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JOOL BOARD lIDS ANNUAL feIING TODAY Soard H<’'ds Annual Meeting ■hhis Morning fl I OK MAT YEAR atm’ school board ..... ..J organization t | lls morning at the K ■ :>■ Hint Mangold. Ed< it "i the board The , , d I he list tor the next K*' v , .... re-elected Mrs. Carrie ed secreA . f -,,,. "h > i ■ X■ i "imidvr Announced h- r- "ill in- placed on during the 1933 t-rin 1 11'' hoard agreed . ' ..lllployillg teachI, 1,-, 1,1 aig the school | * 1:1,1 six ' ll K' a 'les *'•*• be .. ;. during the ■c*d - wester. Deane Dor- ■ tJb.r '"cal science and KjJIL-"- physical train-ba-i- ntal music, l>.i. id Kice, will be part time, M. F. Worth-1 nib 11l of the Sl'bool This subject may be re one-fourth time. ■ MEiflht Months' t>. m -4 for an eight months' with the understandk :■ the term will be extendIto line months, if finances are. Silab> for the paying of teachMay. were signed by the •rd. . ■ List of Teachers ■■list of teachers for the C®T Nt*E I* ‘*y p AGeTfiVe*)’ ’

: I M ADOPTING WRY PLAN Many Local Stores And ■Huries Are Display - I iny Emblem was fast going on an HUSBasis ami many local stores ‘ the Blue Eagle the insignia that .they with the provisions recovery act. L, A. Graham anthat the roll of honor of of the NRA would not i MHpil in the postofTice until a copy of the names whin the Department of ComIndianapolis, where copies ITe-ident’s re-employment are to be sent. The >B It w a,p 01 compliance, which f1,,, president's agreeis to be sent to the but Postmaster Ely “ x !’iained that the names Mlw ' ]ll i ho posted from this cer- . as it could be signed and , blank not forwardQN PAGE FOltP.l

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Vol. XXXI. No. 180.

To Fight Tammany I I ,'■s ■ < L w . ~ yA- 1 ■ Major General John F. O'Ryan, ' commander of the 27th Division duri. g the World War. who was nominated at a meeting of fusion leaders as candidate for mayor of New York City in opposition to the Tammany nominee. BARBERS ADOPf NEW SCHEDULES Union Shops Will Observe New Price And Working Schedule Barbers of Decatur and surrounding communities adopted a new i schedule of prices and hours in 4 conformity with 1 covery plans, a' a meeting held in this city Monday night. Twenty new barbers were initiated into the local union number 660. These included the O. K sh ip. M<rtz. Young. Russell Melchi, Crabill and Hower of Decatur. Lehman Bros, and Russln of Berne. Jewell of Willshire, Ohio, and Andrews and Ruckman of Hoagland. New prices effective today are haircuts 35 cents, children's haircuts 25 cents except Saturday, 35 cents. Other barber prices will remain the same. A new schedule of opening and ' closing hours was also adopted, to be effective next Monday, August 7. All shops will open at 8 a. m„ daily. Monday’s closing hour will be 5 p. m. and Saturday shops will remain open until 9 p. m. The balance of the week a closing hour of 7 p. nt. will be observed. All union shops will display the NRA sign and will abide by the 40-. hour week code. Union shops in Decatur abiding by the code are: Club Barber Shop. E. C Martz. Frank Hower, Frank Young, Lose Barber shop. O. K. Shop. Pingrey and Carroll. Russell Me'.chi and Verne Crabill. BEN PETTY TO SPEAK TONIGHT Purdue Road Expert Will Speak To County Road Men Tonight Prof. Ben Petty, head of the Indiana road school at Purdue. University, will talk to Adams County road men at a meeting to be held at the court house at eight o’clock this evening. Ralph 1 Roop, county road supervisor announced today. Tiie 12 assistant road supervisees and their helpers have been invited to attend the meeting. Supervisor Roop urged all road men- to attend the meeting and hear the discussion on road maintenance. Professor Petty spent the day with Supervisor Roop in making a trip of inspection over the county roads and bridges. They intended to visit as many places as possible. returning to Decatur this i evening for the meeting. Professor Petty is known to several men in this county through his work at the Purdue road school. He is an authority on road maintenance and his talk this evenin-g will be of interest to those who are charged with the task of keeping the county highway system in good repair.

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YOUTH DROWNS ! IN GRAVEL PIT NEAR HOAGLAND Warren Saalfrink, 13, Browns In Weiss Pit Monday Night EFFORTS TO SAVE BOY ARE FUTILE Warren S a frink. 13-Vear-oid son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Saalfrink of Hoagland, drowned Monday night at about .’ o’clock at the Weiss gravel pit. four miles west of Hoagland. The tragedy occurred when the young man was learning to swim. He was accompanied to the pit by his father, Albert Saa'frink and F. A. Davenport, also of Hoagland. The lad had made previous trips to the gravel pit in an attempt to learn to swim but had always taken with him an inner tube to keep him from sinking. Monday night lie did not take the tube. He was making splendid process, members of the swimming pirty stated, until he learned he was in deep water. The boy, his father and Mr. Davenport had been wading in water about five feet deep. There was a sudden drop and it necessitated • Mr. Davenport, who was nearest the boy, to swim. This startled the lad and he gr bbed tor Davenport and both sank. Mr. Davenport stated that as the two went under he could hear the air pass from the boy’s lungs. The elder man finally broke the death grip the lad had on him and elide, vered to bring Warren to the surface. Davenport ca led for help and for a pulmotor and then attempted to local'- the boy. He dived several times. -- Other swisHsers at the pu were attracted to the scene and a Mr. Sommers tina?” dove into the pit (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ATTEND RITES AT UNION MILLS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mills Attend Services For Mrs. Beahm Mr. And Mrs. Fred V. Mills have returned from Union Mi Is, Laporte county. Indiana, where they attended the funeral services for an aunt, Mrs. Louisa Beahm. who was killed when struck by a train, while ' crossing the tracks near her home. Mrs. Beahm was a sister of the late A. J. Hill, former editor of the Decatur Democrat, and the last of the original family. The funeral services were held from the Bethel Presbyterian church and burial was at the Union Hills cemetery. Surviving relatives include a nephew. Rol and Addlesperger, Chicago, a niece and nephew by marriage, Mrs. Ransberg of LaPorte and E. O. Beahm of Westville. The LaPorte Herald-Argus gave the following account of the accident: ‘•Apparently failing to see an approaching westbound special train on the Grand Trunk railroad Mrs. Louisa Beahm. about S 3, was instantly killed at the Church street crossing in Union Mills. ‘ Mrs. Beahm had resided in and near Union Milis for s<i years. She came to the community from South Bend. "Mrs. Beahm had started from her home on the south side of the tracks to go visiting across the; I tracks, friends believe. The cross- ! ing is not particularly dangerous, but Mrs. Beahm failed to see the train, which consisted of a locomotive and one car, it is believed. "Her body was knocked some distance and practically every bone was broken. The train halted and its crew assisted in picking up the body. There were no other witnesses to the tragedy.’’ Child’s Condition Reported Better I Richard King, son of Mr. and Mrs Fred King of Mercer avenue, who is critically ill at th- Adams County Memorial Hospital, was re-. I ported to be resting easier and his ' condition was said to be slightly improved today. Richard will celebrate his third birthday anniversary Wednesday at the hospital. 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 1, 1933.

Gets U. S. Post k I k i Mrs. Elizabeth M. Bass of Chicago. who has been appointed a district chief of the federal narcotic bureau. She is the first woman to hold such a post. Mrs. Bass made suffrage history when she became the first head of the woman's bureau when the Democrats established this division of the party in 1916. AIRPLANE WILL GATHER BLANKS Plane Is Used In Indiana To Pickup Employers’ Agreements fwtianapoiis. Aug. I.— <U.P> —An airplane was pressed into service today to hurry Indi ma s compliance with President Roosevelt’s national recovery program. The plane, piloted by Lieutenant Stanton Smith. Fort Beniamin Harrison. with*Herbert O. Fisher, aeronautical director of the Indianapolic Chamber of Commerce, as passenger, took off from Schoen field here this morning. Stops were scheduled at Muncie, Marion. W.ibash. Fort Wayne, Elkhart. South Bend. Culver. Lafayette. Terre Haute and Greencastle. The tour will be completed late this afternoon when the plane re turns to the army flying fie’rt witli thousands of signed agreements from business and industrial leaders. More than 7.000 of the agreements to comply with the blanket code have been deceived at the office of Francis Wells, departmen' of commerce representative here. A second airplane, piloted by Franklin Hedrick with Fisher as passenger, will take off tomorrow for a tour of the southern portion of the state, collecting signed agreements Stops will be made at Blooming(CONTTX’Uim ON PAGE TWO) EMIL W. WILDER DIES TUESDAY Adams County Farmer Dies Early Today After Long Illness W Wilder, 61. farmer, residing three miles south of this ' city, died at his home from complications. Tuesday morning at 3:15 o’clock, following .in illness of four years. The deceased was born in Root township, January 31. 1872. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Wilder. He was united in marriage to Henrietta Bohnke on March 2, 1901. Surviving besides the widow, are a son. Arthur, at home and two, grandchildren. Arthur. Jr., and , James EmJ. J Funerdl services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, standard time, at the home, three mi'es south of Decatur, and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Rev. David Grether will of ficiate at the funeral services. Mr. | Wilder was a member of the Concord church. The body was taken to the W. H. i Zwick and Sons funeral home and wilT be removed to the Wilder home 1 late this afternoon.

JOINT MEETING | IS PROPOSED Meeting of Commissioners Os Three Counties Is Suggested A joint meeting of the county • commissioners from Adams. Wells aal Jay counties has been proposed re atlve to lending official jc-1 till, in the effort to have the FedI eral government allocate $18,000,000 tor flood control work along the Wabash and White rivers. Incident with the river Hood plans, which was inaugurated by Mrs. Virginia E. Jenckes, congresswoman from T"rre Haute, it is be lieved the proposed building of the Litnberloat park and lake, south of Geneva, can be included as part of the federal flood control program. Those acquainted with the plans for the Limberlost p-rojei t. state that the lake could be used as a reset voir for flood waters from the Wabash river, it serving as an impounding basin during flood time. Plans for dredging the Wabash river from Willshire, Ohio, to the Jimtown bridge in Hartford township, Adams county, have already' been prepared by the drainage engineers. Persons active in uniting state and federal effort, state these . specifications could be used in designing the proposed project. Last January, Special Judge Henry Kister of Princeton, in the Adams Circuit court, ordered the- dredging and improvement of the Wabash river and on an appe.,l taken by Adams comity, in behalf of all remonstrators, the case wil! be held up indefinitely. As the survey for : this stretch of work has been com- | pleted, it is believed if federal action is obtained favorable to the Wabash river flood program, work ’ would start this year. This county would receive the benefit of employing many men and the land owners and county government t would save huge expenditure# of , money entailed in the court action to dredge the river. WILL BENEFIT HUNDRED HERE This Number Will Be Eligible For Old Age Pensions In County Indianapolis, nd., Aug. 1— IUPI —lndiana’s old age pension law which becomes effective Jin. 1. 19.34, will benefit 74.. DO persons, it was estimated today by O-tto P. D lus;. (Indianapolis, former nation- : al president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. It was largely through efforts of the E igles that Indiana became one of eight states to .enact old age pension laws this year. Deluse said that 19,100 Hoosiers were eligible for the pension but that experi'nees of other states indicated not more than 14.000 would particip >te. Only persons 70 years or older are eligible for the pension which is limited to sls a month. Costs will be divid, d by tue state and coun- ' ties. Estimates by counties of the number of persons eligible include: Adams, 100: Allen. 885; Blackford. 92; Carroll, 90; Cass, 201; i Clay. 148; Diviess 140; DeKalb, 150; Delaware 404; Fulton 91. Gibson 168; Greene. 19; Hamilton (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) _o— -„ Quarterly Meeting Has Been Postponed The quarterly meeting of the Mt. Tabor M. E. Church which was' announced lor Wednesday night, lias been postponed until i September dat, . Rev. L. M. Pierce, pastor, announced today. —— o Infant Suffers I Loss Os Finger Ross Fyed Isch. one-year-old son 1 of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Isch. who rei side at 133 North Second street, ■ above the Fisher and Harris grocery, suffered the loss of one ting er and mashed another on his right hand. Monday night, when lie fell . off a chair. The baby was playing on a chair when he tell off. mashing the two first fingers on his right hand. He was removed to the Adams County Memorial Hospital where the first finger was removed, at the first joint. The child will be a year old next month.

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EIGHT MINERS ARE WOUNDED BY DEPUTIES Special Deputies Fire On Pickets At Three Pennsylvania Mines NATIONAL GUARDS RESTORE ORDER Uniontown, Pa.. Aug. I—(U.PJ1 —(U.PJ— Five miners were shot today when special deputies, attempting to force their way through picket lines at the H. C. Frick Coke I company’s Star Junction mine, opened fire on the picke. lines. Several of the wounded men wore reported in serious condition In Brownsville hospital, where all were taken. The shooting brought to eight the total wounded since daybreak and pickets sought, to enforce their determination to keep nonunion mines idle until they recog nize the national unions. i Two men were wounded earlier ! in the day in a clash between special deputies and pickets at the Frick Company’s Colonial No. 3 mine, and another striker was j wounded at the same company's Ellenboro mine. The casualties were: Joseph Miller, 25. six wounds ' in left leg. one in left eye; Donald Slagle. 28, wounded in left leg and shoulder; John Selasky. 24, wounded in left arm and head; John Maity, 44. wounded in abdomen and chest, and Mike Mykashlo. 43. wounded in right leg. •all victims of the Star Junction shooting. Louis Petorski, 42. wounded in the side, and Ren Brow.i. 45, negro, wounded in stomach, during Colonial No. 3 shooting. Peter Accra. 32, wounded in hip at Eden boro. National guardsmen, sent into •(TONTINI'ED ON PAGE FOUR) o - Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 000 100 Chicago 003 000 Frey and Hemsley; Malone and Campbell. St. Louis 000 200 01 Pittsburgh 501 300 00 Walker and Wilson; Swetonic and Grace. Boston 000 002 100— 3 7 0 New York 000 001 000— 17 1 Betts and Hogan; Hubbell and Richards. Only garnet; scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 0 St. Louis 2 Pearson and Pytiak; Gray and Shea. Chicago at Detroit —Rain. Only games scheduled. Courtesy City Confectionery. COURT UPHOLDS McNUTT POWER Three Judge Federal Court Upholds Power Over State Board Indianapolis. Aug. I—(U.R1 —(U.R) —The right of Gov. Paul V. McNutt to reorganize, or even abolish, Lhe state board of agriculture was upheld here today by a three judge federal court. The suit started when the board of agriculture defied McNutt a month ago and refused Io seat two new members lie bad appointed. "The board of agriculture is an instrumentality of the legislature and as such can be abolished at the whim of the general assembly,” Judge E. A. Evans of the Chicago circuit court of appeals ruled. Others who heard the case were Judges Robert C. Baltzell and Walter C. Lindley of Indianapolis and Danville, Illinois, federal district courts, respectively. “Th? legislature of 1933, which is assailed, and under which the defendant is alleged to be acting, merely curtails some of the authority, power and activity of the I board of agriculture.”

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Guarded Heiress * j-/ |T T ■-i Doris Duke, heiress to the. tobacco millions and said to be the richest girl in the world, is being closely guarded at Newport. R. I. following reported kidnap threats. COURT TEST IS STARTEDTOOAY Milk Distributors File Petition To Halt Milk Code Enforcement. Chicago Aug. I—(UP1 —(UP) —The first test of legality of the Roosevelt administration’s fjr reaching program for bettering agricultural conditions was delayed today when federal judge Jam?s H. Wilkerson reserved his decLsion in the test case until Monday. The test came on application of independ-nt milk dealers in the Chicago area for an injunction prohibiting f. deral authorities from putting into effect a system of price and production control. Judge Wilkerson ordered attor- I neys for the Independent dealers and the government to be prepared for a full hearing of the matter Monday. Chicago. Aug. 1. — (U.R) —A court test of the government’s tomplex farm relief program was started I today. The test was attempted by the Independent Milk Distributors Association of northern Illinois which filed a petition seeking an injunction to prohibit enforcement of the recently approved Chicago milk code. The code depends upon licensing by the government of all milk distributors in the Chicago area and provides for a fine if minimum prices set in the code are ignored. This licensing plan Is the heart of the government’s farm relief program but attorneys for the independent group interpret it as unconstitutional. Pending hearings on an injunction the independent distributors | asked for immediate restraining 1 orders to prevent operation of the I code until such injunction hearings i caan be held and a ruling made. 1 The petition was filed in Federal district court before Judge James (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUP) O Goodyear Service Adopts NRA Code The employing of an extra man and the signing of the code in comj pliance with the N. R. A., was announced today by goodyear Service, Inc., of this city, operators ' of the service station, corner of Madison and Third streets. O. R Roth, connected with Goodyear Service for several years is the new manager. Employes of the place are Henry Grabar, R. A. McDuffey and Lou Hyde, the latter beginning work today. Employes will work eight hours a day, Mr. Roth stated and pay schedules have l> en ar- , ranged according to the N. R. A. —~ o : Condition Os Keith Davis Still Critical The condition of Keith Davis of West Monroe street, this city, who was seriously injured in an auto- - mobile accident north of D- eatur early Sunday morning was reported still critical today by the attending pt’uysician. The young "man was removed from the Adams County Memori 1 Hospital to the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayaie Monday morning where X-ray pictures were taken. ; Davis suffered a severe injury of | the abdomen.

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RECOVERT PLAN BEING ADOPTED OVER COUNTRY Blue Eagle Beginning To Appear In Stores Over Entire Country CODE MODIFIED FOR RETAILERS (By United Press) The voluntary ai'recinent* to limit working hours and pav minimum wages became effective today. The blue eagle, symbol of cooperation in the re-employ-ment campaign, began to appear in stores, factories and offices throughout the land. Thousands of acceptances co tinned to pile up in NRA offices from employers anxious to come under the plan. Administrator Johnson authorized modifications for retail stores to speed their inclusion in the agreement. Food stores were permitted a 48-hour week instead of the blanket 40-hour limit. Other retail stores held to the 4fl-hour week, but with variations from the general schedule of minimum wages. The NRA estimated 1,100,000 new jobs would be opened up in retail stores. Work on the steel code was speeded in private conferences after a day of open hearings. Oil men pondered a new code, drafted with NRA assistance in an effort to end more than a week of wrangling. Chicago milk dealers wore ordered under license at noon. It was the first time use of the gov- ' ernment’s drastic powers to compel observance of a code of fair practice. A recalcitrant group prepared to seek an injunction. 1 It contended the law was unconstitutional. Confident administration lawyers were ready for a speedy test in the courts. The 4.2 cents per pound cotton processing tax became effective, raising funds to reimburse farmers who have curtailed production. Modify Provisions Provisions of the blanket agreement as they affect the hours and wages of 4,000,000 employes of retail stores were modified last night by Administrator Hugh S. Johnson. The NRA estimated that under the new terms, more than 1,100,000 persons could be given immediate employment. These persons would receive approxi. inately $900,000,000 in annual wages. Hearings on the code of fair competition for the giant iron and steel industry were recessed as er a day of thick-and-fast developments. including withdrawal of the most controversial feature of the code, that proposing to continue the company union plan of employe representation. Progress in the effort to bring l .'CnN’TINI’WD ON PAGE TWO) $64,200 FOR ADAMS COUNTY Indiana Counties Will Receive Total of Over Ten Million Indianapolis. Aug. I—(U.R1 —(U.R> —Indiana counties will receive $10,834.400 of state gross income tax receipts annually on the basis of state payment of S6OO on the salaries of each public school teacher. the gross income tax department estimated today. Tile average tax rate reduction : will be 33.6 cents, ranging from 16 cents in Marion county to $1.21 in Brown county. Estimates were made by multiplying the number of teachers in i each county's total assessed valutotal to be paid was used against each counties total assessed valuation to determine what tax rate would be necessary to raise the amount the state will pay. Adams county with 107 teachers and a tax rate reduction of .265 wil’ receive $64,200 from the state, Blackford county with 89 teachers and a tax rate reduction of .305 will get $53,400, and Wells county, with 125 teachers and a tax rate I reduction of .318, will receive $75,000.