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SIOfEKELL* “'■ll MEMPHIS ■israMv 3 kidnaper. Slayer, flbahh Will Be Mov- | M ed By Plane WIIEI. CASE IS • Sear <" X( 11 S!ON 3 phis. Tenn.. Sept. 29. (fforut' (Machine will he moved <'.ih IhToiv Idinorro" le<le ra I iiuhi .ib <1 t'.xlav. ■(ami an cm "i t squadron ZHj,,! on the mass trial in Hie Charles AMsclhl ki<ln;i|iini< case in al i " !'■” Kall - »ii; October zf pla'' - 1 'I" u di-P'rado “ the fl Cate Near Jury I'itr Okla. Sept. 29. defetidan's |Kf»r Ursehel >. wii ""I’ H'e jury . -. mon today ' . ol •»■. from which rhoose. HarB>» \ '■■ '• 1. Bates us and underbrand as gangsters his wife 'L" Arnion. were 1 :■ participi characterini?' »nip!i<*«*» who •■ ■ - loot. Twin men charged dispose of, mon-\ \ ere pictured as • ■ circumstances v;t -,k in the kidnap fa. •■: • s.-ntem •fl convii t. <• m the first test n-s 1.-all.-rgh kidnaping $■ leverin is dis-r'-ileral Judge El Vaught. jury will decide only on Aflor -he accused. • ' . xne. ted tomorrow ■ Seek “'Master Mind" A flW'.-. S. pt »9- U.R' gMty“r «r:i underworld con»as songlr today as the nil .1 the $200,000 kidnap plot. .flfl ■ utors in the war c declared tile oriKjj ,ns "m notes as well as “he a used by George Gm i Kelly to terrorize 'ria! primipals and wit"wen tot Ululated by a f '' - dis< Insure was j^Pb)'(*'!• rl'ithorities as th.trial of ton kidnaping d-fcni'ants came to a a 'm tdi. d federal court » here. theory that Harvey J. | not..i ions desperado cona^B Ws tilt- "brains" of the con- . bas been abandoned, it I I M revealed. ifis. H'TZEMAN IHTH'S victim 3 s - Fred Hitzeman Dies ■ At Hoagland Home S This Morning B~‘ Minnie Kraft Hitzman, 84, of m*and. wife of Fred Hitzeman. K~’t her home at 9:10 o'clock morning of complications and Mrs. Hitzman had been in B 8 health for the last several rs ' was born in Madison TownK? Allen county, February 1 I ■*’ Her marriage to Fred Hitzesurvlves. took place on ! a 1S86 " ThPre are nn child- ■ no brothers and sisters sur- i K° e ' E* »as a member of the St. I K, Lutheran Church. Funeral ! K®'a7i" ! " llel d Sunday after- i Kth K n °’ tlcivk ' standard time, I He , t horn ® in Hoagland, and at " Bin os 0011 at tlle st Johns Luthrch wlth the Rev - A R ■ld.i„ ‘ u Oftk ' ia ' ,n K' Burial will be n the church cemetery.

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Enlisted Men Are Given Sentences Newcastle. Ind . Sept 29.—<U,R) - Pleading guiny to charges of robbing a Knightstown store, four en Hated men from Fort Benjamin Harrison were under sentence of three to 10 years each today. Bert Phillipa, 33, was sent to Michigan City state prison while Janies Knotts. 23; Edward Watkins, 24. and Morris llusher, 22. were sentenced to the state reformatory. Jess Gross, a watchman, found the soldiers burglarizing the store They. will be dishonorably dis charged from the U. S. army, it was understood. o SHERIFF HEARS ESCAPE PLANS Decatur Young Men Overheard Plotting Escape From Sheriff Sheriff Burl Johnson overheard , Virgil Cook and William iJough. Decatur young men, convicted on a petit larceny charge, talking over plans to make a get away when Sheriff Johnson escorted them to the Adams Circuit Court to receive their sentence from Judge H. M. De Voss. Sheriff Johnson talked with the tnen later and they admitted that they had discussed plans to gain their freedom. Posted on what to expect Sheriff Johnson stated he would take every precaution to prevent any trouble on the trip to the court house or wherever he was ordered to take the men. The two men were caught at Bluffton while trying to sell chick ens They admitted stealing chickens. wheat and oats from Adams county farmers. ORGANIZATION IS FORMED HERE Adams County Farm Loan Association Is Organized Here The Adams County National Farm Loan Association of Decatur has been organized here, its purpose being to negotiate farm loans through the Federal Land Bank of Louisville. The officers of the Association are . Ja< ob C. Barkley. Union township. President; Oswald A. Hoffman, vice-president; E. Burt Lenhart, secretary-treasurer; Fred T Si burger, investigator for loan commit-1 tee. The directors are: Mr. Barkley. Mr. Hoffman. Carl Koenemann, Harvey L. Sipe. Fred M. Bleeke. Mr. Sipe lives near Berne and all the other men live north of Decatur. The organization meeting, held at the Lenhart, Heller and Sehurger i offices yesterday was attended by Mariou C. Rogers of Bloomington, representing the Federal Land Bank of Louisville. Organization 1 papers were filed and .Mr. Lenhart. ■ secretary of the 'Association stated , that a number of applications for I loans had already been made. The borrower becomes a stockholder in the Federal Land Bank, five per cent of the amount of the loan being subscribed in stock. I On this basis a land owner obtain-, ing a loan on mortgage of $5.00-0 would subscribe $250 in stock in | the Federal Land Bank. Joseph V. McKee Is Out For Mayor New York. Sept. 29. <U.R) — Joseph V. McKee, who achieved amazing popularity as successor to Mayor James 'j. Walker after collapse of the Walker regime last i year, announced today his candidacy for mayor of New York ; City. McKee enters a campaign in which Fusion forces already were making the most determined fight of many years against Tammany I hall. His entrance, creating a threeI cornered race between Tammany, i ! Fusion and his own anti-Tammany forces, threw the political situ | ation into utter confusion and dis-' J heartened a large so-called ' reform" group which had hoped for; a clear-cut. campaign between Tammany and the Republican-j Democratic coalition

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Relentless Search for Escaped Convicts - 9.> • . v-JBfe ... $ 4 ■ *£s “if" ■ 'A.”’# J- -ww ... » I—sl Bk. I j3ES3 Indiana state police and deputies are engaged in a relentless search for the ten convicts who escaped from the Indiana State Prison a' Michigan City Tu ‘sday. Here the police ..re surrounding an abandoned farmhouse where several of the convicts were reported in hiding, but ths report was false.

LEAGUE ASKED TO INTERVENE Holland Demands League Os Nations Consider Jewish Problem Geneva. Sept. 29. —(U.R) -Holland forced the German Jewish problems before the League of Nations today with a demand for a special committee to consider the plight of refugees from alleged Nazi op- . pression. Jonkhwer Andries Cornelia Dirk • de Graeff, foreign minister and ■ head of the Dutch delegation, pre-1 sented to the assembly a resolution asking appointment of a spacial committee on national minorities to study the problem of German refugees in Europe. Holland did not want to enter the internal affairs of Germany, De Graeff said, but considered the question of relief for the refugees a "purely technical" matter in which the league was competent to act. The resolution declared that the i presence of many German refugees in certain European countries had brought economic, financial and social problems with which the league must deal. Again and again the German Jewish question has bobbed up in meetings of auxiliary league bodies. Germany has fought to exclude it as a purely internal mat-, ter. Just before the Dutch resolution ' today, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's personal three motored Fokker airplane arrived to take, German chief delegate Paul Joseph Goebbels back to Berlin in triumph this afternoon. The plane was in token of Hitler’s pleasure at Goebbels' speech to newspaper correspondents yesterday, when he defelled Germany's Jewish and foreign policies. o EXAMINE MEN AT FORT WAYNE Candidates For Consert vation Will Be Examined October 2 Indianapolis. Sept. 29. —(U.Ri —ExI amination of 350 candidates from ils northern Indiana counties for the second six months period of the ; civilian conser ation camps will be held Oct. 2 at national guard armories at Fort Wayne and Gary Successful candidates will spend \ two weeks in conditioning camp at, Fort Knox. Ky., before being sent into forestry work. ! County quotas for the examin- 1 ; ation at Fort Wayne are Allen j county, loti men: Lagrange, two; Steuben, two; Noble, four; De-1 Kalb, four; Kosciusko, five; Whitley. two; Wabash, four; Hunting-j ; ton. six: Wells, three, and Adams, three. County quotas for the Gary ■ examination are Lake. 109; Porter. five; Newton, tw, and Jasper,! tw. 1 County chairmen were asked by {William Book, director of the gov-: ernor's unemployment relief commission to have more than the I actual quota on hand for 4he ex- j ‘ aminations to cover rejections. j

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 29, 1933.

I Change Made In Pennsy Trains i A change has been made in the schedule of the noon passenger! trains which pass through Decatur , on the Pennsylvania railroad, it I has been announced here by C. H. i Armstrong, acting station agent. Both north and south bound ; trains, which formerly arrived in Decatur at 12:35 o'clock at noon., will be due here at 12:20 o'clock.! Other trains on the Pennsylvania i remain the same. Mr. Armstrong is acting station! agent during the absence of H. L.! Merry, who was granted a furlough ; from his duties on acount of ill health. Mr. Armstrong will be* •named station agent the first ofj October until Mr. Merry's return ' I o ALL EVIDENCE IS PRESENTED Evidence And Arguments In River Control Project Presented All evidence and arguments in the ’proposed Wabash auzK White river flood projects have been pre- ‘ sented to officials in Washington, according to a letter sent by Mrs. Virginia E. Jenckes. congresswoman from Terre Haute, sponsor of the movement to have flood control work authorizezd as part of the 1 public works program. The Congresswoman’s letter reads: "To the Citizens Residing in the Flooded Areas of the Wabash and White Rivers: "I am enclosing the final reviewon the Wabash and White Rivers flood control subject. “There is no further evidence which the citizens of the flooded districts can submit. "Congress has provided the mon*ey for flood control. The President has been given authority by I Congress to grant it, complete inI formation has been placed in his hands and in the hands of the Ad"The people in the flooded dis- " The people in the flofloded districts of the Wabash and White Rivers are entitled to this proteci tion and I sincerely request you to I study the enclosed documents and keep active in every possible man- : ner in order to bring to the atten- : tion of the President and Secretary I Ickes the necessity'of prompt favorable action. “It is hoped that you will continue to express your interest by demanding the protection that Congress intended you to have." — o Two Are Arrested For Intoxication — Homer Fisher and Briz Skiles were lodged in the Adams County ! Jail last night by night policemen I Ed Miller and Grover Cottrell, the njen being apprehended on Thir teenth street where th?y were causing a disturbance. Charges of public intoxication were filed against the two men today, warrants being issued by Pros- ! svutor Ed A. Bosse. The m n appeared at the residence where Mrs. Amelia Noll and Mrs. Clara Ever ett live on Thirteenth street and demanded entrance. Police were called and the men were taken to i jail.

EARL SHAY IS SPEAKER HERE — Fort Wayne Rotary President Speaks To Local Club Thursday The ideals of Rotary and its object of furthering understanding ' among business and professional | men and peace among all nations j of the world, were stressed in an ! address given by Earl Shay, news- * paper executive and president of * the Fort Wayne Rotary club bei fore members of the Decatur Roj tary club last evening. Mr. Shay was a delegate to the ' 24th annual convention of Rotary International held in Boston last June. His address dedlt with Rotary topics and the impressions he gained from cohtact and associations with convention delegates from all parts of the world. Friendliness between the Japanese and Chinese delegates, as well as those from France.and Germany was not only demonstrated, but exemplified during the convention : "Rotary became a common ground for all nations to meet and discuss problems and to arrive at mutual , “understandings," said Mr. Shay. "Rotary dees not want to sponsor or advocate anything for others that it would not want to do itsself." commented the speaker in outlining activities of a Rotary nature. Speaking on wopld conditions, Mr. Shay said. Nations rise in time of adversity and crumble during periods of prosperity. Our country will emerge from this dej pression. We are living now in { the period of live and help live'." Mr. Shay is assistant to Oscar Foellinger, publisher of the NewsSentinel. He was introduced to the club by Carl Klepper, president. o- ———■— DENIES STATE CAUSED DELAY Gov. McNutt Says "Red Tape” Causing Delay In Road Building IndianaiKilis. Sept. 29. — (U.R) — Gov. Paul V. McNutt today cited ■ the state highway commission record to show that Indiana was one of the first states to submit a highway construction program to the Federal government and that any delay was at Washington and not here. The record. Governor McNutt said, will disprove the charge made ' by the national public works administraion that Indiana is one of 14 states which have delayed collection of Federal funds tor highway use. A Washington dispatch set out that the public works administration is displeased with the failure of the 14 states to use the funds and is considering their withdrawal. Indiana's allotment is $19,037,843. As soon as the Federal plan of full payment was announced the state highway department developed a plan of expenditure. It pr'o- * con'itnved *on page* seven

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EXPECT TEST BETWEEN FORD AND NRA HEADS Labor Board’s Decision To Attempt Mediation Seen As Test LABOR DISPUTES ARE NUMEROUS Washington. Sept. 29 — (U.R) The national labor board's deci sion to attempt to mediate a strike i of Ford Motor company workers at Chester. Pa., today pointed toward a direct test of strength between Henry Ford and the Roose veil administration. Board members considered the | Ford situation delicate ana ser- , ions. It was but one of a dozen : major strikes requiring the boards I attention and involving more than 100.900 men. Telegrams arrived by the dozen asking the hoard to adjust disputes. Ford did not sign the automo- ! bile code. A direct show down | between him and the NRA was aver'ed on that score when thto he coniplying with its policie;NRA held he wculd be considered 1 so long as he ahided by the code’s terms. The strike now has raised the issue of whether he will deal with the NRA in any way. Chairman Rober' F Wagner of the labor board decided to under take direct negotiations with Ford officials in Detroit after Ford’s action in shutting down the! Chester assembly plant blocked local mediation efforts there. Wagner attempted to communicate with Henry Ford by telephone this niorning but was in-1 formed by the manufacturer'!'. ■: office a Dearborn, Mich., that UONTINUEn ON PAGE EIGHT o DRESS PAMOE HERE TONIGHT AHamq Post Drum Corps Will Parade Streets Here Tonight A dress parade of the members <of the American Legion Drum Corps will be held at eight o'clock this evening from the Decatur Country Club to the up town business district and the public is in- , vit d to witness the demonstration. The Legion float. “Memories of no man’s land", started for Chiicago at 1:30 o’clock this niorning. At Legonier the truck pulling the float encountered difficulties and repairs were sent from here the trouble remedied and the party, headed by Cal Yost, chairman and three Legionnaires proceeded on its way. State auto police accompanied the truck and extra precautions were taken to safeguard traffic, the large size of the float taking more than the usual width along the road. All is in readiness for the special train which will leave D catur at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning via ! the Pennsylvania railroad for Chicago. More than 199 people are expected to take the special and to attend the big L gion parade on Tuesday. The ticket committee was requested to report sales and turn over cash received at a meeting to j be held at the Country Club tonight so that the guarantee to the | Pennsylvania railroad could be paid . in the morning. Those not having tickets may secure them from any member of the “on to Chicago committee". namely Mrs. V. J. Borman. N. R. Holthouse, Paul Graham, Janies K. Staley. Walter Bockman, Lloyd Baker. Edgar Yoder. Ernest Stengel, Albert Miller. Ferd . O'Brien. David Adams. Tic kets sell for $3.59 for the round trip. The expense of taking the float and building the necessary equipment to convey it to Chicago was donated by public spirited individuals and industries, desirous of having the local post well repre- ( sented In the parade. ■O~ ———————— County Offices To Close Saturday P. M. County offices at the courthouse will be closed Saturday afternoon for the purpose of making out quarterly reports. The offices will be closed promptly at 11:39 o'clock at noon and remain closed during j the entire afternoon.

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Berne Weekly Payroll Increased Near SI,OOO The weekly payroll in Berne has been increased by the NRA to an extent of nearly $1,999. In a can vass made it was found that the increase in the payroll amounts to between $799 and $1,999. About 75 more people are employed in Berne through the NRA. with the Dunbar Furniture factory leading other local institutions. Other factories here which are employing more people are the Homer and Berne Furniture companies, Nussbaum Novelty Company, United Milk Company and the two overall and shirt factories. DR. FOSTER TO SPEAK AT BERNE Moody Bible Institute Head Will Speak At Conference Dr. D. L. Foster of the Moody; Bible Institute at Chicago will be the principal speaker for the Port- ! er District Christian Endeavor convention. which convenes at Berne | on October 7 and 8. Dr. Foster is director of practical work at the . Moody Bible Institute. "Christ s Standards in the Lives of Youth” by George E. Newbold, j of Muncie, state C. E. treasurer, is the first conference for the opening session at 2 P. M., Saturday at the Mennonite church. Other topics and the leaders who will dis- * cuss them are as follows: "Loyalty to Christ's Commission," by Rev. J. P. Barkman, of Berne, a returned missionary to Africa. ' “Why Bible Study and Prayer", by Miss Pauline Baldwin, of Muncie, quiet hour superintendent of the Muncie district. "Appropriate Music and Its Purpose," by Miss Frances Burkhalter, of Berne; { “Training for Leadership," by Miss i Elizabeth Cooper, of Indianapolis, state executive secretary. M. E. Stauffer will conduct the i Community Choir in a number of ' songs at the Saturday evening session which begins at 7:39 o'clock after which Miss Elizabeth Cooper will speak on the subject "Witnessing for Christ in My Individual Life." A six o'clock sun rise prayer meeting will be held Sunday morning at which Rev. H. E. Tropf, of Berne, will talk on "Prayer. "Common and Uncommon Christians" is the subject of the address by Dr. D. L. Foster at the closing session Sunday aft moon at 2:99 o'clock. The Community Choir will present the special music at this service. A quartette of the Fort Wayne Bible Institute will represent Allen county in several numbers of special music. Local Residents Attend Meeting Mrs. Alice Christen. Mrs. Ada Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brodbeck are attending the Municipal League Convention at Bedford this week. The convention opened Wednesday and continued throughout Thursday and today. 1 SAMUEL INSULL HEARING SOON Extradition Hearing Date Likely To Be Set Next Week Athens, Sept. 29— (UP)—A date for Samuel Insull’s hearing on the United States request, that he be extradited to face prosecution on charges of violation of the bankruptcy laws may be fixed next week it was indicated today. The appellate, state's attorney received this niorning a voluminous file of papers on the case. He hopes to finish his examination by the middle of next week. Then he will give the file to the court, which in accordance with the extradition treaty must set a date for the hearing within 24 hours. The formal American indictment against Insull was received here a week ago hut kept secret. It is signed by President Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and named instil, his sone and other defendants in the utilities tease. It charges t'raudulen onservion of money and shares of the Middlewest Utilities and Commonwealth Edison companies. Insull remains under detention at the Aretaion hospital.

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OFFICIALS AND CONVICTS WILL BE QUESTIONED Hope of Finding Men In This State Is Virtually Abandoned REPORT FIVE SEEN IN SOUTHERN IOWA Michigan City, Ind., Sept. 29. —<U.R)—With everyone but witnesses and principals barred, trustees of the Indiana state prison resumed their investigation today of the es{cape of 10 convicts last Tuesday. „ Meanwhile hope of finding the felons in northern Indiana was abandoned. National guard troops which assisted in the search were dismissed and memi hers of the .state police force who had assembled in this vicinity were l ordered back to their various posts. Capt. Matt Leach of the state police department expressed the belief that the convicts had sought ; refuge in gangland hideouts in Chicago or other cities. He continued to investigate carefully numerous reports that the convicts had been sighted in various parts of the country. So far, he said, all the rumors have been without foundation. Authorities were almost agreed ; that Sheriff Charles Neel of Harrison county, kidnaped in his automobile by one group of the escaping convicts, had been killed. Captain Leach said it was unlikely the desperadoes would take the chance of releasing him alive so that he could give valuable de- . tails as to their route of escape. The prison trustees summoned three witnesses before taking a recess at 11 o’cock last night. The men questioned were H. 1) Claudy. '! assistant warden; Warden Louis | E. Kunkel, and Walter Evans, as sistant deputy warden. Other prison officials and several I convicts were to be questioned today. "We will continue our investigation until we have a definite idea of where to place responsibility for the escape." said Jess Andrews, West Lafayette, chairman of the trustees. He refused to make public any information obtained in the investigation so far. Gov. Paul V. McNutt intends to appoint a special investigating committee of citizens to look into : the prison break after the trustees make their report. "We want a thorough, unbiased opinion and want the blame placed where it belongs," the governor * explained. One of the most important quesi tions confronting the investigators is why Russell Clark and Walter Deitrich, two of the most desperate of the escaped convicts, were employer! in the shirt factory where there was a chance to obtain weapons. Both men were receiving clerks j and unpacked all packages coming lin from outside the prison. The unpacking is not supervised by CON'TiNUI-:i> ON PAGE EIGHT —o Observe Rally Day At Monroe Sunday Rally Day will be observed at the Monroe Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday niorning at 9:30 ! o’clock. A program of short talks and musical selections will be giv- ; en in place of the regular worship ; service. A short Sunday School lesson will be taught, followed with the program. Mennas Ijehman is superintendent of the Sunday School, i and Rev. E. M. Dunbar is pastor !of the church. An invitation is ex- * tended to the public to attend. ' o Today’s Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 200 01 Brooklyn 000 10 Zachary and Hogan; Beck and Outen. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 000 5 New York 000 0 Whitehill and Sewell; Ruffing and Glenn. Only gamen scheduled. Courtesy City Confectionery