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■JNTY CLERK IfRI INC FILES I COURT REPORT W )lb ( mint) Clerk Com.W|e,Stati'!ical Report dH for 1932 Ls \TMBER of Mses AKE BENDING . w’rling, Adams ‘ ,p| k. iliis c !’ n ’l>‘lt'd a of the Adn’lii't for the year fl The report lists the l of iriminal and civil pending at the opening *^K |t , vear, 'he number tiled, mimber id cases dispos■of aiul the mimlier pendK the start of 1933. i!.' pending on both ... n.il dockets than ... J.oiiary. The *K deatli .bulge Dore B. M, :i.in ti ((infusion in dni ine 1932 and pre- . ■ in ninny suits which li.nl started tinner Erwin "■•re unfamiliar to I I, Wallers, wlio sm i eedE'" 1 ' and eansed con-t^K-ji... a.. . pnuedure. tisuia a.V’A in the report th. ' i of persons inin sin'' amt not tlie number eases filed. ■ Criminal Cases '..1. 1 . were pending HR .dan s in .1 Binary. a. . tiled during the year. “ whom were dis. ill.: a. quitted. A total nersoi - (anointed dur sentences were ■i. defendants were «er< sent to jail ■ m «. . emitted to state insiiiiiti - Charges are . i - aft... Twenty four dewere charged with larEiV" defendants were cases ;.re .fii] pending. Altai show, a total of 12 detendhit this . up also includes |fltn: other charges ami not • uto theft. Juvenile Cases oeiiile cases were at the opening of 1932 dil’i .1 eiiiionui cases wet |fl*-' were :i, i public wards and were sent to boys' or girls' Tw.-rr. Ox eases are pendfl Civil Cases of : : civil cases were in January, 1932. Two uto - ...ven eases were (taring iii.. year and 30 were frnm nt --utilities. Twenn rases w . . venued to other |fl**''*-' ent.i.il in <)o cases and ' ox page: 'fi vk* " ■MS COUNTY IKMT DIES flj- David Soldner Dies W*riy Today At Monfl roe Twp. Home Ind feh a. (Speeinl■ «B-baiid Soldner. 76. a lifelong nf Adams county, died at this morning at iter home onrot township, five miles Ol ' t “ r,le - Mrs. Soldner ill since Monday. maiden name was Anna and she was horn in ch township March 30. 1956. were Mr. and Mrs. MF? 11 Whlliman. She married Soldner 56 years ago. besides the husband ■ following children: Mrs. V’’ssfff.f, Mia. Noah Login id Mrs. Maria Neuenschwand■«Rerne. Mrs. Edwin Amstutz u ton - r*hio; Clinton Soldner B’ Onro( ‘ township; Mrs. Edwin HF* O of near Berne and Dora ■‘ p r of Wheaton, Illinois. One KJ in infancy. There are ■7® hers or sisters surviving K * a s a member of the Menfl°L Cl ' Urill ' funeral services held Sunday afternoon at fltiodt a * l ' ,e *’ ome an< ' at fl ll( at the Mennonite church. HP »'ill be made In the M R.

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Meeting Tuesday The regular business meeting of the Fourth district of the American Legion will be held at Ossian w p. m. Tuesday, February 7. Clarence Jackson, Newcastle, state membership chairman, will be the principal speaker Luncheon will be served and special entertainment will be presented. AU officers of Adams post are urged to attend this meeting. WILL OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Decatur Boy Scouts Will Observe Founding of Organization Decatur Roy Scouts will Tmserve the 23rd anniversary of the founding of the scout movement in America with a fourslay program beginning Sunday. February 5. The anniversary of the Boy Scouts is Wednesday. February S, and on Tuesday evening a meeting and banquet will be held at the Decatur high school at 6:30 o'clock for scouts, fathers of scouts and men who are interested in the scout movement. The local program of observance begins Sunday, the scouts being asked to attend church services during the morning. Where possible local ministers will speak on the scout movement and its manbuilding principles. Os! Monday evening a public boar<l if review will be held at the Central school building, at which time scouts who have worked out requirements for advancement will be given a thorough oral examination on what they have learned of scout lore. Parents and friends of the scouts are especially invited COVTINttEn ON PAGP FIVE UNDECIDED AS TO BEER BILL Many Believe Beer Control Bill Will Be Withdrawn Soon Indianapolis. Feb. 3.—(U.R) — Gov. Paul V. McNutt announced today that the administration's beer control bill is not being “shelved." He said it is being held in committee because of changes being made in thj Collier bill before congress. Legislative leaders, he explained. are anxious to see what action is taken on the Collier measure before attempting to pass the beer bill in Indiana. Indianapolis. Feb. 3,— (U.R) —Administration leaders today were undecided over what to do with their beer control bill. It remained untouched In the house public morals committee where they had it returned suddenly earlier in the week. Relicts were held by some that lit merely was being held up pending action of the legislature on the state budget bill to be introduced soon and action on major revenue measures. Since the beer bill’s constitutionality is questioned seriously, many believe it will be withdrawn. That would be easy for legislative leaders if the anticipated revenue from beer, contingent ot course on its legalization by congress, is deemed unnecessary. “Junking of the measure would please extreme wets who have opposed its limits on breweries and : its ban on draught beer Whether drinks of more alcoholic content than provided federally can be legalized specifically by a state is one question of constitutionality Another is whether the legislature can pass an act contingent on what congress does. Many believe the best course to CONTINITEII ON PAGE TWO I — o — L. E. York To Speak A special meeting for young people has been arranged by the Decatur ministerial association, to he held at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the United Brethren church. L. K. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, will be the speaker. . All Decatnr churches are coop(rating, and all young people are iinvited to attend tins raiiy*

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Ohio Farmers Mobilize f P M , v W SW---I 4 * wWBBRBbuZ SL' jisHHBwBBRIW-Rlr X’’ Al ' Northwestern Ohio farmers are mobilizing under a new penny-auction banner as the result of fore- ’ closure sales in Henry. Wood and Seneca counties. In one instance 2,000 neighliors joined in buying a ' farmer's live stock and implements for $2.17 at an auction to satisfy a S4OO mortgage. They refused to take away their 25 cent hornca and G-cent implement n and arranged to give the property back on a long I lease. Photo shows part of a group of farmers at a foreclosure sale at Deshler. Ohio. > • ’ ’ " - -"I —— ' — - - . '

ANNOUNCE CAST FOR CLASS PLAY ’Cast of Characters For Senior Class Play Is Announced i ——- The cast of characters for the I' p’ay, 'Oil, Kay," to be presented f by the senior class of the Decatur I high school, has been announced. ■ The play will take place in the Deca. us high school auditorium Tuesday night. February 11. Rehearsals for the production have been held for the last few weeks and the show promises to lie one of the most entertaining plays presented by the senior classes of the school in recent years. Miss Dorothy Little is the business manager, and Tom Allwein is stage manager. Miss Virginia Miller will act as the accompanist. Following is the cast of characters: Edith Whitman Edwina Shroll Evelyn Whitman, hetmother Eileen Rurk Arthur Whitman, her brother Hubert Stults Captain George Whitman, her father Tom Burk "Gram" Pembroke Minnie Moyer Alice Boiden Myrtle Walters The B ack Terror ’? “Gramp" Pembroke Glen Roop Jim Hayes Theadore Sovine Kay Millis. of tl>e Millis Detective Agency Ferrel Fenimore Fred Alden Richard Macklin Ed Turner Richard Sutton ENGLAND NAMES FIVE MEMBERS t Prime Minister McDonald ; Will Head Debt Revision Committee London, Feb. 3—(UP)—The Brit- '' ish cabinet today entrusted negofia--1 tions with the United States for war debt revision to a committee 1 of five cabinet members, headed by * I’iltne Minister J. Ramsty MacDonald. Other members of the committee are: Neville Chimberlaln chancellor 1 of the exchequer. Stanley Baldwin. Lord President of the council who negotiated the present debt fu- ding ageements r with America. Sir John Simon, foreign secretary Walter Runciman, president of the board of trade. ’ The committee was charged with completing .negou-ittons with the United States for discussion of war debts and was made Jointly responsible for advising the government of the negotiations. It was announced that Mao Don, aid would accept the chairmanship- ! of the world economic conference it the conference is held in London. The govenment approved the con- ( ference program prepared by experts in Geneva, but has no Intention of calling the conference until , the war debts question is settled. It • CONFXNLED OH FAGS FIVC j

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 3, 1933.

Quartet Here Sunday The Greyhound quartet of Indiana ' Central college will give a musical I program at the first Methodist church here Sunday evening. Henry : Busche, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred 1 Busche of this city is a member of I the group. The boys are making a week-end trip through Northern Indiana. Sunday morning they will be at the Union Chapel church. Sunday after‘inoon they will broadcast over WOWO in Fort Wayne. They will be at the Methodist church in this city ■ Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. An ■ offering will he f.iken to defray the ■ expenses of the trip. NAME ELBERSON AS PRESIDENT James Elberson Elected President of Chamber Os Commerce — James Elheson, oil dealer and filling station proprietor of this city w.:s elected president of th-.- Decatur Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of the directors held last evening. Dan Tyndall, a member of the Krick-Tyndall Tile Company was elected secretary of the organiza- ’ tion. The retiring officers are, Theodore Graliker, president and Ferd L. Litterer, secretary. The new officers were elected directors at the annual meeting ot the Chamber of Commerce held Monday night. Mr. Elberson will select his committees. including te naming ot a chairman for the annual membership campaign to he made in the I spring Last year the paid member ship of the organization w is about 80 and the new officers hope that this year the roster be increased to abont 200 For the present tue I "number ot Commerce will maintain headquarters in the Peoples Loan and Trust company building and the monthly meetings of the board will be held the first Thursday of every month. The directors expressed their willingness to cooperite In every way with local effort to bring about the opening of the sugar plant in this city and to further any program of benefit to the community. The other directors who comprise the board are. Wilson Lee. Henry Schulte, Oscar Lankenau and A. R. Holthouse, o Organize Club •A Wahtsh township home economics club was organized Tuesday evening at a meeting held .it the home of Mrs. Mary Macklin in Geneva. Officers elected were Mrs. Mary Macklin, chairmat; Mrs. Kathryn Cole, vice-chairman; Mrs. Eliaabeth Heetei, secretary; and Mrs. Mary Feustermaker, treasurer. The first regular meeting will be held Thusday night, February 9, at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Heeler. Leaders and alternate leaders will he chosen at this meeting. Mrs. E. W. Busche, county home economics chairman and county agent L. E. Areirbold explained the workings and purpose of home economics; work. * ’ A

MISSING BERNE j MAN IS FOUND ,i Hugo Steiner, Missing Since January 16, Writes From Cleveland Berne. Feb. 3. — (Special)—The strange disappearance of Hugo Steiner ot Berne was solved Wednesday in a letter from Steiner to relatives here. Steiner had left Berne on January 18 to represent Ithe Homer Furniture Company In southern Onio and West Virginia. When no word was heard from him i for more -than ten days and officials at the hotel where he had registered at Springfield, Ohio, sent word > to Berne that the man had strangely disappeared, relatives Imre 'were considerably worried for some time that he met with foul play. Steiner is at the home of his brother, Valentine Steiner at Cleveland and wrote the letter to relatives here from that city. Valentine Steiner is employed, in the steel mills at Cleveland and Hugo Steiner says in his letter that he hopes to find work there. In his letter Steiner writes that he figured in an accident with another machine and was unable to obtain money to . pay the attachment pl iced on his car by the other party in the wreck. Being unable to get his car he decided to go to his brother in Cleveland where he ha’ been staving since. DONATE $149 TO AID NEEDY Employes of City School System Contribute To Winter Relief Several needy people will b<- fed and clothed the balance of this winter through the generosity of the city school teachers, janitors and employes of the city school system, a cash donation of $149 being made bv them to the Decatur Emergency Relief Association Dr. Burt Mangold, president of the local relief organization, named Herb Curtis chairman of the finance committee to solicit teachers and employes of the city schools for funds. Mr Curtis completed his canvas yesterday and reported to Dr. Man- ■ gold today that $149 had been do- ' nated. Every teacher, janitor and office employe contributed to the fund. The money will be expended by the relief agency among the needy families in Decatur. It will buy food, clothing and fuel and otherwise help the unfortunate this winter. During the week of February 13th, a bazaar will be held in the Bowers building on Monroe street. ! tinder the auspices of the Decatur Emergency Relief Association, the , proceeds from which will be used: |in local relief work. t

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ROOSEVELT WILL LEAVE TONIGHT FOR VACATION President-elect Will Embark Tonight On TenDay Yacht Cruise OBSERVERS NAME LIKELY CABINET Warm Springs. Ga„ Feb 3.—(U.R) — President-elect Roosevelt will leave tonight for Florida to embark on a 10-day cruise which he expects to leave him rested and physically fit to shoulder the burdens of the nation. Isolated alike from office seekers and those who seek to influence his policies. Mr. Roosevelt will combine relaxation in semi-tropic ■ waters with a final check of his tentative cabinet list When he returns. he will complete his slate of key appointments, hut he will not announce the personnel of his official family until March 2 or 3. The sea trip will start tomorrow from Jacksonville, with Vincent Astor as host on the yacht Nourmahal. Conferences with Judge Robert W Ringhma. Louisville, Ky„ pub- , lisher, and Prof. Raymond 1. Moley. economic adviser, were all that remained on Mr. Roosevelt’s schedule today as he prepared to quit the "little white house" in the ‘ Georgia pine woods. Ringham's presence at Warm Springs was taken to verify reports that he would be appointed ambassador to France. Moley came to discuss the gen--1 oral economic situation. Out of the speculation and re- , ’ ports that have come from the conversations on patronage this week between Mr. Roosevelt, Janies COXTINI'gn GN PAGE FIVE — o HOLD SERVICES THIS AFTERNOON Large Delegation From State Police Department Attends Funeral services for Harl Holl- , ingsworth. state motor policeman and former sheriff of Adams county.‘whose death occurred Monday night, were held this afternoon at two o'clock at the Methodist , church in this city. Rev. R. H. Franklin, pastor officiating. Headed by Assistant Chief H. A. Strange. Indianapolis, of the Indiana state police, a large delegation of officers of the department attended the funeral services. Twelve patrolmen acted as honorary pall bearers. State Senator Thurman Gottschalk of Herne, Mrs. Grover C. Garrott, wife of the chief of the police department and Mrs. Guv R. Sears, of Redkey, wife of Lieutenant Sears, also came for the funeral. Members of the department here for the funeral and to pay their respects to Patrolman Hollingsworth were: Captain Howard C. Smith, Indianapolis; Captain Rex Risher. South Bend; Lieut. Guy R. Sears. Rcfikey. in charge of the district in which Mr Hollingswoith served; Lieut. Ray G. Fisher, LaGrange; Lieut. Bert A. Davis. Anderson. The following patrolmen served as honorary pall Itearers: J. Ed. Gillespie. Roanoke; Matt Ober. Marion; Ed. Stormes. Winchester; Loran Grimm. Richmond: Joseph H Rudd. Connersville; Russell Coons, Rushville; Ralph Garrard. (Newcastle; Matt App. Fort Wayne; Ralph Liggett. Warsaw; Art Zimmerman. Auburn; Fred Morely, Angola; Frank 11. Bruggner. Elkhart. The pall bearers were; Edmund A. Bosse, Herman Myers. Leo Saylors, John H Heller, Lloyd (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Inspects Plant C. H. Kraft, vice-president of the Kraft-Phenix cheese Corp.. Chicago. was a visitor in Decatur tod y. spending the forenoon at the Cloverleaf Creameries plant. The local creamery is affiliated with the Kraft Piienlx 'corporation. This afternoon Mr. Kr.ift, accompanied by W. A. Klepper, general manager of the local company went io HuntHngton to inspect the plant there.

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Approve Supply Bill Washington Feb. 3 —(UP) —*A one billion dollar independent offices supply bill carrying more than $966,800,000 for veterans expendiItures was approved today by the house without a record vote. No effort was made to reduce the ; ex-service mens benefits in accordance with President Hoover's rec- . onnnelidations even though the bill increased these expenditures more than $18,000,000 over current funds. The bill as a whole cuts roughly $21,000,000 under total current apj proprlations for the score or more of agencies covered in the measure. . , o ' NINE PATIENTS BURN TO DEATH IN SANITARIUM 1 a Rush Back Into Flames After Being Rescued i Bv Attendants C AUSE OF FIRE ; UNDETERMINED t Wickliffe, 0.. Feb. 3—<U.R) —Nine . women patients were burned to death today when they ran frenzt idly into a burning cottage at . Ridgecliffe sanitarium for the int sane after attendants had led » them to safety. The identified dead were Miss i Lorraine Dean, 76. and Mrs. Isa- - bel Mcßride, 57. both of Cleveland. 1 Twenty-four patients and three attendants were sleeping in the cottage when the five was discovered early today. Nurses said all patients were led or carried safee ly from the building. Several of s the women then became panic s stricken and ran screaming - through the flames. Attendants held as many as possible but the victims were said to have fought off their 1 'iseuers and retuiDted to the building. The hospital is privately owned | but most of the inmates are wards | of the city of Cleveland or Cuyahoga county. The cottage in which the fire occurred was a j two-story, wood and brick structure. It was pronounced safe after an examination two weeks ago. Seventeen of the inmates were - sleeping on the upper floor when ! the blaze was discovered. At least 10 of them were carried . down a ladder by Samuel Brady, t an employe, and Dr. W. B. Gleiit denning, doctor of the hospital. Others were led down the fire escapes Seven inmates asleep on the ground floor were led to safety ‘ quickly. The fire was believed to have starred in the basement of the cottage but its cause was undetermined. SPECIAL TRAIN TO WASHINGTON Indiana Democratic Club To Attend Roosevelt Inaugural x Indianapolis. Feb. 3. — (U.R) — A ‘ special train will leave here March 2 carrying members of the Indiana ■ Democratic Club to Washington for • the inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. * Mark R. Gray Is making uriange • ments for the trip. ’ Gov. Paul V. McNutt intends to leave for the nation's capital March 3 and will return in time for the closing session of the legislature 1 March 6. ' Another official who will attend the inauguration ceremony will be U. S. Senator-elect Frederick Van 'jNuys, who will leave here two I weeks In advance of the event. On arrival of the special train in I Washington the Hoosiers will be taken on a sightseeing tour of the capital. They will use their train as headquarters. Observe Feast » The feast of St. Blase was ob- • served iu Catholic churches today. - The blessing of throats, in com--1 tnemoration of the cures wrought ? by Saint Blase, was held at St. s Mary's Catholic church this 1 morning after the 7; 30 o'clock r mass and again this afternoon. •;Many availed themselves ot the I special blessing

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ORGANIZATION 1 BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE TODAY Gov. McNutt Is Expected To Sign Measure Late This Afternoon ONLY 13 VOTES CAST AGAINST BILL lii<|j;in:i])(»lis. Feb. 3. - (U.R> The atlininistrnfion's government reorganization bill, was sent to the governor for bis signature today after being passed by the house of representatives, 78 to 13. The bill was approved in the senate yesterday, 3!) to 7. Only five Democrats voted no , when the roll was taken under ! suspension of the rules. The only Republican favoring the bill was George E. Denny, Madison. The bill contains an emergency clause which will make it become a law immediately upon approval by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. He is expected to sign it at once. He has announced that changes provided in the measure will be made gradually. Identical hills providing for the reorganization were introduced in tlie house and senate. Each legislative branch approved its respective bill yesterday. The house vote yesterday was SO to 15. Almost unlimited power for Governor McNutt and consolidation of 168 boards and departments into eight major divisions are provided in the bill. It will place the attorney general under appointment of the governor. Heretofore he lias becit elected by the people Chief opposition to the bill came from Republicans and a fe\y Democrats, including Sen. Chester A. Perkins. South Bend. They contended it was autocratic and undemocratic. Perkins charged in the senate yesterday that it meant the senate had been sold out to R. Earl Peters. Democratic state chairman, and thn govei nor. Representative Evans. Republican. objected to the bill because it excluded from its provisions Purdue and Indiana Universities. The governor had pointed out that these were separate municipal corporations. Each of the eight divisions will have a control board, consisting of the department head, the governor and an apointee of the governor in almost every case. Immediately after tlie bill was passed in the house, the senate concurred in a few minor amendments that had been made in thei title and the measure- war, sent to the governor. McNutt has estimated that the change will save the state between $2,000,009 and $3,000,000. Pei kins Again Indianapolis Feh. 3 (UP) — Charging the measure established a dictatorship of the proletariat in Indiana. Senator Chester A. Perkins, D„ of South Bend, fought a losing battle in tlie senate today to prevent passage of the anti "Yellow dog" contract hill. The measure, also called the antiinjunction bill, was passed by a (CONTINUED ON PAGE*"siX)“ o Attend Rally Christfan Endeavor unions front Adams and Wells counties were well represented at the raliv Thursday night held at Bluffton, in honor of the 52ud. birthday anniversary of Christian Endeavor. The meeting was held- at the First Reformed Church at Bluffton and was presided over by the Wells county president, Miss Edna Reusser. The welcome address and response were given by Marie Fulk of Bluffton and Naomi Neuensehwander of Berne. The guest speaker, J. Jerry Baboo, president nf the Valparaiso district C. E. Union was introduced by the Porter District president. Homer C. Augsburger of Berne, a per■sonal friend. His subject was “The Cross at the Cross-ways.” Rev. Matthew Worthman closed the meeting with a consecration period conducted by candle light. Messages in song were presented by a quartet from the Bluffton Reformed C. E. Society, and n vocal duet by members from the MeniionitH society of Berne Carl E. Lugin bill, Berne, conducted the song 'service.