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MAJORL BATTLE LOOMS IN MANCHURIA

Ips advise WIGNERS I TO GET OUT ■ileb Propped By Air■n Warn Foreigners ■o Leave Manchuria ■stile RAIDS ■ \KE PREDICTED B By Herbert K. KI kins. ■nivuan. bv Courier to Kehl'ti. Feb. 27.—(U» — ■nesc airmen, advance ■< nf the army sweeping ■ .wiilheaMern Manchuria, ■r dropped leaflets in Eng■wanmig all foreigners to ■ate the province or sut■the consequences. ■er this tense city of 27,Hhalf «ay between Chaoyang. ■> now is iii the hands of the ■« S r. n: < liengtehfu. capital ■hoi. t!i< upon airmen scat- ■ ta-s autimiary paniph ■ »ail>ir.. impending raids by ■nd land. ■roei. "'.-i'l'-His of Jehol ■[ n>v- ■ " the leaflets read. "The ini ■ army warns you to take Horary refuge elsewhere, so ■ may escape contingencies.” ■ this is impossible." the warnHiontinued. yon will assemble ■er and put up clear signs, ■k from the ground." ■e leaflet- were signed by "the ■andei uri bief of the Kwan- ■ army." ■vtion io the warning was im■ate. I Lund the staff over the ■«ant mission a mass of bunt- ■ British anti American flags, ■her »iti> the German ensign, ■rentlv .!•• suit lied together ■ buntig. were hoisted liar ■y after lite first leaflet was Hup. •idents beg ui (tigging in. tod the sou: walls of the nils workers constructed a dugsix feet below ground, which d accommodate perhaps 50 ken—most of them Chinese tide the mission I found an rican. Miss Harriet Minus, of lie. a German, Miss Anna her. a young woman from Eng- , Miss Ada Blackmore, and nald W. Aturt anl his wife, laadnn ross the city two Belgian Pathpriests simi arly were engaged asty preparations to protect ONTINITEn ON PACE FIVE ENDS GUILTY TO LOTTERY Guire Enters Plea Os uilty In Moose Lottery Case Today rw Yn r ]r p„p 27 —(UP)— Rer 'f McQuire. promoter, pleaded lytoday to charges of violating Federal lottery laws in the Rp lodge case. ! Ws granted permission, howrto withdraw his guilty plea if hft'Uit court of appeals reverses Wdrlction in the Eagles lottery cltcßit court now has the ta l under consideration. 'lf* Alfred Coxe sentenced ™* to serve a year and a day wral Prison, the sentence to “"currently with the line sene lu the Eagles case. cCuire was to have been retoday with Senator James J. ' s «f Pennsylvaia, Raymond C. ™aud Theodore O. Miller. The r > case was the first t>: the calif called. wla Mead Treadwell, the prone- ■ * n *dvlsed the court that 'te had indicated his desire to u*ul*ty with the reservation to Mited* the p,Pa The judKP “"tponeme ts until March 6 panted In the case of the othDavis. Walsh and lr L d ’ lays w **te granted after 'll ni Tllttle ’ of Counsel for Ttrlti dhe was enK ’* ed 1,1 •' the same time, it was learned » aw«i g ? Vena,i ‘ ent and defense f tlng decision of the cirCon™. '’hpeats in the cases "ItF i/ Mann. McGnire aud le « Jottery 1 - 11 ' 6 ' co " vi<,led ln the

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Vol. XXXI. No. 49.

Gross Income Tax Bill Signed By Governor McNutt

Elk’s Minstrel To Be Given Tonight Final rehearsal for the Elks min strel to be presented in the Catholic school hall tonight and Tuesday night, w s held Sunday. The pro gram will open at 8 o’clock each night and tickets are on sale by by members of the Elks lodge. Admission may also be paid at the i door. The minstrel is in three parts with all Imai persons taking pari in the entertainmet. The first part of the show is an old fashioned min strel, the second is called the 1 “Book of Memories” and the third part is a playlet. Large choruses composed of local girls and a cast of seventy five persons including the chorus will appear in the minstrel. BANKS ACT IN | RESTRICTING WITHDRAWALS Action Taken By Banks In Indiana And Ohio To Conserve Deposits ] NO MORATORIUM SAYS GOV. McNUTT Indianapolis. Feb. 27 (U.R) — A score of Indiana banks today ( placet! restrictions on withdrawals of deposits following inauguration of the plan in Indianapolis. At the same time Gov. Paul V. , McNutt reiterated a previous , statement that he would not declare a state wide bank moratorium. ~ He explained that there was no ■ need tor such a plan. Banks in Shelby, Tippecanoe and Gran counties, one in Kokomo and one in Wabash were among the latest to follow the lead of Indianapolis financial institutions. I latsl week banks in Smith Bend. Isigansport, Fort Wayne ; and Huntington placed a restrlc-v : -ton ou their deposits. , Deposits made on and afier today will be held in cash, liquid assets or on banks collecti.ri items and will he separately credited and held for priority of payment over deposits made prior to February 25. The new deposits will be sub- I ject to check and withdrawals without any restrictions however. Only five per cent of deposits made liefore February 25. can be withdrawn at once under the plan. Two small Grant county banks placed a two per cent restriction on withdrawals. . All of Michigan City’s five (banks placed a limit of two per cent a month on withdrawal of deposits today. Banking changes, all designed ' to strengthen public confidence in ' the nation's financial system, <«• 1 curred over a widespread area last night and today. I.lmitations on withdrawals of deposits were extended into Ohio cities, and Indianapolis; Henry J Ford, arch-enemy of bankers, offeied to reorganize two great (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE! f MINERS SETTLE BITTER FIGHT • ( t Historic Breach Between Illinois District And J Workers Settled .( Springfield, 111.. Feb. 27.—(U.R)— One of America’s historic labor! controversies — the long-standing and bitter breach between the 111- il inois district of the United Mine | Workers of America and its international officers — was settler! to-1 day. ci John L. Lewis, international ipresi- a dent of the coal union, announced | bis organization had been invited H “by unanimous vote” of the dis- H trict board to assume direction of ] Its activities The agreement of the internal- ,j tonal union aud the Illinois district was the outgrowtu of a union flic 1 even more hitter. This was a * CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE a

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SENATE PASSES OLEG TAX BILL; PRODUCT TAXED Bill Places 5c A Pound Tax On Oleomargerine; Adjourn March 6 TEACHERS PAY BILL APPROVED Indianapolis Feb. 27—(UP) — Gov. Paul V. McNutt today signed the Gross Income Tax bill which ir expected to bring 14,000,000 annually in revenue. The bill taxes the gross Income of wholesalers. Indianapolis, Feb. 27—dJ.RI —The Indiana senate will remain in session until the regular closing time March 6. Lieutenant-governor M. Clifford Townsend announced today. Indianapolis, Feb. 27 <u.P> The senate agreed to a five cents a pound tax on oleomargarine today when it passed a bill to that effect. A similar bill introduced in the house has been eligible for third reading there since earlv in the session. t he senate agreed to a bill setting up a state purchasing agent who will buy supplies for every department except the four state schools. An administration bill permitting state payment pt teacherssalaries amout::ing to S6OO effciT passed the house. Money for the salaries will he raised under the gross income tax bill tiassed last week. Payments will be made on the basis of one teacher for 35 pupils in elementary schools and one for each 25 pupils in high schools The state board of education is given power to abrogate the latter section in eases of emergency and establish a new basis of payment. A resolution memorializing congress to establish an agricultural products price fixing commission was passed by the house and sent i CONTINUED ON' PAGE SIX) MURDER TRIAL OPENS TODAY Jury Being Selected to Try Man Charged With Murdering Policeman Cinchester, Ind.. Feb. 27 —(UP) — Selection of a jury to hear the murder tri.il of Frederick E. Wildemann li< dianapolis. charged with slaying a Muncie Policeman, was started today in Randolph Circuit court. Wildemann has been identified as the man that shot fatally Patrolman Ohie McCracken An holdup of two Muncie theater messengers April 24, 11Y32. He was brought here last night from the state reformatory at l‘e - dletou whejo he |has been held since his arrest in Indiaapolis last August. Three other meet, arrested with him and now serving prison terms in connection wltli ihe Muncie shooting and slaying of Springfield Ohio policeman, will be brought here as state's witnesses. Russell [jams, now serving a life term in the Ohio state penitentiary in connection with the Springfield shooting, named Wildem im in a confession as the slayer of McCrac(CONTINUED ON PAGE’SIX) 0 Harry Knapp Takes Charge of Station Hirry J. Knapp, local hardware dealer, announced today that he has assumed management of the Phillips 66 Service Station, corner Jackson and Second streets. Mr. Knapp stated he will continue to sell Phillips gasoline aud oils and that a complete greasl.g and oiling department will be operated. Mr. Knapp will continue his duties at the Knapp Hatware Store and Albert Gehrig will serve as an assistant at the Service Station.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 27, 1933.

First Ratification Bill * «>* Kt - F J - T '• r jA • ~.JI ' ’ I WOiIISW S.ate Senator Jacob Weiss of Indianapolis holding a copy of a bill providing for a state convention on the ratification of prohibition repeal—the first to be introduced in any legislature since Congress adopted the repeal resolution. Indiana led all the states in swiftness of action, once the governor was advised.

TWO MORE OF CABINET NAMED Roosevelt Names F’arley And Wallace For His Cabinet Hyde Park, N. V.. Feb. 27 — (UP) —President elect Roosevelt today annouced selection of Harold Ickes of Chicago to be secretary of interior and of Sen ator Claude Swanson of Virginia as secretary of navy. Hyde Park. N, Y„ Feb, 27— LU.R)' i —The business of announcing for-' mally :he names of cabinet ap- l pointees already known publicly beyond a reasonable doubt will be; continued by President - elect ' Roosevelt today, with at least one ; more expected to be added to the list of five already officially recorded. Mr. Roosevelt, made public yesi terday at Krum Elbow the selection of the fourth and fifth mem Lers of his official family—Henry ’ A. Wallace of Des Moines, lowa, to be secretary of agriculture, and James A. Farley of New York. 1 to be postmaster-general. le has yet to announce formally Sena, or Claude A. Swanson for the navy secretaryship; Miss Frances Perkins, as secretary of i labor, Harold Ickes as secretary' of the interior; Senator Thomas I ,1. Walsh as attorney general, and enNTPUPED ON PVOF f'VR LUTHERANS TO OBSERVE LENT Services Will Be Held At Zion Lutheran Church j Every Wednesday The Zion Lutheran church will, as in former years, conduct a series or midweek Lenten services to be held on Wednesday evening of each week during the passion season. The first of these series is scaeduled for this week on Ash Wednesday evening March 1, at 7:30 o’clock. In these services the entire pasision history, compiled according to | | the four Gospels, will be heard and : sermons on the vlc irous suffering and death of the God-man, Jesus i Christ, and Its significance and i benefit to the human race will be ‘heard. Rev. Paul Schultz, pastor of j Zion Lutheran church, will deliver j i the sermons. The Rev. Schultz ex pends a hearty invitation to the i public to attend the services. ‘

| National Officer To Attend Banquet Here — Word was received today that Paul Ft Deaton of Connersville, national secretary and treasurer of I the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will I attend :.i banquet to be served by the local fraternity tonight. The banquet and meeting will he held in the Phi Delta Kappa hall at 7 o'clock The local fraternity is contarlk.g a chapter at Bluffton and the prospective members will be guests. This is the first time that any national officer has ever attended a local Phi Belt meeting and the i visit of Mr. Deaton is anticipated i with a great deal of interest by 1 Phi Belts in this city and Bluffton. BERNE WOMAN DIES SUNDAY — Mother of Arthur Gilliom Dies; Sister of Local Woman Dead Funeral services will he held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock lor Mrs. Pei'.er Gilliom. 79, of Berne, mother of Arthur I, Gili Horn, former attorney-general of Indiana, who died at her home at t 6:20 o'clock Sunday night. Death was due to heart trouble. Mrs. Gilliom was born in Hick- ‘ ory county. Missouri and celebrated er sixtieth wedding anniver . vary last Chriwtfmas. Surviving are the husband and eleven children: Mrs. A. Boeg|(>y, Arthur I. Gilliom. Mrs John Eicher Mrs. Menno Burkhalter. Edwin Gilliom, Malvin Gilliom. Bertha Gilliom. Emma Gilliom, ; Mrs. M. E. Stauffer, Elmer and 1 Noah Gilliom. and three sisters, I Mrs. D. P. Neuenschwander Mrs. I Dinah Welty and Mrs. James MeI Catlin. Her brother. J. F. Lehman, former president of the Bank of i Berne, preceded her in death ■ about four months ago. Sister is Dead Mrs. Ben ha Lantz Schwartz. 82. of Leo, sister of Gideon Imntz of Route 2. Decatur, died at her home Saturday morning after an illness of about three weeks. Mrs. Schwartz was born in Bern, Switzerland, and came to this Country when she was one year ; old. She was a member of the | Apostolic Christian church at Leo. ■ , Surviving are eight brothers; ;.)oe Lantz of Elgin. Iowa; Gideon i Lantz of Decatur; Jacob, Sam. i Abner, Simon, John and Henry of Allen county. Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock at | the home in Leo and at 10 o’clock iiat the Leo church. Bui tai will be made in the Leo cemetery.

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HOPE DWINDLES FOR RECOVERY OFCERMAK Pneumonia Brings About Critical Condition In Fight of Chicago Mayor DOCTORS REFUSE TO ABANDON HOPE Miami, Fla.. Feb. 27 (U.R) Mayor Anton J. Cermak’s gallant fight to live was complicated today by pneumonia which forced his respiration to the dangerous speed of 4u a minute. ’fhe victim of an assassin’s bullet continued in a critical con- . dition at Jackson Memorial hospital. where his physicians announced that he had not lost ground in the last 12 hours. They refused to abandon hope that the Chicago executive would yet over- : come the effects of a bullet which was fired at President-elect j Roosevelt, but they admitted his chances were diminished by the complications. Dr. Karl Meyer emerged from the sick room, and said: “Yesterday I had all the hope in the world. Today, of course. 1 our hope is lessened." This indirect optimism over the hour to hour fight to prevent a collapse came as physicians decided against giving the wounded mayor another blood transfusion cnNTTNT’Tzn nN nic.r two o PROPERTY TAX ; RELIEF SEEN 1 Gross Income Tax to Reduce Property Rates 35 Cents On The SIOO i. I Indlanap 4is, Feb. 27 -UR) — Local property tax rates will be ! reduced on an average of 35 cents . throughout Indiana by the new I gross income tax bill ready for . Gov. Paul V. McNutt's signature, the Indiana state chamber of commerce estimated today. With the gross income tax. McNutt’s tax program includes the state paymen of S6(M) on annual f salaries of ill public school teachers. McNutt has said the local tax rate reductioh will average from 60 to 70 cents I Tables amt figures representing the gross income bill as a tax in--1 creasing step were released today by the state chamber's governI mental research bureau. The bureau cited that a person 1 with a $2,000 income will pay $lO ' tax on it afier the $1.04)0 redne- ’ lion. If the same persons own $3,000 win h of real estate, the ' tax on ii will be reduced by $10.50, 1 using the average 35-cent rale induction. But he bureau figured that if all the $2,000 income is ' spent the 1 per cent gross income rONTINT'En (IN P»OK PTVE YOUNG PEOPLE TO GIVE PLAY Three Act Play To Be Presented Tuesday at Local Evangelical Church The three act play. “Soup, Sand and Sagebrush," will be presented J by the young people of the Evange- ’. Heal Church in the church auditor--1 iitni. Tuesday night at 7 /('clock. The play and a program which will precede it will be sponsored by the Evangelical Women's Misaionp ary Society. The story of the play , co' lers about the family of Rev. and Mrs. Robinson. The minister and his wife attend j a convention, leaving their two daughters to care for the grand ‘ mother and minister to the needs of the people in their desert comI inuuity of sand and sagebrush. t During the absence of Rev. Rob- ( I'lison and his wife, the grandmother , complains of having nothing to eat l CONTINUED ON PAGE ’tWO*

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Autos Collide Saturday Afternoon A car driven by Dan Durbin of | this city and one driven by Walter Bultemeir collided at the intersection of Nuttman Avenue and Nintli street Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Bultemeir acid their small son were in the Bultemeir ear when the aecidnt occurred but no one was injured. The cars were slightly damaged The Bultemeir car was covered by I insurance. LENTEN RULES ARE ANNOUNCED Schedule of Services To Be Held At St. Mary’s Church Also Released Lenten regulations and schedule of services to he held during the Lenten season were announced al ! St. Mary's Catholic church Sunday, i The season of Lent opens Wednesday, March 1. The Father Alfred Reinig, assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic! church. Fort Wayne, will deliver; the series of sermons to he given every Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock, beginning March 7. On Friday, March 3, the services ;of the Way of the Cross will be- . gin. The Way of the Cross and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will be held every Friday evening during Lent. The noon-time Way of the Cross will be held every day at 11:30 o'clock, except on Friday and Sunday. On Sunday afternoon the Way of the , Cross will he held at two o’clock. Lenten Regulations The Lenteh regulations as sent out by the Most Rev. Bishop John F. Noll of Fort Wayne were read in the Catholic churches Sunday. They are: Unless they he dispensed or exempted, all who have reached their twenty-first birthday and have not completed their fifty-ninth year, are expected to observe the. Lenten feast, which means that they May lake one full meal a day. Sundays excepted. This full meal may be taken either at noon or in the evening. If the full meal is taken at noon, (lien the amount consumed at the evening repast or collation should not exceed 10 ounces. If the prinCONTTNtTED ON PAGE FOUR o WOULD POSTPONE CITY ELECTIONS Bill May Be Introduced In Legislature Deferring Elections One Year Indianapolis. Feb. 27 (U.R) Extensions for one year of Indiana city and town officals’ terms was being considered today by Democratic administration leaders in the legislature. Primaries now are scheduled for May in municipal elections. 'Mayors and other city officials are scheduled to he elected this ! year in 102 cities, and 421 towns are due to elect town board members. Such n bill would postpone the municipal elections to Muy. 1934, the time tor general election primaries. If the leaders dmidc to introduce the bill, an attempt will be made to pass it under suspended rules in both the house aud sen- ; ate this week. Hope of adjournment of the legislature this week will be lost, however, if the bill Is introduced. The session itlhen would run its full time to March 6. Gov. Paul V. McNutt entertained administration leaders of the house and senate at dinner last night at the executive mansion. It was pointed out there that postponement of the municipal elections would save about $300,000 in election costs. Republican leaders had swung into action today, on learning of the plan, to attempt to thwar: its execution. They felt confident of Republican victories in many Indiana cities at the November election. A similar extension of iterm was I I enacted by the legislature 201 years ago for township trustees.

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CHINESERETAKE SIX CITIES IN NEW GONFLICT Japs Prepare For Jehol Battle; England To Ban Arms Shipment U. S. TO COOPERATE WITH LEAGUE PLAN Peiping, China, Feb. 27.—• (U.R) — Six Manchurian cities Were recaptured from the Japanese in a counter revolt spreading through the provinces of Kirin and Heilungkiang it was reported today. Taking advantage of the Japanese withdrawal of troops for the pressing Jehol offensive, Manchurian volunteers ! operating with local militia under the generalship of Yang Shon-Chu. successfully occupied the towns all in the new - state of Mancltuko far from the Chinese battle field. Ban Shipments Loudon, Feb. 27. (U.R) A temporary embargo by Great Britain on , the export of arms to the Far East was announced in the House of Commons today by Sir John Simon, foreign secretary. Sir John said that pending inter'national consultations Britain would not allow further shipment of arms ; to the Far East. "Under no circumstances will tne government allow Britain to become a party to the dispute." Sir 'John warned. “Jaipan has taken the law into her own hands but she has had severe trials to put up with in that | she lias been dealing with a neigh- . lior with whom it is extremely dif- | fieuit to deal." be said. "The British government has said conciliation is the first task but if it unhappily fails we must take the view of the Lytton report." To Cooperate Washington. Fell. 27.—(U.R) —The state department announced today that the United States, acting under its own treaty committments and judging each new situation on its own merits, will cooperate with ■ the advisory committee on the Far Eastern problem to be established by tlie League of Nations The committee is to he set up to follow events in the Fir East iand make recommendations as the occasion arises. It is a cjntini'.ation of the so-call-ed committee of twenty-one established some months ago. Secretary Stimson determined on j tlie policy of cooperation after receiving a letter from Sir Erie Drummond, secretary of the league, inviting the United States, as a signatory of tlie nine-power and (Kellogg pacts, to cooperate with the committee. Damaged By Fire Fire caused $5 damage to the Arthur Hurst home on Washington street, at about HI o’clock this morning. The fire is thought to have been caused by sp. ntaneotts < (unbuslion. A barrel containing old clc.hes caught fire, slightly damaging the inside of the house. STUDENTS ON STRIKE TODAY Anderson High School Students Protest Ejection From Athletic Meet Anerson, Ind.. Feb. 27. —(U.R) — Anderson's 2,000 high school studen'B went on "strike" today a.s an (outgrowth of the schools ejection from the Indiana High School Alhletic Association Saturday. The students blamed high school officials for allowing athletic conditions to become so "deplorable’’ that the school was ousted from the state association. They carried banners reading: "Back Thahnanout." J. L. Thalman is principal of the high school. Although the state athletic association board of control announced 'that it was suspending Anderson because of the ineligibility of a basketball player — Joe Hallinan, (star center—-the students believe CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE