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|$ CHANGES I ICESSARY IN hMEASURE ! fdiate House Action ■ i Work Relief Bill | s Delayed SUgton. March 25. — (U.K) — ’ !, 0 ( the House Joseph W., , M ,d today after conferring j tytlideni Roosevelt that It | I essential" to send, j .pirtii ixs) work relief hill with the senate. fdiate house action on the never was prevented when anher Johnson. D.. Tel., rean unanimous consent re to send the measure to con- , t with th? senate. request was made by chair- I hmes Buchanan of the house [nations committee, who with had conferred earlier with resident over senate changes i measure. Ison's objection, according to nan will prevent house acm the measure until tomorAt that time silver bloc memdan to try to force a vote on , ting all senate amendments, , it final congressional action , t completed and the bill re- , le Thomas silver rider. I hanan said that there were Ute amendments and unless of them were revised capidministration of the relief | | rill be impossible." i think the bill is all right as interjected Rep. John Rank- , Miss., silverite. loot care what you think. I, different." retorted Buchan- i tenan said that It might !>• dry for the house to send 0 back to the appropriations ittee before putting it into eace. ere are a lot of amendments 1 on't belong in this kind of a < said Buchanan. j ( asserted that the senate's | ( eology was confusing. In one ' where reliVT funds are ear- 1 d for certain projects, the ge reads that “not in excess" ' s allocated amounts could be 1 I WriXPEp on page FIVE) 1 o | perties Sold At Auction Sale ’ . a — I - Aaron Devinney properties | ' * afreet east of the Cloverleaf | ‘ herles were sold by Roy John- I lr the administrator of the es-1 1 Elmer Tricker, Saturday after-1 One house was eold to Mrs. I ' *s H-lm for SSOO and the other j 1 Imam Franks for ♦270. ! < T APPLICANTS i FOR employment ! ** Employment Service ’’resentative will be in ° “•Wlur Monday. April 1 e Indiana State Employment c<f lce . located at Wayne Street, Fort - . ' ndianu, announces the eem nt of regular interviewing * m Decatur. ] of thp Strict «fda , b6 n at , the FE RA office.! >■ Apnl let, from 12:00 to M., for the purpose of relnteX P1 ? y!n “ !nt a PP li(w| ions «*«lewing tb-se who have' it. Thu regl - stere ‘d for employ I »irxiitf addt ‘ d fisrvic * now munitv U - t 0 bett * r serv e this 1 t " y m matters of employ- f atat ® employment 1 LX a ‘ ntain " <1 In the Fort 1 ta 0( , h ° ther metropolitan di.stelt b6ca ' WP there is 1 I Pr-tnn d “ aUfled workers to t. h ? W<>rk for whlch ‘ ki i’! to anil r hich wiU 1 Mig thoiL y to aelect froni ‘ I X^ mployed the ™l<le. ' ared t 0 the job to be 1 women iivin « in ° r < [•'"lt*- and 6 regiatMed with 1 Agister om 6 may wisib 1 ° ‘ he ' ir,t time - it ’ ' w hich Vh Xt?^ the app,lca ’ ‘ br ’o be X ty ’ day ®erkd in ! •t: *>d tX* d for empl ° 5 - Klr >unit^ ts) ? ryOne be glven ' with th6 * J T veof thediß - ' * ’Mav ® in Decatur the < 16 to 200 p eaCh month fTOm ’

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Vol. XXXIII. No. 72.

Stabbed Friend | ZZZ" ' A WMl — ■ IF jitWn A x ’ 1 X X j : - * ' -* •* i L -■ wW. Marion King, above, is held byNew Orleans police, charged with fatal stabbing of John Pierce. She told police Pierce was her beet triend. having rescued her from life of drug enslavement. I STATE LIQUOR LAW OBSERVED Sunday Closing Is Generally Observed In This City Sunday Decatur wa.s dry Sunday ae far an the aale of beer or liquor by the drink was concerned, alcoholic Ibev- 1 erage dealers closing bheir places of business in ocmpliance with the new state liquor control law. Copies of the new law were received hire Saturday morning by County Clerk David Depp and distributed to local officials. Notice was given that the law would be enforced Sunday. The law provides that the sale of ■ilcoholic beverages shall cease at two A' M. Sunday morning. Central standard time and shall not be resumed until six A. M. Monday morning. On week days the closing time is one A. M. Central standard time. It is unlawful to carry liquor into c.ny <: üblkc place or eating house and serve, .display or give it away on Sunday. Roadhouses, which are permitted to operate until next June, are also prohibited fr.-m selling beer or aleo- 1 holic beverages on Sunday. No violations were r ported Police, attorneys, county and city officials acquainted themselves with the provisions of the new law over Sunday, copies being furnished them by Clerk Depp. A st p in compliance with the law will be the naming of two mem(CONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE) DECATUR WOMAN DIES AT BERNE Mrs. Ellen Holmes Dies Sunday Morning at Home of a Daughter Mrs. Lewis Neaderhouser Mrs. Ellen Holm. e. 72. of 603 Penn street, a resident of Decatur for many years died Sunday morning at 7:08 o’clock at the thome of her daughter, Mrs. Lewis Neaderhousier of Berne. Death was due to complications. Mrs. Holmes had be i bedfast for one week. She had spent pnuctlcally her entire life in Decatur. She had visited with her daughter in Berne for several weeks. Mrs. Holmes was born ip Hoag land on April 20. 1862. Her husband. George W. Holmes, <: receded iher in death in 1917. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs." Neaderhouser of Berne, Mrs. Oliver Shug of Fort Wayne, a son, Rev. Gordon Holmes of Ottawa, Ohio, and a brother, Enis Harod of Hoagland. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the Neaderhouser home and at 2:30 o’clock at the Methodist Episcopal church at Hoagland- Burial will De made In the Antioab cemetery u.t Hoagland.

CHICAGO COPS | WILL ROUND UP ALLGANGSTERS Attempt to Murder State’s Attorney Courtney Sunday Fails Chicago. Mar. 25. —<U.R) —State’s Attorney Thomas J. Courtney and i Mayor Edward J. Kelly today announced plans to round up every rennant of the scattered Capone and Touhey gangs in a search for j three men who attempted yesterday to assassinate Courtney and Aiderman Harry E. Berry. The drive promised to be the most spectacular attack on Cb’-I cago's underworld since the tinecombing of gang wesorts which fol-1 lowed the St. Valentine's day mass- i acre six years ago. Courtney revealed that he obtained "a good look" at the gunmen who tired eight shots into his automobile early yesterday as he drove home from a political meeting with I Aiderman Perry. "I'd know every one of them,’ he said. The 6-foot. 39-year-old prosecutor was within a few blocks of his south side home when the attack was made. He and Perry were in 1 his car’s rear seat. Two detectives i — James Mclnerney, Courtney’s bodyguard, and John Cronin, his chauffeur —were in front. A star of flame and the thud of a bullet striking the metal edging of a window venTTlator at Courtney's ear were the first warnings of danger. As Courtney and Perry ducked to the floor of their large car a small sedan whirled alongI side from the rear and seven more shots crashed in the quiet rest- 1 dential street. None penetrated i the steel body of Courtney’s car. Before Cronin and Melnemey | could pull guns—even before Cron- j in could jam his brakes to a skidd-l (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o RECEIVE FINAL CHECK RAIMENT Final Payment On 1934 Corn-Hog Contracts Is Received Here Checks totaling approximately $49,000 were received at the county agent’s office today as the Anal payment on the corn-hog contracts j for 1934. The checks represent a $2 pay-1 ment per head of contracted hogs minus the expenses which will run Jess than five per cent of the total I checks. The final corn cheeks were rei ceived several weeks ago. Only two payments were made for corn while three are being made for the hogs. Offi ills -stated today that a num- j ber of the checks have not yet! been received. No idea can be giv-, en as to when they wffl come. Contractors who did not receive their see nd cheeks will net receive their third checks in this sTlipment. Any contracting farmer desiring his check may come to the county agent’s office at any time, members of the committee stated. The county committee will meet at the (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) oKirsch Condition Reported Unchanged The condition of Matthias Kirsch, well known local resident, who is a patient at the Lutheran Hospital i in Fort Wayne, remains the same. Mr. Kfrsci'i' has been a patient at the hospital for the last five weeks. Mrs. Henry Reifi Dies Sunday A. M. Mrs. Mary Reiff. 73. wife of Henry Reiff of Hartford township died at 8:15 o'clock Sunday morning at her home of cancer. Mrs. Reiff had b en ill for five weeks- She was a lifelong resident of this community. She was born August 16, 1861. Surviving besides the husband are tlhree sons, Kenneth of Cleveland, Ohio; Roy of Detroit, Michigan and Worley of Fort Wayne. Funenrl services will be held at, the Reiff home Tuesday afternoon - at 2*30 o’clcck and burial will bej made in the Alberson cemetery. .

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 25, 1935.

|! Poppy Day Message ! j To School Children ♦ 1 - — ▼ Poppy Day represents the ideal of service, to commemorate the ' ilcad and help the living. Th*» bright blood red of the . , poppy, brings to mind the fields of crosses for our war dead. The | poppies scattered on those fields of France, where so many of those j crosses are, became the emblem of i remembrance and was officially, adopted by the American Legion, I , the American Legion Auxiliary, the ' ! Veterans of Foreign Wars and I their Auxiliary. | The practical ideal is, Service. , The poppy is (told and the donation is made, and all the money ' thus collected, is spent in helping ' ! those in need. i The poppies sold in Indiana, are i made at the Veteran's Hospital, I Marion, Indiana. Popples made for I other states are made in similar hospitals, over the United States, , thus all poppies are made by our 1 disabled and sick veterans of the i j World War. i A part of the money made from i the sale of poppies, is spent for I rehabilitation, or for the disabled and needy veteran himself, a part for his wife and children, his wid(CONTINI'ED ON PAGE FIVE) EXPECT CROWD FOR BANQUET _ ' Annual Chamber of Commerce Banquet Will Be Held Tonight At least 150 persons are expected to hear R. Earl Peters speak at the annual Decatur Chamber of Commerce banquet tonight at the Masonic hall at 6:15 o’clock. Among the important business I to be transacted will he the elec- , tion of three directors to succeed Theodore Gralikcr, A. R. HoltJ house and Ferd Litterer. The following nominations have been made: H. P. Schmitt, C. E. Bell, Roy Momma. George Thoms, Ros- ' coe Glendenning. C. W. England. | G. H. Wehmeyer, John Stults, Sylvester Everhart and John L. De-1 1 1 Voss. The present directors are Theodore Gralikcr, A. R. Holthouse, James Elberson, Osear Lankenau. Clifford Saylors. Jease Rice. Dan Tyndall. iFerd Litterer and J. W. Calland. The president of the organization. Dan Tyndall, will preside at the meeting. He will also make a report of the activities of the ' club during the last year. Jesse Rice, secretary - treasurer, will | make a report of the business ; transacted by the organization during 1934. Leo Kirsch will lead the com- ' munity singing with Albert SelleI meyer accompanying at the piano. The committee in charge of the affair tonight is Jesse Rice, chairman. James Elberson and Oscar ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o MISSIONARIES REPORTED SAFE Two British Missionaries Are Reported Rescued From Bandits Shanghai, Mar. 25 —- <U.R) —The Rev. and Mrs. S. C. iFrencham. j _ British missionaries, today notified the China inland mission by ' telegraph that they were safe am! unharmed. ( The message dispelled fears for the safety of the missionaries ' who previously had been reported kidnaped and slain by bandits. The mission was informed reliably by friends of the mission- ' ary couple that Mr. and Mrs. 1 Frencham never had left t.he town of Kingkiang, Shensi province, where they were captured and ! J held by communist bandits who, captured the village in a bloody . raid. Advices eaid the Frenchams were held within the walled village. spending their captivity nursing sick and wounded mem- | bers of the bandit forces. Confirmation was received here , from the Rev. Charles Cardwarj dine, veteran C. I. M. missionary, ' who personally led rescue parties , in a search for the kidnaped coui pie. Carwardine has been in China ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) ‘

ASK BETUBN OF LOCAL PASTOB Congregation Petitions Return Os Rev. Herman R. Carson At the fourth quarterly conference hetd last night at the Decatur M. E. church, resolutions were presented in appreciation of the work of the Rev. H. R. Carson, local pastor, and of Dr. F. E. Fribley, superintendent of thff Fort Wayne district, and a petition was presented requesting the annual conference to return the present pas tor for the second year. Reports of the work for the past quarter were received. Dr. Fribley highly complimented the local church and its pastor for the fine accomplishments recorded and predicted rapid progress along all lines under the new organization. Officers for the coming year were selected as folows: Trustees: Virgil Krick. Avon Burk. J. T. Merryman. Daniel Sprang. A. J. Smith. C. L. Walters, Mrs. E. N. Wicks. C. D. Lewton, and Paul Edwards Stewards: Virgil Krick, Avon Burk, Daniel Sprang. C. L. Walters, , Mrs. E. N. Wicks, C. D. Lewton, Paul Edwards. Wm. Bowers, M. E. • Hower, W. F. Beery, Carl Callow, J. R. Parrish, Don Farr, E. N. Wicks, Alva Lawson, F. W. Busche, E. W. Johnson. Walter Krick. H. F. Kitson. Lowell Smith, Sam Michael. Earl Colter. Clyde Butler, Fred Hancher, Dee Frybaek, C. A. Burdg. Martin Gilson, L. A. Grp ham. C. O. Porter, W. O. Little, I Giles Porter, C. A. Krugh, Sam Peoples, George Harding. Harry Crownover. Russell Owens, Fred V. Mills. A. D. Suttles, Leigh Bowen, Francis Howell. Communion stewards: Mrs. E. N. Wicks. Mrs. F. V. Mills. Recording steward: Bryce Thom(CONTINUED <>N PAGE FIVE) AUXILIARY TO HOLD CONTEST Legion Auxiliary Sponsors National Poppy Poster Contest Here The American Legion Auxiliary is sponsoring a national poppy poster contest, opened to all gmde and high school students in the county. Th« contest opened today and is the first to be conducted by the auxiliary in this county. Mrs. Walter Gladfelter is general chairman. Tie contest closes May 1 and the I winning poster will be sent to the district and state departments for judging and returned to the 1 cal community before Poppy Day. All posters made in Adams County will be used in window displays for 10 days preceding "Poppy Day." which will l ie observed May 25. The local contest is divided into two classes, one for high school ritudents and the other for cxipils of the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The winner in each class will receive a two dollar county prize and if slice ssful in the district competition, will receive $2.50. A state prize will also be given and the national prize winner will reON PAGE THREE) o Arrange Schedule For Beet Growers A -schedule has been set u<p for the beet growers in Harold Essex’s territory to sign their final AAA 1935 benefit contracts. On Wednesday, Thursday. Friday and Saturday the committee composed of Albert Coppess, chairman, Rolla Raudenbush and Carl Miller will be at the Monroe bank building. Monday April 1. the commute will be at Black Creek Cent'< r. Defendant Wins In Damage Suit A jury in the Adams circuit court found for the defendant in the case in whiali! Mrs. Nora Hall sued Lewis Sprunger for $3,000 for damages injuries alleged to have been sustained in an automobile accident in the fall of 1933. The case was begun Friday morning and the verdict was returned about 7:30 o’clock Sautrday night.

PROBE CHANCE ) OF ARSON IN CHICAGO FIRE Six Killed When Chicago Night Club Is Destroyed By Fire 1 1 • • Chicago, March 25- <U.R>-'State police and county authorities to- i , I day investigated a possibility that , a fire which killed six persons and burned a score of others yesterday In a Morton Grove night club I may have been the result of arson. Eighty persons, most of them ' college and high school students, were trapped in the tiny, one-room chib rendezvous when flames leap- ' ed through its crepe paper decora- j tions with explosive rapidity. Most of the casualties were! attributed to the fact that the ; room’s sole exit was a door that opened inward, a construction 1 forbidden by law since the historic I Iroquois Theatre fire in which 575 persons perished in 1903. Investigators were unable im- j mediately to learn the origin of ( yesterday’s blaze and turned to the possibility of arson while a coroner's jury began an inquest. ( Hysterical voting merry-makers who escaped from the resort said all probably would have guined \ safety if a panic stricken mob liad not jammed against the exit door, holding it shut for fatal minutes. I ' The dead: Fred R. Anderson. 20. Eau ( laire, Wis., Northwestern Univer- i 1 sity student: Jack Cocker. 21, | ’ Cedar Rapids, la., Northwestern . senior; Arlene Harvey, 22. hat I ' cheek girl: James Hronek. 32, . I Chicago: Robert Wolfe, 21, Chicago; Mi>»s Helen Johnson, Milwaukee. Twenty two others were treated . for burns in hospitals. Four were - in critical condition. TRAFFK WRECKS TAKE FIVE LIVES ' ■ i i At Least Five Persons Are Victims of Traffic Accidents in Indiana Over Sunday Indianapolis, Mar. 25— <U.R) — > Traffic accidents caused the deaths ' of at least five persons in Indiana , over the week end. Two persons were killed at Indianapolis. Dan Collins. 44. a re- ’! lief worker, and Mrs. Maryellen i ( Bryant Massey, 24. both died of | injuries suffered when struck by ' ' | automobiles. I I Mrs. Eva Gary, 30. Anderson. ' was killed and three companions I were injured when the automobile [ in which thev were riding left the highway and struck a utility pole ’ north of Anderson. Miss Helen Fisher, 20, Millers- i bnrg. was crushed to deatli be- i tween two automobiles at the edge ] I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SUGAR SECTION OFFICERS HERE AAA Sugar Section Representatives Check Local Contracts Representatives of the sugar section of the AAA, who were here Saturday afternoon checking local contracts, complimented tihe work of , the county hoard and stated that ' "the contracts were in the best , I shape of any checked by them.” Clarence Oviatt, La-nsing, Mich., ' field representative of the sugar ; section of the AAA for the eastern part of the United States, and a Mr.:' Coleman, comptroller of the department, were here Saturday and visit-: d the local committee. They inspected the oantracLs and ' were more ti’.an pleased with head-: way already made. More than 600 of the contracts are ready to forward to Washington. 11 enieflt payments to the 1034 growers will amount to at least eight dollars an acre for the first ' installment. The second payment > will be made later in the year. The local committee (insists of ■ E. W. Busche. chairman. Adolph > Scbimerloh and Burl Johnson, assisted by County Agent L. E. Archbold. The committee ilias its 1 office in the county agent's office, , in the federal building.

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Peace Envoy jcior.. > Ci w Wm / Im Traveling as president and offi- | cial spokesman for Little Entente nations, Nicholas Titulescu, foreign minister of Roumania, is making a tour of the capitals of , Europe, interpreted as move to I ring Germany with nations supporting France. I JOHN EICHER TAKES LIFE Commits Suicide Sunday Morning; Leaves No Explanation For Act John Eicher, 38, hanged himself between 7:30 and 8 o’clock Sunday morning at the Chub Pontius farm eight miles southeast of Berne. Coroner Robert Zwick was called on the case Sunday morning at 8:30 o’clock. He gave his verdict as "death from hanging." It is believed that Mr. Eicher committed suicide because of his recent conviction on a charge of possession of cannibjs, saliva, and indica or "Mexican hay" in the Adams circuit court. He left no note explaining his act. Eicher hanged himself with a quarter inch rope tied to a rafter ' in the Pontius barn. He evidently , stood on a keg while he looped the rope around his neck and then kicked the keg from under him. Eicher’s conviction carried with it a $25 fine and an 180-day suspended sentence. He had the docket stayed for his fine. Since that time he has been working on the farm of his uncle, John Eicher. He left the farm Saturday night without announcing his destination. Sunday morning he stopped at the home of his friend. Chub Pontius. While conferring with Pontius another person drove up to epeak to Pontius. Eicher dis-, ar peared and 15 minutes later his lifeless body was found hanging from a rafter in the Pontius barn. Surviving are bis former wife, now living in Fort Wayne; two children. Christopher and Joan, both of Fort Wayne; his father, Chris Eicher, former Adams county commissioner, Hartford township; four brothers, Ray, Victor, Ellie and Solomon, and a sister, Martha, all of Adams county. (Funeral services will be held Tuesday morning at 9:30 o’clock I at the Missionary church near here with burial in the M. R. E. cemetery. —- -o WILL MAP STATE . RELIEF PROGRAM A. A. Watrous Will Attend Meeting Os Federal Recovery Leaders At Indianapolis Thursday Indianapolis, Mar. 25. —<U.R> —In , diana’s relief program for the bal-! ance of 1935 will be mapped out Thursday at a meeting of direct- , ors of all the federal recovery agencies operating in the state. The meeting was called by Clarence E. Manion, state director of the national emergency council. He said it would be the first meeting of its kind ever held in Indi- i ana. Among those who will attend the meeting are the following: Wayne Coy, director of the emergency relief administration; F. D. Gallagher, Chicago, manager of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Guy H. Williams, secretary-treasurer of the Farm Loan Association; Ernest Rice, general agent, farm administration of Louisville, Ky. Paul V. Brown, regional officer, state park conservation work; F. M. Logan, state engineer, public works administration; F. B. McKibben, president, Federal Home (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

LEADERS MEET INCONFERENCE ONARMAMENTS Possible Return Os Memel Territory To Germany Suggested Berlin, March 25—OJ.R>—The return to Germany of her lost territory of Memel arose as a possible issue today when Relchsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon of Great Britain started their negotiations leading to an agreement which would bring Gerany back into the family of nations. The Memel territory has an area of 943 square miles and a population of 150,000. It lies on the Baltic between East Prussia and Lithuania. It was taken from Germany by the treaty of Versailles and was first made league territory, and then turned over to Lithuania. Quarters cloee to the German foreign office speculated on the .possibility that Hitler might he offered a plebiscite in Memel in return for his concessions on other points touching re-armament and security. A plebiscite probably would result just as the Saar plebiscite did, in an overwhelming vole for Germany. It wae open to question, however. whether Whitler would consider th? return of Memel a sufficient inducement to accept the eastern European security pact so much desired by France, even if it is only consultative. Observers believed the question of the last African colonies, notably German East Africa, now held by Great Britain, might be injected as a bargaining point—not in the actual hope of regaining the territory, but to abandon the claim in return for other concessions. Plea For Peace | (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Vatican City, March 25—<U.R) —• Pone Pius’ encyclical of April 28 will be a denunciation of violation of international agreements and an earnest plea for world peace, ft was said on most reliable authority today. The encyclical was characterized as the most important document of the present pontificate. It is to be issued in connection with the end of the jubilee year. It was undenrtood that the encyclical would be a strong condemnation of violation of treaties iand a warning that another war ! would b? tantamount to the de(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) NORMA WARD DIES SUNDAY AFTERNOON Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ward Dies at Home in Monmouth After Short Illness Norma Pauline Ward, two year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harley Ward of Monmouth, died nt iher home at 1:56 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Death was due to pneumonia. The child had tocen ill for nine days. Norma was born in Monmouth on March 31, 1933. a daughter of Harley and Amanda Ward. Surviving besides the parents, are the following brothers and sisters: Elvira, Roger, June, Joyce and Norman, ,a twin. The grand parents, Mr. and i Mrs. James Ward of near Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. William Neuenschwander of near Fort Wayne, also ■ survive. Funeral services will be held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 1:36 o’clock and at 2 o’clock at the Decatur Gospel tabernacle. Burial will be made in the Decatur cemetery. Rev. Sam Grabill of Fort Wayne, district superintendent of the Missionary Church association, will officiate. The body was removed to the home from the S. E. Black funeral home Monday afternoon. Blaze Extinguished " Without Any Damage A fire at the Central Soya company in the drying room was extinguished before the city fire department reached the plant Saturday afternoon. The fire was caused by a burning bearing which became too hot. No damage was done. The fire department was called only as a safety measure.