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APPLY FOR AID IN FHASURVEY I Petition For FERA Funds For Federal Housing Survey Here i* __r— An application has been mads I through the local FERA office for I two nien and a woman to make the city and county survey for the FHA program, (Iwtrgo Krick, 2 chairman of the county committee I announced today. ) [ Miles Roop, work director for - ■ the Adams county FERA organizar tion. staled today that no -word s has been heard from Indianapolis t pe to whether the petition will be s approved. • The county committee is expect--1 ing to time the modernization s drive to pick up the slack in employment after work on the home- * steads is concluded. ’ The survey will form the basis 1 of information which will be used ’ by the committee in directing the 1 drive. Leaders in the drive in the nation have pointed out that approximately 75 cents of every dollar spent for repairs and improve--1 ments go to local labor. Most of j the money they receive in wages ' i is immediately put back into the channels of retail trade. Bills are paid. Purchases are made of food. ’ i clothing and such neoTssiti's, then ’ of other goods and luxuries. More than 80 cities held mod--1 emizlng and improvement campaigns in 1932 and 1933 similar to the one being p'ar.ned in Decatur. ' These resulted in an average expenditure of approximately $lO ' ; per capita for repair and ini- • provement work. At that time there was no financing plan •mcli 'i»s is rtow available under the ■ federal housing act. The act authorizes home and 1 1 business property improvement • loans of 8100 to 82.000 with as mueh as three and some* imps fiva 1 years to nav. The loans are fin--1 anced at a low rate of interest. o Training School To Open Tonight The second semeuter of the com-mu-iity leadershii tr inlng scitool will on n tonight at 7:30 o'clock in , the Decatur high school building and will continue<sach Tuesday evening for five weeks. Four c ursee. al! led by teachers accredit d with the International Council, will be offered. All inter «ted persons ar? asked to be present at the opening of the school tonight when full infornntion ae to the courses will be given. The local comniitt’-e in charge is comp wed of Rev. H. R. Carson, the Rev. C. M. I’rugh and the Rev. G. O. Walton. The Rev. If. R. Corson hat< been .-elected as Dean of the school and Mr.s. Frank L. Engle is the regiotrar. A nominal registration fee <>! 50 cents is sked of all who.atI teed. Th' teachers give their eerI vices without pay. o 1 SPEEDS ACTION i ON LEGISLATION Administration Leaders To Speed Action On Three Projects — Washington, Feb. 19. — (U.R) — ' Freed of the nervous tension which existed while the gold clause cases were pending, administration leaders planned today to speed up action on three major new deal legislative projects. They were: 1. The $4,889,000,000 work-relief bill now befoie the senate. 2. The eonomir security program, upon which house and senate committees will conclude hearings this week. 3. NRA legislation, upon which a presidential message was expected today or tomorrow. This activity will be augmented by the rush of proposed legislation from other quarters. Much of this had been held up until the supreme court acted. New proposals include: 1. A work-relief bill amendment sby Sen. Elmer Thomas. D., Okla., i requiring wider use of silver buli lion and silver certificates.. Thomas estimated immediate affect of his amendment would be to expand ■ the currency by $325,000,000. i 2. A bill by Sen. Burton K. ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

REPUBLICANS ' WOULD REPEAL . GROSS INCOME Three Per Cent Sales Tax Bill Is Introduced In House THREE IMPORTANT BILLS ARE KILLED Indianapolis, Feb. 19— (U.R) — . Repeal of the gross income tax I and substitution of a three per , | cent retail eales tax was asked . today by Republicans In the House of Representatives. Ik>th measures were promised ! in the Republican state platform adopted in convention here last summer. The sales tax bill provides that ( tlie tax may be added to regular I sale price and that utilities shall come under the law. Revenue would go into the state general i fund. The gross income tax repeal bill was signed by four Republicans. ’ i While the senate was passing ■ 10 measures on to the governor for signature, the house today 1 killed three important bills, in- ' eluding one providing for pari- ' mutual betting on horse races. The house voted 48 to 22 for ■ 1 indefinite postponement of the controversial "fair practices” bill, designed to eliminate price wars and killed the Dyer bill to increase 1 texes on chain stores by voting 39 to 34 for Indefinite postpone-1 ment. Among the most important bills passed by the senate and sent to the governor was one establishing county boards to supervise lending of school funds. Closest vote nn any one of the senate bills passed was 29 to 19, on the uniform firearms act. it (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE' CONTINUE FIGHT ON BUDGET BILL Fifty Million Dollar State Budget Bill Up For Second Reading Indianapolis. Ind.. Feb. 19 —Party . J linca were dr -wn again today in th? Indiana legislature us the house of representatives prepared for another strenuous session over the $50,000,090 state budget bill. The measure, which hurt week precipitated one of the meet spectacular party displays ever seen in the geneivil assembly, was expect- ; ed to result in a similar dens>nstra- J I tion today. The bill, which in its present form would incur a defi; it f approximately SBOO,OOO, was to be reported 1 i out so rse.ond r ading by speaker | i Edward H. Stein, D.. Bloomfield. Defeated in their first efforts to I strike more t. an $2,0C0.000 from | I the appro;roti ns. Republicans, walked out in a body, charging that I Democrats were "railroading” the bill through the h’ use. Republican members returned to their desks yesterd y after a bitter fight in caucus, held to deternine their next move in connection with the budget bill. They announced yesterday they would fight to .have each item of the bill re ad again on second reading but S|ein qut kly informed them their demands would not be granted. Kill Race Bill Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 19 —(UP) (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Decatur Man Fined For Intoxication A fine of one d liar and costs was assessed against Harry Sheets in mayor's court today by Mayor Ilolthouse, on tihe former’s pl a of guilty to a charge of public intoxication filed by Policeman Floyd Hunter, on February 14. The fine was paid. ——- Clarence Mitchell Given Thirty Days Clarence W. Mitchell is bsingi held in th? Adems county Jail on, a charge of contempt of court fol- 1 I lowing the divorce proceedings, 1 filed by his wife Ora B. Mitchell. He i, was s entenced to serve 30 days in , I the Adams county jail. 11

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 19,1935.

Everett Miller Is Hurt. In Fall Everett Milker of Ceylon was painfully injured about noon today when he fell in a aewer being constructed at the Decatur homesteads site. Miller slipped and fell seven feet, landing on the back of his neck. He was rushed to a local physician and ' then taken to the Adams county memorial hospital. His neck was giving hiw severe pain and he was unable to move either his head or jaws. An X-my was taken early this 1 afternoo nand at two o'clock this afternoon the plates had not been developed. The full extent of his injuries will not be known until the pictures can be examined. TRANSFER FUND TO AID RELIEF Fund Will Finance Aid To Needy Os Country Until March 1 Washington. Feb. 19 — (U.R) — President Roosevelt today transferred $45,000,000 in unexpended PWA funds to the federal emergency relief administration, financing aid to the nation's 21,000,000 needy persons until March 1. The action was taken after relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced he had spent the $100,000,000 already allotted for relief this month. The $45.000.<X)0. he said would last only until March 1. By that | time, however, administration of-1 Relate expect congressional ac-' tion on President Roosevelt’s $ 1.850,009.000 work-relief bill. The $45,000,000 transferred today came from PWA housing funds, leaving only $15,000,000. The relief administration. PWL administrator Harold L. Ickes said, will repay the advances when . It receives the $880,000,000 relief ! appropriation in the work-relief bill. Ickes said the relief loans wore | made from a $238,000 000 unexi nended and unobligated balance "impounded” by the President early thte year. New Projects Washington. Feb. 19 — (U.R) — Public works administrator Harold L. Ickes said today a prelim(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Street Closed For Excavation Monroe street, west -f Second to Third street was ehut off today while workmen were excavating across the street for the McConnell sewer. Ralph Roop, city engineer and civil works commissioner, statd that the street would be opened Wednesday night if possible. Lights will be placed at the street corners : to warn motorists. WOMEN TO REAR JUDGE McNABB Fort Wavne Judge Will Speak To Democratic Women Friday Judge Clarence McNabb of Fort Wayne will deliver the principal I address before the Adams Countv Democratic women's club banquet to be held at the Rice hotel, Friday evening at 6:30 o’clock. The following program will be presented after the banquet: Song. "America the Beautiful" —Audience. Repeat the American’s Creed. Music, "Medley of old songs,"— Mrs. Louis Holthot.se. Short business meeting. Group of songs — Mrs. Louis : Holthouse, accompanied at the I piano by Miss Rosemary Holthouse. “Smilin’ Thru" by Penn: "The Sweetest Story Ever Told’, by Stults, and “The Lamplit Hour" , by Penn. The address will then be given by Judge McNabb. Members of the ticket commitI tee in charge of the sale of tickets includes Mre. Charles Lose, Mrs. Frank Crist, and Miss Betty Macklin. All members of the club, or interested women desiring to attend this dinner may secure tickets from any member of the ticket committee. Reservations must be made on or before Thursday afternoon.

BUILD SEWERS AT HOMESTEAD Construction Os Sewers Likely To Start Late This Week Construction of the aewers in tho Decatur homesteads project will probably begin the latter pirt of thte week, as the first car load of 1 tile was received this morning. Mont of the excavation in the project itself will be done by FERA , labors. Miles Roop, the work direr-' tor, stated today that no additional men will be hired. The 45 men now working on tihe grounds will be transferred to the new project. A portion of the excavation will be done by machinery under contract. At one point a 13 foot cut will be necessary which would be diffi- ' cult for hand labor. Work will probaldy begin soon on tlie 48 cisterns to be dug at the project. This will be done under the isupervision of Austin A- Watrous, : project m nager. The governin'nt j ' desiarded all bids for this job. stating that they were too high. Tue j honieoteads department autb rized Mr. Watrous to hire hte own men and pur has? the mat* Hate. The preliminary excavation will be done by Yost Brothers. Th? walls will be smoothed and the exoivai tion completed by a crew of four or five FERA lalioreu.. Two forms for the cancr te have | been obtained and t ? concrete will i be poured by FERA laborers, who. will also dig the laterals connecting ; the houe s to the cteterno. B?cause i ' tb> topography of the ground is uneven no estimate can lie given 'of how many the men can c aiplete ; in a day. The driveways in the proj?ct will | not be completed until the fre zing weather is past. CONCESSION TO DRY INTERESTS ‘Model’ Liquor Bill Makes Two Concessions To Dry Leaders Indianapolis, Feb. 19 — (U.R) — Two important concessions wetmade to dry interests by the administration in drafting its ’model’ liquor bill, introduced yesterday in the legislature. First, and most important, is the provision which will permit town boards or city councils in cities under 5,000 population to determine whether liquor can be sold by the drink. Cities to which this would apply are Alexandria, Angola. Attica, Aurora, Boonville, Columbia City. Crown Point, Delphi, Dunkirk, Garrett, Gas City, Greencastle, Greenfield, Huntingburg, Jasonville, Jasper. Lawrenceburg, Liconier. Loogootee, Martinsville. Mitchell. Monticello, Montpelier, Nappanee, Noblesville, North Xernon. Petersburg. Rensselaer. Rochester, Tipton, Tell City, Union | City and Winchester. In drafting the local control 1 ! section, administration leadeis j considered the vote cast by tho ; various cities in the state wide i liquor referendum during April. I 1933. Another Important concession ! made to anti-saloon league interI ests was the section which would prohibit roadhouses from obtaining liquor permits. This section, however, faces a I severe fight when the bill comes up for passage. It would me.in virtual abolishment of 1,500 roadhouses in the state. Roadhouse interests are expect-! ed to have a powerful lobby work- , ing in their favor. They are also ! , likely to have support of many! | ’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Will Transmit NRA Message Tomorrow Washington, Feb. 19—(UP) Pres ident Roosevelt prob.ibly will transmit to ocngncfie tomorrow his m ssage calling f r extension of NRA. it wns leirned at t.'ie White House today. Mr. Rooe'velt originally intended sending the message Monday, but conferences necessitated by the supreme court’s gold decision com-1 pelled him to postpone work on it. j He will put the finishing touches to the rr.'eesage today and tomorrow morning.

FIVE PROJECTS ARE LISTED BY CITY OFFICERS Additional Public Work Projects Are Listed For Decatur NEW COMMUNITY BUILDING LISTED Additional public work projects for present and future needs of Decatur, were listed today by Mayor Holthouse and city officials land sent to F. M. Ix>gan, state engineer for the PWA. The list included five projects, making a total of 19 all together. The first inventory of improvements included 14, totaling approximately $345,000. The five projects submitted today, include a community building, a central steam heating system, street resurfacing, marking of streets and tree surgery. The esti-1 mate of cost was placed at $248,1 500. The listings follow: ! Community building, estimate,. $150,000. Central steam heating system, in ' connection with municipal plant. $75,000. Repair and resurfacing of brick and macadam streets, $20,000. Tree surgery and trimming of shade trees, $2,500. Erecting street name markers, ( SI,OOO. The suggestion was made on the government’s questionnaire, that | the community building lie built I either separately or in connection with a new school building, if such a building was granted under the ' public works administration. I The listing of the proposed im- j provements is not a request for funds. Neither is it a committ- j ment nor agreement from the j municipality that the program of improvements will be carried out. I the federal government requesting local governmental units to make ' an inventory of possible improve-! ments. Congress has not yet passed the , $4,800,000,090 work relief bill and iit is not known what provisions ; will be made regarding public improvements. Tho purpose of makI ing the additional inventory was to include all possible needs of the' community for years to come, Mayor Holthouse stated. o Joint Observance At K. Os P. Home Several out of the city visitors j are expected to attend ti'.ie 70th anniversary celebration to be observ- j ed jointly by the Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters lodge tonight at 6:30 o’clock in the lodge dining r:om. The committees of the lodge have , j extended an invitation to the mem- ! bens to invite their friends and families to attend. HUGE FUND FDR U, S. DEFENSE Lartje War Department Approbation Bill Is Reported Washington, Feb. 19—XU.RY— The largest war denartment annronriation bill, with one excention. in American peace-time history I wa>s reported to the house today. I It carried an indirect warning to | ! foreign nations that America plans a strong defense. The $378,699,188 army sunnlv i bill provided for purchase of 547 new airplanes, strengthening the national guard and, on direction of the President, increase of the regular army from 128,750 to 105 000 men. The appronriations committee called for the largest military i outlav since 1921, with exception j of 1931. “Taking the navy into account.” j the renort said, "the 1936 budget ! for national defence is approximately $100,000,000 in excess of the largest regular annual annro- 1 nriation for national defense since! enactment of the budget law." The budget for the navy was 5477.224.000 for the next fiscal year. The committee hooded the warning ot Gen. T'.vUglas Mne- | Arthur, chief ot staff, that the TcONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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DILLS FEND TO INCREASE TAX Measures Introduced In Legislature Would Increase Taxes Indianapolis, Feb. 19.—(U.R) —Bills to increase taxes introduced in the state legislature during the week ended February 16 outranked measures to reduce governmental . 1 expenses by more than two to one,: according to a survey conducted I by Harry Miesse. There were 124 bills introduced : in the legislature during the week. I Miesse listed 27 of them as tending to increase taxes and 11 de-' signed to reduce expenditures. The senate bill setting up a fee system ot paying sheriffs for feeding prisoners in county Jails will increase costs, Miesse said. Increases in expenditures also are contemplated under three comI panion measures introduced in the senate intended to permit local units to take advantage of federal i aid projects, he pointed out. . Repeal of the poll tax, provided ’ ■ in another senate measure, would ! mean loss ot about $1,500,090 presI ent revenue, according to the sur- j | vey. New sources of revenue also would have to be found if munici-pally-owned utilities are exempted from state and local taxes, as pro--1 vided in a bill introduced in the house, Miesse said. Two other bills in the house would reqquire townships to carry accident and sick benefit policies lon members ot volunteer fire departments, and that free transportation be provided for negro children if sent to schools farther away from home than they would attend if races were not separat(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SEEK TO SHOW YOUTH IS SANE State Calls Witnesses To Show Young Kennamer Is Sane Pawnee, Ok’a. Feb. 19 —(UP) — The state today called rebuttal wit- ! nesses to prov? to a rural jury that . Phil Kennainer. son of a federal judge was a brilli nt student and j thus infer he was sane last Thanksgiving night when he killed John Gorrell. Jr. A state rebuttal witness. Dr. G. W. Robins, n of Kansas City who qualified as an expert, testified that he considers Kenn mer sane. He based his conclusion from observing the youth testifying yesterday. I “He did not look, act or talk like , an insane man on the stand,” the ' witness testified. Dr. D. W. Griffin, superintendent ! of Oklahoma's largest insane asy-' him. concurred in Dr. Robinson’s : conclusicn and teslifie dthat alI though he considered Phi! A. "Psy- | -.nopathic personality" he was certain the youth knew right from : ! wrong and therefore was sane. From the witness stand yesterday j Kennamer olid that he killed Gori rell in self defense. Gorrell, a den-, t >1 student, threat' ned him because ! Kennamer refused to mail an extortion note demanding $20,000 from Homer F. Wilo:x, Tutea oil man, on threat of death to his daughter, Virvinia. The young defendant insisted he attempted to frustrate the plot solei ly to protect the daughter, whom he I loved. Defense alieniss have testified (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —— • — Decatur Native Is Gaining Fame William Dorwin Teague, a native! of Decatur, is gaining a name for * himself as an industrial classicist. | ! He was also recently voted one of ! the 10 beet dressed men in New j ! York. Tague was born in Decatur but hte family moved to Pendleton . where he was raised. There he worked as a printer's "devil” and became imbued with the idea that he could achieve trine as an artist.' In New York h'? slowly became recognized as one of the leaders in designing articles ot beauty for manufacturers. Last .spring Henry Ford called Digue to Chicago to make attractive his exhibit at A Century of Progi'ess. Tague lias ateo : assisted the Ford engineers in designing the Ford automobiles. I

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GRANTS BRUNO APPEAL RIGHT FROM VERDICT Hauptmann Is Granted Stay Os Execution, Set For March 18 WRIT OF ERROR GIVEN LAWYERS Trenton. N. J.. Feb. 19 — (U.R) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann today ! won the right to appeal his couI viction for murder of the LindI bergh baby and was granted a stay of execution, originally set ior the week of March 18. Chancellor Luther A. Campbell granted a writ ot error to C. Lloyd Fisher and Frederick Pope, of defense counsel, after Fisher had split with chief defense counsel Edward J. Reilly. Reilly had pro■posed to delay the appeal action { and said either he or Fisher had to get out of the case. Hauptmann’s sentence to death was automatically stayed by granting of the writ. The state will pay the cost of printing the record for the appeal because Hauptmann is a pauper. The date of March 28 was set for argument before the court of errors and appeals. Fisher and Popo asked and were granted a writ for a review of Hauptmann’s conviction in hie trial at Fleming- \ ton. Theodore Backes, representing the office of tho attorney general, said the state opposed the action !of Fisher and Pope when they first asked Justice Thomas W. Trenchard that tho state nay for minting the record. However, tho opposing counsel reached an agreement and the objections were withdrawn. ! 'They then went before the chancellor, whose order follows an unusual New Jersey judicial nrocedure. It denied an appeal to 1 the sunreme court, which reviews the acts of lower state courts, and sent the appeal directly to tho i court of last resort. Pope had suggested that the ; case go first to the sunreme court for review which would provide defense counsel with a delay. Campbell declined the suggestion and ordered that the counsel appear before the court of errors and appeals on March 28 to make their appeal and have a date for argument fixed. Fisher again criticized Reilly’s anpnrent desire to delay the appeal action until ruturn of attorney general David T. Wilentz. "Mr. Reilly has repeatedly hampered us.” he said. Fisher, who was authorized by Hauptmann to procbed. declined i to say whether he would go ahead without Reilly henceforth, but in New York Reilly said that either he or Fisher had to retire from i the case. PENSION RILLS IN 40 STATES Old Ave Pension Laws Laws Bein? Considered In Forty Legislatures Chicago. Feb. 19.—(U.R)—Clamors in Washington for the Townsend old age pension bill penetrated the legislative halls of 40 states this week in a volume that assured a national liberalization of pension laws, independent of congressional action. State law makers rallied in unl precedented number behind 238 'old age pension bills in 40 of the ' 43 legislatures in session or temp- ; orarily recessed. Solons of seven ! states acted favorably on the S2OO- - a-month-spend-as-you-go Townsend plan, although they want the fed- ! eral government to pay the bill —• I not their own states. A survey made by the American Public Welfare Association as ot ! today showed that bills for giving money to aged indigents outnumber any other type of legislative proposal by a staggering proportion. Massachusetts alone has nearly iSO old age pension bills in the legislative hopper. Twelve states would memorialize congress to enact the Townsend plan, with a national 10 per cent sales tax. Three ot them already have done so. They are i I (CONTINUED ON PAG® FIVE)