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Decatur Girl On College Paper Word has been received here by I Mr. and Mrs. Martin Zimmerman that their dauhter Miss Mary I Grace Zimmerman a sophomore at i Earlham College. Richmond, has been selected staff reporter for the Earlham Post, a weekly newspaper i of the college. Miss Zimmerman is j also >i member of the girls hockey | team. 'ARMISTICE IN BITTER STRIKE IS SEEN TODAY Wage Dispute In Los Angeles Will Be Submitted To Arbitration BUSINESS DISTRICT IS SCENE OF RIOT | Los Angeles, Nov. 27. —(U.R>—An i armistice ending the Los Angeles ■ | railway strike after three days of! j bloodshed and violence in which j ' more than 5u persons have been in. I i jured. was expected today. Sporadic outbreaks continued. | but hopes for an early truce soared after acceptance by union lead- > ers and company officials of a ' proposal to submit the wage disj putet to an impartial committee. Mayor Frank L. Shaw, acting as | i peace-maker, was hopeful the | armistice would be signed by noon, i The agreement represented a re-1 1 cession of both factions. Strike) : leaders had held out for arbitra- 1 i tion by the regional labor board. The company insisted the contro-1 Iversy be submitted to the state' I rail-board commission. Shaw's pro-i 1 posal hat each side name an acjcouutant and a&refi.fiD 83 I to serve on the committee was ac. - cepted, the union specifying as a condition that all strikers be reinstated. Company officials promis'ed an answer on this term at 11 ' a. m. Despite the progress toward - peace, guerilla warfare continued. A mass outbreak occurred in the heart of the downtown district last : night that was no quelled until i riot squads used tear gas. The riot continued tor more than 'an hour. o Decatur Electric Shop Location Is Changed The Decatur Electric Company is open for busineaa today in the new rooms rented in the Morrison building. The new rooms are the ones formerly ccupied by the Kroger Store and are north of the corner of Jefferson street on the west side of Second street. The proprietors. Ger- ( aid Cole and Piul Sauer, have been , in business in the old rooms on north Second street for nine years. Robert Studler Is Given Continuance Robert Studler, was granted a postponment until December 12. on his hearing in Mayor George Krick's court. Studler is charged by state game wardens with shooting (pheasants In violation of the state law. PROBE GIRL’S IMPRISONMENT Judge Will Personally Investigate Captivity Os Girl Indianapolis, Nov. 27.- —(U.R) A personal investigation of the home in which 16-year.old Helen Mack, was kept locked in a barren room ■ for several months was planned today by Judge John F. Geckler of Marion county juvenile court. ’—al of the girl’s parents, Mr. tt n<7 Mrs. Harry Mack, charged with child neglect, was recessed until Friday by Judge Geckler after hearing opening testimony yesterday. . Court attaches also were instructed to investigate an anonymous letter which alleged that the parents took out additional life insurance on the girl while she was locked up. Helen, frail and anaemic, was found huddled in a dirty, torn blanket in a poorly ventilated, *CONTINV®D ON PAGiE FIVE)

DRASTIC GUTS CONSIDERED IN FEDERAL COSTS —■———. I Officials Study Drastic Economy Program For Next Year SLATE EMPLOYES FOR DISMISSAL Washington, Nov. 27 — <U.R) —A drastic economy program that might cut millions from government oosts and bring dismissal of many employes is being studied by administration officials, it was learned today. Many department heads have been notified by budget officials to curtail their costs in submitted estimates of probable expenditures for the new fiscal year be- 1 ginning July 1, 1935. The budget for the new fiscal year is nearing completion and < 1 will be submitted to congress 1 early in January by President Roosevelt. It is too early, howI ever, to judge the extent of' the 1 proposed economies or the pros- , | pective budget of the federal government. These questions are largely de- ! pendent upon the course of gener- 1 al business which in turn dictates I; i the amount of "relief" or “ recov-' ery" money that must be supplied j by the federal government. It is I known, however, that certain re-1 ' auctions in costs have been ord-1 . ered. The government's income in the | new fiscal year will be in excess i of the ordinary cost of running | ; the government. Ordinary costs | i include such functions as the post-1 I office, department of justice, the) army and navy and other permanTent operations. — ■ The amount of money spent in i excess of these functions for “relief” and “recovery" will tell the extent to which the new. budget will be unbalanced. For the first 414 months of the j current fiscal year to date, ordin(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) 1

, y j BROKER JUMPS TO HIS DEATH Fatal Plunge Today Is Fourth Recent Suicidal Leap In Chicago [ Chicago Nev. 27—(UP)— Leßoy F. Harris, 55. plunged to his death I from the 21st floor of the Palmer .Mouse today as two friends rushed : into the hotel manager's office with I “goodbye" letters from the man. j Harris, tentatively identified as a LaSalle street broker, slashed his wrists and throat and stabbed himself in the chest before leaping from the window of his room. Two men, only one of whom was i identified by police told Edward T. j Lawless, manager of the hotel that j they had received letters from Har- | ris informing them that he intended to end his life at 10 o’clock this morning. It was a few minutes before 10 o’clock when the two reached the hate' and told Lawless of the let- ' lcrs - . >th They went to a room on the nintn floor, originally assigned to Harris, who registered as H. F. Lawrence of Milwaukee. He had been given ’ another room on the 21st floor. Outside Harris's room they found a maid, crying hysterically. The window of the room was open and 14 floors below on the roof of a wes' wing ballroom, sprawled the body of Harris. He was in his shirt Harris' plunge was the fourth suicidal leap from Chicago hotels within 10 days, beginning wltn that of Louise Nolan, red headed night club hostess, from the 17th floor of the Medinah Club. —o— — Two Men Named For Jury Duty Two men today were seleoted by jury commissioners Bert Lower and •Otto Hoile to replace Peter Loshe and Henry D. Rumple, who were excused from service by Judge Huber M DeVoss. The new men are John Augslburger of Hartford township and Frank Aurand of Washington township.

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Final Week For Extra Credit Period In Daily Democrat's Christmas Club

Members of the Daily Democrat’s Christmas Club campaign have been given due notification of their last opportunity to ge‘ the maximum number of credits on each subscription through the final extra credit period in effect this week and expiring Saturday night, December 1. During this week members will receive an extra credit of 180,000 credits on each and every S3O worth of subscriptions turned in. If there are still skeptics among the members of the campaign, the campaign manager will give them a written, signed statement of the exact number of credits each subscription will count every week from now until the finish. One member has received some very bad advice from a supposed friend to the effect that credit values will undoubtedly be increased "near the end of the campaign." The management has only one statement to make to refute this fallacious idea: "subscriptions count many times more credits this week than they will count at any future in the campaign." Perhaps the skeptical ones may be convinced better by an actual example, taking a one.year renewal. This week the total credits on this subscription will be 20.500. Next week the total credits on the same subscription will be exactly 1 5.000. In other words it will take more than four subscriptions next ' week to get the credits that one

PLANS POLICY FOR NEW DEAL — I President Roosevelt Confers With Advisors On Legislation Warm Springs, Ga„ Nov. 27.— (U.R) —President Roosevelt today continued shaping the new deal's 11935 legislative program. He met again with Senator .Joseph T. Robinson, majority lead- | er. Yesterday they and Senator

i PifTHarrison, chairman of the sen- j late finance committee, explored; jthe congressional situation. ’ While no conclusions were reachled in the initial meeting it fras assumed that tile new conference would result in concrete proposals (for the January session dealing I with relief, unemployment insur- : ance, taxation and kindred sub- ' jects. Robinson revealed that the entire administration legislative program pointed to a tapering off of the government deficit and minimizing of the effort under way for an immediate cash payment of the soldier bonus. I On the possibilities of new taxation legislation at the next session, Robinson said: "I do not anticipate that an effort will be made to make substantial increases in existing taxes or to impose substantial new taxes. 1 take this attitude as the result of my studies and the information 1 have.” LARGE CROWD ATFESTIVAL Over 350 Dinners Served At St. Joseph’s School Festival A large crowd attended the St. • Joseph’s school festival last evening. Dinner was served to more than 350 people. The menu consisted of a choice of baked ham or roast chicken, noodles, moshed potatoes, 1 gravy, bread and butter, pie or cake, cold slaw, coffee. Members of the St. Mary’s sodality prepared and served the meals in the dining room of the school building. The festival, held in the auditorium, opened .at about 7 o’clock. The booths and stands were well patronized and large crowds played the bingo and rhurn games. > Dinner will be served again this • evening, beginning at 5:30 o'clock ‘ and plans have been made to serve a larger crowd than the Monday night attendance. The festival i closes tonight and the grand prizes will be awarded.

i will secure this week. And again, , let it be understood —CREDITS and not Dollars will win the prizes. The judges will not total the num ■ ber of dollars at all, except to ar--1 rive at the extra credits on the 1 extra credit periods. t The members who loaf along • through this week will have only • themselves to blame at the finish*, 1 they have been notified both by 1 p rsonal letter and through the ' Democrat. Each S3O in renemal subscriptions this week count a to-, ; tai of 205,000 credits. Next week I • the shme amount of renewals will i count just 50,000 credits. And this. j difference, on one S3O “club' , may • very easily prove the differenc ; between first and second prize win i ner. r Owing to evident misunderstand-; I ing as to the closing date of the i I campaign it is felt that it should i > be explained. The rules, publish • ed at the beginning of the cam , > paign stated: "Th*e campaign will officially start upon publication of | i the names of those who will par- | , ticlpate, and wil! end six weeks from the following Saturday." Dlf-; ficiuty in effecting complete or. | ■ ganlzation made it impossible to : I' publish the names until Wednes- ■ day, November 7th.. The official i period of -file campaign will there- . fore end Saturday, December 22nd. i However, owing to the closeness ■ to Christmas, unless objection is > raised by some member, the campaign will close a day earlier, Fri- ■ day night. December 21.

Annual Firemen’s Banquet Tonight — The annual firemen's banquet will be held •it the engine house cn 'j south Secenth street at 6:30 o'clock ■ I this evening. The families of the regular and volunteer firemen will be guests of j the iki /artment. Chicken and rab--1 bn will be on the menu. | The firemen are preparing the ■! food and planning to entertain the’r . wives and children at the Thanks 1 (giving feast. Each year the firemen entertain the members of the de partment and city officials, but this , year their guests will be their fa- ,! milies.

MONMOUTH WILL: HOLDjESffIAL School To Conduct Annual Fall Festival Wednesday Night The Monmouth s. hool association will hold their annual tall festival Wednesday night in the Monmouth gym and high school building. The program will begin about seven o’clock in the evening. Every room in the school will j have some sort of entertainment. Several one act plays are scheduled, directed by Miss Catherine Weidter. A Thanksgiving turkey will be given away as a part of the program. Prizes will be awarded for the best judgment in the guessing contests. A spec’al program will be held in the Monmouth gym. Hall Teeter’s orchestra will furnish the music. Proceeds from the affair will go to the general school fund and will be used in pun basing and building ' up the school equipment. Refreshments will be served. I They will consist of ice cream, pop coffee, sandwiches, candy. Each class in the high school will be responsible for one or two activities. The school council and the faculty are in charge of the festival. o Nine Women Inmates Escape Ohio Prison •Columbus, O. Nov. 27 (UP) County officers today joined city • police in search for nine young won.on inmates of the Ohio state in- . stitution for the feeble minded who II broke from the home here after u I i scene of screaming disorder. Twelve of the women overpower- . ed a solitary woman attendant last . night, took her keys, unlocked out- ■ side doors and commanded 38 other . inmates to join them In escape. I The 38 women refused, whereupII on the ringleaders attempted to ;i force them to join in the break. >I Fights broke out among the women, r Windows were broken. The 12 raced from the building as matrons rushi ed to the scene. Three of them were re-captured on downtown streets.

BEET ACREAGE HEARING HELD INTHIS CITY Allotted Acreage For This Territory Is Discussed At Meeting GROWERS ASK FOR HIGHER ACREAGE A hearing before representatives I of the sugar section of the department of agriculture was in progress in this city this afternoon, relative to the allotted beet acre- | age In the Decatur aiea. The 1935 quota allotted to growers in the local territory for the | raising of beets for the Central | sugar company of this city is I 9.909 acres. A Mr. Cordrell of Washington. D. C„ representing the sugar section. accompanied by an attorney ‘ from the department, heard the arguments of beet growers for an ■ incraese in the acreage quota. Mr. Cordrell explained that he i could not make a decision in the local case. It was his duty, he explained to obtain the evidence and submit it to the secretary of agriculture. He stated the sugar division had the administering of the provisions of the Jones-Costi-gan act to do and that his department did not formulate the law. Tlte meeting was opened by E. ; W. Busche, president of the Central Been growers association. Mr. . Busche exnressed the hope that ! evidence would be produced at the hearing which would influence the 1 department of agriculture to increase the allotted acreage for the local territory. J. Ward Calland. field manager for the Central Sugar company, hut. sneaking for the growers, reviewed the local situation. He cited figures on planted and hari vested acreage, whether conditions ' which influenced the raising of : beets and the results for 1933. Mr. Cordrell stated that the I Jones-Costigan I ill was designed | for the producer and that the j onlv consideration given the pro-

: only k itinnirirtt pin pivru tucr pi ! c°ssor was in the matter of con- ' signing the output. In the case of 1 the Central sugar company, the 1 sale output has been placed at 188.8000 bags, an increase of about 1800 bags over the tentative allotment. Mr. Cordrell stated that the cut in acreage of the local com(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 — Republican Central Committee Reports i According to the report filed by i Cai Peterson, treasurer of the ReI publican central committee, the Republicans hove a balance of $47.01 in their treasury. They had $92.23 in the treasury before the campaign. Contributions j to the fund brought the total of re--1 ceipts to $227.53. The committee had $319)7’6 for campaign expenses i of which they spent $272.75 having a Lalance of $47.01. ADAMS COUNTY WOMAN DIES Mrs. Emma Neuenschwander Dies This Morning Near Linn Grove Mrs. Emma Neuenschwan her. 58, widow of the late Jacob Neuenschwander, died at 8:30 o'flock this morning at the home ot Mrs. Chris Mertz near Linn Grove. Death was due to double pneumonia. Mrs. Neuenschwander had been ill for two weeks. She was doing housework at the Mertz home when she became ill. Mrs. Neuenschwander was born in the Berne community on December 1, 1875, a daughter of Peter and Anna Amstutz-Motter. In early life she was married to Jacob Neuenschwander and they spent practically all their married life In Bertie. Her husband preceded her in death j about a year ago. She was a member of the Berne Missionary Church. Surviving are two sisters, Sarah Blberstine and Mrs. Alfred Kohler and a brother, Adam Moser, all of near Berne. There were no children. • Funeral arrangements have not . been conrpleted.

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Seek Revision Os Insurance Laws Indianapolis, Nov. 27. —<U.R>-In-dication that a radical revision of Hie state insurance laws will be ' asked at the 1935 general assembly was made today by Attorney General Philip Lutz, Jr., who described the present statutes as "full of loopholes." i Speaking Before the 36th annual convention of the Indiana fraternal congress, Lutz said. "The insurance laws must be. revised and some insurance companies should be barred from Indiana." "The insurance laws are a patchwork of independent acts, full of J loopholes and out of date with the • spirit of the times." BANQUET HELD FDR MR. KRICK — New School Superintendent Is Honored By Faculty Members , Forty-nine members of the faculty I and of the «(hool board attended the banquet given Monday night in , honor of Mr. and Mre. Walter J. i Krick at the Rice hotel. This was the first time the new ' superintendent of the schools has • an oppotunity to greet the faculty ' and the banquet was an informal •. affair. - Mr. Krick, in his talk, expressed I his appreciation for the cooperation . shown him so far and urged that .! everyone ‘‘continue the cooperation . I in rn’er that the city schools may 11 be continued on the same high 11 ph ne.” .! The banquet was in the form of ■ la three course dinner. Bry* e Tbo- ■ mas said grace before the meal was ■ served. During the dinner Mr. Thomas led community songs, accompanied . my Miss Helen llaubold. . W. Guy Hrown iulrodjcvd Dr. . Burt Mangold, wlt'o acted as toasti master during the evening. After ’.Mr. Krick's talk Miss Eva Acker ■ responded for the teachers. . 1 After the talks an informal disI vision of school and other preb- . lems was held.

PLAN PROGRAM FOR SERVICES Union Thanksgiving Services Will Be Held Wednesday Night The program for the Union Thanksgiving service, which will 1 'I be held at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday I evening at the Methodist Episcopal I church, was announced this morn--1 ing. A union choir of members from the various churches, consisting of 130 voices, will present a musical program of ten numbers. Mrs. Dau ; Tyndall will direct the choir, with 1 : Mrs. Carrie Haubold at the organ. The Thanksgiving sermon will be delivered by Rev. George O. i Walton, pastor of the Presbyterian : I church, who will preach on "The | ] Spiritual Emphasis ot Thanksgiv. 1 ing." Rev. H. R. Carson, pastor of i (the M. E. church, will preside. Special services for the school I children ot the city will be held at I 2 p. m. Wednesday at the various ■ churches in the city. The program for the union set- 1 vice follows: ' Organ prelude Mrs. Carrie Haubold Hymn, “We Plough the Fields" Congregation Invocation Rev. W. H. Franklin Scripture Reading Rev. C.M.Prugli ’ Prayer Rev. A. B. Brown Thanks Be to God Dickson-Salter 1 Choir 1 Prayer of Thanksgiving Kremser Helen Haubold, Sara Kauffman, Mrs. Dan Tyndall ' Praise the Lord Protheroe Choir President's Thanksgiving ProcIa’cONTINUFD ON PAGE FIVE) o Lions Club Will Attend Banquet The members ot the Lions club i will meet with the crowd which will . honor the 1934 De atur high school football team tonight al the Zion i Reformed church. About 150 persons are expected t to commemorate the second unde- . seated season in the history of tho t school. The team of '34 will be the guests of honor.

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DEFINITE CLUE TO IDENTITIES STILLLACKING Countless Leads Collapse As Thorough Investigation Made CAUSE OF DEATH IS UNDETERMINED Carlisle, Pa.. Nov. 27 — —Die mystery of the “babes in tlte woods” deepened Jodav ns one of the greatest missing persons liunts ot, manv years spread throughout Ute I'nited States without yielding a definite hint to tlte identity of three young girls found dead on a Pennsvlvania mountainside. Police throughout the east and in states as far away as California received countless “leads" in the case and saw virtually every one of them collapse when put to tho test. Almost every hour brought another message suggesting a clue to the mystery, but. in the end. serving only to tangle further the puzzle of where the children came from, who they are. how and why they were killed and who tucked them so tenderly beneath a blanket in the woodland of tlte South Mountains near here. One line of investigation which still remained involved the attempt of Larry Carney. Philadelphia war veteran, who linked the children

with the apparent murder and 1 suicide of a woman and man near ‘ Altoona last week. , Carney saw Horace Hughes in Philadelphia last Monday. Three girls, who he believes were tho babes In the woods, and a young woman were with him. Tlte leads which collapsed today included tentative identification hv Emmett Hamilton. Cleveland. Ohio, who has been separated for three years from his wife and children. He viewed the bodies and said he believed they (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o Monmouth School Honor Roll List The honor roll for the grades of the Monmouth school was announced today. The pupils in the first two grades must attain 12 points and the pupils of the second two grades. 15 points. A graae of D. or of F. in deportment or a grade of F. in an academic subject makes n pupil inelegivle. The points obtained fro n each grade are: A plus four points, A three points, B two pointe. C one point. D. no points. F no points. The honor roll is: first grade, Hubert Feasel an I Joyce Ward: second grade. Mary Mahan, grade four. Oscar Bristol, sixtn grad", Ralph Conrad, Louise Bristol. Jun- | ior Beiholil and Fred Kunkel; I eighth grade. Arnold Conrad, Leona i Dornseif and Sanna Kunkel. SLAYER ASKS FOR LENIENCY George Adams Seeks Parole; Killed Two Federal Agents In 1931 Indianapolis, Nov. 27 —(UV) — The iparole plea of George Adams, slayer of two Indianapolis dry agents in 1931, today was before the board ot trustees of the state prison at Michigan City. Adams, who served two years in Leavenworth penitentiary tor liquor .aw violations, claimed eels defence, but was sentenced in Allen circuit court to two to 21 years on charges of voluntary manslaughter. 1 ie said he was acting for a federal undercover man at Fort Wayne when he was crowded off the road by a car from which the occupants ■ opened fire. Adams’ testimony at his trial was: "Everything went blar.'k utter they shot me through ' the ne k and 1 started shooting." He killed John R. Wilson and 1 Walter Gilbert, federal agents attached to the Indianapolis office in tlte ensuing fight. ’ Judge Clarence R. McNabb of ’ Alien circuit court, who heard Ad- ’ am s' trial, opposes parole.