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U ENVOY WEDS WITH MUSH HEADS I Aids In Cementing jendly Russia-Brit-I i s h Relations I i-tup'-Th* ministry officially Cj H "nonsense" today re ttnst 500/WO youths of the E ,f 1915 would report for E t ,i essmination at any E'i.. this morning and that E» defense law would anE, the formation of a naCt council of defense. , L«. April I—<U.P>— Anthony ■ British cabinet envoy, sped L,, today lo ask Polish E; s join on eastern EuroE m ty that would Impose I bv military force. ■was a diplomatic salesman. E,„ se ii Poland he may alter Cole trend of negotiations Eooe's arms crisis. ■est Moscowf last night after L day visit which cemented Kflritlsh relations on a basis ft than since 1914. ■ 37-year old British war vetEwt the Bolshevik leaders I themselves in complet” ■nent on means to preserve ■ ill Europe ■ it is his lob to win Poland I idea of joining with Russia ■her nations in a treaty ■ which each would pledge K to any other that might licked. Kras opposition to ■ treaty that hardened Ger|i attitude against it — and ■ aaiie it appear that such a ■ wu!d be signed by Prance, ■ md Czechoslovakia if by ftes This might result ‘ tIT ■in: Germnny with nations ■to support each other It her. ■ Warsaw Eden goes to Is to ask the veteran Edouard ■ Csechoslova hian foreign Ber, what he thinks of the R will come the critical di■tic conference at stress, | of the foreign ministers of I Britain, Prance and Italy I may create a take lt-or-Bt after to Nazi Germany. ■as aAnAPcant of the differBatwaen Eden's visit here pa- of Eden and Sir John wTTVI’Vn nv T»«GE THREE) p WOMAN DIES pDENLY SUNDAY W. S. Callcw Drops Dead at * of Niece in Fort Wayne Sunday Afternoon 1 " S. Callow, 66, who resid*r Wren. Ohio for about 50 d,ed suddenly at the home of ii«e. Mrs. Fred Bandtell in W’yne Sunday afternoon 1 odoek. Mrs. Callow was toown in Decatur, fallow had gone to the Band®e to visit Sunday afternoon. 16 ehe MterM the house she dead - Death was due to trouble. t (allow was born in Crawunt!r, Ohio. Her maiden Matilda Myers. Mr. Callfeesded her in death in 1914. auow was a member of the brethren church at Wren, "'■tig are a son and two ** u °yd Callow. Wren, A c Eeigert, Van Wert ’ „ rß ' F * Oihson, Saginaw. > : her I ° f l Gl L nmore ' 01,10 * n<i fi „,, J Myers of Beaver,lch! »*n. also survive **■> «>» tteid at 2:30 o’clock rill k” l ' R church and t»irmad“ in the church wry. ‘Manager Named For Newberry Store aO 2e I rT,h h “, dU z ,ieß to ‘ ■ s . ®" of the J. j. N<?wHe repiaces tetoreinU be ° n , y. . n ’ ans . Kentucky. terry s ..iL f T rnerly mana Be<l Onati out' 8 ” C,ev * land and H», w b «nte is at ".Michigan. At the preDo re B at ‘he home of Rrtet ' Erwin °n North Sec-

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COUNTY RELIEF I PERCENTACE LOW I Only Seven Countiei in Indiana Had Lower Relief Coat Percentage During Month of January Only seven counties in Indiana 1 [had a lower percentage of the: population on relief than Adams J during the month of January, ac- ' ’ cording to a report Just issued by ' the GCUR. Os the population of 19,957 in January, Adams county hud 306 families representing 1,345 persons and 32 single persons on relief. This was a percentage of 6.9. It cost 16,250.04 to give relief to I these persons at an average cost | per case of 118.49. The adminis- , j tration of the relief in January cost 1 1517. The counties which were lower . than Adams were: Dearborn. 4.6; Dubois. 2.9; Harrison, 4.8; Jack- , son. 6.1; Scott, three: Union, 6.5; Washington. 6.5. Other counties' percentages in- , I elude: Allen. 13.4; Blackford, 10.6; , 1 Delaware. 14.9; Huntington, 11; | ■ Jay. 9.6; Randolph, 10.4; Vermil--1 lion, 34 3, and Wells, 13.5. 1 ; GIVE VERDICT TO DEFENDANT 1 ; 1 Judge DeYoss Instructs Jury To Return Verdict For Defendant Judge Huber M. DeVoss today : instructed a jury In the Adams 1 j circuit court to find for the defendant, A. D. Suttles. in (he note , i case brought against him by Wil- , i lard Hlrschy. administrator with , ! will annexed of the Amos Hlrschy estate. A motion wae pic.sented after tile evidence was conr'uded. to, order the jury to find for the defendant ahil 'wst snstaftted A motion presented after the plaintiff had offered his evidence to dismiss the action on the grounds that “the plaintiff does net own : the note and has not a right to maintain an action," was over-! ruled bv the court. The face value of the note was $182.50 and it was eigned by “Cordelia I. Schell farm a-c, per | A. D. Suttles. eeent” and given to i the Gilliom lumber company. It was alleged that the note was later given to Amos Hirschv, who | died before the action was brought into court. The case was brought against A. D. Suttles. personally. Mr. j Suttles maintained in his answer ! to the ammended complaint that j he waa acting only as agent for 1 the estate, that it was signed to j 1 nay for materials used on the I Schell farm and which were pur- ! chased by the Gilliom Lumber romnenv. Mr. Suttles also claimj ed that he had received no consld- ; eration himself for signing the note as agent. He stated that at that time, he handled over 3.(W0 I acres of farms and had written the “Corde'ia I. Schell farm a-c" (CONTINUED ON PAC-Ft FIVE) o ; ARREST YOUTH AS DRUNKEN DRIVER 1 Driver of Car Which Struck Traffic Light in Decatur Faces Intoxication Charge Lawrence Deßolt of north of Mon- 1 , roe is being held in tne Adams coun- 1 ty jail, following an accident Saturday night wlr n his automobile 1 struck and knocked over the heavy ■cement traffic light p'st at the corner of Second and Monroe streets. Merle McGill, who was with him at the time of the accident, was released after questioning by the po- ! lice and Sheriff Dallas Brown. ; Number Deßolt nor McGill was in- 1 Jured, although the automobile was badly damaged. The light pest which was of solid 1 cement and weighed approximately 1 600 pounds was knocked from the ! base clear across the street. 1 1 j Officer Floyd Hunter, who made I the arrest, stated that Dsßolt would 1 | be brought into Mayor Arthur R. ! Holthouse’s court this afternoon to i face a charge of driving while inj toxicated. The city council held a special 1 session this afternoon and derided 1 1 not to replace the traffic light post i ! in the center of the street. Before 1 • | any action is taken on the 'kind of < ’ a light to be placed at the comer. 1 ! the etate highway department will 1 1 be consulted. 11

POPE CONDEMNS WAR SPIRIT OF MANY NATIONS Pope Pius Exhorts Statesmen Os The World To Promote Peace (Copyright 1935 by l!p.) Vatican City, Apr. 1. — (U.PJ —Pope | Pius today condemned the war-1 like spirit of the present day and | exhorted statesmen of the world 1 to promote peace. The occasion was a secret consistory of the college of cardinals, which at the pope’s request, approved the canonization of John Fisher and Thomas More, whom Henry VII! beheaded in 1535 because they would not bow to liis authority as against that of the papagy. Nineteen cardinals attended in the consistorial hall. “Reports of war. universally spread, arouse in every one the greatest fear," the Holy father said. “Meanwhile we believe it oppor- j tune to take this way as the aposi tolic office entrusted to us seems | to require. “We consider it would be a horrible crime, a foolish manifestation of wrath, if peoples again took arms one against the other 10 spill blood, brothers against brothers, so that destruction and ruin would he sown from the skies, on land and at sea.” “Now we consider this absolutely impossible according to the juridical maxim; •’ “Things which are against the , right can neither come to pass nor be believed.’ “We can not convince ourselves 1 that those to whose hearts the 1 prosperity and welfare of peoples ; must be close can desire to excite • j uls to tdaugfifer. 'Yftin and(CONTINUED*ON PACE FIVE) BLUFFTONMAN IS APPOINTED William Wolfcale Commodity Clerk For Adams, Wells Counties William Wolfcale of Bluffton has been appointed commodity clerk for Adame and Wells counties under a new system being set up by the governor’s commission on unemiployTient relief. The allocation of commoditi s will be based on a county 1 unit basis, instead of on a township basis. William Linn, Decatur merchant, ; has done tf.ife work without pay pre- ! viousiy. A work project under the j FERA will be made to iray the new clerk. | The purpose of the new plan is to j coordinate the distribution of com-1 modifies with the other activities of our GCUR in each county, which j are all ope rated on a county unit! basis. The commodity clerks are be- j ing appointed to e rve as the direct; re nresentative of the commodity di- j vision in supervising distribution j in the counties. Tie clerks will be | responsible for establishing plane for county wide distribution. The present pnystcal imethod of distribution within the county will he maintained as far as poeeible. Here the township trustees have distributed the commodities. The change was made necessary 1 (CONTINUED ON PAOE SIX) Plan To Interview 1 Factory Officials An appointment has been made 1 by Ferd Litterer, James Elberswn, I Dan Tyndall and Jess Rice to Inter- ; view officials of the Steele Fabricating plant in Indianapolis. Wed- < nesday, morning at 9:30 o’cloc k. 1 The tren. members and officials i of the Decatur Chamber of Com- t merce. have been invited to go 1 through the plant there. The com- < pany is proposing to locate a branch i in this city. ‘ The only requast the plant has made is that the city or Chamber | i Commerce give them a year’s free 1 rent amounting to S6OO at the build- > ing formerly occupied by the Macy t Conveyor's company, and an option on the building after that time. In 1 return the company promised a pay < roll which will average at least sl,- 1 000 a week for the first year. £

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Russia Pledges to Aid Peace v a, £ f Anthony Eden Mixim Litvinoff Russia gave England assurance that the Soviet government would , i bend every effort toward pencil in Europe at a parley held in Moscow between Captain Anthony Eden. British lord privy seal, and Maxim Litvinoff. Soviet eomniisar for foreign affairs. The discussion of the J European arms crisis will he continued when representafives of i France. England, Italy ami Russia meet at Slresa. Italy.

MAYOR BANGS IS FACING TROUBLE Huntington Mayor Warned Possible Jail Sentence Is Looming Huntington. Ind., April 1 —<U.R> — With a jail term looming for himself and his city electricians unable to collect salaries. Mayor C. f*W. H. Langs and his utility fight j ! became an involved affair today, j Continuing to connect private, resident'!a ami business houses to the municipal light plant. Mayor Bangs was notified by his attorneys that he was “getting close to j a prison term on a court contempt! i charge." Despite a court order prohibit-) ing interference with service rend-j ered by tha Northern Indiana ! Power Co., service has been ex-1 tended to a score or more custom- i ers from the city electric plant. The contempt citation looms at j the approaching hearing in the Huntington circuit court before special judge David Smith, Fort i Wayne, when the power company | will seek to have a temporary re--1 straining order made permanent, j Six new customers were added ! to the city system last, week. The ! new patrons included a city offi- 1 1 cial and five citizens who dis-i I connected the lines from the pov.-: ; er company and hooked up with; the city plant. Bangs has feught the utility! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HIGH SCHOOLS ARE APPROVED Four Adams County Schools Favored In Government Report Washington, D. C„ April t — (Special) — The United States Office of Education in a report Issued tedaj gave recognition to the educational standards upheld , at four high schools in Adams county, Indiana. These schools are, in alphabetical order. Decatur Catholic high school, Decat'ir high school. Kirk- j ] land township high school, and j 4 Monmouth high school. The standards met include re- j ■ quirements as to buildings, labor- , atories, libraries, professional . qualifications of teachers, limita- • tion of size of classes for eat U teacher, salary standard for teach- | ers. rigid graduation requirements and complete and uniform recorns , of attendance. Recognition of the standards . set by the secondary schools in most cases meins admission of , graduates to colleges by certification without entrance examination. , Some schools that have lost this j | recognition due to curtailment of j ( courses for tack of funds probably j; will be given aid in restoring full ] i service under the four billion | (

Automobiles Struck Here Saturday Night Ted Appelman. driving the truck belonging to Appelman's Grocery, struck a parked ear owned by Gerald Cole Saturday night. The t Cole automobile was parked at j ; the corner of Jefferson and Second streets in front of Edwards' Studio. Mr. Appelman stated he did not see the automobile. Earl Nvffler reported to officer Floyd Hunter that his rare was, struck Saturday night hv one ' driven by a man who refused to ; give his name. TW oftw-r ear was ' a Ford V-8. with Indiana license : number 427,142. FEUD OVER AIR i | IS COMPLETED Coughlin, Johnson And Long Apoarently Ready To End Feud New York. Apr. 1. — (U.P.) — The air waves carried for the last time ] over the week-end the denunciatory j voices of Gen. Hdgh S. Johnson and (the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin pound-1 , ing investive at one another, many i believed today. Johnson in his reply to Dough-! : lins reply to his original attack. ] hinted he had had his say and inI tended saying no more. Coughlin ] in his weekly radio speech yesteri day referred to Johnson only briefly, but in such away as to indicate he, too, was tiring of the controversy. Os course, there remained the : possibility that some circumstance ! not foreseen by either would bring j their bludgeons out again. Neither made a direct statement of his j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) HARSHMAN GIVEN FINE, SENTENCE John Harshman of Near Wiltshire is Fined $lO And Sentenced To Serve 30 Days John Harshman, of near Willshire, Ohio, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, when arraigned before Mayor A. R. Holthouse in city court late Saturday afternoon.As penalty, Harshman was fined $lO and costs, totaling $21.90 and! sentenced to serve 30 days in the Adams county jail. The iail sentence was not suspended. The fine was not paid, extending the jail sentence to 52 days. The Ohio man was taken into custody Friday evening hy Decatur Policeman Floyd Hunter, following a collision of two automobiles on U. S. highway 27, six miles north of Decatur. Harshman was driving south and swerved across the road directly; Into the path of an automobile driven by R. F. Oleger of Auburn. Both autos were badly damaged but occupants of the cars escaped with j only slight injuries. I

ADAMS COUNTY BANK TO PAY 25 PER CENT Distribution Will Be Made To Depositors Os i Bank April 8 Leo Yager, special representative of the Indiana Department of 1 Financial institutions in the liquidation of the Old Adams County Bank, announced today that the bank would make a 25 per cent distribution to depositors on April 8. ( The distribution, the fourth to be made since the bank closed.! amounts to $113,492.97 and will be paid by check at the bank. No , j checks will be mailed. Petition for making the distri- : button was made by Henry B. Helper, attorney for the bank and approved by Judge H. M. DeVoss ini ■ the Adams circuit court. The 25 per cent dividend is figured on deposits of $463,392.67, the amount owed by the bank when taken over by the Department of Financial institutions. It is the largest distribution of funds so far made and brings the total to approximately 40 ppr cent. The three previous distributions, amounting to 15 per cent, totaled $68,313.03. Stockholders Pay Stockholders of the bank have < paid more than one-third of the;. assessment levied against them. Os the 25 per cent distribution, one- i ! third, or $37,830.99, represents pay- . ments made by the stockholders. The balance. $75,661.98, was col-' lected in the liquidation of notes and other assets of the hank. The hank had $619,740.88 on dei posit when it closed on May 17, I 1932. A portion of this amount was [public funds, guaranteed by bonds,] and paid as preferred claims with- i i nut declaring a dividend. Some of ; the deposits were off-set with claims against depositors. The first distribution was made on April 22. 1933 and was four per cent, amounting to $18,799.49. The second distribution in June. 1934, was for six per cent on the deposits at the bank at the time the state took it over and totaled $27.- ! 297.52. The third distribution of five per cent on October 26, 1934, was likewise based on the amount of deposits in the hank when the state took it over, and amounted to ; $22,216.02. Miss Margaret Patch Case Work Director i Miss Margaret Patch has been transferred to this district and will , act as FERA case work director for Adams and Wells counties. i Sb> replaces Miss Helen Wilson,! who has served in this capacity for ; several months. Miss Wilson has , 'been awarded a GSUR scholarship , to tf.:e University ct Ohio',go- ; CONVICTION OF NEGROES VOID U. S. Supreme Court Is- j sues Ruling In Famous ’ Scottsboro Cases 11 t Washington, April I—<U.R!t1 —<U.R! t ■Tl' e I supreme court, sternly condemn- . ing barring of negroes from jury ] service, today struck down the s conviction of twe defendants in , the famous Scottsboro assault ( cases. t Terms of the decision apparent- ] ly will make it necessary for them ; to he reindicted and may result i in the ultimate release of alt tht> negro defendants. s The court, in an opinion by t chief justice Charles Evans t Hughes, found that negroes had been systematically excluded from - the jury rolls of Jackson county where the defendants were indicted. The court held this was sttf- I fieient to make the indictments invalid. The two cases before the court today involved Clarence Norris j and Haywood Patterson, both of , whom had been convicted a sec- f ond time and sentenced to death. ( Five of the defendants are still ( awaiting their second trial. They probably will not be tried again - (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) '

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Local Residents Leave For Texas Mr. and Mtv. H. W. Rodenbeck, formerly of 100 South Fourth street, Vft Sunday morning for Debold, Texag where Mr. Rodenbeck has accepted a pteitlon as associate management engineer with the Forrest Products Engineering company of Ohkogo. His first assignment ta'kes him to tihe southern state. Mr. Rodenbeck and wife came to Decatur from. Mishawaka and resided here for the 'past three years. H? was formerly superintendent of the McMillen Feed Mills. TO REORGANIZE CLUB THURSDAY Guernsey Cattle Club Will Meet At Hotel Thursday Evening Peter B. Lehman, president of the Adams County Guernsey Cattle j Club lias called a reorganization meeting for this year on Thursday. ! April 4. 6:15 p. m. at the Rice Hotel I Decatur. The following are members of the local association: Peter I B. Lehman, Pollyanna and Juanita Lehman, C. IV. Moser, Floyd Myers, Dale Moses, W. H. Stults, Reinhold Koldewey, Lewis Koldewey, James tnderson, Frank Fogle, Earl Haske|| James Hendricks, Oren Stults. J tin Walters, Noa'ii D. Soilv.artz. Dun Schwartz, Roy Johnson. Ed Ellsworth, Wm. Burke, Gilbert : Hirschy, Clinton Soldner. H. L. Sipe Olry Swoveland, Inniger Bros., and James Moses. Other men expected to be present are Arthur IV. Teller, H. E. Dsnni--1 son, E- T. Wallace, and breed rep- | resentatives of all the counties in ] this district. This meeting will he held concurently with the local Roary club meeting. Following the re- ! organization meeting at the hotel, 1 a joint meeting of the Jersey Parrisih. Show interests and the Gttern- | sey Regional Show interests will ' he held in the county agent's office at which time further steps will be taken in the set-up for the cattle | show to be held in connection with ( the 4-H club and extension shows, ! the first full week in August. GERMAN MOTHER FACING DEATH Sentenced To Death For Permitting Three Children’s Starvation Berlin, April I—<U.P.1 —<U.P.> —A small, bedraggled muddy blonde woman of 25 sat in a cell under sentence of death today, hoping her life would be spared so that she could give birth to new life. She is Charlotte Juenpmann. She was condemned to death Satrrday for permitting her three children, of 6 months. 18 months, and 314 years of age, to starve. Two children died, the third is dying. it was believed her pregnancy | would bring a commutation of j sentence to life imprisonment, so J that she may give birth to her fourth child. On Reichsfuehrcr Adolf Hitler, [ pressed with problems on which j Europe’s peace may depend, rests | ihe final decision. Charlotte Juenemann at 13, eloped from her parents’ home at the old fortified town of Magdeburg, 88 miles from Berlin. She and hpr lover came to Berlin and lived in poorest circumstances for i several years. They married a. year ago. The husband was fre-! quently out of work and is alleged to have mistreated her. They ] lived on a email unemployment al- j lowance. Six months ago the husband went to an insane asylum. Alone with three children she sought to continue her pursuit of j the pleasures of the night life of the poorest' slum in Berlin. She would leave the children (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O — Former Resident Os Berne Is Dead Mre. Daniel Gerber. 57, a former Berne resident, died Saturday morning at the St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne of pneumonia. Mre. Gerber was reared in the Berne communityFuneral services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock at the Gerber home in Fort Wayne t

RELIEF TILLS ARE VIRTUALLY EMPTY OFFUNDS Administration Leaders ) Battle Last Minute Conference Change Washington, April I—<U.R!-The1 —<U.R! - The national relief crisis, aggravate l by weeks of hitter congressional , deadlock, neared a climax today. Administration leaders on direct orders from President Roosevelt tattled in house and eeuate to overturn a last minute conference I change in the $4,880,000,000 workrelief measure. A picket line suddenly appeared at the White House made up of an Ohio unemployed group which protested that contemplated pay- > ments from the huge relief fund would he inadequate. Meantime, the federal relief tills were virtually empty. Funds • for only two days remained and ■ the new relief tie up in congress , indicated that no new money , would be forthcoming until every . cent of the present fund has been , spent. I The relief crieis was brought on by ttie bitter fight over a limitation inserted in the omnibus measure during conference between senate and house requiring that , one dollar out of every three going for public works be paid-out in wages. Majority Leader Joseph T. Rob- . inson charged in the senate that the section was inserted "appar- , ently in violation of the rules of , the senate.” . i Chairman Carter Claes of the . senate appropriations committee took issue with Robinson. In out- .; line of his position he quoted a letter which he had written :o I' secretary of the interior Harold , L. Ickes, leader of the adminis- ,; tration fight against the provision. , In his letter Glass eaid he believed Ickes “clearly wrong” in 1 his objections. Glass couched his letter in ! friendly terms but said that Ickes (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Commissioners In Regular Session The county commissioners, in session today, spent the morning examining and approving bills. This afternoon they interviewed a number of applicants far old age pensions. They expect to remain in session Tuesday. The appointment of a member of the county liqquor board had not been made at 2:30 o’clock this faternoon. The commissioners received an efficial notice to appoint one member to the bcord within 15 days. Tie appointment will probably be made Tuesday. Regular K. Os C. Meeting Tonight The regular meeting of the K. of IC. Lodg l will be held tonight | at eight o’clock. TRUSTEES MEET IN REGULAR SESSION Trustees Os Adams County State Free Text Books Must Wait Voters' Petitions School children in Adams county may have free text books if the registered voters in the townships and cities wish them, it was announced today at the monthly meeting of the township trustees with county superintendent of schools Clifton E. Striker. The board, in session this morning. transacted routine business before considering the new laws. The new state law regarding text books makes it mandatory upon the school boards and township trustees to furnish free text books to the school children in their district if 61 per cent of the registered voters sign a petition requesting the action. The trustees urged communities wishing free text hooks sign the petitions immediately. If the books are purchased by the townships or school boards they will be paid for by a higher tax rate. The trustees stated that they themselves will take no action on the new law unices specially requested by a petition.