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Jof ICULTY IN /fIjcOSING JURY WfO TRY WOMAN k BjelMion Os Jun To Try -jg m. Saunders Pro- . g'\|| feeds Slowly ® BK sanity of I BWaLLEGE!) KILLER | K_Sek<tion of a jury to try Mrs. Neoma Saunders. 35, on of plotting the slay■ng B her husband, Gaylord HEKmtlers. former Wabash H&ninisl<-r. proceeded slowly in 1 ircuit court today. ■ At die noon recess the state nad Bcepted 12 men to hear yhe yst- but the defense had ■taipro red only three. -li '- jury was being selectdir ■ a:i -n physic lans cumThey submitted their ror J.fla- Laymen I (iH'lj-befc: n< ■ :i He did not indicate won’t! make public the —~B Mt 'L’ Jor accepted by n'-i-- ar-? farmers, two are m> n and one is a salesB UkMlough Theodore Mathers, 19. - B* o ®* 1 of Saunders at an ein- ■ JKalm>' school in Indianapolis is ■ iccAd cf firing the shot wlii-.h Kbl9M th- former minister FebruMrs. Saunders is o'.iarged ■>lthK:-: .nd second degree mur'■RcSr INUED ON PAGE THREE) I Iffiood Fellows Club n ■« EUlTau Sigma Sorority 5 ‘ I M M 55 Kiris Church Choir I B Will Present Cantata - ■ 1% 1 uirls choir f the Zion Rvchurch will present a canHtatfl''i him s of the Holy Night" T KhBL-'! B. Holton, at the cimrch 4- llf,| " l, °n. De ember 23 at Bjir' "' Tilis wi!l 1,1 !l ™ j^^^Hservi,e to which the public fc HlflL: <1 Mrs. L. A. Dollhouse B|^^^B<- l <' lag the - BW® STEIN I UY EE CHOICE I Fyored For House | Speaker; Report Frank I BThompson In Line - B ißlanapolis, Dec. 7—(U.R) —i'-’t- | ware H. Stein, Bloomfield, will be B Wafted speaker of the lower I house of the 1935 state legislature | *t a meeting of DemoiM'ic :» m■f B k*** here tomorrow, it was Indi|Ssld today. is believed without oppoll' ■ *l**oi> although the name of Char- «• Bedwell, Sullivan, has been !T B me lUoned frequently as the poss--0 ‘ hol ce. {■<-in was majority floor leader KE? 10 session. Weiss, Indianapolis, is BSB ; l for selection as president ■■ tern of tlie senale with hiI opposition expected ’<> come | from Sen. Ward G. Biddle. BloomIjj oll - Weiss has made an active for the post. ■ »P. Frank G Thompson. BluftI HB ‘ s reported in line for majority ■ of the house while Rep. I N. Dyer, Vincennes, is slated ■ H majority caucus chairman. I ■enator Biddle and Sen. Henry J Shricker, Knox, are favored for j kta.ority caucus chairman in the I with a close contest between BaSF ,wo predicted. | ■>» organizaion meeting was | iNßed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. He IB address a joint gathering of ■ legislators after which the sen- ■ » and 1. e members will have I |Barate meetings. I B. Irwin, Republican state I Wirman. will call a meeting of ■ members of the loglslaIv so °tt- Rep. James M. Knapp. ■ gf ’ rßt °wn. is favored for minor !■ floor leader of the house while g BB' 1 Slenker, Monticello, is slatB y for minority caucus chairman S Wthe house. The senate minority B w' 1, ‘ r Probably will be Perry JohnB sF’- Atlanta.

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Bank Stockholders To Meet January 8 The annual meeting of the stockholders of the First State Bank will be held in thia city, Tuesday, January 8, 193». (Notice of the .meeting was published today by Theodore Gmliker. cashier. The election of officers will take place following the stockholders meeting at which a board of directors will ,be elected. OUTLOOK MEET HELD THURSDAY County Agents, Farm Leaders Hold Meeting At Bluffton What 1935 is likely to offer Indiana farmers was discussed yesterday at a meeting of county agents and farm leaders from Adams. Grant, Blackford, Jay, Randolph, and Huntington counties held at Bluffton Thursday. The meeting was attended by L. E. Archbold, county agent, and the following farmers from this county: E. \V. Btische, Otto D. Bieberich, Roy Price, Merwin Miller, Henry Aschlcman, Henry Hilgeman, George Krick, Virgil KriCK, Adolph Schamerloh, Victor Ulman, Benjamin Gerke, Homer Arnold, Amos K. Stoneburner, Dean Byerly, August Gallmeyer. Walter Peck. Louis Worthman, Dan D. Kauffman. Ben Mazelin, Lewis Stump, John E. Heiman. Frank R. Braun. Kermit Bowen. Henry Crownover. Henry Rumple, J. O. Teeters. Pred Kauffman. Ralph S. Myers, Grover Romev, Frank Heller. Henry Myers. George Ringger, Wm. Grandllnard, W. H Patterson. Albert ffhirlte. Harvey L. Sipe. Theo. Hobrock, Henry Aumann. H. C. Fuelling. Harve Ineichen. Leon Neuensebwander, and Qitln Wheeler. The general facts on the farm situation were presentd by Dr. W. B Stout of the farm management department of Purdue University and the outlook for the various commodities was outlined by county agents from this area. A discussion of the AAA farm record bock, of which more than 100,000 copies will be distributed over Indiana during the coming weeks, also was given. The record books will be of Considerable importance in any future crop control program and will be distributed locally during this month. The meeting at Bluffton was attended bv corn-hog and wheat control association officers and others vitally interested in the 1935 farm outlook.. These men in turn will help take the word to the local township meetings which are scheduled for outlook discussions, relaying -the information presented yesterday. L. M. Busche. assistant county agent leader, presided over the Bluffton session. Similar meetings have been or will be held at Lafayette, Indianapolis. Bloomington, Osgood, Newcastle. Salem. Washington, Evansville, Terre (Haute, Peru, Knox, and Albiion. These regional meetings are arranged so that the outlook facts may be presented to the leaders in every county with a minimum of traveling and expense on the part of these men.

Hvde To Talk At Legion Meeting Al! members of Adams post number 43 of the American Legion are urged to attend the regular meeting Monday nigf't at 8 o clock. L. H. Hy’e, adjutant, will sp&tk on the U. S. S. .Leviathan. Refreshments will be served following the meeting. Young People To Present Program The young people of ttite Baptist church will present a unique radio program at the Sunday evening service at the Baptist church. The program will start at 7 o’clock. The broadcasting will be done from an outside studio. Following the program Rev. A. B. Brown will speak on the subject, “God's Broadcast." One Scarlet Fever Case Is Reported Only one case of scarlet fever was reported in Adams -County by i the Indiana division of public health for the week-ending Saturday, Dec-| ember 1.

GIVE EVIDENCE ! THAT BUSINESS IS ONUPGR ADE Commerce Secretary’s Report Shows Business Increase LABOR REPORTS MORE EMPLOYED I Washington, Dec. 7. —<U.R)~ Evidence of improving business condi-! tions is aiding conservative new dealers In their campaign to persuade private capital to help prime the reg-overy ipump. Spending policies have split the new deal wide open. The more conservative of President Roosevelt's advisers believe government emergency expenditures ean be curtailed by inducing private capital ito undertake some of the spending burden. Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper today echoed federal reserve board forecasts of increasing winter business and predicted gradual improvement through next spring. His statement was based oh a department analysts of October trade volume. The American Federation of Labor reported for November that federal housing administration efforts had checked and apparently reversed the odwnward trend of building trades employment. It increased by 40,000 workmen between August, when FHA got going, and Nov. 1. In the latter month there was no seasonal emi ployment decrease for the first time ! since 1928. President William Green of the A. F. of k L. said that favorable condition reflected housing administration efforts to break the building trades deadlock. Previous seasonal declines in November ‘ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) o

SUGGEST FEWER COUNTYJUDGES Adams. Wells And Blackford W’ould Form One Judicial Circuit Indianapolis, Dec. 7. — (U.R) —ls suggestions of the state committee on government economy in administration of justice are followed by the 1935 legislature, only 26 of the 92 counties will have one or more full time judges. The committee lias recommended that the number of circuits be reduced from 105 to 81 and that I superior courts be abolished in [ Tippecanoe, LaPorte, Vigo and Porter counties. Under the present setup, 61 counties have one or more full time judges. The committee recommended that there be 29 circuits with two or more counties as compared to the present figure of 16. Counties recommended for one or more full time judges, with the number suggested for each follow: Knox (2). Sullivan, Shelbp, Wayne, Hancock, Tippecanoe. LaPorte. Henry, Kosciusko, Huntington, I Howard, Greene. Monroe, Gibson. I Porter. Marshall and DeKalb, one I tach: Marion. 9; Itake, 7; Elkhart, 2; Allen, 3; Vigo. 2; Delaware. 2; Grant, 2; Madison, 2, and St. Josi eph. 3. New alignment of circuits of two lor more counties was recommended as follows: Putman and Hendricks: Montgomery and Boone; Vermillion and ’(Ct>NTIN'’jiEID*ON PAGE FIVE) o Victory Party At Masonic Hall Tlie Young Democratic cluib victory party will be held in the Masonic Hall in Decatur on Wednesday. December 12, a committee of the officers announced today. Tibte ladies of the Deoatur Eastern Star will prepare and serve the food for the banquet which will begin at 6:30 o’clock. Samuel Jackson. Fort Wayne attorney, will be the chief speaker.; County and city officers will be called upon for short talks. The cost tor the banquet and the' evening’s entertainment will be 50 cents. A chicken dinner will be! served.

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Missing School Girl Found Slain I Pwmf r • &!•* • I I • ■ *** < A J * ; j i .. // ■■ - *. - According to Michigan state polile, Leroy Carsno, 24, former conV’/t, has allegedly cinfessed laying lx»one Love, inset, 12-year-old Lansing, Mich., school girl, whose battered body was found stuffed into a culvert, pictured above, outside the city. Carson under arrest, assertedly declared he accidentally shot the child while hunting.

LOCAL TROOP TO CONDUCT BOOTH American Legion Scout Troop To Have Exhibit At Fort Wayne The American Legion troop nuin- : her 63 of tfcie Decatur Boy Scouts will have charge of the aviation booth >.it the -merit badge exposition to be given by the Anthony Wayne Areu Council of -the Boy j Scouts in the armory building at j Fort Wayne this evening and Saturday afternoon and evening. Each troop entering the exhibi tion will illustrate the requirements of one merit badge offered Boy i | Scouts. The .iviation booth will be span-' 'sored by the De-.atur Model Air-! ; 'lane club. i The scouts who will take part are lawrence Anspaugh, Donald Arnold Fre.’erlck Bailer, Donald Bixler,

I. — i Donald Drake, Jack Endy, Robert Eiu horn, Monroe Fuhrman, James Highland. Neil Highland. Billy Hunter, Frederick Kirsch, Doyle Lee, Robert Lord, Edwin May. Arthur j Merriman, Karl Miller, Junior Mur- [ phy. James Skiles, Lewis Saiith and I Bob Stalter. ! Ed Jaberg is scoutmaster of tho ' troop. The members of the troop j committee are; Paul Briede, chairman, Hubert Cochran and Tillman Gehrig. iln describing the Decatur booth the scout hand book states: “time was when water furnished the principal morns of long distance transportation. More recently the auto*(CONTINUED* ON* page’ FIVE) WALTER KRICK | TALKS TO CLUB City School Superintendent Talks To Rotarians Thursday “Most juvenile delinquency cases originate when the boy or girl ’ starts playing hooky,” Walter Krick. city superintendent of schools, stated in an address before the Rotary tlub last evening. Mr. Krick told of his experiences ' as a teacher and school principal. 1 Good home environment is the best influence a ciMld can have, Superintendent Krick stated. The school superintendent dealt . with several delinquency mses which came to his attention while " acting as principal of the Van Wert ; high school. In nearly every case the trouble was checked back to the . wrong home influence. Mr. Krick in his remarks urged • citizens in general to promote projects of interest to the school child- i ren. If 'tible community takes the 1 proper interest In youth, fewer violations will be the result. The program was in charge of M. J. Mylott.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 7, 1934.

McMillen Donates Building For Scouts A frame building about 20 by 30 fe. t in size has been donated by Dale W. McMillen, president of the Central Sugar company for a Boy . Scout cabin. ' The building will be moved from i the sugar company grounds, where it h <s served as temporary office for the Central Soya company, to a site west and north of Green Wilt- , ers .swimming pool. The -abin will be used as a meeting pla.e for the Rotary boy scout troop. Avon Burk, cbiirman of the troco co:r.mittee will look after the j.b of moving the building. SALESTAX PLAN i TOBESTUDIED I Indiana Retailers Will Demand Three Per Cent Sales Tax

Indianapolis, Dec. 7.—(U.Rh-De-mands of Indiana retailers for a .< per cent sales tax to supplant the present state gross income tax today had been placed before a special committee appointed by Gov. Paul V. McNutt to' suggest revisions in tlie present setup to the state legislature. Another meeting Dec 13 was scheduled after the close of the first session here yesterday. [ A general 3- per cent sales tax would yield 33.1 per cent more revenue than the present gross income tax of 1 per cent on all income over $1,090 a year. L. I' ■ Shuttleworth, secretary of the AsI sociated Retailers of Indiana and member of the committee said. • Shuttleworth said the retailers' [plan would exempt food, fuel, ice [ and gasoline from taxation. The first three are classified as necessities and gasoline already is taxed, he explained. i The proposal led to heated de- [ bate between Shuttleworth and ! Wilfred Jessup, Richmond, former state representative and administration supporter, over the result ; a sales tax would have on buying ability of small wage earners Members of the state board of tax commissioners appeared before the committee to urge the group to recommend that real estate owned by religious and fraternal organizations and urged as revenue producers be removed from tax exemption. O - 1 Moose Plan Annual Party For Christmas The annual Christinas party for 't'lHe children of the Moose will be given at the Catholic school hall in' this Yity. Wednesday December 19. Children who wish to take part in the program are asked to meet >l.t the Moose home at 2 o’clock Saturday for practice. Rehearsals will etart for the presentation of the' Christmas play. t The women in charge of directing program are Mrs. Will Noll. Mrs. 'Bert Haley and Miss Groce I .iLidhltensteiger.

PRODUCTION OF LIGHT COMPANY I HAS INCREASED Decatur Municipal Plant Shows Large Increase This Year LARGEST OUTPUT SINCE JAN. 1930 The operation of the Central Soya Company this week has resulted In the largest load the Decatur Light and Power company has carried since the first days of Hie depression. M. J Mylott, superintendent of the plant, announced today. Thursday, 23.600 KWH of light and power were purchased from the local plant, a record not equalled since January 6, 1930. The highest peak of consumption ever reached at the plant was on October 3, 1929, wheh 29,080 KWH of power were used. Average loads during the past four years have ranged from 11,000 to 12,000 and lower a day. The amount of current used has been gradually increased in Decatur since the first of the year.. The increase has been due to several factors. Many of the larger industries have been operating on a nearly full time schedule. Improved econonri'- conditions have enabled the smaller consumers to use more electricity in their homes for lighting fixtures and electrical appliances. The reduction the first of the year in both light and power rates has resulted in an increase in the amount of currant used and will produce an estimated savings of $13,000 to consumers. Tlie plant now donates the current used in the more than 650 ornamental lights in Decatur to the civil city. These lumps use approximately SB,OOO worth of current annually. The local plant also has a cash balance on hand of over $15,000. The Decatur branch of the General Electric company is the largest user of electricity in the city. It is using an average of 6,000 to 7.000 KWH of light and power a day. The Central Soya Company is the latest of the industries to be attracted to Decatur partly bv low power rates. The Central Sugar Company is connected with the city plant only by an auxiliary line The local plant has been built to accomodate other large industries which might located here in the future. It is capable of producing 40,000 KWH of light and power a day. The largest load the plant ever has carried was only slightly more than half of its capacity. The plant was recently remodelled to enable it to produce electricity more economically. The improvements were completed on September 1. 1934. and were paid for from the earnings of the company. MANY BALLOTS DECLARED VOID Renublicans Gaining Votes In Fort Wayne Ballot Recount Fort Wayne, Ind., Dec. 7 —(UP) — Scores of ballots cast in the city election here Nov. 6 were continuing to go into the waste basket as the recount board '.iWecked each billot for incorrect marking. With fifteen of the fifty-four precincts already tabulated in the municipal recount, called by defeated Democratic candidates, >i total of more than 1,400 ballots have been thrown out as incorrectely cast. df this same ratio is .maintained throughout the recount, it is estimated ttat more than 5 500 persons will have cast their elec-tiou-day ballots in vain. The pluralities of the Republican victors have been increased by the recount. Mayor-eTect Harry W. Bails has picked up 59 votes on ibis petitioning rival, Mayor William J. Hosey, Democrat; William H. Sdhann- n. republican city judgeelect showed an increase of 132 votes over Bart A. Fagan, Democratic incumbent, Louis J. Voors, de*(CONTINUEID ON PAGE FIVE)

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Bitter Cold Wave Sweeps Country (illy Unite! Press) A bitter cold wave spread across Canada and the United States today. Temperatures plunged to ablormally low levels even in southern states. No f aimed lute relief was forecast. The cold wave followed extensive snow storms and added to the burden .placed upon relief agencies. •'The cold wave is general throughout the United States,” the weather bureau officials reported, “it is accompanied by clear skies . xee-pt along the Atkintl” seaboard and in the southeast.” o RECEIVE WORD FROM REASONER Missing Geneva Town Marshal Sends Letter To Town Authorities L. E. Glendenning. a member of the Geneva town council, has received a letter postmarked in To- : ledo, Ohio, from Bart E. Reasoner, missing former town marshal and superintendent of the town water department. Reasoner stated that he had read newspaper accounts that the Geneva town books are missing. He wrote that he had left the books ; locked on a shelf in the council, room. He said that he had left thej keys on* the table. Members of the town council announced that they ha! made a search for the books and iha.d looked on the shelf mentioned in the letter on the Wednesday following ills departure three weeks ago. Mrs. Reasoner stated that she had 'permuted two transients to sleep in the council room Tuesday night following her husband's departure and presented the theory that they mig-.t have taken the hooks. Reasoner in his letter gave no address. Neither did he .stale why he had left Geneva suddenly. He did say that if the books were gone they were stolen after his departure by ‘‘enemies’’. The Geneva town council is hoId"(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) SCOUT LEADERS WILL MEET HERE Scoutmasters And Leaders From Nine Counties Here Dec. 11 Scoutmasters and leaders from the nine counties comprising the Anthony Wayne Area Council of the (Boy Scouts of America, will meet in Decatur Tuesday evening. December 11. to discuss the para-, mount issues of scouting. The meeting here is one of a number being sponsored by the area headquarters to give the leaders an opportunity to 'exchange experien'.es in scouting. The leaders who come at 5 j o’clock will be shown over tho grounds of the Decatur homesteads development. Those wtlHo come later j will be taken through the plants of the Central Sugar company and the Central Soya company. At 7:30 o'clock a meeting will bo opened at the Knights of Pythias home. Bert Handwork, Wells county district commissioner will preside. The program is: Investiture ceremony - Bryce Thomas, Adams county distript commissioner, and Decatur scouts. “Train Patrol Leaders’’ —'a presentation Iby John Hattery, field commissioner of Fort Wayne. Music and entertainment. “Winter Camping’’ —a presentation by J. R. McKay, chairman of area camping committee. (Announcements— >L. L. Hotchkiss, area scout executive, Refreshments — Paul Ilobrock, field 'commissioner of Fort Wayne. The counties which will be represented are Allen. Adams. Wells. DeKalb. Whitley. Steuben. Jay. Lagrange and Noblo. —— — 0 — Barber Officials In Decatur Today Frank McKaney, secretary of the Indiana state birber’s board and Victor Hood, inspector for the department were in the city today. They will return next week for the Fonner trial.

CLAIM HUNGARY IS ATIEMPTING TO SEIZE LAND Sweeping Charge Is Made Before League Os Nations Today PROTEST AGAINST MANY EXPULSIONS Geneva, Dec. 7.—<U W —lmminent threat of war in Europe was aired before the council of the League of Nations today in a combined attack on Hungary by her neighbors, who warned Europe that the encroachment on the little intense nations inevitably would lead to war. Hungary, defending herself against Jugoslavia's charge that she fostered the assassination plot against King Alexander of Jugoslavia, declared that the plot was i hatched by Croat terrorists outside I Hungary and was openly announced at a Croat terrorist meeting in Youngstown, Ohio, before the as- ! sasslnation. Dr. Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia. speaking for the little entent, (Roumania, Jugoslavia, and I Czechoslovakia) supported Jugoslavia, however, and declared: .1 “If the ease now before the consui had happened before the World war and before the league existed, 1 war between the two states concerned would have been today a sad reality. “If in future any attempt is made '[to imperil the unity of Jugoslavia, ' Czechslovakia and Roumania. the same catastrophe inevitably would be provoked.” [ The gravity of the discussion and of the bitter situation in the Danubian region was emphasized ' by the debate before the council, 'the expulsion of thousands of Hungarians from Jugoslavian territory where many of them had lived for years, and the sharp protests of Hungary against the expulsions. Eckhardt, in explaining his statement that the assassination was plotted in America, skid: "The meeting at which the death sentence of King Alexander was announced was held last summer [in Youngstown. O. It was attended by 10,000 persons A similar ' announcement was made in Buenos I Aires and other cities of North and I South America.” Exiles Destitute i 1934 by United Pr&w) Sx. ged, U u ngarian-J ugoslavian Frontier, Der. 7—‘(UP)-'Hundreds of destitute Hungarian refugees, driven from tilieir homes in Jugo. ' slavia, crowded this bonier town today while angry citizens demonst rat-d in the streets, crying "down with Serbia.” The mass exodiie, enforced by tho | Jugoslavian government in reprisal (CONTINUED*ON PAGE THREE) HEAD OF LOCAL SCHOOLSNAMED Walter Krick Is Named Countv Director Os Relief Classes •Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the Decatur public schools was name! county director of the federal relief adult educational classes at a meeting of more than 25 representative of county organizations interested in the betterment of tiie citizens, held Thursday afternoon in the Adams circuit court room. Mr. Krick will replace Robert Ehrsam, Berne young man. who resigned to accept a position in tho Linn, Randolph county consolidated school. Ehrsam will teach mathematics and physical education in addition to coaching the basketball team. R. J. Deirborn. state director of the relief classes, was present at the meeting. He dtecussed the work being done in other counties in the , i state. A list of 20 unemployed teachers [ was presented at the meeting. Otibler * unemployed teachers may fiU out 1 blanks now in county superintendent of schools Clifton E. Strikers * office. The name will be referred * to the state headquarters where the instructors will be selected.