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■tier cuts ■KINSWLI •SLOW NORM AL Wer Figure Planned ■ I{v \AA Leaders ■ill REARRANGE ■ |-K(I(.RAM l (> R ii. Aug- <UR> mill <<> n>etx>n th IM " <!• .'I pl-inn-Km'll 111 "Htlons M.;,, r .s i. l "i‘l'l' l .' K. |t :1 lulln'ii bii-hels. ;m- - vra e<l li'ilu.'. AAA suiiqlil I" limit M* v . ,i\ . 0111I<111< <I hurvest ■the.i! iiid corn •" about Kwiikhiihhi (B) bushels. ... . about 2.min. K |B). pll-died lip |K r ‘, 3 ;.n au«e * ' .n i< t produc|K '. Imdb-ls the ■ • » 4" '-• they a tween 740.a ,.,,| > bushels, dmugli' h.c done in one would have taken UR ■,-..,. L r.iileil. chief ■ lh- AAA »h- I' '"''til'll said. a:'..iai". his program f" r 1 approxi- ■ j u ly 1. 1936 X a surplus of ■oct that auuuij is expected Kl. 1935. [»"'• • ’ problem is to ■ arrange the wheat pro■ui .. that it Will take .-are of weather pro■h the rase < "in. the AAA about ■ >' al ' ■t-K A-nrt ":irtl yield i- ailiijHiil.irlo ■joxri.vrEi)’ i >x’ page’ five > ■ethodi-1 ( nurch ■ Picnic Tomorrow ■ J-tnb.r. ' ■ Metho.liet Sun■y. ( n i the Kun., i d it Leh- t an Btt at Berne The Ladies Aid ■gia'y .fthe !■ i-<-h will also held ■ ne-titig in e mi-etioa with the ■>9 Mein'..-.- a-kel to meet ■ the church at 2 o'clock and ■tsp rta will be provided. ■ Q ■aimers' Union To I Meet Next Sunday [file metlaers of the Indiana ■Mier Farm H me makers and Btir tallies met at the country BIM cl Mrs. Luella Ware, near Bhon. las: Sunday. An alWay Bltint was held with a pot luck B°tf sened at the noon hour. ■Tile meeting was largely atten !- ■ A trntative program wan arB* 6 " t 0 he completed at the next Bteulture conference at Purdue ■January. ■Mrs. E. W. Busche of Monroe is B’icechairmaa f the state or■Akatiun. fall WALKOUT IN WINDY CITY hicago Police Fear Strike Os All Transportation Workers (By The United Press) Teoderest spot in the Nation’s h e front today was Chicago, ere p lice anticipated ‘"big rwule' in a threatened tranoporwalkout. t Whether all street car and elevat- " lrain operators will strike in »®Pathy with the bus drivers, who ' e oeen (picketing for several J 4, depended on a decision to be in De, rod today. Then the versos the amalgamate AseuFinn of street and electric rail- ■■ enrployes, the Chicago surface l e ®Pl yes association, and the elevated railway uni.n . e t( > -wide upon a course of acS1 »'?gings, stoninge of buses and r sporadic vinlen e In Chicago police captain Ira McDowell K> say; "’’'•ngs are about ripe to blow look for big trouble." L. , textile strike, f°°NTIX’VHD* on' PAGE PTYE?

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Twins’ Wedding Plans Spoiled ' V-WWlr-' ■■)■■ UMEi ■“BSRskk® f Violet Hilton and her fiance. Maurice Ijamliert, were again denied a license to wed when they applied to Sidney Summerfield (left!, Chicago marriage license clerk, although they were granted new ’ hopes when he said he would confer with his superiors. Daisy (right) ' accompanied the party, of course, and shared her sister's disappaintf , ments and and hopes. !

, Identify Dead Man As A Beet Worker r ; Paulding. <).. Aug. 21. —(U.R)--The body of a man found slain in an 1 ad>an ~n meat house on the far n of ' | Ed Klopfenstein Sunday was identified as that ot George i’alasko, * • 4fi.~*-sngar "Wet field Worker by I beet field officials here yesterday. I Police and county officials con-1 | tinned their search for Paul Karoly,| fellow worker of Palasko, with I whom he shared the tiny hut at one r time. Palasko's body was found with; -a crushed skull near an ax, which ? ■ is believed to have been used in the II slaying, by members of the Klop- ; I , fenstein family. | j o JAMES VANETTE UNDER ARREST r I » Decatur Resident Is Held 1 In Custody For Molesting Young Girls J i James Vanette, aged about 40, is , i being held in the Adams county jail -; until several serious charges are i • ; filed against him. He is accused of t ■ molesting young girls in the went I ■ and u. rth part of this city. Vanet'e wfis arrested at i ‘clock last evening by Sheriff Burl j - Johnsen an 1 officers Miller and Cottrell after a hunt of nearly twoj, hours. It is believe*! that his arreot will dear up a series of attempted at- j tacks n young girls in Decatur, bes ginning eirly last serin. . He was positively ijentified by six girls I this morning as the man who had j stopped then ‘with immoral propos- , j als during the last several months. J The majority sf the girls whom he is alleged to hav? stopped have j been between 10 and 15 years of age. Their names were not revealed by authorities. The search for the prowler was I ’ intensified following the event Fri- ' day evening when a man lying in . ’ ■ the grass at the ■ orner of M nroe . land Ninth streets grabbed a youn l ? j I girl by the ankle. The a.an was i | frightened by her screams and ran ‘ > ""*CONTLNUEJ)*ON PAGE SIX) | i o | 1 S3OO Damage Suit Filed Here Today j .Daniel F. Knoll filed a S3OO dam- , i 5 age suit today against Willis Augs- . ! burger as the result of an accident i . wltieh occurred at the intersect! n of the east and west road near the | I Salom.-nla church and th? Boun- > dary Pike extending s.utheast I frer.' Portland. Knoll tlaims he was driving a r creamery truck towards Berne when the jVugeburger automobile struck his truck. He alleges that < . he was driving at not over 10 miles an hcur and had the right of way. i

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PARTY LEADERS HOLD MEETING Democrat Wheelhorses Hold Reunion AfTndianapolis Today Indianapolis, August 21— (U.R) —- Wheelhorses of the Democratic I party, old timers who have served faithfully for many years, held a i reunion today at the state head- ; I quarters. i Sherman Minton. Democratic can-, didate for United States senator, addressed the gathering at a lunch-' - eon this noon. Guests included, ' Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Omer S. Jackson, state chairman; Mrs. Emory [ Scholl, state vice chairman, and Keith Johns, secretary ot' the state committee. Tlie reunion followed a meeting of the county chairmen and vice ; chairmen here yesterday. The party leaders were summon- 1 - ed to receive final instructions for the campaign. Governor McNutt urged them to depend upon their own efforts instead of the press, which he said is dominated by the Republican , party. I ‘T he eyes of the nation are on ; Indiana,” he warned. "It Is watch- | j ing to see whether this state will ‘ I return to the senate the man who ‘ 1 has done bo much to oppose Presi- : ] dent Roosevelt, Sen. Arthur R. Rob-; i I. „ J inson. CODLWEATHER OVER MIDWEST Temperatures Between 50 And 60 Degrees Are j Reported General Chicago, Aug. 21.—(U.R)—Cover-j ing virtually the same region where! hundreds died of the heat two' i weeks, ago, a cold wave dashsed j ( thermometer readings downward to- i day over half the nation. . Temperatures between 50 and 60 < degree were the rule over the mid-1 west this morning, with readings of 45 to 50 degrees not uncommon, i Cleveland was one ot the cold- I est spots on the weather map, with I the mercury below 45 degrees, it 1 was only 47 in Toledo. 53 in Detroit, and 56 in Indianapolis. < F'arther west, Chicago touched . 50 degrees, Milwaukee 51, Madison 46. St. Paul and Minneapolis 61, Kansas City 61 and St. Louis 63. ( Rain fell at St. Louis and much of t Missouri and lowa was overcast < with clouds. Weather bureau forecasters pre- 1 dieted rising temperatures by night, with showers following over a doz- I en states. s

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 21,1934.

ROOSEVELT TO I ATTEND RAINEY FUNERALRITES I Services For Speaker Henry T. Rainey Will Be Held Wednesday OTHER OFFICIALS PLAN TO ATTEND Washington, August 21—XU.R) — President Roosevelt today changed his plans in connection with speak- ' er of the house Henry T. Rainey's funeral, deciding to return immediately to Washington after the services in Carrollton, 111., tomorrow, instead of going direct to Hyde Par, N. Y. Under the revised schedule the president will leave Washington I Saturday night for the summer I white house at Hyde Park. It was explained that the pres- ' sure of official business here made it necessary for him to change the arrangements. Washington. Aug. 21. — (U.R) — I President Roosevelt will interrupt ' his busy concentration on national ; recovery problems today to go west ■ for the funeral of Speaker of the House Henry T. Rainey. The president's special train will leave at 5 p. m. and take him. to- i geiher with a number of other high ; government officials and friends of' the late speaker, to Carrollton, 111., I Services will be held there in the speaker's old home at 4 p. m„ Wednesday. Immediately af;er the; funeral the president's train will head for Hyde Park, N. Y., without returning to Washington. “'he President plans to spend I about a month at the "summer ; white house" while alterations at | I the real White House continue. 4 _!n paylug iu* persupui tribute to ’ Rainey who died suddenly in St. IjOtiis, Sunday, President Roosevelt is following the precedent set byformer President Hoover who went to Cincinnati for the funeral of Nicholas Longworth who also died | in office in 1931. In order to make the trip to I Carrollton, President Roosevelt ; moved up his departure from WashI *7cont*nued*6n’page SIX) WYOMING VOTE IS CAST TODAY Chief Fights Are For Nominations On Republican Ticket (By United Press) Wyoming today joined the growi ing list of states to pfek its candidates for the important'new deal elections in November. The chief fights are in the Re- ' I publican primaries and no issues .of direct national significance appeared to be involved. However. I the comparative votes polled in the j Democratic and Republican primaries were expected to afford some test of whether opinion has shifted. Sen. Joseph O’Mahoney is unopposed for the Democratic senatorial nomination. Four Republican candidates are in the field with Rep. Vincent Carter and District (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

Mother Os Murdered Baby Boy Pleads For Chicago Officers To Find Killer

Chicago, Aug. 21. — (U.R) — in a small frame house in one of Chicago's poorest south side sections a little woman sat and wept and wrote an open letter to the police of Chicago: “My baby boy loved life . . . A few feet from the table were she wrote lay a small body, a gaping head wound showing where the bullet of a mad or drunken reveler had ploughed into the tiny brain. "Robert tumbled out of his wagon .. . blood on his chubby face . . . must bury him Thursday.” A blotter dabbed at a salt drop. "You, the policemen of Chicago, can do something. If you find the man who fired the shot maybe you could bring him to try baby’s funeral. It won’t be much of a funeral. "It will show you too, that even babies aren’t safe on the streets in a coaster wagon until you have

'ELEVEN PLAN TO I ATTENDSCHOOL Decatur High School Graduates Planning To Attend College Eleven graduates of the Decatur high er hool will atten I college this fall, W. Guy Brown, principal announced t day. Four girts will enter ! • nurses training. This Is < ne of the largest groups I enterin ■ college frem a graduating I clans of the Decatur high sell. 01. | Those who will enter college this i fall are: Wiku.ii Andrews, Ball' State Teachers College at Muncie: : - Marion Baker, Indiana University ! extension center at Fort Way’ne; I Charles Ehinger, Purdue Univerjsity; Albert Frcbnapifel, The Lincoln Chiropractic School at Indianapolis: Bargara Krick, Inadiana Uni- . i verslty extension center; Lucille | Myers. Kalamazoo State College, j ’ Kalamazoo, Michigan; Leia Palmer I ' Lima Business College, Lima, Ohio; ' Vera Porter. Ball State Teachers [ .College; Helena Rayl, Sevens I College. Coliribia. Missouri; Helen ! Suttles, Ohio State University at ' Columbus, Ohio, and Marcella Williams. Indiana Central College at Indianapolis. The four glrte who will enter nurses training are: Helen Becker, i St. J tin's Ho. pltal at Anderson; j Pauline Hakey, Kahler 11 .-pit 11 at "Rochester. Minnesota; Cordelia i Worthman, Methodist Hm '.tai a’ I Fort Wayne, and Margaret Camp i bell. Mount Sinai Haapilal. Milwau I kee. Wise nsin. o— — —- REPORT SORER IS FOUND HERE Rose Borer Is Found Destroying Roses In This Vicinitv A rose borer which has infected ' roses in the L. L. Adams and the Methodist parsonage yards has , been identified by Purdue University as the rose twig girdler, recently brought over from Europe. j The borer was first discovered by Mr. Adams among his Rugosa ■ roses. The worm eats through the j ; pith and girdles the stem in such 1 ■ a manner that the top of the rose ' I cane can be lifted off. The worm , is either white or black and yellow. This is the second reported in Indi ana. Mr. Adams wrote to Purdue Uni-1 versity through L. E. Archbold, county agent. The letter received i by Mr. Archbold is: "Dear Mr. Archbold: "The rose canes accompanying l y. ur letter of August 14. a- infest- i ed with a flat headed borer known I as the rose twig girdler. I do not think that the weather conditions , have been responsible for the infestation as this is a borer which i seems to attack healthy plants. It (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Time Is Extended For Ooening Bids A telegrau' receive i at noon today by the Decatur H me teadu, 1 Inc., fr.m officials in Washington extends the time far opening bL’s on the 48 houses to be constructed on the project here until Septem- ) ber 7. They were to have been opened at 10 o’clock Friday, August 31.

rounded up all criminals and people that would do such a terrible thing. “You do not need to send flowers, but please show other Chicago mothers that you won't let such a thing happen again.” The writer halted; listened to her husband sobbing in an adjoining room; heard one of her two remaining small sons crying in bed. Blindly she ended her plea —"Hopefully, Mrs. Robert Pitts." The baby about whom she wrote was "Bobby" Pitts, Jr., 2, who died j in her arms with the bullet of a I wanton killer In hts head. The shot was fired from a car which roared past the family as it return-; ed home Sunday night from a neighborhood visit. Pitts, jobless and on relief rolls, collapsed as he told of the incident FIVE)

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REPUBLICANS ELECT SMITH FORAUDITOR Clarence Smith, Preble Bank Cashier, Nominated Monday Night j CHAMPLIN, GIROD ARE ALSO NAMED — Clarence Smith, cashier of the i i Farmers' State Bank at Preble, i j was nominated candidate for county auditor on the Republican ticket ; Monday night at the convention of the Republican committeemen and ; committee-women of Adams county ' in the Michaud building in this 1 ■ city. Charles Champlin, oil represent- 1 ative, of Decatur, was named can-1 ' didate for surveyor and Milton ' ' Girod. Kirkland township farmer J was named candidate for commis- j sioner of the first district. All nominations were by acclam- ! . ation as there were no opposing candidates. Clarence Smith will oppose John W. Tyndall, the Democratic nom- i inee for county auditor. Mr. Tyn- ; dall was nominated at a similar convention of Democratic commit- i teemen and committeewomen sev- 11 1 eral weeks ago. Mr. Tyndall is I now serving until the first of the i j year under an appointment by the j | county commissioners to fill the ' . vacancy caused by the death of I Glen Cowan, elected county audi- ‘ ; tor. Mr. Smith is well known over the i county. He is a World War veter-1 | an. He began his banking career i ! at the Monroe State Bank in Monj roe. He has been cashier of the i Farmers’ State Bank at Preble for , about 15 years. No name was filed for commis- I ; sioner of the first district by Re- ! publicans last spring and this vacancy was filled by the convention I last evening. Mr. Girod, the can- , : didate for commissioner was state I delegate from north and south Preble last spring. He will oppose j Phil Sauer, incumbent, and DemoI cratic candidate. i Charles Champlin was renomin- t ated at the meeting last night. He ; i Was nominated county surveyor last 11 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I RUMOR OF DEATH BELIEVED FALSE Fear That Pioneer Aviator Had Committed Suicide Are Dispelled Anchorage. Alaska, Aug. 21.-—(U.R) | — Fears an unplanned suicidal ' flight by Frank Dorbandt, pioneer _ Alaskan flier, had caused the air , I here’s death were dissipated today < by a report he had been seen near ] Susitna Station. ( The report was the first word ; ! concerning Dorbandt since he took ' { off alone late Sunday into the fog- £ filled mountains, saying farewell to ; friends as lie left the ground. “You'll not see me agaii," Dor-, I ! bandt shouted as he lifted his plane I into the air with only sufficient i ' gasoline for a two and one-halt i hour flight. Searching parties were being or ; ganized when Pilot Sassene of Me-1 Gee airways brought word Dorbandt j *CONTI O — — Native Os Africa To Talk At Church Rev. H. W. Sipencer. pastor cf the r Antioch church, four milee west of 1 T Decatur, announced today that V J mathan Awaseu. a native << Ni- . gera, Africa, would speak at the church, Thursday. Itugust 23. The program will begin at 7:30 o'clock and the public is invited to attend. .Mr. Awaseu was connect- , ed with mission work in Africa. c Ira Carpenter Is Fined, Sentenced i dra Carpenter of Decatur was fin- e | ed five dollars and cists, a total of sls and sentenced to 15 daye in the g | Ada'.re county j ail by Mayor George 1 i Krlok last evening in city court. Carpenter was arrested by the city b ni ht p lice Sunday evening . n a f public intoxication charge. He dll d not pay his fine and the court coats s and will serve them out in jail. 2

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Wife Sold for $7(10 I B > JrWp ( B ■ r f? In jail at Jersey City. N. J., while j authorities investigated the strange case whereby her husband “sold'* hen to another man fbr S7(H), Mrs. Hildegarde Rost is pictured above. The S7OO was represented as the life savings of Paul Herman an engineer, while Mrs. Rost’s husband. Richard, was j said by police to have used the money to buy rare stamps. The j two men were also held. BOARD GRANTS THREE PAROLES State Clemency Commission Commutes Three Sentences; 2 Continued Indianapolis, Aug. 21.--(U.R) —Only ■ (three of 38 convicts who sought: | leniency from the state clemency I commission Aug. 15 and 16 were i | granted paroles, it was announced ' today by Wayne Coy. secretary. Three sentences were commuted. ' , two were continued and 26 applica- | tions for leniency were denied. The paroled convicts included 1 Ralph Welsh, Delaware county,! serving a one to 10 year term in the prison on charges of receiving i stolen goods, and Kennetli Swish- j er, Howard county, serving a one > to five year term in the reformatory on charges of petit larceny. I The commission continued until i its September session the case of i Ralph Broom, sentenced to life - from Grant county in 1912 on charges of murder. Broom formerly lived at Huntington. Disposition of the other cases i follows: Prison Commuted — Frank Simmons, of > (CONTINUED o Youth Killed When Hit By Automobile Fort Wayne, Ind.. Aug. 21. —(U.R) —John W. Manweiler, 15, was killed instantly yesterday when he i stepped from behind a parked automobile into the path of another car I driVen by F. M. Vickery, North Manchester. The acident occurred in front of the Manmeiler home about eight miles west of here on U. S. highway 14. NEW NR A SETUP IS PREDICTED Code Administration To Be Reorganized; Regular “Army” Setup (Copyright. 1934 By United Press) Washington, .Atflj. 21 —(UP) — The NIRA prepared today to announce a new “army" setup which will reorganize code administration in preparation tor fulfillment of its desired goal of full self-g vernment of (business. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, ordered by .President Roosevelt to keep his “feet nailed down” to NRA headquarters, is believed about to announce the C't i.ii'plete regrouping of approximately 700 codes and suplements which now cover 95 per cent of the nation’s industrial workers. The new Niß|\ setup follows the general lines of army organization by divisions and armies. Char's f.r the new plan have been drafted, studied and revised i tar weeks by Johnson and subordinates. Ct is believed the final schedule will bring all c des into 22 .grouips of related industries.

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ARMORED TRUCK IS ROBBED OF OVER $400,000 Band of 10 or 12 Men Stages Daring Holdup In Brooklyn ENTIRE ROBBERY IS PLANNED CLEVERLY New York, Aug. 21.—W-Rk— A gang of perhaps 10 robbers liore down on an armored i truck three blocks from a divisional police headquarters in Brooklyn, pointed machine guns and pistols at guards, and escaped with a cash sum which police estimated at $420,000. It was one of the boldest and most sensational holdups in the New York area in recent years. The raid on the armored car was as cleverly planned and executed ;as a military maneuver. A ma- | chine gun was concealed on a push I cart in the street. The ibandits i carefully disguised their purpose i until the signa! was given for the - raid. They struck quickly and fled. The armored truck pursued them, 1 tiring the bandits own machine gun which was left behind. All radio 1 cars in Brooklyn were called in on ! the pursuit. Police sent out numerous alarms j tor the bandit gang, which fled in 1 two or three black sedans. “Stop all suspicious cars," the ■ radio alarm said. “These men are dangerous. Use caution. They are 1 armed.” j All bridges, main roads, ferries ' and train terminals were guarded. The holdup apparently hinged on one bandit disguised as a junk man. i A few minutes before the money I truck, owned by the United States Trucking Corporation, arrived be- ! fore the Rubel Ice Corporation plant, the fake junkman appeared | at the scene. Slowly he pusned his rickety cart 1 along the curb, but without calling his wares. A piece of cloth covered the cart's contents. i In front of the ice plant, he stopI ped to rest, wiping the sweat from : his forehead. Aimlessly, several I other men who appeared to be ’ (CONTJNUEIUoN PAGE SIX) FERD TABLER DIES TODAY Prominent Monroe Man Dies This Afternoon At Local Hospital Ferdinand H. Tabler, 57. well known resident of Monroe, died at the Adams County Memorial Hospital at 1:40 o'clock this afternoon. Death resulted from an infection. Mr. Tabler had injured his hand several weeks ago while working at his filling station at Monroe. Infection developed and he was removed to the local hospital last Friday. Mr. Tab'er had resided in Monroe for about 30 years. He conducted a garage at Monroe for a number of years, later going into the grocery and restaurant business. Several years ago he opened a filling station. He was born in Ohio on September 7, 1876, a son of John and Mary Tabler. His marriage to Mary Leßrun took place in Monroe and one daughter was born to the union Mrs. Blanche Moore of Ft. Wayne. Surviving besided the widow and daughter, are a grandson. Jackie Moore of Fort Wayne, a brother, M. H. Tabler of Maywood, New Jersey, and two sisters, Mrs. C. S. Mumma of Markle and Mrs. Frank Martz of Monroe. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Monroe. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Fort Wayne Firm Awarded Contract Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 21 —(UP) —■Contract for construction of small culverts and extensions of others on state road 1 between Bluffton an J Fort Wayne was signed by the state highway commission late yesterday. The contract was awarded to the Brooks construction company of Fort Wayne on a bid of $14,052.56.