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Technical Director * * V •. Nortnan F. Kruse Norman F. Kruse has been najiied as technical director for the new research department, launched by the Central Soya company of this city. Mr. Kruse was formerly with Proctor and Gamble of Cincinnati. COMPLETION OF WORK DELAYED Improvement At Zion Lutheran Church Delayed Short Time Workmen in charge of the con-, struction of the new addition to the! Zion Lutheran church are marking I time pending the arrival of the i steel beams for the superstructure. The local constructors have been informed that steel mills are at j least two months behind in filling their orders and that the local order will be filled as soon as poss-1 ible. They are expected to ar-rive-in the city in a few days. The foundations are being layed and finished. Others work requiring considerable detail and care is also being done at this time. The contractors do not wish to begin the flooring until the superstructure has been erected. It is probable that contracts will be let Sunday for the church furn--1 iture, which is to be of the finest quality. The pastor, the Rev. Paul Schultz, stated today that building supplies purchased last spring, have saved the church many hundreds of dollars. Since their purchase the prices have rieen. When completed, the local I if’OKTINHED ON PAGE BIX) — o Brands G. O. P. Charge “Bull’s Eve Os Error” Indianapolfe, Aug. 22 —(U.R) —The Republican national committee hit “the bull’s eye of error again.” when it attacked the administration of the WPA in Indiana. Omer Stokes Jackson, state Democratic j chairman, said today. He cited denials by Arthur H. I Berndt, Republican mayor of Bloomington, and city engineer John T. Stapleton, to whom the national Republican headquarters attributed the allegations of misuse of WPA funds, as substantiation of his contention that John Hamilton, national Republican ehairman, had “gone off halfcocked again." OLDEST BERNE RESIDENT DIES John Gerber. 93. Dies Friday Night At Berne Hospital John Gerber, aged 93, native of Switzerland, and Berne’s oldest resident, died at the Howman hospital there last night at 8:30. Death was due to comp'ications. He had been ill for some time. The deceased was born in Switz- | erland on December 12, 1842. He came to WaOaeh township in 1853 and has lived in that community | since. He was a member of the Berne Reformed church. He wa» married twice, to Anna Moser and to Caroline Stpeicher. both of whom preceded him in death. Surviving are the following children: Fred and Paul, of Los Angeles; Calvin, of Bluffton; Edward, of Berne; Abe, of Saskatchewan, Canada; and Mrs. Fannie Trout, of Berne. One brother( David, of Decatur and a half-eister. Mrs. Rosetta Speicher, of Berne a’so survive. Funeral aervices will be held I Monday afternoon at 1:45 at the home and 2 o’clock at the church. Burial will be made in the M. R. E. cemetery at Berne.

GOV. McNUTT HITS SYSTEM Governor Os Indiana Attacks Present Criminal System Boston, Mass., Aug. 22.— (U.Rf — Present methods of sentencing I criminals and granting paroles , were criticized last night in an address by Gov. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana before the Interstate crime ' commission. Either the law should be changed to abolish all definite sentences or the sentencing power should be | removed from the judge and plac-l ed in the hands of a central state sentencing, clemency and parole .court, which would fix the Initial sentence and adjust the sentence as time passed in accordance with the progress of the prisoner. McNutt said. Ample technical assistance for a complete social diagnosis of the offender should be at the disposal of such a court, the governor said. He condemned the unwillingness of state legislatures to appro priate sufficient money for prisons ' and said that as a result an insufficient number and wrong type of prison officers were employed. Contending that the prison administration prepares the prisoner for parole. McNutt said that if it iis inadequate, the whole parole system likely will fail. “Tn many states, and this includes Indiana, the parole boards know little of importauce about the i prisoners whose cases come before I them,” the governor said. "If the prison administration has (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Berne Bank Building Is Being Remodeled Berne. Aug. 22 —The Berne Community chorus, which furnished music at the Decatur Centennial, recently held an election of officers i for the ensuing year. Leslie B. Lehman was elected president. Other officers are: Marcella Habegger, vice-president; Corrine Habegger, ’ secretary, and Clyde Sprunger, I treasurer. BANKS REFUSE EXAMINATIONS Nine Kosciusko County Banks Defy Tax Board Investigators Warsaw, Ind., Aug. 22 — (U.R) — Kosciusko county’s nine banks defied six state tax board investigators here yesterday and refused to allow their ledgers to be examined. Grant B. Willis, of the Leesburg ' State bajik and president of the ! Kosciusko Bankers association, said the banks would stand firm unless ordered to yield by a court order. Yesterday's clash climaxed several days of bickering between the investigators and the bankers. “The ’rtvestigajors’ demands are tantamount to the lowest form of snooping," said Willis. "It implies that our institutions or individuals dealing with us are | guilty of cheating the state government. We certainly will not give way to such demands unless the circuit court supports them." Two of the investigators, it was i believed, left for Indianapolis last night, seeking from the state banking commission or from Attorney General Philip Lutz, Jr., to compel the banks to yield. Company To Accept Work Applications Officials of the Chamber of Commerce asked today that applications for work at the new furniture factory, which will open soon . in the old Macy building weet of . the city, be held until company officials arrive in the city. The Chamber of Commerce has no authority to accept applications. The company has announced that it will open its own employment office as soon a« labor is deeireu. o Berne Chorus Names Officers For Year Berne, .Aug. 22 — The Peoples ' State Bank Building here is now being remodeled. The bulldig has been ■ leased by the Indiana Service Corporation, who will open a new store in the building about Sept. 1 The Peoples State Bank recently con- ! eluded its liquidation process- with the depoeitors being paid n full, the depositors being paid in full, of electrical supplies.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 22, 1936.

Former Resident Enjoys Edition Mrs. Jennie Furman of Marion. Ohio, mailed one of the Centennial editions to Mrs. Ixiura Jeleff Breckenridge who Ilves in Colorado and who is a former Decatur- . ite. While she couldn't come, she says she enjoyed every line in the paper, was surprised that Clark Lutz doesn’t look a day older than he did forty years ago and what ' a fine looking man Fred Patterson Is.” She reviews the Centen-: nlal and It 1s certain, would, from her letter to Mrs. Furman, have had the time of her life if she 1 could have been here. Mrs. Fur- : man says she has been sick ever j since she returned home and thinks perhaps she Is still dizzy ■ from so mamy rides on the Merry- ! go-round. V. J. BORMAN IS CANDIDATE Local Man Candidate For District Legion Commander Members of Adams Post 43 of | the American Legion were leav-| I ing today for Muncie to attend the 18th annual state convention of their organization and to boost the candidacy of J.-Vincent Borman ot this city for fourth district commander. Mr. Borman is one of two announced candidates for the post. The other candidate is Col. A. L. Moudy of Waterloo. Fred Hill, I formerly of LaGrange is the present fourth district commander. The election will be the first order of business at the Sunday night sess ion. Adams Post drum corps will at- ■ tend the convention and march in | the military parade Monday afternoon. The arum corps is headed by Tillman "Tibby" Gehrig, drum major. The American Legion Auxiliary will hold its annual convention simultaneously with the Legion l meeting and a number of Decatur, - women are planning to attend. Mr. Borman has been endorsed by the local post and is well known l in Legion fourth district circles. He has a number of supporters throughout the district. Mr. Borman served eight months ovrseas, being stationed at Chateau Du la)ir, France. He was a mem--1 ber of Headquarters compnay. Q. M., Casual depot, which was attached to the first army division. He has filled several offices in the local post. The fourth district candidate I came to Decatur in 1919 from Clini ton, lowa. He is a member of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., organization in this city. o Local Women To Sing Over Station WOWO Mrs. Louis Holthouse and Mrs. Henry Neireiter will sing over radio station WOWO at 1:15 (CSTI Monday afternoon on the guest hour revue. True Fristoe will be the accompanist. o TAX SCHOOL TO BE HELD HERE Farm Bureau, Taxpayers Association To Sponsor School A tax school, sponsored by the Indiana farm bureau, Inc., in conjunction with the Indiana taxpayer's association, will be held in Adams county Tuesday, September 1.1 These tax schools will be held throughout the state. The first I one was Held Friday. Purpose of the schools is to examine count) budgets with a view toward making suggestions for reductions in tax levies. All meetings will be open to property owners, township and county officials, candidates for pub-1 He otfft'e and the general public. Marion county has not been included in the schedule as the Indtana Taxpayers' Associtaion in the county has stressed a fight for reduction of the county budget and it was felt that a tax school would not be necessary. “As taxes for 1937, which will be levied in September this year, will all be fixed under present laws, these meetings will not be in any sense political. The object is to closely and critically examine the proposed budgets, and, if possible, without in any way reducing the necessary functions of government, to eliminate every item proposed that is not absolutely necessary,” Lewis Taylor, president of the state I farm bureau said.

SEXTUPLETS ARE BORN TO WOMAN Only One Os Six Living; Others Are Born Dead Mendon, Mo., Aug. 22 — (U.R) — j The news that Mrs. Adeline | I Spiechinger, 56-yeiarold motiher of , i ten living children, had given birth to sextuplets 13 days ago brought the scores of visitors to this rural community today. Only one of the babies, a roeycheeked, 10-pound girl, lived. Five others were stillborn, and together weighed less than a pound. Dr. W B Lucas. 80-year-old country physician, who attended Mrs. Speichinger, said: “The five might have developed I perfectly and survived had Mrs. i Speichinger been in better health.’* Mrs. Speichinger had recovered from the ordeal of Aug. 9, and went about her farm work. She does all her own work and cares for her children, the eldest of ' whom is 15. Her husband, Philip, ■ was not upset. Dr. Lucas explained that Mrs. Speichinger’s condition probably I caused the delay in announcement. Instead of reporting the occurrence, he said, he spent hi«* time taking care of her. “I called Father Froctsch of the i Brunswick (Mo.) Catholic church to administer last rites. But we pulled her through.” Mrs. Speichinger and her husband live on a faj m six miles i south of Mendon. She is blond, and slight, and still in a weakened condition. She has five boys, and with the new baby, named Marjorie Louise, five girls. ”1 hardly believe it.” said Mrs Speichinger as she fanned her baby with a. newspaper. “1 didn’t think much about it though. I think my family’s large enough i now, don’t you?” The sex of the dead babies could not be determined. Dr. Lucas said. I He estimated they died about the , , second month of gestation. MOTOR CARRIER ACT EXPLAINED Cooperation Os State And Federal Governments Needed Indianapolis, Aug. 22. —"The motor carrier act of 1935 will have to 1 be administered through co-oper-ation of the federal and state govi ernments,” L. C. Loughry. told 200 , truck operators and drivers from I I four states at a dinner meeting of Indiana motor traffic association here Thursday night. Mr. Loughry was making his first public appearance since accepting the appointment of director of district No. 8 of the ibureau of motor carriers, interstate commerce com mission which includes the states of Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. ‘"The purpose of the bureau of motor carriers is to help the truck operator and by so doing to aid in the formation ot uniform conditions and regulations in the trucking field,” Loughry said. He warn- i ed that the enforcement machinery of the bureau was in operation and j that violation of the act would bring immediate penalties. 112 drivers representing 12 Indiana concerns received silver and gold pins from Indiana motor traffic association for driving six months and one year respectively without accident. These men travelled the amazing total of 5,250.000 I miles without accident during that I period. 0 Twins Association To Meet At Fort Wayne The National Twins Association will hold its fifth annual convention August 29 and 30, at Trier's I amusement park. Fort Wayne. This unique organization was I started five years ago .by Edw. M. i Clink. Twenty-four twins appeared the first year. Last year 1,200 twins and triplets from nine states and Canada attended the convention. There were so many twins that looked identical that the judges had to close their eyes and then look over again in order to award the prizes to» the right twins. Saturday, August 29. is reserved for out of town twins who will register at the Wayne Hotel. A tour ; of interesting points and public | places has been arranged for the afternoon. The big day of course will be Sunday, August 30. The day starts off with registration of twins, from nine till noon, when. all gather for a basket picnic lunch.

TWO SURVIVORS TELL STORY OF MINE DISASTER Two Survivors Os Mine Cave-In Tell Experiences Moberly, Mo., Aug. 22 —(U.R)—A story of 72 iblack hours imprisoned i with the bodiee to two companions i in a tunnel 110 feet beneath the earth's surface was told today by two survivors. The men —"Boomer” Jack McCann, 50, and Demmer Sexton, 37 — rallied from effecte of days ot breathing poison gases and fighting off exhaustion and starvation while determined workers toiled through I muck and fire-charred timber to! each them. Veteran miners, who never lost hope that their friends would be I rescued, were convinced that only . quick realization of their plight saved the men. The men, caught when the main shaft of the long-abandoned mine I i o’lapsed and tire started in the tipple, dobbed themselves behind a 1 barricade to shut off black damp and other mine gases. Within two hours the first man died. He was Edward Stoner. Jr. They ventured from their haven. Within a few minutes, McCann, tough, hardened veteran of the coal mines, said Stoner "keeled over.” “•.I tried to make him breath. 1 i pulled open his shirt and felt his 1 chest. His heart stopped just like that.” A few minutes later, George Dameron, 27. negro mule driver, suc- ■ cumbed to the dread damp. His mule, imprisoned with the men, died i too. McCann for 72 hours prayed and sang and kept awake, hearing the muffled noise from above that testified to the ineh-'by-inch approach of the rescue workers, and watching I ! Sexton grow steadily weaker. He walked to Sexton. He kept his ‘ eyes opened because he knew that ’ miners who went to sleep while breathing black or white damp al-! most always died. Sexton had a' growing lust for sleep. He wanted' nothing more as the hours and days i slowly passed, but McCann kept as-l ter him. “He knew for quite a while that he was fading out,” McCann said. "He talked about dying. Demmer; | was brave about it though.” McCann told of frightful visions and thoughts that came to him in the black hole. Several times for! short periods he couldn’t hear the j rescuers and he was convinced they j had abandoned the search. Once the pumping machinery above failed and it seemed hours to him before , he heard its reassuring rumble a-1 gain. The cave-in occurred Tuesday af- ’ ternoon and late yesterday afternon ' the rescue workers, who had dug day and night through scores of; feet of muck and debris, broke through to the 110 foot level. They first cleared out the stagnant air (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) RED MEN PLAN TRI-STATE MEET — Tri-State Meeting Os Organization Here September 26 Several members of the local Improved Order of Red Men attended the Red Men meeting in Green-1 , field. Ohio, last night to further ! plans for the huge Tri State Red Men meetings, which will be held here on September 26. At least 1,000 members of the lodges in Ohio. Indiana and Michigan are expected to attend the local meeting on that date, with leading lodge officials in attendance ' from each of the three states. Plans are now being made to hold an honorary mayor's initiatory class as a part of the night meeting of the order. An open meeting will be held in the afternoon. Other plans call for a parade of : members In full tribal uniforms, i with several bands. Those who attended the meeting i last night from here included: Otto Huffman, Frank Breiner, A. N. Hilton, Tom Johnson. Homer ! Hahn, Carl Hower, Dan Gould, ■ Chris Spangler and J. M. Breiner. o Annual Moose Picnic At Sun Set Sunday Plans have been completed for the annual Moose family pilcnid l to be held at Sunset park Sunday. A large crowd is expected to, 'attend the party. '

(’onducts Services * Rev. Lon Woodrum The Rev. Lon Woodrum will open a series of meetings at the Church of the Nazarene, starting I Sunday morning ajnl continuing until September 6. BANGS TRIAL SET TUESDAY Injunction Suit Os Huntington Mayor Set For Tuesday Huntington, Aug. 22 —Judge Albert B. Chipman. Plymouth. Frl-1 day, set 10 a. m. Tuesday for hear- , ing the injunction suit of Mayor C. W. H. Bangs to prevent the city council from trying him on 19 charges of misconduct in office originally signed by 36 citizens. The trial date was set after ■ Judge Chipman had spent the morning in Huntington circuit' court listening to arguments on the motion of attorneys for the councilmen t< dissolve the restraining order issued Mayor Bajigs August 6, the day the council was to proceed with the trial. Eben Lesh and W. D. Hamer. j argued for the councilmen and | i City Attorney Arthur D. Sayier l and W. H. Eichorn of Bluffton for 1 the mayor. Judge Chipman made I I no ruling on the motion, withhold- ! ing hfe decision pending the hearing on the merits next week. Arguments revolved around jurisdiction of the court, whether the i council’s resolution accepting the : charges should have been submitted to the mayor for approval or veto, and whether the charges should have been referred to the ! city attorneys for drafting. Lesh pointed out that when the chargee were filed there was no city attorney. He declared that the charges are in proper form and read citations which he sa.bl ! showed courts of equity have no | |)ower to enjoin the removal of an officer by impeachment proceedings. Mr. Hamer said that municipalities have inherent pow ers to discipline their officers. | ' and by the same power have right to adopt the procedure in such disciplining. i Eichorn insisted that the ordinI ance of 1906 under which the charges are filed is invalid ’because it does not meet the provisions of a 1909 amendment providing for appeal. City Attorney j Sayler said that he has reprej sented Mayor Bangw in their rei spective official capacities and if ' the charges against the mayor came to trial before the council he would preserve h>s position to ■ advise both the mayor and couni cil. He maintained that the coun-' cil's resolution approving the charge was actually an amend-1 ment to Ordinance 61 of 1906 and Should have 'been submitted to: the mayor for his action. — . 0 — Ernest Schudel Dies At San Francisco Word was received here today that Ernest Schudel died of heart failure in San Francisco, Wednesday. Funeral aervices were held I this afternoon in that city. Mrs. Schudel. who survives, was ; i' formerly Miss Katie Kirchner of Preble, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward K. Kirchner, and a sister of Charles G. Kirchner. The deceased was a brother-in-law j j of Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Biebericb, j Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Bleeke and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kirchner of Ala-. bama. o Huntington Pastor’s Wife Dies Friday Mrs. R. B. Mechstroth wife ot the Rev R. B. Meckstroth, pastor of the i St. Peters Reformed church in Huntington died last night following an j , operation. The deceased was well i known in this city. Funeral services ba held there Monday afternoon , I at 2 o’clock, j

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LOYALISTS IN OFFENSIVE ON EIGHT FRONTS On Defensive On Other Fronts; Seek To Appease Britain (Copyright 1936 by United Press) Madrid, Aug. 22— <U.R) —Loyalists took the offensive on eight of 11 civil war fronts today. On two more at Madrid and San Sebastian, they were on the defenHive. On the 11th. at Zaragoza, they were not! within reach of the rebel stronghold. It was the beginning of the sixth week of the rebellion led by high army officers against the left wing government. A revolt which both sides thought would laet a few days has grown in area, size, and ferocity like a monster conceived in a nightmare until Spain is a. welter of men fighting in bands ranging from handfuls to tens of thousands. until one has not far to travel to see the ruins or the blazing sheila of homes, churches, and public buildings, until the . country faces ruin. Rebel and loyalist leaders believe now that the civil war can not reach a definitive result within two months. Both sides are preparing for a winter campaign. This is the situation as viewed from the loyalist capital as this dispatch is telephoned to London today. Loyajists led by dynamiting miners have just taken Gijon. on i the northwest coast. Rebels who did not surrender died in the ' flames of their barracks-fortress. Makes Gesture (Copyright 1936 by United Press) London. Aug. 22— (U.R) — The Spanish government, hard pressed by rebels at home and NaziFascist powers abroad, made a, I gesture of major importance today by renouncing any right it might have to search British ships on the high seas. Further, it was announced off!I cially, the British and Spanish government twe discussing the i )M>sition of British vessels actually Inside Spanish territorial waters —in«ide the three mile zone as measured from the shore line. It was believed that by its action Spain renounced any claim to justifiication for halting of ships of any najion, and thus moved a long way to calm the rage, carefully nurtured by government press bureaus, of Germany and Italy. British leaders believed that the renunciation would be extended at once to ships of all nations, and would remove perhaps the chief cause for fear of an international blow up. Spain's action is believed to have been the result of urgent British representations, made privj ately as a friendly suggestion — but accompanied by an intimation that Britain refuses to acknowledge as legal any Spanish blockade on the high seas. Hope for deteniton of the dangerous Spanish situation grew with the report that, horrified at the savagery ot the fighting in the civil war, and fearful of international conflict over it, the power intended to appeal to rebels and loyalists alike to humanize their warfare at once, — -oWEATHER Generally fair tonight and Sunday; continued warm. CHURCH FLANS FOR SERVICES Rev. Lon Woodrum To Conduct Church Os Nazarene Services The Rev. Lon R. Woodrum will j open a series of special meetings at the Church of the Nazarene Sunday morning, and continue until Sunday, September 6. Services will be held every evening at 7:30 o’clock. The Rev. Faul Brandyberry, pastor of the local church, will j conduct congregational singing at I the services. Special musical j selections will be given each evening. Rev. Woodrum is known all over the nation as the ‘Edgar Guest of the gospel,” because he weaves Into his poems, Bible themes which are common to all. He represented the state of Missouri in a national anthology ' for 1932 and in the same yeao- was I presented in the Sidney Lanier I memorial of fimory university.