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Baby May Stay Ax Whether an expectant mother's head shall be placed on the Nazi chopping block at Berlin must Im? decided by Reichsfuhrer Hitler. I Frau Charlotte Jneneman, above. - was convicte.l of spending dole money on night life while her i 1 three children starved to death. LICENSES TO BE EXTENDED Beer Licenses Which Expire April 7 Likely To Be Extended Indianapolis, Apr. 4.—(U.R)—Several hundred retail beer licenses whi**i expire April 7 probably will be extended for an indefinite peri iod, the state alcoholic beverage commission announced today. The licenses will be extended pending printing of new applications and action upon them by the , tSUtntj boards, the auaauussMNa announced. The commission has been meeting daily for the past two weeks studying the new liquor control act and organizing the excise department. New forms for all types of licenses are being drafted and will be districted to county boards within the next 10 days. An indication that several “minor changes" in the liquor law would i be asked if a special session of the i state legislature is held this summer was given by Henry A. Quigley, Kokomo, a member of the commission. The changes would cla-ify several sections but would not change the general content of the act. Quigley said. Asked whether the special session would be requested to permit Sunday opening in counties on the l state borders. Quigley said: “That would only be moving the state line, and before we knew it the entire state would be asking the same rating. The only thing I we can do now is to enforce the Sunday closing provisions." o Local Resident’s Stepfather Dead Funeral services for Hen Rash, of I TndianapolM, stepfatl'ier of Don i Lutes of this city, will be h Id FriI day at the Rash form at Fortville. ! Mr. Rash was past 80 years of age J and was a retired farmer. He hud I been tn poor health for several months. Mr. and Mrs- Lutes left to- , day for Indianapolis. The Norge cales agency operated by Mrs. Lutes will be closed Friday. o BUSC’HE ELECTED BANK DIRECTOR E. W. Busche of Monroe Named Firat State Bank Director; Theodore Hobrock Named E. W. Bqpche of Monroe, prominent farmer of Adams county, was ■elected a director of the First State Bank of this city, filling the board vacancy caused by the death of Dr. J. W. Vizard. Theodore Hobrock, a member ot ' the board for several years was I elected vice-president of the bank, i Dr. Vizard formerly held the office. II A page in the minute book was ■ devoted to the memory of Dr. Vizard and resolutions of respect, signed by the officers and directors of the bank, were sent to the i family. Other members of the board of * directors are C. A Dugan, presi-l ■ dent, Dan Sprang, Dynois Schmitt. (John P. Braun and Theodore Grali-i i ker, cashier.

OPENS WAY TO SCRAPPING OF WAR TREATIES Anthony Eden Enroute Back To London After Conferences By I'nited Press Austria's demand for re-arma-ment opens way for scrapping of military clauses of all world war treaties. Austria to send envoy to Stresa to demand army of 60,000 to 65.000. Anthony Eden. British cabinet envoy, leaves Prague by airplane for London, completing Paris-Ber-lin - Moscow - Warsaw • Prague “exploratory" tour. British cabinet to meet tomorrow to hear Eden’s report and fix basis for Stresa conference April 11. Paris and London indicate Stresa conference will be widened to include discussions of entire European political situation. Wants Re-armament (Copyright 1935 by I'nited Press) Vienna. April 4 —<U.R) —Austria will send an envoy to the allied conference at Stresa to demand cancellation of treaty restrictions on its armv. it was said authoritatively today. Austria’s assertion of its right to rearm opened the way for the scrapping of military restrictions in all the world war treaties. Hungary and Bulgaria were expected next to demand that their treaty limited forces be increased. Turkey, the remaining nation whose forces were restricted, never has pretended to restrict them. It w-’o said in official quarters ' today that Anstria wtH dernaad M (CONTINL’ICn ON PAGE VIVE) 0 ROBERT COFFEE IS IN CONTEST Decatur Student Competes In State Finals Os Latin Contest i Bloomington, April 4 —(UP) — Robert Goffe-, of rxeoitur, will participate in the final round of the twelfth annual state high scho 1 Isatin contest to be field this Friday (April 5) at Indiana university. , Coffee is one of six high school Latin pupils of the ninth district ! who won the district contest held Mardb 23. Coffee is the winner in Divisionlll of the contest. Other ninth district winners ore: Division Rediger and N rman Brenneke. Woodburn; Division II i Elna D linee. Warren, and Ina Selllens, Fremont; Division IV—John I Hickman. Columbia City. Forty-two honor pupils in Latin, representing the winners of title nine district meets, have been announced as the participants in the final m et Friday at Indiana university. The contest is divided into the following four divisions: Division 1 first year Latin completed at the end of the second semester of the current school year; Division IT second year Latin completed at the e. id of either semester; Division TH Cicero completed at the lend of either semester, and Division IV— Vergil oonupleted at the end of either semesterGold, silver and bronzze medals will be awarded first, second and third place winners in ead'i division of the state contest. Mrs. Adela Bittner of the I. U. extension division | said today. The final examinations for the district winners will be given at 9 a. m. Friday, during which time there will be a conference for I.atin teachersK Os C. Committee Will Meet Friday An important meeting of the memibership committee of the Knights of Columlbus will e e < Friday evening at 8:30 at the K- o C. hall. The committee is composed j of Clarence Heiman, chairman, Luz- j -ern Urick. Francis Wertzberger,! Florian Geimer. Henry Bro '* r "’ Arthur Lengerich. Hulbert Schmitt, Clavsui Carroll. Herman Miller, Cornelius Geimer, William Parent, I Joe Lose, Joe Laurent.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 4, 1935.

Innocent “Lifer” p® 5 * / V j / fA i ; | Leonard Hankins, abov«>. of Dawson Springs. Ky„ now serving a life term for murder irf the Minnesota state prison, expects his early release as the result of two confessions purporting to absolve him from complicity in a robbery of the Third Northwestern National bank at Minneapolis in 1932 when two policemen were killed. TWO TRAINMEN WRECK VICTIMS Two Trainmen Killed, Two Injured When Freights Collide i Ottawa, 111., Apr. 4.—<U.R)~Two trainmen were killed today and two others injured in a wreck of 1 ! two Rock Island freight trains near the Ottawa station. The dead are Richard Wolf. 55, ‘engineer of the Northwest limited freight, and William House, 50, his fireman. Physicians said Joseph : i Conlon, brakeman, might die. Fay , Green, another brakeman, was in-1 jured less seriously. All are resi I dents of Blue Island, 111. A wheel truck on the first car of the fast Northwest limited > broke as the train passed the Ot- : tawa station at 40 miles an hour, trainmen said. The locomotive and several cars leaped into the patii of another freight approaching on . a parallel, track. Both locomotives ploughed down ,1200 yards ot track before they I crashed into a three-story factory building in a mass ot wreckage and scalding steam. I Walter Keim, Ottawa policeman, | . ■ suffered serious burns in rescue ! work from sulphuric acid leaking from a tank car. Jumps Track Tiffin, la., Apr. 4.-(U.R)—A double- , i engined freight train laden with tractors, corn, and other merchandise jumped the track on the main 1 j (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) ! CHURCHES PLAN FOR SERVICES Protestant Churches W ill Hold Union Service On April 19 Eight Decatur Protestant churches will unite on Good Friday, April 19. to hold a three-hour union service at the Zion Reformed church. The churches which will participate are: Zion Reformed, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Evangelical, United Brethren, Christian. I Church of God, and the Baptist. Each church will be responsible ' for 20 minutes of the program which is being arranged by Rev.' George O. Walton, pastor of the Presbyterian church. The minister of each church will preach on the seven last sayings of Christ. The churches will each furnish a portion of the music. The services will begin at 12 j o’clock and continue u.’*ll 3 o'clock. The complete program will be announced next week. The services are an annual event. The services were decided upon at a ministerial meeting Wednesj day held at the United Brethern I ■ church. They were entertained by the | “Students From Many Nations".! Some of the students gave short! talks. 1

ORDERS BANGS TO APPEAR IN CIRCUIT COURT Huntington Mayor Faces Contempt Os Court Charges; Damages Huntington, Ind., Apr. 4. —(UJ?>~ j Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and ten other Huntington residents today . | were ordered by special Judge ' David Smith of circuit court to show cause April 9 why they should not be cited for contempt of court and assessed damages forviolating a restraining order against the city light plant. The restraining order was oh-! tained by the Northern Indiana Power company Jan. 26 to prohibit Bangs and others from extending facilities of the city light plant to commercial consumers. The ten persons ordered to appear in court with Bangs included five alleged workmen employed by the city plant and five all-’ged customers of the city plant. The workmen are Reid Clark. I Cecil McGregor. James Van Pelt, Jesse Erehart and W. K. Ziggeiman. The customers are Irl L King. Mike Peppas, Charles Strickland, I Gilbert Cox ami Christ Ellis. Affidavits against the TT defendants were filed by Harry Helm, superintendent of distribution for the Northern Indiana Power company and William Large, district manager. The company asked $5,000 dam-; ages from Bangs; SI,OOO from i Clark. SSOO each from Van Pelt. I Erehart. and Ziggelman and SSOO each from the five customers. If the defendants do not show cause why they should not he cited for contempt and assessed dam-1 ages. Judge Smith can asjjiss the damaged against them arbitrarily. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE! RESIDENTS OF CITY MEATLESS Power Corporation Employes On Strike In Four Illinois Towns Centralia. 111.. Apr. 4. — (U.R) — Residents of almost 3.000 Centralia homes shivered into their clothes I without the bathroom heated and i breakfasted on cold cereals today because a strike left the city withi out gas. The strikers were employes of ! the Illlinois Power and Light cor- ■ poration who walked out without i warning yesterday in Centralia, I East St. Louis, Danville, and Pe- ( oria. Office employes manned the electric plant in Peoria after a twohour power failure which halted street cars and factories. Fifty ' special police were sworn in at Danville. Power company officials j j said service probably would be . maintained everywhere e • ept in I I Centralia. i The Centralia gas supply failed • at 6 o’clock last night while thousands of housewives were preparing meals. Many homes depending on gas heat were deserted while families sougrh wffrmth in motion j picture theaters or visited neighbore who burn coal. Restaurants offered cold foods or installed oil stoves. Striking workmen, memberti of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, appeared to be ' ' only partially informed of the reasons they were called out. Most of them agreed that “the company wouldn’t recognize our union," but ! knew little of the status of nego- ' tiations between their leaders and 1 company representatives. Union officers said additional strikes might be ordered in Champaign, Bloomington and Belleville, j __o Receive Bids For Painting Infirmary Sealed bids will be received by i ■the county commissioners, Monday, I . April 15. for the furnishing of paints i I oils, varnish and otf.icr material nec- ■ essary in the painting of the barns I and other ibuildings at the county ! infirmary. Bids will also be receivI ed for paints necessary to paint tide I interior ot the infirmary building- '

DEATH CLAIMS AL MUTSCHLER LAST EVENING President of Mutschler Packing Company Dies At County Hospital .—— Albert Mutsehler, 44. president ' of the Mutschler Packing company, 'an executive in several other cor ! porations and prominently identified with the business and civiclife in this city, died at the Adams County Memorial hospital at 6:15 Wednesday evening of pneumonia. Mr. Mutschler took ill more than : three weeks ago and underwent an emergency operation. March 9, for a stomach ailment. He seemed to progress and was considered on the road to recovery until last Friday when pneumonia developed. His condition became more serious over the week-end and Monday took a turn for the worse. He remained conscious up until a few minutes before he died. Mr. Mutschler suffered a physical breakdown last year and was treated ,at the Battle Creek sanitarium. Later he took a several weeks vacation, enjoying a trip through the west, returning home 1 to assume his duties as active head and manager of the meat plant in ■ this city. Following his return home from the World war, during which time he served six months overseas. Mr. Mutschler became identified with his father, the late Fred Mutschler in the packing industry. | As manager of the business, the plant was rebuilt and enlarged, production increased and the concern became one of the largest of ..its kind in the state. I Mr. Mutschler was identified with several other business instiI tutions in the city. He was elect ed president of the Decatur Savings and Loan Association last January. ! having served on the board for j several years. He was an officer in the Fred Mutschler Distributing company. Mr. Mutschler's fathed died March 30. 1933. In addition to his commercial in- J terests. Mr. Mutschler was one of the largest farm owners in the ■ county. He owned a number of farms, covering hundreds of acres. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I o Everett Rich On Board Os Review Judge Huber M. DeVoss Wednesday appointed Everett Rich of French township, the Democratic! member of the Adams county board of review for 1935- Daniel Sprang of Decatur was appointed as the,' Republican member. The board meets in June. At that tr.ne it will examine the assessments of personal property now being made. The h;ard will hear complaints against any assessments. COMPROMISE ON j WORK MEASURE New Deal Leaders Hope To Pass Relief Bill In Few Days Washington, April 4— (U.R) — A gleam of hope appeared today for ’ new deal leaders who for more than two months have been trying to push their $4,880,000,090 I work relief bill through a stubI born senate. It was indicated a compromise reached late yesterday after a series -of Jiigh-teneicn conferences would clear the way for final enactment of a measure which has been beset by difficulties ever since it came to the senate late , in January. The leaders were heartened by a decision last night of house and senate conferees, who have been iin a deadlock for days, to con-1 I tinue discussions today. The resumption of conference’s was an encouraging sign front the 1 administration viewpoint for un- ' til some basis of agreement had been reached it had been useless for the conference to prolong their wrangling, indecisive meetings. It required a day of vigorous maneuvering for the leaders to ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

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Ousted, Kills Self ■g. Ow ~jb Death brought to a tragic climax l a swift political drama when i Edmund G. Mathews, recently | ousted as chief enforcement officer of the Ohio liquor department. shot and killed himself at his home in Columbus. He was believed to have taken his life because of worry and humiliation over his removal from ofTice by Governor Martin L. Davey during a shake up of the liquor control administration. FERA EXPENSE REPORT GIVEN Government Has Spent More Than Forty Thousand In Adams County The report -of the first year of the op ration o-f tlie FERA in Ad- ■ ams county has been completed by ■ Mary Yost, pay roll clerk in -the I local ffice. The report shows that the government has scent $44,206.49 in the county. The total state ERA expenditure '■ amounted to $72,885. Os this amount (144,206.49 was paid by the GCUR for labor and $28,678-51 by local units for materials. The state ERA program was be- : gun on April 9. 1934. The report overs a period until April 1. 1935. There are now 12 projects upon which work is being done. Ttiere are eight non-active projects on which work has been begun but has been halted. Fifteen projects have ben completed. Eight projects have been approved but work on them has not started. Until about a month ago the aver- j age number of men employed by the state ERA in Adams county was ■ between 100 and 125. A month ago (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Congregational Meet Set Next Wednesday , The annual congregational meeting of the- First Presbyterian church ! will be held next Wednesday night. At this -meeting reports of the various organizations will be given, followed by election of a trustee and deacon to fill expired termsTO PAVE HIGHWAY 224 THIS SUMMER James D. Adams Assures Decatur Men Highway West of Decatur Will Be Paved Soon. James D. Adams, chairman of the state highway commission, announced to a group of Decatur men Wednesday that a survey, preparatory to paving state highway 224 west ot Decatur, will be made in the next week or 10 days. The men who talked to Mr. Adams in Indianapolis were Dan Tyndall, James Elberson, Jess Rice and Ferd Litterer. The road at the present is only oiled between Decatur and Markle. It will be resurfaced, probably with I black top. Mr. Adams also said that repairs will be made this summer on U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur, Plans are being made for construction of the new state road 104 extending north through Monroeville to Butler from a point four miles west of Decatur on state road 224. The survey on this road will be made this summer. It Is not known when the road will be built.

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MORE ACREAGE INTERRITORY GRANTEDTODAY Allotment Is Increased More Than 3,000 Acres For This Area J. Ward Galland, field manager for the Central Sugar company of this city, notified Dale W. McMillen, president of the company, late this afternoon that the 1935 sugar beet acreage in the Decatur territory had been increased from 10,557 to 13.770 acres by the sugar section ot lhe AAA. The news was received enthusiastically and hailed as one of the outstanding events in this community. The increased acreage will mean a possible 30 day longer run of the local factory and i approximately $150,000 more to ; the growers. In a telephone conversation with Mr. McMillen he was quoted as saying. ’ The increased acreage is due to the honest and intelligent efforts of the officers and members of the-Central Beet Growers association: to the county agents in the district where beets are grown; Purdue university, Lieu-tenant-governor Clifford Townsend. commissioner of agriculture in Indiana; the earnest and helpful work of Congressman James I. Farley and other representatives from Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, and others.” Mr. Calland went to Washington last Sunday and appeared before the sugar section of the AAA. petitioning for 3,000 additional acres in view of the fact that growers in the Decatur territory had signed applications for more than 13,000 acres. Mr. Calland repre- ; sented the growers in making the appeal before the federal agriculture authorities. Due to unfavorable weather conditions in the west, many of the sugar beet growing areas were prevented from planting the alloted acres. These unused acres reverted back to the AAA and ■ were distributed to those sections where conditions were more fav- ‘ orable. Decatur was one of the fortunate territories. Details pertaining to the in(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O MRS. CARL ARCHER ROBBED WEDNESDAY' Pleasznt Mills Woman Robbed of $3 Late Wednesday Afternoon By Young Couple Mrs. Carl Archer was robbed ot albout $8 Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock when she was alone In the filling stattion operated Iby her'self and her husband in Pleasant i Mills. Mrs. Archer told Si’-eriff Dallas Borwn, who investigated the case, that a young man and woman entered her filling station Wednesday ! to get the change for gasoline they had purchased from her. The man handed her a $lO bill from a large roll of bills. To Mrs. Archer’s statement that this would require all tier cash to change, the man stated that the next smallest bill he had was a S2O billMrs. Archer laid his change on the counter. The man picked up both the change and his $lO bill and walked out. He headed his car least toward th? Ohio state line. Mrs. Ard.ier became frightened when she saw the woman ipull a roll of tape and a ball of cord from her pocket book. She stated that the iron kept one hand in his pocket as if he- c arried a gun. Neither Jiarmed Mrs. Archer. They laughed as they left the station. Sheriff Brown was not notified until 4:30 o’clock. He gave am alarm to police in -surrounding ■cities. o —-—■ Scout Troop Will Solicit For Fund To raise -money to send a scout bo Mlie jamboree next summer, scout troop .number <62, sponsored by the Lions club, will solicit and pick tipi rags and paper Friday evening and all day Saturday. The boys are- asking the cooperation of -the citizens. At least one boy from the troop will get a free trip to Washington, !>.<, C. next summer Where he will meet with 30,000 boy scouts for two weeks at - the invitation of President Roosevelt.