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film SUGAR ■MPANY OPENS 1$ OPERATIONS ■ I’.r'Hi' (h)el':>lion< \t Bill A. V.: Over 31(1 ■ Are Employed Bkl V 1.500 TONS ■ci BE! I - STORED .K |.. Lb. d from the »K slack I l '*' bontril |K r coiiio io fit's < "tv - ' ' i- HH" • in I’lili H'-’ s ” ■.HI m 1933 roiuif ' - I ■*’ ■ io | I'-""’ '■' 11 ■ Spv ■■ company K ' I batch <’f ... K .. , .w. - ' \ 1 i |M r -... o.>ii eoine nn ’lie three h„ r r •, ■ I- ■ . shift'. .■ sio h fine the mill was . > o>ir- II C Oksen. 5 ”: was please’! r|’.. ami report f 1 fh.’ s ■.■ care,! ■ an I ■ 'monthly. field tnar.ag'T. :. . r nt’ l loads \’. arlv 4’a'n tens trd« C began ■ morn:::-r With an evcelleti' t growers ■ into the field' ’’’ oilinp <>f boot- ■ u ’l ' ” . yported from a ■tnf b-’s 'he mill Track' w-arons ■' •re being quickly ■sd»d. •'■> ■ <rd facilities perMirr a ii .> drive upon the Be without any delay. In a ■ Bin'j’es the bee’s were nn 1 ar! altered over ’lie ■ Bhr factory has a capacity of ■in; mor” than 1000 tons of a div and the presen' run f» roach 70 f () 7!; davs S '"i’ a. |-.. s n f hpots w iil bo ■Wstr-d. The hoc's are in good Milt!"!: 'i nters are optiinB* l to o-i; 110 k and prospect ■ prof” ’his veer. According to M rontrar*, the growers share ■f-fiftr with -he contra’ Sugar ■ipany on the sale of all sugar, HP and 'n-’iasses processed from ■tTv’tyt-i'i, nv com SIX) ■ -o ■n Absolved In I Death Os His Wife ■town-' >wn. Ind.. Oct. 10—(UP) H ('h;u ! |p.. 1 . former Bloomington was absolved from blame B*' ' n connection with the fatal ■jRIDK of his wife ■t was shooting at a rabbit when ■ "'lie stepped into the line of »’ au Hlorities declared. A bullet ■J'* her in the side. ■«or children survive. The body e removed to Bloomington for nal. OCIETY MEETS MONDAY NIGHT o1 .' d Name Society Holds tegular Meeting Last Night An interesting meeting of the ILk n Society of St - Mar y' B church was held at the K. erel,t Monda - V Aißht. It was ciety ar mo ' lth| y meeting of the | A bv°= 8 Practiee waa held, foltowH cnna <)ll . eS,iOn an<l answer conH P n tWl the ReT Father - Marys ’ Msißtant P asU > r ”f A 61 ma<ie trom the timhpr °f lilt in ißM ntral BChOOI building, 1( i«y by e"r preßen,ed the ’•chin Tn ' " arrQ H an< i Fred « ami „ , gavel i” made of wali>Bjaei., lap *• William Faurote, Is apn t ,„? £ ,. the 30 «iety expressed le gift atlon to the donors for

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Dr. Rayl To Attend Medical Assembly Or. ('. C. Rayl of tills city and Dr. H. E. Steinman of Monroeville will I leave Sunday for Cleveland to at-1 i tend the meeting of the international Medical Assembly. It Is the largHast aseembly of doctors held in the ■ oountry and the most important! ' from the standpoint of Instrnvtivo | information given. The assembly 1 will be in session the entire week j and among the speakers will be- the I most prominent and I-ading physi--1 clans of America, South America 'and Europe RECEPTION FOR LEGION LEADER Reception For Edward A. Hayes Will Be Held Wednesday All veterans in this community have been invited to attend a reception for E<l ward A. Hayes, newly elected national commander of ■ the American legion, Wednesday evening, October 11. at Indianapolis V. M Armstrong, Indiana comniani der of the Legion has announced. National Commander Hayes, in his first official appearance on Indiana soil since the Chicago National convention will address all veterans attending this meeting at 8 P. M. in the Elks Club (Antlers Hotel) at Indianapolis. The membership effort of the Hooeier Legion will be launched at this meeting which will be held under the immediate auspices of the Twelfth District of the Legion. ,()tto Ray, of Indianapolis, Com mander. National Commander Hayek drew the vote of th- Indiana delegation at Chi ago by his militant stind for the interest of the disabled He is an attorney of Decatur, 111-' CON’TfNTEn ON PAGE EIGHT PARENTS ASKED TO COOPERATE Decatur School Officials Seek Perfect Attendance Os Pupils A plea Is being made by the Decatur teachers, principals and sup- ' erintendents for p rfei t attendance I of school children. A letter was distributed to every patron of the public schools today a.yking for the co--1 operation of parents by se-ing that ’ the boye and girls are in school every day. The letter follows: 1 "Dear Patron: lAecordlng to an act passed by the last State L gislature the State has obligated itself to pay >600.00 for each teacher employed in the ■ public school system, grades one to twelve inclusive. A grade teacher must have an average daily attend1 ance of thirty-five pupils. For each, ' high si Ijpol teacher there must be , I an averag ■ daily attendance of thirty-five pupils. For each high 1 school teacher there must be an ' average dally attendance of twenty- . fiv puijjlri. “In rerms of pupils in average ■ daily attendance this means that ■ for every thirty-five pupils the local corporation will receive $60b.00 anil for every twenty-five high school pupils the local corporation will re ceive $6<H).<W. In other words, for each grade pupil in average daily 1 attendance the local corporation will receive $17.14. and for aach *Tgon TINUED on PAGE FIVE) ——o . Drops Dead At Allen County Farm Monday Fort Wayne. Ind., Oct. 10.--4U.R) ' — Unemployed for weeks. M. II ■ Harader finally was given work ’ yesterday with scrip crews here. ■ Four hours later he dropped dead ’ while working in a cornfield at the I Allen county farm. Finish Repainting Work At G. E. Plant f Jesse B. Roop and Otto Exley and f a force of painters have completed , the job of repainting the outside of ? 1 the Genera! Electric building on II North Ninth street. -, AU of the metal work, window , frames, stacks and ventilators on lithe building were repainted. Mr. r I Roop and Mr. Exley had the general i contract.

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MOOSE TO HOLD DISTRICT MEET — TwelveCountiesWill Meet Here Next Saturday, October 14 — A district meeting of the Loyal Ord r of Moose will be held in this city next Saturday, October 14. at the Moose home on North Seci ond street. Lodges from 12 of the Northeast- • era Indiana counties will be repre- . sented at the meeting and a pro- ; gram will be held at the local home at eight o’clock. In connection with the program the initiation of a class of 15 candidates' will take place. Samuel Cleland, attorney of Fort Wayne will deliver the principal address at the m eting and the degree staff from lodge 200 will confer the initiatory w >rk. Following is the program: Business Meeting. Initiation of 15 candidates A<ldress -Samuel Cleland Entertainment—Rube Ent- rtainers —Denver, Indiana. Luncheon following meeting. A meeting will be held a; the Moos home tonight for the purpose of completing arrangements. Charles Heare, secretary of the lodge urged ail interested Moose to attend The following committees have been appointed: Entertainment committee, Ralph Burnett. Sol Lord Ivan Heare. Reception committee, , Charles Heare, William Lister. Several hundred lodge members are expected at the meeting, Mr. Heare stated. GLASS OPPOSES RECOVERY PLAN Senator Carter Glass Prepares To Test Constitutionality ■Washington, Oct. 10 — (U.P' — i Storm warnings were hoisted in , the path of the Blue Eagle today. Senator Carter Glass, Dem.. Va j i who refused to become President , Roosevelt's secretary of treasury, | is preparing to challenge the constitutionality of the National Recovery Act when congress meets. The caustic diminutive banking expert of the senate voted against , the recovery act last spring and . its workings thus far have only \ confirmed him in his original post- . ; tion. it was learned. This development came on the. heels of a declaration before the American Federation of Labor by i Senator Robert F. Wagner, one of the authors of the recover?/ act,, who said that the .NRA program had to be made stronger to bring | real recovery. He said that wages j would have to be made higher • and hours shorter than they are in existing codes to absorb the I idle which still number more than I 10,000,000, according to his esti- * CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN i

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 10. 1933.

Philippines Vote Down Independence Manila. P. 1., Ort. 10—(UP)—The I house of th- Philippines legislature | today approved a resolution con-. I < Hiring in the Senate's rejection of 'the Haie-Hawes-Cutting ltidepend-| | ence plan. By a vote of 58 to 22 the house ; - heeded pleas of rejectionisU to turn ! down the plan Congress offered and ■ 1 Insular leaders generally opposed. Plans for a mission to the Unit-1 >sl States to seek a new independence bill moved forward rapidly as-: 1 ter the house voted. SEEK TO FREE I KELLY'S WIFE Desperate Defense Concentrates To Save Kathryn Kelly Oklahoma City. Oct. 10—I UP)— A desperate defense concentrated its entire efforts today to save Kathryn Kelly from conviction in the Urschel kidnaping trial as the government used her own relatives to draw a damaging web of vid nee. George (Machine Gun) Kelly, the Auburn-haired woman’s defendant husband, apparently was sacrificed in the fight to keep her from the 99-year prison term the government indicated it would seek for both. U. S. District Attorney Herb rt K. Hyde and Joseph B. Keenan, special assistant U. S. attorney gen- ; eral fighting kidnap racketeers, made their campaign to send the former used car dealer and boot--1 gger and his much-married mani icurist wife to the penitentiary for i life along the same lines that netti ed them victory over Harvey Bailey Albert Bat s and Mr. and Mrs. R. S. (Boss) Shannon. The same witnesses were called They told substantially the same (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Crystal White Sugar On Sale Saturday Sparkling Crystal White granulated sugar made by the Central Sugar Company of this city will be on sale in Decatur not later than Saturday, it was announced today. A number of focal grocers have already placed their orders for the Decatur-made sugar and will have it for their cus tomers as soon as it is delivered. It is obtainable in 5, 10, 25 and 100-pound bags. The operation of the sugar mill means employment to more than 340 people, thousands of dollars to the growers who share on a fifty-fifty basis with the company on all sugar, pulp and molasses produced from the beets. The local plant is the only beet sugar mill in Indiana and Hoosiers, wishing to promote state and local industry can help the cause by asking for and using beet sugar. The product made by the Central Sugar Company is the finest made. *

GUARD PUBLIC IN PRICE RISE NRA Consumers’ Board Takes Steps To Stop Profiteering Washington. Oct. 10. —(UJs—The I NRA consumers' hoard today arranged to put sentinels on guard : in every town and city to help pro- ' tect the public against price-gotig- [ ing merchants. Under an ambitious plan worked out by Mrs. Mary H. Rumsey, socialite chairman of the board, existing NRA committee through out the country will become consumers’ watchdogs. In each < ounty seat, a county consumers' council will be sei up. including members of the city consumers’ committees, with rural consumers’ groups being fostered by the agricultural adjustment administration and officials such as county agents. A bureau of economic education in the national board will direct the county councils. The councils will deal with complaints of profiteering, just as local comp'ance boards handle complaints against firms alleged to be violating wage and hour provisions of their Blue Eagle agreements. Complaints that cannot be settled locally will be forwarded to Washington. The new organizations also will undertake a detailed campaign of education to "persuade the public of the reasonableness of acting—as consumers —in support of the recovery program." The committees will explain to a housewife, for instance, that CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT FAVORS STATE CONTROL SALE '■ l ■ « State Liquor Monopoly For Sale of Beverages Is Advocated New York, Oct. 10. —(U.R) A state liquor monopoly for the sale of "heavier alcoholic beverages" by package only, was advocated today in the third installment of the report on liquor control sponsored by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Such a system, embodying liberal provision for the public sale and consumption of beer and light wines, “makes it possible adequately to meet any unstimulated demand within the limits of conditions established solely in the interests of society.” the report added. Detailing broad powers for a . “state alcohol control authority,” the report cautioned that liquor supply stores be established "to meet normal demands without violating the desires of individual sections of the state to have no such stores in their localities.” It is "neither desirable nor necessary for the state to ssume management of the manufacturing side of the trade,” the report added, beyond the necessary recording 1 PAGE SEVEN

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FEAR ATTEMPT AT WHOLESALE GANG MURDERS ——— Government Fears Gangsters Will Try Slaying Os Witnesses GUARDS ORDERED FOR PROTECTION Chicago, Oct. 10 -<U.RF- Fearing an attempt at wholesale assassination of government witnesses in the $250,000 Chicago mail robbery . conspiracy, armed guards were ordered today for their protection. Aroused lest the shot gun slaying of Gus Winkler, notorious gangster and suspected informant in the nationwide mail conspiracy, lie followed by new murderous assault, government prosecutors I ordered guards posted over jails where suspects and witnesses were held. Several of the most desperate criminals in the country are known to have connections with the tar flung mail robbery gang. Federal investigators said these men would halt at nothing in their attempt to destroy the carefully built up government case. Winkler Slain Chicago, Oct. 10--4U.R)— A ruthless gang czar, believed to have ordered the slaying of two of his lieutenants he suspected of giving information to federal officers, fought desperately today to thwart the government war against crime The deaths of Gus Winkler and Edgar LebeMberger. known for their gang connections, were ordered. federal officers believe, because of fear they might reveal the wide ramifications of a gigan(CONIINUED ON PAGE FIVE) TEACHERS MET MONDAY NIGHT Decatur City Teachers Hold Regular Meeting Monday Night The monthly meeting of the Decatur city teachers was held Monday evening in the high school auditorium. Bryce Thomas, principal of the Central school building, gave an explanation of the new grading system which will be used by the Decatur schools. This system is endorsed and recommended by the State Board of Education. There are four marks i for passing and one mark for failure. Cards will be sent home Tuesday afternoon following the close of each six week's period. The explanation of the grades is as follows: A, the pupil does unus- , ually good work and is one of the leaders of the group; B, pupil does accurate and complete work and ; shows progress; C, pupil’s work is good some days, poor others and in general is of average quality; D., pupil barely does work required; F. pupil fails to do work required. Failure may be due either to Inability or unwillingness to work. The second speaker on the program Monday night was county superintendent Charles F. Kohlmeyer of LaGrange. He gave an interesting introduction of the subject, “Teaching the Child How and What to Study." > The professional book which the ’ city teachers are studying is “The • improvement of the Assignment” | ON PAGE SEVEN . o ~~~ Schools To Close During Convention The Decatur teachers will attend - the Northeastern Indiana Teachers’ ■ Association which will meet on • Thursday and Friday. October 20, •! at Fort Wayne. The local schools ■ will be closed during those two ' days. i Some of the national speakers ’ j on the program for the two days ' ■ are Dr. W. IA. Sutton, superinten--1 dent of schools, Atlanta, Georgia; Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, lecturer from New York City; Dr. Robert 1 Maynard Hutchins, president qf i Chicago University; Dr. George D. ’ I Strayer, National Research man, ' Columbia University. New York I City and others. Parents of school ‘ i children and friends are also mak- ' I ing arrangements to attend this convention.

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Boyer Burial Held In West Virginia i Mrs. William R. Mathews, daughter of the lat‘ Dr. J. 8. Boyers,! writes to the Daily Democrat, stating that the body of her father was ! cremated. The ashes were taken to Morgantown, West Virginia, fol burial. I Mrs. Boyers, who, with her husband, was residing in San Diego, i Calif., will accompany her daugh- ! ter to Tucson, Ariz., to make her . home. Dr. Boyers died October 1 I following a heart attack. He was a resident of Decatur for 50 years , and left for the west about four 1 years ago. o MINEWORKERS RESENT USE OF ■ GUARDS IN AREA' Threats Os General Strike in Mine District 11 Are Heard TWO HUNDRED HAVE GONE BACK TO WORK Sullivan, In<j . Oct. 10. —(U.R) —R e * sen(ment over the use of National i Guard troops at Sullivan county coal mines brought threats today of a general strike in district No. 11, United Miners of America. Rumors of a possible strike were heard frequently among union workers today as unrest spread to adjoining counties. Two mass meetings already have been scheduled to protest the use of troops. One will be held at ' Linton this afternoon and another at (’linton tonight. Two companies of National I guardsmen were called out and ■ Sullivan county was placed under ' martial law yesterday following a battle between non-union employes of the Starburn mine at Shelburn andunion pickets. Homes of two miners were bombed. From District 11 headquarters at Terre Haute, came word that U. M. W. of A. officials would do every- ; thing possible to prevent a general strike. "We are opposed to any action ' which will keep our members away i from work," said Charles Funcannon, vice-president of District 11. "We have no desire for a gen eral strike. Our representatives will be at the mass meeting to try , and persuade the men to stay on the job." Funcannon said reports to his office showed that nearly all mines . in the north end of the district were working today and that some (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o————— David C. Sprunger Dies This Afternoon David C. Sprunger, 73, well ' known Berne man. died at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at his home in Berne. He was a retired 1 farmer. Mr. Sprunger had been ' bedfast for several weeks suffer--1 j ing from complications and heart. 1 disease. ENGLAND. U.S. IN AGREEMENT America And England Seek To Preserve Disarmament Conference Geneva. Oct. 10—(UP)—America : • ! an dEngland took the joint lead to-, day in an effort to remove a French -German deadlock that threatened [ the life of the world disarmament I conference. Norman H. Davis, chief United I States delegate, and captain At- ’ thony Eden, chief British delegate, i decided at a long meeting to co- , | ordinate British-American policy 4 and seek ’ agreement between i France and Germany. I It. was undestood that Davis on-1 II dertook to concentrate his efforts I i on persuading Germany to ambneh - h r demand for stronger arma- : ; ments and that Eden agreed to ner goiiate with the French. He will t ask France to lessen the penalti s f she seeks to impose on violations . din ing a test period of Interna-j , tional armament control. c The delegates, as a whole, em--1 barking on a series of private talks - faced the task of changing the en- j s tire European political situation in | the next eix days.

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40-ACRE BASIN WILL PREVENT ANY POLLUTION Basin Under Construction Will Eliminate Bacteria In M ater RETAINING WALL IS CONSTRUCTED A settling basin, covering 40 acres, where the waste water from the Central Sugar Company will he impounded and held until il is cleared of all solid matter, is being constructed by the sugar company, west of the Pennsylvania tracks. The process of aeration will eliminate all bacteria in the water and will prevent pollution of (he St. Marys river, which stream formerly carried the mill water after it passed through a Dorr thickner. This purifying method will he continued, the settling pond being a.n added purifier. A 12 inch pipe line laid from the sugar mill to the settling basin and all water used in the washing of beets and in the sugar making process, will be pumped to the reservoir and left there for purification. The 40 acre tract of ground will serve as a large filteration plant, the soil acting as a purifying system for the waste water. The land, purchased from the First Joint Stock and Land Bank. Fort Wayne, formerly a part of the A. J. Smith farm, lies in a hollow, making a natural reservoir for most of it. A retaining wall is being constructed at those ' points where the natural lay of the land is not high enough to hold in the water. Previous to 1930. when the sugar mill was operated, pollution of the St. Marys river became an old sdre each year. Regardless of what precautions the company took to purify the water, the cry went up that the sugar factory was polluting the stream and killing hundreds of fish. This assertion was somewhat discounted a year ago when hundreds of dead fish were found near the mouth of the river at Fort Wayne and the sugar mill was not operating. The sugar company officials have the assurance from sanitary engineers and purification experts called in to advise them tliat the method of impounding the waste water is the practical, as well as the scientific way to do it. Speaking on the subject. T. E. Snyder, vice-president of the company, stated "The sugar company does not believe in river pollution and we are going to return the mill water into the river in about the same condition as we received it. Besides purchasing the land we are going (o big expense in building the dyke and constructing the water line from the plant to the settling basin We are doing this > voluntarily and in the spirit of showing our willingness to eliminate. what I understand has been a source of contention for many years.” During certain months of the year the river is at low stage and during these periods the sewerage disposal which enters the stream from all points between St. Marys. Ohio and Fort Wayne Is accountable for the pollution, ac(CONTTNCFn ON PAGE SIX) Two Inches Os Hail Falls At Rochester Rochester. Ind.. Oct. 10—(U.R) — Two inches of hail covered the ground during a freak storm at Green Oak, near here late Monday o — Veeck’s Successor Has Not Been Named — Chicago. Oct. 10 —(UP) —William Veeck’s successor as president of th Chicago Cubs probably will not he named for several weeks. P. K. Wrigley, controlling owner of the team, Indicated today. Veeck died last week. William Walker, first vice-presi-dent. John O. Seys. second vice-pre- ’ sident and Oscar Reichow of the Los Angeles Pacific Coast League Club, owned by the Cubs, are the | three leading candidates for the vacancy.