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i Restrictions On Purchases Removed The Adams county corn-hog allotment committee has received word that all restrictions on the I purchase of feeder pigs from | August 1 to November 30, 1931, are removed, which means that anyone can buy feeder pigs anywhere they wish. However, the contract signers must either keep such feeder pigs separate from the hogs produced on the farm or make them subject to ready identification by ear-marks or any other reliable marks of Identifies tlon. He must also make a statement on a prepared form by the i | county allotment committee show-1 ' ing the date of purchase, name of the seller, number of feeder pigs purchased, and their average ! weight. He must also have the ' signature of the buyer and tell his 1 ’ method of identification. INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED HERE ' Method Os Handling Surplus Hogs Explained In Instructions The Adams county corn-hog al-1 | lotment committee has received instructions relative to the handling of surplus hogs produced by the contract signer. These excess , hogs may be delivered on a specified date to the specified local shipping point where a receipt for such shipment will be issued by 1 the state emergency relief admin istration. These animals wilf be processed by an agent of the fed-, eral emergency relief administra- ’ i tion. the meat to be distributed to i people on relief rolls. In some cases the live animals will be turnled over to rehabilitation families I with the understanding that if he - wltMncheered before March 1, T 935, ‘ it should be for use as food by 1 such families only. The minimum weight at which animals are to be delivered to the shipping point is 50 pounds. Special forms have been mad - out on which the producer may give information as to surplus hogs and deposit them with the county allotment committee. Recently the county board of di-1 ' rectors of the Adams county cornI hog association met and submitted 1 a list of names to V. I). Sexson, I commodity representative for the state of Indiana, for his consider ""(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) High School Pupils Register This Week Registration of students in the ‘ Decatur high school will take ! place this week. \V. Guy Crown, i principal of the school, announced i today. The office will open at 9 ! o’clock in the morning and remain open until 5 p. m. Seniors are asked to register Tuesday. They will also be given locker assignments. Juniors will! register Thursday; sophomores'. | Friday, and freshmen. Saturday. MOB SEERS TO LYNCH CONVICT — Man Who Attacked Young Bride Is Sought By Mob In Texas Tyler. Tex., Aug. 27 — (UP) — ! Lynch talk seethed through this town today as groups of citizens kept watch for the return of J. D. Willie, charged with kidnaping a ; newly wed couple, and criminally, assaulting the bride. He was spirit- ’ ed cut of the back door of the county jail last night, while a mob , screamed for his life from the front. The 19 year old ex-convict wi< positively identified ,by Maxwell Herring and his 18 year old bride whose honeymoon was interrupted last night. Willis was arrested drivin their car, with Mrs. Herring’s engagement ring in his pocket. '.Lt was believed the grana jury would return an Indictment against Willis today, whether or not he was permitted to testify before it. The Herrings had stopped their machine at a roadside soft drink stand. A man climbed in, pressed a gun against Herring's side and forced him to drive 10 miles to a ON PAGE SIX)

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PRISON WARDEN ASKS BUILDING CONSTRUCTION Kunkel Asks Remodeling Os State Prison To Stop Escapes OTHER PRISONS SEEK CHANGES — Indianapolis, Aug. 27. — (U.R) — A general remodeling of the state prison in an effort to modernize the antiquated plant and put a halt . to wholesale escapes was seen today in announcement of the bien- . nial budget request by Warden ’ Louis E. Kunkel. The building program, estimatled to cost approximately 1210,000 and a general increase in appropriations for salaries and operating expenses totalling 11.568,512, was asked. A building program, estimated to i cost $116,000, also is proposed at the state reformatory at Pendle-1 ’ ton. according to the budget subI mitted by Superinendent A. F. ’ Miles. Construction of a new admlnis i (ration building outside the walls of the Michigan City institution l and remodelling of the walls and towers were the principal changes asked by Kunkel in his efforts to make prison deliveries less fre- 1 quent. Remodeling and fire-prooting the . prison ffbspital. an addition to the hospital tor the criminally insane , and a new receiving department I and bath house were other improve-' ments akked in the'prison budget. ! Warden Kunkel also asked for additions and improvements to the prison lighting system. Part of i this work already has been started. new searchlights having been ■ pXacvxi on the wails after five in-, mates climbed over the walls* several weeks agb. In asking for an additional appropriation for salaries of prison ■ employes. Kunkel pointed out that ! abandonment of several prison industries, profit from which was I used to pay guards and other help. ’ will necessitate increased aippro- ’ ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) BOWMAN CHILD DIES SATURDAY Daughter of Russell Bowman Is Victim Os Double Pneumonia Marguarite E. Bowman, nine-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russel j Bowman. 14’7 West Madison etreet died at her home Saturday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock following a week's illness. Death was due to double pneumonia. The child had completed the sch ol work at the West Ward I school building and would have entered the fifth gra le at the opening 1 of school in Septemiber. She attended the Methodist Sunday School. . She was born in Decatur on Aug-; ust 28. 1924 a daughter of Russel and Gertrude Ray-Bowman. The parents, three brothers, Glen. Rob- : ert and Max, two sisters, Juanita and Delaine, the grandmothers. Mrs. Ves Venis and Mrs. Abbie ■ Bowman of Decatur, and John Ray of Dayton. Ohio, survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the home. 1417 West Madison street with Rev. H. R. Carson, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be made in the Decatur (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —— 11 " "■ Pete Whitright Injured Saturday Pete Whitright was painfully injured late Saturday afternoon when he was knocked off the driver’s seat of his ice wagon by an automobile owned by Ben Linemaster of Huntington. Mr. Whitright told police that the Huntington car drove into the back of the ice wagon, hurling him to the ground and fracturing two of his ribs. Mr. Whitright said that the car stopped and the driver offered assistance. The man said he would report the accident to the police but failed to do so. The ownership of the car was then traced by the license number.

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Girl Fliers Make Second Attempt . M - mmmhi ■i * **-' zd * B 1 • a ' \ /< \ - I Im -.-£?W I TKWi O fff ■ J'MKNK i “.4 rs * - Jean La Rene (left) and Mary Elizabeth Owens, the two intrepid feminine fliers who are making a second attempt to set an endurance record after being forced down due to refueling troubles. The fliers are circling over Curtiss-Reynolds Field at Chicago.

LETTER SHOWS JENKS IS SAFE Fort Wayne Man, Feared Murdered, Writes Parents Os Safety Fort Wayne, Ind., Aug. 2'.—(U.R) — Arthur E. Jenks, 29, who was thought to have been the victim of foul play after disappearing from i the home of a sister here July 12, Ito meet an unidentified man at a ■ designated spot, is alive and well, it was learned in a letter from Jenks to his parents, who live in Butler. JeYtks’ bullet-riddled automobile. ' with several splotches of blood I splattered on the inside, was found ' abandoned on a lonely cemetery road southwest of here the day as- . ter he disappeared. | Officials expressed the theory that Jenks was murdered and his body hidden nearby. A letter left with his parents with a warning not to open it "until something happens to me" revealed that his life had been threatened. The letter received by the parents in Butler and positively identified as being from Jenks, stated that he had been in the west and "(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HITS EFFORT TO CONTROL PRESS Minnesota Senator Makes New Attack On Roosevelt Policy Washington, Aug. 27 — (U.R) — Sen. Thomas D. Schall, R.. Minn., ■ demonstrated today that he considered his attacks on President Roosevelt for fostering a press censorship far from a “closed incident" by issuing a new and even more fiery charge. He addressed another letter to the White House. It was in response to a blunt telegram from the President in which Mr. Roosevelt said he considered the matter a “closed incident” because Schall ■ replied with a “vituperative two page letter” when the President | asked him for evidence to back up a charge that the administration I planned to set up a national press i service. "Your second open telegram to me," said Schall today, “in no wise explains the various attempts of your administration to secure legislation censoring the press of TcONTINUHD* ON* PAGE* FIVE )*

Charles Scheumann Funeral Wednesday Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Charles Scheumann. 65. prominent Mjjriqn 1 township, Allen county farmer, who died at his home north of Hoagland Sunday morning at 10 o’clock following a long illness. Services will be held at the residence at 1 o’clock (CST) and at the St. John’s Lutheran church on the Decatur road at 1:30 o’clock (CST). Rev. R. Truelzsch will officiate and burial will tie in the St. John’s cemetery. DEATH CLAIMS URIAH CRAMER Aged Decatur Resident Died Saturday After Long Illness Uriah Everhart Cramer, S 3 year old resident cf Decatur, died at his home at 515 Nuttman avenue Saturday afternoon at four o’clock fol--1 wing an extended illness. Death was due to complications. Mr. Cramer had been ill for the last three years and his condition became serious two weeks ago. Mr. Cramer was well known in this city having resided here practically his entire life. He was employed f r years as a wagon maker and conducted a restaurant here ,kn wn as ‘lDad’s Place." fide was born two miles east of Decatur on the old Cramer farm on I.Vpril 9. 1951 a son of John and Elizabeth Cramer. He was united in marirage to Mrs. Mary Young Monroe, who survives. Five children. Frank of Bucyrus. Ohio; J hn of Decatur; Trdby Z. of Portland, Mrs. Naomi King of Dayton, Ohio and George W. Cramer of Fort Wayne, and two sisj ters. Mrs. Emma Mauller of near Bobo, and Mrs. Sarah Sheets of Marion, survive besides the widow. ’ There are 10 grandchildren living. Mr. Cramer was a member of the First Evangelical church in this i city. Funeral services, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the home of the son. John Cramer, 404 Marshall street, and at 1:30 o’clock at title First Evangelical ’(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) Chicken, Duck Thefts Reported Theft of chickens and ducks■ from two farms near Berne have | been reported. Fifty chickens were taken from the farm of Osia Von Gunten, two miles northeast : of Berne, and 49 ducks were stolen from his neighbor, Joel Mazelin. Officers are investlgat- , ing the case.

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ADOLF HITLER I IN DETERMINED STAND ON SAAR Says Germany Is Determined To Regain Rich Territory HOLD PLEBISCITE ON NEXT JANUARY I Coblenz. Germany, Aug. 27—(U.R) Germany's determination to regain the Saar territory in next | January's plebiscite was revealed with new clarity today after a stirring speech by Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler who made a gesture of friendship toward France. The speech made it evident that Nazi Germany visualizes no alternative in the Saar plebiscite to full return to German nationality. Hitler's plea for friendship with France was accompanied by the j qualification that it must be friendship with equality, and his whole speech implied a certainty that the rich little Saar territory,! awarded to France for 15 years in compensation for coal mines which the Gennrn army destroyed in the world war, must again go Lack to the reich. It was perhaps the fullest outline of policy that Hitler has made in any speech since the death >f President Paul Von Hindenburg cleared the way for him to assume the joint offices of president and chancellor. Hitler emphasized tlie nation's (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Given Fine On Drunk Charge Don Doherty, who lives between Decatur and Pleasant Mills, was fined $1 an J costs in Mayer George Krick's court Sunday evening. He was arrested Saturday night by night p licemen on a charge of (public intoxication. Charles Teeple, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Teeple, of this city will be tried in mayor’s c urt this evening on a charge of driving a car without a license. Hartford City Girl Is Critically Hurt — Miss Maxine Worley, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Worley, Hartford City is in a critical condition at Grant county hospital, Marion, as the result of an automo- i ibile accident early Sunday horning south of Marini on state road 9 in which Miss Bernadette Marshall, Ralph Wood and Harry Bohr, Jr., all of this city, received severe cuts and bruises. Mies Worley sustained a com pound fracture of one leg, a skull fracture, possible internal injuries and bruises and cuts over the body. ; She has been unconscious eince the accident. Ralph 'Wood suffered a scalp wound which required 21 stitches to close, a broken right arm and a severe gash under the right eye. JAMES ALLRED IS NOMINATED Jim Ferguson’s Candidate Is Defeated In Texas Primary Dallas, Tex.. Aug. 27— (U.R) — James V. Allred, arch enemy of Fergusonism. today held the democratic nomination as successor . to Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson of Texas. Victory over Tom Hunter in Saturday's runoff primary is tantamount, to election. The regular election Nov. 6 will be a mere formality and on Jan. 1. the 34-year-old attorney general will supplant the governor whose policies he has fought for years. Returns from 246 of the 254 j counties, 149 of them complete, today gave Allred 481,520 votes; Hunter 434,593. The election showed two things: Texas' confidence in the hand- i some.' dynamic tireless Allred, ; and her repudiation of former Gov. James E. Ferguson and the I policies he has pursued in his wife’s name during her term of office. Allred will take office with a * (CONTINUED *6n’ PAGE SIX)

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Former Decatur Resident Dead Wurd has been received here of the death of J. E. Baker, 69, a torI mer resident of Decatur, who died I at the home of his daughter, Mis. 1 Wesley Nonken In El Dorado, Kansas, where he was vieiting. Death occurred July 27. He was tborn in Decatur, February 17, 1865 and located in Whitewater, Kansas in 1807 where he established that city’s first furniture store and undertaWng (establishment. About 30 years ago he moved to Peabody where he continued the (profession of mortician. | The widow, Mrs. Susie HartmanBaker, survives, also three daughters, Mrs. I. W. Draper of Florence j Kansas; Miss Ruth Baker of Peabody. Kansas and Mrs. Wesley Nonken of El Dorado, Kansas, and one sun, Hartman Baiker us Peabody. o -, JURORS DRAWN FOB NEXT TERM Grand And Petit Jurors For September Term Are Selected Grand and petit jurors f r the September term of the Adams clr- • uit court were drawn today by jury commissioners Otto Hoile of Union township and W. A. Lower of Decatur. The court will be legally opened lon Labor day, Monday, September 3. Judge Hubert M. DeVoss said he will call the dicket and set the cases Tuesday, transacting no business on Monday. Court reporter Anna Smith is rearranging the cross indexing tne i books in the county law library in the court house in preparation for the September term. The grand jurors selected are: Casper Miller, Washington township; Joe R. Isch, French township; A. B. Riley. Blue Csaek township; Ernest Stengel, M nroe township; Everett Woodruff, Jefferson township, and Earl Martin, Kirkland township. Tlie petit jury is: James Gattschalk, Decatur; William L. Foreman, Jefferson township; Louis Hoile, Root township; John O. Kra- ' tier. Waibash, township; Henry I Yake, Kirkland township; Peter l»lbss, Washington township; Ed Reppert, Preble township; Amos j Lehman, Monroe township; Otto Kli'Jkman, French township; Edward Kruckeberg, Union township; I Aba Vorhees, Geneva, and Fred ! Kcmholz, Berne. Board Os Guardians Will Meet Tuesday The board of children’s guardians : will meet at the home of Mrs. D. D. Heller Tuesday afternoon at 2 ; o'clock. Monroe Township Teachers Listed Noah Rich, trustee of Monroe township, today announced the I list of teachers for the various ; township schools. The complete list follows: district 2, Ezra Sny-, Ider; district 3, Leo Strahin; dis-; I trict 4. J. D. R. Schwartz; dis-1 trict 5, Mary Potts; district 6.1 ■ Pauline Buckmaster; district Harry Johnson; district 8, A. E. Hunt; district 9, Delores Longer-1 berger. Monroe grades — Rosemond Gould and Floyd Johnson. Mon-' roe high school, Rolland Sprunger. principal; Jacob Smuts, Gerhard Gaiser, Vesta Rich, Mrs. Arveda Wagner and Virginia Ray. Roman D. Ryf Dies This Morning Roman D. Ryf, 25, died at 6:30 i o’clock this morning at the home of his aunt, Mrs. Emma Reusser, one mile north of Berne. Death was caused by tuberculosis, from which the young man had been suffering for two years. He was i a patient at the Irene Byron sanitarium near Fort Wayne for 14 i months, being returned to his aunt's home a week ago. The deceased was born in Mon- ' roe township, February 23, 1909. I Surviving are the mother and ' step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Powel Simon. Fort Wayne, three uncles | i.nd five aunts. Funeral services will be held at the Reusser home at 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon and at the Cross Reformed church in Berne at 2 o’clock. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery.

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LEADERS NEAR AGREEMENT ON STRIKE PLANS Committee Orders Strike Called On Or Before September 1 VIOLENCE FLARES AGAIN IN CHICAGO Washington, Aug. 27 ’U.R) — The nation-wide strike oi (i(M).(MM) textile workers will be called on or before Saturday. Francis .1. Gorman, chairman of the special strike committee of th« I’nited Textile Workers, said today.. Gorman’s statement indicated strike leaders had virtually completed plans for tlie walkout and did not expect 1 mediation attempts by the govern- | ment would be successful in averti ing the strike. He said that under instructions lof the strike convention in New York recently, he could not di- : vulge the hour of the walkout I until 24 hours before. “The strike must be called on I or before September 1,” he continued. "The date has been set by the strike committee. It did ; not begin today and it will not begin tomorrow. It must begin ' by Saturday. I cannot say whether it will begin before Saturday. The important fact is that the strike will take place and that it will be effective.” President Thomas F. McMahon. , meantime, called the entire executive council of the textile workers in special session here Wednes- ! day to discuss final plans for the ; walkout. The special strike committee, ■ which was in session most of last , night continued its meeting to ' day. witli members bleary-eyed ! from lack of sleep. Renew Violence Chicago, Aug. 27 — (U.R) — Violence flared anew on the bus strike “battle front” today as leaders of the elevated and suer- : face lines union, kept a tight (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) FT. WAYNE MAN IS RECAPTURED One Os F i v e Escaped From Noblesville Jail Is Recaptured Noblesville, Ind., Aug. 27.—(U.R>— The second of five prisoners who I escaped from the Hamilton county jail last week was back in his cell ! today. Paul McKinney, 20, Fort Wayne, under a 3-10 year sentence in the state reformatory, was captured at Crothersville after being outwitted by Louis Schepman, Jackson county township trustee. McKiwiey was seen by neigli- ; bors as lie attempted to enter a ; rural school house to obtain some sleep. Schepman was notified and went to the school. McKinney told him he was on his way to Austin i to get a job. Schepman invited the fugitive to ; ride as far as Crotherijxille. There ! he told McKinney to wait while he purchased some tobacco. Instead, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Given Sentence For Auto Theft Charles Williamson, 29. giving his address as Tustin, Michigan, pleaded guilty before Judge Huber ' M. DeVoss in the Adams circuit I court this morning. He was senti enced to one to 10 years in the Indiana state prison at Michigan i City. Williamson confessed to Sheriff | Burl Johnson that he stole Tony Meyers’ automobile, which was parked in front of the Decatur Catholic church, Sunday, August 12. while Mr. Myers was attending services. Williamson was arrested by Michigan stale police 14 miles north of Grand Rapids when be was found sleeping in the automobile. He was returned to this city > by Sheriff Burl Johnson and Ed Miller, Saturday. The car. with the exception of a ruined tire and wheel, is in good condition.