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CIRCUIT COURT CALENDAR SET * Judge De Voss And Attorneys Set Trial Dates For April Term Judge Huber M. DeVoss has set I the calen lur for the April term of court which opened Monday. Thi.s term will last ,",4 days. . hwing June <♦ | *\n effort ha.s 4>ean male by prosecuting attorney Edmund A. Hosse to dear the court of a number of state casee whidi have been on file for some time. Some of the vases probably will Ite dianiissed. The calendar is: i April 12 First Stock land Bank | vs. Shelby and Lulu Vance, note foreclosure and appointment of receiver. April 1.1 Penn Mutual Insurance company vs. Preston B. Arnold. Lena M. Arnold and I’. B. Arnold Inc,, foreclosure of mortgage and appointment of receiver. State vs. De atur ice Machine company, information for forfeiture of corporate franchise. Peoples Equity vs Washington Calhoun Realty, mortgage fore Insure and appointment of receiver. April 17. Trustee vs. Geneva Hatcheries, hearing of claims. April 23—State vs, Charles Hickman. rape. April 21'. Slat" \s Christopher Spangler, child neglect. State vs. Meyer Buntman, assault anl battery. State vs August Schlickman. Disposing mortgaged good®. State vs Robert LeFever, Larceny. State vs. William la-Fever, accessory in larceny. State vs. Wallace Schoonover, public Intoxication. April 27—State vs. A- B. Ixmhart fraudulent r-heck. ! State vs. Adrian B. Lenhart, fraudulent cheek. State vs. Elmer E Weaver, fraudulent cheek. State vs. Kenneth Knisley, lending license numbers. April 28—State vs. E .ward Wright, fiaudtilent check. State vs Edward Wright State vs. Bert Mast, failure to support. State vs. L. Broughman. fraudulent cheek. St”e vs. Ernie Smith, petit larI < enyState vs. Jam«s Vannette. assault and battery with intent. Stale vs. B. P. Burnham, fraudulent check. April : Rachel Ellen Rayn vs Schuyler Clinger estate, claim. May I—Victor1 —Victor MvKJssifik and Esther McKissick vs. Earl C. Harsh man, quiet title, jury trial. May 2—'Merle Kimble et al vs. James Cummins, foreclosure mech * (COVI'INTEI* ON PACIE FIVE) -12 12 Cases Os Measles Reported In County There were 12 cases of measles reported in Adams County for the week ending Saturday April 7. according to the morbidity report pub- , ' lished by the Indiana Division of Public Health F. D. R.'S BOOK IS ON MARKET President Roosevelt Gives Personal Views On Banking Crisis New York. April 12.—<U.R>—P r ® 81 ' j dent Roosevelt's personal views on I the banking crisis of a year ago and I subsequent important developments in Washington were revealed today in his book. "On Our Way. j published by the John -Day ComI pany. Major state papers and documents of the past 12 months form the basis of the book Interspersed among them are the President s I comment and opinion. The book brought to light the , I fact that Mr. Roosevelt had debated his authority to declare a bank Ing holiday two months before the | proclamation was issued He found, the book related, an emergency i law enacted during war time 1917 which vested him with the proper power. Senator Thomas Walsh, who until his death had been considered ON BAGS FIVE).

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LABOR TROUBLE IS THREATENING AUTO INDUSTRY Employers And Workmen Fail To Afjree On Wages And Hours VOTE TONIGHT ON ( ALLING STRIKE Detroit, Apr. 12 <U.R) The ever increasing rumble of labor controversies over the teeming motor plants thnatened today to cause a crippling strike. Employ•rs and workmen fought over a deadlocked issue in the vital tool and die industry. Employers flatly refused demands for 30 per cent pay In(reuses and a 38-hour, five-day week. Speaking through their association of automobile tool and die manufacturers, they charged the mechanics educational society, an American Federation of Igibor affiliate, with jeopardizing the President's recovery program. Although only 5,000 workmen from t>2 tool and die plants will ballot at 8 p. m. on a strike vote, a decision on the threatened midnight walkout would affect 20.000 tool and die workers. The strike order would call thousands from their machines in the larger plants not directly concerned in the controversy. The cessation of tool and die production would make itself felt in practically every automobile company here all of which are now operating at 90 per cent of capacity in a boom year. The Mechanics Educational society charged that the association was refusing to discuss the controversies because of the larger issue of company union membership. Association spokesmen pointed out that if a strike is ordered, it will result eventually in the automobile companies filling their needs from plants outside the city. Some tool ,nu’ die jfroduction is handled at present in Dayton. Cleveland. Chicago and Buffalo for CCONTINITED ON’ PAGE t’TVE) ADAMS NOT TO BE CANDIDATE James D. \dams Refuses (’anHidncv For State Chairmanship Indianapolis. Ind., April 12—(UP) —James D. Adams, chairman of the state highway ’ommissiom and Columbia City publisher, today told the United Press that he would not accept the chairmanship of the Democratic State Central commitI tee. Adanis said he had been asked by several prominent party leaders to become a candidate for the position when the committee is reorganized here May 19. "I have declined repeatedly," he ; said. "My duties here take up all my time and I do not care to leave : this work.” Adams was one of several suggested as a possible candidate after it was learned that the present hairman of the committee. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch. Indianapolis. will not lie a candidate for reelection. _ o Sure Dillinger Is Now In Mississippi Nashville. Tenn.. April 12—(UP) i U. S. Deputy Marshal C. C. Woods said today he was convinced that John Dillinger passed through Nashville Monday night in a Ford Sedan which federal authorities now believe is somewhere in Mississippi — o— Maurer Funeral Rites Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Marla Maurer. 78, of Berne mother of Mrs. I Lehman, who died suddenly at 9.15 o'clock Wednesday mosnfng. will be 'held Saturday afternoon at 1:30' o'clock at the Maurer home on East Water street, Berne, and at 2 o’- 1 clock at the Berne Reformed church with Rev. J. L. Conrad officiating Burial will be made in the M. R E. cemetery.

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HOLD YOUTH FOR SANITY HEARING Bov Who Caused Death Os Infant Girl Tells Story To Jury Chicago April 12 ITT*) George Rogalski. 12. sohooJboy who lured Dorette Zietlow. 2% to a liverj' stables loft where .she suffered fatal exposure, was held in Cook county jail today for a sanity hearing and possible murder charges. Young Rogalski seemed unworried as to hie fate while hi.s father Michael Rogalski, showed even lees concern. After a coroner's jury rec- ’ ommen led that the boy be held to the grand jury on murder charges, the father said he could not afford a lawyer. T make only (IS a week in a bakery shop. Let them hang him. if that's what he deserves. I haven't I any money to hire a lawyer." Rogi alski said. The boy Repeated for the grand jury his story of beguiling little Dorette from her grandmothers home to the stables He was a trifle worried at the officials' warning that anything might be used against hint ■but only hesitated a minute until some comprehension of what was . (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIVKI CALF CLUB WILL MEET APRIL 18 4-H Calf Club Will Meet At Monroe Wednesday, April 18 The 4-H calf club reorganization meeting will Ibe held Wednesday evening. April 18. at the Monroe High School Bull ling. Calf club members should weigh tip their calves on April 15 and begin keeping feed records. Merwin Miller, cow tester, will work with the program committee In preparing an interesting program. The officers of the new organization will be elected The speaker for the evening will be Ed Gannon, head of the dairy exi tension department, Purdue Univer sity. Mr. Gannon will bring a timely message to the boys and girls 4m , calf club work and every member should make an effort to be present. The enrollment of calf club members in the hands of the calf club committee. The members of this 'committee are D. J. Mazelin; Oeia I 'Von Gunten: Henry Asohleman: Sol Mosser; Peter B Lehman; and 'Dale Moses.

Airlines Organized To Cancel Contracts I Washington. April 12 — (IfP) — | Sen Warren R. Austin, R.. Vt . told the United Press today that testimony before the Senate’s special air mail committee "proves beypjjd ‘ any question" that independent airlines organis'd a Society” last year to seek cancellation of domestic mail contracts. SAMUEL INSULL STARTS VOYAGE Aired Utility Magnate Boards Shin For United States Istanbul. April 12 — (UP) Samuel Insull boarded a ship at 6:30 , p. m- today for Smyrna en route to the United States. It was planned to take the aged former utilities magnate to Panderma on the little passenger steamer Adnan and thence to Smyrna by rail. At Smyrna I'nstill will board the steamer Exilona for the 5.000 mile trip to New York. At the last moment, however, authorities put the American fugitive on the steamer Adana which replaced the Adnan. I llnsull was removed from prison ;at 6:08 P. M protesting bitterly at “invasion of my rights.” Journey from prison to ship was without incident. o I Indiana Breweries Will Remove Signs Indianapolis, Ind , (April 12 —(UP) - All beer signs owned by brewer- i ies will be removed from retail es-' tablishments in the state by May 1 to conform with provisions of the State law. De -islon to remove the signs wae reached at a meeting of members of the Indiana Brewers Association, all importers and the executive committee of the Indiana licensed wholesalers' association. Paul >P. Fry. state excise director, recently ordered removal of the signs to stop what he called .a "growing racket." Breweries* will be permitted to equip retailers with inside signs casting $1 or less. .—o Adams County Banks Pay $1,314.86 Tax The four banks in Adams county i paid $1,314.86 in taxes on deposits for last month, according to figures released by county treasurer John Weehter The banks now pay their tax on deposits every month.

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CITATION FOR ARTHUR CUTTEN CAUSES FURORE Chicago Board of Trade Head Decries Committee Action CUTTEN CHARGED WITH \ IDEATIONS — Washington, April 12 — (UP) — Robert P Boylan, t ice president of tile Chicago Board of tra le. today ' charged that the citation filed i against Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain speculator, was to create favorable sentiment for the Jones : commodity exchange regulation bill. Boylan's charge was ma le at a he. tic session of the house agriculture committee holding hearings on I the hill. "I am mot defending Mr. Cutten or life actions, but the publicity which has been given this case while we are here opposing commodity market regulations legisla- ' tion is unfair. "Spread on the front page of the newspapers of the entire country this morning is a story to the effect that flagrant violations of t’he grain futures act was charged against Arthur W. Cutten, a member of the Chicago.board of trade; and persons and firms through whom Cutten traded were charged with conspiring with him to fail to re- ' port his open commitments when required to do so and with juggling accounts to make false reports "This story emanated from the grain futures administration late yesterday afternoon and was given dire tly to the press without notice of any kind to the Chicago board > of trade or its business conduct committee that any such action was imminent or contemplated.'' 1 The millionaire Chicago operator was under citation by secretary of 1 agriculture Henry A. Wallace to appear at a Chicago hearing May 14 and answer charges of violating the grain futures act. The right of tlie sparse, unobtrui give 60 year-old trader to leal on the American grain exchanges is at stake in the hearing. Os more greater significance to grain circles, how- ; t ver. was the tact that the government had challenged him directly on the issue for which he had so ' : long campaigned. On previous occasions Cutten, whose operations "always he cloaked in obsi urity such as had made him a half-legen tary figure, lias transferred ids dealings to the Winnipeg market to avoid what he has characterized as unwarranted government interference witli hi.s affairs and the grain business in geuI (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | X r—-0 LaPorte Woman Dies Os Wreck Injuries St. Petersburg. Fla, April 12— (UP)- Mrs. Ralph Dorland, La Porte Ind., died in a hospital here 1 today from injuries suffered Monday when the automobile driven by her husband wrecked as he collapsed at the wheel. WABASHSLAYER IS RECOVERING Held Under Police Guard In Hospital Pending Jury Probe Wabash. Ind,., Apr. 12, —(U.R> —Recovering from wounds suffered in I a shotgun duel when he attempted . forcibly to claim Miss Mabel Capes, ! 38, as his common law wife, Zach Sweazy, 41, was held under police guard in a local hospital today; pending a grand jury investigation! 'of the shooting of the woman's father. Charles E. Capes, 65. A special session of the grand jury April 16 to investigate the j slaying was ordered by Judge Frank O. Switzer in circuit court late yesterday after he had ordered , Sweazy held under $15,000 bond on a preliminary charge of assault and battery. The assault charge was based on an attack Sweazy allegedly made on Miss Capes' mother when he invaded the family’s farm home eight miles north of here early yesterday. Mrs. Capes said Sweazy blacken-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE/

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ANNOUNCE CAST | OF CLASS PLAY i Senior (’lass of Catholic High School Will Present Play Sunday The cast for the Decatur Catho- : lie senior class play has been an- | nounced. The play will be given at the D. C. H.S. auditorium. Sunday evening. April 15 at 8 o'clock. > It is a three act comedy entitled 1 "Home-Again Harry” and is directed by sister M. Vera C.S.A. The cast is: Caroline Stitch, the servant Dorothy l,engerich > Abigail Lennon, Harry’s aunt Alma C.aliel ; Dr. George Addison, Abigail's friend Herbert Foos i Jack Addison, his son . Robert Wolpert Lisette Addison, his daughter Mary M. Keller i Mrs. Margaret Rowland. Dr. Addison’s sister Helen Barthel . Mrs. Jane Norton, her echo Alvera Vian . Mary Rowland, Mrs. Rowland’s daughter Marceline Gage . Nelson Robey, in love with Mary Joseph Schultz Grace Rowland. Mary’s younger sister Dorothy Miller Stuart Worthington, the fugitive bridegroom Edward Lose i Benjamin Barlow. Stuart's valet Albert Hain , Sir Robert Cosgrove, of Templeton Chase. Eng. Herman Knapke ! The Honorable Enid Cosgrove. his daughter Patricia Fullenkamp Miss Beatty, Enid's secretary Mary Wolpert Claude Thompson. Sir Robert's guide Robert Cook Miss De Wright, self-styled authoress Rosemary Rumschlag Harry Lennon, author of "The Excruciating Sinner” ’ William Lose Mark Worthington, Stuart’s father John Carroll 1 Max Drivewell. Worthington's chauffeur John Kohtie ROBBER GIVEN 17-YEARTERM Gangster Suspect Sentenced To Long Term For Dairy Robbery Indianapolis, Apr. 12 — (U.R) — Shouting defiance at city detectives and court attaches, Willard Kelly, 31. gangster suspect, was convicted in Marion county criminal court late yesterday on charges of robbing the William H. Roberts & Sons Dairy nearly a I year ago. Special Judge L. Ert Slack pronounced sentence of 17 years and six months in the state prison ! after denying the defendant's personal plea for a new trial. Kelly, arrested in Louisville. Ky„ where five men suspected of i slaying an Indianapolis policeman were caught, brought his trial to a dramatic climax when he assumed the role oi defense attorney and made his own closing arguments before the jury. He charged that 12 witnesses ' who identified him as one of the I robbers were influenced by "police psychology,” and claimed he was a victim of a police "frame i up." The jury returned the guilty ' verdict after two hours deliberal tion. Upon hearing the verdict. Kelly i jumped to his feet and made a 1 formal motion for a new trial. Denied this motion, the prisoner waved his clenched fists and .shouted: "Make it a hundred years if you want to. The whole thing was a frameup." "Um going to blow the lid off : persecution of innocent persons by law enforcement officials. "I'm going to rip things wide open if 1 can get Matt Leach, (captain of state police) over to (CnNTTNT’Rr nv pxgf rtx) 0 Committee Favors Depositors’ Bill Washington. Apr. 12.—(U.R) —The McLeod bill to pay off depositors in closed banks was reported favi orabl.v to the house today by the Banking and Currency committee! I with amendments extending the ! pay off to al! hanks, state and nat- ! lional, but limiting 100 per cent pay- ; meats to $2,500 accounts.

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BILL CARRIES PROVISION FOR LARGE REVENUE Final Vote Is Expected Late This Afternoon Or Friday INHERITANCES TAXEIJ HEAVILY Washington. Apr. 12 'U R) I’lie seiiatu today approached the end of its long anti controversial drafting oi a new lax bill, with the measure carrying almost twice as much estimated revenue as origi.nallv ctillcd lor hv the Roosevelt administration. Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee, resisting other increased taxes, said that increased estate taxes formed the most, desirable way of redistributing the nation's wealth. Imposition of a tax such as this would materially shrink large inheritances as they passed from generation to generation, eventually whittling them into the smaller brackets. Another $55,006,000 in potential new revenue was added when the senate, reversing its previous action, approved the Couzens plan for a blanket 10 per cent increase on all income taxes for 1934. The vote was 43 to 36. The day before the amendment was defeated. 46 to 44. Senators Bennett Chamn ' Clark D„ Mo., and Pat McCarran, D.. Nev., switched their votes overnight and the arrival of Sen. Bronson Cutting. R.. N. M., gave additional strength. Sen. James Couzens. R., Mich., wealthiest man in the senate and a leader in the battle for increas;ed taxation, said he would fight | against almndonment of his hard- . won amenment in the conference between the bouse and senate. * Yield Millions Washington. Apr. 12 —(U.R) -Increased taxation on large inheritance was written into the new tax bill by the senate today as it neared final action on the measure. Adopting the LaFollette estate tax schedules, the senate approved a series of rates ranging from one per cent on net estates not in excess of $20,000 to 60 per cent upon net estates in excess of $10,000,000. It was estimated to yield $85,000,000 in additional revenue. The vote on the LaFollette amendment was 65 to 14. The first $40,000 of any estate was exempted. o Esther Sundermann Is Highly Honored Miss Esther Sunderman. student at Ohio Northern University, Ada. Ohio, and daughter of Rev. M. W. Sunderman of this city, i received three honors in one day, it was learned here by Principal W. Guy Brown today. Election day at the university was held last Tuesday and Miss Sunderman was named president of the Theta Club, president of the Y. W. C. A. and was elected as representative to the Geneva conference on July 20. This is Miss Sutiderman’s third year at the university. She was graduated from the Decatur high | school. CREAMERY WINS APPROVAL SEAL Ice Cream Product Os Cloverleaf Creamery Aw arded Approval The seal of approval of the Good Housekeeping (Institute has been awarded to the Cloverleaf Cream- ; eries, Inc., of this city on their ice cream Officials of the local company state that this is the first time Good Housekeeping Institute has made such an award to ice cream. The institute is located in New York : City. The award is one of merit for the i product made by the local creamlery. To be eligible the product must conform to certain standards of purity and sanitary manufacturing j methods. Cloverleaf Creameries is now perj mltted to carry the seal of approval in all its ice cream advertising.