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I Gain Reported In Indiana Employment Indianapoliw, Ind.. March 3—4 VP) -(lncreased pay mil® and employment in atate rnunufucturing induiI trit* during February was reported today by Martin F. Varpenter, director of the Indiana State employment service. Manufacturing employment increased .2 per cent and pay rolls rose 1.7 'per cent during the month, Carpenter announced Severe weather conditions prevented lite usual seasonal gain in employment, he added. LEAGUE VOTES . MEMBERSHIPS Boy Scouts Os Decatur Give Memberships In Game League In a meeting last night, Moose home, the Adams county fish ! and game conservation league votled unanimously for the proposal lof Willis Fenner, member of the board or directors ,to acceipt the local members of the Boy Scouts of America into the organizatron with ; all dues paid in acknowledgement of the valuable service rendered by the scouts in the preservation of birds and wild game during the recent severe cold weahter. Each scout will receive, in addition to bis membership card, a jvar’s free subscription to Outdoor Indiana, monthly publication of the state conservation department. The club also voted to acceipt pheasants from the state departI ment to ibe released here for the : replenishing of the wild game. The ; local league was given the choke of pheasant or quail by the state, I and after having discussed the need I of both, chose the former. The order I for over 100 rabbits, placed by the league for release here has been ! acknowledged and is expected to arrive shortly. Milton Brown, vice president, coni ducted last night's meeting in the j nboeace of Roy Johnson, president !of the organization Over 75 memI b>rs were present. The total en- | rollment of the local chib now exceeds 700 and is expected to reach 1,000 before the close of the membership drive now being conductedThe next meeting will be held in the Ktansey school house, near Salem, Monday night at 7:30. This meeting is one of a seriees of sectional meets being held in the county to enlarge the membership. A good attendance from the local members in desired. o Two Dairy Herds Are Put On Test Two new dairy herds were put on test in the Adams county dairy herd improvement association in February. One was the Ayrshire herd owned by Otto Lehman, located one mile south and two and one-half miles east of Berne. Mr. Lehman has long been a booster for the Adams county 4-H calf club and his children have won many prizes showing Ayrshire calves. The other herd is a registered Guernsey herd of exceptionally “typy" cows and owned by Floyd Myers, one mile east of Bobo. Mr. Myers is also an active member of the Adams county Guernsey breeders’ association. o GIRL NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH Patricia Titus Is Struck By Hit-Run Driver Monday Patricia Titus, eix-year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Titus, of West Madison atreet. miraculously escaped serious injuries late Monday afternoon, when she was struck by a hit-run dirver aa she was crossing the interesetion at the corner of Monroe and Second streets. The driver of the car failed to stop after striking the small girl, and after carrying her on the front bumper for a short distance, she was dropped, fortunately between the wheels of the car, which passed completely over her. Tire child was taken to a physician’s office, where four clamps were required to close a cut on her forehead, and bruises on 'both legs were treated. Witnesses to the accident related conflicting stories of the accident, and local (police were unable to learn a definite license number of the car, the driver fleeing from the scene

STRIKERS ASK ALL LABORERS TO AID FIGHT Elevator Operators Leaders Ask Union Labor To Aid i - New York, Mar. 3.- (U.R) Leaders of striking elevator operators and other building service workers asked all union labor to fight strike breakers today. An extenI slon of the strike forced new . thousands of New Yorkers to stairs ' and freight elevators, and extinguished the fires in dozens of apartment house heating plants. President Janies J. Bambrick nt the New York unit of the Building Service Employes International Vnion, said that union team- , sters and chauffeurs had promised , not to deliver groceries, milk, or . merchandise to buildings where i service workers are on strike. , He announced that “we will have , a big surprise today.” j Police speculated uneasily that i the treate might apply to the Empire State building, the Chrysler . building, or the R. C. A. building ■ of Rockefeller Center, none of . which are affected by the walkout yesterday although union heads . claim they are unionized. Bamj brick refused to explain his statement. , Dwellers in the towering rows , of apartments along Park avenue. Fifth avenue, and Central Park west found the novelties of the . strike, humorous yesterday, palling . i today. Apartments were cold, ele- . | vators didn't run or han at 15- . i minute intervals, inexperienced | switchboard operators took mln- [ i utes to answer signals and then • I often cut the connections in midj . (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O CITY COUNCIL RECEIVES BIDS New Bids On New Light Plant Equipment Received Today ; Two bilks each on a 2.000 K. W. • turbine, dual driven exciter, - switchboard panels and switch gear and three bids for a conI denser were received by the city council in session this afternoon. The proposals were practically the same ae those received last DecenxUer. ; The General Electric Company and the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company submitted bids of $50,440 each for the turi bine. The same bids were offered last December. The General Electric company . bid $4,738 on the exciter set and ■ $1,849 for the switchboard panels and switch gear. The Westing- . house company bid $4,740 for an i exciter and $1,887 for switchboard , panels. The Westinghouse company bid $19,755 for a condenser, while the Worthington Pump and Machinery [ company and the Indiana Engineering tutd Construction company, the latter of Fort Mayne, . each bid $19,955 for the condenser. A Mr, Stern attended the meeting, representing the PM A. C. E. Bevington of Bevington and M’illiams, consulting engineers of Indianapolis, employed tby the city, I tabulated the bids. The council adjourned after re(CONTINUED ON PACE SIX) ; State Police Officer Inspects School Buses Burl Johnson, state .police officer, is checking school buses of the county this week- Ail buses in the ' northern half of the county were inspected .Monday for lights, brakes . bodies, capacity and the drivers for ( health certificates and drivers’ , licences. Berne buses were inspected today. Mr- Johnson expressed his thanks for the cooperation shown ’ by the various drivers in the inspection work. ’ Monmouth Teacher i Undergoes Operation Lloyd Bryan, teacher in the I Monmouth schools, underwent an ' emergency operation at the Adams i county memorial hospital yesterday afternoon for a stomach obI Btructiou. Mr. Bryan was stricken while at ! school, and bad to be taken to the ! hospital by ambulance. He is rei ported as resting easily, following the operation. .

0N L Y DA 1 L Y NE W S P A PE R IN AI)A M S UOU NT Y

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 3, 1936.

Governors Exchange Greetings A-- . \ K Alt M. Landon|Gov. R. 1— Cochrane Something amusing must have been the topic of conversation when Gov. R. L, Cochrane of Nebraska, right, greeted Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas when the lajter visited Lincoln, Neb., to speak at the Founder’s Day program at the -University of Nebraska's coliseum.

EXPLAINS LAW I ON INTANGIBLE Township Assessors Start Assessing Work This Morning ■ With the various township asses'.ws starting to work this morning, County Assessor Ernest Worthman revealed the correct way to answer the questions of the a.s«essors in regard to the in- : tangible tax law. The Individual being assessed is required to answer “yes” or “no.” when asked if he owns inI tangibles. These questions are answered under oath, and should not be signed if the intangibles are not paid. fn explanation. Mr. Worthma.n stated. “Intangibles are stocks. Bonds, shares, mortgage*. notes, and post office deposits, etc. Old intangibles must be stamped within 90 days of February 28 of each year. Old intangibles are instruments owned before the law went into effect, ajid must be stamped as the above. The law went into | effect February 28, 1933. “New intangibles are those given after the law went into effect, and must be stamped within ten days after date, on each intangible, each year. Notes, stocks, ibionds. judgment*, etc., tha.t are not of full value, should be brought to the assessor's office, and be revalued at what you think they are ' really worth, then the three appli-1 cation blanks will be sent to the state tax board, and payment will be made on the value approved, therefore do not enclose 10 or 20 cents in stamps, as such will not do. “In regard to the costs of intangibles; stamps are five cents j (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) O—SECOND LENTEN SERVICE PLANS Second In Series Os Sermons At Zion Lutheran Wednesday “It is clearly evident that special church services dur-;ig Lent, reviewing the story of the Savior's passion and its beneficence to the souls and lives of people, have greatly increased in popularity and people seem to cheYish with even deeper appreciation the devotion and spiritual significance embodied in the heart-stirring history of Jesus vicarious suffering an d death," states the Rev. Paul W. Schultz, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church of this city. The pastor indicated that he believes Passion services in general would be better attended this year than ever before and that Christian churches everywhere should have 'reason to recognize a greater and growing appreciation and acceptance of the eternal verities of God's Word. The second of a series of six Lenten meditations will be held at the Lutheran church Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Besides reviewing in readings the Passion story, the singing of special Passion hymns, the pastor will speak on the subject, “The Beginning of Jesus Buffering in Gethsemane.” The public is cordially invited to attend these services.

Red Men To Hold District Meet Here The Northern Indiana district convention of the Red Men lodges will be held at the local Red Men hall Wednesday night at 7:30. The convention had been originally scheduled for February 12. but hazardous driving conditions necessitated the postponement. Members from all of the lodges in the district are expected to be in attendance and witness the degree work conferred on a class of candidates by the Dunkirk degree team. Members of the local order are urged to be on hand promptly, to assist in welcoming the visiting members. PLAN PROGRAM FOR MEETING Musical Program At Riley I School Tomorrow Afternoon The Parent-Teachers association | of the Riley school will meet Wed-; nesday afternoon at 2:30. A very in-1 teresting musical program has been I planned. All members are requested to make a special effort to at- 1 tend. Dr. Mary Westfall, state super-i visor of dental hygeene, will speak i during the afternoon. The members I of the association and all others t I interested will enjoy this privilege., i made possible through the courtesy of the Adams county dental association. Following is the (program which will be presented. Selection — Double trio by high school girl*. Solo—Jeanette Winness. Solo — Vivian Hidhcock, accom- ' panied on accordian iby Irene Light. Home on the Range—Richard . riakey. ~~ o Training Schooi To Close Tonight The community leadership training school, which has been meeting on Tuesday evenings for the past six weeks at the Decatur high school, will close tonight. Clifton E. Striker, superintendent of the Adams county council of Christian education will.speak at the chapel period and the certificates earned in the various classes will be awarded. The attendance has been exceptionally good anti the local committee, consisting of Dean H. R. Carson, the Rev. Geo. O. Walton and the Rev. C. M. Prugh are to be commended for their efforts. The teachers of the four classes have been Mrs. Paul Spuller, C. E. Striker, C. M. Prugh and Geo. O. Walton. Church Leaders Meet Wednesday The leaders of the local Methodist Episcopal church will meet on Wednesday evening at 7:30 p. m. Mr. C. L. Walters will lead the discussion, using the leaders handbook, "Know Your Job", as the basis for the study. The regular official board meeting will follow the discussion. The captains are asked to meet in the church office at 7 p. m. and the girls chorus wM meet for rehearsal at the same time. ~WEATHER Fair, warmer tonight; Wednesday increasing cloudiness, rain and colder northwest in afternoon. T

ADVANCE PLAN FOR PAGEANT AT CENTENNIAL John B. Rogers Company To Produce Historical Pageant The John B. Rogers Producing Company of Fostoria. Ohio, will l>e employed to produce the spectacular and historical pageant to be given here in connection with the Centennial celebration. August 2 to 8. The executive committee, chairmen and members of several of the major committees met last evening in the mayor’s court room in the city ha.ll and voted to employ the Rogers company to produce the pageant. Th-. Fred Patterson, chairman of the pageant committee attended the meeting and recommended that the Rogers company be employed. Miss Constance. Hopkins, a representative of the company, was present aj the meeting. The formal signing of the con- , tract will be withheld until after the “Good-Will’’ bond sale, which is now scheduled to lie launched March 16. Miss Hopkins stated that from 600 to 750 people, depending on the size pageant desired, would be used in the historical production. Locations under consideration for staging the production include the west side of the Decatur country dub golf course. Worthman field and others. Picuree of pageants produced by the Rogers company were shown the men and women present at the meeting. The Rogers company furnishes all costumes and the background and for the stage and erection of the properties. Carl Pumphrey, general chairman of the Centennial association lis oi!:ta,ining lists of committees , j named by the chairmen appointed and the entire Centennial organ•lization is taking form and will he ready for publication in a short time. H. P. Schmitt, chairman of the cattle and horse show, reported to ' the executive committee last evej ning mid has his plans well underway. The cattle and horse showwill be the largest ever held in I Decatur and much interest is I being shown by farmer, breeder ' and the public in general. I H. F. Ehinger, chairman ot the I finance committee, will meet his I committee members this week and I plan final details for the GooilI M'ill bond sale. The committee is I confident that the sale of bonds | will l e sufficient to assure the l pre-sentation of a magnificent I Centennial program. Ministers Will Meet Wednesday The Decatur ministerial association will meet at the home of Rev. Homer Aapy Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. Plans for Easter observances will be made at this meeting. INDIANA FLOOD | DANGER ABATES Fair Weather Forecasts Bring Relief From High Waters Chicago. Mar. 3.—(U.R) — Rivers swollen by melting snow flooded lowlands in four states today and thrust huge ice flo’es against timbers of bridges and docks. Flood dangers appeared to be abating in Indiana and Nebraska. lowa officials believed the worst threat in their state may come in a few days, if at all. The Illinois river, already at flood stage hear Peoria and Beardstown, 111., was still rising. Crushing ice floes tore out six small bridges, and ripped the pilings from beneath the main bridge on the highway between Llincoln and Omaha, Neb. Several families fled from the lowlands near Ashland, Neb. The White and M'ahash rivers reached their crests in Indiana without causing widespread damage. Highways and lowlands were flooded, but fair weather predictions held out promise of relief. lowa’s governor, Clyde L. Herring, planned flood protection with engineers. A central flood control office was established to supervise preparations at selected danger spots. Dynamite was used to break up (CONTINUED ON PAGE IIIREEj,

Roosevelt Sends Tax Proposal To Congress Today

JUNIOR C.C. DRIVE TO END ■j — . Membership Drive Will Be Concluded Here This W eek ♦ I The Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce membership drive will be brought to a close this week, it was decided at the meeting of the . drive committee last night in the ! Rice hotel. While a complete checkup of | i the new members secured could not be made at last night’s meeting, over 25 membership cards have been written by the members ■ of the committee in the various i factories. The complete number of new members secured in the downtown ' business district is expected to be i compiled at the end of the week, with the completion of the towntown drive by Frank M’allace, 1 membership drive committee chairman, and his assistant, Miss Rosemary Holthouse. Mr. M’allace stated that any young person, desiring to enroll in the organization, who had not been contacted in the drive, might secure his card at thte England store. The junior order is especially anxious to swell its membership this year due to the planned activity in the Centennial celebrations. Dues are $1 per year. o • BOARD AWARDS TRACTOR BIDS Lee Harduare To Furnish Tractor; Receive Highway Truck Bids The county commissioners met this morning in their offices in the court hotzse in the March meeting of the board to receive o>i<is and allow f.;r the furnishing of a trai tor l at the county infirmary, fertlizer I for the infirmary, and the new j truck for the highway department. | The furnishing of the tractor was | awarded to the Lee Hardware on a> hid of $565, with delivery possible within three days. Other bide in-1 eluded that of the Reed-Ma. Feed ■ anil Sui; ply company of $695. and ; the Craigvile garage of $690 for a; rubber tired tractor. $555 for steeL wheels. The furnishing of the nine tons of fertilizer for the county infirmary was awarded to Henry Dehner ! on a bid of $228-60, or $25-40 per ton. Two other ‘bids were also received. The Burk Elevator company entered a bid of $239 and the Cash Coal and Supply a bid of $235.80. The commissioners were still receiving the bids on the county liighwas department truck, representa- | lives, of seven companies entering a | total of eight bids, Specifications for the truck included a 314 to 4'2 ton truck with a gross weight of about 19.500 pounds. Representatives of Diamond T. General Motors, Reo, Federal. Dodge, M’hite truck dealers, and two from International were being called into the office separately to offer sealed bids. — o Pair Os Colts Brings Excellent Price Here The Decatur Riverside Sales is again acquiring the reputation in the horse markets that was enjoy- ■ ed twenty years ago. Last week a pair or three-year-old colts brought i price of SSOO. Such tine examples are attracting a host of eastern buyers to the local market. The farmers of this community have always been laud- . ed for their breeding of good horses. Forty head of fine horses are on the market again this week. o Regular Meeting Os Elks Wednesday The regular semi-monthly mee-t---i ing of the B. P. O. Elks lodge wili I be held Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. All members are urged to attend a* nominations for officers for the ensuing year will be made. The election will hie held March ’ 18, with the new officers to be installed April 1.

Price Two Cents.

President Suggests Tax On Undistributed Profits Os Corporations; Solons May Fight Plans BROAD CHANGE Washington, Mar. 3—(U.R) —Congress received with some coolness today President Roosevelt’s suggestion for a tax on undistributed corporation profits intended to add $620.000.000 to permanent treasury revenue and make everything l.llut temporary processing taxes unnecessary. Inflation leaders interpreted the president’s message a« impeding chances for a successful drive for inflation. Few objections to the plan were heard on the Democratic side but a number of leaders said the suggestion would require study. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the house ways anil means committee called his group into executive session immediately to consider the president's proposals. The. president’s suggestion comprised a broad change in corporate income tax policy replacing several features of present law ■with a general graduated tax on undistributed corporate income. The treasury estimated this tax would yield $1,614,600,000 of which $620,000,000 would be new revenue and $994,600,000 would replace revenue which would otherwise have been obtained by- present corporation taxes. The president also suggested; a “windfall’’ tax and a temporaryprocessing tax with lower rates and a broader imse to make up treasury losses due to the supreme court AAA decisions. Treasury officials explained that 1 the proposed tax on undistributed corporate income would not be retroactive, but would apply to 1936 and future income. The president said the intention of the proposed corporate tax should be to tax undistributed corporate income so that it would yield approximately the same revenue as if it were distributed and had been taxed after it got into the hands ot the individual stockholder. He said he was informed by the i treasury that during the calendar ! yea.r 1936 some $4,600,0(10,000 in ' corporate income would be withI held from stockholders. j "If.” said the president, “this , undistributed income were disI tril uted. it would be added to the I income of stockholders and there itaxed as is other personal income. “But as matters now stand, it ' will be withheld from stockholders (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE, 0 Judge Huber DeVoss In Huntington Court No entries were made on the Adams county circuit court docket today. Judge Huber M. DeVoas hearing the amended civil contempt proceedings against Mayor Clare W. H, Bangs, and others of Huntington, as the special judge in the (Huntington circuit court. FEW LICENSES SOLD IN CITY Only 25 City Dog Licenses Sold So Far During 1936 Mrs- Ada Martin, city clerk-tress-sairer stated today that only 25 tags for dogs under the eity dog liieenue Taw, had been secured through her office to date. This is far below tlie expected number. The old licenses expired the firs? of the year, and the 1936 licenses were to be purchased at once. There are some persons, according to Mrs. Martin, who are under the imipression that the tag secured last year was for a period of one year from the date purchased. Thia belief is not correct, however, as the tags must be renewed the first of each yearRobert Osterman, newly appointed city dog-catcher, has rid the community of a number of undesiraibla dogs, sine* his appointment, and all dogs without tags are "liable to be picked up by him. The price of the tag is 50 cents, and all dog owners in the city am expected to secure their licensee at once. <