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|H COMPANY h WORK ON Iking plant L Sugar Company ■ Build New I ertilE er Mixing Plant ■ ADDITION I 1( ) operations ■ ba< started on the further £ of the M< MiHen interT t i lP Central Sugar com- ■ slant in the north part of ■foundations bPil ’R built for ■fertilizer mixing ptant. ■terete and fra' ll '' building. K. feet in size, one story ■ll be construe ted north of ■t sugar storage yards and ■ t he main office building. ■ McMillen, president of the ■ompsny and its allied in- ■ announced. ■ruction of the building is ■he supervision of Harry Os- ■ the Indiana Construction ■gineering Company, buildKe sugar company's yards ■e Central Soya company ■nd warehouse. About 25 ■e employed at the building ■tew enterprise will not en- ■ the manufacture of fertil- ■ the generai trade, but will ■ mix for beet sugar grow■iciais declared. Kjny officials state the sugar K has no intention of going Ke business of nianutacturK selling fertilizer to the ■ The company will mix only Ktiliier needed by the fleet K of the Decatur district Kpply the sugar mill with ■ Growers will get their fer- ■ u the same time they re■heir beet seed Only those ■u mixtures will be made ■ iurr given the best results ■hrious soil: in this district, ■fer to determine the most ■e fertilizers to use on the Bop. many experiments have ■kdiicted during the past ■n, not only by the sugar By. but also by Purdue Uni- ■ and the United States deBn of agriculture. Purdue Blty is running fertilizer ■I 48 different plots of land BecMttr. Those experiments j ■tend over a period of six ( I The United States depart-i ■tSrtculture Is also eondmt■ti on 60 plots of land just ■ the state line in Van Wert, ■ where a portion of the i ■*re grown for the Decatur I The sugar company iias ■fficting tests on 54 farms pd throughout the district ■ various amounts and kinds ■liter are applied with the ■t planting time. Side-dress-■Heations of fertilizer applied ■ after the" blocking and K are being conducted on pent farms. Hundreds of pts have been made from S farms to determine the pt needs of the different soil pWUBD ON PAGE TWO) | Rena Zehr Is I Given Commission I Rena Z..-r, who has been’ L‘7‘“ l * ter a t Berne since] f’™ today received her Riot! Its permanent post-' L he commission was sign-, jPfesident Roosevtlt. Her four ' started officially January | r i r—— Is Fined For Public Intoxication « Briggs of Delphos, Ohio, 1 U„ " 1 t edon « dollar and costs, g t® 111 by Mayor Holt- , "“T 8 c:urt last evenin *- / guilty to a charge of ar res tea bv n Floyd Hunter Tuesday -~ f e‘t Miller Has Dislocation iinis a y amination at So2i ly Men,orial Hoard-! ir> e of th When a ted i filler . neck wae found, i hffeiiZ? Injured Tu teet into a * w ’ r ’ “•»» Vv* 16 ,nd Dallas ? k - n Wednesday,' ltt “w B S il°g WtllMis!oca " on i

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Killer Found Dead ? t ■ 1 Fl L— Miss Ethel Howard. 32-year-old • former school teacher, was found ■ dead of exposure in a sewer near | ’ her home at III. She had been sought by authorities after the fatal shooting of her brother ’ tnd sister and wounding of her 1 father and nephew. It was beI lieved that the woman had run amuck and ehot her relatives after ; a breakdown from worry. BETTER PUBLIC HEALTH SOUGHT : City Board Os Health Inaugurates Campaign For Sanitation II t The city board of he‘lth is inaugi urating a campaign in the interest • of public hoiilh and child welfare,, ■ hoping to eliminate the unsanitary ’ privies and other places, recogniz•I ed an breeding places for disease. 1 ’ Dr Robert Dani-Is. secretary of ‘ the Award, Mrs. Paul Graham and ■ I Dr. G. J. K line. merrlsera, hive a plan outlined and have '’teen given : the supnort of th? city council in carrying their progr m to completion. Civic orgnization.s. including Adants Post No- 43 of the American Legion have offered support in the board's plan to create better health : conditions in the city. Recently the local American Legion ipost, through its officers. •asked the board of health to eliminate those places injurious to the public heait i and ’ offering their cooperation in all mutters pertaining to better health renditions. Health h ard members have made a tentative survey of the up-down district and declare several unsanitary closets have been found. An effort will be mad? to correct this condition. The cooperation of the public is solicited by the health board, whose ■ sole purpose in advocating a higher ; sanitary standard is done in the interest of the parent and child. Q ■ 1 speed recurd SET Bl FLIER Leland Andrews Sets New Record From Los Angeles To New York New York, Feb. 21—(UP)—Le- ■ land S. Andrews, an unheralded but | nervy graduate form the army's , ' air ranks brought a low winged I monoplane roaring aerx»-> the Unit ~ led States at unprecedented speed ; today to’set a r-c rd of 11 haiirs 34 ] minutes for a flight from Los An j gales to New York. i The former army flier, who says “there's nothing" to breaking air i records, flew mostly through the sub-str? tosphere at 12.000 to 15.000 i feet altitude, and at one time c touched 320 miles an hour. He i stepped for 12 minutes at Washing.- i ton. after setting a mark of 10 hours 22 minutes and 54 seconds to that city. I The old transcontinental record, [held by Major Jimmy Doolittle was 111 hours, 59 minutes from Los Angelis to New York, at 2:24 p. m. 1 ' EST. The monopline took off from Un- 1 lon air terminal at Burbank, Cal., at • 1:50 A.M. : Accompanying Andrews were copilots Henry Meyens nd Radio operator G. D. Rayburn. They flew the 1 same standard transport plant in which Maj. Jimmy Doolittle estab- ■ U. ’ 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) «

ENACTMENT OF STATE NR A BILL SEEMSASSURED Original Measure .Amended To Suit Business And Industry SENATE CONSIDERS STATE BUDGET BILL Indianapolis, Feb. 21— (d.R) — , Enactment of a state NRA bill ' appeared certain today after ad ministration leaders announced | that they had completely amended | the original measure to comply | with demands of business and | industry. The amended Lili will be reported favorably out of the senate | - judiciary B committee this afternoon. It has been in committee ' ever since its passage by the | . house two weeks ago. laiss leader and price fixing ' provisions have been removed from the bill and it will contain , no collective l>argaining provision i such as section 7 A of the nation- I ' al recovery act. Chiefly, .It will establish state | ! codes so that state courts can have power to enforce them. Before the NRA bill comes out of committee, however, tne senate will tn«et as a committee of the whole this afternoon to consider i j ihe $50,000.0(10 budget bill which I was passed by the house yester-1 day. Pari-mirtuel betting on horse | races, believed a dead issue forff the current session, was revived in the house today when the ways ' and means committee reported favorably on the Dyer-Black bill. It would legalize betting on horse races. Several important bills were introduced in the house today. Mrs. Roberta Nicholson. D., Indi- , anapolis, offered a measure which would practically eliminate bill board advertising along highways. (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) JUNIOR CLASS PIAYTOESDAI Public High School Class Will Present Plav Next Tuesday Night The junior class of th? Decatur public V’S' l school will present a play .entitled. “Phillip for Short,” written by Kay Ziegfield, at the i high school Huditorium next Tuesday, February 26. at 8:15 p. m. Admission prices will be 15 cento 1 for children and 25 cente for adults, i Tickets m>iy be obtained from any member of the junior class or at the | ' door. The play fe staged in the living ' room of the Dodge home in May- | riel don an evening ia late sum- • nier. The ci st of characters f Hows: Henry Dodge, a Hading citizen— Albert Keller. Betty, his sister, Madeline Crider J Josephine, his wife—lrene Sosner Jan. his cousin- Marie Gnetiher. , S>ia-uel, his butler—Bob Ashbaucher. Mrs. Wiggins, his mother-in-law —Agnes NelsonAlfred Dukes, who lives next door —Harry Moyer. Beranium, the cook—June O’Dwinell. Matilda Tucker, of th? Mayfield Purity League—Gladys Il irvey. Phillip McGrath, himself —Robert Engeler. Spasm Johnson, his servant— J W illiam Tu-tweller. Miss Verneal Whalen is directing the p. ruction. Willkim Sohaf-er is ; stag? manager, Tony Fennig, busi-1 ncss manager; .pimist, Evelyn Ad-j ams. Meshberger Bros. Awarded Contract ——— I I The Meshberger Brothers Stone L company, Linn Grove, submitted, the low bid to the state highway, commission at Indianapolis for 1 shoulder widening on state road No. 9 between Huntington and Morion. I The bid was $21,919. The widening project draffted by i the state highway commission will effect a stretch of the state high- 1 way 10:39'miles long from a half > mile north of Marion to a mile i southeast of Mt. Etau,

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 21, 1935.

Complaints Filed Against Motorists Following the registering of complaints by several citizens, police were instructed to apprehend the driver or drivers of automobiles who operate their cars with cut-outs open or freak back-fire arrangements. Arrest of the person who has been operating his auto with a loud back-fire arrangement will be stopped. Police will be on the look-out for any violation, the practice of riding around town and made, unless the annoyance is causing the trouble generally occurring at night, much so the disj comfort of citizens. JOINT PROGRAM HERETOMORROW Both Local High Schools Will Hear American Legion Program — Announcement was made today that Adams post number 43 of I the American Legion will sponsor a program in observance of Washington's birthday Friday afternoon. The program, which will be held jointly for students of the DceaI tur public and Catholic high schools, will be presented at the public high school auditorium at 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. Major Earl Moab of Fdrt Wayne ' will deliver a patriotic address as i the feature of the program. Major Moss is noted as an excellent sneaker on Americanism and j other patriotic subjects and his address should be highly interesting and instructive, not only to the students, but to the general public. Mr. Moss is an ex-service ! man, a member of the American Legion and a member of the staff of reserve officers. Included on the program will lit? a pantomime of the Star ’ Spangled Banner, the national anthem, by Misses Martha Elizabeth Calland, Irene Cosner and Donnabelle Fonimore. hish school students. Music during the pantomime will be furnished by the public high school glee club. Members of the local legion post and school officials also announc“d that 'he general public is urged to attend this program, as well i e-x the students of boih local high : schools. o Michigan Youths Returned Home —' ■ Robert Cox and Maye Peck. Grand PA pido. Michigan, youths, h th ■ ged 19, were taken into custody by B rne police officers Wednesday night. The lads were apprehended after a call from Grand Rapids police stated that they run awuy from home. The boys stated j they were headed for California. T.bey were returned to their homes | today. o CASE SETTLED OUT OF COURT Country Club. State Highway Denartment Set Compromise Figure Th? Indiana state highway department and Frank Jsvien and others. owners of the property south ' of Decatur known as the Decatur county club, have compromised in •their condemnation proceedings suit. The case had been venued from the local court to the Adams circuit court. The agreement was reached shortly ibefore the c se was scheduled to go to trial before a jury Wednesday. Hubert R McClanahan. Decatur attorney, represented the looil littigante, while the high-: way department was represented • by Russel and Martindale, sttate at j torneys. The suit grew out of condemnation proceedings instituted by thei state department for right of way j for the new diighway number 527 I from Decatur to the Ohio state. line. The department filed objection to i the report of the appraisers, who ! fixed the value of the land taken ! as right of way at $1,974. The compromise figure reached , by the migrants was $1,650. It was o Iso agreed that the berm and' slopes at the country club should be put in attractive condition.

ANNOUNCE EXAM AS POSTMASTER Application For Decatur Postoffice Will Be Received To Mar. 12 Notice have been sent out by Postmaster General Farley that applications for the appointment of postmaster of the Decatur post offire, will be received up to March 12, Flail L. Macklin was named acting postmaster of the local offide, February 7. He assumed active charge of the office on the above date and it is not expected that any change will be made. I The notice sent out by pastoffice department follows: To fill the vacancy in the position of postmaster in this city, the United States Civil Service Commission ' has announced, at the request of the Postmaster General, and in accordance With an ord r of the President. an open competitive examin-i---lion. To be eligilde for examination, an applicant must be a citizen of the United States, must reaid? within the delivery of this post office, must h ve so resided for at least one year next [receding th? data for close f receipt of applications, must be in.good physi al condition, and within the prescribed age limits. IPcth men and women are adi mitted. NnJ: r the t'r.rs of th-a Executive order, the Civil Service Commission will certify to the Postmaster General the names of the highest three qualified eliglblen. if as many as . ( three are qualified, from which the Postmaster General n ay select one ‘ f’r nomination by the President. Confirmation by the Senate is the final action. Applicants will not be required : to assemble in an elimination room II room for schoolastic tests, hut will • be rated on t ?ir education and 1 business experience and “fttneaa. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o DEATH CLAIMS EMMA L. BENTZ - Mrs. Ralph Bentz Dies Wednesday Evening After Long Illness Emma L. Bentz. 45, wife of Ralph Bentz of Decitur died at the Adams county memorial hospital Wednesday evening at 5:15 o'clock Death followed an illness of two years. On February 9 she underwent an operation for ruptured appendix. which directly resulted in her death. Mrs. Bentz was born in Van Wert county. Ohio, July 13. 1889. a daughter of John and Anna Kelley. She w>s united tn mariage August 7, 1912 to Ralph Bentz, who survives together with the following children: Mrs. Paul Conrad, Herbert Bentz. Mary and Delorte Bentz, all 1 of Decatur. The following brothers and sisti ers also survive; Mrs. A. Boyd, Dioj mond Dv l.>, Michigan: Mrs. Lester Robinson, Geneva; Mrs. Dewey Brown, Fcrt Wayne; Ed and Arthur Kelley of Decatur- One sister, Mrs. Luzurn Murphy of Dayton, Ohio I preceded her in death two years i ago. She was a member of the St. Marys Catholic church of this city, and the Fireman’s Auxiliary Club. The body will be taken to the Bentz residence, 310 North Fourth street, Thursday afternoon, from (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) The Gold Finger Curse by Edwin Dial Torgerson Read this baffling, exciting mystery serial of Park Avenue Greenwich Village. Starts Saturday in the Daily Democrat

I SUBMIT LABOR I DISPUTE BILL TO CONGRESS Senator Wagner Introduces New Labor Disputes Measure Today r ADMINISTRATION 1 OPPOSED TO BILL Washington, Feb. 21— (U.R) —A new labor disputes bill was introduced in congress today Ivy Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., IN. Y. Il - •said its enactment would "stabilize and improve business by laying the foundations fur the amity and fair dealings upon which permanent progress must rest." Wagner, who fought for a simi- '. lar bill at the last session of congress, intends to insist upon decisive action this time. The measure promises to become one of the most contraverI sial matters before the present ■ congress. It does not have admin--1 istration support. Wagner told the senate five • temporary labor relations board j set up last spring “is gradually ' but surely losinc its effectiveness • because of its inability to enforce • | its decisions.” He proposed to ■ I make the board permanent, with • unquestionable powers to settle ! labor disputes. i His bill amplifies the collective i bargaining guarantees of the na- • tional industrial recovery act. ■ Wagner, said that "employes nti ' tempting in good faith to exorcise > I their liberties under section 7-A ■ have mot with repeated rebuffs.” The new Wagner bill would set Uup a permanent national board : relations board of throe members I to supervise the settlement of la- , Ivor disputes. The bill declares the 1 , policy of the United States to be I encouragement of “the practice , >of collective bargaining'' and pro tection to “the exorcise by the ' worker of full freedom of associa(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o John Eiting Dies f At Minster, Ohio i John Eiting. 60, prominent citizen of Minster. Ohio, and well known in Decatur, died at his j home, Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock. Death was caused | by a tumor of the glands, and folI lowed an illness of two years. Mr. Eiting is survived by his II widow and two children. Marie ■ [ and Carl. The following brothers ; and sisters also survive: Frank ;! Eiting of Minster, Ohio; Mrs. Cas- ► ( per Lang. Mrs. J. H. Bretnerkamp. . (and Mrs. Mary C. Ehinger, all of . Decatur. Two sisters. Mrs. Dan i Niblick and Mrs. John Paning, of I Decatur, are deceased. ! The funeral will be held Satur- . day morning at 9:30 o’clock at the , Minster Catholic church. Burial will also be at Minster. — o STUDENTS VOTE j TO END STRIKE Classes Aro Resumed At Franklin College This Morning Franklin, Ind., Feb. 21 —(UP) — Classes were resumed at Franklin college today after students voted j to end their strike for changes in adminstration policies of the school. The vote was taken in secret at the chapel after the board of directors announced through Elba L. Pranigan, Franklin, that only one of the strikers’ demands could be met under present conditions. The directors agreed that the I student council should be recognized fully by school authorities. Immediately after the vote was taken, the students picked up Lbeir books and started back to class. The strike was started a week ago today when the 300 students in the Baptist institution picketed classes and announced that they would not return unless the college abolished or improved compulsory I chanel. added more half .scholar-I-ships to attract althletes and establish a student social center. The decision of the board of directors was reached 'at a meeting in Indianapolis Tuesday night after ; preliminary attempts at arbitration • (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

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Surgical Triumph F m /■ ' / / <0 Dr. Claude S. Beck, above, p formed one ot the first operatic on record for relief of ang: pectoris, a heart ailment wh . hitherto has been considered , curable. The operation was p I formed at Lakeside hospn • Cleveland. O. i I GOLD STANDAGE REBJRNURCE Ex-President Hoo v « Says Nation Should Return At Once (Copyright 1935 by UP.) New York. Feb. 21. — (U.R) —1 • United States should inrmediat > return to the gold standard, so; ■ er President Herbert Hoover s • in a statement to the United Pre Commenting on the supre ■ court decisions in the gold cas ■ Hoover saw an opportunity toC store confidence” in the dollar, advocated a bullion gold stand: whereby the present dollar wo be equivalent to 59 cents of g at the old value. 1 This, he said, would be a “ne ed contribution" to "'real rec ery.” ' Hoover’s statement was t< ’ graphed to United Pres headqu; 1 ers in New York last night fr ' Tucson. Ariz.. where the only ' ing ex-President paused, en ro> ! to his home at Palo Alto, Calif. 1 His statement follows: ’ j "I have now had opportunity ', read the supreme court decisi ■ Apporently all members of i '(court agreed that the governmi ■ acted unconstitutionally in rept ■ ation of the covenant of its o 1 bonds. A majority of the me bers concluded that the citizen 1 no remedy. That will have 1c ’ moral lonsequences. But whate' ’ the morals or right or wrong of i 1 devaluation may be. the face of t ( (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWC BULLETIN Rosanna Justine Harvey, 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ce< Harvey of Decatur, died at o'clock this afternoon of pne monia. Miss Harvey was a pup • of Central school, and had bee ill for the past week. o Soy Bean Market Price Misquote i Through an unintentional err ■ the market price of soy beans v i quoted at $1.20, an advance of f i cents. The correct price, which I been unchanged for several da is $1.15 per bushel, both on the (; cial ’market and at the Central Sc , ! coirrany. o ■ May Pass Ordinance For City Dog Licen The city council is consider; passing an ordinance requiring i licensing of all dogs in the ci There is an ordinance which p ' hibits letting dogs run loose. Ma ' complaints have bo n made to c officials and to the police ahi stray dogs and in several cases licediave disposed of the dogs. The proposed license would quire the owner to get a city licet tag for his dog at th? city •hall, nominal fee would be charg which would be in addition to 1 county d?g tax. I Police have been instructed ‘ rid the town of stray dogs.

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TWO AMERICAN SISTERS LEAP FROM AIRPLANE & Grief Over Death Os ’i Two Aviators Believed Cause Os Tragedy GIRLS DAUGHTERS OF U. S. OFFICIAL fei. (Copyright 1935 by UP.) London, Feb. 21. — (U.R) — Two st young American girls, brokenhearted over loss of two British aviator friends in a Royal air force crash, committed suicide today by leaping hand in-hand from an airi plane speeding over the British, countryside. Ms ’ Jane, 20, and .Elizabeth Du Bols, 23, daughters of Coert Du Bois, “ United States consul-general at p er . i Naples, pus Tied open the airplane l ons door and stepped out in space, ;ina plunging about 4.000 feet to an jlcl, Essex cabbage field. j:l . They had bought all eight seats p Pr . in the plane at a cost of $135. They I persuaded the pilot' to close the door and cover the windows between the cockpit and the cabin so he would not interfere. He was 3 out over the channel before he discovered they were gone and turned back. •ft Building construction workers ' II and others at Upminster, about 20 ’ ” miles out of London, saw them ; hurtle to the earth. Running to the field, they found e r the pathetically crushed bodies of I ; the sisters side by side. “Their hands were still clasped when we found them,” said A. D. Macgregor. Upminster builder, his ’ voice choked with emotion. The | —r| )e j r faces were buried in the tley g roull (] ” sa ij Frederick Letten, an- “ ’P‘. other eye-witness. "Their hands saidj were Gasped and one had a tight ftßS ' | grip on the other’s coat." enie sistes had been close ises. fri en( |s of flight Lieut. Henry L. ie ’ Eleatty. half brother of Lord Beatty “ e > and flying officer John A. C. Forlard i . auld (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) gold | o— — eed- Mrs. Rachel Teenle Dies Wednesday Night ■pip.' Mrs. Rachel Teeple, 67. widow of mm ' a,P '• saac Teeple. died at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening at iher lute ' loriie SPven miles southeast of I’erne of infirmities of old age. Sur- ; viving are four sons and two daughrto I * ers " as '" 6 a r °f relaion ; tivp - s ' n th’ B cityt l lp Funeral services will be held at lent 1 p. m. Friday at the Apple Grove u di-( church, with burial in the Weetlawn )Wn cemetery near Geneva. em- n X ADAMS COUNTY jver | ? NATIVE DIES O) | Mrs. Mary E. Linn Dies Wednesdav At Wells 14 - County Hospital icil j 3 I Bluffton, Feb. 21 — (Special) — eu ‘ ' Mrs. Mary E. Linn, 59. widow of pi * Levi A. Linn di.d at 7:30 Weden i need' y evening at the W ll.s coun- | ty hospital where she had been a | patient one week. She w»ie born in (Adams County on April 2. 1875, a ed daughter of Gottlieb and Eliza Moser Saucer and became a resident ot ror Wei's county about 40 years ago. was » er marriage was solemnized on f[ VO Sept. 24 1901. Mr. Linn's death ochas curred on Sept. 14, 1928. Since the avs death of her husband Mrs. Linn had , ] O . 'been active with the Linn and Sauova rer furniture store which he had been identified with. Survivors include □ daughter. Miss Helen Linn. Hastings, Mich., a son. Charles Linn at home, a sisISC fer. Mrs. Ida Hocker. El Reno, Okla., and two brothers, Alfred G. ring and Robert Saurer, both of Bluffthe ton. •ity. Mrs. Linn was an active member pro- of the First Reformed church, and •any was a member of Obe Bay View city Reading club. Friends may view the. >ont body at the Jahn Funeral home this po- evening and after 9 o’clock Friday morning at the home, 220 East re- Washington street, where funeral use services will be held at 2:30 Friday I. A afternoon in charge of Rev. Mattged, hew Worthman. The body will bo the placed in the mausoleum at Fairview cemetery. tu Paul Saurer of Decatur is a nephew of the deceased.