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Decatur Delegate C. E. Hocker of South First street is serving as local delegate to the Evangelical conference which is being held in this city. Mr. Hocker has been delegate to the annual conferences for the past thirteen years, serving on the ways and means and educational committees. For the past 25 years Mr. Hocker has been a member of the First Evangelical church of Decatur and has taken ah active part in all affairs of the church. He has been a member of the board of trustees for 18 years and president ten years, assistant Sunday school superintendent, and teacher of the men’s Bible class for 20 years. When the new church was built in 1916 Mr. Hocker was secretary of the building committee. SEEKS TO HALT TAX COLLECTION City Sues To Enjoin Collection Os Taxes On Municipal Plant City Attorney Herman J. Myers, today filed a suit in the Adams circuit court against John Wechter. Adams county treasurer, asking that he he. enjoined from cdllecting taxes from the Decatur municipal plant. “The taxes assessed against th? said property of the plaintiff and extended upon the duplicate now in the hands of the county treasurer amount in all to the sum of $269,279.”

The complaint continues, “the defendant has threatened and rtill threatens to collect the taxes from this plaintiff and he will and intends to enforce the collection of the taxes from the plaintiff unless enjoined from so doing by the court. The taxes as a whole and in each part and sum are invalid and Illegal under the laws of taxation of the state of Indiana and that the plaintiff will suffer great and irreparable damage and injury by reason of the collection of the taxes by the defendant.” The city’s property has been placed on the tax duplicate as a result of a law passed in the 1933 general asttemly of Indiana stating that all mnnicipclly owned utilities must pay county and state tax. This did not include city and township taxation. The tax here is 60 cents on the (CONTTNITED ON PAGE FIVE) o- ————— MRS. MARY BUETER DIES LAST NIGHT Mrs. Herman J- Bucter, Adams County Native, Dies After an Extended Illness Mrs. Mary Bueter. 69. wife of Herman J. Bueter of near Fort Wayne and a former Adams county resident, died at her .home at 12:15 oclodk Tuesday night. Mrs. Bueter f-iid been ailing for several yearn. She was born in Adams county on the Heideman homestead, a daughter of Gerhard end Elizabeth Heideman. She was born in August 1865. Surviving ar? the .husband, five daughter and two sone. Leonard. Raymond. Monica, Florence, Mildred and Helen of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Leo Donovan of Lima, 0.. One child i ,R deceased. Two brothers, Henry and Julius Heiman. Adams county and a sister, Lucy Colchin. Adams .county, also survive. One brother is deceasedFuneral services will be held Saturday morning at 9 o’clock at the St. Andrews church in Fort Wayne-

GERMAN LEADER MAKES PLEA FOR NATIONAL UNITY Adolf Hitler Issues Call To All Germany For World-Wide Peace Berlin, May I—(U.R)— Adolf Hit- : ler. In two speeches to his Nazis, - sounded the keynote of revitalized Germany today with an exhortation for national unity and strength, coupled with a plea for - peace. His impassioned voice, directed first at a mass meeting of 270,000 Nazi youth at the Luathali and then to uncounted hundreds of thousands of Nazis at Tempelhof airdrome, called for a Germany that could hold up its head. Perhaps because of the delicacy of the arms crisis, intensified beyond calculation by the revelation of German submarine construction. he did not touch on international political issues. His only reference to the general situation was: “We say to other peoples: You need not fear that we want anything from you ... we do not want war ... we seek) peace in the ■ world . . . however, we never have I renounced our honor.” But he roused his hearers, who heard him at the Lustgarten, the airdrome, by loud speakers at public places and by radio in homes, to frenzy with the oratory that carried him from a Munich beer cellar to national dictatorI ship. “As the wind now flies our flags around us,” he said at the Lustgarten meeting, “it may a few j years hence gather storm clouds around, us. But you will not be - frightened. “Your determination to guard Germany’s future recalls the old days of the great reign which yon do not know of your own experience. “Our first task has been to establish strong administration in the interior; our next to make Germany strong toward the external world. “As I greet you I greet a Germany 'of honor and freedom, a Germany of peace but also of courage.” The thousands at Tempelhof (CONTINUED ON PAOE FIVE) MARION MAN IS BADLY INJURED George Williams Seriously Injured In Automobile Accident Georg? Williams of Marion, ie in a e rioua condition at the Adams county memorial hospital as the result of an automobile accident late Tuesday afternoon on U. S. -highvi:y 27 one mile isouth of Decatur. With Mr. Williams at the time were F. J Schmitt and Wendell Macklin, both of D-ca-tur. They were not injured. Mr. Williams is suffering a contusion above the forehead and a possible skull fracture, a possible fractured nose, a lip, cut to the jaw, a finger cut to the bone, and multiple fractures to his body. He failed to observe the sharpness of the turn and was unable to keep till® automobile on its wheels. The car was badly damaged. Nellie Essex Asks Limited Separation Mrs. Nellie Essex has filed suit in the Allen county superior court No. 1 against iber husband, Harold V- Essex of this city. She is asking a limited separation of three years. The couple were married September 3. 1933, and no children were born to their union. Retired Minister Dies At Urbana E?uneral services fcr Rev. J. M. Dustman, 83. retired Evangelical church minister of Urbana, who died Monday morning, will be held Thursday afternoon at Urbano. Rev. Dustman was well known in this city and was pastor of the Ictal Evangelical church from 1881 to 1884. His wife was formerly Sophia Brodbeck.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 1, 1935.

Lydia Worthman Is Awarded Judgment ‘ Lydia Wortihman, by her next i friend, Lucinda Borne, was awardi ed S3O in damugee from the Penni sylvania railroad company today lin the Adams circuit court by Judge , Huber M. DeVoss. The damages were asked for a ' I wreck at the intersection of the eompany’a trucks and Adams street | on October 3. 1934, when the auto- I mobile in which Lydia was riding was struck by a train. The costa were charged to the defendant and judgment given the i plaintiff. — . —0 DIRECTORS FOR JUNIOR C. 0. — Nine Elected By Junior Group; Will Elect Of- ' fleers Tonight Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Decatur's newest civic organization, elected nine i directors at the organization meeting. held in the Central school building Tuesday evening. Those chosen for three-vear J terms are Miss Rosemary Holthouse, Bnd Townsend and Robert Heller; two-year terms. Mies Kathryn Hyland, Jesse Sutton and Miss Dorothy Young: one-year terms, Paul Honcher, Frank Wallace and Joe Elzey. These directors will meet at the Rice hotel this evening at 7 o’clock to elect officers to serve 1 until January 1. 1936. Jess Rice, president of thel ( Chamber of Commerce, presided. , Rcscoe Glendening, secretary- : treasurer of the senior organiza--1 tion. conducted the election. Preceding the election, a con- ' stitution and by-laws, prepared and read by John L DeY'oss, was I adopted by an unanimous vote. French Quinn, Decatur historian and attorney gave a short address. Highlights of the principal I speech follow: |, “Thirty-three years ago Decatur ■ finst ‘stepped out’ under a plan of , co-opcration among citizens. The ■ first 'lndustrial Association’ was 1 organized, but th? citizens became i j over enthusiastic and boosted factories in which considerable De-

(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Ed Newnort Named City Dog Catcher Ed Newpor assumed his duties this morning as city dog catcher being appointed by the Board of Public Works and Safety.’The dog ordinance went into effect today. City Attorney Herman J. Myers this morning stated that the new dog catcher. Ed Newport, is an experienced man, having worked at this iprofession in Wichita, Kansas nnd other western states Mr. New : pott has not announced the manner in which he proposes to catch the dogs. The appointment was made by the city board of public works and safety. At the iproaent time 107 licenses have been issued. Dog owners who | have not purchased licenses are i.gain warned to do so.

Homesteader Relates Reaction On Moving Into Neu) Residence

Among those who are moving in this week into the first 18 houses opened at the subsistence homesteads iproject here is Frank Drake and his family. Interviewed by a Decatur Democrat 'reporter, Mr. Drake said “after 20 years of housekeeping, I have to show for my money, 'only a stack of rent receipts. My family is just as pleased as ,1 am with tihe new house.” Mr. Draje celebrated his 51st birthday and asn present was given the key to his house Saturday. Mrs. Drake is 37, and their three sons, are 19, 17 and 16. Mr. Drake said, "I watched the house nearly every day during its construction and observed that every bit of material was as good as could be obtained.” Mr. and Mrs. Drake were raised on farms and Mr. Drake hns cultivated a garden for the last several years which is over an acre. He expects to have no difficulty with gardening at the homesteads. He is employed at the General Electric plant and works 33 hours a wj>e!k, finishing work at 3:30!

LIST PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY First General Session Os Evangelical Conference Held Today The 83rd annual Indiana conference of the Evangelical church began its first general session at 2 o’clock this afternoon, with Bishop George E. Epp. D. D., of Cleveland, Ohio, presiding. Communion meditation was given by the bishop. Holy communion service was conducted by the bishop and district superintendents. E. B. Bohn presided at the new organ. This was followed by a business session. Tonight a session in the interest of the Indiana conference mis-f-ionary society will be held at 7:30 o’clock. An address will be given bv the Rev. Carl Heinmiller. general field secretary of the missionary society. Special music will he given by th? choir of the Firut Evangelical church. From 7 to 7:30 o’clock an organ recital will be given by Mr. Bohn, Fort Wayne organist. The annual meeting of the Indiana Conference Missionary society was held this morning at 9,o’clock under the direction of the president. Rev. E. Garfield Johnson of Elkhart. The tj Rowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: Rev. Johnson. Elkhart, president; Rev. M. W. Sundermann. Decatur, vice-president; Rev. M. O. Herman. Berne, secretary and Rev. George S. Ixizier, Indianapolis, treasurer. Rev. Herman was named delegate to the general board of missions. which will be held on the morning prior to the opening of the general conference in 19:16. Rev. Sundermann will serve as alternate. Transaction of business and various reports occupied most of the morning. The afternoon weseion opened at 2 o’clock with Bishop Epp officiating. The program for Thursday is: 9:00 A. M. Devotional Services by the Bishop. Business session. 12:00 M. Luncheon. 2:00 I’. M. Business session.

5.30 P. M. Dinner. 7:30 P. M. This service is under the direction of the Conference Board of Christian Education. Rev. Charles L. Har.ey, chairman. Address: “Youth of Today, and the Home of Tomorrow" by Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton of Marion, Ind. National lecturer on Christian Education. Berne Choir. “Sing Ye to the Lord.” by Dr. Cuthbert Harris. Mrs. C. A. Smith, organist. Mr. E. E. Liechty, director. Knights Os Pythias To Give Rank Work Rank work will be given to a class at the Knights of Pythias home Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock. All members are requested to be present.

o’clock in the afternoon. This gives him enough time to raise his garden. He expects to build a garage this full. Later he imay erect a (poultry house and keep a few chickens. Mr. Drake’s house is located at the northeast corner of the 80 acre government project. He has an acre and a ninth of ground. He plans to conform with the plan of landscaping being prepared by Purdue University. During the 20 years he has rented houses i'.e has never had one ocmipletely modern. He has paid fno-m sl2 to $25 a month for these homes. Now he has one of the most modern homes in Decatur, completely insulated, with a bathroom, running water, all service connections, a furnace and all other modern provementsHe figures that the change costs him only 65 cents a month. .In his old house r.'.e paid sl2 a month rent. In his new house he pays $12.65 a month tinder the temporary licensing agreement with the government.

.At the end of the 30 year amonitization period he will own the house.

NRA EXTENSION TO APRIL, 1936 WINS APPROVAL Senate Finance Committee To Present Resolution For Extension Washington, May I—<U.R>—The senate finance committee today decided to report to the senate a j joint resolution extending the ‘ NRA until April 1, 1936. The joint resolution which the | committee Intends to report will contain three specific provisions, as follows: 1. No price fixing shall be permitted under any code except it. those of mineral natural resources which now have price fixing provisions. 2. That no trade engaged wholly in intra state commerce shall be eligible for a code. i. 3. It will give to the President a certain number of days in which to teview present codes with a view to approving them and carrying out the price-fixing and :ntra-state exceptions. ('hairman Pat Harrison said the ' committee voted 16 to 3 in favor of the continuing resolution. He refused to say whether or not the plan was satisfactory to the White House. It was understood, however. , that President Roosevelt preferred to have congress take the responsibility for framing iNRA legislation. While NRA officials rei’imed to comment Immediately, it was known that they did not favor the ( course decided upon by the.committee. A draft of the continuing reso- , lution will be drawn in time for presentation to the committee to- ( 1 morrow, when the formal action , to give a favorable report will be taken. “I think this is the best way out of the situation,” Harrison said, “and that is why I chain- . pioned the plan oefore the committee. “1 think that this will greatly |' expedite action on NRA. mean- , while giving the courts every opportunity to pass on every phase , ( of the matter. “Whan congress meets next Jan-1 uary we shall proceed immediate- \ (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) I < 0 ( WILL OBSERVE ATHLETIC DAY Youth Day In Entertainment And Athletics Set For Thursday Youth Day in Ent rtainment and Ati letice will be ciiserved in Decatur Thursday in connection with the annrnl Y’onth Week observance, sponsored jointly by the Woman’s ( club and Rotary club. Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, girl students front I? th th?'public and Catholic schools will attend a matinee performance at the Adaims theater as guests of the Woman’s club. The picture to be shown will be “Ruggles of Red Gap.” Thursday evening'at 6:30 o’clock, at the regular meeting of to© Rotary chib, captains of athletic teams of both the Central and St. Joseph's schools will be honored guests and trophies will be presented to the captains of the Central softball and track teams, winners of the annual city contests. Mrs- Henry Neirelter and Pete Reynolds are co-chairmen for the day. Today, Health Day was observed with n mass mesting of all pupils of the Central and St. grade schools at the Catholic high (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o— Brother Os Decatur Resident Dies Today Alexander R. Deßolt, 55. of near Bluffton, brotfler of John Deßolt of Decatur, died this morning at his home southeast of Bhlfftcn. The widow, formerly Della Robinson, three children, three sisters and a brother survive. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Ossian M. E. church with burial at Ossian.

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Presiding Bishop W BI Bishop Gtorge Edward Epp. who presided at the official opening session of the 83rd annual Indiana conference of the Evangelical church in this city this afternoon. The conference will continue throughout Sunday. BISHOP BLAKE ISPRESIDING Ordination Service At M. E. Conference Will Be Held Sunday The ordination service for per- 1 sons eligible for ordination as dea-! cons and elders of the Methodist Episcopal churches of the North | Indiana M. E. conference, will be I held Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock . at the First M. E. church in Fort | Wayne. Dr. Edgar Blake, bishop of the! Methodist Detroit area, who is pre-1 siding at the conference sessions, will be in charge of the service, i assisted by six district superintendents, Rev. Fremont B. Frtbtey, i Fort Wayne: Rev. Clyde G. Yeo-' mans, Kokomo; Rev. Frank K. Dougherty, Muncie; Rev. Freeland I A. Hall. Richmond: Rev. MerriTl 0., Lester, Wabash and Rev. Charles. B. Croxall. Warsaw. Included among those eligible fori ordination as deacons is Lester J. Brunner of the Decatur circuit. The name of James W. Rhine of j the Geneva circuit was included in the names of those who have tak-. en» the first year course of study j under the direction of the minis-; terial training board and are now | eligible for advancement to the sec-1 ond course. lister J. Brunner of Decatur, is also a third-year course i candidate and Elbert S. Morford and Mrs. Morford of Monroe are; fourth year course candidates. j The opening session of the North | Indiana Methodist church confer-1 ence was held Tuesday evening and the address was prepared by the Most Rev. John Francis Noll, bishop of the Fort Wayne Catholic diocese and read by Rev. D. L. Monahan, rector of the St. Patrick’s Catholic church. An address. “World Peace Night” will be delivered tonight by Rabbi Samuel H. Markowitz and Thursday evening will be “Educational Night” with an address by President G. Bromley Oxnam of DePauw. Friday evening the conference lecture will be given by Merton S. Rice of the Metropolitan Temple. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) PASTOR TALKS TO LOCAL LIONS CLUB — Rev. Reuben Stauss of Huntingburg Gives Interesting Talk Tuesday Evening Rev. Reuben A. Stnuss, pas-tor of the Emanuel Evangelical church of Huntingburg, addressed the meeting of the Lions Club held at the Rice hotel Tuesday night. Dr. Burt Mangold had charge of the program. Rev. Stause’ subject was “Our Face.” He said in part: "The thoughts of cur minds play uipon the facial stage, revealing themselves, if beautiful, the face Is beautiful; if the thoughts are unkind, insincere, of a fault-finding nature, they became discernible to the acquaintances nor can they be covered by any cosmetics. "It was said of Abraham Lincoln that he was ■blue most homely of all imen. But a mother who received a pardon from the president for her court martialed son said, “President Lincoln is the most handsome man I have ever seen.” We try to thlnik upon things that are true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report. As we think, we are in reality.”

CHICAGO COPS FEAR VIOLENCE INOBSERVANCE Nine Are Reported Killed During European Demonstrations (By United Press) Police and troops in the United States and Europe massed for a violent May day today. .In Chicago, police lined the route of march of unemployed men and women demonstrating against a threatened curtailment of relief. In New York, heavy police detachments were detailed to guard socialists and communist demonstrations; violence was feared. Some difficulty was anticipated in several American cities. In Europe, May day was ushered in with rioting in Paris and Bulgaria. One was killed in Paris; eight were reported killed in the Bulgarian village of Enino. In all European capitals, except Moscow, Berlin, and Rome authorities took extreme precautions to prevent outbreaks of radical elements. In Berlin, the Nazis took over labor’s holiday. Chancellor Adolf Hitler made two speeches. In Moscow, the day was impressively celebrated. Jobless Parade Chicago. May 1. — (U.R) — Police squad cars laden with tear gas bombs patrolled the route of a May day parade today as jobless men and women prepared to march on the loop in protest of a statewile closing of relief depots. Nearly 700 uniformed police were called out to guard against disorders arising from a crisis precipitated when federal relief adiuinistraI tor Harry L. Hopkins shut off all FERA funds to the state. Hopkins’ order, which withstood a direct appeal to President Roosevelt by Gov. Henry Horner, forced wholesale closings of relief stations supplying food to 1,200.000 indigents. The administrator based his drastic action on the failure of the (CONTINUKD ON PAGE TWO) — o All City Offices Will Close For Foos Funeral Announcement war, made today that all city office,? will be dosed, from 9 to 10 o'clock Thursday morning, during the funenil services for Andrew C. Foes, veteran city plant engineer, who died Monday ingLast rites will b? held at the St. Mary’s Catholic church at 9 a. tn. tomorrow, with the Rev. Father J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be made in tee Catholic cemetery. SCHOOL UNITS RECEIVE FUNDS Adams County Share Os Liquor Tax Distribution Is $3,724.58 (Special to the Democrat) Indianapolis, May 1. —More than a half million dollars was distributed today from liquor and beer tax funds to the various school units of the state according to Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction. Based on average daily attendance, the distribution amounts to $.829 for each school pupil. This is the last distribution of excise funds under th© 1933 beer law and the next fund allotment will come as of December 1. 1935, under the new liquor control law. Under the new law the schools receive one-third of the retail permit fees while the civil corporations receive two-thirds. The total amount distributed was $5j2,077.97 of which the schools of Adams county will receive $3,724.58. This distribution brings the total amount sent to Adams county during the current school year from the gross Income, intangibles and excise taxes to $44,094.57. The total distribution from these three funds to schools of the entire state amounted to $6,620,249. The gross income tax will make another distribution July 1, 1935. It is estimated that when the July gross Income tax distribution (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)