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=>HPfiNYWILL 1 Ikfundsof s ■NOIANA CWA ■ , ur Homesteads. Inc. ■Jseek Funds For ■ \eces>itr> Labor PROJECT i: FEDERAL '"strueIsKfroin W -iHnyton, a|>Koii wi" >•' " ,:,< I k I b ' ■®T„I D-catur HoineK Inc., a !> «»*" tr<>i:i s ate (,\\A ■r rters i:il Ko build Ila- streets and .Mi,,. water hues to the site Sllb-i'lence llomeK|iiN<ui south ol Deenr'av lati-' EIIhThoH, <t o f tbp al Homestea 1 tnd direO - <•>« project, i br.-»C' from Dr, M dm" Subsisted- »“■ ’h“t homing project was no on federal |K • •■•!.•• application fur 1 through the Elbe:>■ ’• I- l-'ttei •'..tnec tor the e.-n'orue- were getting ■■tot-tb- to '" submit to HKg h .. k Indianapolis. >: the CWA Will ku: k ? . ..A director Will •••;■' ' mid endeavot IjK),. r «r.ir .in building the .. on the farm HKu- t t.-pated Icy tha:. , il B Hull, landl|Kf|- » . pi :<i lie univer sllec ts and _ cc . total aboil) two A t< estimate of si!-? placed on the t'- i pine needed for |Hn'er n.u.- - Since the blue n. ■ .ci this estimate |Bk- "e; ■ i from a third to Mln. reduction will io'-n tie- cost to the city material required. offi. - feel sure that |Hpeiitiuti : CWA funds will be :tie state director hai. been sent to E. I. tiaton, a memb. r . .. i alld represent;)■o( I>., at- cut ol interior buildinz of the homestead ■fol) aud m Dr Wilson. Assur-be-t: gi.eti that financial ■ lie given and the estiHk that gu in the first of the Mk will 0- fairly accurate as to ■ amount ■ work hours requirthe sti... is and water lineconst 1 a. : ion of the house;; ■ not com under the 4’WA This work will be let by ■raci the details not as yet ■M been worked out. What B plan th. government wislie; JjW out will in all probability Btrepteci by the local board. It ■YWTTXTt-r, nV T> «OV SIX) Ik six men IM HANGING Austrian Are Granted Presidential Pardon tenna. Feb. 17—(UP)—Jail offi- '• burning hack the hands of a h. savers ;he lives of six men v an i ? a ve a picture of the afrath of Austria’s socialist revion. kscigt courts martial condemnthe tnen who had been found 7 of leading groups of socialin the four dav r.evoluton, to be vet within six hours. hev were due to be hanged withthree hours under the Fasriit pp d'ire tor dealing with traitors, iailors delaved the executions retarding the clock until PrerH Wilhelm Miklas, silent dur*he revolution d.spatched ordfor their pardon. »o more socialists were conto death after the pardons e issued. It wae believed that a ’ also would pardon them, ascist demands for hangings, the Presidential refusal to per°ourt martial sentences to be outed, left the Vienna situation loubt. he Christian socialist President. ****•* •a.t j a a-» *. »•-t e> | CONTINUED on PAGE SIX)

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Vol. XXXiI. No. 42.

SUGGESTIONS TO PRESERVE PARK Blue Print Is Drawn Os Hanna-Nuttman Park In Decatur A blue print of Hanna-Nuttman | park at the northwest 'dge of Decatur .’.las been drawn by L. 11. Hyde and recommendations for preserving the 'natural beauty of the purtc through proper planting of | trees and shrubbery have been nude by Dent Baltzell, landscape gardener. The recommendations have lieen submitted to members of the city council, civic organizations and the Woman’s club. I Following are the recommendations made: “hr the development of this park. i it should be remembered; that the ; object in view is to retain all the natural beauty, to make the park actesslhle to the Public ami by planting only those shrubs and trees that will grow in beauty and require little care, as time goes on. eliminating future expense to the City for care and upkeep. “With these ideals in mind I would offer the following suggestions for the further development of the grounds. 1. Plant Elms along East and West Road, spacing them so they will develop properly. 2. Plant Evergreens, notably White Pine. Spruce and Fir in clumps or as specimen trees on higher ground. 3. Plant Cypress and Hemlock in overflow areas along small creek. 4. Plant Prarie Rose. Japanese Honeysuckle. Sumac or Coral Berry along banks by Archbold Road Bridge to add beauty and prevent further erosion. 5. The shelter .house when built should be placed where a good view MORE MEN ENTER POLITICAL RACE Ernest Worth man For County Assessor: Clyde Troutner For Clerk Ernest J. Worthman. trustee of Preble township, today announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county assessor, subject to the decision of the voters at the primary, Tuesday, May 8. Mr. Worth man has been a life long resident of Preble township. He is serving his fourth year or first term as township trustee. He’ has taken an active part in Democratic politics for a number of years. Mr. Worthman is the second candidate to enter the assessor’s race. John Felty, incumbent is seeking reelection and recently announced his candidacy for the nomination. Clyde Troutner Monroe, today 1 announced he will be a candidate for the democratic nomination for elefk of the Adams circuit court, subject to the May primary. Mr. Troutner teaches in the Washington school.in Washington township and is married, hav-ing ne child Mr. Troutner is the third candidate to enter the Democratic race for county clerk. G. Remy Bierly lof Hartford township and Otto Hoile. Union townshin, announced ‘heir candidacies recently. Ruling Is Issued To John Wechter Indianapolis. Feb. 17 — (U.R) Persons who have taken advantage of a 10-year moratorium on I delinquent taxes but who pay the full amount before the 10-yesr neriod expires, cannot be charged interest for the entire 10-year neriod. Attorney General Philin Lutz. Jr., ruled today in an informal oninion to John Wechter, Adams county treasurer. The 1933 legislature passed a i 'aw providing that persons whose ‘♦axes were delinquent before 1932 could pav the amount in 20 senii- ' annual installments at interest of 4 per cent. Lutz held that in cases where ; persons who had taken advantage J of the law found themselves able to pay the full amount before the 10 vears expired could he charged interest only up to the time pay- ' meat was made.

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Army Planes Tuning Up for Mail Service k« w .«*» > «» W w ■ m Four of the army planes at Municipal Airfield, t’h.cago, being tuned up to start flying airmail for the Mi.lw. -i z<>n> Ffliriiarc 10, when Uncle Sam takes over the routes. M-chanics are going ever ships.

NO ACCIDENT WEEK ON CWA Next Week Is Set As No Accident Week On All State CWA Jobs 'lndianapolis. Feb. 17 —(Special! —Next week. Monday to Saturday, was proclaim-'d as “No Accident We k."on all CWA Jobs n Indiana, in a bulletin sent today to all CWA district safety directors in the state by Neal H. Dow. state safety director. The district directors were instructed to call meetings of CWA foremen in each county and make plans for carrying on a state wide contest, to determine which of the 34 districts has the fewest lost time accidents, in proportion to the total number of hours worked. Daily reports will be made to the state office on all accidents. Prizes will be given the inspectors whose districts make the best showing. Harry L. Hopkins, federal civil • worts a'lmhwstrwtor. t«4e#n»phw«L Mr. Dow his approval of the plan. The telegram said: “We are delighted with your pro--1 posal to make week of February nineteenth to twenty-fourth ’No Accident Week’ in the state of Indi iana for all civil works employees. •In addition to saving human lives and preventing unnecessary human ' suffering you have an opportunity through your safety campaign to spread throughout the state a better appreciation of the great educational value of your safety effort. 1 feel sure fliat you may count on the full co-operation not only of all administrators in your state but also on the full co-operation of every man and woman working on CWA projects. With hie splendid spirit 1 look for a new record in accident prevention in the state of Indiana as the result of your special program. When you have made 'that fine demonstration we then expect you to carry forward not only in accident prevention but in extending a better appreciation of first aid and general health building. Entirely apart from the money that will be saved the obligation rests on all of us to take every pre*(<X)NTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) . —o —— NINEPABOLES CHANTEDTOOAT State Clemency Board Denies Leniency To Other Prisoners Indianapolis, Feb. 17— <U.R) — Three inmates of the state re-1 formatory and six prisoners at the I ' state penal farm were granted | ■ paroles today by the state clemency board. • The board denied the leniency pleas of four farm prisoners and eight inmates of the state prison, continued the case of one other prison inmate, and remitted fines of three farm prisoners and one prison inmate. Two men sentenced to life terms in the state prison on murder charges were among those denied leniency. Protests against their pleas were filed with the board. One of them was Arthur Sil■bert, convicted in connection with a killing during robbery of the Culver Exchange bank. His life sentence' was commuted to 15 i years to life by Gov. Ed Jackson. The other was Otto Walker, sentenced to life from Montgomery county ou a charge of cutting his wife’s throat. Actions on other prison cases *(CONTINVSD ON PAGE THREE)

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 17, 1934.

Man Sentenced Here Petitions Leniency! Fort Wayne, Feb. 17. —Edward I Moses Kerns, aged 27, and Ken-1 neth Wilson Peterson, aged 25.1 sentenced by Judge Clarence R | McNabb in the Allen Circuit Court I ' two years agion burglary charges, j have submitted petitions seeking ‘ leniency, to be heard by the Indiana State Board of Clemency at Indianapolis next Tuesday. Peterson was arrested March 7. I '932, at Antwerp. 0.. together with five other youths, and he was brought to Fort Wayne to face 'rial for the robbery of the Wayne Brunson Grocery on West Main street. He was also alleged to have robbed the Tabler Grocery tore at Monroe, and the Wehrley , 'llling station on U. S. road 24. The other five arrested in Ohio 1 vith Kerns were turned over to uthorities at Decatur, where they were sentenced in the Adams Circuit court on burglary charges, 'ccording to the records of Officer Tack Roth of the detective bureau >f the Fort Wayne Police Depart- ' -nent. Kerns was sentenced to hree to five years in the reformaory. k . — oTAXI DRIVER IS MURDERED Killing- Is Linked With Robbery Os Wisconsin Bank Wednesday Chicago. Feb. 17— (U.R) — The killing of a needy taxicab driver was linked today with a trail of $6,000 loot, seized by three young men in a robbery of the bank of Burlington. Wis. The cabman, Harry Moskowitz. 30. was shot to death while his wife and three children awaited his return home. His boasting of i $250 tip from one of the bankrobbers was blamed for his death. The three youths were arrested shortly after the killing. They confessed the bank holdup and one revealed that he had given Moskowitz the $250 tip, police said. Police sought to check the whereabouts of many taxicab drivers to whom Moskowitz had =hown the money shortly before his death. Moskowitz was said to have “flashed’’ this money at half a dozen cab stands. It was Frank Barton, 20, alleged | leader of the robbery trio, that ’ Moskowitz received the money. Barjon. together with Sanford Alexander, 19. and Frank Brundage, 19, former college football , player, were alleged to have held nn the Burlington bank Wednes- ■ day. They returned to Chicago with I ’heir loot and celebrated with ! ’hamnaane. police said. Their I Ttv wound un at the Ballyhoo ! in West Chicago. Barton left I rcnvTTKT’vm nv page atxj 0 . Scarlet Fever Case Reported Four cases of measles and one case of scarlet fever were reported in Adams county during the week ending. February 10, the state morbity report shows. No casee of diphtheria or influeinza were reported for the week. Cecil Bpss Is Hdd For Petit Larceny Cecil Bess was arrested Friday evening by chief of police Sephus Melchi on a charge of petit larceny. An affidavit filed by Eugene Durkin charges Bese with stealing silverware valued at sls from the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity rooms. Bees was released on SIOO bond and will appear for trial Monday evening.

LIST PROGRAM FOR MUSICAL Musical Specialties Will Be Given At Catholic School Sunday A number of musicians and singers will take part in the program of musical specialties to be given at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium. Sunday evening. beginning at eight o’clock. Proceeds from the event will be used in organizing a high school orchestra and later a band, the j Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz. an- ; nounced. Tickets are 25c each. Bob White is directing the program. The specialties follow: Part I I Americans We, March Orchestra ! Cornet Solo, Gaiety Polka J. Schieferstein Concentration Overture, Orchestra Baritone Solo. Alpine Echoes Vera Porter Vera Waltz . Orchestra Part II ■ Keep in the Middle of the Road Chorus ’ The Penitent. Vocal Solo ' Elmo Smith Bells of St. Mary s Chorus . The Rosary George Laurent. Fred Foos ; Cello, Violin, and piano obligato Goin' Home Chorus Part 111 i Poet and Peasant Orchestra | Light Cavalry and Xylophone Blue Danube, Waltz Orchestra Accordion Specialty Fort Wayne Corps. Legionnaires Orchestra Members of the Orchestra Ist Violin — Catherine Weidler, ! Mrs. P. W. Vitz, Joseph Kitson, Robert Coffee. 2nd Violin — Avonel Ueihold. Marjorie Miller, Mary Kathleen Fryback. Eline Byerly. Ist Clarinet—Wra. Bornes, Wm. Schafer. Dick Brodbeck, Erma Kirchner. 2nd Clarinet —James Wemhoff. Luella Brokaw, Monica Schmitt. Ist Cornet — Harold Teeter. John Schieferstein. Bob Ashhaueiier. 2nd Cornet —Peter W. Vitz. Ei(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TWO MILITARY PILOTS RILLED Army’s First Fatalities In New Work of Carrying Air Mail Salt take City, Utah. Feb. 17.--1 (U.R) —The U. S. army's first fatalities in its new job of carrying the mail were recorded today with the deaths of two military pilots whose i plane crashed during a blinding snowstorm in the hills near Oak--1 ley, Utah. A miner found the bodies of Lt. Gene D. Grenier, Fort Crockett, Galveston. Tex., and Lt. Edwin D. White, March Field, Riverside, Cal., in the wreckage of their plane in the lonely stretch of country near the headwaters of the Weber river. Grenier and White had left here yesterday for Cheyenne Wyo., j where they were to begin assignj ments next week to fly the air mail. Search already had started for ' them when a telephone call from Kamas, Utah, last night told of their fate. A military board of inquiry flew to the scene under orders of Lt. Col. H. H. Arnold and removed the bodies to Kamas. Arnold is commander of the western zone of the I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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SENATOR BLACK BLASTS HOPES OF OPERATORS ■ '■ Senator Makes Stinging Attack On Air Mail Operators RULES COMPANIES CAN’T FILE SUIT Washington, Feb. 17. lU.R) i Hopes of air mail operators for a last minute modification of the drastic governmental cancellation of air mall contracts evaporated entirely today in the lace of a stinging attack by Senator Hugo Black, chairman of the airmail investigating committee, aud a New York court decision ruling that companies deprived of contracts could not sue the government Meanwhile, the army was prepared to take over Hying the mails at midnight Monday, and the capital awaited the long expected appearance of Walter F. Browir, postmaster genera! in the Hoover cabinet, before Senator Black’s committee. Brown has been frequently mentioned as a witness before the committee. which has made sensational disclosures concerning the financing of some of the companies interested in mail contracts. Brown will appear Monday at his own request. Senator Black's attack last night was upon air mall contract dealings under former President Hoover. He charged that “profiteers and stock manipulators" made millions through government subsidies. Black defended Postmaster General James A. Farley's recent order annulling domestic air line contracts. He said the cancellation would "accelerate aviation's order-'froN-nNUED ON PAGE FOUR) POLITICIANS IN MEETINGS Newspapermen And Politicians Hold Series Os Meetings Indianapolis, Feb. 17— (U.R) — Newspapermen and politicians mingled here today in a series oi meetings which will be concluded tonight with the annual mid-win-ter banquet of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. The morning was marked by a meeting of the Democratic State Central committee and concluding sessions of the Hoosier State Press Association, Inc. Members of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association met in the afternoon for a general business session and annual advancement of officers. Republican editors met in their Claypool hotel headquarters last night to discuss final plans for ■ their annual meeting to be held j March 9 and 10. In another Roi publican meeting last night a | committee was named to organize ‘ a young Republican voters league which will be presented to the | state committee March 10 for ap- ! proval. Drastic changes in rules were I under consideration by the Denio- ! cratic state committee. I Chief among the suggested rule i changes, mailed from state com-! mittee headquarters this week, provided for rentevul of county, district or state chairman by a ‘wo-thirds vote of the committee that selected them. The committeemen also had under consideration suggestions to provide for a convention of I precinct committeemen and vice [ committeemen in all cities to elect j city chairmen whose offices were abolished in 1933. and to amend rules so that the county chairman and vice chairman of Lake county should automatically become chairman and vice chairman of the first congressional district. im'iTTVTW nv t» »nr otX) Floyd Hunter Is Out For Trustee Floyd Hunter, well known Decatur citizen, will be a candidate for the democratic nomiiratlon for trustee of Washington township, subject to the May primary. Hunter has been a resident of Decatur practically ihi-s entire life and is an exservice man.

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Two Stunt Fliers Killed Late Friday Ada Akla., Feb. 17—(UPl—Two more victims were added today to the list of fatalities caused by, stunt-flying. Douglas Johnston, 19, Ross, Okla and Floyd C. Collins, 32, McAllen. I Tex., were killed late yesterday i when a plane piloted by Collins crashed in flames near Ross. 18 miles southwest of here, Lowell Hudson. 1«, Ross, suffered i liarnful injuries. Witnesses said the plane had | been stunting at a low altitude. Collins had flown here to attend his grandfather’s funeral. GANG MEMBER IS SENTENCED FOR ROBBERY Hilton Crouch, Dillinger Gangster, Given 20Year Sentence SHOUSE CONFESSES TO LIMA SLAYING Indianapolis. Feb. 17. — (U.R) Hilton U. Crouch, former automobile race driver, was sentenced to 20 years in the state prison today on charges ot" robbing the Massachusetts Avenue State Bank here. Judge Frank P. Baker pronounced sentence after Crouch pleaded guilty. Crouch was said to have admitted driving the automobile used in the Massachusetts Avenue robbery. , Two other men. one of them identi-1 tied as John Dillinger, notorious gang leader, participated in the holdup. After Dillinger had. been freed from jail at Lima, 0.. and joined : forces with a gang of escaped Indiana convicts. Crouch was said to | have been employed as their driver because of his racing experience. Shouse Confesses Indianapolis. Feb. 17.— (U.R) — A confession which Ohio and Indiana ' authorities hope will result in death sentences for three members of the Dillinger convict gang has been ■ obtained from Edward Shouse, a former member of the gang who is being held in the state prison at | Michigan City, the United Press learned today. The confession was obtained by Wayne Coy, secretary of the state clemency commission, and Prosecutor Ernest Bodkin of Allen county, O. Coy confirmed the confession at*’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Local Girl Honored At Franklin College Franklin Ind.. Feb. 17—l Special) —Miss Elizabeth Frisinger, a sophomore at Franklin College, has been awarded special recognition for ranking among the ten best students in her class. Miss Frisinger is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Frisinger. Decatur. TH OFFICIALS PLAN MEETING Officials From 20 States Will Meet At Indianapolis Tndiananolis, Feb. 17 — (U.R) — I Siles and income tax officials from 20 states will gather here, Monday and Tuesday for the first meeting of its kind ever held. Although specifically called for the purpose of suggesting con-! grcssional action by which states , j can tax interstates sales, the con- j ference also will discuss mutual prob'ems of administration an;l . I enforcement of sales and income i ; tax laws. The conference was called by ■ Clarence A. Jackson, director ot •he Indiana gross income tax department. A bill prepared for introduction iin congress to allow taxation of interstate sales will be brought to the conference by A. J. Maxwell,! and Harry McCullen, North Carolina revenue department officials. It was drawn up after a study by the North Carolina law school which claimed such an act would 1 , be constitutional. States to be represented at the ! I conference include California, I i **«•••* (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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NEW YORK FIRE CLAIMS SEVEN PERSONS TODAY Victims Include A Number Os Children; One Entire Family FIREMEN CARRY MANY TO SAFETY New York. Feb. 17 Fire raged through another ol Manhattan’s squalid and crowded tenement houses totlay, taking a known toll of seven dead. One was known to be i missing and firemen searching the debris of what had j been a five story building, housing a dozen or more ‘ families, feared that several additional bodies would be found. The single stairway was ablaze and near collapse before a barki ing dog of one of the tenants I aroused his master who gave alarm. All escape was cut oft' and ; firemen hauled men, women and t children down ladders. The survivors were clad in their night clothing. Temperature was I 10 degrees above zero. Scores of persons were taken into nearby tenements and watched their homes and possessions go ' in flames. The bodies of Samuel Spellman. 44, his wife, Irene, 39, and their three children, Irving, 13, Lillian, 10. and Stanley, 8. were found hi the basement. They had fallen j there when the upper floors collasised. Before the floors collapsed, firemen found the bodies of a woman and her child. Thej- were believed to be those of Mrs. Giovannia Terrannlo, 52. and Anna , | Terranolo, 11. All were so charred identification was difficult. The fire was one of the most savage tenement house fires in years. Three alarms crowded ail the neighboring streets with apparatus, scores of firemen fought doggedly against the flames. Flames made such rapid headway that within a half hour after firemen arrived, the floors crumbled from the fifth to the second i floor. A pet dog’s barking saved one family, living on the second floor. The father and mother, awakened bv the dog. herded their children before them and made tbeif way to the rear fire escane. Firemen , carried them to safety. Liberty Paper Awarded Trophy •indanapolis, Ind., Feb. 17 — (UP) i.ihnrtv tnrt . Herald nub'ish hv Randolph Wadding, today won the Florence Grim trophy awarded annually by the Indiana Weekly Press '.Association to the best edited Indiana newspaper. The Corydon Hi publica n was awarded second place, Bloomfield News third and Paoli Republican Fourth. o —_ House Committee Reports Measure Washington, Feb. 17—(UP)-The house postoffice and post roads committee reported out bhe emergency airmail bill today, eliminating from the measure provisions ; authorizing Postmaster General lames A. Farley to make conwith nrivate cotnnanies. The measure as reported out also I carried a nroviso limiting army , nlane use for mail carriage to one ' vear. Chairman James M. Mead, Dem., N. Y.. said it was honed to have house action on the bill next week after the tax bill is passed. Buckner Ont For Bluffton Mayor Franklin Buckner, sports editor of the Bluffton News-Banner, has announced his candidacy for ths deanocratic nomination tor mayor of Bluffton Buckner ran sewnd in the race five years ago. o BULLETIN Washington, Feb. 17—(UP) —Civil works administrator Harry L. Honkins announced to day that 572.500 CWA workers would be droooed Feb. 23 In accordance with the CWA demobilization program Fifteen thousand will be dropped in Indiana.