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CITY STAYS ON STANDARD TIME Decatur Stays On Central Time As Daylight Time Is In The city of Decatur will be little affected by the enforcement of daylight suvingo time in some of Indiana's cities. Visitors to the cities using the new time will i>e forced to leave an hour earlier to arrive per schedule hut will be granted an hour longer before returning home. Visitors to Fort Wayne, which Io rulopting the times, will he. affected the greatest. Employes of the local General Electric plant, other than the office force, will bo little affected by the daylight savings schedule adopted by the Fort Wayne works. A policy of starting work at 7 o'chuk in the morning rather thaji the usual time of 8 o’clock was recently adopted. Tinas the necessity of moving the clocks ahead one hour was eliminated. The office force, however, will be forced to start work one hour earlier as they were not included in the recent change. Quitting time for the factory on the day shift is .1:42 p. m. The plant at present is using a second and third shift. Both the Broadway and Winter street plants in Fort Wayne, which plants, with Decatur comprise the Fort Wayne works, will, however start the daylight aaving schedule in accordance with the ordinance passed by the Fort Wayne city council in 1928. The clocks in that city will he set ahead one hour tonight at midnight. Central standard time will be resumed at midnight, September 26. Bus scheduler in this city will remain on central standard time. The schedule will, however, be i arranged to more effectively cooperate with both central and day(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) STUDENTSWILL RECEIVE AWARD Attendance Awards To Be Given Rural School Pupils — Students of the rural scho-ls of the county, who have been cons ienciotis in their attendance of classes, are to receive awards at the termination of the schools’ activities, C. E. Striker, county school su'.ierintnedent, stated today. Each student v. 1. ■ has been neither absent nor tardy during the entire term i« to receive a certificate, etched tn gold and signed by the county superintendent, principal and leather, stating that in consideration of conduct and application to his studies, hie name has been placed on the roll of honor for that year The number c.f those who are to receive the award could not be determined, athough it was estimated that it would run into several hundreds. The number of students who can c«tablieh such a record of attendance, it was pointed out has been greatly increased by the added incentive createed by the award The certificates are now being signed by Mr. Striker and will go to the school heads of the county who will have charge of the distribution of the awards, a r ter being signed by them- Studenta of Kirkland will be the first to receive the awards as their school will close today. Masons Plan Smoker, Stag Party Monday All Masons are invited to bring a guest and attend the smoker and stag party to be given at the Masonic hall Monday night at 7:30. Cards will be playede and refreshments served. All meunbrs are urged to be present. Mail Invitations To Junior C. C. Dance Invitations were mailed today to members of the Decatur Junior Chamber of Commerce to the invitational dance t*. be given at the Decatur Country Club Thursday evening. Gene Johnson's orchestra will furnish the music. The invitations will permit the members to enjoy the dance free. Two guest tickets were Included with each invitation. They (may be given away or sold to non(members. Members of the club will be charged 50 cents for each of the guest tickets used.

Faces Life Term for Kidnaping of Boy, 10 i &i -w W. J k • xk / ills ~ Jfn '~ ; t' dtt* AfaT

An attempt to kidnap 10-year-old Henry Koch of Allentown, Pa., ended in arrest of Richard D. Taylor of Akron, 0.. who fact* a possible life term in the penitentiary as' a result. Taylor, said to have confessed, was seized by police less than three hours after young Koch had been kidnaped. Koch was lured into an automobile, bound with tape, and

ASK COMMITTEE BE NOTIFIED Farmers Wishing Ditch Work Done Should Notify Committee Adams county farmers in the 1 northern six townships, who wish ditch work done by the Allen county CCC drainage camp, have been asked to notify a committee composed of the trustees of the six townships, County Agent L. E. Archbold or County Surveyor Walter Gilliom. By a special ruling the Allen county camp is now permitted to extend its territory to cover allot Preble, Root. Union. Kirkland. Washington and St Mwry »4u»-in ships. The committee this week was ' taken on a lour of Allen county I projects at which time five of the . leading types of drainage work done by the CCC boys was demon--Istrated. These were spoil bank leveling, dragline cleanout, tile repairing, : headwall construction and dynamite demonstration. Advantages of each of these • systems depend upon the condi- i tions of tiie land on which they I .are placed. The committee has been instructed in the work done by the Allen county camp and is I prepared to work out the problems ,of the individual farmers. Under the regulations of the ’ -CCC camp northern Adams county (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) ——-—o — Noted Journalist, Humorist Is Dead New York. Apr. 25.— (U.R)~ Finley Peter Dunne, journalist and humorist who created the character. "Mr. * Dooley," died of cancer last night at the Hotel Deltnonico. He was 68. His wife, Margaret Abbott Dunne, and their four children were notij fled at their Hollywood home. Dunne had been in New York for . . ’ five months receiving medical j i treatment. Dunne's newspaper career began as a cub reporter in 1885 in Chicago and reached its climax with the "Mr. Dooley" sketches. King Os Egypt Seriously Illi (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Cairo. Apr. 25.—(U.R)— King Fuad ' I. key figure in the tight of Egyptian politicians over relations with Great Britain, was sinking rapidly today, so desperately ill that physicians despaired of his life. Unofficial reports that the king ’ had died brought an official bulletin that he was alive still. The bulletin said that a severe hemorrhage had been stopped and that the king passed a quiet night, but that nis weakness continued. o— Start Distribution , To Bank Depositors Distribution of $46,365,64, repre- ■ renting 10 per cent of the deposits • on hand at the time the bank was taken over by the department of financial Institutions, was started I today by the Old Adame County , Bank. With this distribution a total > of 62 8 >per cent will have been paid ■ since the bank closed. Check s were available f«r the; I deposistors at the bank today. , These checks must be called for ae none will be mailed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 25, 1936.

Truck Operators To Meet At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne. Apr. 25 —D. F. Mitzner, secretary of Indiana Motor Traffic Association, will give the principal address at a dinner meeting of northern Indiana truck operators to be held in the Baltes Hotel Wednesday evening. April 29. Mr. Mitzner will talk on “Recent Developments in Truck Regulation." Floyd Pritchard, of the I.M.T.A. executive staff will analyze the social security act, pointing out its particular passages which are directly applicable to truck operators as employers CHURCH LEADER TO SPEAK HERE Rev. Adolph Bergman Os Europe To Speak Here Sunday The Revj Adolph Bergman. I ! church leader from Europe, will | be in Decatur on Sunday evening and will speak- n "The Outlook For j | Evangelical Christianity In Europe" ‘at a mass meeting to which all ini terested people are invited. The meeting will be held at the M E. Church at 7:30 p m. Special invitations are extended •to all churches which have no even-1 ' ing service in the city and surround-1 ; ing territory, and to those study l clubs and individuals which are : interested in the European esperi--1 ments in economics, government and religion which are now being carried on in EuropeRev. Berg.nun is en route to the general conference of the Methoddist Episcopal Church which convenes at Columbus, Ohio on May 2. where he will be seated as a delagate from the Baltic and Slavic confrences. This territory Ls in the Episopal Area of Bishop R. J. Wade, formerly of Muncie, and is in the center of much of the (political disturbances cf Europe. Bishop Wade I speaks highly of the Rev. Bergman and his grasp of the European situation No charge will be made for this address but an appreciative silver offering will be received for hisbenfit. The general public is cordially invited to attend. Harry Stultz To Open Store Here Harry Stultz, who recently resigned from the local gas company, will open a new store of his own next Tuesday. The store 'will be known as the Home Equipment. Co., and will be located in the building on Monroe street formerly occupied by the American Security company. Mr. Stultz, who has had much experience in equipment for the home, stated that he will carry a. full line of Westinghouse Electric goods and will be glad to serve his friends in the community.

Youth Recognition Day Decatur unites today in paying honor to the YOUTH of the city on the opening day of the annuaj Boys and Girls week observance, celebrated throughout the nation. Today is RECOGNITION day, and as the feature of the observance, the Daily Democrat la glad to present, on page throe of today’s issue, a special section dedicated to the RECOGNITION of the girls and boys of Decatur. Boye and girls week will be observed for an entire week, ending Friday. May 1. Sunday will be Church day; Monday will be Vocation day; Tuesday will be School and Health day; the election of youths to fill cdty offices will be held Wednesday; Thursday will be Entertainment and Athletic day; Friday will be Citizenship day.

taken to a woods in the outskirts where ho was left while Taylor returned to town to send a ransom note to the boy’s wealthy father. Young Koch freed himself by cutting his bonds on a sharp stone and called his parents, leading to arrest of Taylor. Koch is shown at extreme right showing a playmate the marks left when he wats bound.

BOTH RESCUED MEN IMPROVING Dr. Robertson, Alfred Scadding Reported In Good Condition Halifax. N. S. April 25 — (UP) — i Dr D. E. Robertaon and Alfred Scadding, imprisoned for 10 days in the Moose River gold mine, progressed satisfactorily today toward ' (complete ree wery. Physicians announced that Scadding whose condition was the more eerioun. probably would not develop gangrene in his infected feet, the infection reeponded to treatment, but not as well as they had hoped. Robertson was suffering from' little more than exhaustion, physicians expected rest to restore. I him completely. He was taken to the Victoria hospital by plane from Moose River yesterday. Scadding was taken by the same means the i day (before, a few hours after their ■ rescue fi.m the mine. Praise for the 300 coal and gold i 1 inineis. r.any of whom risked their | ; lives digging in the dangerous Reynolds shaft, continued unabated. A | Canadian Red Cress fund to reward , them had passed $20,000 and con- | tributions from both Canada and ! the United States still were comI ing in- | Prime minister W- K. Mackenzie ' (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) -— o — WEATHER Mostly cloudy, possibly local showers north portion tonight and south portion tonight or Sunday; slightly warmer extreme southeast tonight, cooler Sunday. FRANK AMSTUTZ DIESAT BERNE Prominent Berne Resident Dies Early This Morning Frank Amstutz, 59, prominent Berne resident, died at his home in that city this (morning at 5:35 o’clock. Death is thought to have i been caused by a brain tumor, frem which he had l««n suffering for some time. .Mr. Amstutz had been employed at the Dunbar Furinture factory for i some time. Surviving are the widow and four • daughters: Mrs. Harold (Imhoff, Car- ' look, 111., Mrs. Henry Gilliom and . Mrs. Gordon Bracker, Berne; and Miss Anna Marie, at home; and one son. Ralph Amstutz, Berne. , Funeral services will be held at the home at 1:30 p. m. Monday and at 2 o'clock at the Mennonite church in (Berne. Burial will lie made at the M. R. E. cemetery.

BLUE PRINT OF PAGEANT GIVEN FIRST APPROVAL Pageant To Be Outstanding Feature Os Centennial Week Dr. Fred Patterson announced today that the pageant committee, of Which he is chairman, has tentatively approved u blue print prepared by the John B. Rogers Producing company for the stage and setting of the apeciacnlsr pantomime and hiistory of Adams county. The pageant will be staged on a natural netting of 24<t feet of drops and wings painted to represent an outdoor scene. There will be a large insert stage on which most of the acting will be done. One of the features will be coni cealed and indirect lighting. Amplification will ;be provided ’ in order that the program can be heard by the vast crowd expected. Several features which have been obtained for the pageant are Inot ready for announcement yet. The committee stated that these will make the pageant one of the most outstanding ever given in the 11 United States. 11 The committee visited the plant of the producing company in Fostoria. Ohio, and were shown the I (preparations being made by the crew of 50 persons for the scenery, script and costumes necessary I to accomodate the 600 persons tn i the cast. The entire spectacle will be free as a gift of purchasers of Centennial bonds to the citizens of Adams county and their thousands I of guests. PRESENT PLAY HERE TUESDAY! Civic Section Os Woman’s Club Sponsors League Play The Zion's (Senior) Walther league of Decatur will present “The i Red-Headed Stepchild." a comedyI drama in three acts, directed by Oscar Lankenau and sponsored by the civic section of Woman's club. Tuesday. April 28 at 8 p. m. in the Decatur high school auditorium. Following is the cast of characters in order of their first appearance : Mrs. Richard Russell—Richard's second wife —Mrs. Emma Lankenau. Mrs. Oliver Woodruff—Friend of Mrs. Russell —Frieda Schearer. Mrs. Emory Scott —also a friend of Mrs. Russell—Mollie Haugk. Briggs — the Russell's butler Harry Heuer. Lucia Russell —their daughter— Mrs. Laura Handler. Dudley Russell —their son —Richard Mailand. Richard Russell —a financier Oscar Lankenau. Elizabeth Russell (Bess) Richard's daughter from the west — Mrs. Gertrude Dull. George Garrison — presumably Lucia's daughter—Paul Hancher. Ethel Ashley —a young society girl—Vera Bleeke. Lucille Christy —a young society girl—Betty Schieferstein. Flora Farnum —Dudley's inamorata —Betty Haugk. Motion For New Trial Overruled Judge DeVoss today overruled ' a motion for a new trial in a damage suit venued here from Jay county. The case was brought by Fred H. Rowls against Arlet Walters and Leonard Pense. A jury on December 4, 1935 in • the Adams circuit court found for Rowles and assessed damages of $5,250 and costs against Arlet Wali ters. The defendant objected tb the , ruling of the court and was given [ 120 days to file all bills of excepi tion. Judge DeVoss today render- . ed a judgment on the verdict. An appeal bond of $7,000 was filed and approved. o Two Bandits Rob Ft. Wayne Office Fort Wayne, Ind., Apr. 25 —<U.R) —Two bandits took more than S9O from an open safe in the office of the National Biscuit company here yesterday afternoon, cowing three employes at the point of a gun while they ransacked the office. The men did not molest the employes, nor take any of their personal effects. They also left sev eral dollars in silver in the safe,

District Pythian Sisters Meeting Twenty Pythian Sisters will leave Decatiw Tuesday morning at 8 o'clock to attend the twentysixth annual convention of District No. 4 at Huntington, Indiana. 1 Registration will commenee ai 8:30 a, in. The meeting will be called i.-, order at 9:3b o'clock Mrs. Delton Passwuter of this city will Introduce grand and past grand officers. Mrs. Jumew Bain. past, grand chief, Mrs. Jessie Bunlge, past grand trustee and Mrs. Gitsla, Baker, present district manager, pre among those from this city to take part in the program. CROWD ATTENDS CABARET DANCE High School Affair At Sunset Park Is Well Attended The second annual cabaret dance held at Sun Set park Friday night provided entertainment for several hundred persons. The affair was sponsored by the Decatur high school and the proceeds will be used to provide funds for school activities. Gene Johnson’s ,e.rcheetra furnisheed the music for the dance and floor show. The floor show' was one of the most spectacular ever presented by local persons. It was opened with an exhibition cf fancy skating by Marion Hoagland and Vernon Affolder whc. did figure eights" and other difficult movements to (music. “The Dan e of the Dying Turnip” replete with intricate and aesthetic dances, given by a boys chorus, sent the audience into galee of laughter. Members of this chorus were B.; Trkker. D Bixler. P. Mughdi; A I Krueckenberg. J. Highland and D. I Stalter. A ball von dance which is alleged Ito have put Sally Rand out of bueiI nees was given by (1. Bright, D. Zimmerman and Z. Porter. A second beautiful dance was presented, by ’ M Staley. L. Teeters. M. Ward, M. Martin, J. Schrock, and L. Fleming. iA dance and song was given by Jeanette Whines and Don Death fol-1 lowed by a melancholic monologue. | read (by Harry Moyer, who intro duced Janies Darkless, local crooner- This nu'.nber was presented before a chorus of high school girls. Harry Moyer acted as master of ceremonies, introducing the celebrities in the best “night dub” style. The floor sh..w was under the I direction of Jeanette Clark and Sig-1 uard Anderson. Evelyn Adams, Mar | jorie Miller and Helen Haubold ac- ’ eompanied the numbers on the piano. Robert Ashbaucher and Lewis ■ Smith w'ere co-chairmen of the gen-1 eral committee. Deane Dorwin and ' Hugh Andrews faculty spons.',re. Th food committee was composed of Mrs. Penn Robinson, chairman; Mrs. W- Guy Brown. Miss Eloiee Lewton and Jeanette Clark. Dorothy Christen was the cashier. Salesgirls were Bernace Smith and Viola Hunter. Agnes Nelson was at the d'or. Bud Hurst was the maitre de hotel Waiters were Robert Worthman Eugene Friedt, Monroe Fuhrman. Ralph Ritter, Jack Eady, Herb (Banning. Ernest Wilson. Robert Fuhrman and Max Odle. 0 — Un instructed State Delegation Is Asked Indianapolis, Apr. 25 — (U.R) — Indiana Republican editors returned to their home communities today confident tha,t peace would prevail within the ranks of their . own party and that the Democrats . had provided campaign issues with (their intira-party fight. An appeal of Mrs. Elizabeth Major Simmons. Missouri farm wife, for an iinjn«tructed Indiana , delegation to the national Republican convention, was cheered by the editors as they closed their ( spring meeting last night. A few hours previously they had adopted a resolution declaring that “we join with that eminent Democrat, Senator Frederick Van i Nuys, in denouncing the McNutt, crowd’s misuse of the Indiana WPA for political ends o . Plan Addition To Peabody Memorial > > Fort Wayne, Ind.. Apr. 25. —<U.R) E —General contract tor the con- ) struction of a new memorial chap- > el and a memorial tower at the i Estelle Peabody Memorial Home in North Manchester at a cost of approximately $120,000 was award- • ed the Indiana Engineering and Construction company of Fort Wayne yesterday.

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ITALIAN ARMY OCCUPIES KEY CITY IN AREA Sasa Baneh Occupied; Mussolini Protests League Penalties Rome, Apr. 25. <U.R> Authoritative reports said today that the Italian army had occupied Sasa Baneh, key position on the'wayTo the vital Harar-Jijiga area in eastern Ethiopia. It was announced officially that th<> Italians in the north had com pleted their encirclement of Itake I Tana, source of the Blue Nile and I of incalculable importance to Great Britain's Sudan Egypt irrigation project, by occupying Bahr-Dar Ghigagis, at the lake's southern tip. Sasa Baneh is 105 miles southeast of Jijiga, on the main caravan route northward. It is not a town really, but a vitally important group of water wells, and thus the center of a large region in the Ogaden country. Today's report was a sequel to reports last night that the Italians had taken Daggah Bur, some 22 miles north of Sasa Baneh. Unofficial, though authorized reports said that a motorized column under Gen. Vittorio Verne took the town. Verne commands the Tevere division of fascist militiamen, which includes many Italians who came from the United States to volunteer. Daggah Bur was known to be strongly fortified, and the reports said that it was taken as a preliminary to the occupation of Sasa Baneh. Protests Penalties Aprilia, Italy. Apr. ’ 25. — (U.R) Premier Benito Mussolini protested anew against the League of Nations' penalties today as he founded the new city of Aprilia by plowing a furrow to symbolize its boundary. Standing on his plow Mnss.Jiiii shouted: “The furrows of Aprilia are made in the victorious time of our J African enterprise, the 14th year of the fascist era and the 160th day of the unfair economic siege against Italy which increased the disorder and misery of the world. “Today's ceremony demonstrates that our will is methodical, tenacious and indomitable." --o— VanNuys Says Probe Has Been Promised — j Indianapolis. Ind., April 25 (UP) I—l'. S. Senator Frederick Van i Nuys. whose charges that the Ind- | iana WPA rogram is controlled by I politics set off a campaign br-rnlv-ehell, today said he had received “indirect" word that a federal investigation haa been promised. Van Nuys, here for a few days to confer with political allies concerning the nomination of E. Kirk Me Kinney for goveri»?.r on the Democratic ticket, said he would lend hie support to a federal investigation. o ASSESSORS IN FINAL MEETING Township Assessors Hold Final Meeting Here This Morning The final meeting before the* close of the assessing work ont May 5 was held this morning by the township assessors in the offices of County Assessor Ernest Worthman. Tlie enrollment of assessors and their deputies was 100 per cent at. today’s meet. Mr. Worthman re- ' (ported at the close of the meeting that fine progress had been made and he expected all work to bo ' complete by the final date. H» had previously expressed some 1 doubt as to whether all assessors would have their work completed • in the allotted time. The next meet will be on May 5 in his office. This will also be the date of the monthly meeting of the township trustees, who by virtue I of their offices are assessors. The trustees will meet in the county ) school superintendent's office, ■ tvhich will be followed by a joint • meeting. s Assessing of filling stations was s the main subject ot today’s eeaf Hion. The work of the men will • be completed on May 5. The coun--1 ty assessor will have until May 20 tlto complete book work and tile 1 reports. -•-- —