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PAYMENTS OF $lO PER ACRE ARE PROPOSED Secretary Wallace Announces Details Os New Farm Program Washington, Mar. 21. — (U.R) — Benefit payments averaging $lO an acre were offered farmers today for removal of 30,000,000 acres I from Intensive cultivation under 'the new soil conservation program replacing the AAA. Details of the program, announced by Secretary of Agriculture ' Henry Wallace, provide expenditure of $440,000,000 in conserving the soil. "A soil conserving crop is one that holds the present fertility of the soil; a soil building crop is one that adds to the fertility of the soil.’’ A soil conserving crop, it was j explained, for which the farmer is I paid $lO an acre may be turned' under to qualify as soil-building crop, adding the extra $1 an acre ( For the purpose of payment | farmers who apply for payments | will have their crops classified as soil-depleting, soil-conserving, and , soil-building. A farmer may claim payments only upon 15 per cent of his "base acreage"—the amount he planted in soil-depleting crops last year, i Soil-depleting crops were defined as: Corn, cotton, tobacco, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, rice, sugar cane, ’stlgar beets, cultivated sunflowers. commercial truck and canning crops, melons and strawberries. peanuts, grain and sweet sorghums. and small grains including wheat, oats, barley, rye, buck wheat, flax, emitter, speltz and grain mixtures. Payments are to be divided between landlord and tennant Wiiere jeaCTi shares in the crop or its probleeds. Administration will be ' through state committees, county, and community committees and the AAA. Every farmer will be eligible to i participate in the new program. I whereas the AAA was restricted Ito certain crops. AAA officials ! estimated 80 per cent of farmers j would cooperate. A base acreage will ">e established for each farm. The AAA will establish ratios of soil-deplet-ing crop lands to total farm lands for each county. Then the county committees will set up the individual bases. If the expectation that 80 per I cent of farmers participate payi ments will be prorated for 30,000,000 acres removed from intensive cultivation. If the participation is less than estimated, rates will be increased pro rata. If participation is greater, rates will be reduced. But in no event will rates be increased or decreased more than 10 per cent. The division of benefit payments between landlords and share-ten-ants or share-croppers would be per cent to the person furnishing the land; 12V6 per cent to the person furnishing the work stock and equipment, and 50 per I cent to be divided as the principal soil-depleting crop or its proceeds is divided. For the commodities excluded specifically from the general $lO an acre payment, the following rates were fixed: Cotton. 5 cents for each pound of the normal yield per acre Yor the farm; maximum acreage for which payment will be made, 35 per cent of cotton base acreage for the farm. | Tobacco: ranges from 3 cents a pound for Pennsylvania 'to a cents for flue cured burley or Maryland for each pound of the normal yield per acre of the farm; maximum acreage 30 per cent of the base. Nutts: I*4 cents for each pound iof the normal yield per acre; I (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) I o Loan Society Head Robbed By Bandits Richmond, Ind., March 21 —(UP) —Two unmasked bandits held up Darrell Swisher, president of the welfare loan society, and escaiped with S2OO late yesterday. One of the bandits threatened Swisher with a gun while the other ecooped money from the cash I drawer.

SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Kirkland Hish School I Seniors To Present . Comedy Next Week The senior class of the Kirkland high school will present a three act farce comedy. "Father goes domestic." at the Kirkland gymnasium Wednesday and Friday. March 1 25 and 27. The play will be given II each night at 8 o’clock. I The story concerns the life of a ka'tchup manufacturer, his wife, mother-in-law. brother-in-law, three • unruly grown children and their love affairs. The complete cast of characters is us follows; Roger Talcott: A henpecked busban — Herman Wulliman. Jennie Talcott: His wife — Lois Mann. Betty and Anne Talcott: Their grown up daughter? Irene Girod, Verrea Roth. Neil Talcott: Their only son —- Noah Yake. Mrs. Phelps: The traditional mother-inTaw — Helen Hirschy. Bill Phelps: The apple of her eye Oscar Brown. Russel Rowland: In love with Betty — Otto Smith. Jr. Rosalind Cummins and Dorothea Fletcher: Anne's friends — Eulalia l Borno. Mary Ann Wulliman. Carl Cummins In love with Bet!ty — Fred Fosnaugh. Al Bohn: A mysterious person : who brings luck to the henpecked i husband — Freeman Stepler. SEEK LOAN FOR ELECTRIC LINE Rural Electrification Membership Drive To Start In April I Ralph Myers, president of the Adams county rural electric mem bership corporation announces the beginning of a membership cam- ' paign to start on or about April I! 17, in the six south townships. I The purpose of this corporation ;is to secure a loan of the Rural . i Electrification Administration at Washington sufficient to build , electric lines in all of thd rural districts of the community where i enough customers can be secured to warrant such construction. , “The Rural Electric Membership Corporation will be succesful in I proportion to the degre? in which , it is able to secure the suppoiT of . substantially all the possible users in the communities it attempts to . serve. “If some section of a county or ’ some pan of a township does not . show enough interest to have a , substantial sign-up of applications the corporation will have no option but to exclude such non-cooperating . locality from its area when the final papers are made up. “The Indiana Statewide Rural Electric Membership Corporation, after careful study, has estimated that the cost of distribution lines j will not exceed $900.00 per mile in any average Indiana community. Even with transmission lines of a more expensive character than the average connecting varieous parts ' of a project, the cost will still be in almost every instance below fl--000 per mile. “Two-wire lines going beyond the corporation's lines will cost around $2.00 per rod —a sum which the owners will Have to assume after 150 feet. “The average cost per mile of the corporation's lines is borne by the corporation from the funds borrowed from the Government and is not an individual responsibility of any single user, but both the Government financed and the privately financed high lines will be built at the low prices of the general construction contract. “If in the whole community the average cost per mile can be kept around S9OO and the average number of users kept up to three per mile, not on every mile but oft all the miles, signers in any such area may hope for service in the near future with 'no permanent outlay but the membership fee and a reasonable cost monthly for current not exceeding that charged by other utilities in adjoining communities at the present time.” Farm Residence Is Damaged By Fire The local fire department was called to the farm horn? of John Stoutenberry, one mile east of the Washington church tn Washington township, at 7:30 this morning when erarks from the chimney caused a small roof fire. Damage was estimated at $5.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 21, 1936.

First Bond To First Mayor '■’ I J JH I v H -wPictured above are former judge J. T. Merryman and Mayor A. R. Ilolthouse. Mayor Hoithouse is shown handing the first Centennial “Good Will" bond to Mr. Merryman, who was Decatur’s firat mayor. Mr. Merryman was elected mayor in 1882, the first yeax that Decatur was incorporated as a city.

SCHOOLS PLAN FOR CANTATA Rural School Pupils Will Present Annual Easter Cantata About 20» students of the seven rural high ech'ols will unite in tpreaeenting the annual Easter Cantata at the Berne Menonite church in ! Berne on Friday, April 3. Th? program this year will consist of two short cantatas, entitled, The First Easter.” with Mrs. Ruth Mahoney, music teacher in the i Hartford school aa directress and i "Easter Angels," with Mrs. Aelma I s hool as directress. The cantatas j were arranged by J S. Fearis and 11 Wilson, respectively. Miss Virginia Hodges, music teacher in the Geneva school and I Miss Helen Burns of the Jefferson J schools will b > the accompanists, j Miss Esther Hutt n. of the Geneva f | school singing a specially arranged ’' solo Practices are being held and the I complete program is expected to be 1 1 announced in a few days. I ' i Roosevelt Leads In Flood Relief Moves II Washington. March 21 — (UP) — | Pres. Roosevelt for the t'aird time 11 postponed his project d southern 1 ! trip today to continue direction of ' flood area rehabilitation. While congress and all govern--1 ment agen i?s cooperated in ini- ' mediate relief in flood sections, the | pr sident turned chiefly to the probI lems of rehabilitation work in a dozen states swe;t by racing waters. 1 'He expects, however, to get away from Washington in time to reach Winter Park, Fark, Fla-, Monday morning where he will receive an honorary d gree from Rollins college, before boarding his yacht for a fishing cruise. — o QUINN SPEAKS TO STUDENTS French Quinn Addresses International Students At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Mar. 21. —“With the world in confusion and liberty, both civil and religion being thrown by nine-tenths of the world into the ash can, it is high time that Americans give earnest thought to their two greatest possessions — civil rights under the Constitution and their right to 'worship God according to ’he dictates of their own conscience’,” said French Quinn of Decatur, in addressing students of the International college here Friday. “After careful study and investigation it is clear that we of the widdle west today have a clearer and nobler conception of these two great rights of liberty than anywhere else in America," he said. “The common folk of this great middle west, this Abraham Lincoln country, still have in their hearts and souls the spirit of the Constitution and the hope of the Gettysburg address. If this is so, then upon the shoulders of the common folk of our middlewest, a few million people out of the world's population of more than a billion and a half, rests the responsibility of preserving for themselves and those that shall come after them our glorious conception of religious liberty and the right of man.”

County Share Os Gross Income Tax A check for $2,796.32 as Adams | county's share of the gross income tax for the last five months of 1935 and Jajiuary of this year will I be received in the county auditor's office about April 15. according to the word received by the auditor. John W. Tyndall today from the state board of tax commissions. The amount will be distributed i to the township schools. The tax is figured on the assessment value of property in the county. The value of real estate in the county wa.s $15,094,049 and was equal to six per cent of the property in the ■ state. Distribution is to be made ■ upon receipt of the check. —o VIVIAN BURK HEADS CLUBS Elected President Os County Federation Os Clubs Friday L 1 The afternoon session of the Adams county federation of clubs ‘ held at the Zion Reformed church ’ Friday afternoon opened with assembly singing of "Come Thou Almighty King,” and was followed with the address of Mrs. J. R. Marsh of Muncie. The theme of ; her address was based on the Fine Arts festival to be held in Mun- . I cie. . i Mrs. John Peterson led the dis- ! ! eussion on the federation magazine “The Club Woman." and Mrs. Guy | Brown. Mrs. John Tyndall and Mrs. George Rentz gave the report nt' the nominating committee. , j Miss Vivian Burk was elected president. Mrs. R. A. Stuckey, vice- | president and Mrs. A. D. Suttles, secretary of the club in the elec- : tion held before the report of the various committees. These reports wye made by Mrs. Faye ' j Smith Knapp, Mrs. Stuckey. Mrs. I H. R. Carson and Mirs. 11. L. Kern. 1 i Mrs. A. C. Hudgel, district presi- ’ I dent, gave the principal address l of the session, speaking on the value of the individual club to the county federation. Mrs. Allen Courtney, trustee of I the state federation addressed the i members on the subject of "Liv- ! ing to the Fullest,” touching on 1 i the cooperation needed in the fed- ) eration to receive the spiritual and ' cultural betterment desired. The Decatur high school glee ; club entertained with the singing lof several numbers under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold. Others who spoke were Mrs. Terra Rotkins. Muncie chairman: Mrs. E. W. Busche, Home Economics , clubs president and Miss Marion , Neprud. Repeating of the Mizpah benediction closed the meeting. o Two Candidates File For Office I ' Candidates who filed today were ■ Harry Moore, Republican for precinct committeeman from Ceylon precinct and Lawrence Braun, Democrat for committeeman from . South Washington. Please Give Old and New Address When ordering your paper changed, please give your old and new address. Our mailing list is compiled according to rural route, town or city and it is necessary that the old address be given in making transfers from one route to another. For example: If you change your paper from Decatur rural route one to Decatur rural route three, please state that you want the paper changed from route one to route three.

Heavy Rains Peril Neu) England As Death Toll Mounts Hourly Throughout 14 Eastern States — ■ - .

STATE SOCIAL WELFARE PLAN ISADVANCED I Wayne Coy, Clarence Jackson Administrators Os Program ■ 1 — ~ Indianapolis. Mar. 24— (U.R) — Indiana’s vast social security program was in motion today after organization of the state welfare • and employment stabilization boards and appointment of their . directors. Wayne Coy. state director of • works progress administration, , was named administrator of the ' welfare hoard, and Clarence Jack- I ( son, director of the gross income ' tax division, director of the unem-, ’ ployment board. The welfare board, holding its I I first meeting yesterday, moved ! immediately to start organization ; of county boards throughout the 1 sta.te. It was announced the board ' . would meet with circuit court , judges here March 24 to outline details of the act and explain the need for appointment of qualified persons to local boards. Circuit judges are given authority to name local bi-partisan boards of five members. No more | than three may be of one political | party and two must be women. I i "The success of the welfare ‘ II program will be determined by the , I personnel of county boards." Coy I , I said. “We want the highest type I of persons on these first (wards : and will ask judges to carry out the suggestion.” Coy will continue as state WPA administrator, but will ask leave ‘ of absence front his regional post, 'ills i-s director over WPA activities i in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, and - West Virginia. He will serve as i welfare administrator without 11 pay. his salary being pajd by , . WPA f The welfare board announced ' that county boards of children's ■ guardians and authority of county | commissioners to aminie-ter old , ■ age pensions will not be disturbed I i immediately. ’ Counties will be notified when ■ I the state board is ready to assume ; jurisdiction of thoce activities, i Coy said. He added that such | I work probably would not be assumed before April 1. o Dr. Miller Heads Medical Society DR MILLER was re-elected presi-j dent of the Adams County Medical! association in the meeting in the ' city hall last night with doctors and > surgeons front the county in attendance. Dr Ben Duke was re-elected ■ secretary of th organization. Dr- A. N. Ferguson, of Fort Wayne addressed the members on the subject of clinical medicines, i Other plans and business were con- | duct during th? meeting. DISTRIBUTION IS ANNOUNCED! Distribution Os County Dog Tax Fund Announced By Auditor Distribution of the Adams county dog tax fund was announced today in the offices of county auditor John W. Tyndall. A total of $1,021.83 was received from the tax. with four townships showing a total deficit of $627.13. These townships were Root. $34.77; St. Marys. $218.99; Blue Creek, $305.77: Jefferson. $67.60. With this amount substracted from the total receipts, and the $39.47 as 10 per cent of the balance being sent to the state for hydrophobia prevention, the net amount for distribution was $355.23. This amount is to go to the schools, based on the average dajly attendance of the township. The townships and the amount 1 to be received are: Blue Creek. $13.45; French. $15.72; Hartford. $17.83; Jefferson, $12.61; Kirkland. ' $17.05; Monroe. $36.68; Preble, ' $16.43; Root, $16.03; St. Marys, ' $18.69; Union, $12.91; Wabash, $38.82; Washington. $25.73; Berne, i $30.58 and Decatur, $83.80. o

LOCAL PERSONS IN FLOOD AREA —__— Former Local Persons, Other Relatives In Flood Regions Several local persons are reported to be in the midst of tho eastern I flood area, with friends and relai tives expressing much concern over their safety. George Helem former local young man who last week aeumed a position in the Murphy 5 Al- 10 stores in Pittsburg, is reported to be in the Seventh Avenue hotel, located in t>he downtown area in that city. Relatives have bad no word since last Tuesday, when George reported the I water rising at the rate of seven ' inches per hour. He stated the I water was only one inch from the i first floor level of the building, i Mrs. J- C. Mills, daughter of Mr. land Mrs. Guy Brown, is living in Mt. Lebanon, only six miles from I the center of the flood area. Her parents stated this morning that they have been unable to communicate with her- because of the impaired means of communication but seal that she is in no immediate danger in that town Mr. and Mrs. C- C. Pumphrey report hearing from Mrs. Punnphrey’s j brother, I tan Dohoney, who is livj ing in Johnstown, the center of the flood turmoil. The Pumphreys reI ceived word stating that the Dohoneys and other relatives were all safe I from the water menace. Mrs. : Pumphrey whose native home is in i Johnstown, as a small girl went through tjie first Johnstown flood disaster in 1889. and has special cause to fear the flood. Harold Prugh brother of Rev. C. M. Prugh, of this city also was living in Johnstown, hut after seeing the crucial situation arriving from the shortage of food and water and other necessities, drove out by the northern route before the ways of transportation were cut off. Mr. Prugh returned to the .home of his , parents in Dayton. o Pictures Appear In G. E. News — I Pictures of the members of the ' administration board of the Decatur | General Electric factory's relief and loan plan appeared in this I week's issu of the G. E. publication I by the Fort Wayne worksThe officers of the plant are Eno : W. Lankenau. Raymond Crist, chair- | man; Robert Miller, vice- chairIman;; Lloyd Baker secretaryProspects Os World Conference Fading London, March 21 —(UP) —Pros-1 pects of a world conference on economics and financial matters as part of a peace consolidation program faded today into the most remote future. A high British authority disclosed that a conference planned 'by the Locarno treaty powers in May w ,uld include only the Locarno powers—Great Britain, France. Belgium, Italy and Germany. If this conference succeeded after 'the difficult negotiations necessary I then only—and after what was called enormous preparations — would a general assemblage of nations be convened to study world problemso Hauptmann Tells Os Knowing Condon Trenton. N. J. March 21—(UP) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann, whose execution ihas been set for 8 p. inMarch 31, admits that he had seen Dr. John F. Condon, intermediary for the Lindbergh 'kidnapping case both before and after the abduction. C. Lloyd Fisher, chief of the defense consul, revealed todayThe revelation came as a formal announcement set the hour for Hauptmann’s death. Gov. Hark>ld GHoffman, who has ipushed an investigation into alleged diacepancy in testimony since last fall, was said to believe the statement, if true, would break Condon's story that he had never seen Hauptmann before the kidnaping. o — WEATHER Generally fair, not quite so cool extreme northeast tonight; Sunday increasing cloudiness followed by rain, somewhat warmer except ' along Lake Michigan.

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Death Toll In Eastern States Placed At 194; New Rains Add To Peril In New England. HEAVY DAMAGE Ry United Press Heavy rains bring fresh peril to stricken New England. More rain and gales predicted. Connecticut river still rising in Hartford: fifty square blocks of city and much of out lying area under water, 25 feet deep in 4 places. .New floods batter Maine and northeastern Massachusetts: factories tn Haverill. Mass., in danger, Ohio river flood sweeps down valley: Pomeroy. Ohio, business district under nine feet of water; most towns fairly well prepared. Death toll in 14 state flood area stands at 194 and still mounting. Close to 300.060 homeless. Property damage a quarter billion or more. Snow storm adds to distress in beleagured Pittsburgh. whi c h fights water shortage. Medical precautions take precedence throughout flood areas. Sunbury. Pa., quarantined for scarlet fever. In Pennsylvania receding water left the threat of famine and disease in a score of communities. In Harrisburg. Gov. George H. Earle, in personal charge of relief, ordered serum and anti toxins rushed to stricken towns ahead of food trucks. Pittsburgh. Johnstown, and other cities still were gravely stricken though the flood waters had receded from their streets. The crest of the Ohio was flooding Pomeroy. Gallipolis, and Ironton in Ohio and Point Pleasant and Huntington in West Virginia. Behind. Marietta. 0.. Wheeling. W. Va.. and other cities ajui towns recovered from devastating inundation. Ahead. Cincinnati and other cities prepared for emergency. New Peril Hartford, Conn., Mar. 21 —(U.RY— Heavy rains throughout the Connecticut valley today threatened new destruction in Hartford where nine persons ajready were feared dead and more than 50 square blocks of the oity were under water from one to 25 feet deep. The swollen, debris-laden Connecticut river was at a stage of nearly 40 feet, 21 feet above flood level and still rising slowly. Rain began falling again early today, adding to the floods of water pouring down on the city from the north. Huge gasoline tanks were swept away and spilled over the southern Hartford flood zone creating a fire hazard. The area reeked of j igarioline. Mussolini Plans To Increase Power Rome. March 21—(UP)—Premier Benito Mussolini is expected Monday to bring into reality his dream of years—The initiation in full force of the 20th century state. Word was passed in reliable fascist circles today that II Duce, in a speech Monday at an assembly of his 22 fascist corporations, would announce at last the impending abolition of the Chamber of deputies in favor of a corporative legislature. It will be a legislature without politics of any sort, compiosed of delegates from the corporations, representing every walk of life, employers, workers, farmers, technicoians, professional men. — -o - ■ ■ Pleas Greenlee Attacks McHale Indianapolis, Ind. March 21 — (UP) —Pleas E. Greenlee candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, centered his attack on Frank McHale, former Logansport attorney and state administration political advisor, in a rally here last night. Greenlee charged that “MdHalism is the only blot on the administration of Gov. Paul V. McNutt” in an address to several hundred war veterans. The former patronage director, ousted when he announced as a gubernatorial candidate, said McHale and others including Virgil Simmons. state conservation department director. and Wayne Coy. new-ly-a.ppolnted welfare board administrator. were "using the club on state employes to turn them against me.’