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Hr PERSONS lare riled as PLANE CRASHES Hits Side of Hill; -Jt| , |’og Is Blamed [ lor Crash IK; OTHERS ARE | [ R| PORTED IH’RT I p ( tlaml. Ore.. Nov. 10.— ■®-Eoiir persons were dead Kxiaj and five others injured Kjkulf of a United Airlines’ crash blamed on a pea ■T®> hip struck the side of near Swan Island air- ■ Tie dead: Seattle, pilot. i; .fl'.' ■ tVlli.i' \ Troftler. Chicago. .!>. Cohn. Portland. AKjttt injured: ■gl ••• i -’.otize. Portland, fracpKiroJ kneecap. .1 Powers. Glendale. Cal.. and ■M J Straiimf.il.rd. Portland, to Dr. Coffey, bruises. ItKmj.i 11 Medford, injured Wood A.>rtli. Oakland. Cal.. nose, rib and burns I Wurgaft. stewardess, injured and her presence Ks mil.a probably saved the lives Btmte of the others. into dames when m-enft pushed open a door aid of Woodworth beKin buil.as passengers out of the of th and Hart, both able ■All. but dazed an dsliovkert, Kurth: out through the heavy tinto summon aid but beI of the inaccessability of the, I '• wa * after 1 a. m.. when reached a telephone Time rash was placed at ln:58 K.1.. by officials of the company. plane took off at 10:50 p. m.. Bast the Dalles where the southSeattle plane had landed be-, of the dense fog which spread entire area. When Davis io i i>e ( -k in by radio after lie - out 20 minutes, airport became alarmed. HKboii that time persons on the, Side of Portland reported that heard a crash in the hills at B’O l p. m. was not until Woodworth il a telephone, however, that learned what had become plane. B 'hip as one of tln new I « "-motored Roering ships put into service on all Airlines routes. n ■Local Elks Lodge ■ To Initiate Seven members of the De, mm Elks are urged to be present at Uli l i.ition and free feed wiii.li h" held at the Elks home S it- • at s o'clock. A H^B ,lVi ' candidates will be initiat■Vl' ” which a rabbit dinner with ■EE PERSONS ■ ARE KIDNAPED University GraduIwte; Bootlegger And I Wife Kidnaped |M a 'i Jose. Cal., Nov. 10—(UP)— |( art , 2 2. Santa Clara Uni graduate and son of a proSan Jose merchant, was by kidnapers today for $4D.000 i|R' demand was telephoned from IB Francisco to the home of Alex i^K' > - the youth's father. It was - first intimation that his son I had failed to keep an appoint with him late yesterday, had B r kidnaped. have your son and want for him. don't get. in touch police for yon will never see son again." the message said. to police, the warning. Hart police. The call was traced ;BB a San Francisco hotel, youth's automobile was early today northwest of San on a county road, 'headlights, 'B**<ieral, vounty and state officers 3 ‘ ■CONTINUE!) ON PAGE FOUR).

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Asks Farmers’ Support —E 1 • am ™ > •» f 13k-*'«* * PLfwRR nErTR ■' "’ r * Wi MHMsK TVa.® ' ggr «M« ■mu ■■■’■■b ■■■■«■«* amwmMnnanraHMaHßW Gen Huth S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, as he de- ' . livered his address before s.non persons who crowded into the Shrine i Auditorium in Des Moines. la.. Tuesday. "Farm prices and industrial pay rolls go up and down in perfect unison." declared Johnson in his plea to fanners to support the NRA.

Hold Suspect In Reformatory Theft Indianapolis, Nov. 10. — (U.R) — Robert Davey, 30, Indianapolis, was held in city jail here today under i $2,000 bond as a suspect in connec-1 : tion with recent theft of convictmade garments from the state reformatory at Pendleton. Charges against Davey resulted i from a statement purported to have I been made by a truck driver who hauled the stolen goods from the reformatory. fJavey was alleged to have re1 ceived the goods at his home here, and disposed of them in a conspiracy with two guards and two prisoners at the institution W.O.BIGHAM DIES THURSDAY I • Retired Farmer Dies After Long Illness; Funeral Rites Sunday W. O. Bigham, 72, father of Mrs. ■ James Oattschall and Mrs Charles Beineke of this city, died at the Beineke home. 1128 West Monroe : street at 7:30 o'clock Thursday ' evening. Mr. Bigham lad been aitI ing for the last three years. His condition became critical recently and he was confined to his bed for , the past two weeks. Death was due to heart trouble. Mr. Bigham was a retired farmer. I ; He came to Indiana in 1900 and! i settled in Decatur in 1911. Since* that time he had resided in this ; city and Adams county.. William Oliver Bigham was born' j in Hocking county, Ohio. February i 23. 1861, a son of Abraham and: I Sarah Bigham He was united in marriage to Della Stiverson in Van Wert county, Ohio, on October 10, 1884 She preceded him in death, ion October 18, 1905. Mr. Bigham was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Methodist Episcopal church. He had made his home! with his daughter. Mrs. Beineke on j Monroe street. Surviving are three daughters. Mrs. Gattschall and Mrs. Beineke, of this city and Mrs. Vincent, Abrams of Huntington. Six grandchildren and one great grandchild also survive. Three brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held j Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Beineke home, 1128 West Monroe street, and at 2:30 o’clock at the local Methodist church Rev. 9 «• ♦ • ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O— Former Decatur Resident Dies Mrs. Henry Peters. 68, of Hoagland avenue. Fort Wayne, a former resident of this city and a sister of Mrs. Martin Miller. Mrs. Otto Reppert, Jacob and Christ Borne of this I city, died at her home Thursday I night at 7 o'clock. Death was due to , cancer. j Surviving are the husband and three children. Otto Peters. Mrs. I John Walker and Mrs. Leland Brown, all of Fort W ayne. j.

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INDOOR CIRCUS HERE SATURDAY High Schoo! Athletic Association Sponsors Local Performances The United Indoor Circus, Inc., which will give both matinee and night performances ar the Decantr public high school Gymnasium Saturday. November 11. will arrive in Decatur early Saturday morning. The circus will arrive here from Richmond, where the show was to , be presented at the public schools today. The high school athletic associa- , tion is sponsoring the local showing of the circus and will receive profits from the performances. W. Guy Brown, high school principal. received word this morning that a troupe of aerialists will join the circus for the local performances. This troupe is from the Hagenbet k-Wallace circus, which completed his-season only last week. The circue will arrive here in trucks. A parade will be held through the business section, probably at 1 o'clock to prevent any interference with the proper observ-' ance of Armistice Day. Included in I the parade will be a band, clowns and an air calliope. The 'high school band will play during the parade , and and will also play for the cir- ' eus performances. The afternoon show will start at j 2:30 o'clock, with the evening show 'scheduled for 8 p. m. Patrons are urged to come early as no seats will i be reserved. PLAY CAST IS LISTED TODAY — Zion Walther League Will Present Comedy Here November 16 The cast for the home talent play, “Hero Conws (’harlie, to be given by the Zion Walther League of Decatur. Thursday, November 16 at the Decatur high school auditorium was announced today. [ The cast is as follows: Nora Malone, cook at the Elliott home—Florence Sauers. Officer Tim McGill. Nora's sweetheart—Herman Kuhn. Mrs. Fanny Farnham, Larry s jaunt by marriage — Mrs. Oscar i Lankenau. Larry Elliott, a young business man —Harry Heuer. Ted Hartley. Larry's old time college pal—Robert Zwick. Vivian Sympthe-Kersey, Larry’s fiancee—Frieda Schearer. Uncle Aleck Twiggs, in charge of Aleck—Oscar Lankenau. Charlie Hopps, Larry's ward — Edna Hoile. i Mrs. Caroline Smythe-Kersey, Vivian’s mother —Mrs. R. Helm. Mortimer Smythe-Kersey. Vivian’s brother-—Richard Mailand. The public is invited to attend.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 1(1, 1933.

ROOSEVELT AND [ RUSSIAN ENVOY IN CONFERENCE Talk For Hour on Modes And Conditions of Russian Recognition FINAL DECISION IS NOT YET MADE Washington. Nov. 19— (U.R) — President Roosevelt and Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff of the Soviet Union met at the White House today and talked for an hour : on the modes and condiiions of American recognition of the Soviet 1 Union. No final decision was made, but I the two announced that Litvinov 1 would see the President and state department officials again. . Officials at the department said I that no time had been scheduled yet for the next meeting between Litvinov and Secretary Hull, but it was expected shortly. The two met in the President’s j private room at the executive offices rather than at the White House proper. The President and Litvinov had before them, it was understood, a preliminary draft agreement of i terms of recognition which had been worked out in two days of conferences between the Soviet commissar and Secretary of State | Hull. If Mr. Roosevelt approves this agreement, recognition may be announced today. . It was quite possible, however. ' that Litvinov will find it neces-1 ' sary again to consult Moscow before agreeing to final terms or I that Mr. Roosvelt may want to give further thought to some point I ‘ arising during the conversations. . ; Sitting with the President were ; Hull. Undersecretary of Slate Phillips and William C. Bullitt. I special adviser to Hull and an expert on Soviet affairs. The heavy(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) I I O WILL DISCUSS LAKEPROJECT Gov. McNutt Will Meet With Public Works Administrator Ickes Harold L. Ickes, administrator of Public Works at Washington an-j nounced this week that he has ; designated Wednesday, Nov. 15, as, I the date of a conference with Govtrnor Paul V. McNutt on Indiana ’ projects. I In reply to a request from the! governor for a conference next, 1 Tuesday, Ickes responded that Wednesday would be more convenient to him because of previous engagements. The conference between the two, officials is expected to cover a wide range of subjects, and will include i at least two or three of great in-. terest in Decatur and community. The chief of these is the flood con-! trol proposition of tlie Wabash and White rivers, which would result, no doubt, in the construction of a lake near Geneva. Federal mon-1 ey has been promised for the work ' and Gov. McNutt hopes to be able Ito convince Administrator Ickes that the project is a feasible one. Another matter the two officials will discuss will be the construction of federal buildings in Indiana. Berne has for several years been slated for a new post office. “It is believed the public works administration will announce withing a day or two approval of a proposal of the Indiana highway com mission that It be permitted to use public works money for expansion of the state’s highway construction program. ■ $300,000 Grant Asked “A grant of $300,000 has been asked, to be matched with $700,000 of state money, as a first step in the program which conteniplafes expenditure of $1,000,000 of federal money on the 37 per cent basis." o—, Legionnaires, Wives Will Attend Service Members of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion, and their wives, are asked to meet at 7 o'clock Sunday evening. They will attend special (Armistice Day services at the Methodist church, where Rev. C. P. Gibbs will preach | a special sermon for the occasion.

Dollar Crashes To New Post-War Low I London. Nov. 10. (UPI— The United Slates dollar crashed to a new post-war low today, and cloned at $5.15 to the pound, as against Thinsday's closing of $5.04 The slump of the Collar win attributed, for the most part, to the flight of capital from the United States, and speculation on the pos- * sibiltty of France being shaken from the Gold Standard. The Franc, opening today at 81 1-4 closed at 81 1-2, slightly weaker than yesterday. ' BROCK SPIAKS , TO ROTARIANS Local Rotarians An d Guests Hear Speech By 1 Beet Sugar Authority , Dr. J. Arthur Brock, educational secretary of the Farmers and Manufacturers Beet Sugar Association, gave a highly interesting and in- ( structive discourse on the beet ( sugar industry at the regular week- . i ly meeting of the Decatur Rotary , club Thursday evening at the Rice hotel. Dr. Brock gave a brief resume of the history of the beet sugar indus- i try and went on to explain the value of the Central Sugar Com- | pany to Decatur and surrounding communities. The speaker stated that there I are 20 beet sugar factories in the United States, and approximately : 209.000 acres of beets are out. These factories will produce 481,000,000 pounds of sugar. 100.000 I tons of pulp and 70,000 tons of molasses. These products will have an approximate value of $25,000,000. and will require 38,425,000 man hours of labor for the production lot' the finished products. "It is economically unsound " Dr Brock said, "for the people of DO'catur. Fort Wayne and surrounding communities to continue to import ■over a million hours of labor in the lorm of foreign grown sugar, when j Indiana's only beet sugar factory, j located at Decatur, will produce ! sufficient sugar this year to meet I the sugar requirements of every person in northeastern Indiana. "Experts who have thorougl<y .tested the sugar being produced at Decatur pronounce it to lie equal, !in every respejt, to the highest grades of sugar produced anywhere in the world and declare that it j can used for every household purpose where pure sugar is reI quired. including the making of jams, jellies, trostings and can- . dies." When questioned as to the relative merits of beet and cane sugar. Dr. Brock said. "The United i States Department of Agriculture, j Purdue university and hundreds of | other authorities have publically 1 declared that beet sugar and cane I sugar are identical in every respect and one cannot be distinguished from the other by any known test. I The experiences of over a million American housewives hay explodled the theory that there fs a differ(CONTTNItED ON PAGE FIVE) TWO PAROLES ARE GRANTED • Leniency Pleas of 19 Prisoners Denied. Three Cases Continued Indianapolis. Ind.. Nov. IJ—(UP) j —Only two paroles were granted : in decisions of 23 vases announced I today by the state clemency omni ission. Leniency pleas of 19 prisoners denied and three cases were continued. The paroles were granted Fred I Risner, Jasper county, and Orval Bailey. Pulaski county, both sentenced last March to 1-10 years .each in the state reformatory on grand larceny charges. Continuations were ordered in the cases of Robert McDaniel, senti enced to the state prison from Allen vonnty last year to 3-10 years I on burglary charges, and George j Rainey and Leroy Nunnamaker. sentenced to the reformatory from Delaware county In May to 1-I'> years each on charges of vehicle taking. One lifer was among those denied 'clemency. He was Carl Griffith, i sentenced in Parke county in 1919 on a charge of-slaying a taxi driver. **CONTINUED TO EAGE FIVE

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ARMISTICE DAY PROGRAM PLANS ARE ANNOUNCED Official Program For Banquet Saturday Noon Is Announced HARRY McCLAIN MAIN SPEAKER Tlie official program for the an nual Armistice Day-Service Club banquet, sponsored by Adams Post No. 43 of the American Legion was announced today by N. R. Holthause. general chairman The program which will be held at the Decatur Country Club, will begin at 10:50 o'clock Saturday morning. By proclamation of Mayor George Krick, all business houses in this city are requested to close from 11 o'clock a. m. to 12:30 o'clock p. m. The ritualistic work will be in charge of Albert Miller, commander of Adams Post and his staff of ; officers. At eleven o'clock a twominute silence will be observed. The eulogy to the dead will be 1 delivered by Paul Graham. The memorial address will be delivered by Hon. Harry McClain, insurance commissioner of Indiana, followed by remarks by E. M. Lorber. Fourth district commander. Singing and vocal selections will also feature the program. The detailed program follows: 10:50 —Remarks Albert Miller, Post Commander Posting of Coliirs J. K. Staley, Herman I'.lnian. Lloyd Baker. and (). Gase. Invocation Floyd Hunter. Chaplain 11:00 Two-Minute Silence. Eulogy Paul H. Graham. Armistice Day Ritual Commander Miller and Legionnaires Vincenti Bormann. Ferd O'Brien. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! CURRENCY PLAN SHOWS RESULTS Dollar Depreciation Plan Is Beginning to Show Desired Results Washington, Nov. 10. —(U.R) —Advocates of the Roosevelt administration's new dollar depreciation felt today that their plan had begun to show results They pointed Io a fall of the dollar to record low levels in terms of foreign currencies and to accompanying gains in stock and commodity markets. There was no way of telling to what extent the gains were directly due to the government's new effort to lift prices by depreciating the dollar through purchases of gold at home and abroad. But in any event the movements of the dollar and the markets were in line with the administration's aims. Among the factions that opposed the new gold policy, the dollar's downhill skid caused growing concern. The possibility of retaliatory action by foreign governments to: keep this country from gaining too! much of a trade advantage through j a cheap dollar was uiscussed. A ‘slump in government bonds also I was noted with anxiety in some; treasury circles. Seven federal issues now are below par. When the government inaugurat(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Final Club Leaders Meeting Postponed The final meeting of the Adams County Home Economics Club laad- > ers for the year which was scheduled for Thursday, was postponed on account of the illness of Miss Meta Martin, assistant state home demonstration leader. i\ tentative date for the meeting has been set for November 23. - —- Otto Gase Named District Officer . Otto Gase, local legionnaires, has ;>een appointed conservation ofi fleer of the Fourth district by E. M. Lorber, Columbia City, district i commander. Mr. Gase served overseas during the World War a.nd re--1 ceived the order of the Purple j Heart.

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Held as Poisoner J / t ,-3 I s ju t < i w ■ • i. Dr. Sara Ruth Dean, 33 year-old physician of Greenwood. Miss., who awaits the action on November 13 to which she was held on a charge of killing Dr. John Preston Kennedy. 41. by placing poison in a highball. REPORT PETERS MAY BE NAMED State Chairman Under Consideration For Government .lob Washington, Nov. 10 — U.R) — Postmaster General Farley declined to comment today on reports from Indianapolis that he would appoint R. Earl Peters. Democratic state chairman, ; either first or second assistant ! postmaster general. Indianapolis. Nov. 10 — (U.R) —R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman. is being considered for appointment either as first or second assistant postmaster general, it was reliably reported here today. The job was ofiered by Postmaster General Farley, it was understood. as a reward for Peters' party activities in Indiana. Peters and Farley are said to be close friends, i A vacancy recently was created in the postmaster general's department by appointment of Joseph C. O'Mahoney, first assistant, to the United States s nate to succeed tlie late John li. Kedrick of Wyoming. It was said that in the event Ambrose O’Connell, second assistant postmaster General, is promoted to first assistant Peters would receive O'Connell's job. Under the same reasoning, it was pointed out, Peters would lie made first assistant should O'Connell be kept in his present post. Reports that Peters would be re--1 warded with a federal appointment have been heard frequently since his disagreement with Gov. Paul V. McNutt and Senator Frederick Van Noys. McNutt is said to have advised <CONTTNUEI> ON PAGE TWO) SAYS GERMANY PEACE MINDED Adolf Hitler Addresses Millions of Countrymen On Wide Hookup Berlin. Nov. 10.—(U.R)—Chancellor Adolf Hitler, addressing mil- ! lions of his countrymen in a gigantically conceived loud speaker hookup. demanded peace with honor and equality today, and shouted of his withdrawal from the disarmament conference: "Germans are not bootblacks for other nations. Eeither equal rights or no conference!" Traffic throughout the country, and pedestrians on streets, halted for one minute as Hitler began speaking at a factory near Berlin, to a visible audience of workmen. Loud speakers in factories, shops, office buildings and schools all over the country, and 3.000 loud . spi akers here in streets and sub way and railway stations relayed the chancellor's speech. He said th.it Germany was not , war-minded but peace minded, and that he himself -a veteran of four years of World War fighting — would he mad if he wanted war. He had said nothing in his nine months CONTINUED TO PAGE FIVE

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CUBAN LEADER TAKES STEP TO CHECK REVOLTS Death Toll Is Estimated Unofficially At More Than 150 AMERICANS FEAR FOR PROPERTIES lltivtiiiti, Nov. 10 ( U.R) Presidenl Grnu San Martin lodav issued a military order declaring tdl Havana in a state of siege, and advising till inhabitants to remain out of sight. . ..... In th<‘ tension lollowing lite crushing of yesterday's short-lived rebellion, a n d while authorities were counting the dead and Wounded, which had mounted to more than 150, the government took drastic s’ens to clteck the fomenting of new revolt. Citizens were advised to remain off roofs and balconies, and were forbidden to form in groups or i walk tn the s'reets after 7 p.m. Under the order, all firearms wprp to be turned over to the authorities at once. The banks and a few stores opened fi'fully today, but there was little business. An occasional crack of a rifle was heard, and there were some reports of sniping. but in general an unnatural hush prevailed over the city. Reports to the capital said that Lieutenant Alberto Gomez, with a loyal cavalry squadron and two machine guns, had reoccupied the towns of Caibarien and Remedies, without firing a shot. The new revolutionists had surprised Hie towns, which were under the guard of only a few soldiers, and were joined bj the police and many citizens. Gomez took 17 prisoners, who were transported to Santa (Tara. Americans were anxious. Re(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MISSIONARY TO SPEAK MONDAY Dr. Roxie LaForge, Missionary To China, To Speak At Church Dr. Roxie LaForge. who, with the exception of short iurioughs, life been stationed as a missionary in Foochow. China, since 1918, will lie the speaker at the Thank Offering service of the Methodist Woman's Foreign Missionary Society to lie held at tlie church. Monday. November 13. at 7:3U p. m. Dr. LaForge knows present-day China thoroughly and gives much interesting information in regard to conditions there. She is one of the very few to hold tlie degree of Doctor of Religious Education, there being only twelve in this ! country. Dr. LaForee's home when in America is at North Manchester, Indiana. Before going to China as a missionary, she was a teacher in Huntington College. Huntington, Indiana, and is well known throughj out that vicinity. Miss Eva Sprunger, a returned missionary from China, who is a , daughter of Rev. Sprunger of Berne < CONTI Nt: l'?D ON P AGE TWO) -— — o— Phi Delt Business Meeting On Monday An important business meeting ot Phi Delta Kappa fraternity will be ! held in the fraternit yhall, Monday night at 8 o'clock. Every member is ui ged to be present as final plans will be made for the opening i of the home to be held next Satttr- ' day night.. Plans relative to the ' program for the Fourth Annual Tut key Trot Dance to be held at the 1 Decatur Country (Tub on November ill. also will be decided. ——o — i Stuckey And Kirsch Are Named Officials 1 L. W. Stuvkey of Geneva and Leo Kirsch of this city were named county chairman and vice-chairman 1 of the Northeastern Indiana Petroleum Code committee. Eleven counties in this section of the state from ‘ the organization, whose purpose it : i is to receive complaints of alleged violations of the oil code.