domain, and a companion were killed in front of the former’s home. Mickey Arno, 24. a boxer, was killed and his body tossed under the San Gabriel bridge near Long Beach. Police suspected his dealli w-as inspired by the same plot that culminated in the Hollywood killings. Rumblings of an invasion of Chicago liquor interests have been current for months. Police believe the triple assassination symbolized the invaders' reply to local resistance. Police sought the identity of Meager’s slain companion. Tlie two were slain in Meager's large CONTTNI’ICTV DN PAGE SIX Taken To Prison Bernard Hain of Decatur was tnk- • en to the Federal Industrial Institute at Chillicothe. Ohio. Tuesday to begin his sentence for theft from interstate shipment. Hain was sentenced to two years after conviction by u jury in the federal court at Fort Wayne last week. Floyd Death, sentenced to three years at Leavenworth at the same time, will 1 be taken to the federal prison sometime next week.