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>MER'SWIFE 1 W OP HOPE ■f HIS RETURN 9H 0 | Kidnaped Man H"l>‘ "I Seeing Mive PERSIST IS PAID Jan. <U-« Pr'intT. altrac- ■ k " hi i|>< '' l 1 J IWM (, )<■ i.h r. has lost I" i' linsband i! "ns learned iksßa.sH>-' - ‘duh ‘lav si... * l '“ ,^K| l "llil'- '"""Is IH'lsist the bankers lather. I’l.-ident K-||>- ' 1 rP,urned the week. p>Hnc! doe* not share her ..M-ui. - f.-ah aii.l expressed p-i-mH ‘ ,iP,l ‘ l ’K-r |^K|. a . I;,. :i-.band is dead. found in *' le HU,<> "’ 'l' Bremer was J «,...' h Wednesday, daughter. Betty. -punsible for lay. foreboding- ..,. ... kidnapers -peeific delay of more after the pay- .. *<>m before they* be r.-mitred to release .if the demand that b'ood stains were automobile from Burner was kidnaped a i \ ■ W . <lnesday, Poß.ee I such demand I ! unexpected a. <•!• I ■;•;• ted massing department of justice in the twin cities also was nv rtok FIVE) Miliary Sponsors 11 l id.ic Essay Contest American Legion Auxiliary a Fidac essay co. ■ pap '- of high schools in and Adams County. The and the paper should be l words or less. mi the essay may be .it it Decatur Public Li All high school pupils are Kk to tak • part in this contest, will be by two English and the unit chairman, K. Champlin. papers should be mail I^Hl! r* 1 itamplin not later than Content, neatness. punctuation and grammar judged. The local u it will prize of $2.50 for the best the district prizes will he and $1,50. the state prizes, and $1.50, and the national he awarded in Paris will ,,f Source id’ World War books. - .. o l Mr Story Starts In ■ I Democrat Saturday .li'dlusion which character ge eration when it ’ into its own is rap and is being re by a "Carry On" philosophy .n cording to Allene Cor 'Hivelist, in a recent New interview. in it as inevitable. ' Miss said, "that the new generseek new ideas of life standards of behavior as should return" to the old. all, the legacy left by the generation wap hardly what be regarded as a rich one. if utll is to be told, lit a sense, ■■can hardly blame our young ■■and women for having tried ■H u(l i Inge in something new |B standards, new ideas, new of life.” p celebrated writer, whose ■■novel of modern marriage "I This Woman” will begin in Democrat. Saturday, JanHB is thoroughly qualified to E**' ioi and about the new gener She k'ows the men and n of this generation as well in the land, and writes Ibcm with a sympathy,! and understanding that her one of the leaders , the novelists of today.

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Siamese Turtle I * v-Sls -a x K ' WK * S Mi .. Mrs. Grace Wiley, zoo custodian, holds Nip and Tuck, a year-old turtle with two heads, two stomachs, hut just one shell. Nip and Tuck is (or are) prospering on a scientific diet. It is a prize pet of the Chicago Zoological Society at Riverside, HI.

INVESTORS BUY NEW SECURITY Billion Dollar Fund For Recovery Funds Ts Oversubscribed Washington, Jan. 25 — (VP) — Earl Bailie. Wall Street banker, will relinquish his post as special assistant to secretary of treasury Morgenthau tomorrow with the sue <essful flotation of the government's latest billion dollar security offering. Bailie had mapped the government's financing program during his brief stay with the treasury and will leave tomorrow to return as a member of the firm of J. and W. Seligman and company. Wall street bankers. His resignation was presented earlier this month but he remained until the successful sale of this week's securities. Washington, Jan. 25.- (U.R) Over- ' subscription of the government s I billion dollar security offering for ’ new recovery funds was reported today by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau. i Placed on the market yesterday morning, the securities were over subscribed 3*4 times last night, indicating continued .confidence in the credit of the government. •I am delighted," Morgenthau said. I Orders poured in from all sections of the country from small iu(CONTINUWD ON PAGE SIX) JURORS AWARD WOMAN $7,500 Policeman’s Wife Granted Verdict In Alienation Suit Chicago, Jan. 25 —<U.R) —The affections of Policeman Norman E. Nottingham today had a court ' value of $7,500 in the opinion of a jury of 10 "model husbands" and i two bachelors. • The jury brought in a $7,500 verdict for Mrs. Susanne Nottingham. his wife, in her alienation of I affections suit against Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, former collec- : tor of internal revenue. Mrs. I Nottingham sought SIOO,OOO damages. Mrs. Nottingham hacked up her claims with testimony gleaned from spying episodes during which she climbed over automobiles and packing cases to waten | her husband and Mrs. Blacklidge | in the latter's apartment. According to Mrs. Blacklidge.; Mrs. Nottingham might just as I well have spared herself the trou-1 ON PAGE TWO)

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AGED INDIANA I WOMAN SLAIN BY ATTACKER Another Woman Reared I Fatally Beaten In Attack Near Corunna FORMER FARM HANI) | IS UNDER ARREST Corunna, Ind., Jan. 25—<U.R) An angered itinerant farm hand, known only as “Otto," was being hunted in DeKalb and surrounding counties as a 1 suspect in the fiendish murder of Miss Sarah Murray, 77, and a brutal attack on her companion, Mrs. Lydia Maxwell, 87, early today. Mrs. expected to die in a hospital at Kendallville of serious head wounds, rallied sufficiently late today to name her and Miss Mur- j ray's assailant. She told authorities the man entered her home early i this morning and demanded money. When the women told him they had only a dollar on the premises, she said he became angry and attacked them. Corunna. Ind.. Jan. 25 —(T’PI — I One woman was found slain in her i modest farm home two miles weat ! of here today and another woman , . with whom she lived was found bru- j tally beaten, evidently the victims , of an attack by an assailant who ■ attempted to rob them. The l>ody of the murdered woman Miss Carah C. Murray. 77. was j found brutally beaten, evidently the I victims of an attack by an assailant who attempted to rob them. The body of the murdered wo-i man. Miss Sarah C. Murray, 77, was found lying on a blood soaked floor i of their home which showed signs of a desperate struggle and ran- j sacking. The inert form of her companion Mrs George Maxwell. 87 was found a few feet away. She had been seriously beaten ou the head and is itv Lakeside hospital at Kendallville where physicians say she proltably 'CONTTNUTJD nV PXGE SIX) RELU FACTOR TELLS STORY Wife of Jake Factor Tells Os Negotiations With Kidnapers Criminal Courts Bldg, Chicago. Jan. 25.—(U.R)—Rella Factor, petite ' wife of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, told in a broken voice today of her negotiations with kidi capers for her husband's release as she testified in the trial of Roger Touhy and three henchmen j ! charged with the abduction. As a diamond sparkled on her ] hand and another glittered on a pendant hanging from her neck, the modishly garbed young woman, told how she bargained with the | abductors and finally secured her | husband's release on payment of $70,000. | But like all the witnesses who I preceded her on the witness stand, I she was unable to identify Touhy , or any of his companions on trial i as participants in the abduction. ' She did, however, identify Willie Sharkey, the gang’s dead compan-! ion. as one of the men who pointed a gun at her the evening of, 1 ! her husband's kidnaping. As testimony was taken ia the | ’ case police were understood to be 1 ■ watching a westside apartment ' .i (Continued on page five) I ( o Mrs. Charles Throp Dies In California J Word has been received here of ‘ the death of Mrs. Charles Throp, 46. Los. Angeles, California, a for-L mer resident of this city. Mrs. j Throp died at a hospital in Downey. ' California, last Saturday night. She was well known in this city, having resided here for a number ] of years. She was a member of the , , local Baptist church. i ( [ Surviving are the husband, a, ( daughter, Bernell, and a son, Rob- t ert. One grandchid, June Lydell, 1 and a sister, Mrs. Grace Baughn of '' Ridgeville, also survive.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 25, 1934.

Guest of Honor 1 / jaSB Miss Betty Barnes, a patient at Warm Springs Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in 1928, will he one of the principal guests on Jan. 30 at the Birthday Ball for the President in Missoula. Mont. In many other cities infantile paralysis victims will be guests because the aim of the balls Is to help extend the crusade of Warm Springs Foundation against infantile paralysis.

KENTUCKY MOB LYNCHES NEGRO Young Negro Is Lynched For Fatally Injuring White Man Hazard. Ky„ Jan. 25. — (U.R) — Authorities today questioned four white men whose identities they I concealed in connection with last night's "neck-tie party" in which Rex Scott, 20, negro, was inform'ally executed for fatally wounding a white. Scott was lynched while his ali leged victim. Alex Johnson. 32. still was fighting for life in the local hospital. Johnson died of a fractured skull two hours after Scott's body was cut down The ■ egro was strung up to a tree on the edge of a cemetery about 15 miles from here. The mob of 300 white men. some of whom were masked, took him from the local jail. While his laxly dangled. 28 shots were fired into it. Officers arrested four white men for questioning in connection with the lynching. Authorities listed their names as Lee Gibson. Jim Collins. Andy Workman and E. Terrel, all miners. Scott was arrested Monday night after a street tight with Johnson. He allegedly struck Johnson over the head with a club when Johnson attempted to avenge a slurring remark Scott is said to have directed at Johnson’s two women companions. o Christian Church Brotherhood Meets The men's brotherhood of the First Chrstian church will meet at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the home of Bob August. EMPLOYMENT TO BEJJONTINUED Likely That CWA Workers Will Be Provided Work After May 1 Washington, Jan. 25.—<U.R> —Continued employment beyond May 1 for most of the 4,000,000 CWA workers who went on the government payroll last November appeared today to be the likely outcome of dispute over continuance of that emergency program. Public works, seasonal employment and a revival of industry are counted on to provide jobs after May 1 for more than 2,000,000 persons on the present CWA work roll. But an administration compromise seemed to be in the making to shift to some other government payroll the luckless ones who do not find one of the new jobs. Cf/A was created Nov. 8 to compensate for delay in providing work on public works projects. Through the civil works administration there has been a constant flow of ready money to all parts of the country. Opposition to sudden disemployment of the 4,000,000 cur(CONTINUBD ON PAGb’flVß)*‘

DEPARTMENTS HAVE BALANCE Civil City And All Depart ments Report Substantial Balances ■■ .I.— The civil city, the street depart-, ment and the light and water <lepirtments of the Municipal plant ha.l eubstanlial balances at the beginning of the year, according to the annual report published by Alice Christen, city clerk. Not all of the money Is available ■ in the several funds of I ie electric 1 light and water departments. About $60,300 is tied up in closed hanks. The total of all cash funds held by the civil fity. the streei depart--1 ment and the working balances and 1 reserve funds of the light and water departments amounted to ; $130,068.18. Aside from a $30,000 bond debt on the electric light plant 1 the city did not owe a penny at the beginning of t.he year. Since January 1. a payment of $5,000 was made on the bonds, reducing the outstanding amount to $26,000. The original issue was $75,000, made _ 15 years ago. Except for about SB,OOO all the new equipment installed at the water and light plant last year is paid for. The total expenditure for I equipment was about $25,000. This equipment was installed to obtain better efficiency and to reduce operating costs. The result of the I savings is lower light and power ■ rates for patrons of the municipal plant, the city now .having a petition before the Indiana Public Service commission to reduce the rates effective with February meter readings. The balances held by the civil * city, the street department and the 1 electric light and water depart--1 ments. including the balances tied ■ up in the banks follow: General ? fund. $16,447.72; special street fund ' $2,668.29; electric light cash fund. $19,779.69; electric light depreciation fund. $58,627.12; electric light - cash reserve fund. $12,211.78; cer--1 tificate of deposit, $115.56; water r works cash fund. $17,351.04; water works depreciation fund. $2,866.98. t The balance in the general fund >' includes the December draw of tax J money. The total must pay operatf ing expenses until next June. i o VIVIAN BURK ! IS ASSISTANT — ' Decatur Woman Named r Assistant CWA Administrator In County W. L. Linn, county civil works i administrator was notified today that Miss Vivian Burk of this city had been named assistant CWA adi ministrator, in charge of projects tor the women. * Miss Burk’s appointment was made by William H. Book. Indiana- * polie. state CWA administrator. 1 Women’s projects now underway in the county Include the catalogueing of the books in the Decatur Public Library, the health program in charge of the county health nurses and a few clerical jobs, including those in the county agent’s office. I Miss Burk will supervise work done by the women and will also certify the payrolls covering their employment. Recently Miss Burk has been ac-! ■ tive in assisting the organization i of the county health campaign, including the diphtheria immunization drive now being made. This . work is carried on through the 1 schools of the county and has the , sanction of the Adams county medi- . cal association. Administrator Linn stated no } change had yet been made in the [ employment schedules in ths county, time being reduced to 15 hours . a week.except on special jobs and > In the administrative department. , o— Decatur Dentists Examine Children Decatur dentists examined the ’ teeth of about 1000 school children, 1 yesterday, the examinations starting in the. morning and continuing until during the afternoon. The den- ; tai examination of school children ’ is made at the request of tue Unit- ’ ed State board of health. A note to 1 parents was given to each pupil, 1 on which was checked the condi--1 j tion of the child's teeth. All of the I ’ | local dentists cooperated in the j ‘ work.

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RAID EXPOSES GANGSTER RULE OF N. Y. PRISON ,! Find Evidence ol (Jraft, Vice And Official Laxity In Prison GANCwSTERS RULED WITH IRON HAND New York. Jan. 25—<U.R) Raiders who smashed an almost incredible rule of gangsters at welfare island prison dug deeper today into new evidence of graft, vice and official laxity at the institution which stretches along East river in the shadoty of New York City’s most exclusive apartment houses. Commissioner of Corrections Austin IL MacCormick, who led a military-like laid on the prison yesterday, considered action against responsible officials, put in office by the former Tamany administration. District Attorney Dodge announced he would use the revelations as the basis for a sweeping investigation of the circumstances that made the welfare island situation possible. ■’Politics will play no part in my investigation," Dodge said. Searchers constantly found new evidence of conditions which MacCormick said made welfare island —once known as Blackwell’s i Island —the worst prison in America. They brought to light great quantities of knives, hypodermic needles, makeshift weapons of ( various sorts, cabinets, radios. 1 and even canes. Meanwhile, four gangsters found by MacCormick to have ruled the prison with an iron hand in sneering defiance of Warden Jos ' ' eph McCann, were held in heavily-i-criNTTNt'Fm nv PICV <sixi Over 250 Attend Father-Son Meeting More than 250 men and boys attend the annual Knights of Columbus fathers and sons meeting at the K. of C. hall last evening. Two reels of moving pictures shown. A western film and a comedy made up the bill and fathers and sons enjoyed the silent movies immensely. Following the entertainment a free lunch was served. Lee Ulman was chairman of the meeting. o Business Census Enumerators Named Lawrence Green of ths city and Hugo R. Beitlerof Berne have been named enumerators to take the business census in the county, ordered by the federal government. The appointments were made by Albert J. Holtman. director of the federal business census in the fourth district. Work will start immediately, the men receiving their instruclions at a meeting held In the federal business and a number of wholesale Classifications will be surveyed by the enumerators. CLINIC PLANS ARE COMPLETED Diphtheria Immunization Clinic Will Be Held Friday Morning Arrangements have been completed for the diphtheria emuniza- ' tion for children whose parents wish to have them treated but are unable to pay tor such treatment. All children are to report at their schools at the regular time, and the school principals will send the children to the clinic at a specified I time. All children are to return to their schools after receiving treatment. They must have request slips signed by the parents. Rural school students may come to the clinic before reporting at school. Requirements for immunization are as follows; children must be between the ages of six months and 14 years; must reside in Adams County; one parent must accompany child under school age. Everyone is asked to use the ; Adams street entrance to the school building.

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Noted Banker 111 ' r i • I. Ik. Melvin A. Traylor, president of ; the First National Bank of Chii cago, is fighting for life against pneumonia. The distinguished banker is in a special oxygen tent improvised over his bed in his home in Chicago.

PERU ATTORNEY IS CANDIDATE Albert Harvey Cole Enters Democratic Race For U. S. Senator Peru, Ind., Jan. 25 — (U.R)— Albert Harvey Cole, Peru attorney, formally entered the race for United States senator today after announci g his candidacy at a Miami i county Democratic meeting. R. Earl Peters, Fort Wayne, former state parly chairman and only other announced candidate for the sena'.e omination, made a brief speech at the meeting last night in which he asked for party harmony. At least ten others have been mentioned recently as possible candidates tor the post. They include Robert E. Proctor. Elkhart attorney, principal speaker on last night's program. He vigorously criticised the lack of party harmony and said Democrats are 'making themselves the laughing : stock because of factionalism." He opposed criticism of party officials now in power, including Gov. Paul V. McNutt, and predicted a Republics" victory in November unless fault-finding and factionalism are ended. In announcing his candidacy. Cole was generally believed to be anticipating the support of the Governor, who is reportedly opposed to Peters' senate aspirations. Several of McNutt's political j friends* including Pleas Greenlee, executive secretary to the Gover(CONTINUFJD ON PAGE SIX) Q Morbidity Report For Week Is Made The state morbidity report for the week ending January 20. shows . two cases of influenza and two cases of scarlet fever reported in Adams county. No eases of diphtheria were reported. Allen county ; still lead the list in the ’.umber of | diphtheria cases, 10 being reported from that county. Brotherhood Formed At Reformed Church The men and boys of the Zion Reformed church met in the social rooms of the church Wednesday j evening anT organized a men's brotherhood. More than 80 attended. Purpose of the organization is to carry out social and benevolent | functions of service and benefit to the community in general. Peter Vitz, acting chairman, was ) elected president. Other officers are Cletus Miller, vice-president ! and Robert Freeby, secretary-treas-urer. A visiting group of 32 members of a similar organization from St. Peter’s Reformed churf-h of Huntington attended the meeting, and members of this organization furnished entertainment consisting of vocal quartets and short comedy sketches. Rev. R. B. Meckstroth of the Huntington church gave an inspiring talk.

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F. D. R, PLAN IS ATTACKED RT SENATORS Inflationists Seek Mandatory Wider Use oi Silver Currency DEFEAT SEEN FOR ONE AMENDMENT Washington, Jan. 25. KUP’ Republicans assailed the Roosevelt monetary bill in the senate today while inflationists attempted to rally support to proposals for mandatory wider use of silver in American currency. Senator Hastings, of Delaware, chairman of the Republican senatorial committee, attacked the dollar revaluation bill as unconstitutional and tending toward a "huge central politif cal banking system within the - government" through seizure of 11 all gold. i Senator Wheeler, Dem., Mont., ‘ was trying to swing western sen ■* ators into line behind his amendment to authorize purchase of i silver and expansion of the curI rency through issuance of silver ■ certificates. Majority Leader Robinson, who , hones for passage of the monetary , bill late todav or tomorrow, preB dieted defeat of the Wheeler amendment. Hastings said Senator Borah. . Repn., Idaho, wanted the bill to include provisions for inflation, while “I am opposing it because I'm afraid it will prove inflai tionary." 1 “Neither of us know just what i- it will accomplish,” Hastings said. 1 I It was learned that senators favoring inflation were planning . to offer the Wheeler silver amendment, or some modification of it. as a test of inflation sentiment in j the senate. r If an encouraging showing ( could be made on that amendment t the strategy would be to offer another rider proposing that some of the $3,000,000,000 profit realized i by nationalization of gold be used as a basis for new currency. Borah has been conducting a private roll to see how much ' strength he could command. It. appeared (hat the most an fnfla- ' tion amendment could expect was ' 26 votes, and that some of those were doubtful. ’ It was indicated that Borah would not offer an inflation amendment unless he could dis•l cover more hopeful signs of sue--1 cess. i’ o Yoder In Race For Township Trustee aI - - j J. K. Yoder, prominent Hartford . township farmer, has announced as a candidate for the Democratic 1 nomination as trustee of the town- , ship. Mr. Yoder ie now serving his . third term as township assessor. He is married and has four children. FINAL ACTION LIKELY FRIDAY . T . Commissioners Will Resume Study of Pension i Applications The county commissioners will meet Friday at the court house and probably take final action on a ma--1 jority of the old age pension applications. i The commissioners will return tol night from Lafayette where they ■ have been attending the annual ; road school at Purdue univerlsty and will be in session Friday. i County Attorney Henry B. Heller i stated. i ! Several of the applicants have been summoned to appear before i ; the board tomorrow. 'lnformation i concerning their financial condi- : tion. their need for a pension and - matters pertaining to the transfer 'of real estate owned by the applii cant will be taken up. The maximum pension allowed ■; under the Indiana law is sls a I month. The county has appropriat- • ed $7,000 and the state will furnish f a similar amount, making tne to- ' tai available, $14,000, out of which i the county must hold a reserve for i emergencies, such as sickness and burial expense.