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fell Y FROM FOR mis NEAR sped Release of Kidnapn ed Gi I Within Very ' J cm Hours tdBI’ATHER OF GIRI. IS JUBILANT ” meso six-year-old i kidnaped a week o Wejnesday, will be rernedK fe and unharmed 1 hin a r in(Sa ed today. Jubiia i i pirits, Bernabe * obles, [ 73-year-old grand- • f I dher o ’he girl, broke his lenceol eight days to tell the nited Ifress: I’ait im’ today or tonight, il fool aethlnj nit to happen." ■ all •>’ ~H' family seem mtMent t • ’ ' ause for worry was IM/Knsom of >15,000 either is read’ to be paid or already had i in ged after negotiations ■levied kmchtded in Mexico. A! Age ■ friend of Junes elddyiM Jibe A '»d other persons. acting as interme- ■ t’A into tlie kid ■ tile tile request of the Rob—B'.» fatal’ don demand of the ■ It wB ’"' i ,lial Aguirre was SI Son® Mexico, where he had rranged final ransom negotiations, le uA been seen here since MBB * IP <li-ap|,eared X ‘ M irfs in >r. Fernando Robles, exHi nee and belief as the law for Umax to the kidnaping tew ■>" Their tenseness was COXIfN ’ ON PAGE SEVEN 11ER TRIAL - ECOMPLETED ase II Completed Late This A ernoon; Goes To Jury Fife < Y Samuel and Edith Mrr i mrge of cont ributing Jlhe d u-m-y of a minor child • ms eon ! late this afterm-m. osecu ig attorney Edmund A. — Mot , hi s argument at iwo pock »1. afternoon. i hi! I was the chief g the prosecution. She 'li.it the Bailers to Kingsland and asked *to Cciii.- tn their house in thi.to lc Ip t hem with the houseteeping o two occasions, one in ■ «Bi r ,me in tbe summer lie arrived in the she ***** * Bader home. There she MB ' Bader.- encouraged lu r icboW' and kept a house of ill epute I Knap;, testified as to the the home when she «>k Me girl away. : upon in their own behalf claimed that the girl hired only for the pur08e St i leaning house. A Bluffton ( uus » man who went with the J lu get the girl to come to ’ stilled that nothing was x concerning (leaning louse. charm ter witnesses were al| e<ifor the Bailers. of the jury was OMpßted late Thursday afternoon. “« Jury is: William Strickler, | '•t Bollenbaclier, Francis Au-tin McMichatels. Walter .lolln H. Helm, Jacob Baker. t'lark, ,August Schlickman. rffliAi foreman, Wilbert Barton 0i > Ewell. jtiean-Up Week Is I I* ompleted Thursday clean-up week was comThursday afternoon. Street Fred Linn state ! was in every way success

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Earned Tribute El &-rjj Tribute was paid to M. F. Worth i man. superintendent of Decatur, Public schools, by Dr. Fred Patterson, president of the Rotary club, for Hie services rendered by Mr. Worthman in planning the Youth Week program. A rising • vote of thanks was given to Mr Worthman, who served as city chairman for tile week. WORTHMAN TO GIVE ADDRESS School Superintendent Will Deliver Moose Memorial Address M. F. Worthman. superintendent of city schools, will deliver the memorial address at the annual services to be conducted by the Loyal order of Moose for their deceased members, Sunday afternoon at the. Moose home The_serv(ees will begin at 2:30 o’clock and will be in charge of act- | ing dictator J. M. Breiner. Charles Heare, the secretary will conduct the roll call. Music will be furnished by Miss Dorothy Troutner. The women of the Moose and members of tile I lodge arranged the hall and at a : meeting last evening completed all i plans for the memorial. Three members of the local lodge i died since the last memorial seri vice They are David W Wagoner, I Amos Fisher and Niles A. White. Members of the Moose, relatives and friends of the deceased mem l>ers are invited to attend the ser- ‘ vice. o Youth Day Program Was Given Thursday I I The Youth Day in Vocation was combined witli the program for ' Youth Day in Schools at an entertainment held in the Catholic audiI I him yesterday. The complete pro,l gram follows: , America the Beautiful —Chorus , Little Chinamen, Ist and 2nd Grade boys Top o' the Mornin' 4th and sth . Grades. Safety First, 7th Grade. Address -C. E. Beil. Address \\. Al. jKlepper. Star Spangled Banner- .! Chorus. CAMPAIGN IS NEARING END > - — One of Every 50 Voters In State Is Seeking Nomination Indianapolis, May 4. — (U.R) A pre-primary campaign in which one out of every 50 voters in the state |is seeking nomination drew rapid-j ly toward conclusion today. ' A few rallies and speeches are 1 scheduled over the week-end but a majority of the candidates are ! ready to await decision of the vol-. I ; ers. . ' > The “new deal" administration ot t ' ' the Democratic party will receive ' its first test in Indiana only insoi far as a comparison of votes is con- ’ ; cerned. ' If the Democratic vote total com ' pares favorably with that of the 1932 general election, the "new dealers" will feel confident of elec-; tlon next November. Republican and Democratic candidates for congress, state legislature, city, county and township otflees will be nominated in the primary. Delegates for the state Demo- * CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN

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WM.H. WOODIN I DIES THURSDAY OF INFECTION Death of ex-Secretary of Treasury Is Mourned By Nation ILL HEALTH CAUSED RESIGNATION JAN. 1 New York, May 4. — (U.R) — Funeral services for former Secretary of the Treasury William i H. Woodin will be held at 4 p. m. Saturday at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, members of his family announced today. The body will be taken to Berwick, Pennsylvania, for burial. Now York May. 4 (I’D William H Woodin in his last hours thought only of President Roosevelt whom he served faithfully as secretary of Hie treasury during the critical days immediately following Mr. Roosevelt's inaugural last year. Death and doctors bent over the cot in Manhattan eye, ear and 1 throat hospital last night. The semiconscious man was mumbling in delirium. Occasional phrases were intelligible. They were: "Yes, Gover. . well, Governor. 1 Woodin always called Mr. Roosevelt, "Governor." when life left him he was talking with his beloved friend, who, though not physically present, was an image in his mind Tlie nation mourned the wistful little man today and his many friends were sure that devotion to his friend and leader and his I country had shortened his life. Immediately following his death, the White House issue I a statement, saying: "No man in time of war showed greater devotion or made ’irtATIXIKK ON PAGE ETVE) GLEE CLUB AT ROTARY MEET High School Girls’ Glee Club Entertains Local Rotarians The girls Glee club of the Deca- ' tur high school entertained the Ro tary club last evening at the regular meeting at which the successful candidates in the Youths’ Day | election were guests. The program of the evening was given over to subjects adaptable to Youth Week. Tribute was paid to M. F. Worthman, general chairman of Youth Week, who planned , and organized all the activities of i the week. Tlie glee club sang two numbers which were part of their annual concert held last evening in the high school auditorium. Miss Helen Haubold, music instructor in the ' city schools, directed the group and Miss Mary Kathryn Tyndall, acI companied on tlie piano. The girls’ trio of the Decatur high school also sang several numI hers. The trio is composed of Mary Kathryn Tyndall, Margaret Campbell and Helen Suttles with Miss Hatubold as the accompanist. The candidates, all members of the victorious Peoples party, who will hold office today, present at the i banquet were: Jay Alton. Monica I Schmitt, Btlly Hunter, Fred Hoff man. Leona Bauer, Vincent Tanvis and Ethel Kleinlienz. o FERA Payroll For Last Week $758.50 The FERA payroll for last week in urban Washington township amounted to $768.50. The time has ■ | >P en sent to the state for approval i and the writing of the checks. This money does not include that 'spent on tlie two PWA jobs in the I county. Ninety-eight men and two women were working. The ciassiI fied list of the workers is: Homesteads project, 66; light lines, 10; . painters at Adams County Memo- ! rial Hospital four, plowing relief gardens, three; cataloguing books ‘ in city libraries, two girls, and con- ■ structing two new tennis courts, three. The plowing of the relief gardens has been completed. According to William Linn, chairman of the Adams county FERA board, most of the lots have been allotted.

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.lust Another Delay BBBMMM.*. -<Br <MBBBBMMMBBBMMMBBMBBBBb 1 " i. IBM 4 ■ Jl JB Martin .1, Insnll (right) conferring with his attorney, John E. Northrup, in court Wednesday in Chicago where he asked for and rp< i eived another continuance his fifth one. lie is under indictment J (Hi two charges of embezzlement. His next appearance in court will Ig- Max 16.

CLASS TO MAKE ITS COMMUNION Seventeen Boys And Girls To Make Holy Communion Sunday (A class of 17 boys atiJ girls will 1 make their solemn Holy Commute , ion at St. Mary's Catholic church, . Sunday morning at the seven ; o’clock mass. The Rev Either Joseph Seimetz pastor will say the mass and deliver ’ the sermon. Previous to receiving Holy Communion the children will 1 renew their baptismal vows Procession of tlie class will take place from the St. Joseph’s school building to the church. Impressive services will mark the observance “ of the day. in the afternoon the children will ibe enrolled in Hie scapular of Mt. Carmel Following are the members of tlie class: Eileen Steigmeyer Dolores Lengerich Mildred Wemlioff Kathryn Voglewede Rose Marie Kohne Eugene laishe Nancy Daniels Mary Faurote Mary C. Rumschlag. . Jean Johnson Eileen Keller Mary Smith Joan O’Brien Donald Heimann Junies Faurote Mary Ellen- Kortenber Eugene Braun 0 TWO ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION — Prominent Morgan County Youths Are Held In Extortion Plote . — Indianapolis, May 4 (U.R) Two young men. sons of prominent Mor I 1 gan county families, were arrested | at their homes today by Indlanapjolis police and federal agents on I charges of attempting to extort $25,000 from an Indanapolis business man. The suspects, Carlos McNeil. 26, son of a Paragon physician, and i James Woods, 23, also of Paragon, j will be brought here later today, j ' police said. Identity of the victim of the at ,' tempted plot was withheld by police. Tlie demand for the money was contained in a letter which in ' structed the intended victim to take a train from Martinsville Tues- { ; day and drop the package when he , J sighted a flag on the south side, of the tracks near Vincennes, police said. Tlie letter had been mailed from l Martinsville Sunday night. Two Indianapolis detectives ac companied the Indianapolis man (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) >

Adams County Pastors Are Named Delegates Huntingburg, Ind.. May 4. (U.R) Ministerial delegales to tlie general conference of the Evangelical church, to be held at Akron. Ohio, have been announced by the Indiana conference in session here. They are I). A. Kaley and R. H. Mueller, Indianapolis; Dr. E W. Praetorious, Cleveland, O.; A. H Doescher, Dayton. O.; E. (). Johnson. Elkhart; M.O. Herman. Berne; Dr. G. B. Kimmel. Naperville, 111 ; and M. W. Sunderman. Decatur. CRAIGVILLEMAN BADLY INJURED Ezra Gerber Is Critically Hurt In Wreck Thursday Night Hartford City. May 4 (UP)- Ezra Gerber, 35. Craigville, salesman, is in critical condition today in the : county hospital here following an automobile accident four miles north of here on state road 3 last night. Gerber attempted to pass a truck i owned by the South Side storage I company, Fort Wayne and driven by Kenneth Crider, lost control of ; his lighter delivery truck and crashed headon into a tree. Gerber received serious head cuts a dislocated hip and internal injur- ! ies. I With Crider at the time was a i brother, Wendell, and Thomas Hart licith of Fort \\j>ne. The accidenßL-curred Thursday night about as Mr. Gerber was enroute to the Producers I creamery in Hartford City in a light i truck n front of the Charles Keli sey farm home, north of the city ; Mr. Gerber attempted to pass a J large truck owned by the storage (company and driven by Kenneth i Crider, accompanied by Wendell 1 Crider and Tom Hart. j Mr. Gerber stated that he failed ’ to see the truck which was enroute i south as was Mr. Gerber in a hur|ried attempt to pass tlie truck on the wrong side of the road, his car skidded and crashed into a tree in front ot the Kelsey residence. The (car was practically demolished. Mr. CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN 0 — Drop Federal Charge Against Earl Putnam Fort Wayne, May 4—(UP) —Federal authorities today dropped their i case against Earl Putnam, 39, Ohio (City, Ohio in which they sought his custody in connection with two post office robberies in Adams County . recently. This action followed Putnam’s sentencing to a 10 to 25 year prison term at Celina. Ohio, yesterday ■on robbery charge. Federal authorities, however, say j they will question his woman com--1 panion, Mildred Davis, in connect- ; ion with a post office robbery at Ontario, LaGrange county, last Sep- | tember 26.

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DILLINGER IS | IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF BANDITS Bank Otticers At Fostoria, Ohio, Name John As Holdup Man CHIEF OF POLICE IS BADLY WOUNDED Chicago, Miy 4 (U.R) An army ( of 10,000 police and federal agents turned towards roads leading from northern Ohio and Indiana today as tlie result of identification of hunted John Dillinger as one of two bandits who robbed at Fostoria, Ohio, bank of $15,000 and kidnaped two bank employes. Diverted from the concentrated ' search which swept through Cliii cago gang haunts after discovery here of a blood soaked automobile I stolen by Dillinger gangsters near i St. Paul, the man hunters bent every! effort toward intercepting I the outlaw leader if he doubles back to Chicago from tlie scene of tlie latest crime attributed to him. Ralph Barbour, assistant cashier of the robbed First National Bank, was positive in identifying the leader of the two bandits as Dill inger. it was him. without any quesi tion.” Barbour said, "only he wore , no mustache." ’ Miss Ruth Harris, bookkeeper, who was used by tlie bandits as a living shield against bullets of a posse and police, also believed one of her captors was the much want- ' ed outlaw. "I can't be positive." she said, "but I noticed tlie peculiar expression of his mouth and I think it was Dillinger." Ohio and Indiana police were mobilized by radio to blockade ’ roads after tlie bandits shot their way past police who attempted to lock them into the bank Chief of ! Police Frank P. Culp, 69. was critically wounded in the battle. More than 100 shots were exchanged. Three other persons, including I Ed Walters, 62, a former pojjeeman. were wounded. Tlie others , were Roy Feasel, farmer, and an I unidentified bystander. Fleeing (lie bank through a store opening off the lobby, the bandits i CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN Circus Is Coming To Decatur May 17 ( | Decatur has been billed for tlie , Banard Bros, circus on Thursday, j May 17. Me. Keyes, manager, is the same man who had the indoor circus here last winter for the pub1 lie schools. Two performances will ' ; be given, a matinee tor school chilJ dren at 3:45 and the regular show at 8 p. ni. A special children's courtesy ticket will be sold for 10 cents at the ’ Holthouse Drug Co. and the B J ' Smith drug store. Regular price 'is 25 cents. These tickets are good i for the afternoon performance only, t Tickets will go on sale Monday, i May 14. r | . -q — — HOPKINSTALKS TO DIRECTORS l 1 Relief Administrator Urges National Planned Public Works , Indianapolis. May 4. — (U.R) - ■ Planned publi ■ works to augment i subsistence homesteads will be . necessary to place farm families back on a selt-supporting basis. I Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief administrator, told diI rectors of relief and extension service of 14 mid-western statc» here 11 today. 'There are approximately 600,000 .' farm families on our relief rolls . (and 1 don't believe these people are /going to obtain independent econjiomy merely by work on the land,'' i Kopkins said. . l He spoke before relief directors ; of Indiana, Ohio. Michigan, Illinois, , j Kentucky, Tennessee, Wisconsin. Minnesota, lowa, Missouri. Kansas, . | Nebraska. North Dakota and South ■ Dakota at a meeting called to as- , I semble the rural rehabilitation pro- ! gram into a concrete form. I Other speakers at the meeting t j included Col. Lawrence Westbrook, . [assistant FERA administrator; Dr. * CONTINUED ON TaGE SEVEN

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Killed Mb 1 ■ W " MB I ■’ r ’ 1 S Kgglg H 7 I I , Representative Sol Handy, inem- . her of the Illinois House of Representatives from the Thirty-fourth ~ District, who was found shot io ( death Thursday in a woodshed behind his home at Marshall, ill. . His shotgun was found beside , I the body. YOUTHS RULE ~ CITY FOR DAY City Officials Turn Duties Over To Youths This Afternoon Tlie "junior" city council adjourni ed this afternoon at two o’clock after discussing many matters of

, great importance in the betterment , J of Decatur. Mayor Jay Alton, clerk-treasurer > Monlta chmitt and other members ; of the Youths Week city officials ; have promised to draw up a conipre- . hensive program for the betterment of tlie city. Vincent Tanvis one of the coun- ■ i cilmen was unable to attend the - meeting this afternoon because of a i bad attack of poison ivy and measles. Other members of the council ’ I who were present were Leona Baui er ami Ethel Kleinhenz. Fire chief Fred Huffman left for (the city hall to attend to his duties ( as soon as the council adjourned. > Chief of police Billy Hunter left as soon as possible to serve a warrant on Dr. Fred Patterson. Mayor ‘. Alton ordered him to bring the doc- ’ tor in for trial at 4 o’clock this ' ( afternoon. The affidavit charged that Dr i i Patterson "unlawfully did narrate 1 impossible imagined events, relat- , I ing uncalled for anecdotes on the j cow. deliberately departed from aci curate knowledge in every contact ( made witli professional members of the local Rotary Club, habitually ,! always mendicating for up-to-date i | humorous stories, devouring too ( many apple pies and overprivileged l himself in purchasing too many I elephants.” Curtis-Gregg Show Will Be Here May 12 l Steve Cass, car manager for the L Curtis-Gregg Fashion plate circus, ' was in Decatur today and announced that his circus would give two t | performances here on Saturday, ’j May 12. The circus tent will be i pitched on the Niblick lot, east of I the Monroe street river bridge. ! Tlie circus carries a large number 1 of wild animals and has additional features which go with the modern i ! shows. It is a three-ring circus , and is playing in a number of Indi- , ana cities. Woman Taken To Hospital Today Sheriff Burl Johnson took Mrs Emma Melcher to the state hospital ’ at Richmond today for treatment. Mrs. Melcher was recently ordered ~ committed to the hospital by Judge HubecM. DeVoss., . o Conservation League Meets Monday Night 1 ( The Adams county fish and game ’ conservation league will meet at the American Legion hall on South Second street Monday, May 7 at ’ 7:30 p. ni. A speaker from the • state department will be present and all members and others interested are urged to attend.

BUSINESS MEN HEED WARNING OF ROOSEVELT President’s Note Is Read To Chamber of Commerce Delegates 23 RESOLUTIONS ARE PASSED TODAY Washington, May 4.—<UR)— j Heeding President Roosevelt’s ; warning against the cry ! “wolf”, the United States ( chamber of commerce today adopted a lengthy list of moderately worded resolutions concerning the relationship of business to government. In none of the 23 resolutions, which were produced by . the resolutions committee ai- . Iter President Roosevelt liad sent , a sharply worded note to the chain- , her, was there any outspoken conI deninations of the new deal or any of its major components President’s Note Washington. May. 4 —(UP) — A few liours before the United States Chamber of Commerce started consideration today of resolutions censuring the New Deal, President Roosevelt told the assembled tbusiness leaders tliat it was time to stop crying "wolf". Mr. Roosevelt's note to Henry I. I Harriman, president of the chain her came at a crucial moment. The ' 2,000 delegates to the body’s 22nd I annual convention had heard a ser- , ies of speeches denouncing the reI covery program and were prepar,l ing to end their meeting with adop- . i tion of strongly worded resolutions f ’ ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX!

Many Masons At Meeting Thursday ' More than 140 Masons from surrounding towns and cities attended the Masonic meeting Held in this city Thursday. The Summit City ' lodge of Fort Wayne confered tlie Master Mason degree on several candidates at 4 and 8 o’clock. A steak dinner was enjoyed at six o'clock Judge D. Burns Douglas of Fort Wayne was the guest •speaker at the meeting. Members from Geneva, Monroeville, Poe, Ossian and Fort Wayne attended tlie affair. o— Churches To Observe Hospital Day Sunday AU Methodist churches in Adams county will observe Hospital Sunday on May 6 when ministers will preach on "The Ministry of Healing.” At this time tlie objectives of the five-year new deal in philanthropy movement of the Methodist Hospital Association of Indiana will be placed before the people Tlie Rev. George H Myers of Muncie is North Indiana Conference chairman ot the new deal program and in this capacity lie acts as associate to Dr. John G. Benson, superintendent ot the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital and executive secretay of tlie state ’ Association, which includes also ' j hospitals at Fort Wayne, Gary and Princeton. FARMER FAILS TO TAKE LIFE Henry Kohne Is Ordered Committed To State Sanitorium Examining physicians have recommended the admittance of Henry Kohne, well known Washington ; township farmer, to Easthaven hos(pital. Mr. Kohne has been suffering | from a mental breakdown tor sometime. He attempted suicide yesterday. He first tried to hang hiniselt and also took poison He was in a ( serious condition last evening and I was brought to the county jail for i treatment. ; i Application was made tor an exi amination and tlie court named Dr. - ’ Ben Duke, and Dr. Palmer Eicher. They examine! the patient this i; morning and recommended treat- ! ment at Easthaven. ■ It was stated that Mr. Kohne was a victim of psychosis, due to worry. Hope was extended for his recovery.