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Campus Queen I >• . i ■ W 1 i i ir / Candidates for the title of ‘‘queen of agriculture" at Ixwlhlana State university wore “crossed up" when Miss Katherine Cross, New Orleans sophomore, wav the overwhelming choice of the student body. SOLD BONDS TO EX-RESIDENTS Centennial Committee Extends Resolution Os Regret To Family It was revealed today that the last official busine-ss conducted by Herman H. Myers was the sale of Centennial bonds to former residents of Decatur, now living in Indianapolis. The money for the bond; was turned over today by Clark Lutz, law partner of Mr. Myers, to Herine.'i Kin liger, financial chairuxau of the Centennial committee. At the meeting of the executive committee Monday night it was unanimously voted to extend to the family a resolution of regret. Roy Kalver. Herman Ehinger and Mayor A. R. Holthouse were appointed to draw up the resolution. It was ordered that in the resolution the fact lie mentioned that Mr. Myers was one of the few men who he.d been willing to serve on more than one committee in addition to assisting in every other way possible. He was a member of both the publicity and financial committees. Licenses Necessary The executive committee of the Centennial Monday also voted to include a special clause in the contracts to concession purchasers to protect local retailers. In this clause recognition will be made of the generosity of local firms in .purchasing Centennial bonds. Concession owners must agree to purehaee supplies, such as meat, groceries, baked goods, soft drinks, etc., only from those who hhive purchased bonds. Solicitors will be provided with badges, indicating that they are working for firms which have co-operated in making the Centennial possible. A special committee will be (CnNTTNtIRD ON PAGE FIVK) STTEMPTS TO BREAK STORY Prosecution Seeks To Break Story Told By Vera Stretz New York, March 31 — (UP) — With a weariness that seemed to approach indiffereicne, Vera Stretz today answered a stream of prosecution questions attempting to break down her story that she killed her German Lover, Dr. Fritz Gebhardt. in self-defense because he tried to assault her In a cruel manner. Assistant district attorney Miles M. O’Brien seeking to send her to the electric chair for slaving Gebhardt in his apartment last Nov. 12 first dealt with her «t<my of how she kame to buy the .32 revolver which she used and how it happened to <be in the apartment that night. The blonde former art student answered many of his qqestions with a weary "yes, Mr. O'Brien’ or a sighing "that's right ” The flowered blue dress which she had worn throughout the nine days of her trial for life had be-1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

ADOLF HITLER SENDS ANSWER TO PEACE PLAN Answer To Peace Proposals Is Prepared By German Leader Berlin. March 31—(UP)-Fuehr-er Adolf Hitler has decided to send his anewer to peace consolidation proposals of the 1.0-arno treaty powers to London by airplane this afternoon, a propaganda ministry spokesman announced officially. Joachim Von Ribbentrop. 'Hitler's special aimbasMdor and adviser on foreign affairs, will deliver the answer, the spokesman «aid. It was indicated that Hitler reached hia decision only this afternoon after long oneideration, in one of the lightning changes of mind for which be m knownOnly a few minutes before the hipokestnan’s statement. It was reported in reliable quarters that he . would delay hie answer, in itself a peace consolidation proposal, until ater this week. it was said that Hitler had advised Sir Eric Phipps. British ambassador. of the delay, and that hia reaeon was the British decision to | participate in staff negotiations with France and Belgium on mutual defense against an attach by Germany. 1 Hitler wan buey consulting Rib- ) bentrop and his cabinet colleagues all day on hie proposals. Ribbentrop was to present the , proponala to Anthony Eden British foreign secretary, as agent for the Locarno treaty nations. 'it was indicated authoritatively that Sitler had intended to make . an offer of a broad plan of pa< ifiI cation —one .so broad that foreign . crfUcu have condemned it in ad- ■ vance as likely to have no depth. o .Junior C. Os C. Plans For Dance [ Tentative plans (or the opening dam e of the De- atur Junior Cham- . ber of Commerce were made at a , me ting of the directors Monday > i evening. It is planned to make the ; dance an invitational affair during 1 the last week in April. 0 YOUNG VOTERS AGE ELIGIBLE Persons 21 Years Old By November Election May Vote In May t Attention was calied today to the fact that young voters who will be 21 on or before the day of the gen- ' eral election in November will b“ eigible to vote in the primary next May. G. Remy Bierly, county clerk, announced today that a number of persons will be ineligible to vote in the (primary unless they register on or before Monday, (April 6. 'in addition to those who become of age this year three other clafiees of voters must register. Those, who failed to register before must do so. Women who have changed their names by marriage or divorce are required to sign new registration blanks. Those who have changed their residences from one precinct to another. are required to re-register ' and have their old registration blanks cancelled. Mr. Bierly stated today that a nunvber of persons have failed to ( file their registrations. Registrations will be accepted at the county clerk’s office here, and the city clerk’s offices in Berne, Monroe and Geneva- ' Presbyterian Annual Congregation Meeting The annual congregational meeting of the local Presbyterian church , will be held Wednesday ni b h» at 7:00 o’clock. Reports of the various organizations of the church will be , given. There will be election of of- . fleers including the moderator for the coming year, also the election of trustees, elders and deacons. The ; supper previously announced in connection with the meeting will not be given. Dr. Frd Patterson is the present moderator and will preside over the meeting. o WEATHER i Increasing cloudiness tonight, followed by snow central and north and rain extreme south by ' Wednesday afternoon or night, I rising temperature Wednesday and | extreme southwest tonight.

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Authorize Signing For Production Os Pageant

The Centennial executive committee Monday night authorized Dr. Fred Patterson to sign a contract with the John B. Rogers Producing company to direct a pageant for three performances during Centennial week, August 2 to 8. The pageant will have as Its cast more than 600 local persons. Complete details will be announced as l soon as the contract is signed. Dr. Fred Patterson, chairman of; the pageant, made the following statement today: "The celebration of our Centennial would be impossible without a pageant. "This proposed historical pageant, the wonder story of our own community, will bo portrayed by our own people through stage pictures, symbolic dancing or pantomime and with appropriate lines, . music, costumes, lighting effects and settings. We have historical events rich in local, state and national interest which can be dramatized with beauty and inagniticance. "Perhaps there are those who ask the why of this means of tell- > ing the story of the past one hundred years, in so far as those one hundred years have to do with the ' city of Decatur and Adams county. ■ Briefly here are six good reasons: ' "A —A pageant Is something dis- ■ ferent —something that inspires en thusiasm vibrates life —creates interest —stirs emotion "B —It reunites all of our peo- • pie. Home folks write to relatives.

WALT GILLIOM IS CANDIDATE County Surveyor Seeks Re-Nomination On Democratic Ticket Walter Gilliam, county surveyor. ! has filed his declaration of candid-' a<y for nomination to the office sub-1 ; ject to the Democratic primary next; • t May He will ,-omplete his first twol i! years term next December. •! Mr. Gilliom is a native of Berne; :! where he attended the public | : I schools. He obtained a bachelor ot'| science degree in mechanical en-' gineering at Purdue University in | 1922(He spent eight year as an engineer for the B-O construction com- , pany of BBerne before doing suh- , division work in California., He , epent some time in Miami Beach. Florida, where he was employed in the city engineer’s office. From 1931 to 1932 he was em-1 ployed as an engineer and construe-1 tion superintendent by the Fort | Wayne state school. He drew the i ■plans and .specifications for the | remodeling of the Decatur power ■ ' 1 plant Mr. Gilliom has been a Democrat ; all his life. He ran for the office , (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) —o Officials Making Quarterly Reports The majority of the offices in the j county court house were closed this afternoon as officials made their quarterly reports. o TEACHERS HEAR COLLEGE HEAD Dr. W. P. Deering Speaks To Rural School Teachers Monday More than 150 persons heard Dr. W. P. Deering, president of Oakland College at Evansville, speak on the subject "the school of the public vs the public school.” at the . rural teachers' banquet at the Kirkland township high school building Monday night. This replaced the annual county institute. Besides the teachers a large number of guests were present. All of the township trustees attended. Dr. Deering discussed the problem met by teachers when they attempt to teach correct grammar and other subjects which are used incorrectly by associates of the pupils out of school. IHe stated, "Education is charged as .being a failure. The teachers are not failures- They must take a strong stand for their own defease." i Lucile Wfnteregg, Margella Neuenechwander and June Martin of Berne gave an instrumental number Mr. Kuntz of Huntington sang a vocal solo. Walter Zurcher of Berne gave an aocordian solo and Freeman Burkhalter of Berne presented I a violin solo.

■k L K '•'l f parents to children, friend to friend. 'Come home and see what we are doing.’ “C —We, as a people, naturally respond to patriotic impulses. The romantic story of our forefathers 1 inspires us to greater efforts in our own lives. "D —Before the beauty of natural settings or In front of special scenery, historicially correct costumes will create pictures to be remembered always. "E—The teachers in our schools know the value of visual education. The children and the adults YCONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.

Walters To Speak At M. E. Church C. L. Walters, local attorney, will J speak at the mid week service of the Decatur Methodist Rpiscopal church on Wednesday evening at I 7:00 p- m. He will continue his discussion of “Know Your Job.” a study of the responsibilities of of-tices-bearing in the church. The devotional service will be in charge of W. D. Little, who holds the ofi fice of local preacher in his own church. i Following the mid week service ’’the regular monthly meeting of j the official board will be held and i the results of the every member I canvass will be tabulated All the I chur; h visitors are asked to complete their work and to turn in I their cards at this service. LATIN CONTEST WINNERS GIVEN Three Jefferson II ik h School Students Are Winners Bloomington, Ind.. March 31 —The l names of Adams county winners in I the thirteenth annual state high ! school Latin contest were received here today by the Indiana university extension division, sponsors of the contest. The winners for Adams county | are: Mary Helen Moran, Marjorie i Boze, Naomi Rian, all of Jefferson high school, Berne. These winners will (participate in i the district meet to 'be held Saturday, April 4. The contest is divided Into four ' divisions, representing the various : stages in the study of Latin. In divi|soins one and two. the winners of i the first and second places in the | district meet will compete in the ; state contest. In divisions three and I four, the winners of first place will compete in the state contest and I also an additional group of nine in highest ranking contestants in the state at large, as indicated by their district contest scores. Tiie state meet will be held Friday, April 17, at Indiana university, at which time first, second and third place state winners in each of the four divisions will be announced following competitive examinations. o Monmouth Class To Give Program The public speaking class of the Monmouth high school will present a program composed of plays, monologues and readings Thursday evening at 7:45 o'clock. Admission of 10 cents will be charged and the public is urged to attendTalk On Food To Be Given Tonight — An intereseting talk will be given on heatlb and food by Lester® Lehman at the First United Brethren church this evening at 9 o'clockThe meeting is under the auspices of the ladies aid and the public is I cordially invited to attend.

Hauptmanns Attorneys Make Final Appeal Today To Save Life Os Convicted Murderer

— — Anna Hauptmann Hopes “Something” Happens To Halt Execution Os Her Husband. NEAR COLLAPSE Trenton, N. J.. Mar. 31,-(U,R)— Anna Hauptmann summoned every ounce of her strength today to obey —if necessary — the final instructions of her husband: "Tell my son that his father is | not a murderer. Tell him that I'll die brave." Anna Hauptmann more colorless, more sad than since she first came into the public eye. hoped that she would never have to deliver , that message spoken through the bars of a death house cell by the man she married and made a home for in a neighborly section of the Bronx. She hoped that the eternal "something” of the Lindbergh crime would happen. That, for in- | stance, Gov. Harold G. Hoffman would again visit her husband in the death house and that the governor might yet be persuaded to issue a second reprieve. But she appeared less hopeful ■ than at any time during the two years in which she has gone I through almost unbearable grief, ■ suspense, and suffering. She seemed to be at the end of that road of hardship today after almost the first collapse she has permitted to ■ break her stoicism. He instructed her to tell their Ison that he was not a murderer: . that he would die bravely if it were necessary that he die. It was not until she returned to ; ■ her hotel room that she collapsed. ' I A doctor was summoned. She had J been suffering from grippe and the death house visit left her cold and . trembling, but the doctor said her ’ condition was not serious. That last visit to her husband was fraught with desperate hope . that the court of pardons would grant Hauptmann’s application for clemency or at least permit a delay of execution. She spoke optimistically to him and he told her that he was convinced that he i would never walk through the door j to the death chamber—which was | only a few feet from where Mrs. I Hauptmann stood. 11 Then Hauptmann pressed against (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Ralph Yager Member Reception Committee — Ralph Yager. Republican county chairman, its a member of the reception committee which will welcome former president Herbert (Hoover to Fort Wayne on Saturday night. Mr. Hoover will speak at the Gos■pel Temple in Fort Wayne. Plane are being made to make it one of the outstanding political meetings of the year. Several Decatur and Adams county republicans are planning to attend the meeting Admittance to the temple will be by ticket. F.D.R. VISITS BAHAMA LEADER President Roosevelt \ isits Governor-General Os Bahamas Miami, Fla., Mar. 31. — (U.R) — President Roosevelt came into Nassau, the capital of the British Bahamas, today to pay a courtesy call on Governor-General Sir Bede Clifford and to hold a press confer- • ence with White House correspondents. The chief executive, burned a deep brown from long hours of exposure to tropical sun. planned to 1 entertain Sir Bede, Lady Clifford and the newspapermen at lunch- ' eon aboard the yacht on which he has been cruising for the past week. The meeting will take place on the quarterdeck of the presidential yacht immediately after the form alities occasioned by the visit of a president to foreign waters. Mr. Roosevelt turned toward ; Nassau after a highly successful fishing cruise along the southern [ fringe of the Bahamas. He headed . for that port from the Island of [ Little San Salvador, where yesterday afternoon he enjoyed angling , and a swim in the warm water. . He found time, however, to' look (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Denies Confession f' iB « Authorities of Mercer county. | New Jersey (trenton), introduced a new angle into the Hauptma.nn 1 case when they announced a "con- t session" to the Lindbergh baby kidnaping from Paul H. Wendel. ' a former Trenton lawyer. Prose- | eutor Erwin E. Marshall later ex- | onerated Wendel, however, when ' the suspect repudiated his “r on- ■ session.” claiming it had been 1 forced on him. FINAL LENTEN ’ SERMON PLANS Final In Series Os Lenten Sermons At Zion Lutheran Church The sixth in a series of special Wednesday evening Lenten services will be conducted Wednesday evening at the Zion Lutheran church at 7:30 o’clock. This is the i last service of the series held on ■ Wednesday evenings this year, but , the pastor, the Rev. Paul W. I Schultz, announced that another special Passion service has been I planned, including the celebration I of holy communion, to be held on I Good Friday evening at the ; church. The service tomorrow evening will conclude the presentation of the entire Passion story given in special readings. It will he in charge of the pastor who will base his sermon on the words of Jesus spoken from the cross on Calvary. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Luke 23, 24. "This petition and prayer of Jesus," stated the Rev. Schultz, "exhibits the result and fruit of Jesus’ entire life and passion. It is like a mighty beacon of light in a world of spiritual darkness. It has the unique jsiwer to lift men and women who nw be on the very brink of despair, who may have tasted the deepest dregs of sin and shame to noble heights of | usefulness and to heaven-inspired I contentment, joy and hope. For- | giveness of sin is the heart and kernel of Christianity wherever found and expounded in this world. ; It is above all the most important thing in the entire life of the individual. When we have it we are the happy possessors of that onething upon the basis of <vhich everything revolves that fe really ' beneficial for time and eternity. The most worth-while and blessed words that can be spoken over our departed loved ones is that they knew in whom to find and did richly possess the forgiveness of sin. We dare never forget the quotation from Scripture. "For where there is forgiveness of sin. ’ there is also life and salvation.” The pastor also extends an invitation to the public to attend these services. o Liquor Hearing Is Held This Morning The Adams county alcoholic beverages board met this morning to consider the application filed by 1 the Adams post of the American ' Legion for a club license to sell | beer ana liquor to member®. Should the state alcoholic bev- ' erages board approve the applies- ’ tion, the liquor will be sold in the new club house on Madison street, ; recohtly purchased by the organization,

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Haptmann Weeps Bitterly As Hour Os Execution Approaches; Refuses To Discuss Case. PHONES THREAT Trenton. N. J., Mar. 31—(U.R) — Counsel for Bruno Richard HauptI mann wont to the office of Justice i Thonia-.< W. Trenchard shortly after 2 p. m. today for a final, and I what appeared to be a futile, apIpeal to delay the execution of the j Lindbergh baby slayer, scheduled ! for tonight. C. Lloyd Fisher, head of the d<‘I sense counsel, said he might ask I for a new trial, but he was not i ]>ositive of what action would be . taken. The attorneys were going jto confer with Justice Trenchard j on procedure. Trenchard presided nJ Haupti mann's trial. Frederick A- Pope accompanied Fisher to the judge’s office, and was followed by Attorney General i David T. Wilentz. i Trenchard has been quoted by i Gov. Harold G. Hoffman as indiI eating he can not legally hear a i motion for a new trial. Cries Bitterly State Prison Yard. Trenton. N. | J., Mar. 31 —(U.R) —-Bruno Richard j Hauptmann gripped the bars of his cell in trembling fingers today, wept bitterly and cried out for a miracle that would ea,ve him 1 from death tonight in the electric ; chair. The convicted murderer of the ! Lindbergh baby—his head clipped for the electrodes of death — lost his stoicism when virtually every (legal hope- of delaying execution had vanished. He cracked so comhpletely that prison officials order- | ed extraordinary precautions against suicide and were prepared for the possibility of a confession. But thus far there is no stronger indication of a confession than at any time since the former German carpenter’s arrest on charges of kidnaping a.’icl murdering Charles A. Lindbergh. Jr. Head I keeper Mark O. Kimberling told | reporters that Hauptmann continues to cry out that he is inno- ‘ cent and prays that some eleventh ‘hour incident will save him from electrocution. It was as a broken, hopeless j man that he spent his last day of (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —o Robert Mann Is Injured Monday Robert Mann of Kirkland township is a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital as The result of injuries sustained at his home shortly after noon. Monday. Mr. Mann was working with his livestock when a calf fell on him. Mr. Mann was rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital where it was found that both bones in his left leg were broken in two places, making four fractures. He was much Intniporved this morning. OFFICERS DENY CAPTURE MADE Report Persists Two Or Three Caught; Says Karpis Escaped Hot Springs, Ark., Mar. 31. — (U.R) —Belief persisted among residents of a rural section near here today that federal agents captured two or three persons yesterday in a raid on a, farmhouse, presumably in search of Alvin Karpis, ipuiblic enemy No. 1. Department of justice operatives and officials at Little Rock, however. persisted in a denial that anyone had been captured. Karipis is wanted mainly on charges of participating in the $200,000 kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer of St. Paul. More than a dozen G-men sur- ■ rounded the farm house, held astonished neighbors at bay. and hurled tear and flare gas into the , structure, setting it afire. They , quickly extinguished the fire, however. Residents of the neighborhood, who witnessed the ia,id, reported they saw what appeared to bo three persons, two men and a wo- , man “captured" by the agents. City and county officials said the ' raid was for Karpis, and for one — - —■ - - - (CONTINUED. ON PAGE TWOI