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M PLANS fcNDEDTO ■IOREWORKERS k strike tutliorizaWjUeiitled to Every ■JpnchOl Imili WORKERS K.HhXIIMTEI) B, York. Aug. 18.—' ' u K* ; nf label' war in the , ■b industry assumed ULfll.:.-nin e : '" la > O'.. 1 1V ■LtSiof the I'nited lex■Sers of America exillu.rizat ion K branch ot the indus- ■ v '..„n alb"! Hl.ire than ■T ,',,sordering the exMF 111 ?...,. oinn ’esule strike nil raven. the synthetic , v , ,i,lurries were apK ,'ithout a di-- >.tin« vo,e - io determine Oates of the IK; ,ns plai "I "■' ll tl ‘" onions , conrebtiei. action did not K>«ever. tha' silk, rayon. Kt.' s . workers w uld - The union's I Kjv, maned Lad instrnetTh.trsdav night to call out Kton workers on or about Kiaber . I KwM R»»se’.• is the only K«God'n itreen earth who can Ktbf. strike." ile. hired Thomas president of the I nit- I Workers of America. j quite evident that the tex- , B workers are amused and unKfe president intervenes and K bis powerful influence with , on the subject of Bp. wages. different lai and ma- > Kt loads, nothing is going to Bfth strike. We will tell Gen*-f-KHagti S Johnson that we apKbte iii’ etfo’is hut that he is I B\« anil ,ias ni,t enou £ h Bkitr to help us. The only j ■t tba: will stop the strike is I Roosevelt's action." K addition to readjustment of ] Kg wares and other matters, i uni'iii d-inands thorough . of the collective i provision of the Nat- | ■ffecovei-y Act. Mfcer debate pr>.ceded the vote B&e extension r> solution which KiMbmitted bv Frank SchweitB leper Athlete I Dies Os Typhoid Bpr. Ind . Aug. 18 — (U.R) — Kml Roitet. 17, star basket- ■ player at Jasper high school ■ season, died today of typhoid ■ottet wav captain of the team, i ■ brilliant play was largely re- | ■Bible for Jasper's two VictorBin the state final tournament ■ March. The team was defeat■by Logansport in the semi- ■&!> K ~ o Break Out During Sessions Eaton Rouge, Jui., Aug. 18. — B-Tights broke out in the gaily and on the floor of the Louis»house early today, a few Mmes after Huey P. Long's ptive steamroller voted to iMe the press from its session. I Newspaper photographer in • Wlery was slugged by severtuards a reporter rushed to ratotographer's defense and ’’ ’B s a brief engagement. F* floor two members but finally were separatF>y sergeants at arms. | ' o— School Coach Injured In Wreck hiiianapoiis, Aug. 18— (U.R) ‘--j Hunk" Frances, 30, Jef*»tivllle high school basketball ' ■ *as In Methodist hospital khJ 0^ 5 Bll^er ing injuries re-. U an aut °niobile wreck on Wrillp road J.*” injured about the head. con <Mtion is said not to ' ’’nous. I °” ler Persons were iniuro>Crasl! ’ * nc^u^in 8 Samuel DailV i*‘e. who was rid- '« Frances; H. C. Yager, 43 2™- Yager. Xenia. O Hit h'\ ’ >roUß *’t the Jeffersonschool basketball team Ha Jeg ’ tate tournament finals

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Win U. S. Health Crowns <’’' 3 [ Mortimer Foxman. 16. and Clista Millspaugh, 17. winners of the nation's health prize at the World's Fair. Foxman is from Chicago, I while Miss Millspaugh is from Mount Pleasant. lowa.

Report Condition Os Tabler Is Unchanged The condition of Ferd Tabler of Monroe, who is critically ill at the j Adams County Memorial Hospital suffering from an-infected hand, is relportel to be aibout the same t> . day. i IMr. Taibier injured his right hand ' while w- Tking at his filling station j in Monroe several weeks ago and infection developed. He was , br> ugtit to the kcal hospital FriI day for treatment. o FERA Payroll For Week Is $636.65 The 78 men and two women on FERA. relief work will receive JG35.65 thia TU*» utAUMM's uL | teams will get $15.20. The four | Imt n on non relief will receive ! $36.00. HIGH COST OF LIVING LOOMS Bureau of Labor Statistics Show Prices Increase 11 Per Cent Washington, Aug. 18. —(U.RJ— High cost of living came back today to j plague both citizen and government in the midst of the great recovery | drive. Statistics showed that the drought and its companions, high cost of living and profiteering, was apt to engage as much attention if i not mire than recovery in the com-, I ing months. A report of the bureau of labor' i statistics revealing that food prices) had jumped 11 pep cent over last year and 15.5 per cent above 1932. turned back the clock to 1917 again. The rise was reported in the face I of a companion survey by the bu-! reau of home economics showing that the actual deficiency in food, supplies was minor and confined • to a few products. Meats, butter, cheese and cereal products have gone up most. Yet the home economics survey showed that meat supplies, except for pork, would be above normal for some time. Butter and cheese are about 90 per cent normal. Grain supplies are all normal or above j normal. In the face of this situation. I President Roosevelt has ordered every agency of the government with powers to act against profiteering to exert every effort to prevent profiteering of the public. In the present emergency relief 1 reliance is being placed upon the [AAA with its extensive licensing powers, the NRA code provisions. I the emergency relief agencies with ; broad powers of distributing foods, j and the older machinery of the, I commodity exchange control and anti-trust laws. In war time the control of food ■ prices was vested in a single act 1 the Lever Food and Fuel Act of 1917. This provided federal licensing of industries, similar to the.: NRA licensing power which expir- j ed in June. It was this act which made Food ■ i Administrator Herbert Hoover a household name throughout the country after his initial experience.] '(CONTINUED* ON PAGE FIVE) |

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STATE BUDGETS TO BE HIGHER Proposed Budgets Would Be Increased Over Three Millions Indianapolis, Aug. 18 —■ (U.R) —; Thirty-one state departments and I institutions propose to spend $3,720.113 more during the next two years than they did during the present bienium, according to budget requests on file with the state budget committee. These departments and institutions are asking appropriations of I $9,985,815, as compared wifTF ffle ' $6,265,702 which the 192.3 Legisla-1 i lure appropriated them. The requests included $3,104,537 i for new buildings and improve- ■ ments at eleven institutions. Nearly every department and ' institution asaed substantial inI creases in budgets for 1935-1930, and 1936-1937, as compared with j present appropriations, a check of I the requests revealed. The fact that some newly creat-| ;ed departments did not receive i appropriations by the -1933 session lof the Legislature will bring the | total requests even farther ahead 'of the last appropriations when requests for these departments I come in. Proposed budgets for | the state’s educational institutions I rand the state prison were not made public by the budget depart- ! ment. It was reported at the ! Statehouse that the prison budget request is in already, hut it Is being held up on the theory that I the warden there might be changI ed and the new incumbent would I want to change the request from that submitted by Warden Louis i j Kunkel. State departments asking higher i appropriations than their 1933 ». • -w •4»•• •• • <•••• • (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 TWO BELGIANS ST ART FLIGHT Young: Scientists Ascend Ip Stratosphere Balloon Fight Hmrdlavenne, Belgium, Aug. 18 ' — (UP)— Max Cosyns and Neree Vanderelest. young Belgian sclent-1 is'Ls. ascended in a'blue sky today in a stratosphere balloon flight to study cosmic rays. They seek information that will help science tq utilize for future i generations the tremendous energy with which the aXmosphere and stratosphere are chsWbged. 1 Cosyns. 29. assistant to Prof. Max Pircard, strati sphere pioneer, and Vanderelst 23, Brussels university engineering student, took off at 6:19 A. M. (1:19 A. M. EST). They estimated they wlould drift soiß'.heastward and land in Bavaria ateut 6 P. M. (1 Pfl M. EDT). The balloon is the one in which Piecard and Cosyns ascended in their historic stra-ttosphere flight of 1931. Cosyns and Vanderelst carried 15 parachutes of various sizes, for , * (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX),

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 18, 1934.

CITY COUNCIL MEETSTUESDAY Several Important Matters Are Scheduled For Action Tuesday The city council will meet Tuesday night Ln regular session and will in all probability act on several Important matters, scheduled for , action. 'Estimates &t the civil city's bUHI- t gdt will be prepared and the notice: campilad for .puiblicatlion. Action on the city ordinance regulating the sale and consumption of aboohtJ-lbc beverages In the city . and within a four mile radius is ' scheduled to be acted on favorably j I by the couneilFollowing a ciinference this week ■ ■the council has practically deter mined not to do anything with the ’ petitiion of city employes for an increase in salary. The councilmen pointed out that with the civil city employes it was i impossUble to increase salaries at j this time because funds were not j available and the maltter of adjusting wages of municipal plant em- ! pl.iyes, which are not paid from taxes, will prbbaibly be left up to ■ the new administration after next ■ January, douncilmen stated. Requests for additional funds for civil city ermployes will in all pro- ! bability be made in the budget for next year. One of the counci'm en stated that this would be done The ordinance regulating the sale and c. insumption of alcohkvllc J beverages will fix the hours when ' such beverages can be sold. It is i believed the ordinance will stop the sale at 12 midnight until seven in the morning and np sales on Sunday morning. An effort is being made le reduce the civil city's levy for next year. The rate fixed by the civil' city this year is 45 cents on tho SIUU and memlbers of the council would like tk> make at least a five cent cut for next year. o NEW HOME LOAN PLAN DEVELOPS Plans For Loans To Recondition Homes Develops Rapidly Plans for receiving applications for loans to recondition homes are being developed rapidly at the district office of the Home Owners' Loan Corporaton in Fort Wayne. The office serves the district of I which Adams county is a part. I Heads of the newly-formed de-1 i partment met Thursday afternoon i with Steve Fleming, head of the I district office, at Fort Wayne. j Arrangements for handling the' ' loan applications were completed j j at the meeting, with the district > manager's approval. The reconditioning department i of the HOLC will not consider ap plications for loans, which must be made by letter to the Fort Wayne office in the federal building. Applicants have been asked i not to apply personally for the i loans. As far as possible, local merchants will supply the materials necessary to recondition homes In . ! the various cities and communi- . ties of the district. Mr. Fleming announced. Local contractors al , so will be hired to do the work. I Loans will be available for every ' type of home improvement ami I construction. This stimulus to the building' industry, district officials said, j will prove of benefit to various industries and laboring classes throughout the district. School For Firemen At Purdue Oct 2-4 dAfayette, Ind.. Aug. 18 —Practical phases of fire fighting will be emphalsized at the First Indiana Fire School to be held at Purdue University, October 2-4. St was an-n-unced today by Prof. W. A. Knapp, director of the school, who is assistant director of the Engineering Extension Ipnartmemt of Purdue. Fire chiefs, firemen, and City and state officials will attend the' three-day school, which will have experienced instructors from Indiana and neighboring states In charge of the various phases of the program.

ADOLF HITLER STIRS NATION IN BLUNT TALK German Chancellor Warns Against Outside Interference GERMAN VOTERS BALLOT SUNDAY | Hamburg, Germany, Aug. 18. — | ' (U.R) —Adolf Hitler bldntly warned the world last night that under his dictatorship Germany would 1 never "yield her honor or her | j claim to equality among nations." In an address appealing to the I German people for approval )i ' ids seizure of all-high power over their destinies as unchallenged i head of the third reich. Hitler 1 shouted the nation is ready “to I defend our security and indepeud-; ence against anybody.” He offered his “head and life" I lor the welfare of the Oernwnic; race. The vote on his appeal will' ! take place Sunday. Despite his belligerent warning' to keep "hands off." Hitler added I the government desired by every 1 means to help preserve world I I peace. i "The German army need not re-, i habilitate the military world and the German government does not! j need foreign political success | through war to cement our regime ■ at home,” Hitler declared to a; wildly enthusiastic throng gathered to hear him at this port city. The nation listened in on a I I nation wide hook-up, climaxing a week's drive for the Sunday pleb-1 iscite. A national holiday was declared to commemorate last, night's celebration. Turning to foieign affairs, lie I continued: "We have malicious enemies in the world. We can do wTiaWVer* we want, but certain international, are misconstruing our; i intentions.” He said these mysterious plotters hope to drive a wedge among the German people, splitting them apart and weakening them. He I declared the Germans, however. | ' ought to perceive the danger of i disunity, and appealed for a united , front behind his leadership. Hitler, appealing for approval |of his seizure of presidential as ! well as other powers, admitted ; that “our field marshal-president j (Von Hindenburg) cannot be re- ! placed." “Nobody shall !>car the title of president after him,” he said. i “Logical as is the merging of the offices of president and the chan-, . collorship. I decline to derive from i the earlier enabling act the right > to adopt this greatest constitutionial reform measure. No —the people, themselves must decide." Hitler in a preliminary speech Friday afternoon warned foreign powers to “leave us alone. ’ Addressing employes in the Blohm (land Voss shipyards, shortly after] arriving by airplane from his re-i *(CONT.*NUED*ON PAGE SIX) o SCORE HURT IN CHICAGO RIOTS — Strike Sympathizers Hurl Bricks And Stones At Motor Buses I Chicago. Aug. 18 — <U.R) — ApI proximately a sc ore of persons ' were injured early today in a rioi tous attack by sympathizers of ■ striking bus drivers on buses of. J the Chicago Motor Couch Co. Thirty squads of police battled through a errwd of S.(M>O persons to scatter and arrest leaders of a small group which hurled bricks, stones and decayed vegetables through the windows of four or five buses. Police said one of four men held was a motorman of tlie elevated lines, whose employes belong to the same American Federation of Labor Union as the striking bus drivers. Handbills had been distributed at carbarns since the bus strike began Wednesday morning, urging operators of street car and elevated lines to join in a walkout that would tie up the city's transportation facilities. The elevated * (CONTINUED*ON PAGE SIX)

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Rev. Charles M. Prugh Relates His Experiences On His Trip To Europe

"I believe conditions are better economically today in Germany than when I was there two years ago," said Rev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of the Decatur Zion Reformed Church, who has Just returned from a ten weeks trip to Europe where he received his Doctor of Theology degree from Heidelberg University at Heiberg. Germany. This is the highest scholastic honor in German universities, ranking higher than the Ph. D. degree. This was Rev. Prugh's second trip to Germany. He had just reI turned with Mrs. Prugh from Germany where both were students at Heidelberg when he was appointied pastor of the Decatur Zion Reformed church. “I will be interested," Rev. Prugh said. “ to learn the results of the plebiscite which will be held in Germany next Sunday." This spe- , rial election is being held to determine whether Hitler shall continue liis virtual dictatorship for life. . and in doing so take the late Presii dent Paul Von Hindenburg's place i ’ ill the German government. “I realize," Rev. Prugh continu- ( : ed. "That such a vote held under 1 the supervision of a strong government is seldom indicative of the j true intentions of the people. "There is a great deal of grumbling among the middle classes about Hitler's growing arrogance. , However, they realize the importance he lias had in the regeneration of a spirit of conquest rather ; than theold defeatist attitude. "When I arrived in Germany the

Rev. Prugh Will Speak At Dayton IRev. Charles M. Prugh, pastor of ! the Decatur Zion Reformed* church , will address the Nomad Clulb at Dayton, Ohio. Tuesday. The club is composed of members, all ot whom have made one trip a/br ad. Rev. Prugh wil shew the moving l pictures he took in Genmamy and i Switzerland during his recent trip .to Eurvpe. He will also make a I short talk on conditions abroad. 26-CENT LOWER RATE PROPOSED Washington Township Proposed Tax Levy Shows Large Decrease T. R. Noll. Washington township trustee, filed his proposed budget ! for next year today. Hq. is asking for a 26-cent decrease in 1935. The proposed rate is 62 cents. One of the largest cuts will be made in poor relief which was esti- 1 mated this year at $22,000. The proposed 1935 total will be only ] $15,502. The township began 1934 with a deficit of over SB,OOO in this fund and expects to end the year with a balance of about $1,500. The prop ped 1935 budget is $24. 272 and is based on a property valuation cf $6,200,847. This compares to previous levies as follows: 1932, $17,062; 1933, $25,938, and 1934, $36,869. The proposed tax rates and levies are: Township, rate two cents, levy, $1,240; tuition, rate. 18 cents, levy, $4,000; special school, rate 15 cents, levy, $3,100; library, rate, i two cents, levy. $430; poor, rate. 25 cents, levy, $15,502, and total, i rai'e 62 cents. j The township rate of two cents and the poor fund levy ot 25 cents on the SIOO apply to the rate effec-' tive in Decatur. Union Township Trustee Arthur Blakey is asking for a five cent decrease in th" tax rate for next year in Union township. The present rate is *1 j cents and the proposed rate is 36 cents. Mr. Blakey is asking a budget of $3,384. The levies and amounts to be ’(OONT.INUHi7*ON PAGE SIX) Labatt Employe Is Found Slain London. Ontario, Auc. 18 —(U.R) A trusted employe of the Labatt Brewery, headed by Jfbn S. Labatt, mlllitonaire Canadian, was slain mysteriously during the night, it was reported here today. The man was Gordon McKinzie, of Byron Avenue. London. He was found on the street by a Lon-dlon taxi-cab driver during the night. His skull had been crushed in some unexplained manner.

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J ft L j friendship of Hitler and Mussolini was a very popular subject of conversation.” Rev. Prugh has a copy of a picture, widely circulated In 1 Germany at that time which dis- , plays pictures of Hitler and Muss- ; olini standing side by side over the I inscription ‘Hitler and Mussolini, the Guardians of the Peace of Europe'.” "This attitude has been changed," Rev. Prugh said, "by the events in Austria and Mussolini's threats to invade Austria under the pretense I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) ]

LANDIS SPEAKS TOBEPUBLICANS Indiana G. O. P. Candidates Will Battle The New Deal Lake Wawasee, Ind. Aug. 18. — | (IJ.R>— Indiana's republican candidates for congress were definitely aligned with Senator Arthur R. ! Robinson today in a common campaign fight against President Roosevelt and the new deal. Any doubt that the G. O. P. congressional nominees would spare the President in their campaign i ' attacks was dispelled by Frederick 1 Landis. Ixigansport. second district choice, at a banquet of the Republican Editorial Association I last night. It had been thought that Senator Robinson, bitter foe of all j things sponsored bv the adminis-I tration. alone would criticize the: President while the congressional candidates contented themselves with impersonal issues. But Landis devoted almost his entire speech to caustic remarks about Mr. Roosevelt. Before was introduced, much sport was made of the re- j ' cent revelation that a company, controlled by the father and fath-1 er-in-law of Gov. Paul V. McNutt | had sold $6,000 worth of insect!-' i cido to the state. "The flit gun has been substi-l tuted for the wooden pistol," said ' Pon B. Irwin, republican state | * (CONTINUED*ON PAGE SIX)’ — o Moose Lodge To Hold Fish Fry — The Moose lodge will hold a fish . fry at the home on North Second ‘ street, Tuesday evening, following [ the regular lodge meeting. The lodge meeting will be held at eight o'clock and the committee in charge will prepare the fish during the business session of the lodge. Members are invited to attend. o Report Prowler Ts Frightening Girls Night police are investigating ‘ complaint*? that a man has been [ frightening young girls in the west I part of the city. Several cases have been reported in the last several months. Early Friday night three local' young women were walking past the cnner of Monroe and Ninth streets -where the old “haunted hituse" formerly stood, when a man laying in the grass suddenly reachout and graihihed one of the birta by the ankle. He released the girl when she screamed and disappeari e<i beftore the police could locate j him.

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KIDNAP THREAT DELIVERED TO BREWERY HEAD Harry C. Hatch Is Threatened With Abduction This Mornins DEATH THREAT GIVEN LABATT Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 18. i — (U.R) — A second Canadian ; kidnaping was threatened toi (lay after the solution of the | John S. Labatt case when Harry C. Hatch, one of Canada’s richest brewers, received a note, threatening him | with abduction. Police were immediately in- : formed of the note despite a ■ (hreat of bodily harm, contained in the message. The text of the letter, which was delivered through the mail to Hatch's office in Toronto, was not made public. Hatch is head of the Hiram Walker and Gooderham and Wortz, Ltd., distilleries, which are among Canada's largest whiskey manufacturers. He is several times over a millionaire. The new kidnap threat was credited directly to the fact that the gang which abducted John S. Lajbatt, London. Ontario, brewer, was I still at large. No amount of money was mentioned in the letter to Hatch, it i was reported. Hatch could not be located im- ! mediately, but it was assumed po- ; lice had furnished him with a guard to prevent a second kidnaping at'- | ter the release of Labatt, Canada's first kidnap victim. The recipient of the kidnap note ' i is well known in American distilli ing circles-. He was in Buffalo in ' 1930 when he posted a $7,500 bond I in connection with a liquor case. Hatch's office in Walkerville, On- ' tario, refused to disclose his whereabout and police refused to discuss i the case, even declining to say they have been informed a note was re- . ceived. London. Ontario. Aug. 18. —(U.R) — The kidnapers of John S. Labatt, Canadian brewer threatened to return and kill him if he aided police I in the search for his abductors, a police official declared today. “You do or say anything to cause the arrest ot any of our men and we will come back and kill you,” *7gontinued ON PAGE SIX) o Signed Contracts Near Completion The Adams county corn-hog control committees are finishing the signing of the approved contracts today. From incomplete returns this morning it was indiI cated that not more than three in 1 eacli township would refuse to I sign. The signed contracts will be sorted and shipped to Washington : during the latter part of next week. It will require several weeks for the authorities at I Washington to examine them and return the checks. o BODY PROVES TO BE ONLY A DOG — Body Os Dog Found In Box Buried On South First Street Consideraible excitement was caused this morning when a man digging for fieh widrms back of the Harley Gunder home on south First ,i street, unearthed a box resembling I a casket. An oitor as if something , were dead emitted fnorn it. Fearing that it might be a corpse perhaps us a murdered person, j neighbors called Sheriff Burl Johnson. Wlien the box was opened ft was found that only a deg had been I buried. The box was waterproof and the dog was laid away as carefully as if it had been human. Sheriff Johnson said he believed it to be the pet of e family who cared very ; much for it. The mound of dirt over the box • was still fresh, although no.ne of > the neigiibi rs could remember seeing it buried.