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Named Postmaster ■SEp' >.<r "T. w A Congressman James I Farley has recommended the appointment of L. (1. Ellingham. publisher of the Fort Wayne JournalGazette us postmaster of Fort Wayne. It is understood Mr Ellingham will take office March 1. succeeding E. J. Galltneyer. Mr. Ellingham is a former resident of | Decatur. He formerly owned and published the Daily Democrat and his hundreds of friends here were happy today over his appointment. government™ OFFER HELP TO NEEDY CITIES Many Cities In Nation Are Reported Nearing Bankruptcy CHICAGO MAN TO PREPARE PROGRAM Washington. Feb. 16. dJ.R> — Emergency federal relief for nearbankrupt municipalities is in the hurry-up category of administra lion project- Alarming reports of the financial problems of cities large and small trouble President Roosevelt's advisers. The first concrete move toward relief was selection of Professor Simon Leland, of Chicago University, to prepare a program The plight of the debt-burdened municipalities is related to the larger problem of debt structure and interest rates to which Mr. 1 Roosevelt hopes shortly to give his attention. -He believes interest rates generally should be lower. The emergency arises from the inability of many cities to borrow at all. Ot'iers are able to borrow but only at prohibitive interest rates. (Ties uniformly are re- , stricted to a legal borrowing limit representing a determined percentage of the assessed valuation of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ASK EXTENSION OF AGREEMENT President Roosevelt Appeals For Extension of Present Pay Rate Washington, Feb. 16 —(U.R) — An appeal for an extension of their 10 per cent wage cut agreement was made to railroad capital and labor today by President Roosevelt. The chief executive acted to foreI stall a bitter disagreement in one to- nation's largest industries by drafting a ’communication to 1 both parties a few hours after the employers announced that beginning July 1 of this year wages of all classes of railroad union labor would be cut 15 per cent for 12 months. In urging a truce until Jan. 1, 1935, the President wrote in a letter to the conference committee of managers representing class 1 railroads and the railway labor executives associations. “I am confident that such an extension would be of advantage to those directly concerned, and also to the entire country.” It was indicated that he had in j mind nearly a million men. Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that "the emergency still exists, and the *(CONtTnUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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WALTER BROWN TO TESTIFY IN SENATE PROBE Former Postmaster General Agrees To Give Evidence Monday Mad’RACKEN IS FREED ON BONI) New York, Feb. 16—(UP) —In the first test of a legal battle against the government’s tweeping cancelation of United States air mail contraets, federal judge John C. Knox today denied an injunction suit filed by Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., against postmaster general Farley, seeking to restrain the government's cancellation order. Washington, Feb. 16 (U.R; The | senate airmail investigating com-j mittee prepared today to summon former Postmaster General Walter F Brown for examination in Hoover administration airmail policies. It had Ills assurances that he would wave immunity and would appear with the understanding that “anything I say may be used against me in any court in the land.” Brown has deplored the recent I cancellation of commercial airmail] contracts. His position was presented to the senate by Senator Simeon D. Fess. Repn.. Ohio. Fess obtained an agreement from chair man Hugo L. Black of the airmail committee to hear the former post-, office executive at 10 a. m. next Monday. in a letter to Fess, read in the senate. Brown said he would appear before the committee "voluntarily.” "My testimony will be given without compulsion.” he wrote. ■»_ Hack auu->uu».eM that tha-xom.-. mittee "welcomed" Brown’s sugges-! lion. He said lie intended to seek a detailed explanation from the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) JURY FAILS TO REACH VERDICT Deliberate 19 Hours Without Agreement In SIO,OOO Suit After deliberating 19 hours, a jury in the Adams circuit court reported to Judge Huber M. De-, Voss shortly before 10 o'clock this morning that it was unable to reach an agreement and the jurors were then discharged. The case had been tried twice previously in the Jay circuit court at Portland, both cases ending in a hung jury after nearly 24 hours of deliberation. The case in question is the SIO,OOO damage suit of Mrs. Cleo] E. Miller, administratrix of the] estate of Ray Miller, against Clyde Money and the Portland Drain Tile company. The complaint alleged that Ray Miller was killed on road 67. two miles southwest of Portland. ] shortly after midnight July 11. | 1932. through the negligence of | the defendants named in the suit.] The plaintiff alleged that a truck owned by the Portland company. driven by Money, was park-] j ed on the highway without warning lights. Miller, who was riding with Carl Downing, was killed when the auto in which he was a ] passenger, ran into the truck, j : Miller is survived by the widow and five minor children. The case opened in the local court Tuesday morning and went to the jury shortly after three o'clock Thursday afternoon. Members of the jury hearing the case were Adolph Bieberick, George Geels, Albert Werling, Osa Von Gunten, William Harding. Ira Wagoner. Thomas Bess, George Cramer, Harvey Sipe, Charles Schenck, John Mosure and Fred J. Adler. o Dr. Bridge To Speak Here Sunday Morning Dr. U. S. A. Bridge, Fort Wayne. | ; will preach at the Decatur Metho- ! diet church Sunday morning at [10:30 o’clock. Dr. Bridge is well known in Decatur, having been : pastor of the local church several years ago. All members of the church are urged to attend.

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Where Prisoners Met Death in Eseape Attempt ’ IWh Wit ✓ - i **• / 1 Jr / y / an ll l l1 ** / / . One guard and seven convicts were killed as a group of forty prisoners made a desperate attempt Monday afternoon to escape from the Washington st ite penitentiary at Walla Walla. Phis amazing picture shows the prison yard where the battle between the guards and prisoners was fought, with the bodies of the slain convicts sprawled where they fe’l. ’

MARIE GRETHER ESSAY WINNER Local Girl Wins Fidac Essav Contest: Latin Winners Named Miss Marie Grether. a member of the sophomore flass of the Decatur high school, has been judged th.e winner of the essay contest held by the local Fidac organisation. Two other members of the sophomore class. Mieses Agnes Nelson land June O’Donnell, were awarded .honorable mention. The subject of the essay was. “Peace With Security". The three essays will be sent to Churubusco where they will tie judged in the district contest. Mrs. Charles Champlin was in charge of the local con(test. Latin Winners Members of the Decatur high school who will represent the i school in the Adams county Latin contest have been chosen. Fay Martin and Irene Sell will compete in division one, and Marie Grether and June O'Donnell will compete in division two. The awards were presented to the Latin and essay contest winners at a special chapel program this mot n- ■ ing. Tlte county contest will be held Saturday, February 24, at the local high school building. The contest will start at 8:30 a. m. Miss Clara Reppert. local Latin teacher, will conduct the contest. Winners in the Berne high school Latin contest are Margaret Belle , Sprunger and Sherwood Sprunger, freshmen; Helen ZWercher and | Christen® Habegger, sophomores. DICTATORSHIP RULES AUSTRIA Dollfuss And Starhemberg Rule Under Absolute Dictatorship Vienna, Feb. 16— (U.R) —Blood bathed, and revolution-torn Austria headed again toward Fascist I statehood today under the abso- | lute dictatorship of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and Prince Ernst Von Starhembeig. The first of two epochal politiI cal fights had been won with the i crushing of the Socialists after ; four days of fighting. The second impeded. Austrian Nazis, unreconciled, hoping to seize power, waited to strike. Theo Habight, German leader of Austrian Nazis refuged across the frontier, enraged the governI ment by making a wireless speech i last night appealing to the Austrian army to desert and aid the | Nazis to seize power. The government considered proI testing formally to the German government against what was called "an unprecedented attempt to incite the army of a foreign country to revolt.” For the moment Dollfuss and Starhemberg. a victorious army and home guard behind them, dis(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

Fourth District Democrats To Meet — | Democrats of the fourth congresI eional dstrict will hold a mass meeting at Fort Wayne on Wednesday, February 38, at which time ■speeches will be made by Governor ■ Paul V. McNutt, Congressman J. I. Farley and State Chairman Carleton McCulloch, according to notices sent out today by V. M. Simmons. . I district chairman. I At thrte o’-lock in the afternoon I the county chairmen will meet to I discuss plans for the campagin and the entire afternoon and evening is important for the Democrats of this ! section. A large delegation is desirI ed from Adams county. Similar meetings iu other districts have been very successful and efforts ' to make this the larg st yet held will be made. 1 o— l FORMER BERNE RESIDENT DIES I Mrs. Milton Gilliom Dies This Morning At Fort i Wayne Mrs. Milton Gilliom. 42. of Fort . Wayne, a resident of Berne for many years, died at the Methodist Hospital in Fort Wayne at 4 o’clock this morning. Mrs. Gilliom underwent an operation 10 days ago for tumor. Her condition was improving until Wed- ' nesday when peritonitis developed. She was formerly Alice Rinaker, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 1 Rinaker of Berne. She was born in ’ Berne and was graduated from the ■ Berne high school in 1911. 1 Surviving are the husband and two children Max and Marjorie, the parents and a brother, Alva Rinaker of Berne - —O — —~ Fined Lor Driving Without Auto Plates Lloyd Biberstine, Hartford town- ’ ship, was fined $lO and costs, totaling $22.80. by Mayor George Krick ! in city court Thursday evening. BiI berslne was arrested late yesterday I afternoon by Sheriff Burl Johnson for driving without auto license plates. -o Two Men Confess To Stealing Coal Frank Steed. Geneva, and Law- * rence Bollenbacher, who resides on the John Felty farm, were arrested Thursday night by Sheriff Burl 1 Johnson on charges of stealing coal 1 at the Baker arad Hirschey schools in Wabash township. The sheriff ’ reported that the men confessed 1 the thefts. ( Harley W. Ward Is Trustee Candidate -' Harley W. Ward, Monmouth, has 1 announced his candidacy for the ' Republican nomnation for trustee -of Root township. A native of Ad--1 ams county, he has lived in Root i township the past three years. Mr. 1 Ward served in the army during the ' World War. A lifelong republican, ‘, he is the first to announce for the ' office in Root township.

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DEATH CLAIMS MRS.BOKNECHT Mrs. Christian Boknecht Dies Thursday After Long Illness Mrs. Anna Charlotte Boknecht. 66. wife of Christian W. Boknecht i of 128 North Third stre-t. and a I lifelong resident of Adams County, i died at her home at 5:30 o'clock i Thursday evening. Death was due ■ to carcinoma. Mrs. Boxne ht was born Septem- ' her 28, 1867 in Root township, a - daughter of Ernest and Liza Franz. As a girl she atended the St. Peter'® Luiueran chur.h and was received into the Lutheran faith through t ie rite of confirmation in the St. Peters church. On November 14, 1889 she was united in marriage to Christian W. Boknecht. They resided on a farm ' in Root township until the year 1891 when they moved to Decatur, residing here since. , Surviving besides the husband, are two daugiters: Clara Schultz of Akron. Ohio, and Marie Ellis of Cassopolis, Michigan, and one son, Edwin Boknecht of Decatur. Three grandchildren, Chrisanna Ellis and Eddie and Robert Boknecht, and the following sisters and brothers also survive: Mrs. Mary Boknecht 'of Burt, North Dakota; Mrs. Louise Mailand of Decatur; Mrs. Pauline Saxman of .Akron, Ohio; Henry Franz of Fort Wayrne and Herman Franz of Root township. Two sisters. Minnie and Carrie, died in infancy. Mrs. Boknecht had been ailing for over a year and was bedfast for the last three months. She was a fait'.i(OONTTNtTED ON PAGE FIVE) o ASSESSORS TO HOLO MEETING Township Assessors Will Meet Here Friday, February 23 A meeting of the township ; assessors will be held in this city, i Friday, February 23, County Assessor John Felty announced today. The meeting will be preparatory to the assessors beginning the annual job of assessing personal prop°rtv. The aseseing period begins March 1. Paul Weber of Huntington. special representative for the state i board of tax commissioners will attend the meeting and explain the svstem of assessing for this year. The new blanks will be exhibited. I Adams county has 12 assessors I and Mr. Felty is of the opinion that I the law passed by the 133 legislature does not eliminate any of the offices. Under one section of the law the assessors are to be abolishel in townships under 5.000 population. Another act passed by the same legislature provides for the election of township assessors and other officers this year. Since the intangible law became effective the assessors do not ! assess such items as mortgages, jnotes or stocks, issued in Indiana.

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I DIO Rabbits To Be Distributed Here — One hundred Kansas "cotton tall rabbits are to I:? delivered in Adame county within the next few days, Roy Johnson, president of the .Ailams county conservation league, said today. Half of the rabbits will be distributed from Decatur and the remainder at Berne. Supplied by the conservat'cr. department, Che rabbits are being distributed for propagation purposes. NAVAL OFFICER DIVES ADDRESS Lieutenant Arthur Shock Speaks To Decatur Rotary Club The Azore Islands were described as the most picturesque and ] beautiful of any foreign country in a talk made by Lieut. Arthur Shock, retired commander of the U. S Navy oil tanker, “Brazos” before the Rotary club last evening, meeting at the Rice HoHtel. Commander Shock, who served 39 years in the navy, traveled all the seas, saw every country on the except South Africa and , said that the Azores stood out as the beauty spot of the world. The islands rise from the Atlantic and much of the territory is composed of mountains. Small . fruit farming is the principal occu- ' pation of the inhabitants, grapes, strawberries, cherries, tigs and pineapples being the leading crops. There is some dairying, Mr. Shock . stated. The humidity on the islands is heavy, due to the moisture from , the ocean. The islands are completely surrounded by the Atlantic. > They belong .to the Republic of Portugal and although Portugese is ■ the national language. Flemish afid l Moorish is spoken. English is also . spoken as many of the men and i women have been educated in • ♦ - - • •• . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o DEMOCRATS TO MEET SATURDAY State Committee Will Act Against Recalcitrant Leaders Indianapolis. Feb. 16. — (U.R) - Plans to discipline recalcitrant 1 Democratic leaders were being drafted today by the party's state committee. The plans will be discussed when the committee meets tomorrow to deal with the election commission finding that no provision is made under present election laws for city party committees. ■i It is proposed, in changes sug- . gested to committee members by , Keith L. Johns, secretary, that any I county, district or state chairman [ can be removed "for cause" after j a hearing and by two thirds vote lof the party organization over which the chairman presides. Causes for removal as set out by I Johns, follow: “Neglect of duty, disloyalty to I the party or any of its nominees or regularly elected officials, failure to comply with the rules of the I rules of the party and the election | laws of the state, failure to cooperate with other officers of the party i and any or all other charges which ; may result from actions of such 1 county or district chairman or oth- | er officer against the best interests | of the party." The charges are similar to the ] ones which supporters of Gov. Paul ! V. McNutt made informally against [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O Survey Shows Good Gain In Employment Employment gains ranging from [ 12 to 100 per cent over a year ago i were reported today in a United ] Press survey of industrial centers 1 throughout the United States. The labor department at Washington estimated that since March 1 1933, the nearest date for which figures are available, employment In manufacturing and non man- ; ufacturimg industries has increased ] by 2.387,000 with $60,200,000 added ]to the weekly payroll. This has | been accomplished, the department ] reported, with only a slight increase j in the cost of living index —135 as l of Dec. 1. 1933, evompared with 132.1 Dec. 1, 1932.

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ONE GANGSTER ALL READY TO GIVE EVIDENCE — To Give Testimony Against Three Alleged Sheriff Slayers HARRY COPELAND TO PLEAD GUILTY ) Indianapolis, Feb. 16.—<U.R) :—Edward Shouse, one of the members of the Dillinger con- . vict gang, will turn state’s 1 witness against three of his former colleagues awaiting trial at Lima, O„ on murder charges, it was reported reliaoiy here today. . i Shouse is being held in the i state prison at Michigan City whib- his three former companions. . Russell Clark, Charles Makley and . Harry Pierpout, are in jail at Lima. The three escaped convicts are charged with killing Sheriff Jess I Sai her of Lima while freeing John 1 Dillinger, leader or the gang, from , jail there. 1 Failure to turn Shouse over to , Lima authorities with the others strengthened the report that he is . being held for use as the state's , principal witness during the murdI er trial. Harry Copeland, who is suspected of being a member of the gang i which freed Dillinger, is expected to plead guilty to a bank robbery ; charge al Greencastle next week. Shouse was captured several , weeks ago at Paris. 111., where he ! had planned to hold up a bank. At the time of his capture he was driving an automobile which f had been stolen from Russell Clark. s After the capture of Clark. Pier--1 pent. Makley and Dillinger at , Tucson. Ariz., it was learned that t Shouse was not in their good , graces. i They were said to be angered at him for stealing Clark’s automobile and for being “girl crazy." Two girls were with Shouse when he wa’s caught at Paris. Shouse was believed to have J been in the gang which killed Sheriff Sarber. After his arrest he told authorities that he separated from **(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) I o Second Diphtheria Treatments Given Two hundred forty-six indigent [ children of Decatur received the ; second treatment for diphtheria im- ’ munization in the domestic science rooms of the Decatur high school 1 Friday morning. ’ The immunization was conducted 1 under the supervision of Drs. J. M. ' Mill r. G. J. Kohne and Palmer r Eicher, assisted by the nurses, Miss re-e Gerke and Miss Florence Anderson. The committee which also assisted in the treatment included the ' Mesdames C. K. Champlin, Oscar Lankenau, Charles Holthhouse, Wll- ‘ Ham Bell and Miss Vivian Burk. GOVERNOR NOT A CANDIDATE l McNutt Dismisses Reports He Will Run For U. S. Senate 1 Batesville, Ind., Feb. 16 —(U.R) — In a 33-word statement during an ' address before a ninth district 1 Democratic rally here last night, Gov. Paul V. McNutt dismissed reports that he would become a ■ candidate for the party’s U. S. ] senate nomination this year. It had been reported here that t the governor planned to make a surprise bid for the senate nomi ination at the party's state con- > vention this summer. [ "I have not been, am not now i and will not be a candidate for the I United States Senate," the gover- . i nor said. “I have a job and I was [ brought up to finish any' job I i started.” Speaking before more than 900 ] persons, the governor reviewed [ the accomplishments of his first [ year in office and refuted charges . that the tax burden will be in- . creased next year. Two mon expected to enter the ( race for the senate nomination ] attended the meeting last night (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)