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Injured in Plunge if i MB -IMMrw Mrs. Anne Elizabeth Whelan Kahn, tobacco heiress and former wife of Gilbert Kahn, son of the New York financier, who is in a serious condition after a fall of three'stories from the window of her New York apartment. - Site has been suffering from a nervous ailment fob several months. BERNE DRAYMAN PLEADS GUILTY Samuel Steiner Admits Arson; Case Taken Under Advisement Bluffton Sept. 13—Samuel Stein er, B me drayman, arraigned late Monday before Judge J. F. Decker in circuit court here on a charge of i arson, allegedly tor setting, fire to a resßence property belonging to 1 Joney Myers, Vera Cruz, on June I 12. entered a plea of guilty. Judge Decker, after questioning Steiner, and hearing statements; ’ from Deputy Fire Marshal McCabe I ' and Prosecuting Attorney George, ' Glass, took the case under advise- ‘ ment and Steiner was remanded to '‘jail to be into court later to ; receive sentence. • At the time of the fire Steiner was living alone in the Myers property. He is married but is separated from his wife, and she and a daughter live at Fort Wayne. I Motive suggested by officers who I investigated was that Steiner : sought to collect s7*oo insurance ear--1 ried on his personal effects in the . building he set on fire. It is claimed i the goods were Insured lor more ( than double their value. Steiner d a nied such motive when j taken into court, and gave a rather complicated story. He told the court that he was intoxicated and did ' not realize what he was doing. According to officers Steiner placed papers and other combust)-' i bles about the rooms and saturated ; them with kerosene and set them , | on fire. The flames were extinguished ' —O DAIRY FARMERS START STRIKE Farmers In Chicago Area Vote To Halt Shipments Into City Woodstock. 111., Sept. 13 —(U.R) — [ Amid scenes that recalled Pauli ! Revere s midnight ride, a milk strike to withhold supplies from the Chicago metropolitan urea started today in Kane and 51cHenry counties. Nearly 500 farmers met here last night and voted, after several speeches criticizing “governmental red tape and inefficiency,” to halt shipments to the Chicago area. Only 46 voted against the embargo. After the vote was announced. 200 farmers were selected to spend the remainder of the night calling all other farmers in the two counties urging them to Join the strike. Telephone lines buzzed until daylight. Farmers without telephones were called from their beds by others returning home from the meeting. The strike was based on three points. Farmers demanded that the base and surplus system of *7cONTiNUED*ON*PAGE FIVE)

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GREENLEE MAY RETRANSFERRED Reports Are Circulated That Governor’s Secretary To Be Changed Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. 13 —(UP) I —Go». Paul V. McNutt denied toj day that PI. as Greenlee, his secreI tary, would b - transferred to some other position to satisfy disgruntled Job seekers. “No smh move is contemplated 1 or has been considered,” McNutt i said. Greenlee is chief patronage dis- ■ penser for the administration. Indianapolis, Sept. 13. (U.R>— Reports circulated today that Pleas Greenlee, secretary to Gov. Paul V. i McNutt,. soon v ill lie transferred ’ from his job to another outside the statehouse, possibly to a federal position. The rumors have been heard for several weeks. Greenlee has been the subject of much criticism, particularly from old guard Democrats whum he has angered. in his position as McNutt’s patronage chief, lie made enemies of dteappointed job hunters. He has iieen charged with giving jobs merely to please his own fancy or that of some friend, without regard to party activities of the applicants. it has often been heard that he does not have the suppbrt of R Earl Peters, Democratic state i chairman. Peters visited McNutt at the ■ statehouse yesterday for the first time in weeks. It lead to conjec- > ture that their old split has been i patched up. It also revived reports I that Greenlee would be ousted as executive secretary. Greenlee now is on a tour of the 20 state penal and benevolent institutions. preparing a report for McNutt. It may be his last state job. According to reports, either he will take a federal job or the superintendency of some state in- | stitution. CIVIC SECTION TO HOLD DRIVE Annual Hospital Fruit Drive Will Be Conducted By Woman’s Club The Civic Section of the Woman's Club will again conduct the annual fruit drive for the Adams County Memorial Hospital, it was decided at a meeting of the department Tuesday night. The drive for canned fruits and vegetables will be started during the first part of October and every township in the county will be i canvassed. An organized drive will also be I conducted in Decatur and it is hoped that every part of the city \ and county will be covered. If anyone should be overlooked in the drive, the cans of fruit may be brought to the Nichols Shoe Store ■ in this city. Empty cans will also be placed in the Nichols Shoe Store, and I persons wishing to secure the cans may do so. Those bringing the canned foods to the store may receive jars in return. The entire community is solicited to assist in tills work which has been conducted for a number of years by the Civic Section. Large numbers ot canned foods are donated to the hospital each year during the drive to be used in the preparation of meals. o Miles Roop Legion Finance Officer The name of Miles Roop was omitted from the item in yesterday's Daily Democrat which gave the list of officers of the American legion to be installed September 25. Mr. Roop is the finance officer of Adams Post No. 43 of the lArnerican Legion and has served years in the post. o Reports Slugging After Boxing Bout New York. Sept. 13 — (U.R) — Joseph Triner, member ot the Illinois boxing commission revealed today that he had been "slugged and attacked” last night after the Ross-Canzoneri fight at the Polo Grounds by a man he described as a “Chicago gambler.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 13, 1933.

Named to Bank Post I . J c a I Bw- ■ • v - MM l 1 I ■■MHMgHMgMHrasM Walter J. Cummings, Chicago i industrial and utility operator, who has been appointed a member ; of the commission which will guide the destinies of the gigantic Federal Deposit Insurance ('or- j ’ poration, provided for intheGlassi Steagall banking act. i' ——■ ; SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS BUDGET , Decatur School Board i Fixes Tax Levy At 97 Cents On SIOO J The Decatur School Board in session last night adopted its budget for r next year and fixed the tax levy at j 97 cents on the SIOO. no change bemade in the tentative estimates. » No objections were offered to the -1 proposed rate and copies of the ■ I budget and tax levy were certified I today to Glen Cowan, county auditor, who will provide the County I Tax Adjustment Board with copies. I The county board meets September ( 18 to examine all budgets and make , i whatever changes the members , deem advisable. The budget totals $69.4!t8.55 of I which only $41,665.81. will be obi tained through taxation from the 97 cent rate, based on a valuation figure of $4,295,444 00. The special school fund totals, $19,588.55; the tuition fund. $46,660. and the bond . fund, $3,250. The school estimates > that it will receive $13,200 in misj celianeous revenue during 1934, of II which $6,000 will be from the state . tax. estimated by the school board at s2oo for 30 teac hers. I The number of taxable polls in : th- school city is placed at 931. o - Funds Ordered For Stricken Districts 7 Washington, Sept. 13 — (UP) — , President Roosevelt today directed ‘ that $63,000,000 be made available ~ for five areas hit by floods and ' other disasters. o FRED SEEKING ; I DIES TODAY Farmer Dies at 2 o’Clock This Morning At Home Near Hoagland I I Frederick Selking. 69. farmer re- ; siding one and one-half miles east ; of Hoagland, died at his home at | 2 o’cloc k Wednesday morning. Death was due to complications. Mr. Selking had been ill for sever-' al months and wa- bedfast for the j 1 past week. He was born in Marion township, ’ Allen County on November 27, 1863. 1 He was a son ot Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Selking, debased. Forty-one years ago on May 26 he was united in marriage to Louisa Meyer, who ! survives. Two sons, Fred and Paul, at home and one sister, Mrs. Louise Neff of Madison township. Allen county, alson survive. Mr. Selking was a ; member of the Flatrock Lutheran ; Church. Funeral services will be held Sati urday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, • standard time, from the home, east ■ Os Hoagland, and at 1:45 o’clock • from the Flatrock Lutheran Church ! with Rev. William Akers officiating. Burial will be made in the church ’ cemetery.

NEW INSTRUCTOR I IN HIGH SCHOOL Albert Sellemeyer Named Band. Orchestra Leader; Rice Resigns Albert Sellemever of this city has been named instructor of band and orchestra in the DecaI tur Higli school, succeeding David Rice, who tendered his resignation : to the school board last evening. Mr. Sellemeyer will assume his | , duties at once Mr. Rice served i as band and orchestra director at ' the local high school for the past ] I five years. He also whs director of the Decatur Junior Band, composed of more than 30 members and has been instrumental in promoting and furthering the musi-j cal education of the youtli of tile city Instructions in music will be ; curtailed to a great extent during the coming year, due to a lack of finances. M. F. Wor*hman. city superintendent of schools stated 'oday. About eight and one-half , hours per week will lie given to 1 instruction in band and orchestra The schedule adopted by the I playing. school board includes classes of | one hour each on Monday and Wednesday evening and from 8:30 ;to four o’clock on Saturday. I (’lasses will he organized for each instrumental piece and the students grouped so that instruc-: tions can be given them during certain hours. The school board has not yet fixed the salary of the instructor, j But Mr. Worthman stated that he , would be paid from $8 to sl2 a week, depending on the hours and the number of students. The instructions are free to all music instrumental students in the city. i Classes will be held in the high : i school assembly room. Mr. Sellemeyer is a well known : musician of this city. From 1910 (COVrIS’VED OV PAGE FIVE) o DISTRIBUTION TO AID SLASH Governor Estimates Tax Boards Can Cut Budgets $10,009,000 Indianapolis. Sept. 13. — U.R) — One definite method of . reducing local budgets will he available to county tax adjustment boards when they meet Sept. 18. It lies in the table of estimates of stats distribution to local government units from gross income,, I intangibles and beer taxes. I A difficult task faces the hoards On one side are demands for tax reduction. On the other are figures showing the necessity for tax increases because of reduced assessed evaluations and too rigid economy in the past year. The figures more than offset reduced budgets ’ in many cases. Promising reduced taxes and having attempted to pave the way for them by legislation, the McNutt administration has pledged a $17,500,000 distribution of stale funds locally during the next two year,-. The administration has made i specific estimates, showing ho.w, local officials can figure their ! shares of the distribution. School ’ officials have been told to figure j $1.20 per pupil for their shares of the beer tax and S4OO a year on teachers' salaries from the gross income tax. On the strength of these esti- 1 mates, adjustment hoards have a chance to cut budgets and tax ’ rates. Governor McNutt has said | that they can lop $10,000,000 off budgets now before them if they use his estimates. _o — Auburn Company Sued For Damage Fort Wayne Sept 13-(UP)— The Auburn automobile company of Auburn toda was named defendant, in a SIOO,OOO damage suit filed with the United States deputy clerik here | in behalf of Charles W. Habig of Miami, Florida. Habig, a former distributor for charges that his business and reputation in the Florida city were ruined because of an embezzlement I charge filed against him November 21, 1931. by the Auburn company. The case later was dismissed In Dade county, Florida, criminal | court the complaint said.

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MANY WORKERS OUT ON STRIKE OVER COUNTRY About 100,000 Striking In Various Industries Os Nation NEW YORK LEADS WITH 45,000 (Copyright 1933 by the UPJ New York, Sept. 13.— (U.R) —Approximately 100,1)00 American workers were on strike today in widely separated industrial centers. While the National Recovery Administration worked toward peace, mediation boards struggled with warring capital and labor factions on many fronts. New York contributed 45.000 of the total. The New Jersey silk I dyeing centers were tied up in a general strike and lockout affecting 25.000 workers. In the Pennsylvania coal mining districts. 6.000 miners were striking in protest against long delays in formulating an NKA code regulating tile soft coal industry. ' In Philadelphia 1.200 were out in a group of small strikes and 1.000 restaurant workers threatened to strike at noon today, in St. I.oufs. 1.000 garment workers were out and 8,000 Chicago needle trade workers still were on strike. In California 3.500 raisin workers continued their strike, and 500 miners in Gallup. N. M„ maintained their front Factory strikes in western Pennsylvania added 1,400 strikers to the total, and 800 silk workers were out in Connecticut in Brockton, Mass.. 5,500 shoe worki ers were on strike. All the strikes were either in pro- ! test against failure of employers to i speedily put themselves under NRA . TcONTnTuEn ON PAGE THREE) ■■■ O — Gerald Strickler Senior President Organization of the senior class of the Decatur high school was h Id this morning Gerald Strickler was chosen president of the (lass; Gerald Eady, vice-pr sident; Gertrude Brandyberry, secretary and Helena Rayl, treasurer. Miss Blanche McCrory will act as (lass guardian and advisor during the year. Other classes in the high sohool will organize within the next few days. 0 Wickey Child Dies Tuesday Evening Rebecca Wickey, one year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wickey of Monro - township, died Tues- ! day evening at 8:45 o’clock at her porsiital home. The child had sufi sered conculsions for several days. She was born August 14. 1932. Surviving are the parents and several brothers and sisters.. Funeral services will be held from the home Thursday afternoon , at 2 o’clock. Burial will lie made I in the Amish cemetery. o— EMMA LEHMAN DIES TUESDAY Mrs. Oswin Lehman Dies At Home In Monroe Township Mrs. Emma Lehman. 59, wife of Oswin Lehman residing one mile I north of Berne in Monroe township, died at 7:30 o'clock Tuesday night at her home. Death was due to gall ; stones and complications. Mrs. Lehman became suddenly ill Sunday. She had been in poor health for several years. She was liorn in Summerfield. 'lllinois, on March 18 1874 a daughter of J. H. and Maria Schmidt. She was married in Berne on April 13, 1905 to Oswin Lehman, who stirI vives. Five children, Melvin. Elmira. Laurella. and Erma also survive. One daughter. Marcella, preceded her mother in death. Several brothers and sisters also survive. The deceased was a member of I the Mennonite Church at Berne. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from I the home and at 2 o’clock from the | Mennonite Church, Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

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Confessed Embezzler 1 1 J ■ \ i : t Miss Ella J. rold employee of the Union Trust Bank. Cleveland. 0., who confessed to the county prosecutor that I she lost over $37,000 in the stock market with money she took from the bank's funds. iShe said she manipulated the accounts of nine ' depositors. BANK ROBBERY NETS 535,000 Four Heavily Armed Men Hold Up Bank At Amery, Wisconsin :, ; Amery. Wis.. Sept. 13— (U.R) —; 'Four heavily armed men. believed . to he members of a gang which i conducted an express robbery in ‘ | St. Paul, held up the Union State i bank today and escaped with loot I I estimated at $35,000 The descriptions of the men j tallied exactly with those of four .' men surprised near Hayward.; ’ Wis., yesterday while they were burying a strong box seized in the St. Paul robbery. The quartet apparently spent the night in the bank. At 7:50 a. ni. today Clifford Olson, assistant cashier met them when he opened the bank and was forced to unlock all boxes in the safe deposit vaults. Three of the bandits leisurely looted the bank while the fourth slipped out to bring their automobile to the front door. The bandits wore white hankerchief masks about their faces just ; as did the eight men who perpej trated the St. Paul robbery. Several times they mentioned that their driver would return at B:2b a. m. After SIO,OOO in currency and $25,000 in securities about half non-negotiable. had been placed in leather brief cases the bandits left the bank at 8:20 a. m., right I on schedule. Report Further Cuban Disorders i Washington Sept. 13 —(UP)—R •: ports of wide spread political disI orders, unaccompanied however by i bloodshed, were received from Cuba today by the state d partment. Today’s Scores 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 000 000 000 —0 4 1 Pittsburgh 100 000 OOx—l 71 Cantwell and Hogan; French , and Grace. New York 00 —Game Called Chicago 20 —Rain Hubbell and Mancuso; Bush and i Hartnett. Philadelphia at Cincinnati —Rain. Only gameu scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE First Game . Chicago 000 000 120—3 8 3 Philadelphia 000 000 020—2 8 0 Jones and Grube; Peterson and Cochrane. Second Game Chicago 000 20 Philadelphia 000 10 Faber and Berry; Cain and Cochrane. St. Louis 000 001 000—1 6 2 1 Boston 000 003 OOx —3 7 0 Knott and Hemsley; Brown and; Ferrell. ij Cleveland at Washington—Rain, i » Other games postponed—Rain. > | Courtesy City Confectionery

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THREE STATES JOIN REPEAL ' RANKTUESDAY Maryland, Colorado And Minnesota Vote Against Prohibition ONLY SEVEN MORE STATES NEEDED (By the United Press) The approval of only seven more states was needed todav to remove the 18th amendment from the constitution. Substantial returns from Colorado. Minnesota and Maryland which voted yesterday, indicated good majorities for repeal. They were the 27th. 28th*and 2?th states, to join the unbroken wet parade. Witli more than three-fourths of the state's precincts counted, repeal led in Colorado by more than two to one. With more than half of the precincts counted in Minnesota. tlie repealists were maintaining the same lead, in Maryland the repeal victory was expected to approach the proportions of 5% to one. Yesterday's landslide for repeal, following closely a wet victory in the prohibition pioimrr state of Maine Monday, placed repeal withlin reaching distance of actuality. Ten states vote between now and Nov. 7. Wets are confident of wini ning all. but need to win onjy sev- : en for victory. New Mexico and Idaho vote next Tuesday. Virginia votes Oct. 3, Florida, Oct. 10. and Ohio, Pennsylvania. North and South Carolina. Utah and Kentucky, Nov. 7. The 1 last repeal convention will be held I Dec. 6 and if the wets are victorious, the 18th unieudment will die on that day. Colorado 2-1 Denver, Sept. 13. (U.R)—Colorado 1 definitely joined the repeal parade today. Complete returns from fourfifths of the state’s 1.548 precincts gave a wet majority of more than two to one. The vote from 1,339 precincts was: For repeal, 128,916. Against repeal, 58,158. Precincts outstanding were from scattered rural districts, expected to give dry majorities, but leaving no possibility of an upset. The result was made conclusive hy heavywet majorities in every urban center of the state. In Denver repeal had a margin of nearly five to one. The final vote in the 314 precincts stood at 55,363 for repeal and 12,839 against. Maryland s'/g Baltimore, Md.. Sept. 13. —(U.R) — Tlie .Maryland tree state voted wet by a ratio of 5V 2 to 1 in yesterday’s repeal election. Complete unofficial returns for Baltimore and partial and complete ! returns from 20 of tlie 23 counties, i ’ (CONTINUED*ON PAGE FIVE) LUCILLE GROTE VICTIM Mrs. Lawrence Grote Dies Late Tuesday Afternoon of Influenza Mrs. Lucille Grote. 28. wife of Lawrence Grote of northeast of Decatur, and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at her home Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock following a short illness. Deatli w«s due to influenza. Mrs. Grote had been bedfast for the last week and a half suffering iruiu iultuSnZu. She was born in Root township I September 19. 1904. a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kiiapp. She was united in marriage April 4. 1926 to Lawrence Grote, who survives. She was a member of the St. Peters Lutheran Church. Funeral services will .be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, i standard time, from the home, ; five and one half miles northeast of Decatur, and at 1:45 o’clock from the St. Peters Lutheran Church. Rev. L. J. Dornseif will officiate and burial will be made I in the church cemetery. The body will be removed from the W. H. Zwick funeral home to the Grote home this afternoon where the remains may be viewed until time for the funeral.