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Only One in History r ; x'. IB* pH LP 1 n I < I Medical history records only one case of a “Siamese” twin to survive an operation separating the pair. Marie Keller, 9, born on a farm near Marseilles, 111., today is a healthy, normal girl as a result of a successful surgical feat which separated her from her sister who died at birth. DEATH CLAIMS - MRS. LINDGREN Mrs. Henry Lindgren Dies This Afternoon At Hospital j Mrs. Henry Swank Lindgren. 49, Chicago, a native of Adams county, died ad the Adams county memorial hospital shortly before 2 o’clock this afternoon. She had been a patient at the hospital since August 1. suffering from ixvmplications. The deceased was born in Adams county September 26. 1886. a j daughter of Sol and Dorothy Swank. She married Henry Lindgren in 1907, and had resided in Chicago since her marriage. Surviving besides the husband are one son. Leroy of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Samples, j of near Rockford. Ohio; and three brothers, Frank Swank of Adams .•ounty; E. F. Swank of Dayton, Ohio and Charles B. Swank of Huntington. Short funeral services will be held at the Black funeral home Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The body will be taken to Chicago for burial. _ o — Catholic Ladies Plan For Special Meetings All members of the Catholic LadI ies of Columbia are asked to attend special meetings to be held in the K. of C. hall Thursday. Friday and Saturday afternoons from 11:30 to 4 o’clock and Thursday and Friday nights from 7 to 9 o’clock. ’ A special representative from Canton, Ohio, will be present at these , sessions. TO PROSECUTE GIRL'S MOTHER Judge Rules Against Prosecution In Sterilization Case San Francisco, Aug. 20—<U.R) Unsuccessful in attempts to prove a doctors’ conepiracy in the sterilization of heirees Ann Cooper Hewitt, : state's attorneys eaid today they I will seek immediate extradition and prosecution of the feirl's mother, eocialite Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt iMcCarter, on the same charge, “I intend to bring Mrs. McCarter to trial as soon as we can get her out of New Jersey," said assistant district attorney August Fourtner. Fourtner'e intentions clashed with thoee of James V. Breslin, attorney for Mrs. McCarter. Breslin, it was reported from Englewood, N. J., will move tor dismissal of the detainer filed against hie client in I (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) !

TAKE MOVE FOR ORGANIZATION Calumet Region Workers Endorse Organizing Committee Chicago, Aug. 20— (U.R) -Endorsement of the steel workers’ industrial organizing committee by representatives of 4U.000 workers in the , Calument region was announced today by Van A. Bittner, regional director of John L. Lewis' committee for industrial organization. Bittner said the endorsement was i voted by 85 employes representative i es allegedly qualified to sipeak for I the 40,000 members of so-called I "company unions” in the huge steel i manufacturing center southeast of I Chicago. The meeting, he said, was held in the office auditorium of the i Carnegie-Illinois eteel corporation at Gary, Ind., last night ibut shifted 1 to the Moose temple at Gary when I the company "refused to permit the use of the auditorium.” “The unanimous action of representatives of the employee repre-i eentation plan of the Calument region in Joining with the steel workers organization committee,” Bittner commented, "Is the most itnpor-J tant deve'opment that has taken , place in the drive to organize steel workers.” The action was taken, Bittner said, by men representing worker of the Illinois-Steel company. Youngstown Sheet and Tube company, In-1 land Steel corporation. Joliet Works Carnegie-Illinois Steel conporation. South works Carnegie-Illinois Steel corporation, Gary Screw and Bolt company, Gary Sheet Mill company. Gary Tin Mill, American Bridge company, and Universal Atlas Cement. “These employe representatives actually will become organizers for the CIO.” Bittner eaid. “This action is a living example of the attitude of the men in the -steel mills and their intense desire to organize under the steel workers organizing committee for the pur- , pose of real, genuine collective barI gaining. “The action also is a further dem(CONTTNTTED ON PAGE FIVE) PLAN PROGRAM FRIDAY NiGHT Announce Program For Ice Cream Social Here Friday The complete program to be presented at the ice cream social. sponsor-*d by the Loyal Daughters class of the Evangelical church, was aainounced today. The social, will be held at Legion Memorial park on Winchester street, at 8 o’clock Friday night. Refreshments of ice cream, home made cake, frigie bars, popeicles, crackerjack, watermelon, pop and i candy will be sold. The program follows: “The world is w-aiting for the ; sunrise.” “Loef.” and “Somewhere a voice is calling." by a vocal trio ; composed of Misses Ruth and Doreen Swoveland. und Reginald (’Riffton. blind youth, formerly of 1 Decatur. Piano nolo —Betty Jean Weber i Guitar solo—Ruby Miller Piano solo —Marilyn Bonifa.s “Cling to Me,” and “The Rosary” i trio. Saxophone solo —Patsy Garard. accompanied by Reginald Cliffton. Piano solo—Phyllis Kolter. “Take my heart,” and “The touch of your Ups,” trio. Instrumental trio— Betty Fulrrmap. saxaphone; Ruth Hammond, clarinet; Etola Jane Eady, accordion. “It is true what they say about Dixie?” trio. Group of piano selections by Reginald Cliffton. The public is .invited to attend. Local U. B. Church Plans Camp Meeting Plans are being made for the camp meeting to be held by the members of the Firwt United Brethren church of this city at Butler Grove, east of town, Sunday. Augnet 30. A basket dinner will be served at noon and at 2 o’clock an interesting program will be heard. Davy Jones’ chorus from Fort Wayne will sing. Rev. A. Bash Arford of Indianapolis will be the i speaker. Other attractive program features have also been planneij. The meeting is 'being sponsored j by the Adult Christian Endeavour. society and the public is invited to j attend. |'

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 20, 1936.

Quarterly Church Conference Held The United Brethren church held : Its last quarterly conference for the year at the church Wednesday eveni Ing. N. W. Abbott, who will go as a delegate to the conference to be held at Winona, September 1 to 6. was instructed to ask for the return I of Rev. H. W. Franklin for another I year. Rev. Franklin has been pastor of the local church for two years and the congregation Is anxious for his return. CONDITION OF i OLSON WORSE Governor Os Minnesota Reported As Somewhat Weaker Rochester, Minn., Aug. 20 —(U.R) -—Gov. Floyd B. Olson, leader of Minnesota's liberal Farni-Lalbor forvee. was reported “somewhat weaker” today at St. Mary’s hospital where he is fighting for his life against stomach cancer. A Mayo clinic bulletin issued at 9 a. m. announced: “There has been no marked ! change in the governor’* condition. He is apparently somewhat weaker. He is tolerating feeding with an increasing amount of difficulty. Pulse a,nd temperature are practically normal.” The formal bulletin followed a lengthy statement, issued last night, .in w-nich three prominent Mayo clinic physicians, after consultation, anmunced that: “The governor’* condition is very serious indeed. What the outcome will be. we cannot know.” Maurice Rose, the governor’s chauffeur and close personal confident. who has been staying at the hospital since Olson was brought here la*t Monday, said the state executive had spent a restless night, suffered pain and his sleep was intermittent. -— o— Democratic Women To Sponsor Radio Program Democratic and Republican ladiea have been invited to listen to a program sponsored by the state Demoiratic women over radio station WOWO in Fort Wayne. Fridaymorning at 9:45 o’clock EST. Four . prominent business men will speak. —o- — Investigate Theft At Berne Residence Sheriff Dallas Brown went to Berne today to investigate a rob- ■ bery at the Levi Stucky residence in that town. The thief entered the home through a screen door and obtained $8 in cash. The thief also was reported to have attempted the theft of an fiuto owned fcy Dr. Harry Jones but evidently was frightened away. He is ajso suspected of stealing gasoline from David Stauffer. The robbery occurred about 1 a. m. New Albany Youth Drowned Wednesday Jeffersonville, Ind., Aug. 20. — (U.R) — Alvah Limeberry, 18, NewAlbany. drowned last night while swimming in Quarry lake north of here with his cousin Ruby Kepley, Allendale, 111.

Mrs. Tribble Relates Story Os Experiencesln War-T orn Spain

The first of the American residents to escape war-torn Spain, Mrs. H. F. Tribble and her two children, Theodore, 13, and Louise, 16, arrived in Decatur at 9 o'clock Wednesday night. Her husband, Major Harry F. Tribble, remained in New York City. News of her arrival in this city had been flashed over United Press wires. Long distance calls from a number of Indiana newspapers were awaiting her first account of, her experiences in the powder magazine of Europe today. Mrs. Tribbie will visit her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Dawson of near Decatur and her two sisters, Mrs. Russell Acker and Mrs. Charles Magley of this city, until the first of September, when she will join her husband in New York City. Attended School Here Mrs. Tribble, born in Elkhart, attended the freshman and sopho- i more years of the Decatur high j school while her father served his first pastorate at the Christian church here. She was married to i Major Tribble of Vincennes in Indianapolis in 1917, while Mrs. Tribble was teaching in Gary. The i [daughter attended the Decatur high-

STATE DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDERER Negro’s Attorneys Seek To Prevent Confession Admission Asheville, N. C„ Aug. 20—(U.R)— Coroner G. F. Baier, Jr., waved before a Buncombe county jury today the green silk pajamas worn by pretty Helen Clevenger the night she was brutally slain. Baier was reconstructing in vivid detail the manner in which the state charges Martin Moore, gangling negro, murdered the 19-year-old New York coed. Baier was called by the state in it* effort to send Moore to North Carolina's lethal gas chamber. He is charged with beating and shooting to deajh the young girl in Asheville’s fashionable Battery Park hotel July 15. Moore sat slumped in his chair, his face eotpreseionless as the coroner gave his testimony. His attorneys plan a stiff fight to prevent introduction of an alleged confession in hope of saving him from the deajh penalty. A few feet away from Moore in the stuffy little courtroom of Judge F. Don Phillips eat W. L. Clevenger and C. B. Clevenger, uncles of the slain glirl. They followed closely the testimony of Baler who told the court of making a post-mortem on Helen's body. He said ’he body showed numerous bruises in addition to the i bullet wound to which he attributed her death. Waving the -pajamas worn by the girl on the fajtal might, he i called attention of the jury to reddish brown stains of blood and a round, burned hole. “That is where the bullet was fired," he said, pointing to the hole. “The gun muzzle was close very close.” He gave his opinion that the , girl may have Hived for 10 minutes after the shot wan fired. Calling of Sheriff (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o LABOR TROUBLE IN MINNEAPOLIS Flour, Cereal Workers Go On Strike; Mills Suspend Minneapolis, Aug. 20. (U.R) A strike of the Minneapolis Hour and cereal workers union, affecting 600 terminal elevator workers today forced two of the city's large mills to suspend operations because of grain shortage. Labor trouble developed on an other front as the general drivers union of Minneapolis issued a call for a strike against 14 wholesale grocery firms. Picket lines of the striking grain workers were thrown around 30 terminal elevators and public warehouses. The union estimated the number of pickets at 500. Employes were turned back. No disturbances resulted. The resultant shortage of grain (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE)

school during her freshman year In 1934. Major Tribble is employed by the International Telephone and Telegraph company, known as the I. T. & T. The only American holdings owned by the company is the Postal Telegraph. He was sent on a special assignment to Madrid, Spain, in February. The approaching cjrvil war in Spain was heralded to Mrs. Trib- , ble on the day of her arrival last February. She was notified by the telephone company to keep off the streets as the Communists, who with the Socialists control the loyal Spanish government, were planning a demonstration for that day. From her window she saw thousands of red-shirted Communists, marchYng through the streets. As with the dozens of other demon (rations she saw during her stay, men and women were killed. Extreme Poverty Mrs. Tribble attributes the cause of the civil war to the extreme : poverty of the peasants of Spain. The average working man supports a family on 80 cents a day. I Living expenses are as high as they are in United States. In addition (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Report Mexico Sending Arms T Germany Sends Neu) Sharp Warning To Spain

German Officials Protest Actions Os Warships Os Loyalist Government; Stop Warship. FORCE WITH FORCE Berlin, Aug. 20. —(U.R) Rear Admiral Carls, commander of German warships in Spanish waters, in a message to the Spanish navy commander today threatened to "answer force with force" if there is a repetition of the Incident in which two loyalist war vessels stopped the German steamship Kamerun off Cadiz. Earlier, the German charge d'affaires at Madrid was instructed by the foreign office to "protest in sharpest form" agaihst the action of Spanish warships, which the German government viewed as definitely a violation of international law. Rear Admiral Carls' message to the Spanish naval command followed an order to German warships to protect German shipping “by all means" from interference by Spanish government vessels outside the three-mile limit of Spanish territorial waters. The order — the gravest issued by a government in all the five weeks of the Spanish civil war — was the result of the stopping by two Spanish warships of the German steamship Kamerun off Cadiz. It was announced that the order was to prevent a recurrence of such incidents. "Protest immediately and in the sharpest form against the action of the Spanish warships, which constituted a violation of all international law," said the order to the Madrid diplomatic officer. Even before the order, there was a noticeable flare of anger over I the detention of the ship. The fact that anger in Germany over international matters, as disclosed publicly, is regulated carefully by the government, lent importance to the incident. Articles, obviously governmentally inspired, in today s newspapers, call the Spanish warships pirates, buccaneers, and freebooters —warships of a nominally friendly power. The incident is called serious, and a flagrant violation of international law. In a typical editorial, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said: "Germany will adhere to its policy of non-interference in the revolt. But incidents like this, and Moscow's interference, are apt to make efforts of European states illusory and create a serious situation. “Since international law provides that no ship may be stopped outside th ethree-mile zone (it was reported officially that the Kamerun was stopped 7% miles from shore) the halting of the Kamerun was a flagrant breach of international law. All German vessels (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O NEW SCHOOL AT BERNE REFUSED Proposed Construction Os New Building Is Refused Hopes of construction of a new school building at Berne have faded with announcement that Thurman A. Gottschalk, state senator of Berne, has received word that the proposal has been refused. The proposed construction has been definitely turned down by the regional office at Fort Wayne, upon the advice of state headquarters at Indianapolis. Two reasons were given for the refusal: Insufficient funds were allotted to Adams county for the construction of such a school. There are an insufficient number of men on the relief rolls. A bond issue for $29,268 had been floated at Berne through the efforts of the town board of education and no complaints to the bond issue were filed. Proceeds of the bond issue were to be used for the construction of ths building, but the building was subject to a federal grant to 'Complete financing the under the PWA. Cost of the (building had been variously estimated at from $125,000 to $150,000.

King: on Cruise [~ — 1 G* W •>W- 1 ' i is. X > fl //kJ M f t Ba - s jH His briar pipe and sports tweeds testified to the informality of King Edward VIII when his Britannic majesty took time off from royal duties to take a cruise of the Adriatic, stopping off aX the 'little port of Sibenik. Yugoslavia, above.

TWO RUSSIANS ADMIT GUILT Former Bolshevist Leaders Admit Reign Os Terror (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Moscow, Aug. 20. — (U.R) — Gregory Zinoviev and Leo Kamenev, former bolshevist leaders on trial with 14 others charged with plotting the death of Josef Stalin, admitted on the witness stand today that they had planned to spread bloody terrorism in Russia. They not only admitted but virtually boasted of it. courting almost certain death before a firing squad, it was indicated that the present defendants may be only the first batch who will be so tried. In admitting his guilt. Kamenev spoke in a professional manner directly to the prosecutor, Andrew Vishinsky. In contrast. Zinoviev orated to the crowd. "I am now finally determined to tell all the truth.” he declared. ”1 have no illusions after my grave past as to the reaction of the court to my words, but I will tell the truth.” Referring to a charge made yesterday by I. N. Smirnov, another defendant, that he had lied, Xinoviev said: "Yes, I lied often since I started the struggle with the bolshevist party. I went all the way from oppostion to counter-revolution to terrorism and actually to fascism, because Trotzhyism plus terrorism is fascism." Zinoviev admitted tliat he had ordered his former secretary, Bogden, to kill Stalin. While Katnenev was testifying, I. I. Reingold, another defendant, interrupted to say that Bogden had killed Stalin, &o that the affair could be covered up fully. ißogden, however, committed suicide without making the attempt on Stalin. Speaking vehemently, Reingold. a slight tallish, dark man, accused Kamenev and Zinoviev of moral responsibility for Bogden’s suicide, which lie ascribed to unwillingness to kill Stalin. Kamenev was asked directly by Andrew Vishinsky, the prosecutor, whether he had participated in tire killing of Sergei Kirov, Stalin’ old friend and associate, in 1934. for which 115 nien and two women were executed and more than 100 others jailed. Kamenev replied that he was in (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) 0 WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain north portion tonight or Friday, warmer north portion Friday.

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Report Os Arms Shipment Brings Fear Os New Crisis In Revolt; Estimate Death Toll 1,000 Daily. AWAIT ASSAULT (Copyright 1936 by United Press) Mexico City, Aug. 20— (U.R) — More than 30 railway car loads of war munitions are en route to the Spanish government from Mexico City, reliable informants said today. Confirmation of the destination, and of the implication that the hid to the left wing government of Spain came from the left wing government of Mexico would be calculated not only to shatter any hope of a neutrality agreement, in the revolt but to engage. Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, leaders of the Fascist-Naai governments of Italy and Germany. What their response might be was eonjecturaible. It was learned definitely that the munitions, arms and ammunition, left Mexico City for Vera Cruz in two special trains yesterday, one in mid-afternoon, the other at 7 p. m. They are due there today and information is that they are to be put aboard the 9,689 ton Spanish liner Magallanes of Barcelona. This ship is one of the Spanish Trajisatlantnc line, owned by Juan March, “richest man in Spain” and alleged financial backer of the revolt. The line has been sequestered by the Spanish government. The liner was due to leave Vera Cruz two days ago. To the astonishment of the passengers and the mystification of Vera Cruz shipping circles. th« departure was, delayed. Now. informants believe, the delay is explained — an order to await the munitions shipment. 1.000 Die Daily (Copyright 1936 by United Pressl Hendaye. French-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 20 —(U.R) —One thousand men are dying each day in the Spanish civil war, it was estimated here today. Their burial is confronting the people of Spain with a problem which they must, solve or pay the price in the threat of an epidemic of disease. United Press reports, on the basis of information here, at Lisbon ajid at Gibraltar, the key frontier points, are that the problem, is being met. But it is being met in ways that may mean that as many as onethird of the victims of the civil war will remain forever as unknown soldien-s, their bodies burned in pili* or thrown into common graves to be covered with quick lime. French government authorities were understood to have ordered today establishment of a special frontier sanitary service to guard against the spread of possible epidemics from Spain As previously reported, news from San Sebastian is that typhoid has appeared there. It has not been possible to establish definitely whether this report is true.

(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o— FARM OWNED BY BANK IS SOLD Van Wert County Farm Is Sold At Public Auction Theodore Merkle of Liberty township. Van Wert county, Ohio. Wednesday, purchased the 106acre McCrory fajm owned by tho Old Adams County Bank, at a price of SBO an acre. More than 100 persons attended this sale which was cried by Col. Roy Johnson. Robert Kramer, assistant special agent, a,nd Henry B. Heller, attorney, were in charge of the sale. Bids were also received today and yesterday on 12 building lots scattered over Decatur. None were accepted because they were less than the appraised value of the property. They will be held by the bank and offered for sale at the bank buSlding until sold. When the lots are sold, the only real estate owned by the bankwill be the bank building. It is possible that more will be acquired as the bank has several foreclosure suits pending.