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Bantam Chancellor ' i va ~ ' S . B A m W Though only 59 inches tall. Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss of Austria Is waging a great fight against the efforts of Adolf Hitler anil the German Nazis to politically domi nate his country Dollfuss Is forty years old and has held public office only three years. BALLOONISTS STILL MISSING Canadian Rangers .Join In Search Eor Four Missing Airmen Chicago. Sept. B—(UR)—Rangers of southeastern Canada joined with American officials today in a search for four airmen missing in ' two balloons which left here SatI urday—in the Gordon Henrwtt ■ races. The balloons, unreported since. ; they sailed away from Curtiss-; Wright Reynolds airport with five , other contestants, were believed to have drifted to the northeast. Prevailing winds at the start of, the race probably would have carried them north in the Province of Quebec, Can., contest officials said. Secretary of State Hull was ’ understood to have asked Warren D. Robbins. American minister to Canada, to ask provincial author ities to join in the search. Forest rangers. It was reported here, were ordered to scout isolated sections of th« province for word of the balloons. Flying in the two missing craft ' were Ward T. Van Orman, piloting the Goodyear IX. and Capt. Francizek Hynek and Lieut Zbiginew Burzynski in the Polish entry. Frank A. Trotter was accompanying Van Orman, one of the United States’ outstanding balloonists. Three times Van Orman has won the Bennett trophy. The Polish flyers likewise are *~7cONTINUEr7"oN PAGE FIVE) o —— URGES BOARDS TO STUDY AID Tax Adjustment Boards Urged To Consider State Distribution Indianapolis. Sept. 8. (U.R) Countv boards of adjustment which meet September 18 to set tax levies for 1934 were urged by Gov. Paul \ . McNutt today to consider state dis- ■ trlbutions of money in approving their respective budgets. Tax setting bodies have not been taking into consideration the money they will rec ive from beer taxes, intangibles taxes and the gross income tax, McNutt said. He instructed George C. Cole, ; State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Philip Zoercher, ' chairman of the Stato Tax Board, to send letters of instruction to school officials and county auditors. The letters will show how the ! boards of adjustment can figure receipts from state distribution and ■ will enable them to get a good idea of what funds will be available for the next two school years. If the letters are observed strict- ; ly, McNutt estimated that $10,000,000 can be taken off the property tax bill for 1934 and $9,700,000 for I 1935. Un January, 1934, the state will ON PAGE FIVE).

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JOHNSON TELLS I COAL INDUSTRY CODE WILL RULE Bituminous Coal .Code Drafted By Government Will Rule Industry PUBLIC HEARINGS MONDAY AFTERNOON Washington, Sept. 8.- (U.R) Coal operators and union leaders were’ given to understand by Recovery Administrator Hugh 8. Johnson today that the bituminous coal code I drafted by the government was going to be the law of the industry. He warned that he would not tiderate specious argument on minor details. Johnson said suggestions for reasonable modifications of the code would be received up to 6 p. m. tomorrow, and considered at a public hearing Monday afternoon. But he closed the door to further attempts to delay promulgation of the code by hair- i splitting wrangling, and said that if agreement was not reached he would Impose the code arbitrarily. The code establishes a new basis of employer-worker relations, and ; eliminates destructive competitive practices. It provided a 36-hour week, either averaged from six-mpnth weekly working periods of 32 hours and 40 hours each, or by straight 36-hour weeks throughout the year. No employe shall be required to work more than eight hours a day. Machinery was provided tor a majority of organized employed workers to share the available work with bona fide unemployed workers of the same mine. No qualification of the collective bargaining guarantees of the Re-Aml-wccs UHiluded iu lUe Uubor provision, and employers were (CONTINUED ON PAGE F’VE) O AGED DECATUR LADY IS DEAD Mrs. Permelia Martin, 79, Dies At Hospital After Long Illness Mrs. Permelia Jane Martin. 79. of Marshall street, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 12 o'clock Thursday night, fol--1 lowing a two-year's illnes? Death was due to pneumonia. Mrs. Martin had been an invalid for the last two years. She was removed to the local hospital last Tuesday. She was born near Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 27, 1854 .and was united in marriage to Janies C. Martin. Civil War veteran, who preceded her in death a number of years ago. Surviving are two sons, William ■C. and Jess A., at home. One son, George W.. died three years ago. ’ Two half sisters, Mrs. Ella Van Emmon of Elgin, Ohio; Mrs. JenI nings of Craigville, and a step daughter-in-law, Mrs. Matilda Martin of this city, sui vive. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the home and at 2:45 o'clock at the Zion Reformed Church. Rev. C. M. ; Prugh will officiate and burial will ' be made in the Salem cemetery. The body will be removed from the W. H. Zwlck Funeral Parlor Saturday morning to the home, where the remains may be viewed until time for the funeral. Spanish Cabinet Tenders Resignation Madrid. S?pt. 8. —(U.R) —The cabinet of Premier Manuel Azana resigned today under pressure of opposition elements led by Alejandro Lerroux's radical party, which contended tlie Cortes as at present constituted does not represent the popular will. Criminal Cases Set For Trial A few criminal cases have been set for trial next week. The case of the state vs. Charles Caron, rape, will be heard Monday, September 18. The State vs. George Yake, petit larceny, has been set for September 2.2, and two cases of The State vs. William Bell, for public intoxication and operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, will also be heard September 22.

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Draught Beer Makes Record Tax Collection Indianapolis, Sept. 8 — (U.R) I Draught beer legalization Aug. 15 was responsible for a record )5day beer tax collection between Aug. 16 and 31, the state excise department reported todhy. I Tax receipts were $33,788, exceeding the old half month record by $9,(100, Keg beer sales comprised about 75 per cent of the 675.764 gallons handled during the period. Importers paid $8,062 of the total tax. breweries $25,725. A compilation of malt tax paid since the excise fee was started April 7 showed the total to be $62,341, representing 3,117,056 pounds at 2 cents a pound. The whiskey tax total also was announced as $35,090, representing 25 cents on each of 140,362 pinta sold in the state since April GIRL KIDNAPED AT DANCE HAU Two Armed Men Kidnap 17-Year-Old Girl At Terre Haute Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 8. —(U.R) Miss Evelyn Hyslop. 17-year-old Terre Haute girl who was kidnaped from her escort by two men last night, notified her step-father today that she escap d from her abductors unharmed at East S’. Louis, Illinois. Miss Hyslop said they arrived in East St. Louis about noon and that she managed to elude the two men. She said they did not molest her, hut gave no further details of the kidnaping or her escape. Terre Haute. Ind., Sept. B—(U.R) —Aid of Indianapolis and state TRrtfce was enlisted today in the search for Evelyn Hyslor. 17, Terre Haute, who was kidnaped from her escort. Frank A. Whalen 18. a salesman, at a dance here last night. Whalen said that he and the girl were sitting in his automobile at the rear of the Trianon I dance hall when two armed men appeared. The bandits robbed Whalen of $lB6 and ordered him to drive to Clinton, Ind. When they arrived at Clinton, Whalen was ordered (CONTINURU ON PAGE SIX) o > Grand .Jury Will Reconvene Monday The Adams county grand jury will adjourn this evening and reconvene Monday morning. Prose- ■ cutor Ed A. Bosse, announced this afternoon. The jury has been , in session since Thursday morning and several witnesses have been called. No statement was given concerning cases which the ’ jurors were investigating. James Touhey, well known local citizen, has been named bailiff for the grand jury. FOUR INMATES ESCAPE JAIL Four Men Break Jail At LaGrange; Saw Through Cell Bars Lagrange. Ind.. Sept. 8. —(U.R) — Four prisoners escaped trom the Lagrange County jail here today after sawing and filing away the bars of their celt. The men. all local residents, are Byron. Charles and Orville Stewart, brothers, and Ervin Wolf. The brothers are said to have confessed being members of a gang of petty thieves. Wolf had been held on a bad check charge. The four are believed to have fled from town in a stolen auto. A posse of deputies immediately was organized to search for the' fugitives and word was sent over j three states to watch for the men. The Stewart gang was arrested l last week after silverware taken from a cottage at Oliver Lake was found at the home of Mrs. Bessie Stewart, mother of the three brothers. She also was arrested and remained in jail ti>day while the men escaped. Mrs. Oliver Stewart was arrested today as an accomplice in the escape of her husband and his orotners. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

KIRSCH QUITS AS LIQUIDATOR I ' Mathias Kirsch Quits Position; Clark .1. Lutz. Is Appointed Mathias Kirsch has resigned as ' i liquidating agent of the Peoples I latan and Trust Company, which dosed June 14. 1930 and the IndiI ana state banking department has I appointed C. J. Imtz. well known , local attorney to the place. ; Mr Lutz will assume his duties Saturday and the papers and rec- , ords of the Trust Company located in the office of C. L. Walters. . attorney for Mr. Kirsch, will be I moved to Mr. Lutz's office in the Erwin building. Mr. Walters acted as attorney for Mr. Kirsch since ho was named liquidating agent by the hoard of directors. Beginning July 1 of this year, the state banking department took - over all closed , banks and named persons to liquidate them Mr Kirsch was renamed by the state banking de- , partment. but due to other business matters, was unable to continue as liquidator. Herman H. Myers was named by the banking department as L attorney for the liquidating agent 1 and will continue in that capacity. I During the time Mr. Kirsch has I, been the liquidating agent, distrl- ' butions totaling 58' per cent have • | been made bv him to depositors. . In addition to this amount the dupositiirs also received a four i percent distribution from the t stockholders assessment. The ■ I liquidation has been one of the . most speedy and well managed ‘ affairs of any closed hank in the ! state. Mr. Lutz as the new liquidator! ) i takes over the business under the ’ date of June 30. the time when the 1 , bank examiners made the audit . for the state banking department. 1 o i FRED KUNE IS DEATH'S VICTIM > Adams Countv Native Dies At Hoagland Early This Morning Fred Kline. 72. who spent practically his entire life in Adams r County, died at his home in Hoagland. Friday morning at 2:15 r o'clock. Death was du? to complications. He had been ill for several years but had been bedfast for the I last week. He was horn in Preble township | . and resided in this county until , six years ago when he moved to t Hoagland He had engaged in farm- . ing in Preble notw shorpifL'TlAON ing in Preble township for a numI ber of years. . He was born January 18. 1860. and on June 16. 1894. he was united in marriage to Emma Prange, who survives, together with two sons and a daughter: William of Allen County; Theodore of Hoagland; and Mrs. Esther Morton of Hoag-; ' land. J Two sisters and two brothers al-1 j so survive: Mrs. Sylvia Scheimann land Mrs. Henry Gallmeyer of ■ Preble township: Henry of Allen , i County and Louie of Hoagland. Funeral services will be held SunI day afternoon at 1 o’clock, standard l time, at the home in Hoagland and ■I at 1:15 o'clock at the St. Johns 1 I Lutheran Church of which he was ■ a member. Rev. A. R. Treulzsh ■ will officiate. Interment will lie in, ' tlie church cemetery. The body will be removed to the home from the W. H. Zwick Fu- ■ I neral Home late this afternoon. o Drowning Is Given As Cause Os Death Following an autopsy held Thurs day afternoon on the body of Amos j Fisher, eity street commissioner, | local physicians pronounced drowning the cause of death. Mr. Fisher fell in a spray pool at the City Light and Power Plant early Wednesday morning and County Coroner Robert Zwick rendered a verdict of "accidental drowning.’’ The autopsy was held at the request of indemnity insurance companies and the post-mor tern resulted in the physicians de- ' termining the cause of death as drowning. Mr. Fishar’s lungs were filled with water.

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ROOSEVELT IN ! URGENT APPEAL TO HELP NEEDY President Calls For Greater Effort By Public For Poor Relief SAYS SOME ARE LAX IN DUTIES Washington. Sept. 8. —(U.R) President Roosevelt today call d for a greater effort <>n the part of the public in bringing relief to the un- J employed. At the same time he warned that there are many areas mingling the relief qu stion with politics and then coming to the federal government "hat in hand" seeking federal funds. The president’s remarks in which lie sounded a hopeful note of improved economic conditions were made on the White House lawn to officials of the 1933 mobilization for human needs conference. He pointed out that it was first the duty of private citizens and private agencies to assist the destitute. That failing, the cities must step in, then the state and finally the federal government, he said. "It is the inherent duty of the federal government to keep people from starving." Mr. Roosevelt said, explaining, however, that because the federal government provided funds there should be no lessening of effort on tlie part of others. “There are some areas that have not done their share in meeting the relief problem." he said. “They have come hat in hand asking re- . lief of the federal government. ■ There are some states and some municipalities where relief has been mixed with politics, some i states where the legislatures have been thinking in political terms and not in human terms. "There are some cities spending j for political purposes instead of I the purposes of human need. Those cases, however, I am happy to say. are diminishing, not because we are wielding the big stick but because we are making our objec- ' tions clear." "The people," the President added. “also are making it clear that the communities and states must I play ball." o Continued Hot Weather Predicted Indianapolis. Sept. B.—(U.R) Continued high temperatures which . hav° prevailed in Indiana tor more j than a week were predicted today by officials of the U. S. W at her i Bureau here. The forecast was for fair -nd coni tinned warm. Maximum temperatures probably will range between 96 and 94 deI grees today, according to the bureau./ Two deaths have been attributed to the late summer heat wave. BILLY SUNDAY'S SON NEAR DEATH — George Sunday Is Near Death After Falling From Apartment San Francisco. Sept. 8— (U.R) — George Sunday, 40. son of the famed evangelist, Billy Sunday, was neiir death at a hospital here today after falling to the pave-1 ment from his fourth-floor apartment. His wife, the former Mauryne Reichard, Hollywood mannequin and dancer, told police she heard a crash of broken glass in another room after Sunday struck her and ordered his mother from the apartment. Sunday, conscious for a moment. whispered that he fell through the window while watering a fern. Physicians lield slight hope for his recovery. He suffered a com-1 pound fracture of the right thigh, double fracture of the jaw and other injuries, i Mrs. Sunday was treated at the hospital for a broken finger. Her eye was blackened. She said that her husband was suffering from a nervous break- i down brought on by financial re j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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NRA Counsel ■ Here is one of tlie most important men in tlie United States today. He is Donald R. Richberg of Chicago, general counsel of the NRA and his decisions affect every industry in the country. Richberg first won a national reputation as counsel for the railroad brotherhoods. NINETEEN HURT IN COLLISION Scores Slightly Hurt When Two Chicago Street Cars Collide Chicago, Sept. B.—'U.R)—Nineteen persons were injured seriously and scores of others suffered cuts and bruises when two street cars, crowded with passengers, collided at a street intersection on, the north side here today. The 19 seriously injured were taken to two hospitals while scores of others were treated at the scene. Doctors and ambulances were rushed to the scene. The impact of the cars was heard fur more than a mile, residents in the neighborhood of Clark and Lawrence, a busy north side intersection, said. Several neighborhood doctors assisted in first treatment of the injured and a drug store at the corner was turned into an emergency hospital. Both cars, a north bound Clark street car and a west bound Lawrence avenue car. were derailed The fire department was called to assist street -ar workmen in separating the cars and placing them back on the rails. Police cleared a serious traffic jam which resulted, and began an investigation to determine which of the motormen was responsible for the collision. The corner is protected by a traffic light. Ten of the seriously injured were taken to the Ravenswood hospital and nine to the Edgewater hospital. Attaches at the hospitals said that most of the victims were 'suffering from internal injuries. Railway Trainmen Official Killed Fort Wayne. Ind.. Sept. B.—(U.R)— James E. Karns. 49. secretary of the Fort Wayne lodge. Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, was killed instantly here today when he fell beneath a freight train. An eye witness said Karns slipped between two cars to the track when he tried to hop the train. —o — Famous Parachute Jumper Here Sunday Gene Rock, nationally known parachute jumper from Ft. Wayne, will make a delayed drop from a height of 5.000 feet Sunday in this i city. Rock will make his drop from a new Waco F plane, owned and piloted by Lloyd Pierce, also of Ft. ; Wayne. The field from which local i flights will be made is located west ; of the G. E. plant on U. S. road 224. o Chemist Speaks To Decatur Rotarians ' T. C. Smith, chemist at the Ceni tral Sugar Company in this city, read a paper ou chemical inventions, before the Decatur Rotary club last evening. The paper dealt : with the discoveries made in laborI atories of the automotive industry regarding meta! products. It was .an interesting presentation. Mr. Smith was chairman of the meeting.

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INTERVENTION FEAR BELIEVED TO BE AVOIDED Roosevelt Expresses Hope Cuba Can Solve Own Difficulties SECRETARY HULL EMBARKS CUTTER Havana. Sept. B.—(U.R)—Mexico has recognized the new revolutionary government of Cuba, the State Department announced today. This would be the first recognition by any foreign power. Havana, Cuba, Sept. 8. —<U.R) —Cuba’s revolutionary executive committee today formally reorganized the nation’s military command, arranged to feed the hungry and declared that danger of United States intervention had been avoided. Acting in the name of the executive committee of five, |CarlM> announced the appointment of three prominent revolt figures —two sergeants and one lieutenant —to command the army and navy. Havana. Sept. 8. — (U.R) —Cuba's revolutionary government appealed urgently to army officers and political leaders of all parties today to unite in its support. Only by united action could order be preserved and American intervention avoided, the government said. Members of the government left the palace exhausted to get a few hours' rest before another meeting at noon. They expressed optimism that the army officers and politicians would rise as patriots to the emergency and support them. They did not seem to wish to consider the alternative- Amer ican intervention —that refusal of support would bring. Events of the hours before and during the long meeting showed how important any move from any political faction might be. Tlie American cruiser Richmond and destroyer Bainbridge arrived in Havana harbor, joining the destroyer McFarland. The destroyer Sturtevant was at Santiago, at the other end of the island. Other de(CONTINUI7D ON PAGE SIX) o New York Man Hurt In Fall From Train Fort Wayne, Sept. 8— (U.R) — Louis Salmore, 29. New York, was recovering in St. Joseph's hospital here today from a broken collar bone suffered when lie was throw n off a freight train near here. Salmore told police lie was pushed from tlie train by a man claiming to be a railroad detective. The train was moving about 30 miles an hour. INDIANA FAIR ENDS TONIGHT Most Successful State Fair In Three Years To End Tonight Indianapolis, Sept. 8. —(U.R) —The most successful Indiana State fair in three years drew rapidly toward conclusion today. Only three livestock judging events were scheduled. They were tor Tamworth hogs, the 4-H club litter and Ayrshire cattle. The annual sale of beef calves also j was held today. The fair will end tonight with the regular grandstand and coliseum programs. Attendance, without today’s gate passed last year's total. The 36,088 admissions yesterday boosted the figure to 166,980, Last year's total was 137.910. Four girls attending the annual state fair Home Economics school I were happy today, holding college scholarships for outstanding work at the school. They are Alice Stair. Carroll county, who won the SIOO Purdue university award; Audia Unger, Knox county, winner of the SSO Indiana university award:' Mildred Niswander, Clay county, winner of the Indiana State Teachers' Col- ; 'ege SSO award, and Anna Marie I Doherty, Wayne county, winner of the SSO Earlham college award.