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’State Expenditures For August Lower Indianapolis, Sept. 7.— <U.R) State government expenditures ot 13.246.916 in August were $1,226. 877 lower than for the same month last year, a bulletin of the treasury department said today. Expenditure of $31,198,293 since Gov. Paul V. McNutt took office ''eight months ago was lower than' the figure for the same time in 1932 by 14,589,628, the bulletin also ' said. During the last eight months i state money distributed to local taxing units totalled $12,176,528, .higher than the distribution last I year by $3,073,699, according to the | I bulletin. Biggest reduction of any depart- : ment last month, as well as during the eight months, was in the high- ' way department. August paid out ' totals were $2,087,739, or $880,771 less than in August. 1932. . — o STRIKERS SLUG TWO EMPLOYES Two Fort Wayne Men Attacked By Strikers During Noon Hour Today Fort Wayne. Sept. 7.- (U.R) Two ' employes of the Fort Wayne Tailoring Company who refused to join a : strike were slugged, apparently by pickets, and three strikers were arrested today. The clash came at the noon hour as those who refused to join the walkout emerged from the building. Ralph Lutey, 35. suffered a severe head laceration. He apparently had . been slugged with brass knuckles. The other worker injured was Thomas Baek. He was struck in I the face and on the head Police arrested three persons on i disorderly conduct charges They , are Ctrwrtmce Cuney, Jack Pearson ■ and Frank Cheske. ’ Approximately 300 employes— I about one-third of the force working at the tailoring firm struck yesterday, after the Amalgamated . Clothing Workers of America, headed by William Rocco of Chicago, ~ failed to secure a union agre ment with officials of the clothing cotn- . pany. I Picketing activities were resumed I this morning but no violence came until the noon hour. Subscriptions To Bank Stock Finished ... Fort Wayne, Sept. 7.—(U.PJ— I Stock subscriptions to raise SSOO,- ■ 900 as the city's share of sl,o*x),oO*J | to capitalize the new Fort Wayne i National Bank, successor to the Old First National Bank & Trust Company, were completed today. The successful campaign to raise half the bank's capital among de- • positors of the old bank insures t opening of the new institution in i the near future when the remaining $500,000 in stock will be subscribed 1 to by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Opening of the new bank will entail immediate release of approxiI mately $6,000,000 of restricted deI posits in the old bank. SEEK MOTIVE FOO SUICIDE — Artist’s Model Commits Suicide By Leaping From Yacht Chicago. Sept. 7— (U.R) — The i novel "Thunder Without Rain." . described as a sex story, was i perused by ofticiels today as they : sought a motive for the strange ,; behavior of Clara Moore, 22-year-old artists' model who threw herII self to death in Lake Michigan ' I after a wild dance in the nude on ;; board a private yacht. ■ j Miss Moore, with Mrs. Cora | Mae Smith, 21. of Evansville, Ind., Miss Anna Mae Rurmek, 24. also lan artists’ model, and Miss Joyce ( Byers. 23. were invited on the i yacht party which was given by i I Paul L. Redel, president of a conj fectionery manufacturing company. 11 The other men were the yacht ( owner, Albert E. Gundelach, John , I Drake, Carl Kruger and Otto Web- 1 I Hit The latter two were from the east and were the honored , guests. It was brought out at the in’Tcontinued* ON PAGE TWO)

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MANY COUNTIES 1 SHOW INCREASE FOR TAX RATES County Councils Over State Generally Adopt Higher Levies TAX ADJUSTORS TO REVIEW RATES By SCOTT WALDON Indianapolis. Sept. 7.— (U.PJ — , Proof of rising tax rates throughout Indiana as 1934 budgets are being adopted was refletced today In appropriations made by county coun- , ells. Os ten counties selected at random seven have higher rates provided, one rate is unchanged and two will realize a rate reduction, both by 1 p.-r cent. All budgets, however, will be reviewed by county tax adjustment boards meeting September 18. Required to act by October 1, the boards will attempt to pare appro-: ■ priations to hold rates within the' $1 and $1.50 limits of the maximum 1 rate law. Four items most harassing to tax setters were reduced by county ' councils in almost every case. They ' are those for voters registration, | old age pension, next year’s elec-' tions and poor relief. Salaries also f It the tax knife. Ttie Lake county council, governing a depression ridden county, set an outstanding example of answering demands for lower taxes by providing a rate equal to its current 38-ceut levy. It lopped $295.<><M) off its poor relief appropria- ;' tion. The rate reductions recorded | were in LaPorte and Elkhart couni ties. In the former the current levy is J 3 cents. By trimming the I*propos d Inidget equal to a 14 ( ent' reduction, the council there adopted ■ a 52-cent rate for next year. Elkhart county cut the rate frogi 44 j (CONTINUKn ON PAGE TWO** DECATUR RATE 4 GENTS LOWER Reductions By County [ Council Effect Rates Os Civil City With the counfy's tax levy reduced from 72 cents to 68 cents ' on the SIOO by the county council yesterday, the total of the estimated rate applying to Decatur, I was reduced four cents. The tentative rate, based on estimates by taxing units which go to make up Decatur's total rate, now totals. $3.30 on the SIOO. The rate payable this year is $1.95 on the SIOO. ■ The estimated lates which make up the total follow: State. 15 ' cents; school city. 97 cents; civil city. 45 cents; library, 5 cents; ! township road bonds and interest,! i6l cents: township poor relief,! : 35 cents; township general fund, 4 cents; county, 68 cents. Final action on the tax rates ' will be taken by the county tax | adjustment board which convenes. September 18. The civil city, i school city and township rates I have been adopted by the taxing making bodies in those taxing ; units and budgets and rates must he submitted to the county board on or before September 18. Word Received Os William Hamm’s Death Word has been received in Deca' tur of the death of Matthew A. ! Hamm, 80. former agent at the local Erie railroad station. Mr. Hamm ■ died in Los Angeles. California, i early this week. He was agent here I for several years, leaving Decatur more than twenty years ago. o County Agent’s Office Open Saturday Night County Agent L. E. Archhold announced this morning that his office will be kept open until 9: OIL o’clock Saturday evenings in order to accomodate wheat growers of the county wishing to cooperate I with the government in the wheat adjustment program. 500 applications have been sent out by the agent and many more are expect-1 ed to be sent. 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 7, 1933.

George T. Burk Completes Fifty Years In Business; 77 Years Old

When a local citizen has been in business for 50 years a newspaper would be amiss if it did not take recognition of the fact. George T. Burk, founder of the Burk Elevator Company of this city has just rounded out a half century of an active business career and with health permitting. intends to stay in the harness a good many more years. Mr. Burk is 77 years old. but his three score and 17 years do not prevent him from being on the job every day. He takes a keen ' interest in commercial affairs, assists in managing his several farms and is associated in other enterprises besides the elevator business. In recent years he has been ably assisted in the management of the elevators in this city and at Monroe by his two sons. Avon and Sim Burk. Mr. Burk started in business as proprietor of a general store at' Bowers station. Clinton county. ; He also operated a store at Colfax. I Indiana, moving to Adams county j more than 27 years ago. In 1906 Mr. Burk established the Burk I Elevator in this city and from year to year the business has been i enlarged, other commodities be-! sides grain and hay being handled. ! Elevators were also purchased at i other points in this community. Mr. Burk is the type of person. I

FAMED ENGLISH DIPLOMAT DIES Viscount Grey. Foreign Minister From 1905 To 1916. Is Dead Alnwick, England, Sept. ~ —(U.R) • Vieeoiint Grey of Fallodon, Great Britain's foreign minister during the momentous y >ars from 1905 to 1916. and one of the handful of statesmen whose policies shaped the events that led to the World War. died today at Fallodon. his Northumb rland estate. H> was 71. He died after a courageous eleven 1 day fight against hopeless illness. He had been unconscious for 64 1 hours, without food, and amazed physicians by his strength. Forced into seclusion in his last years because of failing eyesight that left him almost blind. Lord Grey attained an expert knowledge' of the Braille method of raised I tters and numbers for the blind. He instructed himself. A diplomatist of amazing ability, he was also a sportsman, a writer and a famous bird lover. He was j universally admired and liked despite the controversy that still is i continued regarding his pre-war policies and the measure of blame, if any. that attached to him in connection with the start of the great war. He was married twice, but childless. Botli wives died. There is no heir to his viscounty, which he ac-, cepted in 1916 when he retired as foreign minister. He would not accept an earldom, the next highest rank in the peerage. GOVERNOR DAY AT STATE FAIR Gov. McNutt Is Guest of Honor At Indiana Fair; To Make Speech Indianapolis, Sept. 7.— (U.R) — Friction between Gov. Paul V. McNutt and the state board of agriculture was cast aside today while the governor was guest of honor at the 81st annual state fair. Legis-, lators also were honored. Gov. McNutt was scheduled to address a luncheon of state officials. assemblymen and agriculture board members and an Indiana university alumni meeting. He planned to watch the running of the annual governor’s stake, harness horse race. Troubles between the chief executive and the board of agriculture, developing after he dismissed two board members and appointed others, were forgotten for the day. Attendance continued to better last year's figures. Admissions yesterday totalled 29,639, for the second highest of the current fair, and were about 5,000 better than 1 * (CONTINUED ON "paOE *TWO)’ * 1

■■ ''iKs S ■fW i&r* - n Mt. I filled with that rugged pioneer . spirit to do things and is happiest when he is busy. Despite his I years, he does much driving every 1 day and it is not uncommon for I him to drive to Indianapolis and ‘ return, or farther and return home the same day. Mr. Burk has been a resident iof Decatur for 27 years and reI sides at 228 South First street. His friends wish for him many i more happy and active years.

Asks Department Be Given Power g Logansport. Ind.. Sept 7 —(U.R)— | J A resolution asking that the conservation department he given full power to regulate fishing in the state was passed at the annual 1 convention of the Indiana chapter of the Izaac Walton league here. The resolution was said to have been the most drastic ever passed ! by the state chapter Fish and game regulations now are fixed by 1 the legislature. : Election of officers brought the ' convention to a clo-se yesterday afternoon. I o PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM SLOW - Campaign To Find Public Works Jobs Reaches Crucial Stage Washington. Sept. 7 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt’s campaign to find 1,000.000 public works jobs for unemployed by October 1 reached a crucial stage today. Although more than one-third of the $3,300,000,000 <B) building] fund has been allotted for projects in every state, estimates placed the number of men actually at work as low as 15,000. Secretary of Interior Ickes has been criticised for delay in the vast program, and has appealed to j states and municipalities to abandon "dilatory tactics'' and speed up their machinery. His new plan of action is: Nou-federal projects will receive tentative allotments on the basis of prima facie evidence proving they are socially desirable, satisfactory from an engineering i standpoint and capable of being financed under the national re *7cON’HN*'FtT' ON PAGE TWO) o New Serial Story Begins Friday You may not be able to get to | any of tlie great football games this season but you are going to ; have an opportunity to read the greatest football story yet written —"That's My Boy.” which begins ' Friday in the Daily Democrat. I “That's My Boy" is the latest ■ novel by Francis Wallace, noted New York sports writer, and author of "Huddle.” sensational success as a book and as a photoplay under the title “Touchdown.” Frank Wallace knows well the story of the boy who leaves the steel mills to go to college, because he lias lived that life himself. He worked for a long time in the rolling mills near Bellaire, Ohio, cutting th rods into lengths ! with the flying shears as they, | writhed out of the rollers. Then | he went to Notre Dame University where he took journalism under the Fathers of the Holy Cross and football under Knute Rockne. fit’s a thrilling story. Begin readI ing it in Friday’s paper.

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WAGE AND HOUR PROVISIONS OF CODE AGREED ON Roosevelt Drives Bargain With Capital And Labor Spokesmen DECIDES POLICY REGARDING FORD Washington, Sept. 7.—(U.R) —Bituminous coal operators and the United Mine Workers have agreed on cont acts and are proceeding satisfactorily toward an NRA code for the industry, Administrator Hugh Johnson announced today. Washington, Sept. 7.— (U.R) — Weeks of wrangling over a bituminous coal code end'd today after Piesident Roosevelt intervened and drov a liargain with embattled spokesmen for capital and labor on > wage and hour provisions. The President instructed Recov-. ery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson to reconcile a third point of dis- ( pute, over unionization. In a code' and submit it to mine operators and union leaders today. The code will be promulgated Saturday. The President also decided the administration policy in the case of Henry Ford, who refused to sign j the automobile code. 1t will be simply to wait the public's reaction, Johnson announced. The President's policy of non-ag-gr ssion in the case of Ford followed an assertion by Johnson that if Ford was working his employes 40 hours a week he was violating i the automobile code. However, Johnson.said no investigators have been sent to Detroit to check on l Ford, and declared the next move j would be up to Ford. Thus the matter was left witli the public. In drafting the labor provision of the coal code Johnson faced tlie ' task of reconciling one of the most (CONTINI FTIV on page TWO) Kindergarten Will Open September 18 Mrs. Carrel Coles kindergarten will open Monday, September 18. : for a 10 weeks term, at the C. E. 1 Hocker residence on South First street. Any one interested in the kindergarten may call Mrs. Cole at 146. Hold Services For Amos Fisher Friday Funeral services for Amos E. Fisher. 56, city street commissioner and park builder, who drowned Wednesday morning in, the spray pond at the City Light and Power Plant, will be held Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, standard time, from ■ tlie Fisher home, 115 South Tenth street. Rev. M. W. Sondermann will officiate and burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed to the l Fish r residence from the S. E. i Black Funeral Home late this aft- ' ernoon and the remains may be 1 viewed tonight and tomorrow until , time for the funeral. o— ADAMS COUNTY HORSEMEN WIN — Local Exhibitors Win Prizes in Horse Show At Van Wert Fair Adams county horses made a great showing at the horse show in c onnection with the Van Wert I county fair this week. First, sec- ! ond and third prizes were wou by ! local exhibitors. Henry Dehner won first prize on a registered 4-year-old Belgian mare. P. B. Lehman won first prize on two yearling mare colts and ■ third prize in class showing. H. P. ; Schmitt won third prize in the] heavy draft matched teams and third prize on a 6-year-old Belgian mare, weight 1970 pounds. Th- Van Wert horse show is considered next in importance to the state fair show at Columbus. Nearly 300 horses from distances of more than 200 miles were exhibited at the show and local horse owners feel mighty proud of tlie honors won at the fair. Horse breeders in this county have some of the finest stock in this section of the country.

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William Dickerson Dies At Infirmary William Dickerson, 80, a native of Geneva, died Wednesday afternoon at the Adams County .Infirmary of complications and old age. He was never married. Surviving are two brothers, i Thomas Dickerson of Toledo, Ohio, 1 and George Dickerson of Richmond, and one sister. A graveside funeral service will lie held Friday morning at 9 o'clock at the Riverside cemetery. MRS. MYERS IS MADE CHAIRMAN Mrs. Herman Myers To Head Women’s Division of NRA Workers Mrs. Horman Myers. North Fifth street, has been named Adams county chairman of tlie women's I division of NRA volunteers. The appointment was made by I I Lenore M Bussell, chairman of the women's division NRA, at Green- . field. Mrs. Myers has accepted the appointment. The letter explaining her duties follows: "it will be your duty to see that every woman in your county knows all about NRA and understands how to do her part. You will, of course, appoint as many helpers as you need so that the work will not be a burden to anyone. I am en- ■ closing the official hand book and niggestions for publicity so that you may get the work started at once. Consumers’ cards and itii siguia can be secured at your local post office or from the man who is cbarnian of NRA in your couni ty.” The women's division will cooperate with other existing agencies in the community, furthering the success of the intent and purpose of NRA. \ KEEP UP FIGHT ON EPIDEMIC Doctors In St. Louis Continue Search For Cause Os Disease St. Louis. Sept. 7. — (U.R) Monkeys bitten by mosquitoes that had been allowed to feed first on sleeping sickness sufferers, were closely watched by United States army I physicians today to see if the simians could be infected with the virus that lias taken 83 lives and i stricken a total of 598 persons. A meeting of the metropolitan health council, formed to combat ! eneephalities. medical term for sleeping sickness, will be held tomorrow for each group of scientists to report on what, if anything. : has been accomplished in the five i weeks of the epidemic. Dr. Margaret Smith's "filterable vircus’’ discovery last week has ] been the only forward step in the fight. Nine U. S. department of health I specialists with senior-surgeon Dr I J. P. Leake leading them uow are | here. Two expert epidemiologists I of the I’. S. army have set up their i own laboratory at Jefferson bar- , racks and will use more than 60b kinds o$ insects in their experiments to determine if the virus is , ! transferred from human to human by an insect. A warning bulletin to: avoid en-! | cephalities patients; isolate suspicious cases; try to avoid upper, i respiratory infection; have enough I rest and nourishment and avoid exhaustion and worries was issued by the health council in an effort I to check spread of the malady. o_ Regular Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of Adams post number 43 of the American Le- - gion will be held at 8 o’clock Mon- ; day night at the Decatur Country : Club. (All members are urged to be | present. — ■ — -o County Grand Jury Convenes Today i The Adams county grand Jury convened at lb o'clock this morning. Frank Fortney, St. Mary's township and Gerhard Reinking, Union township, were drawn for service, replacing Charles Hobrock and Albert Ehrhart. Reinking was named foreman of the jury.

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UNITED STATES DETERMINED TO PROTECT LIVES ,r- ———■ Additional Warships Are Ordered to Cuban Waters For Protection — NEW CUBAN REGIME FIGHTS DISORDERS Washington. Sept. 7 (U.R) The naw <k»|>artment t<»dtiv drew eight additional destroyers into its prepartitions to protect American lives in Cuba while the coast guard ordered a similar number of its destroyers to participate 1 in tlie movement. The navy department announced eight coast guard destroyers had to Cuban waters where they will been ordered from Norfolk, Va., report to Rear Admiral C. S. Freeman aboard tlie cruiser Richmond and in command of the special service squadron. Eight naval destroyers were ordered from Newport. R. I. to home stations to disembark naval reservists and take aboard their regular crews of 85 men each. They then would be available for instant movement to Cuba. Fear 'ntervention Havana. Cuba. Sept. 7 —(U.R) — Disorders in Cuba were vigorously fought by the new revolutionary regime today as the concentration of United States warships and marines toward Havana stirred grave fear of intervention. Sporadic outbreaks, seizure of ' sugar centrals, some of them American owned, scattered killings and a threat against at least one American citizen caused the ' revolutionists, still insecure in tha ,: saddle, to fight hard against further incidents that might bring U. S. marines' ashore. Dr. Ramon Grau iSan Martin. 1 leading member of the governing (rnNTiNt’wn nx page two) NRA Workers To Report Tonight The first offensive of the NRA drive will end tonight. All workers will report at the Chamber of Commerce rooms and turn in their cards. Several of the precincts are not yet completely organized and will continue the canvass until every family in town is contacted Mrs. Fred Engle, worker in precinct A. first ward, was the first to see all her families and report to Ward Captain Fred Mills. O Davis Funeral Rites Friday Funeral services for Keith Davis, 31, who died at the Robert Long Hospital in Indianapolis Tuesday afternoon of injuries received in an automobile accident last July, will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock, standard time, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Milt Brown, 1109 West Monroe street, this city. Burial will he made in the Ray cemetery at Monroe. BALLOONISTS ARE MISSING Two Entrants In Balloon Races Are Reported Still Missing i Chicago, Sept. 7.—-(U.R) A widespread search for two entrants in ; the Gordon Bennett balloon races was expected to be ordered today if no word was heard from tlie . bags, tiie only ones missing of the seven which took off from Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds airport here Sat- ’ urday. The balloons were carrying four men. One, tlie Goodyear IX, was ’ : piloted by Ward T. Van Orman. The other was the Polish entry, s carrying Franciznek Hynek and Lieut. Zbugniew Burzynski. They had been missing more than 100 , hours. Race officials were not unduly . alarmed, pointing out that the balloonists. who took a course toward . the northeast, may have landed in Canada in a sparsely settled sec- ’ tion. Members of tlie Polish conc sill's office here, however, said ( they would ask that coast guard (CONTINUED ON PACK TWO)