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WINIIEWORK i IRESIJIIDSNG »leu SERVICE i si And I. i g h ♦I, aniv> (a " tinue 10 g ! |Kepair Damages ■mi \k ations ■ill.l DISRUPTED ■B Decatur Shut-Off *as shut off from the ■ yesterday, as tar as com by telephone or Kph was concerned. All ■ a ,stance and telegraph ■ were down and messages SB not be sent out or re- I ■ here. The press wires of Democrat were also u'mted Press dispatches se.: by bus from Fort st ' H i "lllillllt fl limL'lV , *■lh<‘ coininiinic.i- , ■ml electric light lines , —citv. <l;iin:ig(‘«l mid < in Monday nights "“■ I MvLit. Mi|HTinteiid■'l the citv li'jht and plant, staled every bein'.' made to re''"“’^K|£ h' -■ •■.:■•• throiighotlt ill* -t Ilian Thursday. "o^K| : , ,-s, of circuits on ' aveiiiu. West Monroe S II Tenth street and or tun other points in the will lie restored by ' ' pi nianaee.' of thT- l.<: lu ’i" company, stat- ' K all i ity telephones would tHs^B.rr, ( . .ri.'lit or Thursday. • ■ and North slrce are stilt out I 1 Long distance [ on ’ll- Pon Wayne lino pi w available before Friday Mr Ehinger stated.; 3M p<>! < on the Poe road I. !i. distance service w’H probably be restored* noon and to Geneva by ■by ' ’ in«. the telephone anno meed. ii ■>l w-rkliiL' conditions not at vestrrday. crews of ,■ •. itv light employes, like Trojans until after ■ communication 3 city. Mylutt -tated that a survey ilainaz,- to the rural elecv. |-| ho made today u on rebuilding the soon as was p—sible to do. It will - before temporary can be made and resumed. ’am- i -ndition exists in ■rßitnty op th. telephone lines of men were working in and at Kerne and on the |B<iistan<i lines, exerting every ■to restore communication . as rapidly as possible. | ’ ; i urtailed their efforts extent and it will lie sev|M<iays n.ifi.re rural lines are ’ ■ was a mirror of sparkI to lay. The ice laden . *!.n>!.tHTy and communicareflected like tens of • "f diamonds and their glit l altn.Hst blinding. Lovers of , "t lit- hand of nature en.enery. . Bw' "tiling to this city to-j that many of the elec-1 BB light and telephone poles • ■’town. Farmers who fortneron city light and t 0 h,, 11’ IliPnt in their chores MBif*! t 0 the old lantern and power. With the telephones ‘hat with a neighbor or ov paw «ro - ■nitihlen Suit | Goes To Trial Ind.. Mar. 28—<U.R) J .’ B. ,Jt °inobile accident was the • a $25,000 damage suit Herbert V. Tormohlen, w »ator from Jay county, on 11 Wells circuit court today ! Bl 'ii w as filed by’ Pearl ■ i^B" 11 ' Muncie, under the con she was permanently inwhile riding with the stnaH was brought here on a ] of venue from Jay county. ■*■ accident occurred tn Indi- (■° lis Oct. 13. 1932. Tormohcar struck a light post and aml the plaintiff, riding with IK *®ff«red a crushed hip, IK n i* 1 " 66 ““P and crushed knee Mrtp the gU j t charges.

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Pour Candidates File Declarations t Four additional candidates filed their declarations today. They are: Von Kh horn. democrat, joint re|e rivsen-tative of Weils and A.latns counties. Etnannel Joray. republican, trustee of French towtmhip. John W. Schafer, demixrat.-true tee of Hoot township. Samuel Bentz, democra’, sheriff of Adams county. PRIVATE LINES WILL FLY MAIL Postal Officials Spec d Plans To Open Bids On Contracts Washington. March 28. (U.P — Transportation of air mail will be returned to private companies within two months, with all airlines eligible to bid for temporary contracts if they purge themselvee of former officials charged with fraud and collusion. Postmaster General James A. Farley- announced today. Advertisenn nts for bids will be sent out by the postoffice department this week, calling for submission of bids within 15 days Successful bidders will be required to start operations within 30 days after contracts are awarded, Farley said. Fifteen routes will be flown at the start, covering slightly more than half of the mileage formerly covered by commercial air routes. Companies whose contracts were cancelled on charges of fraud and collusion must change their corporate set-up. Farley said. In addition they must have dismised all otfivera who were connected with the ao-calied “spoils conference” iteld by Postmaster General Walter F. Brown in 1930. Farley said he had been advised iby lawyers that existing airlines could revamp their companies in a “reasonable time" and be eligible to bid on the temporary However, it was emphasized that changing, their corporate setup would not qualify them if any of the new company officials attended , the 1930 conference. “The temporary contracts will be made for a period of three months." Farley's announcement said. The postoffiee department will have the right to extend such contracts for one or two ihree(CONTINI'En ON PAGE SIX» Closing Lenten Sermon Is Given The Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz gave the closing sermon of the I series of Lenten sermons at St. Mary's Catholic church last evening. Father Seimetz's text was "He Was Wounded For Our Iniquities." ' He delivered an inspiring talk and i depicted the suffering of Jesus I Christ in His last moments on i earth and on the Cross. Benediction of the Bfessed Sacra- ! metit was given by Father Seimetz i following the sermon. STORM DAMAGE UNDER REPAIR Communication In Northern Indiana Is Returning To Normal Indianapolis. Mar. 28.--(U.R) —Cotni munication In northern Indiana cities was resumed on a nearly normal basis today after having been disrputed for many hours by one of the season's worst sleet and i snow storms. Telephone company officials esti--1 mated that damage to their lines would be approximately 125,000. ! The sleet tore down wires and telej phone poles. The greatest damage was repor'|ed in and near Muncie where teleI phone communication with the outside world was cut off completely. Warmer weather for tonight with rain and possible snow was pre- ! dieted by the U. S. weather bureau - here. A cold wave centering in | Canada is expected to strike northern sections of the state tomorrow but will be of short duration Highway department officials reported that all roads ICPNMNVJift QN fAfIE EI.VE2

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WIRT CHARGES TERMED “BUNK" IN COMMITTEE Gary Educator’s Charges Os "Brain Trust Plot” Are Ridiculed RAYMOND MOLEY GIVES COMMENT Washington, Mar. 28 —<U.R> Hr, ’ , William A. Wirt's "brain strust I plot" charges today were termed ' "bunk" and "Wall street propa- : I ganda" by members of the house , rules committee considering a for 1 ntal inquiry. Sharp attacks on the Gary, Ind., | school superintendent marked the committee's hearing on a resolu- : . tion of Rep. Allred L. Bulwinkle. . I> . N. for an Investigation of the charges by a special house group. Bulwinkle pleaded for the inves- i tigation so that Wirt's statement , could not be used for political pur- • poses in the coming elections. I "I do not think anything of this talk of revolution," said Bulwinkle. I "but if there is any such man in t the government as Wirt charges. | the congress should know it anti I take action to get rid of him." "The whole tiling is a lot of i bunk," interjected Rep. Adolph J Sabath, n.. 111. Bulwinkle related how Janies H. i Rand. Jr., of the committee on the nation had read at a stock mar-1 ket hearing Wirt's charges that' ! "brain trusters" were boring from i within the administration in an es-i ' fort to estabish communism in this i 1 country.. i New York. Mar. 28. —fU.R> —Coml jment of Prof. Raymond Moley. once 1 an outstanding member of the ad- i ministration brain trust, was added 1 ' today to the growing controversy ' over charges by Dr. William A. ' I ......................... (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) l (j. f DAIRY MEETING AT INDIANAPOLIS Reaction To Dairy Production Control Will Be Discussed i In Iktnapolis. 'lnd., March 28 — (U'P)- Reaction of dairy farmers and leaders of allied Industries from five middle western states to the federal agricultural adjustment 1 ! administration’s proposed dairy production control program-will be ‘ sought in a two-day meeting here- ' | starting April 2. States to be represented are Ind- ! iana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio. Similar regional meeting . will be ’conducted simultaneously ! at Kansas City and Philadelphia. Attitude of dairy farmers toward the proposed program and their cri- i 1 ticism and suggestions regarding modification or additional proptxsals I will be solicited. J. H. Skinner, dir- ’ ector of the Purdue University agri- ! cultural extension department, said today in explaining the ohjeot of the meeting. The program ,as proposed by the AAA, would involve benefit pay- | ments totaling at least $150.000,00() i | to dairy farmers who reduce their milk sale® by between 10 and 20 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Musical Family To Give Program The Hull family, musical entertainera. will give a program of music at the United Brethren church ! ! Tuesday night, April 3. The family ! ! is known as America's Musical | I Marvels, and will be presented here under the auspice® of the Aid Society of the ehutx h. 1 Miles Roop Recalled As State Engineer Miles Roop of this city has been i recalled as an engineer for the j state highway commission He left I I today for Indianapolis where he I 1 will report to the commission and i later be assigned his territory. 1 When work was curtailed last 1 winter by the state highway comi mission, Mr. Roop returned here and was one of the engineers in | charge on the survey at the Subisistence Homestead site. Mr. Roop J was with the highway commission several months last year.

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Auto Strike Arbiter t p Ki - Richard Byrd. Pontiac. Mich., union labor leader, is labor's i cohlce as its representative on the arbitration board set by I President Roosevelt under the j terms of the automobile strike settlement. The board, responsible only to the President, will haye absolute authority in all disputes between workers and . employes in the automobile ini dustry. BLAMES ESCAPE ONTO POLITICS Republican State Chairman Continues Attack On Democrats | Indianapolis, March 28. (U.RS — i Charges that the escape of 10 con , vlcts from the state prison last September resulted from political sabotage of the state administration 1 were reiterated by Don G. Ir win. Republican state chairman, in an address here last night before young Republican league. Predicting an overwhelming Rei publican victory in the November ■election. Irwin said the prison break was easily accomplished because 69 guards on duty at the time had been chosen through politics without regard to competence. Irwin criticized Gov. Paul V. McNutt for his parole of John Dillinger. the nation's most notorious outlaw, and charged that the governor's frequent absences from the state are in Hie interest of his am(COSTINffRIt GN CAGE SIX) Jail Turnkey Is Accidentally Shot South Bend, Ind., Mar. 28—(U.P) Henry (Taeys. 46, turnkey at the St. Joseph county jail, was killed i instantly today when a revolver he was cleaning exploded. I He was shot through the heart. Coroner B. J. Boika' pronounced the death accidental. LATIN WINNERS ARE ANNOUNCED Decatur And Jefferson Students Are District Latin Winners Clara Gable, a student in the ■ Jefferson township high school and , Jack Grether. a Decatur high school student, were district winners in divisions one and four respectively, in the Isatin contest held at Fort i Wayne, according to word received ! here. The district winners will take I part in the state contest to be held at Bloomington on April 13. Miss Gable of Jefferson township and Frances Krauskopf of New Haven were first and second winners ; in division one;' Alma Lanzer of Woodburn and Helen Bitzer of Avilla took first and second places in division two; Mary Larmer of Huntington won in division three and Jack Grether, Decatur, in division four. Dorcas Petty is the Isatin teacher in the Jefferson township high school and Miss Clara Reppert is the Decatur high school Latin instructor.

NEAR $1 OOM SPENT ON CWft Money S n e n t In This County Will Near That Total By Saturday ! When the (’WA work Is coni- ' pleted in th<- county Saturday. Ii is estimated that SIOO,OOO will have been spent. The total now j Is about $95,000. This money has affected 665 families during the period of the t'WA. Approximate figures retched at the federal reemployment agency here estimated tha’ 3.011 persons have been helped ! by federal money. As nearly all the workers were takefl from township relief rolls this has been a great help in reducing local taxes. Duly 200 f.imi--1 lies are on township relief during the winter. Altogether about onefourth of the 19.000 persons in the county were helped by the townships and the government this I ; winter. The new federal emergency relief administration which will -uperi-nle the CWA will receive $1,300,000 according to word received by the governor's unemployment relief commission. I The money, it was said, will cover the cost of the new works division in the state which will carry on a program similar to CWA in cities and industrial ureas, the beginning of the rural i relief plan and direct poor relief. The new division will be a part of the Feder’l Emergency Relief Administration. 1 It Was estimated at the offices I of the governor's commission that i 25,000 persons can be employed on works projects in April on the allotment made to Indiana. Increase in employment by private I concerns and farm operations are ' expected by the commission to > take up a part of the difference , lietween that number and the iPOXTTNI'Rfi GN PAGE TWCII PETTY GRAFT IN NATIONAL GUARD I I , Federal Grand Jurv Investigation Exnected To Follow Graft ’lndianapolis. Ind.. March 28 — (UP) —Federal grand jury investigation'today was expected to follow disclosure® of petty graft and Yund irrigularities in several Indiana Na- ■ tional guard units. ’ XTiI Nolan. U. S. attorney for Uta Southern Indiana district, said that ' department of justice men had preI sented him with evidence against two guard officers. - Nolan indicated that a thorough investigation would follow. • Three national guard captains ' have resigned as a result of the ir--1 regularities, adjutant general Elmer F. Staub revealed yesterday. The irregularities .were the out growth of defalcations of Col. Rob- ' ert T. Young, former disbursing officer for the Indiana guard units, who is serving a prison term, it was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o — Retailers Are To Meet At South Bend Programs for the state convention of the 'lndiana retail grocers I and meat dealer's association, to be held in South Bend. April 22 to 24. have been received tn this vity. The convention and food exhibit will be held at the Oliver hotel. Ar- ' rangemeuts are being made to entertain about WOO grocers and meat dealers. [•' 1 j 'fl 3 MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL EASTER

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MARTIN INSULL IS RETURNED TO UNITED STATES Indicted Chicago Utility Official Brought Back For Trial SAMUEL INSULL STILL ON SHIP Detroit, Mar. 28—(U.R)— Martin Insull was taken aboard the 12.40 p. m. Michigan Central train to be returned to Chicago where he faces trial on charges of embezzlement connected with the collapse of the Insull properties. Detroit, M.ir. 28. (U.R Martin Insull. indicted Chicago utilities of ! ticial. was today declared an alien at an immigration hearing conduct 1 !ed here. He was ini mediately ■pa roled to Chicago officers however, for return there to face entoezzle- , I inent charges iu connection with ' the collapse of the Insull properties. The hearing was a technicality, explained by immigration officers here, as necessary formally to arrange for the entry of an alient. The board conducting the hear ing considered of: R. H. Brondyke, chairman; William J. Kaing and David Rittenburg. Insull will he placed aboard the 12:40 p. m. Michigan Central train for Chicago. He is in custody of Lieut. Frank J. Johnson of the Chicago police department. Laurence , Ryan, secretary to the state's at- i torney of Cook county, w. H. Rafferty, Insull's son-in-law, was accompanying the party. Insull was held inadmissable to the United States. This formal ' declaration, it was explained, was made for protection of the United States in case he is sentenced to prison. If he were not declared an alien and subject to deportation al this time, he might in a few years, lie literally- a man without a country. I It would be possible that no nation would accept him as a citizen, thereby complicating any efforts at deportation. As a formal procedure, the immi- ■ gration office here will recommend to the secretary of labor that deportation proceedings be held up ‘ rending disposition of the legal proceedings against him in Chicago. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Thompson Returns Excess Mileage Paid Indianapols, In<„ March 28 — (UP - Receipt of a check for S4O from Frank G. Thompson business manager of the Bluffton News-Ban-ner, to cover excess mileage expenses paid him as a state representative last year, was announced today by William Cosgrove, head of the state board of aoeounts. ■ Accompanying the check was a letter in which Thompson explained he had been overpaid when he read the house journal recently. HEARING DATE SET APRIL 10 Adams County Towns Are Affected Bv Electric Rate Hearing Indianapolis. Mar. 28 — (U.R) — An electric rate hearing against the Indiana Service Corporation, involving consumers in 13 conn- ! ties, was set for April 19 by the public service commission today. The hearing was ordered by the commission to obtain definite results from a petition filed by customers of the utility at Mt. Etna, asking lower rates. The utility filed a cross petition volunteering an entirely new schedule of rates throughout the 13 counties it serves. Commission engineers said the new rate schedule ■would incur increases in some instances and asked that the hearing be held to determine whether consumers were willing to accept the voluntary revision. The Indiana Service Corporation serves approximately 60 towns in Allen. DeKalb. Wells, Huntington, Jay. Whitley. Adams. Grant, Wabash, Carroll, Tippecanoe, Cass and Noble counties.

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All County Roads Open For Traffic Ralph Roop, county surveyor, an- ( j nouiwtul that all the county roads i i had been cleared of fallen trees ■ 'and poles this morning. It required] ! nearly the whole force to at-com-, pllsh the,work. Some of the roads are in poor . I condition because of the wet weather during the last several days.. These will be graded as soon as the weather clears. CREAMERY MAN TALKS TO CLUB Heber Humbarger Addresses Lions Club Members Tuesday Night Heber Huniharger. production : manager of the Cloverleaf Creameries, of this city, spoke to the mem Iters of the Lions club at the weekly • meeting lield at the Rice hotel last i evening. • Mr. Humbarger sketched the dei velopment of the dairy industry and ' then dwelt on the manufacture of milk and cream products, particularly cheese. He dealt with the scientific growth and expansion of the Lcheese and dairy business and mentioneJ the part that the Kraft-Phen-ix Corp., played in bhe National development of the business. The local company is a subsidiary of the Chicago company. Judge C. L. Walters gave a short I talk on the significance of Easter. Plans for entertaining the wives and sweathearts of the club memi ters were announced at the nieetj ing. The program will be in charge ] of the women. Walter Harris was in charge of the program last evening. o COLLEGE YOUTH UNDER ARREST Notre Dame Student Held For Abduction Os High School Girl Chicago. Mar. 28.— (U.R) — Miss Ruth Strunk, pretty 17-year-old Buchanan, Mich., girl who sought romance and adventure in a trip to Chicago with a Notre Dame freshman, awaited the arrival of iter lather today as the anti climax of the affair. The young college youth. Vincent ,Ds Nardo, was arrested at South Bend and returned to St. Joseph I whet® he was placed in jail on a 'charge of abduction. He allegedly drove Miss Strunk to Chicago as i the climax of a party last Saturday . night. leaving the girl at the home of ■ a friend here De Nardo returned to his studies at South Bend where authorities found him after startI ing an investigation of Miss Strunk's disappearance. i Frank Strunk, prominent oil supI ervisor, learned of his daughter's > whereabout through a telegram site sent from here to South Bend and tlirouglt Police Chief Edward Mitcli- ■ ell of Buclianan. asked that she lie I held pending his arrival. Dallas Spuller Is Renamed Chairman Dallas Spuller has been re-elected chairman of the various farmers ink ■ stitutes of Adams county. C. W. R. | Schwartz has been re-elected sec- : retary. Those present were Dalia® SpulI ler. Union Township. Fred Blum, Berne; Ervin Pontius, Hartford: Wilson Gulick, St. Marys; Homer ■Arnold, Kirkland; Fred Crosby, •] Root; and C. W. R. Schwartz, Mon- ‘ roe. Redistrict County For State Delegates C. J. Lutz and Walt Johnson, Adams county election commissioners I will meet with county clerk Milton C. Werling tonight to redistrict the ’ county for delegates to the state convention. ’ Purdue Expert To , Speak In County P. T Brown, extension animal husbandryman from, Purdue univer- ( sity. will speak at a meeting of the i gold medal colt club of Adams county early in June. Problems of - j the older colts will be discussed II and plans will be formed for the new club.

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CLOSE VOTE IS PREDICTED ON VETERAN BILL Presidential Veto Overridden In House Tuesday By Huge Vote SERIOUS REBUFF TO THE PRESIDENT Washington, Mar. 28 <U.R> In an atmosphere of excitement. the Senale today debated President Roosevelt's veto of veterans pay restoration legislation. The veto was overridden veslerdav in the House 310 to 72 and similar action bv lh< Senate would enact it into law despite the President's objeci tions. Washington, Mar. 28— (U.R) — President Roosevelt's veto of the veterans pay restoration bill, overridden in the house yesterday, came before the senate today with administration leaders striving desperately to marshal enough votes to sustain the chief exeett- ] tive. The outcome of the senate vote was doubtful. Administration leaders and veterans advocates lx>th claimed victory, but both admitted the vote, would be close. In Hie background were the powerful veterans' lobby which had made a rapid come back from the smashing defeat Mr. Roosevelt administered last year when he , forced Itis economy program through congress, and this fall’s elections with many senators and , running for reelection who would find support j by veterans helpful. The stampede which overwhelm;ed the administration in the house-—a surging, turbulent tidtj which left Democratic leaders helpless and dismayed-—was the most serious rebuff Mr. Roosevelt has received from congress. Exciting events followed swiftly. Senate leaders complacently awaiting the expected word that the President's veto had been sustained. were stunned into momentary inaction. Advocates of ini creased veterans' benefits ware . jubilant. They clamored for an immediate vote in the senate. Senate Majority f.eader Joseph T Rob’iison. Sen. James F. B'vrner.. f). S. Alee President John N. Garner — the administration’s big three in the upper house—conferred quickly. Minority Leader Charles L. McNary was consulted. (PONT'INtTKn GN PAGE FTVTD Oliver Hc’ler Buys Berne Grocery Store Berne, March 28 — (Special) — Oliver Heller of Berne, formerly of De- atur. today purchased Spades' Grocery in Berne, The grocery was bought from J M. Spade of Portland. who owned the local store and who also owns tihree similar stores at Portland. The local grocery was managed for several years by Jess L. Amstutz, who will remain In the store for several day’s. Mr. Heller assumed possession of the store ! today. 11l health and the loss of his wife by death caused Mr. Spade to dis pose of the local store. BERNE WOMAN DIES TODAY Miss Sarah Augsbvrger Dies This Morning As - ter Long Illness I Berne. Indiana, March 28—(Spei cial) —Miss Sarah Augsburger. aged 66. died at her home op East Main ‘ street at 1 o'clock this morning. Death was caused by paralysis. She had been ailing for two years. Miss 1 Uigsburger was never married and i had resided in Berne for manyyears, with her brother Levi and ! sister Mary. Tlte deceased was born in French township and was a daughter of I John and Mae Moser Augsburger. • Surviving are one brother, Levi, ' anti a sister. Mary. Several brothi; ers and sisters preceded her. t The funeral will he .held Friday I | afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Berne > I Missionary church, with burial in the M. R. E. cemetery.