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Boy Scout Troop Visits Industry Rotary troop number Cl of the j boy scouts visited the Central Soya | Company plant In this city Monday, j It Is one of the January requirements of the Anthony Wayne Area I council that each troop visit some I local industry. This is a part of the i achievement round up program. Scout Master Sylvester Everhart was in charge of the boys. Ail members of trocp 61 are to meet at the Central school house tonight at 7:.10 o’clock. Final preparations will bo made for the scout banquet Friday, February 8. R. EARL PETERS HERE THURSDAY Slate Housing Director Will Conduct Meeting Thursday Final arrangements for the FHA meeting to be held in the county ! court house at 8 o’clock Thursday night have been completed by (ieorge Krlck, county FUtA chair- | man. R. Earl Peters, state director, will be the chief speaker. A special invitation was issued ; loday to all persons in county in- ' terested In building material, hardware stores, drug stores selling paint, craftsmen and the public ini icrested in obtaining a federal loan ii Adams county. After the meeting a committee will lie named by Mr. Krick to ( make a survey of the building improvement needs of the homes and business houses in Decatur and Adams county. Loans may be obtained from hau.k« having authority to do so. Interest rates are fixed at $5 per per SIOO. The time will be set by the tank and the borrower. Uptil now the majority of the * loans have been for city property. .Xattita-wide campaign Cur improvement of farm homes and other farm property, using the financing ’ facilities afforded by the FHA and with the cooperation of state farm organizations and state depart- ; tnents has just been announced. Mr. Peters wil laddress the members of the Decatur Rotary club at ' their regular weekly meeting at tite Rice hotel Thursday, preceding the community meeting. The Indiana Farm bureau. Inc.; the Indiana State Orange, the extension department of Purdue university, the state vocational education department and the governor's j commission on unemployment relief are working with the Indiana i FHA in carrying on the program. It is in the direct charge* of H. A. Oettinger, of Lafayette, a Purdue graduate who was appointed last week as a special farm representative of FHA in Indiana. A state organization for this rural home and farm building betterment campaign tfll be set up in every county and township, as part of the present county and community FHA organization. One (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) WOULD DOUBLE i RELIEF FUNDS Senate Progressives Propose Amendment To Double Fund Washington, Jan. -fi — (U.R) — j Senate progressives are maneuv-; | ering today ro double President j Roosevelt's $4,880,000,000 recovery and relief appropriation. Senator Robert M. Lafollette. Prog., Wis., is 'preparing such an amendment which will attract a few Progressive Democrat supporters and several votes on the Republican side. But the lump sum asked by Mr. Roosevelt is proof against either increase or reduction. Democrat! 1 j leaders are sure they can hold the | appropriation to the precise figure named by the President. The Lafollette amendment will I propose- an annropriation of between $8,000,000,000 and $10,000.-, 000,000. Decision of the demo-; eratio majority on the senate npi propriations committee to discuss the bill secretly defeated the first republican strategy to amend tile Ipeislstton. Two witnesses will give secret testimony today. They are budget j director D. W. Bell and rear adI (CONTINUED ON PAGE ELVB)

SENATE PUSHES TOWARD A VOTE ON WORLD COURT Upper House May Vote On Question Late This Afternoon EXPECT PASSAGE BY SMALL MARGIN Washington, Jan. 29— (U.R) — Success of the administration's ■ battle to assure American adherence to the world court was in doubt today as the eenate pushed toward a vote, expected before nightfall. A margin of only a handful of votes, possibly one or two. was | expected to decide the question 1 when the roll was called. An avalanche of telegrums, last- ! minute lobbying efforts on both sides, and the rallying calls of administration forces featured the cloning hours of the struggle. Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson, in a radio speech supporting tite administration's pro--1 court views, predicted the resolu- ; tion of adherence would he rati- | f ied before nightfuil. The last few days, admittedly, have made a great change in the world court picture. Whereas a short time rgo the issue was drift!ng piacidlv toward a vote, it now j approached (he final showdown in i e fee'ing of partisanship and bitterness which no recent congrcsI sional issue has aroused. The recent administration poll showing 60 certain votes for the world court has stood up under | •several checks of the senate membership. But in the first polls, -here were four doubtful votes which the administration hoped to : obtain. Three of (hese have been ■ 'ost. so that except for changes st the last moment, the com-i art■•ncates count 'd upon a maximum (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BIRTHDRT BALL PROGRAM GIVEN Two Floor Shows Will Feature Ball At Local Country Club The program for the birthday ball for the President was announced today. The cost so rthe entire affair including cards and all the other | features will he one dollar a couple Tie affair will be held -at the Dej ratur Country Club Wednesday night. Bp'-anse mo«t of the ticket committe; are working it has been impossible for them to see everyone who might wish to attend- For this jreason Severin Sclnirger, the chairj man of the ticket committee today requested all those who have not i purchased a ticket ta do so at the jdoor. Single admission tickets for I ’ihose who winh to play cards may j be bought at the door for 50 cents t each. Couple tickets at the door will be one dollar. Fred Schurger will act a6 executive master of ceremonies in charge !of all arrangements on the floor. Carl Young’s orchestra of Lima j Ohio, will furnish the music. The card committee composed of Mrs. Charles Lose, Mrs. A. R. A«hbaucher. Mrs. Avon Burk, Mrs. W. l A. Klepper and I Kalver have askI ed that all interested in cards he at tike country club at 7r 30 o’clock. I The games will begin at 7:45 ; o’clock. The grand march will start at (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Distribute Rent Cost At Relief Quarters The amount of rent each of the j township trustees will pay for the , new headquarters just established in the rooms formerly occupied by the Northern Indiana Public Ser- ! vice Co. on Madison street was filed with the county auditor today. The rent will be for the period | between January 21 and April 21 land is based on the relief loads of I each of the townships. The amount jeach township will pay is: Preble ‘ $2 00- Kirkland, $2.43; Root, $2.71; ■ Jeffers, n. $2.72; French $2.72; (Union $2.72; Blue Creek, ss.w, ; Hartford, 13.07; Monroe, $3.57; St. I Mary's, $7.66; Wabash, $33.15, and I Washington, $61.20.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, January 29, 1935.

Senator Long Flits Down Uprising National guardstn<*n were called out at Baton Rouge. La., to end j an uprising by the “Square Dealers,” foes* of Senator Huey Long, when it was revealed that there was an a’leged plot to assassinate Senator Ixing. Picture allows Brig. (Jen. L. F. Guerre ot the Louisiana National Guard, with coat on arm. accompanied by members of his staif, $ | leaving Gapitol Building at Baton Rogue. La.

STRANGE THEFT BAFFLES POLICE I J : Over Million Dollars In Securities Taken At * , Wall Street t , New York. Jan. 29 —(UP) — A i phantom thief hat stolen $2,685,000 •' in Wall Street during the last 1 I three years, police concluded to- ! day after hours of fruitle.se investigation into the theft of sl,450,000 in a broker’s office under circumstances that ordinarily would ; seem to bar any possibility of theft. The victim was tlie bank of ManIliattan company wlrcee messenger. George Blossfield, 65. lost his security laden wallet in the delivery room of C. J. Devine and Company. The portfolio contained $1,450,000 I in negotiable securiti s. In three other thefts during the last three i years $1,235,000 was stolen under ! circumstances so similar police concluded one man was responsible. The bank of Manhattan company 1 will lose nothing because of its insurance. All brokers and banks throughout the country were pro--1 vided the numbers of the stolen sec- | urities and detectives were put on j the case. Police believed the robI bery would be difficult to solve. ' in not one of the robberies w s the thief ever seen nor were police 1 able to analyze his technique. How he knew where a fortune would be ' available for the taking and how he (CONTINUED ON’PAGE THREE, > — o TO STRENGTHEN PRIMARY LAWS State Legislature Likely To Vote Down Repeal Os Primary Indianapolis, Jan. 29. (U.R) — Strengthening of the state pri- | niary laws virtually was assured j today by the senate elections com-, mittee. Both the Democratic and Republican state platforms contained j pledges to abolish the primary. j But unanimous sentiment of ■ members of the elections committee as they considered two important bills before the legislature gave definite assurance that all legislation on the primary would l be toward strengthening the law instead of repealing it. The committee hearing was conducted on a senate bill sponsored by the Indiana League of Women's Voters. It would move back the | primary from May to September, and state conventions from early summer to September; provide a j central place for counting ballots; require a filing fee to reduce the ? number of candidates, and prohibit slates except when printed over ; signatures of the sponsors. Favorable comment was expressI (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) j

Portland Man Is Given Sentence _ . — - t Millard Runyon of Portland : lead , guilty to a charge of stealing 17 Rhode Island red chickens from C arL-s Abnett in Adams county, in mayor's court last evening and was given a 30 day jail sentence by Mayor A.-ft. ; Hoßhoit«e j(p was also fin d one dollar and costs, amounting to sll. Tlie yoar.g man was ar- ■ rested and convicted on a similar I charge several months ago. He served a 75 day penal farm sentence for '.he first offense. SPONSORS FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Sponsors And Flower Girls Named For Wednesday’s Party Toe sponsors and the flower girls at the birthday ball for the President to be held Wednesday evening at the Decatur Country club were j announced today. Mies Ruth Macklin is in charge of the flower girls and has named six girls. They are Alta Ruth Klepper, Rachel Mickley. Ruth Voglewede, Eloise Leonard, Martha E. Calland and Mary K. TyndallThe following have been asked to act as sponsors of the .ball and to take part in the grand march at 9:15 o'clock: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knapp; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Adams; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Archbold; Mr. and Mrs. Austin Watrous; Mr. and Mrs. Clay--1 .son Carroll; Mr. and Mrs- J. W. 'Calland; Mrs. Earl Coverdaie; Judge and Mrs. Huber M. DeVose. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan; Mr. and»Mrs. Herman Ehinger; Mr. and > Mrs. John W. Tyndall; Mr. and Mrs. James Elberson; Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher; Mr. and Mrs. George Flani ders; Mr. and Mrs. Mathias Harris, ‘ Mr. and Mrs. T, J. Metzler. Mr. and' Mrs- John H. Heller; Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper; Mr. j and Mrs. L- A. Holthouae; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holthouse; Mr. and; Mrs Charles Ileare; Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kleiohjenz; Mr. and Mrs. George Krick. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lankenau; i Mr. and Mrs. Burt Mangold; Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Merryman; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Young; Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Pcrter; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cowans; Mr,, and Mrs. Fred Patterson: Mr. and Mrs. French Quinn; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Saylors; Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Schafer; Mr. and Mrs. Lee Vance. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Voglewede; j Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Wemlioff; Mr. I TcONTINUBD on PAGE FIVE) o- —- — Master Masonic Degree Thursday The master masonic degree will bo conferred on candidates at the . Masonic hall in this city Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. An oyster supper will he served following the 1

SITUATION IN LOUISIANA IS STILL SERIOUS Square Deal Leaders Charge Sen. Huey Lonfc Espionage 1,000 NATIONAL GUARDS ON DUTY (Copyright 1935, by UP.) Baton Rouge, La., Jan. 29. — (U.R) Furious because national guard troops and martial law failed to break the Square Deal Association, Sen. Huey P. Long lias mungurat'ed a campaign of espionage and terrorism to ‘ break" the opposi(ion movement, association officials charged today. Square deal leaders, who, not wishing to bring Long's ire directly upon Themselves, remained anonymous, hut they declared that those who have n ot followed Ernest [,. Bourgeois, president, into hiding. did not d* l '® walk tlle streets alone for fear of secret arrest. Martial law still prevailed in East Baton Rouge parish, which contains the state capital. Rumors were that (lov. O. K. Allen planned to extend military rule to all of the fourth congressional district which is bitterly anti-Ixmg. More troops were arriving here and it was estimated that more than 1,I 000 soldiers were on duty, instantly available to carry out orders from Long transmitted through Allen. Secret meetings of the association have been held nightly since Allen declared martial law Saturday, the association leaders said. They have been held in neighboring parishes. The military has prohibited private and public assemblies here. * At a meeting last night, the leaders were said to have decided to move association headquarters to another parish, probably to Hammond in Tangipahoa parish where exists the "shot-gun club,’’ dedicated to “extermination” of Long ami his followers with that weapon. Records of the association, spirited out of East Baton Rouge parish, : are believed to he there. Burgeois is believed to be in hiding in East Feliciana parish, immediately north of Tancipahoa. Association leaders said the state secret police, whom they call "Long’s Cossacks”, spy on them night and day. Several have received threats. Telephone wires of others have been tapped, they said, ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Presbyterian Men to Meet Wednesday The men’s society of the Presbyterian church will held an iimport- | ant business meeting at the church Wednesday evening. A pot luck sup- : per will he served at 6 o’clock for both men and women. Following the supper, the women will hold their own devotional service. All men who are members of the church are urged to attend this meeting. MAKE CHANGES IN FHA RULES Ninety Per Cent of State Banks Now Eligible To Make Loans Indianapolis, Jan. 29. — (U.R) — | Ninety per cent of state banks and one fifth of the savings and loan associations in Indiana are eligible to become mortgagees under the new federal housing act regulations. R. Earl Peters, state FHA director, said today. Changes in the FHA regulations were received at state headquarters yesterday. They will make it possible for many banks and buildI ing and loan associations to exe- | cute mortgages so rinsurance. Peters said. The order especially affects fi- \ naneial institutions in smaller eomi munfties, which previously were excluded, he said. Under new regulations, all members of the federal reserve system, federal deposit insurance corporation and federal home loan bank system will be approved as mortgagees upon application. The approvals will be made irrei (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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Joint Meeting W ill Be Held February 7 The joint meeting of tho Parent Teachers association of the Central, South Ward and Riley schools which was originally scheduled for January 30, will he held Thursday evening, February 7 In the Decatur j higih school auditorium. Francis D. McCabe, director of the state probation department, will I he the iprincipal speaker for the meeting. AUTO WRECKED THIS MORNING Four Men Escape Serious Injury When Car Overturns Four persons escaped serious injury this morning when the automobile in which they were riding skidded, hit a tree, broke two posts and overturned at the first intersection on U. S. highway 224 northeast of Decatur shortly before C o’clock tliis morning. The passengers were rushed inimd iately to the Adams County Memorial hospital for examination. Harold Hike, tho driver, was dismissed at noon today when it was found he suffered only bruises and lacerations about the face. Others in the ear were: Charles Jones, route three, Decatur, head cut, not serious;, Lloyd Daniels, route three, Decatur, fractured right leg and deep lacerations on the head, and James Halberstadt, ; Pleasant Mills, minor cuts and {scratches. Halberstadt was dismissed immediately. Tho car was being driven west when it approached the stop sign at tlie intersection of IT. S. road 221. Because of the film of ice. formed during the night on the road, tlie brakes were unable to , hold the car. , The automobile skidded across , the road, went up on the bank, .glanced off a tree on tlie Studabaker property, and broke two heavy , wooden posts before overturning. Tlie motor of the car was tele- , scoped into the dashboard. The body and frame were badly damaged. It was not known this morning whettier the car could be repaired. CAST BALLOTS FOR CONGRESS —- ' — Second District Special Election Is Being Held Today By United Press Voters in the second Indiana congressional district balloted today in special election to fill the lone vacancy in the national house of representatives. . The vacancy was created by the death of Frederick Landis, Logansport, who was the only Hidiana Republican to win a seat in congress last November. Landis died nine days after the election. Only two names were on the balj lot today. They are Charles A. HalSeek, Rensselaer, youthful prosecut- \ ing attorney of Jasper county, the j Republican nominee, and former | Congressman (Jeorge It. Durgan, Lafayette, the Democratic nominee, j i Both candidates were selected ! at conventions of the Republican and Democratic district commit- ‘ tees. Durgan served one term in congress before he was defeated by Landis. He served as’ mayor of j Lafayette for 20 years prior to his | congressional term. Although Landis carried the district by 11,000 votes, today’s election was expected to be a close j race. Halleck is favored slightly : because the district normally is Republican. Durgan has a superj ior Democratic machine to offset (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) Senior Class Will Give Play Tonight The proceeds from the annual De- j catur public high echool senior class play to be given tonight will be used to finance the activities of the class during the remainder of the school year. The play is entitled “Double Wedding” and is directed by Miss Verneal Whalen. The play will start tonight .promptly at 8:15 o’clock. Admission . j will he 10 and 15 cents and tickets j i ‘ may be purchased at the door. *

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BRONX GERMAN ADMITS MAKING MANY MISTAKES Hauptmann Changes Stories From Those Told When Arrested DENIES DEPOSITING ANY SILVER MONEY Flrmington, N. .1., .J;m. 29. tU.R) Mtoi’iit v (ieiHTol David T. Wilcntz today flung tit Richard Hauptmann his own words, written down by the police in New \ork, to confound and confuse him, anti to show how often the Bronx German hits changed his j stories. Before the noon recess. Hauptmann was involved in a tangle ol discrepancies from which he was seeking to extricate himself by repeating over and over, the words, “I don’t know—l can’t re- ! member.’’ The attorney general pressed his inquisition with the same relentless vigor that marked yesterday's session, but the fruit of his attaek was little more than a new series of denials or an admission* that Hauptmann’s previous stories were "mistakes.” Wilentz demanded to know if Hauptmann had not told the police that he didn't take the ransom hills to the federal reserve bank "because 1 was afraid they would lock me up," and later saal "it was because I didn't know where the bank was." The man charged with murdering Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr., “couldn’t remember about that,” lmt said if he had. it was another "mistake”. The state had shown that Hauptmann already knew where the federal reserve bank was tie cause he bad cached gold notes there long before his arrest. Through his own word*, too. the attorney general showed the prisoner to have lied over money matters to the family of Isidor Fisch, his fur-cutter friend, after Isidor died in Germany last March, claiming he had put $12,000 into business with Fisch. whereas his own reckoning of ihe vague business was that he had advanced less than SIO,OOO. Hauptmann said, rather weakly, that he had intended to spend only ; $2,000 of the ransom money he insists lie found in Isidor Fisch's , shoe box. and to turn the remainder over to Fisch's brother. Wilentz forced the prisoner to admit to another contradiction. Hauptmann blandly had told the ! jury that Fisch “put in most of the money with which we operated on the stock exchange.” Today, Hauptmann admitted, when confronted with another of the books taken from his home and in bis own handwriting, that the most Fisch ever could have j put into the account wae $2,000. The attorney general showed, (CONTINUED ON PACE THREE) POST WILL TRY RECORD FLIGHT Noted Flier Will Attempt Long Flight Through Stratosphere Chicago, Jan. 29— (U.R) —Wiley Post, record making around-the-world and stratosphere flier, will attempt a seven-hour stratosphere hop next week between Los Angeles and New York, officers of Transcontinental Western Air, Inc., announced today. Post hopes to fly his steamlined Winnie Mae across the country at a height of 30,000 feet and an average speed of more than 375 miles an hour. He will carry a limited load of mail over the regu- [ lar TWA air mail route. Postmaster Alexander W. Graham of Kansas City. Mo., sworo him in as an air mail pilot yesterday after a conference in which Post, Jack Frye, president of TWA, and R. C. Jopling, representative of Frank Phillips of Tulsa, Okla., agreed on details of the flight. Phillips sponsored Post’s recent attempts at an airplane altitude record, in which he fell just short I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FTVE)