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■NTY SCHOOL ■aduate list [announced jn McMurray Will ■k To Eighth Grade ■radnates .lune 15 K;i3 graduates of the county grade schools were antoday by Clifton E. Strik■erinteiideiit of the county ■g:. >ncenien't exercises will be fcj the Berne auditorium on Floyd I McMurray, state ■»ndent of public instrucKi deliver the comnience■jdress. are: FT Union Township E. Grove, Dorothy RobRuth Bischoff. Louis Dorothy Maxine l Thieme, Florence Es her Harmon. Flora Betty Drake, Hilda Carl Schainerloh, Flora I I Root Township ■ Cook. Marcia Ellen Garn■tha Strahm, Walter Henry k ' iolet lola Brown, Lorence Roy H. Lehrman, Ward, Cleona Mae ElLucile Beihold. Esther Arnold Louis Conrad. Kunkel. Leona [ ■ Preble Township ■ Reinking. Harold Hoffman. K Ehlerding. Harriet Ann |u Gilbert Hoffman, Leona Bernice H. Cable, Vir|Bann Florence Boese, Mary Eldora BuHemeier. NorEthel E. WorthFuhrman, Virginia ■ Esther Schueler, Chalmer Erwin Stoppenhagen. ■ Miller, Norman Buuck. Adelinda Buuck. ■ Conrad, Viola Ehlerding, Margaret Hllgeman, ■uhnnann, Walter Nuerge, ■ Springer, Eleanor KoeneWeber. Wilbur SelkKiess, Norma Wefel. Ed-, I ilking, Richard Scheumann, ■h Scheumann, Ixirine Schuller. Ottilie M. Kathleen Koenemann. Della Aumann, ■Scheumann, Paul Schroeder, Township fejFrauhiger, Terveer A. GintGerber. Alvin Gerber. Hfßarnes. Harry M. Bowers. ■ Hoffman, Arthur Girod. Mankey, Jerald Barger, r ■ldebrand, Raymond Kolter, ML Barger, Glenden Horne. | ■berich. Dean Runkel. MarEugene Arnold. I ■Arnold, Everett Schladen-. ph, Hazel Yake, Harvey E. ■Lorene Steffen, Esther M. I ■ Lloyd Miller, Millard Bn, [Washington Township ■Liniger. Max Moser, Rob■>uey, Martha Kreps, Jerry Orville Fritcha, Harold Edna Fritcha, Jack ■ Von Olen Burk, Earl ■Virginia Shoaf, Marian Jane Martin, DeWitt Maxine Stump, Wil-. Er neat Wilson, Glenn | ■ Arlo Kenneth McKean.. ■‘ling. ■t- Mary’s Township Juanita Hilton. Hur- ■ Robert Harmon. Geral- ■■ Robert Crownover. Ralph Clarence Stinnett, RichNina Sovine, Harry Frank Everett, Patricia ■fonister, Lillian Catherine ■Edna Mae Manlier, Joseph Rosanna Faye Rauch. ■U. Brunner, Billie Ross, ■ Leroy Stevens, Joe S'ev■nver Morris, Nola Faye ■ Fern Lichtenberger, Don-■*-r. Eugene Miller, Ermil NCED ON PAGE FIVE) ■ —- —■-« ■ Carriers Elect Officers MRalinert of Monroe is the of the. Adams county ■il carriers. Other officers '■*’ a meeting in Monroe are: Harry Crownover > and D. J. Bsrne, secretary-trea- ■“ °f the Ladies auxilary Loui 6 Neaderhouser of ■heeident; Mrs. Herbert Decatur, vice-president, H. Kahnert of Monroe,

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Graduation Speaker -• Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction. | will deliver the commencement I address at the annual exercises ■ for the graduates of the eighth grade rural schools. The exer- i cises will be held at the Berne auditorium Saturday, June 15. KIDNAPERS ARE | STILL AT LASSE Believe Kidnapers Have Escaped Or Established In Hideout Tacoma. Wash., June 4. —(U.K) —| Search for the kidnapers of George j Weyerhaeuser. 9, who received S2O(),UOi) in marked federal reserve bills when they turned him over to his millionaire lather. John P ‘ Weyerhaeuser, appeared today to I be settling down to a routine job.

The first flurry of the search has passed. Highways and water, routes leading from the state still were under guard, but there was a general belief the gangsters had escaped or were temporarily secure; in a hideout near here. Discovery in Seattle of the car taken from F. R. Titcomb when he carried the ransom to the gang; lent weight to the latter theory.] Department of justice agents took . charge of the car, presumably to; check it closely for fingerprints] and other minute clues which ultimately may lead to apprehension of the mob. Whether Alvin Karpis and the remnants of the once powerful Barker-Karpis gang engineered the] abduction, or local hoodlums play-] ed the central role, was undeterm-| ined. Federal agents apparently i had a definite group under suspic-] ion, but they refused to confide| their views to anyone, even local officers. Pictures of the suspects have been distributed to the 30 agents grouped here. The arrest in Chicago of Volney Davis, at first believed a break which linked Karpis with the Weyerhaeuser kidnaping, appeared today merely another step in the relentless work of the government in clearing up the Edward G. (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — ELMO SMITH TO HEAD K. OFC. Druggist Is Elected Grand Knight Os Decatur ■ ' K. Os C. 1 The annual election of officers ; of Decatur council No. 864 of the i I Knights of Coumbus took place Mat | evening at the K. of C. hill. I Elmo Smith, well known druggist .■ of thia city was elected grand ■ ■ knight. He suece de Francis “Pat Costello. Other officers elected are: Arthur Voglewede. deputy grand knight: Francis Wertzberger, recording seer tary; Elliot Dyer, war- , den- Mark Braden Chancellor: Aithur Lengerich, advocate; Murphy. outer guard; Luzern Uhric , inner gmrd: Joseph Laurent, treasurer; Dan Niblick, trustee. ] The financial secretary is appoint-- I ed. Patrick Miller served in the .post i trustees who hold over are Clayson Carroll und Theodore . G The new officers will be installed I in July or .August, the- date not havin Repo e rL d of P1 tlm n Site convention - held two weeks ago in Washmgton were given by Patrick Miller.

STORM STRIKES MEXICAN TOWN, KILLING MANY Cloudburst Hits San Pedro During Religious Festival (Copyright, 1935, by United Press) San Pedro, Actopaw, Mexico, June 4 — (U.R) — A tremendous cloudburst and flood, striking this federal district area on the day of the annual religious festival, left in its wake today a toll of at least 310 known dead, many of them children. The scene of greatest disaster was at the church, where the water caused a partial collapse and where mud and sand were borne on rushing waves over the worshippers. The United Press correspondent. inspecting the ruins, found hundreds of pale and hysterical relatives seeking bodies of the dead. Police Commander Manuel Gonzales Aguado announced that 243 bodies had been recovered in San Pedro alone and others in various towns of the federal district. San Pedro, a village of few more than 1,000 inhabitants, was crowded yesterday by visitors from nearby towns who came for the religious festival. Part of the entrance to the San Pedro church collapsed and the walls cracked, but the main cause of the disaster was the wall of water which flooded the town in less than five minutes and poured into the church, trapping almost everybody inside. Floods Continue Kansas City. Mo., Juno 4—(U.R) —

i Destructive and death dealing . torrents that have ravaged river I valleys In Colorado, Kansas and (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o HENRY HUGE DIES MONDAY Former Kirkland Township Resident Is Victim of Pneumonia | Henry Hilge, 82, for many years I a resident of Kirkland township, ■ Adams county, died at 7 o’clock ] Monday evening at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John Borgwalz, Danville, Illinois, following an illness of four weeks. Death was attributed to pneumonia. Born in Ohio, the deceased came to Adams county in his boyhood and resided continuously in Kirkland township until he retired from farming and went to Danville to make his home with his daughter. His first marriage was to Laura Yager, who died 42 years ago. His second wife, who was Laura Klopfenstein, previous to her marriage, died 20 years ago. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lena Liby, Decatur; Mrs. Lester Maddux. Bluffton; Mrs. Grover Liby, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. John Borgwalz. Danville, Illinois. A sister, Mrs. Mary Gither, Fort Wayne, and a half sister, Mrs. J. D. Hoffman. Vera Cruz, also survive. One son. two sisters and a half-brother are deceased. The body will be returned Wednesday morning to the home of a daughter, Mrs. Grover Liby. 2710 South Anthony boulevard. Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the St Luke’s church, Kirkland township of which Mr. Hilge was a member. Rev. H. H. Meckstroth. Vera Cruz, will have charge. Burial will be in the Zion cemetery. Q Trustees Plan Annual Picnic On June 13 Invitations were sent out today for the annual Adams coumy trustees picnic. All trustees former trustees, families and widows have been invited. The picnic will be held in the Lehman park in Berne on June 13 The guests are requested to bring well filled dinner baskets for the noon meal. A program is being arranged for the afternoon which will include an address by D. 0. McComb, superintendent of the Allen county schools.

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Plaintiff Awarded Judgment By Jurors After 15 hours of deliberation a Jury in the Adame circuit court this morning at 3 o’clock returned a verdict for the paintiff for SSO in the case in which the American Casket Company of Cambridge sued William Wells of Geneva for the collection of an $181.78 account. The suit was begun Friday afternoon. It wae adjourned at the close of the Friday session of the court until Monday morning. The case was given to the jury at noon Monday. The paintiff maintained that a casket had been sold and never paid for by the defendant. The defense alleged that the csket had only been seat them on consignment and was not removed when the Geneva undertaking firm asked that it be sent back to the manufacturer. 0 DICK FOREMAN UNDER ARREST Former Local Man Arrested At Huntington As Safe-Cracker Huntington, Ind., May 4—(UP) Three Fort Wayne men suspected of numerous Northern Indiana safe robberies were captured today In a trap set by state police and local officers at the Elk’s club here. Those arrested were Richard (Diqk) Foreman, 21 formerly of Decatur, Jtfan Clifford, 42, formerly of St. Louis, and Eari Pebernat, 32, a native of Fisherburg. Police said all have criminal records and that Clifford once served 15 years for a mail robber. The men were unarmed and surrendered before they had an opportunity to attempt to o,p?n the Elk’s club safe. Nitro glycerine and burglar tools were found in un automobie which police said the suspects had stolen from Tro s Alleger, 515 W. Fifth St. Port Wayne. o Lewis Bros. Circus In Decatur June 13 Announcement was made today that the Lewis Bros, circus would exhibit in Decatur, Thursday. June 13. It is a three ring circus. In all probability it will be located on the Niblick field, east of the Monroe street river bridge. o Husband Os Former Local Woman Dies Funeral services for Diniel Petgen, 73, who died suddenly Sunday night at his home, 2016 South Calhoun street, Fort Wayne, of apoplexy, will i')e held Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at the resident ’e, with Rev. D. L. Monahan officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends are asked to omit flowers. The widow Mrs. Petgen, w u formerly Wilda Oolchin of Decatur. — o DROP EFFORTS TO PASS BONUS Decide To Abandon Efforts For Passage During Present Session Washington, June 4— (U.R) — iSenate and house conferees on the Patman bonus bill decided today to abandon all efforts to enact veterans’ legislation at this session of congress. Any compromise proposal, they agreed, would force veterans to make a serious sacrifice." The Patman plan, calling for a $2,000,000,000 currency expansion to finance immediate payment of the adjusted service certificates, will be reintroduced when congress meets again in January. Ever since the senate sustained the President’s veto of the Patman bill, its sponsors had been studying possible ways of obtaining renewed consideration of the bonus. Rep. Wright Patman, D„ Tex., and Sen. Elmer Thomas. D„ Okla., leaders of the Patman group, in a joint statement said a canvass of the situation disclosed "75 per cent of congress in favor of the (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, June 4, 1935.

WORK HALTED ON DRIVEWAY Lack of Funds Halts Work On Driveway At Homestead Division The construction of the driveway in the Decatur Homestead division was at a standstill today, due to the lack of funds to purchase materials to complete the mile and onehalf of roadway. The county commissioners have already expended about $6,500 for stone, sand and tile. An additional $3,000 is required for the next layer of screenings sand about $2,500 more for asphalt or cut back top material. The commissioners have all the highway su:nds appropriated and I’lalnnces in the several funds do not ! permit transfers for the purchase of idditional material. A. A. Watrous, federal represenitative in charge of th? local homeI stead project and the > ounty coniI miHSioners met with Mayor A. R. i Holthouee and councllmen H. M. iGillig >ind Albert Miller of the city Istreet department this morning. The city officials showed the city’s inI ability to fin nee the purchase of i materl is. the budget this year appropriating ony S3OO for street material. The matter was taken up with James D. Ad»wns, chairman of the state highway commission and a committee will call on Mr. Ad ims Thursday morning and put the facts before him. A request will be made to obtain state or federal funds to omplete the road. It is not known if the state highwny commission can divert its funds for this t;ur■pose, but Mr. Adams assured the .committee that he would he glad to go into the problem with them. A committee of loc'-l men will also call on Mr. Adams Thursday morning and file petitions for the improvement of road 224 west of Decatur to Uniondale with concrete. LAFE GRIMM IS ARRESTED HERE Decatur Man In Custody For Receiving Stolen Property Lase Grimm of Decatur is being held in the Adams county jail on a charge of receiving stolen property. He was arrested Monday night by Floyd Hunter, city policeman, at the request of the Portland police department. Mr. Grimm admitted his guilt after being questioned by Sheriff Dallas Brown and Officer Hunter. He was accused by Portland police of selling a typewriter, one adding machine, and a radio to William Stavnic, who operates a filling s’/ition at the oprner of Adams and 13th street for sls. Mr. Stavnic then traded the merchandise for a shot gun in Fort Wayne. Mr. Grimm stated that Mr. Stavnic did not know that the goods were stolen. The merchandise was stolen | from Portland by a gang of men now all in the custody of Portland, and Celina, Ohio, officials. The members of the gang are Robert Blount, 19, of Decatur; Harley Hutzler, 21; Harry Finch, | 32; Harry Newland. 20, and Carl i Newland. 18, all of Portland: a Lima, Ohio, boy, and James Lander of Geneva. These boys are now under arrest for robberies at Geneva and Chattanooga. Ohio. According to the story the merchandise stolen from Portland was brought to Decatur and turned over to Grimm who hid it in a woods. As soon as possible he sold it. Country Club To Be Scene Os Dance The Decatur Country Club has been cLt.dned tor the Bowery Dance to i>? sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce on Thursday June 13. Tickets lire being sold for 26 cents a person. Bud Townsend and Rosemary Holthouse are co-chair-men of the ticket committee. Hal Teeters orchestra will furnish the music for the affair. Members of the committee on arrangements are Dora Shosenberg chairman, Dorothy Young, Bernice DeVoss, Frank Wallace, Dick Macklin, and Arthur Voglewede.

FRANCE FACES NEW FINANCIAL . CRISIS TODAY Premier Bouisson’s Government Overthrown On Money Policy Paris, June 4 —(UP) —The gov•|ern>ment of Premier Fernand Boui tason w.is defeated in the chamiber , l of d put lee today at its demand for semi-dictutoria powers to govern by decree and save the economic situation and the strength. The coalition government went 1 down to defeat by the marrow margin of two votes and promptly resigned, leaving the political eitua- ' tion in chaos. The vote was so close that at first ■ it was announced the government had been given full powers, but an • official recount was demanded and the roll call showed the government . i beaten by 264 to 262. The government won a vote of > conffdence on the qu stion of suspending debate, 390 to 192, and then ' asked for a vote of confidence on ■ the full ipoweus issue. Bouisson submitted his project far the semi-dictatorship and it was i handed to the finance committee to 1 return with recommendations with- ■ i in an hour. i [ The session was suspended for Han hour whie deputies stormed in ‘ the corridors, arguing about final 1 approval or disapproval of the cabinet. The nidical socialists, most i powerful body in the chamber, the ■ soc’nlists. and the communists are i against granting the powers. i As a precaution, the government stationed several hundred mobile i guards, helmeted and carrying car- • i biens between the chamber and the ■ Arc De Triumphe. •I Edquoard Herriot, eader of the J radical socialists, fought for Bouisson , »ut when the party overwhrlmtrONTlNUED ON PAGE SIX) o Wednesday Final Enrollment Day

The Rev. Charles M. Prugh, dean of the Decatur Vocation Church School, announced today that Wednesday will be the last day to register in the school. The total enrollment t day was 262, an increase of 20 over Monday. This is the highest enrollment in the school fcr over three years. — o Working On Berne Telephone System The Citizens Telephone company is beginning the laying of an underground conduit system in Berne which is to cost approximately $lO,000. About 10 men are to be employed in the improvement. All lines north of Main street and west of Jefferson street will be plie d under the mew system. Charles Hears of Decatur will be in charge of the installation. o NINE MONTHS SCHOOL HERE Tentative Schedule Is Announced For Public School Term

The tentative schedule of the 1935-36 school term was announced today by Walter J. Krick, superintendent of the city schools. Nine months of school will be taught, including 176 days. Some slight revisions might be made in the schedule providing the city school obtains the sectional basketball tournament next spring. School will open on September 3, the day following Labor Day. On October 17 and 18 school will be dismissed to give teachers an opportunity to attend the Northeastern Indiana Teachers Association Institution at Fifft Wayne. Thanksgiving vacation will be on November 28 and 29. The Christmas holidays will extend from December 21 to January 2, 1936. The first semester will close on January 17. Spring vacation will he on April 9 and 10. April 10 is Good Friday. The second sefiiester will close and graduation exercises will be held on May 23.

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Hatching New Bird? Ii b I b- 11 mpf Visit of General Hugh S. Johnson, former NRA head, to White House, which he is seen leaving, gives rise to repeated rumors that the General will be asked to take I charge of New Deal's successor to NRA. HOME OWNERS LIST COMPLETE Last Os 48 Houses At Homestead Site Is Accepted Today The last of the 48 houses at the federal subsistence homesteads . \ project was accepted today by . ' Lamoille Fogle of Decatur. it is expected that all of the houses will be occupied by the end , of 'the week. The complete list of names of , the homesteaders was announced today by Austin A. Watrous, pro- , ject manager. The homesteaders with the lot numbers are: Morris R. Pingry, 1; David W. Smith. 2; James C. Strickler, 3; Everett P. Sheets, 4; Charles F. Keller, 5; Gerald J. Grandstaff, 6; Elmo Miller, 7; Walter B. Crampton. 8; Don Leßrun, 9; Latham Moore, 10. Earl Chase, 11; Earl Blackburn, 12; Lamoille Fogle, 13; Florenz T. 15; Alfred Beavers. 16; John V. Siler. 17; Lloyd Ahr, 18; Ernest S. Scott, 19: Charles D. Briener, 20. James H. King. 21; Melvin C Smitley, 22; Walter Brake, 23; Charles K. Champlin, 24; Vilos Bollinger, 25; Harry Merriman, 26; Paul Meyers, 27; Bernard Braun. 28; Jack S. Teeple, 29; Gerald O. Cole, 30; Paul M. Sauer, 31; Luzern F. L'hrick, 32; Eugene V. McCann, 33; E. M. Lichtenstiger. 34; Milton P. Swearingen, 35; Dewey ’ Neidigh, 36; George J. Buckley. 37; Lawrence Walters, 38; Robert B. Helm, 39; Clarence Drake, 40. Walter Bollinger, 41; A. C. Hile--1 man, 42; Gordon Acheson, 43; Theodore Witte, 44; Daniel Neireiter, 45; Cleotus Miller. 46; Harry 1 V. Aurand, 47, and William Linn, ' 48. Lot number one is located on the south side of the northeast entrance. The numbers run anticlockwise. 0 Two Old Age Pension , Applications O. K’ed Twa additional old age (pension • applications were approved iby the board of county coimniewioneiw in | Hessian today. The board also -purchased an adding -machine for the county agent's > office. The machine purchased cost ■ SIBO and a $25 allowance was given • for the old machine. The Under-wood-Elliot-FLsher ■company sold the > machine. Two other companies offered ma- ' hineu for sale. The Burroughs Add- ’ ing Michine company offered a 1 number of models ranging In price ■ from $205 to $145 with a $lO allowance for the old itnachine. The Woodstock Typewriter Soles offer1 ed a model at $175 with a $12.50 al--1 lowanee forth ■ old machine and a ’ 10 cent discount. —o , Bank Property Sale Approved , A report of the sale of the Singleton property on North Eighth street i owned by the closed Peoples Loan and Trust company was reported to I the cincuit court Monday afternoon . and approved. > The bid of Jennie Pence of SSOO > was reported as the "highest and beet offer”. Jt was accepted.

ROOSEVELT AND CABINET HEADS IN CONFERENCE Piece By Piece Repair Os NRA Program Is Likely Course Washington. June 4 — (U.R) — A piece by piece repair of the NRA was the program agreed upon today in a conference between President Roosevelt and his cabinet, a survey of the situation revealed. Cabinet officers, after an extraordinary White House session at which the whole picture was canvassed, were pretty well in agreement that the emergency would be met by individual efforts to bolster the main phases of the recovery structure. While they were in agreement in asserting that certain conclusions were reached, they left the revealing of details to the President. They did. however, discuss the Wagner labor disputes bill, the Guffey coal control bill and the social security program. Whether these three would comprise a part of a revamped NRA was not stated. It was believed that the M’agner and Guffey measures would he Integral parts of the president's program for salvaging as much as possible of NRA. Following the meeting the President called in congressional and recovery leaders for further discussion of his plans at a press conference late this afternoon. Following the cabinet meeting tlie President called a 3:30 p. m. meeting with congressional leaders. Chairman Donald R. Richberg of NRA, and other advisers. And for 5 p. m. he called an extraordinary conference with news-

papermen. Mr. Roosevelt's determination to take immediate action led to general belief that he would seek a continuation of NRA within the limited scope permitted by the court’s decision. Inclusion of congressional leaders in the conferences indicated legislation would be sought along that line. Congress, the house particularly, has cleared the way for early action. One well-informed congression(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —. o Local Application Second In Indiana D c.atur ie the second city in Indiaru from which an application for title II insurance on a model home mortgige loan has been received. The application is for the home to be built by Dr. Floyd L. Grandstaff, who will (construct a house on the lot purchased from Albert Mutsclil r on North Second street. The first application was from Bridges and Gmves for a model home in Indianapolis. WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDS THREAT Federal Aid May Be Withdrawn As Result Os Monroe Co. Trouble Bloomington, Ind., June 4. —(U.R) —Withdrawal of federal funds from Monroe county was -threatened today as result of an uprising of approximately 200 relief workers last week-end. The relief clients enforced their demand for immediate payment ot wages by imprisoning six federal relief office employes in headquarters here. The incident was investigated by officials of the Washington bureau of federal emergency relief and the ultimatum to the workers followed. “If such an uprising occurs again, either by one or many of the relief clients, federal funds will be withdrawn from Monroe county, the government’s representatives warned. "There have been no such uprisings in other parts of the state and no disturbances will be tolerated here,” they concluded. The workers protested a change in the pay day from Saturday to (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)