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Mme. Schumann-Heink To Broadcast Sunday 1 Washington, March 14 — Madame Schumann-Heink. widely known concert singer, will be the apeak er on Ute Federal Housing Administmtlon radio urogram from 12:15 to 12:30 p. m.. Eastern Standard Time Sunday. March 17thThis is one of a «erlea of twentysix programs donated by the Gen- . oral Electric Company to the Better housing programMadame Schumann-Heink will i speak from the Chicago studios of I the National Broadcasting Company , Her itubje: t. “What Home Means to Me ", will afford the radio audi- i ] ence an opportunity to learn the ( view point of an ther person of na ] tional prominence. FHA COMMITTEE MEETS TONIGHT! Federal Housing Committee To Study Preliminary Survey Here — A committee meeting has been called for .this evening at 8 o'clock ) in the A. R Ashbaucheru Tin Shop to examine the results of the first several dty.s’ FHA survey n >w bej ing conducted In Decatur. The committee is composed of George M. Krick, county chairman. I-eo Kirach. city chairman. Jam-s 1 Kocher, Roy .Mumma. W. E. Moon, Charles Robenold. Angnet Walters. Cal Yost, and A. R. Anhbau:xt.r. The committee will consider | moms to continue int rest in the drive to modernize the homes in the city and community. Kirsch, city chairman, oaid today. “M dernization and repairs, | now possible for many property i owns*? of Decatur through new ' cr.d|t channels petted up by th-_[ * XaHonal HoiasTng .V tC write their own golden rewords in enhanced values, increased rentability, and greater comfort. “The opportunities now offered to improv? and repair properti?e are greater ho far as eas-s of financing is concerned t on ever have been offered before. “Under th? liberal credit plan laid dawn by the Federal government'u newest recovery agency,” j Mr. Kirsch asserted. “It is passible to borrow between SIOO and $2,000 f r this form of work at carrying eharg s much <below those normally I charged. " For years it hie be’n possible to purchase rhe things that go into ’ the house.—furniture, radios, refrigi eratore. etc. — on the installment ■plan, but this is -t'.ie first time that liberal installment credit il.ue b en extended to cover all types of real prcrerty improvements. “Dinks all over the country are cooperating in this movement to re ctore prosp rity. They are granting loans for periods up to three years, with payments as low as $lO a month, and the combined cost of I inter:«st fees, and other chargee not exxcee-Jing an amount equivalent to $5 per sllO of the original face amount of a one’year note, deductable in advance." DEATH ENDS CAREER NEGRO STAGE STAR Famous Colored Star of “Green Pastures” Dies Today In New York Hospital .New York. Mar. 14. — (U.R) Richard O. Harrison, the kindly negro who won national fame through his interpretation of De Lawd” in the play “The Green Pastures,” died today. A week ago .Saturday the 70 year , old white haired negro was strick- , en just before the curtain went ( up on a matinee performance His role was assumed by an understudy. , i Harrison had played the part of the benevolent deity for five years , —1650 consecutive times —before he was stricken. At the hospital he told friends , be was “plumb tuckered out.’ Success came to Harrison with a dramatic suddenness that washed away 60 years of life as a newsboy, bellboy, waiter, pullman - porter, and Shakespearean reader.; He came to Broadway at the uge of 65, and five years later was acclaimed one of the greatest actors of the country. His portrayal of “De Lawd” in “The Green Pastures,” was so sincere that hard boiled critics raved over each (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

SENATE AGAIN VOTES DEFEAT ON HUEY LONG Proposal To Amend Works Relief Bill Is Defeated By Senators Washington, Mar. 14.—(U.R) —Sen. Huey P. Long, D.. La., today failed in an effort to write into the work-1 relief bill a provision that SIOO,-j 000.006 might be used to provide college educations for needyyouths. The vote was 58 to 27. The senate rejected the Long amendment despite a spirited defense of it by Sen. Hiram Johnson, R.. Cal. Johnson declared that the senate should have a voice in suggesting methods for spending the proposed $4,880,000,000 appropriation. Sen. James F. Byrnes, D, S. C.. | told the senate that the Long amendment was not necessary and that the federal relief administration. already aiding some 100,000 students, was prepared to continue that aid. Long was defeated, 75 to 5. when he offered an amendment Tuesday ear-marking $1,600,000,000 for edu- i rational purposes. Eighteen Republicans and nine Democrats voted for the Long amendment today. Only four Republicans were among those voting the Long plan. Long changed his amendment several times before the vote. He first proposed that $300,006,000 be taken from the CCC allocation and used for college educations. Finally he propoed an entirely new classification permitting the use of $106,000,000 for educational purposes. Chairman Carter Glass of the' L I - -s>— w ~x 7,. i (CON UNITED ON PAGE FIVE) FAVOR CAMP IN WELLS COUNH State Officials Favor CCC Camp, State Park East Os Bluffton Bluffton, Mar. 14. — Kenneth M. Kunkel, head of the fish and game division of the state department of : conservation; Ralph F. Wilcox, state engineers, after an Inspection of the site of a proposed CCC camp and state park, east of this , city, indicated upon their departure j for Indianapolis that they found: ' conditions favorable for establishi ment of the park and camp site. Final action for completion of the joint project is contingent on passage of the federal emergency , : relief work bill. Commissioner Kunkel, in a con-' versation with Mayor Franklin Buckner of this city reported later that Indiana officials felt so cer-j tain that the relief measure will be enacted that a committee representing the Bluffton Chamber of Commerce has been authorised to proceed with the work of preparing abstracts for the land involved in the local project. Options already have been secur-1 ed on approximately 850 acres of land, starting at a point about two mile’ east of this city and extend- i ing aTlnost to Vera Cruz, along the north bank of the Wabash river. I including tracts of scenic beauty. Army engineers already have approved the site for a CCC camp. [ and in the event the .project is con-1 summated CCC workers would be I concentrated here as soon as bar-: racks could be constructed. A committee of the local chamb-1 er of commerce has been working in cooperation with the state con-, servation department in working out details for the camp site and park and has secured options on farm lands that would be included. The cost of land involved, above (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Willis Fonner Case Is Again Continued By agreement of parti's the case against Willie F oner in th? Adame circuit court, set f r trial Wedneisduy, wa-s continued- Fonwer is , harged with violation of the etate barbers’ law by operating a banber I shop without a license.

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Flophouse Miser Leaves $90,000 li Al 1 <7 * M t B --- MSiran < kb Bonds and mortgages worth more than $90,000 were found in the safety deposit boxes of James Thomas Kelly, deceased flophouse miser, when officials of the public administrator’s office, at f’liicago, above, made an investigation after several claimants to his fortune had presented forged wills.

MYSTERYPLANE TO MAKE FLIGHT Army Fliers Scheduled To Start Trip To Honolulu Tonight Oakland. Gil.. March 14 —(UP) — At midnight tonight a mystery airplane, guided by a robot pilot onrt ' A new directional compass, will •Kar’ Hr ■ Oakland Hinport for Honolulu with IT. S. Army flier? as 'passengers, the United Press learned today. The United Press informant indicated that only weather conditions or an order fr■ n Washington couni t rrr.Hnding present plans would de-; lay bi? flight. The 2.400-mile over-water trip from the mainland to the Hawaiian Islands will be the supreme test of new blind flying equipment which may revolutionize long distance flying and make commercial air routes over large bodies of water more i practicable. For three days repres ntativ s f the U. S. army air corps and the federal department of commerce, bureuu of aeronautics, have been (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O Havana Strikers Return To Work Havana, March 14. —(UP)—Government and ther employes returned to work in thousands today in : testimony .that the army’s rigorous | rule had triumphed over revolutionary strikers’ chall-enga to President Carlos MendietaIn what seemed >1 dying gesture of defiance, terrorists ranged the streets for three hours after the, 9 o'clock curfew last night, exiplcd- ■ I ing bombs and shooting rifles and ( pistols. It was estimated beat between 860 and 900 government employes. : most of them treasury workers who | were the firet to join in the general ■ strike) promoted students and | left wing labor leaders, were arrested yesterday as they went to work, .t was undestood that most were released but that some leaden.) I might be punished.

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Edward P. Brennan Is Budget Director Indlnnaii I's. March 14 — (UP) — Edward P- Brennan, state budget clerk and field examiner for the state i>oard of accounts, today was ar pointed state budget director by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. The position of budget director whs created by the 1935 legislature and will supercede the office of budget clerk. Brennan has he it with the board of accounts for many y ars. The salary f r the budget dire, tor will be s-“t by the governor on recommendation of the I'gislative budget : eujnnntlee.. ' 1 ' " STATE POLICE RILL SIGNER McNutt Signs Measure Reorganizing Indiana Police Department Indianapolis. Mar. 14. —(U.R) Reorganization of the state police department on a merit system and provisions for sitending more than half a million dollars in the department during the next biennium were authorized today by Gov. Paul V. McNutt following his signing of the Schrieker state police bill. At the stame time the governor signed bills dealing with school teachers’ minimum salaries, absent voters’ ballots, sterilization of insane, truck weight tax and school bus safety. In its final form, the state police bill represents a compromise between proposals of Al G. Feeney, state safety director, and his political foe. Pleas Greenlee, patronage secretary to Governor McNutt. Feeney won his demand that the police superintendent be outside the jurisdiction o' the state police board and answerable only to the governor. Greenlee was successful, however, in making it possible to dismiss the police superintendent without a public hearing. The bill provides for increasing memliersXp of the police force to 100 men, establishment of a police training school, broadening of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

FORESEE MORE STRICTURES ON ALL UTILITIES Holding Companies To Wage Bitter Fight On Administration ■■ - Washington, Mar. 14.— (U.R) Anti-administration forces today foresaw in President Roosevelt’s' public utility message a move to i abolish holding companies not only | in the electric and gas Industry but also in all industrial and com-1 mercial fields. Democratic members of congress placed a less drastic interpretation ■ on the message, contending Mr. Roosevelt referred only to utilities holding companies. With many of the country’s most important utility executives here, holding companies opened the cli-' matic round of their desperate selfpreservation fight before the house interestate commerce committee now considering the Wheeler-Ray-burn bill to outlaw' utilities hold-1 ing companies after 1940. They hurled back at the President his charges of propaganda. ' asserting he was using his high office for that purpose of charging them wifli establishment of a “private socialism." The utility companies contend Mr. Rooyrelt is trying to deprive ' their investors of millions of dollars in stocks and securities by imposing heavy-handed regulations that would result in ruin for many ! of them. A resolution introduced in the { senate by Sen. George Norris, R.. Neb., and passed without a word of debate, would authorize the federal trade commission to inquire ' I into the "origin, purpose, methods .and expense” of the "propaganda" campaign which Mr. Roosevelt j charged the utility holding com-1 panies are conducting. The resolution must be acted upon by the house, where Rep. I Clare E. Hoffman. R., Mich., said I the "greatest holding company in the world is that operated by the : brain trustef group.” “T,et us abolish these Delaware corporations whose directors are , cabinet officers or their agents ; and whose business is t’’e deetruction of enterprises of the individuals of our country." he said. “Let the President start his | house cleaning by the dissolution of these great holding companies.: the greatest in the history of the ■ world, organized under the .state of I Delaware by cabinet officers or | those in sympathy with them, and | which holding companies are throt-, ' — - (CONTtNUEn ON PAGE FIVE) ROOSEVELT FAVORS HOUSING PROGRAM President Regards Federal Housing Program As Spearhead In Prosperity Drive Washington, Marell 14. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt regards the federal housing program as a, spearhead in the nation’s drive for, prosperity, a letter to administrator James A. Moffett revealed today. Commenting on a memorandum of Moffett’s setting forth progress of the housing campaign, Mr. Roosevelt observed that the housing act provides away back to better times with increased business and employment. “I note that to date.” the President wrote, “calls have been made on over 6.000.006 properties, and that property owners have pledged 1,100,606 jobs for modernization and repair for a total value of $275,006,000. and that, in addition, you estimate there has already been spent since last August approximately $250,000,000 for modernization and .repair. “As you point out. with the con tinned active co-operation of our civic-minded committees, house-to-house canvasses will be conducted by practically every community campaign committee, with many millions of home owners and business property owners yet to be contracted. “This activity means that, with the advent of spring, an immense volume of business and employment will undoubtedly be generated. In other words, the American people will clearly see that the housing act provides for the nation ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Monroe Farm Bureau Will Meet Tuesday — A meeting of the Monroe social I and educational society of the farm bureau will be held in the school auditorium over the Monj roe Hatchery Tuesday evening. ! Marell 19. at 7:30 o’clock. A play. "Eighteen Karat Boob" I will be presented by a cast of i characters from Portland. The Werling twins and sisters will 1 sing, assisted by Miss Stuckey of i Geneva and Miss Stuckey of | Berne who will play accordion ■ selections. TOTAL OF 491 RE-INSTATED Nearly Five Hundred In County Re-Instate Registration Blanks i A total cf 491 persons out of 1.378 ' ! hav» reinstated their registration | blanks, temporarily invalidated by ' | their failure to vote in either tihe . primary or geneml election laa-t' year, it was announced today in | ' C, unty Clerk David D. Depp’s of-1 flee. Thra registered citizens who fa.ili ed to vote were sent notices 'by mail shortly after the general election, as provided by law. Sufficient time whs given them to visit the county clerks office and reinstate their registration blanks. This applied only to registered ’ voters who failed to vote in either of the elections last year. Those who did vote in one of the elections are still considered registered as I tihe new registration blanks ore permanent. Eighty letters containing the notices were returned to the clerk’s office because the addr sses had been changed by moving or because the citizens have died in the last (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o MILK CONTROL BOARD NAMED Gov. McNutt Appoints Board Created By 1935 Legislature Indianapolis. March 14.—- (U.R) — Membership of the state milk con- ! trol board created by the 1935 ; legislature was announced last ‘ night by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. 'I Distributors will be represented by Guy L. Roberts, Indianapolis, land George C. Palmer, South Bend. I operators of two large dairies. ' W. W. Ross, Rosedale, manager of the Vigo county cooperative market company. Terre Haute, and Newell Gilther, Jeffersonville, were named to represent producers. Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. state commisioner of agriculture, will be ex-officio member and , chairman of the board. The board will have authority I to regulate and control the milk industry, designate natural marketing areas and in event of price wars, will be empowered to declare emergency prices in an effort to stabilize the market. Local committees in various sections of the state will be named by the board to assist in carrying out provisions of the new act. Distributors will cr ry the burden of operating the state board. They will pay annual license fees ranging from $35 to $825 on a basis of average amount of milk handled. The law became effective immediately upon the signature of Gov. Paul V. McNutt earlier this week. Monthly Meeting Set For Sunday The regular monthly meeting of the Adams County Holiness Association will be held in the Defenseless Mennonite church Sunday; ' .if,tern:on at 2 o’clock. The church ‘ is located two miles west of Berne. The meeting was previously announced to b? held in the Friend s ' church at Monroe but has been ’ changed to the Mennontte church by request. 1 Rev. Paul Reese who is conduct- ’ ing revival services at the Defense--1 less Mennonite church near (Berne, will be the speaker at the meeting.

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THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE FORCED TO LEAVE HOME Rising Waters Threaten Mississippi River Valley Area (By United Press) Thousands of townspeople and farmers, residents along tributaries of the Mississippi river, today were fleeing from rising waters that threaten the worst flood conditions in 50 years. Government engineers and national guardsmen, stationed along the Black and St. Francis rivers in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, sounded a warning today. The flood situation in this area was described as far worse than the disasters of 1927 and I 1931. Water from the hills near the ' Arkansas state line has turned I brooklets into raging streams. And although flood stage has been I reached in Butler and Dnnklin counties in Missouri, government (engineers today predicted that the St. Francis river within 48 hours would break over its 65 miles of levee with a two-foot wall of flood waters. Hundreds of families were moving out of the lowlands in the wake of yesterday's exodus. Refugees from Dunklin county, lowest elevation in Missouri, were being accommodated in Red Cross tents, railroad boxcars, and public buildings at Kennett. R. I. Jones, chairman of relief work at Kennett, said the St. FranIcis river this morning was two feet higher than the 1927 flood crest. Thousands of workmen were repairing the soggy 25-year-old levees in hopes of bulwarking them against the disastrous rise the river is expected to make before Saturday. Four companies of national guardsmen patrolled the area, aiding families in moving i from the thousands of acres almost certain to be flooded by several feet of water. Federal, state and county relief workers were combining their efforts in caring for the refugees and providing material with which to ; fortify the weaker portions of the St. Francis river levee. Many areas where residents had not seen water since small streams dried up years ago today resembled vast lakes. Flood waters had begun to recede at Poplar Bluff. Mo., where yesterday a portion of the city lay under several feet. Capt. O. C. Kutzinger, directing the national guardsmen in this section, said the Black river, which left its banks following the heavy rains on Sunday and Monday, had dropped two feet from the crest of 19 feet it reached Tuesday. Many persons had returned to their homes. Tile midwest division of the Red Cross, workers from CCC camps (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Q MONROE TOWNSHIP FARMER IS DEAD Rudolph Steury Dies Wednesday Night After Long Illness of Complications Rudolph Steury. 64. prominent Monroe townsibip farmer and father of Reuben Steury. of Decatur, died at 10:20 o’clock Wednesday night at his home four miles northeast of Berne. Death whs due to dropsy and heart trouble. He had been ailing for the past several months. Mr. Steury was born in Canton Bern, Switzerland. January 11. 1871 a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Steury. He come to this country when a small bov and had resided in this community for the past 30 years. Tie was married to Anna Mazelin in 1896. Surviving besides the widow are the following children; Mrs. Jacob D. Mazelin of Berne: N ah R. Steury of (Berne; Mrs. Victor Gruber of Monroe township: Mrs Phillip Nussbaum, at home: Ren If 1 n Steury of Decatur; Ainos Steury of Bluffton, and Calvin, at home. Thirteen grandchildren and one brother, Albert Steury of Topeka. Indiana, survive. Several brothers and sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be held at the home Saturday morning at 9:36 lo’clock. Mr. Steury was a member of the Christian Amish churoh.. Burial will be made in the church cemetery.