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■ NOT AGREE I REemandsfor mnal equality I nittd States Will Oppose I I’jJitv Demands Made [ IBy Japanese IWEMENT MADE f NORMAN DAVIS i Dec. 6.— <U.R> j I ft, l iiited Stales served Lj t J lodav that this counL3i’l n<»l agree to Jtmans Is lor naval parity. | If Lhman persists in her USLii’atian to abrogate >| t|) K .shington and London navall limitation treaties, she L xnect a free-for-all .aval k instruction race, with the pronri implication that the United and will not strip her ( In Bding warships. of American sival [policy was laid down tn b Norman H. Davis, chief lan delegate to the naval' Lotions now going on in bi He spoke at a luncheon L| Davis by the Association An, rtcan correspondents. It nsK first such public announceBent pf American naval policy Bide wince the three-power eon renSii is started. A’tli gh Davis spoke informally (h on his own responsibility i here (was little doubt that his re narte lad the full approval hf wwary of state Cordell Hull snmably. President Roose- 1 ■elt. !*>'. evident also that his renarfc cere directed to Japan, leli l. occasion to answer spe •inllly the principal arguments if th> apa nose. The American naval position Is squarely upon the Washingmind London naval treaties, laris said. These treatise provide or ■’ equality of security,” not I xMt equality of armaments. No tlier basis for an agreement for ar»! limitation would be satisutLv to the United States, he ndiLted. Th. United States and Great :rit* i have emphasized through iitßlio naval conversations in; xini ' that they have avoided; oyfcint of a united front against Itlwas noted, however, that the asi.- of American and British ■y was similar and that the : erm "equality of security" used K)'\:s was used a few weeks, S.illiy Sir John Simon. British wefcn secretary, in a speech in lie mouse of commons. Tit object of the Washington oni< re nee, he said, "was' to put ■nd to a ruinous naval race M was impeding recovery from world war. and to establish a ■ basis for peace in the ■fie and the far east. B was at that time recognized ■ admitted by Hie representa-1 B of Great Britain, Japan anil ■United States —the three nav■bwers most directly concerned ; ■a' it was not possible to reach ■i-inent through an academic ■tssion of what each country I ■idered its needs to be or what; ■required to eatisfy national, jr l ' . the principle adopted Sthat of equality or security.” ivis said this was the first essful effort ever made to ce and limit navies. 5 I O In ton To Favor Bonus Compromise Washington. Dec. 6— (U.R) — ■ator-elect Sherman Minton, I).. ■ ana. a war veteran committed ■inst immediate payment of th" ■ ns. said today he would favor ■■oinnroniise to aid needy vet■ns. F broad shouldered, square-jaw- ■ person, Minton displayed the ■ton of the 40-8 and foreign serie division of the American bion. binton was elected over Senaf Arthur Robinson, R„ a voci■ons champion of payment <>f I f bonus. I'l have always favored a coni-! fctnise to that extent.” Minton |d, referring to proposals to pay f' bonus to veterans who need ■ “By paying the bonus to those I need and taking them out of r bread line, you are dischargp both a present obligation and [future one."

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Windy City Has i Heavy Snowfall Chicago, Dec. 6-—(UP)—Thous-ands of work-bound Chicagoans; stalled in snow drifts today as the! Windy City got its first taste of I ig>. nuine winter weather. Six to eight Inches of snow fell | during the night, drifting in many) | streets to depths of several feet. I The huge, soggy Dakes flew so thickly tout motorists ran cautiously with lumps on even after dawn. This storm was local, the weather bureau said, covering only the Lake Shore region of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Temperatures were al-, most exactly at the freezing point. HEARING HELD HERE YESTERDAY Hearing On Federal Bankruptcv Law Held In City Wednesday . Over '6O creditors of Rufus Mesh-i berger attended an unusual hearing ! In th?. Ad' ms county court room ' Wednesday afternoon. The case was the second test of the Fraser. i Lemke bankruptcy bill in Adams county and was attended by many lawvers inter! stel in the workings of tile new l.cL Henry B. Heller. Adams county ■ ounciliation commissioner presided ver Hie hearing. The case was . rest rred to Mr. Heller from the fedei. l bankruptcy court in Fort' ■ Wayne. The case was male both interest-, ' ing and difficult by the fact that (inly the broad principles of the law 1 are discussed in the statute. The rules of procedure and the constitutionility of the law will be determined when a test case is brought befor ti ’e United States supreme . court in Washington. The schedule of liabilities was presented at the hearing. By a peculiar rule of the statute the aippmlsement of M shberger’s property in Uartfor ! township lias not yet been [ made. Only his estimate of assets w s offered. Under the provisions of the law MC'diberger was entitled to make >i eon illation offer in which he would either ask an extension of time of payment or a sealing town ■of principal and interest. Meshberger off red this proposition to tile holders of secured liens 'on his property. No offer was made | to those who had filed unsecured claims. Owners of tbs secured liens who were represented either refused or [ for time for considering the scaling 'town or the extensions of ! time of paymeats. Moeshberger then amended his plea for conciliation of debts to a request that lie be consider d a bankrupt. Under the liaw the request for lunkruptey must be transferred to federal court. j commissioner Haller indicated that the papers and the retort's >o I thep rocedings will be transmitted 'to ■? f deral court at Fort Wayne. INSULL LOSES COURTRULING Samuel Insull Must Undergo Second Trial In Federal Court Chicago. Dm. 6 .-(U.R) -Samuel insull today lost a legal battle to escape going to trial in federal , court on a second charge growing Tout of the collapse of his two-bil- ! lion-dollar utility system. '! Judge James H. Wilkerson overruled a demurrer to an indictment charging Insull and nine others [with violation of the bankruptcy indicted on the bankruptcy law charges besides the InJsull brothers were: Samuel Insuß. j r Harold L Stuart. Philip R Moonroe. John F. O'Keefe Edward I Doyle. Stanley Field. William 1. I Irwin. C. V« _ . Daniels and John H. ;: G Gulick died last year after reI turn of the indictment. Os the oth'ers all but Daniel and Irwin were , defendants In the mail fraud triaL The bankruptcy indictment J charges that Insull executives. . lowing that their companies were ! on the verge of collapse, posted J assets with banks as collaterai i to‘ I loans with whirfl to maintain dividend payments.

THREE KILLED, PILOT INJURED IN PLANE CRASH Two Indianapolis Physicians, Daughter Os One Are Victims STRUCK TREE IN ATTEMPT TO LAND Indianapolis, Dec. 6.—(U.R)-—The charred bodies of (wo distinguished Indianapolis physicians and the daughter of one of them, victims I of an airplane crash at Richmond. I . lay in a mortuary here today. The dead: Dr. A. M. Mendenhall, 50, nationally known obstetrician. Dr. John W. Carmack, 49, ranking eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Miss Evelyn Mendenhall, 24, daughter of Dr. Mendenhall, reporter for the Richmond Palladium and graduate of Hie University of i i Missouri. Lieut. Howard Maxwell of the i Indiana national guard, pilot of' 1 the plane, was injured but is ex-1 jiected to recover. He is in Heid Memorial hospital at Richmond. Funeral services have not been . completed but it is expected that! Dr. Mendenhall and his daughter will be buried at Winchester, the ' physician's former home. • The accident occurred when I Maxwell attempted to land at the unlighted Richmond airport short-; ly after dusk last night. The plane hit a tree 300 feet from the field, bounced against an- . other and burst into flames. Maxwell was thrown clear of the wreckage but the two physicians J and Miss Mendenhall were burned j to death. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hammer. I - Richmond, friends of Ur. XUmrteu- • hall and his daughter, were at the i airport waiting to turn on the head-! i lights of their car to facilitate the i landing. They heard the roar of the mot"i7i’NTlSfl”FKoV PAGE TWO) RECOVERY HEAD DEFENDS POLICY 1 ■ Donald Richberg Hits At Faultfinding And Lack t Os Confidence New York, Dec. 6. —(U.R) —A challenge and a warning from new deal recovery headquarters was placed i before business today. Industry was urged to respond 1 to the fighting spirit typified in Adt miral Farragut's order, "damn the f torpedoes, go ahead." and "timid j men" were told that their attitude was justification for furher governmenal controlling powers. Donald R. Richberg. executive director of the national emergency council, made these pronouncements in addressing the National I Association of Manufacturers. ' Faultfinding and lack of contiI dence among industrial leaders evoked pointed words from the recovery chief of staff. He referred - to the meeting of the American Bankers Association as the “beginning of constructive cooperation between business and government, but added: ' “Yet many of those who had 0 most lotifdly clamored for some1 thing to inspire confidence were, like the critical professor, eager 1 only to sneer at and to belittle any evidence of a better understanding ' between the bankers and their govt ernment. 3 One conclusion seems inevit- / able: Those w*ho try to attribute ail our ills to lack of confidence in the ■ government are proving themselves i- to be those in whom the governI. ment itself can have but little conI fidence. d “If there is to be cooperation in I- economic recovery, it must come I- from those who have faith enough ’(CONTINUED* ON PAGE TWO) p Nelson Schug Is Burned Wednesday t 1, Nelson Schug of Berne, an eme jJloye of the Nussbaum Novelty d company, received second and third r degree burns on bis arms, late Wedi- nesday afternoon when the furnace ■at the Novelty company exploded.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December B, 1934.

Martin Insull Now on Trial _ Il .IB - - E. M. Aaron Martin Insull John E. Northrup Martin Insull, brother of the former utilities czar, Samuel Instill, who recently was acquitted in federal court on charges of fraud following tlie failure of his vast enterprises, is pictured with his attor neys, E. M. Aaron, left, and John E. Northrup, right, as he stood trial ' I in Chicago on charges of embezzling $344,720. ' ■

AUTO LICENSES ON SALE MONDAY 1935 Auto License Plates Will Go On Sale December 10 The 1935 auto license plates will go on sale in each of the 150 branch offices of Hie state on Monday. De cember 10, and the last day to I legally display the 1934 plates is December 31. A new manner of issuing i: lutes ■ adopted by the bureau of motor | vehicles will provide a prompt service for the public when the appli cant follows the instructions and J suggestions set out by the bureau. The department has mailed an ' application for plates to each own |er which will describe the motor vehicle registered in 1934. The, 'application will be fully made out I from the title records in the de- . partment. The owner is requested to take • his title, along with the applica-j 'tlon, to the blanch office where the j F engine numbers may be compared, thus eliminating any delay by fur- j ther examination. Those required to pay poll tax , must show the November 1931 poll j tax receipt or other evidence from the county treasurer that the taxi |has been paid. When the applicant) ! shows his title and poll tax receipt ■ he will sign his application before I I a notary in the branch and the' 1J ownership card and plates will be; promptly issued. i For those owners who are delinquent in recording a transfer of I ON PAGE SEVEN > WOMAN'S TRIAL i! OPENED TODAY — . I 1 Mrs. Saunders Will Base Defense On Question I Os Sanity Lebanon, Ind., Dec. 6— (U.R) — ' Selection of a jury to try Mrs. Naoina Saunders, 35, on a charge 1 of plotting the slaying of her hus- - band, Gaylord V. Saunders, former ; Wabash minister, was delayed tor day pending appointment of phyv slcians to test her sanity. < Judge Paul E. Laymon ordered - that five Ixibanon physicians be brought into court. Two or three . will be named to conduct the san--1 ity test. , The test will be conducted at , 5 p. m. Questioning of prospective jnr- . ors is expected to be started as soon as the sanity hoard is named. , With Mrs. Saunders in the court a room ware Mr. and Mrs. ('. B. , Traverdon, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. , Mns. Traverdon is a sister of the defendant. Mrs. Saunders was led into the court room by Sheriff Wilbur j Smail. She was smiling broadly. Obviously in better health than when she was arrested shortly ’ after the slaying Feb. 2. Mrs. I iSlaundars was dressed in u black hat. black and grey striped dress 5 and brown fur coat. She watched CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT

Methodist Officials Will Meet Tonight There will b- a joint meeting of the fourth quarterly conference an i ; the offici.il board of the Decatur M. E. Church tonight at 17:30 o'clock., Dr. F. E. Fribley of Fort W'.yne and the pastor, the Rev. H. 11. Carson will preside jointly. All officials having reports are re-! quested to be i?res nt to read them at this thirl quarterly conference. 7i period : overed begins Oct. 18 .‘.nd runs up to date. The new organization of th? membership of the church into groups cf five families with a lead r for each will be presented by the committee for consid' ration by the official board and if its recommenda Ition -i re ac. opted the new leaders will be recoin mended for iiwmb r . ehip in the quarterly conference. The five captains are. notifying the fifth lieutenants and ail should be present tonight without fail. Rev. ! Carson urged. FARMERS ATTEND I BLUFFTON MEET I —— Conference of Farmers From Seven Counties Is Held Today More than 150 farmers from Adi ants county and other counties of i ' the district ittend' <1 the conference held in the community building at Bluffton today. Seven counties were represented at the morning and afternoon sessions. General fut ts on the farm [situation nt the present time, and I the outlook for 1935 were presen - during the morning program i’ II d-dress by Dr. W. B. Stout, a 1 I nomist from Purdue Universit [reported that farmers gen ' were more ■cptliniistlc and t'.otis were on the uptrend. Another speaker during tin? morn- ! ing was C. M. Long of Lafayette, I district supervisor of the corn-hog Land wheat oonifirol progi'mi.) He outlined tine work done by the AAA. j County agents pres.nt headed | delegations from their res.pective (counties. Adams County with 46 had i the largest delegation present. County a&.nts present included W. ' U Rash of (Blackford; S. V. Klmmen of J'ly; M. D. Butler of Grant; L. E. Archbold of Adams; L. I'.. Husted of Randolph; C. S. Collings ! of Huntington and M. S. Smith ot Wells All county agents with the exception of Mr. Husted were on the spfoklng program this afternoon. Mr. Archbold spoke on the [subject of "Dairying.” Jean Harlow Files Suit For Divorce (j Izos Angeles, Dec. 6 —(UP) Je n Harlow’s friends are not the friends of her husband, so sir? wants a di ■ [ vorce from Harold Rosson. ■ ! Miss Harlow was “cruelly" treat- ' [ ed i Ln her third husband snubbed : the people who <ume to their homo ' she charged in h r petition on Hie ' today in superior court. No alimony ■ is asked. The ooimplaint was a long recital 'lot alleged indignities the actress ■ ! charged she .suffered from Rosson s ■ inattention to h r frien s. She ac1, ettsed him of being sullen end irritI , able und possessed of an ungenerjous nature.

HOPES FADING FOR TRACE OF THREE FLIERS Capt. Ulm And Two Companions Lost Since Tuesday Morning DOUBT AVIATORS LANDED SAFELY Honolulu, T. H. Dec. 6 —(UP) — Staking fading hopes on one last ! ch' nee, the U. S. navy searched the , ocean north of Honolulu today for It eof the lost monoplane Star of I Australia and its crew of three. . The 48 hours sei by experts as! the length of time ti'.ne plane can ! remain afloat will expir • shortly. .Weary lookouts on a score of, ships pressed into the errand of mercy renew' d their vigilance.) I hopeful of catching some sign of j 1 the missing plane and the men who ! came down on th'? ocean Tuesday j morning. "It 100 l sort of hopeless.” said j commander E. Wayne Tod, in charge of the Pearl Harbor naval air base, as the search entered' its third day without a trace of Captain ! Charles T. P. Ulm and his ;omi»m[lens, L on Skilling and George Lit-' tlejohn. Naval experts reasoned Ulm must : have overshot the island' of Oahu, on which Honolulu is located, in his I effort to span the pacific from the California coast to the Hawaiian i Islands. The prevailing wind at the time ■ was from the southwest. Tiie radio I signals from tlw plane as its occup- ! ante tried to get their bearings, ap- i peare.l strongest on the Northern and w stern side ot the island. There will be fewer airplanes in the search today b cause the planes and the men themselves cannot stan I the str.in without increasing rthe possibility of accident. Tod said, j All ■:. y they have spent 20 hours in th? air since Ulm sent 'Ms f> n s[ ; message of "Come and pick us up,” rr. , .....i nfkAni zimihtpU the mono-

T d and others oouotea ine .c.n.v---i plane landing safely. They pointed 1 out that its radio became silent immediatey afl' r it hit the water. o— Ten-Year Term For Anderson Robbery Anderson, Ind.. Dec. 6—-(UP) ' Pleading guilty io aiding four other 'I Indianapolis men in daring robbery I of a downtown drug store here Aug.) [ nst 26. Ruby Minton, 32. Indianatpo lis, was under sentence today to 10. .' years in prison. Minton implicated John Deßrota. ■ Nick Cucu, Walt r Steagall and James Riggs, with whom he was t I arreste-l by state police Xtortly, ; after th? holdup when a tire on . 1 their automobile blew out near Pen- . i 1 dleton. Trial of th? other four w..s [ , set for Dee. 18. HELEN GILLIS TO SERVETERM — [ Widow Os Slain Gangster Is Returned To Madison By Officers *! Madison, Wis„ Dec. 6. — (U.R) — 1 The girl-wife of George (Baby ' Face) Nelson, slain gangster, was | returned here today to start anew ' a prison sentence for iter associ- : [ ation with the John Dillinger gang. Department ot justice agents fl brought the diminutive Helen Gil- , lis, 22-year-old mother ot the ganglister’s two children, into the juris.'diction ot the United States dls- . trict court here today and lodged her in Dane county jail. The trip from Chicago was made by automobile Secrecy cloaked the departure 5 ot Mrs. Gillis from Chicago where I she was arrested a week ago to-, ' day after a gun battle which result | [ ed in the deaths of two federal | agents and her huaband. From an unrevealed hiding i I place she was taken Ity a group of J government agents to Madison. J The trail young woman faces an , 118 months term in the women's I | federal prison for violation of pro-: > i bation. 51 She received a suspended sens i tence from Federal Judge Patrick ~ Stone last spring on charges of j harboring several members of tlie . Dillinger gang, including her maON PAGE EIGHT

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Samuel Jackson To i Speak Here Dec. 12 Samuel Jackson, Fort Wayne attorney and chairman of the Decnocratle state speakers bureau during tlie recent campaign, has accepted on invitation to speak at the victory party to he held by tii'i Young Dem- [ o ratlc club of Adonis county in this city Wednesday, December 12. | The club will sponsor a banquet 1 1 t > which all the Democratic candidates in the county will be extended [ an invitation. Plans for the contin-, 11'-tlon of the organization will be dis’ user. I. COMPANY WILL MAKE PAYMENT Central Sugar Company Will Pay $4 A Ton On December 15 —— An advance jiayment of $4.00 a ' ton will be made to beet growers ;on December 15 by the Centna.l, 1 Sugar company of this city. The payment will be for all beets I delivered to the local cotnpiny up to D cenxber 1, and will total approsimately $250,000, representing 60 to 65 thousand tons. Beets delivered after December ' 1 up to the time the mill closes will lie ; aid for on January 15, 1935. De- ■ du tions as provided In the 50-50 contract are ml.de from Hie first 1 payments. The mill will close about December 19 or 20th. Slicing of beets will ' be continued up to December 15 or 16 and 'the unloading dumips will close December 12. Growers were urged today to get , tb ir beets in before the closing of I the scale house and unloading j I dumps. The sugar factory opened its 1934 •procf.ising camjl ign October 10. The mill has operated every day . ! sin'e and tt. le run will be about 70 [ .days. Th- harvest this year will, 1 probably excel d tlie tonnage of a year '.go. It is stiniated that the yield of beets will be from 75 to 78 ’ thousands tons.

Last >;ear growers reit ived u . total of $6.20 ton for their beets, j, Un.tor terms of the contract they participate in equal share with the i. ioa.pany from the sale ot the sugar, m asses and pulp, with a guaran-j tee ot $4.00 a ton for their 'beets. ,' — o —[. 66 TERRORISTS ARE EXECUTED - Soviet Government Executes 66 As Murdered Leader Is Buried (Copyright 1934 by UP.) Moscow. Dee. 6.—(U.R) — Sergei | | Kirov, veteran and well loved bol-i' I shevik leader, was given a hero's | funeral today as the bullet torn | | bodies of 66 government enemies,, | including a woman, attested the! government's determination that I | his assassination was not to be fol-1 I lowed by others. The woman was Zinaida Bull-1 gina. She and the others were convicted of being terrorists. They | were ot being s?cret. before They I courts without right of appeal, un- [ der the emergency ' dictatorship of | [the proletariat"—the red terrorproclaimed after the assassination of Kirov, one of the soviet union’s “big ten" and chief government agent at Leningrad, by Leonid Micollev. They were executed at once. The 66 were not charged with complicity in Kirovs murder. That | seemed to be the result of a personal grudge Mllcoliev, a former CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN Regular Legion Meeting Monday The regular meeting of Adams post number 43 of the American ! [l gion will be held at the legion [ L all on South Seeon .1 street Mon-1 ' day evening at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend. o Church Observers Feast Saturday — The feast of the Immaculate Conception will be celebrated in St. Mary's Catholic church Saturday, it is a holy day ot obligation. Masses will be held at five, seven and nine o’clock.

DRASTIC ORDER IS REVENGE FOR KING'SMURDER Thousands of Hungarians Are Expelled From Jugoslavia FEAR OPEN BREAK BETWEEN NATIONS Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 6. — (U.R) — Tense indignation I spread through the country [ today at the expulsion of Hungarian families by Jugoslavia in vicarious revenge for the murder of King Alexander by i a Jugoslavian terrorist. Extra details of police pai trooled the city. The newspapers were filled with reports from frontier towns. They reported that people arriv- . ing at the frontier said thousands [ received expulsion orders, includ- ! ing every Hungarian inhabitant ot some villages. Four hundred were expelled from one village, it was said. Authorities this morning estimated that 2,000 had crossed the frontier at Soubotica. and Novisad. Another 2,000 were expected to cross at Soubitica and 900 at Novisad. One man who arrived was 86 [ years old and blind. He had lived at Horgos, Hungary, 40 years. , A train of 14 coaches arrived at Szeden. on the frontier, this morning. witli 400 distrait Hungarians ! from Belgrade. Trouble Feared Vienna. Dec 6 — (U.R)— Mass ex- ! pulsions of Hungarians from Jugoslavia in reprisal for the assassination of King Alexander brought [those countries to the verge ot an I open break today. By dozens, scores and hundreds, frightened groups of men, women and children were sent to the [Hungarian frontier, torn from their 'homes because Jugoslavia holds that Hungary sheltered the terror-

Ist gang which plotted Alexander's death. Premier Julius Goemboes of Hungary summoned hoome Waldemar Hitler von AJth. his minister at Belgrade, for a report. Mounted police were dispatched to guard the Jugoslavian legation at Budapest. Extra patrols of police roamed the city, fearing mounting popular anger would lead to riots. Keports in Belgrade, unconfirmed, said 18,000 people in all would be expelled. United Press dispatches from correspondents on the JugoslavianHungarian frontier brought pitiable stories of the groups of frightened. wondering peasants arriving from their homes of many years—the babies among them natives of Jugoslavia. Possibly by coincidence, the grave dispatches regarding the Jugoslavian-Hungarian situation were interpolated with others telli ing of moves by three countries, jail intimately concerned, to inI crease their armed strength. Hungary’s government was reported to have decided to present CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT DISTRICT ELKS OFFICER HERE Diistrict Deputy Makes Regular Inspection Os Local Lodge 'Harold D. Wolf, Wabash, district deputy of the B. P. O. Elks lodge, nude the annual inspection of the Decatur chapter at the regular meeting Wednesday night. The district officer told of the plans of the grand exalted ruler for the year. (Herman F. Ehinger, manager of I the C'itlz- ns Telephone company, wvs elected to the office of trustee to serve the unexpired term of A. L. Colebin, wild resigned recently because of his alisente from the city. Visiting Elks at the meeting included J. S. Patterson, mayor of Garrett, and Dr. R. N. Barnard, exalte 1 ruler of the Garrett lodge. (Both men spoke briefly during the regular lodge session. Preceding the meeting a rabbit cafaterla supper was served In the dining room of the home.