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C. C. Membership i Drive Going Good ' At noon today over $l5O had ibeen niis-ed In toe annual membership drive for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Jesse Rice, president of the organization, statedHe said that because some of the men making the drive have not been able to spare the time to visit the business men, and because of the twin today, the canvass is progressing slower than expected. However, the results of the por- < tlon of the drive already made have , been excellent. Only a very few .ijuslnesß men have refused to join , ttte organization at the half price . : a.embership fee cf |2.50. o | DECATUR WOMAN NAMED OFFICER Eleanor Reppert Recording Secretary of Fort > Wayne Classis i Miss Eleanor Reppert was named recording secretary of the Woman's Missionary Society of the , Fort Wayne classis of the Reform- . ed church in session at the Grace ' Reformed church in E’ort Wayne - Tuesday and Wednesday. ( Other officers named were Mrs. , Doyal White of Fort Wayne, presi- ( dent; Mrs. Richard Meckstroth, ( Huntington. retiring president of the society, first vice-president; , Miss Mynne Ehrsam. of Berne, sec- , ond vice-president; Miss Reppert. recording secretary; Mrs. A. C. Reusser. Berne, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Kaim Karn. E’ort Wayne, treasurer, and Mrs. Charles Park, Bluffton, historian. ( Interesting programs were held , throughout the two-day classis meeting. According to the reports ( an increase was noted in thank of- , tarings and also in membership. ( Mrs. F. R. Casselman of Tiffin, .QUa. spoke »e the Girts .Mmsimi- ! ary Guild banquet Tuesday evening which was a feature of the | convention program. Miss Marie Fulk of Bluffton, acted as toast- . | mistress. Rev. Sterling Whitener, Reform- ( led church missionary in China. gave an address at the public mass ; meeting Tuesday evening, at which | time a recognition service was also held for new societies in the classis. | A letter from Miss Esther Sellemeyer ot Los Angeles. California, who was unabie to attend the meetI ing, was read. At the Wednesday meeting, Mrs. i LeMoyle Fogle was named a delegate to the mld-weat synod next (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) , O Orthopedic Surgeon To Address Doctors j Dr. George J. Garccau, orthopedic surgeon of Indxinapalis, will speak ,to physicians of Adams county at a meeting of the Adams county medical society Friday evening at | the Masonic hall in this city. — -o Rotarians Will Entertain Wives The Rotarians will entertain their wives and eweethearts at a dinner I this evening at the Rice hotel. FolI lowing dinner the party will be I guests of I. A. Kalv r at the Adatre theoter, where the new wide range sound system will be heard for the first time. Mr- Kalver is a member cf the Rotary club. RECEIVE MATERIAL TO REPAIR STREET City Will Repair Wincherter Street Near South Ward School With Stone, Black Top The crushed stone and other ma- , terial needed for the repair of Winchester street in front of and south ot the South Word school building ii:ave been received by the city. Ralph Ro P, engineer and civil i I works commissioner will begin work on the improvement immediately. The state highway department was asked to repair the street, eince it forms part of route 27 through the city. Local officials were informed that the highway department could not expend funds for the purpose and to keep the road passable, city officials decided to make temporary repairs at once. The crown of the street will be cut out and filled in with new stone and a binder ot black top asphalt placed over it.

OWNERS BUILD NEW SIDEWALKS Many Property Owners Take Advantage Os Free FERA Labor Here A largv number of property own-j ers in Deoitur have taken advan-; tage of toe offer made by FERA ' authorities to furnish free labor for , the ibuilding or repairing of sidewalks. Sixteen projects have already been completed. Nineteen requests: have been made >tnd approved but work has nJt begun on them. Nine men ar? now working on j concrete sidewalks and three on ■ brick sidewalks through an FERA | appropriation. Applications for repairs or new | sidewalks will be accepted ut the local FERA office. The materials must be purchased by the property owner. A small charge for gasoline is ale> made to operate the cement | mixer leaned by the city of Decatur, j The overage cost of materials ie i about 31 cents a lineal foot for four ; foot walks and about 40 cents a lineal foot for five-foot walks. These 1 walks have f ur inches of fill. The f Rowing lengths ot cement: sidewalks have been repaired or re-. rebuilt in -idjacent to the property of these itizens: Charles Brothers, 66 feet; Harold Daniels, 60 feet; Tillman Gehrig. 132 feet; Harve Schroll, 12 feet ; Charle s Vogl -wede 66 feet; Charles Burdge. 24 feet; J. D. Krick. 80 feet; S. E. Black. 75 feet; Albert Aschleman, 35 feet; Mary Ehinger, 20 feet; Sam Hite. 15 feet; H. C- Olsen, 30 feet; W. E. Moon. 33 set; James Staley. 40 feet, and Mrs. M. F. Wortlhmnn, 42 feet. Work will soon begin on 18 applications filed for the following amount of work; William August, 60 feet; Burl Johnson, 66 feet; John Keller, 160 f * t; Frank Liby. 66 feet Elizab-th Vogl-wede, thi. feet; Harry Fortney, 60 feet; Alex MHhelm. 50 feet; G E. Myers, 162 feet; Jack Brunton, 50 feet; Willard Stesl-e. 100 f et; Joe Coffee. 69 feet; Leo Gillig. 60 feet; Willard Steele, 60 feet; M. E. church, 220 feet; Fred Blosser, 50 f Charles Helm, 36 feet end B. J. Rice, 132 feet. The f Rowing repains have been (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o — PRICE RAISED BY GOVERNMENT Domestically Mined Silver Price Is Raised To "1 Cents Washington. Apr. 11.—(U.R>—The federal government has acquired approximately 413,500,000 ounces of silver under its silver rehabilitation program begun nearly a year ago, the treasury reported today. The treasury announcement was made immediately following the rise in the price for domestically mined silver to 71 cents an ounce. The previous price had been approximately 64H cents an ounce. At the same time the senate agriculture committee called for mandatory silver purchases at the rate of 50.000,000 ounces a month until the* silver price reaches a ratio of 16 to 1 with gold. As of March 1“ the figures showed the treasury held and had in circulation approximately 1,104,500,000 ounces of silver compared with silver stocks of 691.482.085 ounces on May 25 1934, immediately prior to the passage of the silver purchase Total monetary value of United States silver bullion and coin was set by the treasury at $1,450,000,000. . . More than half of the increased silver holdings were acquired by the treasury in open market world purchases through its seefet $2,000 000.000 stabilization fund. X total of 112.594.155 ounces were acquired under the nationalization of the metal last slimmer' and 32,611,000 have been acquired (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Hartford Township Farmers To Meet A public meeting of the Hartford township farmers Union Local will be held in the township school house Monday evening with Frederick G. Strikler as the principal speaker.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 11, 1935.

Foes of 1928 Clasp Hands ■w— ® , i • I V 1- -I V'- - V WtTL K ■ . 'W. Wearing broad smiles. Alfred E. Smith, left, former governor of New York, and former President Herbert Hoover, right, rivals for the presidency in 1928. clasped hands when they met in New York at a charity dinner at which l oth were speakers.

INSULL CHARGE TO BE DROPPED Government Abandons Fight To Send ex-Utility Head To Prison (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Chicago. Apr. 11. —ftj.PJ—The gov-. ernment has abandoned its long battle to send Samuel Insull to prison for the disastrous collapse of his three-billion-dollar utility empire, the United Press learned today. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings— following the cue of the i state of Illinois—has instructed Dis-j trict Attorney Dwight H. Green to] "forget" the remaining federal charges against Insull. Green, who waged a futile cam-: paign to convict Insull and 16 oth- , ers on mail fraud charges before a jury in federal court four months ago, is expected to make formal announcement of the decision shortly. ' Word that he is “scott free" has . reached the 75-year-old Insull in | the seclusion of his near north-side | I hotel where his days are spent I writing a book onMiis triumphs and . ‘ tribulations. But the tidings, although they, I brought him to the end of a trail •' that sent him to Europe in har-. ! ried flight nearly three years ago,; were received without show of '' jubilation. ' i “I’m just an old man, looking for I (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) HOAGLAND CLASS WILL GIVE PLAY Hoagland High School Juniors Will Present Play on Friday and Saturday Nights The junior class of the Hoegland . high sci'-0.l will present a three act I mystery, “Hobgoblin House" on, , j Friday and Saturday night, April 1- ! P The leads will be taken by Eileen Sommens, Dorothy Oehler and i Glenn Reynolds. The part of Aunt I Pussy will be portrayed by m ' bS Sommers and Miss Oehler ri >U , and Saturday nights respectively,) Mr. Reynolds will play the part of. • DaDriue Knepp, caretaker of 110 , goblin House. ; The supporting Friday night cast Includes Mabie Hawkins, Emily) : Snner, Marcrot Urabill. Media. . Gerardot. Robert Myers, Henry I . Koenemann. Raymond Sh er «u ThV Saturday night -cast includes Helen I Gresley, Leona Bearman. Eileen. Radabaugh. Verlon Barkley, Din j Emenhtser. Edward Franke, Ru. ard Fuelling. Those in the cast both ' inlghU are Lorine Reiter Phyllis | ':Howk, Glenn Reynolds and John Marquardt. I The iilay is directed by Mrs. Colter Musical numbers .ire directed by Mrs. Sheehan. The junior class I witnessed the presentation ot this I play at Kirkland recently.

Delay Shipping Os New Traflic Light City officials were notified today that the additional traffic signal, I light forth? Second and Monroe I street intersection will not be i shipped until April 19. A duplicate of tlie light now used at the Madison street crossing has been ordered. The two lights will j be erected at Monroe-Second street, one at the Winnes shoe store corn ier and the other at tlu*. Boston store corner. The Madison street light will be removed temporarily until new side lights are purchased and fastened to the ornamental ) light posts. A request was made by city officials to the Tokheim company to j ship the light before April 19. so i it could be erected next week. o CHILDREN TO BE CONFIRMED Fifteen Children In Confirmation Class At Zion Lutheran A class of fifteen children will be received into membership with i the Zion Lutheran church in a I special confirmation service on Palm Sunday. April 14, beginning i -at 10 a. m. The usual examination j : of the members of the class in the chief parts of Christian doctrine and life will be held during this same service, and will be followed by the rite of confirmation and the children’s solemn vow of life-long faithfulness to the triune God. Featuring the musical presentations will be the class song. ‘ Thy Way, Not Mine, O Lord.” The members of this year's class , are: Eileen Baumann, Edna Fritcha. Flora Marie Lankenau, Marie Mil-1 ler, Vera Sauer, Katherine Weil-! and, Margaret Ellen Westrick, I Ralph Conrad, Raymond Franz. Fred Hoffman. Roy LeTirman. Char- ; les Marbach, Marvin “ iller, Lloyd ! Spiegel. Lloyd Wagner. o_ Change Date For School Cantata The Easter cantata, to be presentI ed by the rural high schools of the j county, will be held at 7:30 Friday ! evening at the Mennonite church in : Berne inetcid of Easter Sunday. A ' large crowd ia expected to attend. o ) Bicycle Is Found North Os Decatur I A good fiicycle was found -on U. S. .T ighway 27 north of the bridge over the St. Mary’s river by Dr. G- F. i Eichorn this morning. The bicycle I wa.s noted by Dr. Eichorn on a park- ! ed automobile when he passed the spat earlier. It is b deved by the city police that the bycicle had been stolen although none tea been reported taken.

NO ACTION IN EVERETT CASE LIKELY SOON -v State Supreme Court s Decision Is Received By Court This Morning No action can be taken in the | Adams circuit court on the granting of a new trial to Joseph Ever-! ett, 59. until the case has been re- 1 manded here. The conviction was | reversed Wednesday by the state, supreme court. Everett was convicted here on December 6. 1931, for the slaying of Doras Werling, 27. The shoo’I ing followed an argument on June ' 29, 1931 near Pleasant Mills. The attorney general of Indiana I is allowed, by law. 60 days to file g petition for rehearing of the case in the supreme court. He may waive his right to file the petition. During the pendency of the legal action In the supreme court the Adams circuit court has no juris- [ diction over the case. Notifies- ) I tion of tlie decision of the supreme ’ court was deceived here this morn-, I ing. The decision itself will be sent Ito the local court and placed on file. Unless a motion for a rehearI ing of the case is filed and sustain- j ed in the state supreme court, the ) case will be certified to the Adams ! circuit court and Everett will be returned to the Adams county jail. He is now in the state prison at Michigan city. The state was represented in the lease tried in the Adams circuit i court by former prosecuting attor- ' ney Nathan Nelson and Clark J. Lutz. Everett was defended by H. M. DeVoss and C. L. Walters. The I fact that Judge Huber M. DeVoss I defended Everett at the time will disqualify him from sitting on the ’’ bench at a second tr.u.. A new judge will have to be appointed. ! The case may be venued from the j circuit court Prosecuting attorney Edmund A. Bosse will prosecute Everett. There ! is little likelihood that the case can be tried during this term of court. It will probably be tried during the I September term. Everett can either be retried on i the same count or the grand jury can re-indict him on a first degree murder charge or a lesser count. The court reversed the conviction on the ground that the trial court refused (o admit testimony that Everet had been threatened by Werling and tlie others, and that the court efred in its instruci tions to the jury. The judge had instructed the jury tliat the fact ! Everett was carrying a gun without a permit was prima facie evidence of felonious intent. Geneva Students To Receive Reports The pupils of tne Geneva school may obtain their report cards at the public library there on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, April 24 and 27. according to an announcement by Principal R. O. Hunt. Tlie school was closed Monday because of the condemnation of the building by the state fire marshall and school inspector. The high school pupils had nine more days I and the other pupils, 14 days. ALBERT HABEGGER FATALLY INJURED — Former Berne Resident is Fatally Injured In Auto Accident In Colorado Albert Habegger. 36, ot Calida, Colorado, a former Berne man, died Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock the result of an automobile accident which occurred Wednesday. The accident took place near Calida, where Mr. Habegger had resided for the last ten years. Particulars of the mishap were not learned here. Mr. Habegger was born in Monroe township on February 20, 1899, 1 a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Habegger of Berne. Surviving are the widow, formerly Myrtle Morgan, a stepson, the parents at Berne, and the following brothers and sisters: Clarence Habegger of Berne; Mrs. Forest Kessler of Detroit; Mrs. Benjamin Amstutz of Pandora. O.: Wilbert of Newcastle; Rev. Edison Habegger of Detroit; Clifford Habegger of Bluffton and Lorqtta and Florence Habegger, Berne.

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Freight Car Found Opened On Siding | A car ktaded with sugar standing on the Pennsylvania tracks on the siding near the Decatur (’astings | company, was found opened Wedn sday night. The oxsc was invest!I gated by city police, ilt will be imI possible to determine whether any--1 thing was taken from the car until j it is unloaded and checked- No . ) trace was found of the vandals. GIVES OPINION ; ON INTANGIBLES Religious, Fraternal, Sim- I ilar Groups’ Holdings Held Taxable Intangibles owned by religious, , educational, fraternal and charit-1 able institutions are taxable under ) , a recent opinion of the Indiana :, attorney-general, County Assessor I ; E. J. Worthman was informed in j a communication received from L Philip Zoercher, chairman of the 1 , state board of tax commissioners.). Indianapolis. The attorney-general, it was | I stated, ruled that there is “no ■ I general exemption from taxation I of intangibles under chapter 81,' | acts of 1933. on the sole basis that ! they are owned by religious, edu- ! cational. fraternal or charitable institutions." It wae said that unless the intangibles owned by such institutions are within some one or more of the classes described in section lb of the tax act, they are, in the attorney-gen-eral’s opinion, taxable. It wad further set forth that intangibles owned by holding comj panics are also taxable, as their i intangibles are not mentioned in section lb. Inasmuch as the tax board has previously given conflicting ruli ings on some of the questions involved. penalties are to be waived on intangibles owned by institutions of the afor<mentioned classifications. However, the tax due must be paid on or before May 15, . 1935, after which date penalties j for non-payment of tax will be. added. Taxes due for the years 1933 and 1934 can be paid with 1935 stamps, or direct to the , j office of the state tax board. GRADUATES TO HEAR WALTON Rev. G. O. Walton To Preach Monmouth Baccalaureate Sermon Rev. George O. Walton, pastor ot the First Presbyterian church ot this city will preach the bacca-i laureate sermon to the eight sen--1 iors of the Monmouth high school at services to be held at the Pres-1 byterian church, Sunday night, I April 14. Rev. Walton will use as his sub-1 ject, “The Greater Gifts." 1 Tlie program will be: Organ Prelude—Mrs. Carrie Hau-: bold. Candlelight processional —Senior j class. Scripture verses —Senior. "Faith of Our Fathers"— Congre1 gat ion. Responsive Reading. “Recessional" — DeKoven Decatur high school chorus. Sermon, "The Greater Gifts” Rev. George O. Walton. “The Heavens Resound” — Bee- ’ thoven —Decatur high school chor-: us. Benediction. The special music will be under the direction of Miss Helen Hau-| I bold. O' — * Left Wins Factions Defeated By House i 1 . Washington, Aipril 11 — (UP) — , I The house defeated the Townsend | old age (pension and Lundeen unem- . ployment insurance iblocs today in a test vote. ’ The vote was 188 to 54, and came > just before adoption of the rule i permitting 20 hours of general del bate. The left wing factions sprung a surprise move in an effort to defeat the rule governing the admlnistra- : tion’s socia security program. Dei feat of the rule would have meant a - renewed fight over procedure and I would (have set the bill back some days.

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MANY FAMILIES ARE FORCED TO ABANDON HOMES Thick Pall of Dust Hangs Over Eight States; Crops Are Failures Kansas City. Mo., April 11. — (U.R> A thick dust pall hung over eight states today. It appeared to be thinning, but with maddening slowness. Visibility from central Missouri to Tucumcari. N. M„ was zero-zero most of the way. In the Oklahoma panhandle the shifting silt blotted out the wheel tracks of automobiles, trucks and wagons bearing the household goods of farmers fleeing from the dust. More than 100 families have left already. In western Kansas the dust shrouded ruined farms and blasted hopes. From Garden City southwest the wheat crop was a complete failure. Discouraged farmers applied for federal funds with which to leave their once fertile but now barren farms. They learned there was no money for that purpose. In the Texas panhandle the disintegrated topsoil moved before the wind in great slow waves, drifting over railroad tracks and highways, making travel hazardous. In eastern Colorado where the dust three weeks ago claimed six lives the inhabitants wore masks to prevent recurrence of the dread “dust pneumonia”. The Baca I county correspondent of the Unitled Press wired from Springfield that “we cannot hold out much longer without relief or rain." Ail traffic was stopped, schools were closed, lights were kept burning 24 hours. Dust from Kansas. Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas spread east, west, north and south over lowa, Nebraska. Missouri and New I Mexico. In Washington congressmen and ' senators pleaded with President Roosevelt for federal money with with to !fs(t dustrbreaks in the afflicted regions. But in many | counties of western Kansas. I where $250,000 already is available for supplying oil and gasoline for tractors, farmers could not get to : town to claim their supplies. Eastern Kansas communities experienced a light "rain of blood." Rain falling through the dustfilled atmosphere left reddish splotches on pavements and the sides of buildings. Snow bringing up the rear of the dust storm at Goodland, in northwestern Kansas, fell in muddy flakes which Nebraska farmers had termed “snust.” Communities which received the dust second hand from the areas I where it was lifted from the already denuded farms were ! naively alarmed. The staccato phrases of press : telegrams told the story: Tulsa, Okla.—Worst dust city’s . history. Visibility two blortcs. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 CHURCH CHOIR TO GIVE SHORT PLAY Young Peoples Choir of United Brethren Church Will Present Play Tonight. The members of the Young Peoples choir of the United Brethren church will present a one act play, i "The Church Clinic” tonight at 17:30 o'clock in the church base- ) ment. The play takes place in a clinic in the church of Hopeville Junction. The Werling family will present a musical preceding the play. A free will offering will be taken. The characters In the playlet are: Hope Fuller, nurse — Marjorie Foughty. Mary Pep, a nurse —Ruth Hurst. Doctor Level-Head — Est ell a Franklin. Doctor Strong Heart — Cephus Jackson. Mrs. Oversensitive —Eloise Millisor. Madame U- R. Highbrow—Naomi Ruth Franklin. Elder Over-Pious—Arthur Poling. Mary Jane Tardy—Lois Sovine. Mrs. Willing-Worker—Genevieve Light. Ima Gossip—Helen Sheets. Sam Wealthy—Junior Drake.