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Allen County Leads Influenza Epidemic Fort Wayno, Apr. 4 —<U.R) Allen county leads the state in the spread ot influenza with 20 new cases reported, und in diphtheria, witli tour new eases, the weekly bulletin of th>> Indiana division of public health revealed yesterday, | Seventeen new scarlet fever quarantines were listed for this county also. Noble county had four influenza cases, Kosciusko county three. Scarlet fever lists included: Dekalb county, four; Wells county, throe; and Adams. Kosciusko and : Noble counties, one each. o MRS. HELLER IS HONORED Mrs. 1). I). Heller Is Honored For Service On Boards Members of the old board of charitieee and children’s guardians, with I Judge H. M. DeVoas >mi a number of other officials, met last evening at the J. W. Tyndall home for a pot-luck supper in honor of Mrs. D D. Heller, who has served as president of :>oth hoards since they were instituted in 1904. It was a delightful event and folowing the supper. Mrs. Heller read a short paper giving facts about the organizations and expressing thanks to all who have assisted them in their important work. Guy Prown. who has been a member of th * board many years, gave ' interesting facts and incident I which have added to the enjoyment I of feeling they have really accom- ' pltshed worth while things. Judge DeVoss thanked the members as did Mr. of the Adams | county farm and then followed an i 1 evening of pleasant reniinicence.! I Mr and Mrs. Elmer Baumgartner I ! of Berne and Mr. and Mrs. Otho Lobenstine of Monroe were present ' frem out of the city. Regular K. Os C. Meeting Monday —' —* ”** ■ The regular m.-eting of the Knights of Columbia, will be held i Monday evening at eight o'clock at the K. cf C. hail District deputy , Henry Hasley of Fort Wayn - will I attend. The members are urged to attendo— Report Ed Green Slightly Better Ed Green, bailiff of the 'Adame I circuit court, who has been oerious ly ill for the past several weeks, was reported as slightly improved after a fairly restful night. Mr. Green ts n w a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital. Demands Restoration Os Processing Taxes April 4—(UP) —A special memorandum from. President Roosevelt to congressional lead-1 ers was interpreted today as a 1 demand for restoration of proposed new processing taxes to the tax bill. In a one paragraph note to the senate majority leader Joseph T. Robinson and house speaker Joseph W. Byrns, the president warned again that the new tax bill must (provide sufficient revenue to 'balance the ordinary budget. o CHURCHES PLAN FOR SERVICES Good Friday, Easter Morning Services Planned By Churches The union Protestant Good Friday uervicee will I>e held at the Methodfat Episcopal church Friday from 12 to 3 p. m. Each church will sii. ply special music and at the close of the services a ten minute iperiaq of silence and meditation will be observed. A complete program with separate listing of the services will be (published next week. Beautiful sunrise open air services will be held Easter morning on tne hillside of the Country club where a thirty foot cross will be placed and will remain there during the day. This service fa sponsored entirely by the young people of the Protestant churches and includes talks and special music. At the close ot the meeting a breakfast of bacon and eggs will be served. Announcemente of the place for the breakfast will .be made later. Anyone will be welcome to attend either eor both of the services.

REPORT OFFER OF FINANCING THIRD PARTY Reported Oller Os $2,000,000 To Beat Roosevelt Is Shown Washington, Apr. 4 <U.P) —Two versions of a reported offer of 12,000,000 to finance a Townsend third party movement to ‘beat Roosevelt” were given today to the United Press. One informant, who declined use of his name, said the money was refused l>ecauso of dissension within the Townsend organization. The other said it failed be--1 cause Dr. Francis E. Townsend was “not/ interested." Sheridan Downey, Townsend’s personal attorney, eaid after a telephone conversation with the California physician and old age pension proponent, that there was no definite offer and that Dr. Townsend wasn’t interested in taking money fiom business and anti-new deal intercuts. Thi'.t money was originally intended for Sen. Huey P. lx>ng. After his assassination overtures were made to divert it to the Townsend movement, it was said. The United Press informant said possible candidates, including Sen. William E. Borah, were discussed. . o Six Persons Killed In Head-On Crash Indianapolis. Apr. 4.— (U.R) —Six persons were killed and one was injured critically last night in a head-on collision on U. S. road 40, west of here. The dead: j William A. Earle. 21; Jesse P. Hampton. Jr., 21; Albert Whitt, 119; Deeann Whitt, 17; Orville | Sanders. 38, and his wife. Mrs. ‘ Wretha Sanders. 36, all of Indian- ' apolis. Reade McClintock, 22. was taken to city hospital in critical con- ! dlllOH. «...

HOOVER SPEAKS ATFORTWAYNE Former President Po Speak Tonight; Will Broadcast Talk Fort Wayne, Ind., Apr. 4.—(U.R) — Republicans from all over this section were flocking into Fort Wayne today to hear former President Herbert Hoover deliver one of 40 address he is giving through out the nation. More than 2.500 persons are expected to hear the speech in the Fort Wayne Gospel Temple. Yesterday Hoover was in Indianapolis conferring with leaders of the Indiana G. O. P. He motored to Fort Wayne this morning. The Young Republican club will entertain him at a banquet this evening prior to the address. Ralph E. Gates of Columbia City, chairman ot the fourth district Republican committee will preside. He will present Oscar G. Foelllnger, publisher of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel, who win in turn present Mr. Hoover. Among those who will be presented by Mr. Gates are George Ball of Muncie, national committeeman from Indiana; Don Irwin of Frankfort, chairman of the Indiana Republican central committee; and Mrs. Beryl Holland of Bloomington, vice-chairman of the Indiana Republican central committee. . . „ , Mr. Hoover will remain in Fort Wayne until Sunday evening, when he will leave for his home in Palo Alto, Cal. The address will be broadcast over the Blue network of the NBC and the Mutual broadcasting system. The address will start at about 9:30 p. m. and is expected to last approximately 45 minutes. — o More Candidates File For Offices " Candidates who filed theier declarations for nomination in the May primary with County Clerk G. Remy Bierly today are: Albert Beery, precinct committeeman, Republican. Decatur I B. Clarence R. McNabb, repiesentative in Congress from the fourth district, Democrat. John Hiller, committeeman, Republican, East Jefferson. Janies Barr, justice of the peace. Democrat. Geneva.

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Pays Supreme Penalty r - ■ - ~ 1 < 1 j I 1 ' I ’ ’■'s''’ •’ ■ ■! L J Bruno Richard Hauptmann

DEATH CLAIMS ALFRED KUNTZ Retired Geneva Jeweler Will Be Buried Sunday Morning Funeral services will be held Sunday for Alfred Kuntz. 74. re ' tired jeweler, who died Thursday ‘ • at 4p.m. at his home in Geneva. Mr. Kuntz had been ill for thre<Iwjefks. Mr. Kuntz was born in Switzer-j land on February 23, 1862. He i learned the watchmaking trade in J Switzerland and Fra.nce before j coming to America. He moved to Geneva on Christmas in 1900 i where he opened a jewelry store, iHe had not been active for the Hast few years. 1 He is survived by the widow •and three children. Samuel of I Cleveland. O.; Daniel, of Detroit. : and Mrs. Dorcas Neuahwun, also jof Detroit. There are also sever|al grandchildren. I Funeral services will be held Sunday morning at 19:30 o'clock at the Geneva United Brethren ehurch. Girl Scouts To Aid Flood Relief Fund Under the direction of Mrs. Bryce Thomas and Mrs. Albert Gehrig, the girl scouts will put on a elpecial • ■drive for the flood Relief fund. This afternoon and evening the girl |scouts will be stationed in the stores and on the streets and on Sunday in the theater lobbies to , 1 give the people an opportunity to donate to the fund. It is hcred in this way Adams ‘ i county’s quota of $1,500 may be reached and the (people are urged , to contribute as freely as possible, i Each scout is requested to report to the Winnes Shoe Store for her ; sealed Red Cross Box and to re- 1 turn it at the end of each period. ( o WEATHER Showers ProOable tonight and Sunday; warmer tonight ( and east and north Sunday. 11

Easter Sunday Egg Hunt At Elks Home To Be Real Treat

Kiddies of Decatur and Adams i county will be given one of their j biggest treats in years Sunday when an egg hunt will be held on the lawn of the B. P. O. Elks home 1 on North Second street. Officials of the lodge and the ; committee in charge of the hunt ; made this plain today when they i announced that the egg hunt will i be held on Easter Sunday, regard- i less of weather conditions. Should inclement weather pre- , vent holding the hunt on the lawn, the eggs will be hidden inside the ( spacious lodge home and the kid- ( dies will be permitted to roam over the entire hoime in their search ( for the elusive leggs. ( The esgg hunt will be started i (promptly at 2:30 ip. m. Sunday, (April 12, and a supply of eggs sufficient i for all the kids of Decatur and sur i rounding territory, ranging in ag- 1 1

Fine Arts Festival At College Thursday The fine arts festival of the Eighth District will meet in the art hall of Ball State college Thursi day, April 9. The meeting will be an all day affair with luncheon at noon. All members of the Federation of Clubs are urged to attend. Reser- , vations. are to be made with Miss Vivian Burk, club president, by ■ Monday evening. During the day Miss Louise Hau--1 bold "ill play the club song for i which she recently wrote the mel- i <>dy. receiving first pla e in the contest. - - !' o__ GROSS INCOME !■ 1 FUNDS HIGHER More Taxpayers File And 11 Larger Returns Are Reported r Indianapolis. April 4-Final tabu-| lattion of state gross income tax, returns for 1935 shows an increase I < 'of approximately 52,000 taxpayers I over 1934 and an increase of 21 per <ent in collections, according to ; Clarence A. Jackson, diretor of the ; gross income tax division. Returns received for 1935 num- j ‘bered 354.610, with collections of . $16,015,220, as compared with 302. 1 555 returns from 1934 and collections totaling $13,220,933. Gross income tax returns for 1933 numbered 377.134. , Announcement of the 1935 totals ; came as the tax division prepared to receive returns covering the , first quarter of 1936- Returns on in- ; come received during January, Feb- i ruary and March are due by (April 15. Return forms have been made i available at 142 state auto license branches and nearly 150 additional i distribution paints. Persons owing more than $lO tax i are required to file quartely. Persons owing less than $lO havo < the option of filing quarterly or annually. (

es from one to seven years, has been ordered. In addition to members of the lodge, who will act as hosts. Dick Ehinger, general chairman, has announced that a number of Boy Scouts, dressed in their regular uniforms, will assist by paroling the sidewalks and streets of. the neighborhood. The party is patterned somewhat after the annual hunt on the White House lawns in Washington, D. C„ and is the first of its type ever attempted In Decatur. Easter rabbits will also be loosed on the grounds for the entertainment and sport of the kiddles, ' not to mention the grown-ups. Officers of the lodge expect to make the hunt an annual party, solely for entertatinmeht for the kids.

Bruno Hauptmann Pays With Life For Kidnap - Slaying Os Lindbergh Baby; No Comment

Highlights Os Crime Os Century From Date Os Kidnaping Until Death Os Hauptmann. AFTER 4 YEARS New York, April 4 (U.R) Chronology of the IJndbergh kidnaping: March 1, 1932 Charles A. Und bergh, Jr., 20 months old, Kidnaped from his nursery in the Lindbergh home at Hopewell, N. J. A note demanding $50,000 ransom found on the baby's pillow March — Henry (Red) Johnson sailor suitor of the baby's nurse. Betty Gow. taken into custody at Hartford, Conn. March 5 — Lindbergh promised kidnapers he would not prosecute if child returned. March 6 — Lindbergh appointed Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz to negotiate with kidnapers through underworld channels. March 8 — First advertisement to contact kidnapers inserted in newspapers by Dr. John F. Condon, aged New York educator, signed "Jafsie.” March 20 — Hdnry (Red) JohnI son exonerated by police. Curtis Enters Case March 24 — John Hughes Curtis. Rear Admiral Guy W. Burrage, retired, and Dean H. Dobson Peacock identified at Norfolk, Va., as seeking to trtace kidnapers. April 2 — Dr. Condon paid $50.000 ransom given to him by Lindbergh to man in Bronx cemetery, but kidnaped baby was not returned. April 7— Curtis reported he had i contacted abductors, who said baby in good health. May 5 — Gaston B. Means, former government operative, arrestied for obtaining $104,000 from Mrs. Edward McLean of Washing- ! ton by alleging he could reach kidI napers. He later was convicted. Baby Found Dead May 12 Maq 12 — The baby was found i dead near a road scarcely five 1 miles from Lindbergh home. May 17 — Curtis confessed all ■ I his negotiations were hoax. June 10 — Violet Sharpe, servant ■ in home of Mrs. Dwight Morrow, • Mrs. Lindbergh’s mother, commiti ted suicied as detectives waited to | question her. Later investigation cleared her. July 2 — Curtis was convicted of “obstructing ju st i c e.” Sentence . suspended. Aug. 16 — Jon Lindbergh born. Sept. 18, 1934 — Bruno Richard i Hauptmann, unemployed alien ■ German carpenter, living with his wife, Anna, and 10-months-old son. Mannfried, in the Bronx, arrested Between $15,000 and $41,000 of the ransom money was found under garage in rear of his house. Hauptmann identified as man to whom Condon gave the ransom money. Indicted for Extortion Sept. 26 — Bronx grand jury indicted Hauptmann on extortion charge after testimony by Lindbergh and other witnesses. Oct. 8 — Hunterdon County grand jury indicted Hauptmann for murder after Lindbergh identified him by voice. Oct. 16 — Hauptmann’s extradition to New Jersey ordered. Oct. 24 — Hauptmann arraigned and pleaded no guilty. Jan. 2 set by Justic Thomas W. Trenchard as opening trial date. Jan. 2, 1935 — Hauptmann goes on trial for his life in Flemington. Feb. 13 — Hauptmann found guilty by jury of eight men and four women after 11 hours and 24 minutes of deliberations. Oct. 9 — New Jersey court of erors and appeals upheld Hauptmann's conviction, declaring evidence pointed “unerringly to his guilt.” Dec. 9 — United States Supreme Court refused to review the Haupttmann conviction. Dec. 10 — Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey makes public a visit he made to Hauptmann in (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) q George Glass Quits Congressional Race Bluffton. April 4 — George E. Glass. Wells county prosecuting attorney authorized announcement Friday that he had withdrawn as a ■candidate for the Democratic nomintlon for congress from the fourth district. The other candidates seeking this nomination are T. P. Riddle, of Waterloo; Jamee I. Farley of Auburn, incum'bent, and Judge Carence Me I Nabb, of Fort Wayne.

COY MARTZ IN | RECORDER RACE Decatur Barber Is Fifth To Enter Race For Nomination A lively battle for the Democratic nomination for recorder of ’ Adams county wa.« assured thfa morning when E. Coy Martz, local , barber, filed his candidacy for the position. Mr. Martz is the fifth to enter the race and still another possible [ entrant han been mentioned. The . deadline for filing candidacy is tonight. The other four candidates who . previously announced for the office t j are; Walter J. Bookman, incumbent. whose term expires December 31. 1936; Mrs. Ruth Holllngs- ' worth. Mrs. Ella Peoples and . Milton E. Hower. Mr. Martz was born and reared near Monroe. He lived in Allen . county for a number of yearn and took an active part in Democratic politics. Ha served as postmaster . at Grabill for eight years .during President Wilson’s adminfatration. Mr. Martz then moved to Berne i and opeiated a barber shop for about five years, moving to Decar . tur 14 years ago. He operates his ■ . own barber shop on south Second street in this city. —o — —- ■ Selassie Army Is Reported Defeated Rome (April 4.—(UP)— Ennperor Haille Selannie's entire army in the J i i Lake Aschangi zone has been de-i ■ seated and is fleeing in wild dis-1 • order to the south, it was announc-1 ed officially today. A communique j from Marshall Pietro Badoglio. ItalI ian commander-in-chief. “The battle of Lake Aschangi ended thfa morning- All Ethiopian troops under the command of the Negust (Haille Selaesie) are retreating southward in disorder. Our entire air force s bombing and ma- ' chine gunning the mass of disorder- ' ly troops." o — I COMMITTEES ON SOIL PROGRAM Six Townships Os County Select Committees For Program Several of the committees have been reported for the township eoil eonsrvation program. Meetings were held in every township in the county to explain the new program ' and to build local organizations. i’hoee reported are: Preble: Auguet Gallmeyer, chairman; A. C. Stappenhagen. R. H. . Buuck and Arthur Werling. Union: Adolph Schamerloh, chair- . man: John W. Flakey, George F. Morris, Victor Bleeke and Victor Ulman. Kirkland: Homer W- (Arnold, , chairman; Lester Adler, William Griffith and Kenneth Sautbine. Washington; R. Braun, . chairman; E. W. Bueche. John E. . Heiman, H. M. Cook, Everett Johnson. St. Mary’s; Kermit Bowen, chairman; Groce Tope, Edward Koos • and H. M. Crownover. efferson; Henry I. Rumple, chair- ’ man; Fred Kauffman, Jeeso O. 1 Teeter and Ralph Christy. o I Large Crowd Sees School Operetta An unusually large crowd attend--1 ed the (performance of "Lazy Town” produced by the pupils of the North Ward in the high school auditorium Friday evening. The play was under the direction of the teachers of ; the North Ward, John R. Parrish, principal, Miss Elizabeth Peterson, ■ Miss Della Sellemeyer, Miss Flor- ' ence Haney and Mrs. Charles Brein- : er who has been substituting tor ■ Mies Sellemeyer the past few days ’ during the latter’s Illness. Miss Helen Haubold was the pianist and during the intermiss--1 ions excellent special numbers ■ were given by the following: Hel- . en Franks, tap dance; Ronald s Stuckey accordlan solo and Mary Jo Butler, fancy dances.

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; German Carpenter Goes To Electric Chair In New Jersey Refusing To Confess Crime. TRAIL OF DOUBT I (Copyright 1936 by United Preos) Trenton, N. J.. Apr. 4 (U.R) Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s last cry of “innocent" before he walked to the electric chair recorded the Lindbergh case today as the moat controversal mystery of the century. Hanptinann died calmly, almost indifferently, with his thin lips sealed against the slightest hint of a confession. And with the deadly surge of electricity through his body, there died. too. perhaps the only chance i that the world ever will know the factful story of the abduction and murder of the infant son of Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh in the Sourland mountains four years ago. Around the world went the flash that the state of New Jersey had closed its books on the multi-mil-lion dollar Lindbergh case at 8:47 o'clock last night in the electrocution chamber of the gloomy old state prison. But jwst as surely there were millions who knew that Hauptmann had died and who still xvere convinced that he did not commit the crime alone. Hauptmann died on a stage set for a fantasy and in a fitting climax on a crime that piled sensation on sensation with such terrific momentum that even half an hour before the execution it appeared likely that the eternal "something" would yet save J Hauptmann’s life for at least anI other day, « But at last the legend of the I Lindbergh ca.se had run its course, and in its final page Bruno Richard Hauptmann added a. touch of the dignity of death. He was perhaps the calmest man iu the little white room which society and chance had chosen for his death chamber. Every legal battle for life had failed him. At the last minute Gov. Harold G. Hoffman had announced reluctantly that he did not have the power to grant another reprieve. If ever there was a time when a, man would speak from his heart that time for Hauptmann was at 8:30 p. m. Friday. He released the hands of two Lutheran ministers who stood beside him in the death cell. “Now just let me have a minute to myself." he said softly in German. Silently, he knelt on the cement floor beside a cot stripped even of its bedding. His head, clipped to receive the electrode of deeXh. glistened in the light of an overhead bulb. Hauptmann prayed. For almost 10 minutes the man who knew he was without hope said his last prayer silently. Then he lifted, his face toward the light. The shadows of the cell bars fell sharply across his face. In the death house corridor stood two guards. "Now I’m ready,” Hauptmann said. He got to his feet, the right leg of his brown trousers flapped. It was slit for the electrode. Hauptmann reached out his hand to a guard. Neither spoke. Three other guards shook his hand. “We (are ready,” one guard told him. The man who had 30 paces yet to walk shook hands with the ministers. With the Rev. John Matthiesen. hta spectacles almost dropping oft his nose, in the lead, they turned toward the steel door beside which Hauptmann had lived for more than a year. The guiards said quietly: "Goodbye.” Hauptmann didn’t reply. Not a single condemned man, in the death house spoke to Hauptmann. Darrow Stunned Chicago, Apr. 4 — (U.R) —When Bruno Richard Hauptmann went to the electric, chair he may havo taken with him the last hope of solving the Lindbergh kidnap casn once and for all, Clarence Darrow said today. Darrow, brilliant criminal attorney, less than a week ago broko a silence of months to plead that he was entitled to another trial. When he learned last night that his plea had gone in vain — that (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)