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Q ..J Nuisance Tax |K er lor New I’roiftm Voted Down In 9 \|)|<M RNMENT (UR) : taxiin' a dw'W'm to let it origin hnu>e and ft' l ’ h *‘ ■L "f > oiigr.-ssional pit '■ , iiiw administration and lofi wing opponents, ixirnis amendment advo supporters of nuisance were roidy to start revi.-<- the program. A J. lay appeared likely be9Kh> measure is ready for action. chance of rushing the tlirotiuh congress ended senate yesterday up- : the s.’.. i.iuin.iiOo nuisance bill without the rider being offered. leaders blamed the strategy today on reways and meanII. tats, oppose.d the (finials from the they were trying to administration. Robert L. Boughton that every attenmt made to confine the bill. >h>. e. nimittee ultima!'h ■r.-- to the President's tax ' The treasury rates on gift, income, and < t:iX“~ will be consider. ! committee, jealous of it- : is expected to write rates into the ineasiif rill he the committee's p tr said Doughton. “to give tune for those espeed in thi.; lee. their views." want a slipshod or half-' bill," Doughton said. "1 . tn introduce a t. ni.it i..We of course can't complete new tax bill this £S»i> and must confine mirto the President's iuhprobably will stmt Doughton said. He pi - they would last two V weeks. The senate bu n will try to speed m by holding hearing . a' it time. The house must legislation first, le w. ■■ Joseph W. Byrti- nnd Republican leader L.-rtrnnl Ml foresaw adjournment d. I. . September or October as of ibe decision to bring bill. ■■is criminal to try to put ns page six I ■sent Children 1 Pageant Sunday ■Bthildreii'.i day pag'ant "Who *lll be presented at Hie I'i.-.i ■Whip church in Kirkland t..«nning at 7. do o'clo I. o— Works 1 To Erect Marker ■JiWenihoff Monumental \\ m i city has secured an or.l i a granite marker al the ■P Bake,- grave in the Catholic Fort Wayne. I: will be ■"f the largest ami most imposMonuments in the cemetery. ■ marker will be 26 feet high ■«f Melrose St. Cloud. Minn . The shaft will be polish■l° a high finish. The marker ■Wht 36,000 iftmnds. Mr. Baka pioneer carriage mamifer of Fort Wayne. ■n Wayne Factory | Workers On Strike Wayne, June 27 — (’.'PI — ■ywimateiy 400 employee f the ’-’’nnufaeturing corporation, a of the Phelps-Dodge cop ■'"testlon <jf New York. wtH tj;day and established linen at the company plant U" r dfis deputies patroll d the but there was no report of ■ The strikers, member of labor union, charge that of the company refused to their unicn cr operate a ■""I ehop. ■? a formal statement company expreused regret of the ■™ n,J nd announced that the plant ■ ' bj closed indefinitely.

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— mkpiwim NOT IN EFFECT I I Relief Rolls Not Yet Reduced Under New Deal Work Program (Copyright 1935 by UP.) Washington. June-27. (UR)—An InformaJ “balance sheet" of the new I I deal's 24.000.000,0(10 employment drive showed today that it has , been in operation seventy-two days . without reducing relief rolls by a ' single person. i Congress made the money available April 8 to end the dole by July ■ 1, 1936. by making jobs for 3,5vt),000 persons. The prograjn, however, still is in its preliminary, I , formative stage with no actual expenditures for work projects to . make the nation's needy self-sup- , porting. The exact status of the drive: | 1. Federal agencies and political subdivisions filed $1,997 project . applications totaling $1,919,438,271 with the division of applications and informations. 2. The division turned down 312 requests amounting to $594,643,676 Jor else they were wlt'fJ.T'.vn because of obvious inabilities to meet program requirements. 3. The advisory committee on allotments received 1,685 applica- : tions amounting to $1,324,794,595, passing most of them on <0 Presiident Roosevelt for his approval. | 4. Mr. Roosevelt made $1,524,-' 843,186 of the $4,000,000,000 availI adde for expenditure by passing 1 835 applications. The President, in I allocating one-third of the entire ' fund, approved every recommendation of the allotment board. Largest items receiving presidential approval so faz have been $500,000,000 for highway construction and grade crossing eliminlation, $545,000,000 for direct relief j costs in April. May and June; 1 $219,158,000 for the civilian conservation corps; $107,986,500 fori improvement of rivers and harbors and flood control; $58,000,000 for reclamation, irrigation and power dams; $6,945,000 for administrative expenses. Direct Relied Washington, June 27. — (UR) ~ The new deal's $680,000,000 direc relief fund, set aside to feed and clothe the nation's needy until the $4 000.000,000 employment program | endg the dole, today was reduced to $235,000,000. The money, according to >e present rate of expenditure by the federal emergency relief administration, will last only 60 days after August 1. President Roosevelt dipping mto work renei approval of a slls- - allotment tor July di™ relief swelled to a total of $545. Jo.OOO the money FERA ~(Tontine E » STATE MEN TO CHECK BOOKSj State Field Examiners Check Books Os Municipal Plant «• e -s Held examiners of t ot arrived mu i i uudit municipal .igbt, arate reports will be anode dX”.‘..n,X- , (b eck the reemds cjty Forth.- pa-’ . nec j a l account--1113 “to make'Vhe annual reports. antS ™ McKean auditor for t-‘ e Miss Mon « « dpna rt.nente. coinlight “r monthly Profit and loss pU S Ih \ ■ and balance sheets, statements and tQ L!le ; ta te « am XTthne Messrs. T nd Hindmn have cheeked Waltz und Hind They ths records 0 c apiee will be Herese- "nished the i’o’oS and M.yor Holthouse.

YOUTH RELIEF PLANS HAILED 8f EDUCATORS Aid Program Viewed As Precaution Against An- , other Depression (Copyright 1935 by United Press) Educators hailed President Roosevelt's $50,000,000 youth re- ! lief prgoram today as an act of j hvidei vision’! and a precaution [ against another depression. Throughout the country recep-1 I tion of the four-point national ■ youth administration program was the same. Comment follows: Dr. Bruce R. Payne, president. : Peabody College for Teachers, | Xashvllle, Tenn.—"l am delighted ' to learn that part of this nionev will be used to aid high school and college students. The more: time and money we spend on i educating the youth of the coun- ( try, the less chance we run of having another depression. One of the big factors that is prolonging the present depression is lack of education among the mieses." George C. Sellery, Dean, University of Wisconsin College of letters and Science—“lt will be a great boon to students because so manv of them have been doing all j 1 sorts of jobs which give them nc 1 chance to study." John Callahan. Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction —“Such a program offers mater I ial aid to young people. Wiscon- I sin high schools graduated about 25,000 pupils this spring. It is ! estimated that only one-third of them will find something to do. Perhaps 59 per cent of them will I go to college where many of them will be at least partially depend- I , ent on jobs. The balance unoccu- | pied create quite a problem.” President A. B. Dinwiddie. Tn- , lane University. New Orleans—"l I I (CONTINUED ON PAOB SEVEN) | - GUARD SLAYER FROM SUICIDE Officials Fear Yonng SexKilter May Attempt (hvn Life Peoria, 111.. June 27.-(U.R>-Elab-orate precautions were taken- today to keep Gerald Thompson from committing suicide in his jail cell where he awaits trial on charges «f mtadertag pretty MRfced HallU1 The areeauti.ns seemed super-fl-uous as Thompson, the over-sex-ed mechanic who enfessed to atwcking 16 Peoria women before l lis man-handling of Mildred brought her death, sat in I confinement in th ‘ county jail last , lig b: and read a lo»e story magazine. „ . „ The tales set forth in the pulp magazine provided tame P~ besides the paragraphs in Th°mP I son's own lurid diary that will be used in evidence against him when! he conies up for trial Ju y — Tl 6 nary described in detail each of | s affairs with many women ac-, QU ain:ar.ees and at the end of each , , month he “tabulated his actlv ; ’‘He occupied a cell on the top i a ns the jail, which formerly j . xjjq companion, a nep , !± sheriff, removed Thompsons s.S" -*rsri. ■» I ThonipTon was quoted by me , Thompson won't know what happened an * way 9 . ful uigh t. TlWmP w n Jd P He read t Jiel ove the before going to Bt ory *»« aalne toved wl th a harsleep and also toy sheriff 1 monica E ive beell given by NOi, v iC B a en Thurman, appointed Attorney upnrv Ingram to , «h.i d.i;X“ a T«-“r-.S/u -X- - •«££ Thompson L “ b “\Xdßy'Hou s e Washington June 27~(UP)~The disputes bill and sent It to the se opproval la neceuiary before President Roosevelt can sign it The bill is aimed to guarantee employes the right to collective bargaining and outlaws company dominated unions.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, .June 27, 1935.

Lehman Declares War on Crime

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Declaring war on “various types of crime and vice in New York county,” Gov. Herbert Lehman, left, issued an ultimatum to William C. Dodge, district attorney of New York county, threatening to supersede him unless he launched an intensive campaign against crime. Mayor l4i Guardia and civic organizations had urged the governor to put somebody in Dodge’s place to prosecute vice. Dodge was one of the few Tammanvites elected when Guardia and the progressive Fusionists carried the city.

PIQUETT GIVEN TWO-YEAR TERM Dillinger Attorney Given Maximum Sentence; Fined SIO,OOO Chicago, June 27—(UP) — Louis j Piqueft, attorney for John Dillinger, today was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary and was fined SIO,OOO for harboring H .mer Van Meter. Dillinger's lieutenant. A motion for a new trial was denied by Judge Phillip L. Sullivan and the maximum penalty was imposed Piqueft took the sentence calmly and said he would a.ppeal the verdict. He was permitted to remain at liberty under his present bond of $12,500 but must return to -court ( July 5 either to post a new bond for his release pending appeal or to I begin serving his sentence. Mrs. Piquett was not in court to- 1 day. In giving Piquett th? maximum 1 penalty under the statute on har-1 boring a fugitive from justice, I judge Sullivan said: “It is difficult to take away lib- ■ frty from a man il have known for I 15 years, >in affable and amiable] man, but on? who is too easily led. “The jury reached its verdict fairly and unaided and I have no decision in the matter,” he then (pronounced sentence. Piquett was the target of a federal deportment of justice drive to have a court and jury define exactly how far a lawyer could go in acting for a criminal client. Piquett won an acquittal on a charge of harboring Dillinger with the plea that his relations with the gangster .<’<-re —— (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIN) DEFENSE GAINS POINT IN CASE Commission Order Os 21 Years Ago Point For Huntington Huntington, Ind., June 27.—<U.R) i- Additional documentary evidence I to prove Huntington’s right to sell current from the tiny municipal electric plant was presented in Huntington circuit court today. A 1-yeaj-old public service commission order approving a $75,000 i municipal bond issue to improve the plant was cited by City Attor|ney Claude Cline in suit of tj>e Northern Indiana Power company to permanently restrain commercial activities of the city plant. The order contained a paragraph granting authority to sell energy to domestic and commercial customers. The power comptuiy has Introduced a 1931 commission order denying that right. Cline prepared today to prove that the city plant was in the utility business nine years before the Huntington Light and Fuel company, predecessor to the N. I. P. surrendered Rs Huntington franchise and obtained an indeteraiinate permit under which the power company now operates. Richard Sharpless, secretary of the public service commission, was present to testify that the inderm- ! inate permit was the only a.uthor- . ity the N. I. P. has now for operating In Huntington.

Fifty-Two Members At Youth Meeting Fifty-two mrmbera of the United | Brethren church of thia city are at- ] tending tilie Youth convention and ; institute at Oakwood pork, I-ake i Wawaeee. Chaparones from here are Mrs. | . H. W. Franklin and Mrs. Hubert] Cochran, representing the seniors, | Mrs. Jess Williams and Mrs. George i Myers for the juniors. Rev. H. W. Franklin, pastor of the local church went to Wnwasee today to attend the convention. He will return with the Decatur people Sunday afternoon. NEW BUILDING IS PETITIONED Many Sign Petitions For New School Building At Geneva I More than one fourth of the ] ; names necessary to build a new . i school house have been obtained I by six men in Geneva who are cir- j I culating petitions. j The old building was recently con'd mned by state school and fire inspectors as being in danger of col- ] lupsing. The building was ruined. I 1 it is believed, partially because of 1 the lack of adequate foundations. It was built on land which origin- • ally was a marsh and the founda- ' tions do not extend to solid ground, j Another theory about its threaten-1 ! ed collapse is that an explosion of | i TNT. intended-for an oil well sev-, ■ eral miles from Geneva caused the I 1 original cracks. Others believe that. > the wails were shaken by traffic on | U. S. highway 27. The law requires that at least | one fourth of the property owners ; in the township sign a petition be- j fore a new building can be built, i One man alone has obtained imore i than the number required. • Some opposition has resulted from farmers who have stated that I they wish tlae school house built | more nearly in the center of the town.T’ip. Remonstrance , papers have been obtained by one groui? of the farmers. Improvements to the old building > so that the school would pass state inspection would cost -about $21,591). School and township officials have determined that it would not pay 1 to put this amount of money in an old building. , Plans have been drawn uip for ], a new SIOO,OOO building. Thespecifi- .. cations call for a gymnasium to be 3 used also as an auditorium and a y community center in the middle of .. the building. The school rooms will b? built around the gym, making a euch room an outside one. y The township has never had a (- gymnasium before and has (played its basketball games and (practiced ’’ (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) Richard Brodbeck Given Scholarship l' Richard Brodbeck. son of Mr. and n Mrs. Charles Brodbeck of this city, has been awarded an $125 scholarship to Hanover College. He was graduated from the Decatur higli ,f school last spring. The award was s given him because of this excellent i- scholarship end band experience. r . He will become a member of the f. Hanover College band. He is now a member ot the Decatur Junior band.

Congress To Outlaw Suits Based On The Abrogation Os Gold Clause

Lightning Damages J | Rural Light Lines I Lightning did some damage to electric lines in Union township, M. J. Mylott, superintendent of the city light and power plant stated today. Mr. Mylott and Art Bjker answered a call about '7 o’clock lust evening and repaired tfhe circuits so (patrons could be served with light. The damage to the lines, which are I owned by the city plant, was estij mated at about sls. ; o ; DRIVE FAMILY OUT OF HOME ' —... Six-Weeks Reign Os Ter-; ror Forces Family To Quit Farm

Bloomington, Ind., June 27. — (U.R) —A six weeks reign of terror brought the family of Nathan Mobley, 42, to Bloomington today —never to return to their Brown county farm home. Mobley said he moved his family and worldly possessions after a series of mysterious incidents which threatened life and property. He said he has no enemies and was unable to advance a reason for the attacks. Visibly shaken, he related a harrowng chain of events. "My sons. Rayrtlond, 12, and George, 7. were the first victims,” i Mobley said. "Someone shot at them while | they were playing in the yard i about six weeks ago. We found I bullets from a .32 calibre revolver imbedded in wooden posts in the yard.” The boys said they saw two strangers lurking in nearby underbrush. “A few minutes after the shooting Raymond walked down the road to get his pet calf and two men grabbed him,” Mobley continued. “They slugged him. chlori oformed him, tore his clothing i and hung him by the heels from a tree. “Three weeks later someone . tried to burn our house. They set fire to some loose wall paper but ; it burned itself out with only a ] little damage. "Just two weeks ago another : attempt was made to burn the ] house. We found the fire in a spare room before it caused much ■ damage. “I was beginning to get worI ried and talked to my wife about moving. “The next day our barn was ] burned and all our feed, some j livestock and equipment went

MCNUTT SEEKS PARTY HARMONY Indiana Governor Assails Recent G. 0. P. “Grass Roots’’ Meet Kokoaio, Ind.. June 27 (UP) The declaration of policy adopted by the R publican “grass roots" convention at Springfield. >lll.. two weeks ago was filled with "weasel words,” Gov. Paul V. McNutt charged last night in an address here. >He reviewed the G. O. P. expression i?oint-by-point, assailing oich paragraph as ambiguous and failing to offer constructive ideus. A plea tor party harmony was milde in answer to challenge of U. S. Sen. Frederick Van Nuys against state administration leaders. “There is nothing to be gained by quarrels within the party, 1 lie governors said. “We should follow the 1 adership, the designated leadership, we huve selected. We should enlist to win a great victory in 1936.” Me Nutt concluded hie address with an open forum. “How about old age pensions? on? questioner asked. “I am the only governor of Indi na who supported such a hill," McNutt replied. „ "We mean the Townsend plan, the questioner Insisted. “It won't work und I’m not for anything that won't work, was the (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN)

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CLARK LUTZ TO GREET SPEAKER Decatur Attorney Will (live Address Os Welcome To Greenlee Clark J. Lutz, Decatur attorney and veteran Democrat, will give the address of welcome for Pleas Greenlee at the summer pnrty tonight, sponsored by the Young Democratic Club of Adams County at Sun Set park three .miles southeast of Decatur on state road 527. The party will open with a basket dinner. Mr. Greenlee and the i reception committee will sit at a | talfle of honor. This picnic will begin at 6:30 o'clock. At '7:30 o'clock the American Legion city band will give a con' cert. The program will begin at 8 o’clock. Nathan C. Nelson, county Democratic chairman, will introduce Judge Huber M. DeVoss wNio will be chairman of the .program. Judge De V’.oss will introduce the officers of the Young Democratic dub Next Clark J. Lutz will be introduced. Mr. Lutz will deliver the address of welcome. Pleas Greenlee will then deliver tlae principal odd ress. Mr. Greenlee is executive secretary to Gov. Pau! t McNutt and is one of the most prominent Democrats in the state. The dance will begin at 9:30 o'clock <at the park pavilion. Tickets may be obtained at the door for 25 cents a person. At 11:30 o’clock a 10 minute floor show will be given. o FLIERS NEAR WORLD RECORD Fred And Al Key Near Mark For Endurance Flying Record Meridian, Miss.. June 27—(UP)— Two barnstorming brothers who started out three years ago to “have a bit of fun" roared a mile above tihe e»irth today toward almost certain success in their third attempt at the 5-year old world endurance flying record. At 3:12 P. M. Fred and Al Key. and their monoplane, “Ole Miss.” will surpass the 553% hours refueling endurance record of another brother team, John and Kenneth Hunter.

Grease stained, unshaven, red eyed and sleepy, Fred and Al still were able to this morning to radio to their wives on the ground that “we’ve got ’em. sure." They planned one more refueling before i>at*sing ti.ie record.. "Ole Miss,” trundling about u 50mile triange roaring >.s smoothly as when she took off 23 days ago showed no signed of mechanical disability. Twice before, “just for fun." the brothers tried tor the endurance record and were balked, once by motor trouble and ome by storms which prevented refueling, this time, tearing down their plane almost to its undercarriage and assembling it with their own hands, they made sure ot everything but wea fiber. Meridian became a city of carnival. Police struggled with an unprecedented tiiitfic problem and expected 25,000 prisons to be at the airport before noon. L. K. Williams department of commerce aviation inspector, took personal charge of the field to prevent accidents. Other planes owned by the Key brothers took hundreds ot persons aloft to see “Ole Miss" at close range, bringing the fliers their (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Tries To Get Bee Out Os Car, Killed Lebanon, Ind., June 27—(UP)— Fearing that a bee that had entered fiiieir (automobile might interfere with her son's driving. Mrs. Mont B. Fisher, 64, opened the door on her side of the car to let the insect out. A stiff breeze caused the automobile to swerve and Mrs. Flslher (pitched headlong out onto the pavement. She died later in Witham hospital from a cerebral hemorrage.

Seeks Legislation For Outlawing Any Further Suits On Government On Gold Clause. SPECIAL MESSAGE Washington, June 27 — (U.K) — President Roosevelt today asked congress to outlaw all further suits against the government based on abrogation of the gold clause In federal securities. In a special message, the President asked that this be done through legislation withdrawing the consent of the United States to be sued "on its securities, coins or currencies.” Mr. Roosevelt also proposed that congress authorize the treasury to redeem outstanding goldclause bonds, dollar for dollar, if the holders desire without waiting for their regular maturity date. The President said it was important that congress pass the legislation this session. He asked that the holders be given the choice of outright cash payment or new non-gold bonds in exchange for the gold-clause securities. Mr. Roosevelt said outlawing of i further suits was necessary tn 1 prevent “a handful of private litigants" from exploiting “the general public in the hope of a whollv speculative private profit." In suits decided by the supreme court last winter. claimants sought to collect'sl69 in present currency for each $1 face value of the gold which a dollar contained prior to devaluation. The court held that the government had no constitutional right to abrogate its contract, but held that the claimant* had shown no actual loss and therefore had no legal right to payment at the rate of more than sl. The President and his legal advisers for months have been studying means of meeting legal ’ action by gold bond holders. The conclusions of these conferences were presented to congress today. Specifically Mr. Roosevelt asked congress to: 1. Authorize the treasury, "at the request of the holders of gold clause securities of the United States to make payment therefor in cash, dollar for dollar, with accrued interest, or at the holder's election to exchange such securities for non gold clause securities with the same interest rate • and maturity.” 2. Withdraw the consent given . by the government to be sued on its securities, coins or currencies.

3. “Reaffirm the fixed policy of the United States to make payment to all holders of its securities. coins and currencies on an equal and uniform dollar for dollar basis and x x x make a PP (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) INDIANA YOUTH UNDER ARREST Three Men Arrested In Arizona For Shooting Service Man Flagstaff. Ariz , June 27-<U.R>— Three youths, one from Indiana, and the others from Utah, were held in jail here today pending preparation of charges that they shot an elderly service station attendant during an attempted holdup. The three, Carl Cox. 29, of Sey* mour, ind.. Albert White, 19. and his brother. Carl White, 17. of Provo, Utah, were captured and brought here by a sheriff’s posse which trailed them through the desolate Kairab forest for two days. Carl White was said to have been identified by William G. Wilson. 62-year old lodge attendant at Leee Ferry, us the one who shot and critically wounded him when he tried to drive them off with a flashlight. Wilson was reported near death. The White brothers were taken into custody while they slept beside a water hole and Cox was captured while hiding in a sawmill near Pine Flats. Albert White was wounded in one arm when officers fired upon the automobile in which the three attempted to escape, Sheriff Arthur Vandevier said.