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Church Official MH Hrlß * . Raymond Veh, editor of the Crusader, one of the leading publications of the Evangelical i church, will be the editorial repre I sentative at the conference in ■ Decatur next week. He will at I some time address tile conference ; in the interest of all the churches' I editorial work, representing var- ; lotiH publications of the Sunday | School. SENATE FAVORS NRA EXTENSION United Press Pol! Shows Large Majority Favor Extension I * (Copyright 1935 J>y UP.) ’ Washington. Apr. 24 —(U.R) —A i United Press poll of the senate today revealed a preponderant majority in favor of NRA extension. Sixty-fonr senators favored extension; 23 were opposed and eight ' either were in doubt or absent from Washington. The fight over NRA. it was indicated. will be not so much on the final roll call as during the weeks of debate which will be required before the bill is put in shape for passage. Those weeks will bring bitter disputes over labor provisions, anti-inonopoly features, codification and the extent to which NRA I should go in regulating certain tynes of industry. That will be the process of l “scrubbing the infant,” to borrow the expression of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. The real danger to the administration’s program lies in the possibility of a revote which ' might saddle the bill with some amendment at variance with new deal aims. The 64 who favor continuation of I NRA in some form included 54 Democrats, eight Republicans, one Progressive, and one Farmer-Lab-orite. Those opnosed to NR X. ini' eluding some who might be in ’ (CGNTTNItED ON P4GE FIVE) 0 ! STUNT FEATURES THURSDAY NIGHT ' High School Gym Classes to Prei sent Annual Stunt Features ■ Thursday Night i The public is invited to witness I the stunt night features to be prei sented by the gym classes of the Decatur high school Thursday night ■ at 7:30 o’clock in the school gym- ■ nasluni. The program Is being sponsored ■ by the Civic Section of the Wo- > man's Club. The proceeds from the ■'stunt night will be divided equally ■ between the Civic section and the I; high school athletic association. ’■ The money procured by the Civic ' section will be used in the beauti- . fiction of the city program. TicI kets for the event may be procur- ■ ed for 15 cents for adults and 10 • cents for children, from any memher of the Civic section, the girls t of the high school and Central r school. i A program of this nature is spon- ' sored annually by the Civic Sec- > tion. In recent years the gym classes of the high school have prel sented the programs and previously I the annual stunt night was featur- . ed by a basketball game between • the teachers and merchants. > A large crowd Is expected to at- - tend the program which will be of interest to the general public.

YOUTH WEEK TO OPEN SATURDAY IN THIS CITY Yearly Observance Will Be Held In Decatur For Eight Days Youth of Decatur will be honored in an eight-day observance of , National Youth Week, opening] Saturday, April 27 and concluding' Saturday, April 4. Youth Week, which has been observed in thie city for several yeais, starting originally with boys’ week, is sponsored jointly this year by the Woman's club and the Rotary club. Each of the eight days has been designated for one particular feature. Started in 1920 by the New Aork City Rotary chib, the movement has been recognized as one of the most worthwhile efforts in the nation, and as a result, an organization has been formed and is known as the National Youth Week Committee for the United States. Prior to 1934. this was known as the National Boys’ Week Committee for the United States. The opening day. Saturday, I \nril 27. is Youth Recognition Day. Onening the week's observ- | ance, will be a parade Saturday morning. The parade, under the direction of M'es Electa Oliver i and Albert Sellemeyer. as joint chairmen, will be headed by the Decatur Girls' Band. Boy and G'rl Scouts will march in the parade. Details will be announced i As a special feature of the day. . a special page featuring outstand- . ing achievements of Decatur girls and hoys will b° published in . Saturday’s Daily Democrat. Miss I lanche McCrory and Carl C. • : (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REV. SCHULTZ TO BE SPEAKER l Zion Lutheran Pastor Will ' Deliver Baccalaureate Sermon The Rev. Paul W. Schultz, past- . or of the Zion Lutheran church, ■ will preach the baccalaureate seri mon to the graduates of the Decatur high school on Sunday eve- > ning. May 19. The services this ' year will be held at the Methodist i Episcopal church. ’ Tnere will be 61 candidates for I graduation at the public high ‘ I school this year. This will be as - large as the class last year, which - was the largest in the history of i the school. Rev. Schultz will speak on “The Relation of Our Material and Spiritual Resources.” All music during the services will be furnished by the high school ’ choruses and will be under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, in- • structor in music in the public schools. J. Raymond Schutz, professor of economics and sociology at Man- . Chester college and well known ’ educator, lecturer, and pastor, will , ! deliver the commencement address t to the graduates, Friday. May 24. The program for the other activities during commencement ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o- ————— Many New Sidewalks Are Laid In Decatur FERA laborers have laid 875 fe«t of new cement eide-wuHks in Deca- ’ tur this epring, Miles Roop, work director announced today- Thie men ' have also raised and relaid 295 -feet of m ment side-walks. A total of J 3fr) feet of brick .sidewalks have been relaid. Property owners wishing tnie work done may obtain the labor ■ free by making application at the FERA office. An estimate of tlno r cost of material will be furnished . and the prop rty owners may pur- ( chase them from any dealer. A side-wnlk project will begin at - Geneva next Monday. The followt ing Monday a similar project will be started at Berne.

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Decatur, sndiana, Wednesday, April 24, 1935.

Three Young Men Slightly Hurt Three young men, residents of I Union township, were slightly in- j I jured when a car driven by Herman ! I Krucikeberg left the road one mile I nortiln of When, Ohio, as the young | men were returning from a ipbiy at I Wren about 10:30 o’clock Tuesday evening. The driver failed to see a j. g in tlie road. Arthur Schanrerloh sustained a fractured nose and Edgar Kruckeberg suffered a laceration above the right eye. Herman Kruckeberg suffered only minor injuries. Two other young men with them ' were not injured. The car, which ; was traveling at a low rate of speed i at the time of the ac< id nt, wus not j damaged. CLIPPER PLANE FINISHES LONG i OCEAN FLIGHT Report Col. Lindbergh To Take Command Os First Regular Trip (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Alameda, Calif., Apr. 24. —(U.R) — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh probably will be in active command of] the first flight of the Pan-Amer-[ ican Clipper plane when regular] air service between California and ' : China is inaugurated, it was understood today. Company officials, delighted with the four-motored ship's performance during its spectacular round ] •trip flight between Alameda and Honolulu, predicted transpacific service would begin pate in the summer. Although they did not reveal details of their plans, it was generally understood that Col. Lindbergh would be at the controls when the first ship takes off with , passengers and mail for the Orient. Lindbergh, technical adviser of Pan-American, has inaugurated the opening of almost all the company’s : routes, particularly those crossing the Caribbean to Central and South ' America. Having flown the Pacific with Mrs. Lindbergh, he has taken an active part in planning the construction of the giant ships that will maintain regular schedules to China and in laying out the transoceanic course from island to island. There were unofficial reports that the giant plane might be ! launched on another trans-Pacific j exploratory flight within a week or ten days. Its destination this time ] would be the midway islands, 1.150 miles northeast of Honolulu and the second station of a chain ] stretching like stepping stones between California and China. Captain Edwin Musick and his five companions. Pan-American's no. 1 crew, were ready for the new expedition, the next step of their job of blazing the trail for commercial aviation service across ] the western ocean. Resting today after a 21-hour battle with head winds on their way back from Honouhi yesterday. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ° EPWORTH LEAGUE WILL GIVE PLAY Monroe Epworth League Will Preaent Three-Act Play Friday Night “Wild Ginger" is the title of the I three-act play to be given by the Epworth League of the Monroe Methodist church in the rooms over the Model Hatchery in Monroe Friday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The cast will be composed of Virginia Rinehart, Meredith John- ! son. Marguerite Lewellen, Olin Lehman, Dorothy Silliman, Dorwln Wolfe. Pauline Buckmaster, Thomas Adler, Virginia Burkhead. Max ] Bahner and the Rev. E. S. Mor- J ford. Admission to the play will be 10 cents for children under 12 years of age and 20 cents for adults. A family ticket of 50 cents will also be sold. Tuesday evening the cast will present the play at the Kirkland high school gymnasium. A free | will offering will be taken there.

FHA HOUSING SURVEY DONE Federal Housing Program Survey Is Completed In Decatur The men making the FHA housing survey have completed their j house to house canvass of Decatur | The final report stated that out of 517 home calls 304 necessary | remodelling or repairing jobs were found. The itemized report of the jobs necessary is: carpentry, 43; concrete, 28; electrical, two; flooring,! five: heating, four; landscaping, two; masonry, one; painting. 93; ! paper hanging. 73; plastering, ; plumbing, 14 and roofing, 32. This report with the previous reports have been tabulated by George Andrews and placed on file in tlte office of Leo Kirsch, ] city FHA chairman. There they j mav be examined by dealers, contractors, or craftsmen. Leo Kirsch, the city chairman | said in relation to the drive being conducted. "The movement now i under way locally to encourage permanent property improvements may extend in many cases to individual purchases of household furnishings and conveniences outI side of strictly building material ' | lines. “This is just a natural development. as a result of the attention that home owners are giving to I new and needed home comforts. "The immediate need, of course, , Mr. Kirsch explained, “is to make the permanent improvements that ] will safeguard the home ments. This is the purpose of Title 1 of the National Housing Act. "To prepare for making application for the loan, the home owner (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) SEIECT JUDGES TO TRY SMITH - — Fate of Former Decatur Man Will Be Decided Tomorrow (Special to The Democrat) Van Wert. Ohio. April 24—Three judges will sit on the bench here in a. session beginning at 9 o’clock Thursday morning to determine 1 the fate of Roy Smith, former Decatur man. who has confessed his guilt to the murder of Deputy Sheriff Forrest L. Good. Judge Fred 11. Wolf, of the Fulton county common pleas court of Wauseon and Judge Emmet E. Everett, of the Allen county common pleas court at Lima, will preside with Judge Summer E. Walters of Van Wert. The two men will come here tinker assignment by Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt to aid in determining whether Smith will die in the electric chair or be sentenced to life in the Ohio penitentiary. S. S. Beard, prosecuting attorney. and Jesse F. Beam, appointed by the court to counsel Smith. I'will present evidence of the fatal I shooting last Thursday. As the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) 0 Funeral Held For Former Decatur Lad Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Newcastle for Clifford Junior Dinkens, nine year and ll nionth-old son of Mrs. Bester Dinkens of Ft. Wayne, formerly of Decatur. The child was killed Saturday night at 6 o’clock whie skating on a highway at Newcastle. He made his home with his grandmother, Mrs. Ida Stlffleman. at Newcastle during the winter season and had attended school ] there. He was planning to return Ito his homo with his mother in Fort Wayne in two weeks. Mrs. Dinkens was formerly Miss Hester Smith of Decatur. Funeral services were held at the home of 1 the grandmother. Mrs. Frank Clingenpeel, Miss Frieda Clingen--1 peel, Mrs. Flossie Bollinger of Dei catur and Fred Jones of Fort Wayne, attended the funeral. 1

18 OWNERS TO MOVE INTO NEW HOMESTUESDAY Eighteen Homstead Houses Will Be Ready For Occupancy Apr. 30 Eighteen keys to subsistence homesteads houses will lie turned over to homesteaders Tuesday, April 30, Austin A. Watrous, project manager has announced in letters which are in the mail today. This will mark the finishing of the project which has gained Decatur national prominence. The local development is numbered four and is one of the few of more than 60 to be completed. The last of the homesteaders probably will not be permitted to move in until the first of June. Under a special order obtained by Mr. Watrous permission was granted to the local homesteads to permit homesteaders to move in as the sewer connections are made. The connections to the first 18 have b en or will be made by the end of the month. About two thirds of the- cisterns have already been excavated and connected to the houses. The names of the 18 homesteaders will be announced by Mr. Watrous when he returns from Dayton Friday or Saturday. FERA laborers are still at work digging sewers and building the cisterns. For this reason it has l>een impossible to complete the road or landscaping of the project. These two jobs will be done this summer or fall. The houses were completed by the contractors, Hoggson Brothers of New York city, several weeks ago. They have been accepted by the government. The houses will be occupied by the homesteaders under a temporary licensing agreement under which they will pay monthly sums to be considered as rent but which will be applied to the purchase price of the houses. Later this summer or fall when (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) <) DRAMATIC CLUB TO PRESENT PROGRAM A. K. S. Club to Present Three OneAct Plays At High School Friday Night The A. K. S. Club, a dramatic organization in the Decatur high school, will present a benefit program in the high school auditorium Friday night at 7:30 o’clock. Admission will be 15 nnd 10 cents. The public is invited to witness this iprogram. which will be the first of its kind in th'? loca’ high -school. The urogram will c mprise three one-act plays. The proceeds from the program will be ucod to meet current expenses and to initiate n fund to purchase new scenery for the high school stage. Each year the club sponsors a number of programs at the high school. Ths plays to be given ane "At the Movies”, in which the scene is laid in a theatre and the actions and conversation of a part of an audience are cleverly portray'd; "Farewell, Cruel World!” This play depicts the reactions of three adolescents toward life and its imagined suppressions. “WeiiDies on Wednesday’’ is the third play to be given and is centered around an amusing situation which arises when an opera star stays in a private home following a benefit in a email town. Deane Dorwln, teacher in the high school, is sponsor of the A.K.S. Club. o C. of C. Committee To Meet Thursday AL members of the executive committee of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, in charge of arrangements for the chib show and fair which will De held in this city next August, are urgently requested to meet at the Rice hotel Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. More detailed plans for staging the show will be discussed at this meeting and it is highly important that every committee chairmen be (present.

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Fights Heart Bahn 1 Pennsylvania’s only unmarried woman legislator, Representative Anna Lrancato, is author of a bill to outlaw breach of promise suits, and legal action based on seduction, criminal conversation and alienation of affections. Her measure was regarded as sure of passage. ' HEARING DATE FOR PETITION Public Hearing Set On Petition Under New Electric Program City officials today were unable to state the significance of a legal notice published by the Public Service Commission of Indiana today in the Decatur Democrat. The notice is a petition for certificate of public convenience and necessity for the organization and operation of the Indiana statewide rural electric membership corporation. It states that there will be a public hearing in Indianapolis on May 14 on the petition. As no such petition was filed by the municipal light and power company it is assumed that it was filed by a competitor, probably a large power company wishing to organize small companies over the state under the new rural electrification legislation. City Attorney Herman Myers stated today that he will go to Indianapolis Saturday to find out more about the petition. If necessary, it is probable that cities in this part of the state which have rural lines, would band together and oppose the formation of rural companies by large power corporations in competition with municipal plants. The local rural electric light and power system is one of the model (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o MRS. LUTES HEADS P-T. ASSOCIATION Mrs. Don Lutes is Re-elected President of South Ward P-T Association At the closing meeting of the Parent Teachers Club of the Soutlli Ward. Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, Mrs. Don Lubec was re-elec-(.ot| president. Other officers elected were Mrs. William Linn, vicepresident: Miss Helen Shroll, secretary; and Miss Mary Suttk s. treasurer. About fifty members attended the meeting which opened with the reading of the colle.-t. The second and third grade pupils then sang a group of songs entitled. "My Kite”. "Tap. Tap, Tao.” and "The Song of the Foster Hare.” A very clever Easter playlet was presented by the third and fourtHn grades. Miss Helen Shroll gave- a report the Founder's Day meeting held February 28. This was followed by a finance report by Miss Mary Suttles. Mrs. Lutes gave a brief report on the district meeting which was held recently at Anderson. Mrs. J. B. Townsend of Pampa, Texas gave an interesting description of work bring done by the association in that state,

EIGHT POINTS 1 AID DOWN BY THE PRESIDENT Program For Vast Expenditures Is Outlined By Roosevelt Washington, April 24— <U.R> — President Roosevelt turned school teacher today at his press conference, solemnly shook his finger at the "class" and laid down an eight-point program for work relief. The President, speaking to 150 correspondents, emphasized that existing agencies would carry the load. Then he went on to outline the eight-point program to spend almost $5,000,000,000 which included everything from boon-doggling to bridge building. The program: 1. Highway construction, grade crossing elimination. 2. Rural rehabilitation and relief in stricken agricultural areas with all its ramifications. 3. Rural electrification. 4. Housing, low-cost in urban and rural areas. 5. Assistance to white collar workers. 6. CCC work. 7. Loans to political sub-divi-sions. 8. Soil erosion, reforestation and miscellaneous projects. Undersecretary of agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell, original brain truster, will head the rural rehabilitation work, as previously reported. Step-by-step as a professor lec- | tures a class, the President detail!ed this vast outline in orderly I fashion. He said that three new agencies I would be created as follows: 1. A devision to carry out grade crossing eliminations. 2. One dealing with rural rej settlement and the coordination of ' all agencies now working on rural rehabilitation. Tugwell will be in j charge. 3. A new division in charge of ] the program of rural elecrtification. For an hour, the President amid a stack of plane and proposals, I discussed the program and promised that during the week he would reveal other steps required tn the organization that will spend $4,880,000j)b0. the greatest peacetime appropriation in history. He reminded the “class" that the federal emergency relief administration gradually would taper off. although it would continue to function after a fashion in caring for those employablee who (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) WELLS COUNTY JUDGE CHOSEN Judge John Decker Will Hear Ralph Bentz’ Suit Against City By agreement of parties. Judge I John F. Decker of the Wells cirj cult court will preside over the case in whicli Ralph Bentz is suing the city of Decatur for alleged back salary due him since his dismissal from the city fire department. Mr. Bentz is also asking that the city be ordered to restore him to the pay roll of the department. He charges tfhat his dismissal on January 1 by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse was illegal. The city of Decatur today filed an answer in general denial to the charges of Mr. Bentz. Mr. Bentz filed today a verified motion for change of venue from Judge Huber .M. DeVoss, stating he could not “have a fair and impartial trial on account of the bias and prejudice of said judge against the plaintiff.” The case will be heard before Judge Decker in the Adams circuit court on May 23. Board Os Charities Will Meet — i The Adams ities will meek , at the jail a>t \ quarterly meet\ X will la-lso visit th\ W