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Hauptmann Witness Taken Into Custody I Trenton, X. J., April 22— (UP)— | Millard Whited, the Hopewell lum- | her jack who Uatifled he saw Bruno Richard Hauptman near the Lindbergh home on the day Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., was (kidnaped, was arrested today as a fugitive from justice. < Prosecutor Anti'aony N. Houck, Jr., announced that Whited was charged with the theft cf a SSO roadgrader In Wcet Amwell township. He was arrested at his home. Houck also announed that Benjamin Helen, Hauptmann witness who said he saw Lsldor Fisch leap over the St. Raymond cemetery wall on i the night the Llndberga ransom was paid, would go on trial for perJury next month, in Flemington, N. J. o . LIST PROGRAM FOR BANQUET Conservation League Banquet Will Be Held Here This Evening Tickets may be obtained at the door for the Adams county fish and game conservation league's, banquet tonight at 7 o'clock in the Catholic high school auditorium Nearly 600 tickets have been sold. The program was announced today by Roy Johnson, president of the league. Grace will be said by the Rev. Joseph J. Seimetz. The banquet will be served i promptly at 7 o’clock. During the I meal Hal Teeters orchestra, the [Wabash Valley Four, the .Imperial Quartet. Geels Brothers Stringed band, and the Blue Creek township j stringed band will furnish music . and entertainment. Uitnu diately attar the meal two , [Civil War veterans will be intro- [ duced as the guests of honor. Roy Johnson will act as toastniaoter for the after-dinner speech An address of welcome will be made by Mayor Arthur R. Holt-[ house. E. W. B'usche, Adams county's only Master Farmer; Jerry Lieehty. president of the Adams County Farm Bureau; Jess Rice, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce; Bryce Thomas, chairman of the Adams county Boy Scout committee; Walter Krick, superintendent of the Decatur schools: the Rev. A. B. Brown, president of the Decatur Ministerial association, and Col. Fred Reppert, president ot the Reppert School of Auctioneering will all make . short talks. L. H. Dunten. of Fort Wayne, district representative of the conservation department, will explain l the recent legislation in relation i to the game laws. C. R. Guttermuth. of Indianapoflis, director of the educational' division of the state conservation department, will speak. He will also have charge of the motion , pictures which will show w ild life . conservation in Indiana. The main address of the even- ! i ing will be delivered by Harry Templeton, of the Indiana department of conservation. His subject has not yet been announced. Arrangements have been made for professional men and others to have page service in case there are any telephone calls during the banquet or the program. — Church Softball Team Will Meet Wednesday The Zion, Reformed church softball team will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the church rooms. All members are requested to be present. — —o Arrest Woman As Husband's Killer Spencer. Ind.. April 22 —(UP) , Mrs. Gladys Truax. 50, Gosport, was held in jail here t. day under a second degree murder indictment in connection with the death of her husband. .Edward. 55. The indictment wus returned by the Owen county grand jury Satur- ' day. Truax died in an aunlbulance en route to an Indianapolis hospital i Feb. 12. He had been shot in the head- ~ Mrs. Truax nnd her mother, Mrs. ■ Elizabeth Hensley, said tlbey found ! him wounded in bed when they re i turned from a shopping trip in *o 3 j port.

BONUS BATTLE OPENED TODAY BY COMMITTEE — Compromise Plan Is Fought; Huey Long Attacks New Dealers — Washington. April 22— (U.R) —’ The bonne battle started in the senate finance committee today. At the outset of hearings, the compromise plan of Sen. Pat Harrison, D„ Miss., was assailed; by advocates of the $2.000,000,000 [ currency expansion bill passed by the house. "The soldier won't get much under the Harrison bill." argued Rep. Wright Patman. D.. Texas, author of the measure which the house passed. He expressed hope that the Patmanites might still be able to persuade President Roosevelt that their bill "is a good thing for the country.” He contended the currency that would be iseued would be ade- . quately backed and would not cause uncontrolled inflation. James E. Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars said “we are standing pat with Patman." He said selfish inter-

ests were flooding the country with propaganda “villifying the veterans.” Sen. Hetty P. Long's renewed attack on new deal officials held the senate’s attention at the outset of its session. He was given only 40 minutes under a debate limitation rule.. The senate then proceeded with consideration of ■ the Bankhead bid to establish a ; federal corporation to help tenant farmers buy land. The house considered District of Columbia bills. It will take up i the naval appropriation hill tomorrow and then the omnibus banking bill. Speaker Joseph W. j Byrns remarked that the house : with its legislative program was ! (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) q EASTER simm OBSERVED HERE Near Perfect Weather Greets Paraders; Churches Are Crowded Thousands of people crowded into D’cautr churches Sunday, dressed in new and ligut colored clothes to ■observe the anniversary of the resurrection of Christ. For the second time in six yeors j the weather man gave the wearers ; of new Easter clothes a “break”. I The weather was near perfect. Several ■churches held sunrise ser-, vices at 6:IW o’clock .Easter morning. They were the Zion Reformed, j United Brethren, Christian and tthe , Evangelical. Easter solemn high mass was said at 6 o'clock Sunday morning at the St. Mary’s Catholic church. During [ later services at the church Holy Ccmtnunion was given to nearly every member of the congregation. Some of the largest crowds in months attended the various Pro-; testant churches at Wie morning i and evening services- The Easter cantatas in the city were also well attended. New automobiles and clothes on parade over the city streets lent a note of cheerfulness and optimism which has been lacking for several years. , (By United Press) A warming sun and the mildest spring weather ot the year gave New York its most resplendent Easter parade in years, and the processions to and from the nation’s churches were repeated in every city from coast to coast. In the Fifth avenue blocks near St. Patrick’s cathedrST and St. Thomas church, the ultra-exclusive institution where the Morgans worship, 100.000 spectators massed in the streets to watch the bright gowns and silk hats. Thousands were turned away from the church ' doors, for admission was by ticket [ ° n one of the most spectacular religious ceremonies in the country occurred in Philadelphia, where , 65,000 persons attended services under the auspices of the Messiah. Lutheran church, at the Tempi* : university stadium.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 22, 1935.

Probe University “Red” Charges tw ' P % Bn Il ' U| Panzer | | Burnette |: / < \ ■ " -r- p , gj|| , 'i ß : TILII WTO#/ Prof. Edward A. Ro»» j Prof Edward A. Ross, inset, noted sociologist, was accused of i spreading Communist propaganda at University of Wisconsin when the state legislature launched a hearing into alleged “Red ' activities on the campus. The legislative investigation headed by State Senators Panzer, left, and E. F. Brunette, center, of Green Bay. who claims to have definite proof in his possession of the Communistic charges. Loyal students who came to support their teachers are shown in background. Ross denied tlie charges..

PORTLAND MEN DIE IN CRASH Airplane Crashes At Portland Sunday, Killing Two Men Portland, Ind., Apr. 22. — (U.R) — j The crash of a light monoplane at i Brigham airport here claimed its I second victim today with the death of Harry Berger, 23, amateur pilot. Orlo Bishop. 28, passenger in the plane which < cashed in a nose dive from 250 feet, was killed instantly. His neck was broken. Berger suffered a fractured right fore arm, a fractured jaw and broken legs. Burger, who received his amateur pilot's license some time ago, had borrowed the light Welch monoplane owned by Fred Bimel of Portland. Just previous to the fatal Hight he had taken Gerald Rupe, local man, for a short ride. Berger and Bishop had flown about, for a brief time and were landing when, at an altitude of 250 feet, the craft nosedived. The pilot fought desperately to right his plane but it crashed into the front door yard of the Brigham home, adjacent to the Brigham airport. Although the light craft was a complete mass of wreckage, it did not catch fire. Bishop died instantly with a broken neck, right arm, hip and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) COAL AREA WAR AGAIN FEARED Illinois Coal Miner Killed And Nine Others Wounded Springfield, 111., Apr. 22.—(U.R)— \ A war of the coal fields that has taken 35 lives and cost more than $1,000,000 in three years smouldered to the verge of a conflagration today. State authorities supervised arming and posting of guards at strategic points throughout the state while they investigated a street shooting in Springfield yesterday in which one miner was killed and nine wounded. Fred Thomason, a member of the United Mine Workers of America. was held as one of the slayers. Warrants charging first degree murder also were issued for Ray Edmundson of Benton, -111., state president of the U. M. W. A., an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, and William Fur-, low, another member. Thomason named the other two as his companions in a motor car from which rifle and revolver bul-[ lets spewed into a. crowd of members of the Progressive Miners of America, a “rebel" offshoot of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I

Parent-Teachers Plan Final Meet The last ireeting of the South Ward Parent-Tea; hers a.-sociation for the present year will he held [ at the school Tuesday afternoon at ■ 12:30 o’clock. The election of officers will (he held at tibia meeting and the final reports of the secretary and treasurer will he read. A report of the Anderson convention will also be given. The program will be prenented by the children of the South Ward ' school. The first and a ■< onTl grade ' [ pupils will persent chorus wonk anil ■ ' a claylet will be given by the ipupita ! | of the third and fourth grades. > ; O ASK LENIENCY i FOR MATHERS J Petitions Circulated Asking Suspension Os Youth’s Sentence i Lebanon, Ind., Apr. 22. — (U.R) — Petitions seeking suspension of i[the sentence of Theodore Mathers, ■ [ 21, Coalmont, convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection [ with the death of Gaylord V. Saund--1! ers, former Wabash minister, were being circulated here today. The petitions will be presented 1 to Judge John W. Hornaday when the youth appears for sentencing Wednesday afternoon. The conviction carries a penalty of one to ten years imprisonment. Several hundred persons, including two of the jurors in the youth’s trial were reported to have signed | the petitions. I Mathers was arrested Feb. 4. 1934, two days after Saunders was killed, and has been in jail for 14 [ months, the petitions pointed out. The manslaughter verdict was returned late Saturday after the jury had deliberated nearly 25 hours. Nearly 100 ballots were - taken during consideration of the ; defendant's insanity plea, it was reported. For 16 hours the jurors were deadlocked at a vote of nine to three favoring acquittal on grounds . of temporary insanity, it was said. Three of the jurors who visited i' Mathers in his cell yesterday were .'reported to have said the man--slaughter verdict was a compro- ’ mise. j The verdict was the lighLest ''possible under the indictment ex- ■ cept acquittal. Other charges against the youth , were first degree murder, second degree murder and voluntary niani slaughter. Saunders and Mathers were • roommates at an Indianapolis rm■ibalming school at the time of the j shooting. II The defense had based its case ■I on the contention that Saunders was deranged and drove Mathers •[insane with threats. The youth '; was forced to submit to unnatural > I relations by the pastor, it was [ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

ARREST TWO IN I DEATH OF GIRL AT FORT WAYNE Henry P. Doermer And Wife Deny Poisoning Former’s Daughter Fort Wayne, Ind., Apr. 22.—<U.R) I —Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Doermer, 1 wlio were arrested at their home | here Saturday night, steadfastly denied today that they poisoned Doermer's 13-year-old daughter. Bernadene, who died in a hospital on April 11, folowing an Illness of nine days. Dr. Raymond J. Berghoff, Alleh county coroner, returned a verdict of arsenic poisoning in the death, following a chemical analysis of the girl’s vital organs. He stated that arsenic in sufficient quantity to cause death had been found. , Detective Sergeants Walter Kavanaugh and Frank Longardner, who searched the Doermer home yesterday, found a quantity of rat [ poison containing arsenic, concealed in a barn at the home. Bernadine and her sister. Emo-1 gene Doermer. 16, became violently ill following an evening meal at I their home on April 2. They were taken to a hospital where Bernadine succumbed and Emogene recovered. Immediately after the death Dr. Berghoff performed an autopsy and stated that death was the result of other than natural causes. Doermer and Mrs. Doermer, who is a stepmother of the children, are being held in the county jail here [ without bond on charges of murder. If no confession is obtained it j is expected the case will lie turned over to the grand jury which meets this week. Q ■ Child Killed, Two Others Badly Hurt Indianapolis, April 22 — (U.R) ' One boy was killed and two other j children were critically injured I today when the automobile in ' I which they were riding to school ' waa struck by a Big Four passenger train here. H Charles Crose, 15, was killed | instantly. Mary E. Mallinger, 16. was injured so critically that phy- ' sicians fear she will die. Her ’ brother. Robert, 15. was hurt less seriously. Mrs. Ella Mallinger. 42, Flackville, mother of Mary and Robert, wan driving the car. She too was I critically injured. The children were pupils at Washington high school. o Autos Collide At Street Intersection — A car, going east on Monroe street driven by Irey Elzey wae struck by an automobile driven j north on Second street by Barney Scheimann. Beth cars were slightly daniged fiut no one was injured. The accident occurred late Satur- ! day night. o PLANE ACCIDENTS TAKE FIVE LIVES Eacter Airplane Crashes Take Toll Os Five Men; Two Others Critically Hurt Easter ain .lane accidents killed five men and injures two others in Troy. N. Y., Detroit, Portland, dnd., and Kenosha, Wis., Dr. Charle E. Rice, 44, and Nelson H. Clark. 33, were burned to death in a plane which fell from 300 feet at Detroit City Airport. Witnesses said the motor stalled. A plane made of baling wire, a motorcycle motor, and parts of a washing machine dropped Carl Swanson of Zion dll., 300 feet at Kenosha. Department of Commerce inspectors said flint if the flier-in-ventor survives critical injuries he will be prosecuted for flying an unlicenced plane without a pilot’s license. At Troy, Edward Criswold. 25. of West Lebanon, N. Y„ drowned in a small creek into which lie was pitched when a plane pilotinl by Raymond Serven, 45, dived from 500 feet. Serven wus badly injured. Orlo Bishop, 28, an oil station owner, and Harry Berger, 23, amateur pilot were killed when Berger's (plane fell from 250 feet at Brigham airport near Portland.

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Auto Strikes Tree As Tire Blows Out Three young men escaped serious Injury Sunday afternoon about 6 o’clock when a tire on their automobile blew out just before they crossed the intersection ot Fourtlh and Monroe streets. Tlie automobile went out of con--1 trol and went over the curbing at the side walk on the south side of i i Monroe street at the side of the Catholic school building. It struk a smull tree. The car was considerI ably damaged. © —— KILLS CHILDREN AND SURRENDERS Chicago Bank Teller, Temporarily Insane, Slays Son, Daughter Chicago, Apr. 22.—-(U.R)-William Gardner, bank teller with a record of happy domestic life, shot to ! death a sleeping son and a daughter today, wounded another son, j and attacked three policemen un- [ armed after walking to a station j to surrender. He was subdued and locked up. [ raving threats from a cell against every one who approached. [ The slain children are Rita Jane, 20, and Donald, 14. Physicians said the second son, Kenneth, 17, may die. Gardner’s wife, who was left [ i undisturbed in a bedroom below : i her children, was placed under a [ physician's care in hysteria. The shooting occurred in the [ family's large beautifully gardened I home in LaGrange park, a suburb. [ Mrs. Gardner, a woman of high social standing in her community, said there was no warning of her husband's aberration. She was awakened T>y the shots, heard her husband clatter out of the house and raced upstairs to find her children in blood soaked beds. I Both she and her husband, po- j lice said, were afflicted with tuber-[ culosis. Gardner brooded over the: fact, offering a theoretical cause [ | of his act. Gardner and his daughter were | employed l>y the First National I bank of Chicago. His daughter [ was a former student of the University of Georgia. x- o

RELIEF PLANS NEARLY READY Plan Os Drive Under Work-Relief Program Near Completion Washington, April 22. — <UR) Plans to pour $4,880,000,000 In a works-relief program across the country in final effort to break the , [ back of depression, virtually are ■ ' complete, the White House said to-1 day. Preparations for the great drive; Ito put men back to w r ork have advanced so rapidly that the President is almost ready to announce in outline just what is planned. Mr. Roosevelt made no appoint-: ments for this afternoon to be free! to concentrate on the multitudinous: details which must be worked out in the spending of the huge sums. I Mr. Roosevelt was breaking down ■ the program, unit by unit, and analyzing the part which each recovery organization will play. It was understood that Mr. Roosevelt had completed all preliminary conferences with his advisers regarding the work relief setup. The President, it was Indicated, was preparing an elaborate outline of allocations to the various key organizations in his recovery machinery. This outline will be presented to the nation later this week. The White House reiterated insistence that while the actual running of the recovery campaign will be delegated to government lieutenants, Mr. Roosevelt himself will make the final decision on all allocations of funds and in designating the projects for which the money will be spent. o-Lip-Reading Class Meets This Evening The FEE lip-reading class in Decatur is now’ meeting regularly ou Monday nights at 6:SO o’clock at the high school building. Persons wishing to join the class are asked to meet either tonight or next Monday for enrollment.

MANY VILLAGES DESTROYED BY QUAKE SUNDAY Official Report Says More Than Five Thousand Injured (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Taihoku, Formosa, April 22. — (U.R) A vast area of crumbled ! villages and desolated countryside ,in which survivors and relief workers struggled against terrific odds to stave off fire and disease was disclosed today by the first survey of Sunday’s earthquake in the province of Taichu and Shinchiku. The series of temblors — most severe since the 1923 Japanese earthquake — took a huge toll of casualties, estimated officially at 3.045 dead and some 5.260 injured. [ In addition, the peril of pestilence and fire added to the misery of tens of thousands, although drenching spring rains after the quake aided in preventing immediate conflagrations in some areas. The rain and quick action by local authorities prevented serious fires, the governoi’ general of Formosa announced. He said all advices from the stricken area j showed there were only a few fires Sunday and later surveys showed none of importance. The population of the stricken j legion — almost entirely Chinese ■ and with few American or European residents — was stunned by the ruin of their homes and fields. Villages wore flattened. Fires broke out in Karakento and Byoritzu. A terrific rain washed out roads and bridges in some areas. In others, there was a shortage of water due to disruption ot i normal facilities. Property damI age was tentatively estimated at $28,000,000. An airplane party surveying the i quake region flew within a few hundred feet of the ground most iof the time. Many coffins piled lin village streets were visible. The straw and mud-roofed houses of the villages were crumbled. Many natives sat on the ruins of

their homes. The Japanese government, which owns the island some 90 miles oft' the Chinese coast, mobilized clothing, food and medical aid for the refugees and announced this afternoon that sufficient doctors and nurses were on hand to care for the injured. Many roads, however, were impassable and tlie coastal railroad line was wiped out in the most seriously damaged region. Huntington Legal Fight Continues • - Huntington, Ind. April 22—(UP) —The secrecy under which facilities of the city light plant have been extended to the commercial field was brought out today as the I legal fight between Mayor Clare W. 11. Bangs and the Northern Indiana Power Company ws resumed in circuit court. Officials of the company are asking that Bangs and 10 other defendants be cited for contempt of court and assessed damages for violating , a 'circuit court injunction. Tlhe injunction was obtained by the company last January to restrain the city light plant from extending its facilities to the commercial field. (Approximately 160 homes and business places have been connected with the city plant under cover of darkness since the . injunction was issued. Better Pictures Drive Is Opened Lafayette, Jnd., April 22—(UP)— ' A series of state meetings in the 1 interest of better motion pictures was started there today by the Indiana council of federated church 1 women. Dr. Worth M. Tippy, New York executive secretary of the commission on church and social work, of the federal council of Churches of ’ Christ in America, was principal speaker. 1 Other meetings which Dr. Tippy wil laddress during the series in- : elude: Crawwordsville, tonight; ■ Richmond, Tuesday; Elkhart, Wedi nesday; Soutlhi Bend, Thursday; ■ Marion, Friday; .Indianapolis Saturday, and Fort Wayne April 29-