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fjjSMH ANO hjffiLEADERS ■peak tonight *Bdent To Lead >" •■■k-M I,inn, ' r H | Celebrations |K b . : • , ' l '“ J... k—» n ' ut L wl „, - «'"' k a "'“ k a ‘“"" s . * '>«£. D > S|U ' ,lk ‘ X, w York dinner Ur'.•■Hl! .lames A v pi iluipal guest —Krff'- 1 .uss., monopolistic ‘ aplt.il to ll'*' deal. Il,r Boston. Mass . addn-ss .... smi understood of his father's White St .i |, ■ , ini " : ' 1 ■ aidep. iidi'iit agM'liss of government. 1:f angles of administration Ittltikle toward business and ecoprohl should be develop«d lchi?‘’ li an unusual otatorical l There is notable uncerwithin 'he new deal how to proc led in curbing monopoly and dwdiiu with the issues which Jackm i. I likes contend are raised . ... wealth Ii of the conservative new tloc will be talking tonight: ary of commerce Daniel C. at Columbus. Ohio, and tan Jesse Jones of the reconion finance corporation, at , Tex. Secretary of agricullenry A. Wallace will give ricultural slant to the occat Des Moines. la. Chairman tn 0 Douglas of the securimd exchange commission, as warned stock exchanges >rm or suffer further federal lion, will talk in New Havnn. of it all should cotne a sizeitm of money for the demonational committee, which ost $300,000 in the red, and Indication of the general of new deal thought in the of the sharpest, if not the t, business recession on Business, whose leaders ■eek confessed fright to a committee, may find reice or further cause for in tonight's oratorical, lium. s Jackson and Ickes flayed siness Mr. Roosevelt has congress a special message J Uy regarded as considerably i loderate than the utterances 1 ie two lieutenants. lermore, he proposed in a! onference that business and i ment get together around a i an effort to solve problems. Hlmtion. distribution and which he believes largely at the bottom of current The conference pro-, does not fit into the plans ardent trust busters who prefer to move through legW Oll ln ‘’’Thing any evils found insist. Roosevelt last addressed a gathering of new dealers 4. 1937, victory dinner. just started his judiciary battle then. His was cracking in congress was headed toward the bitdefeat of his political career, although Mr. Roosevelt did B,, Pect it. He indicated on , J occasion in language considaEl by some Persons to be short, that he would not be i Sw’didate for a third term. Roosevelt said he could not ; POMpone or run from the fight to! J®''’ p conditions of the workers ’BBctory and on farm. .qF 11 1 defy anyone,” he said, the opinions concerning The railroad retirement act, recovery act. the 3g y coal act, the New York fflSK 1 "’ 111 wage law, and tell us v w hat, If anything, we can r the industrial worker in of congress with any deTm b ’ e eer,a!n,y that what we W 'I not be nullified as unconrecent changes in court ■NTINUED ON PAGE THREE)

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RECORDER FILES ANNUAL REPORT Increased Activity Is Shown In Heal Estate Market i A more active real estate market ! in Adams county during 1937 was . Indicated by the increase in the ! .mount of mortgages, shown in the annual report of Mrs. Ruth Holl--1 ingsworth. county recorder, which wu announced today Varloua kinds of deeds amounted , to $623,201.13. but Indicated only u . small amount of the actual value of the property which changed hands during 1937. due to the fait that of Sift transactions. 504 were ’! recorded by the parties at only $1 The yearly report is: Warranty, quit claim, executors', administra- . tors', commissioners'. cemetery, and guardian deeds and $1 transitions. number 819. amount $623,201.13; sheriff's deeds. 16. amount, $46.730 30; auditor's deeds five, amount $10,045: number of $1 . ! considerations. 504. and all other I miscellaneous paper recorded. number 317. Mortgages were: on farms and land, recorded, number 201. amount $947,515.37; mortgages on lots and city property, number 173, amount $324,283.68; school fund mortgages,; number 17. amount $14,320; chat1 tel mortgages, number 854. amount $503,432.69; mechanic liens, numtier 53. amount $89.768 82 Satisfactions were shown as fol- , lows: mortgages on farm land, number 212, amount, $727,381 61; . mortgages on city property, num ,1 ber 169. amount. $296,112.22; . ’ school fund mortgages, number. 11. amount. $10,130; chattel mortgages. number 438, amount. $129.-i 480.27, and liens, number 46. and amount. $5,144.65 Fees collected by the recorder during 1937 were: deeds, number 840, amount, $869; transcripts. , number six. amount. $10.50; mort- ! gages, number 391, amount, $636 - ' 55; mechanic's liens, number 53, amount. $13,25; chattel mortgages, number 854. amount. $426 75; releases, number 240, amount. $124 - I 20; assignments. numtier 39, amount. $1920; power of attorneys. number two. amount $2 40: article of incorporation, number ' one. amount $1.10; plats, number . two, amount $5; marginal releases, number 679, amount, $128.45; . marginal assignments. number j four, amount, 70 cents; miscellanJ eous, number 285. amount. $260; ! honorable discharges, number two. i amount, no charge; old age certificates, number 42, amount, no . | charge, and totals, number of instruments. $3,440, total fees. . $2,497.10. The fees showed an Increase in 1937 of $391.50 over 1936 when i they amounted to $2,105.60. o Crawfordsville Man Declared Corn Winner Lafayette, Ind., Jan- 8. —idl.R) 1 —J V. Riggins of Crawfordsville today was whiner of the 10-ear, 11-coun-ty corn show. The single-ear champion also from Montgomery county is Walter J. Harpel. Loyd Snelling won i championship honors for West- | point in the reserve single-ear division. The 10-year reserve class champion is Frank Goris. Tippecanoe county. Jacob Mundell, living near Frankfort, won the potato sweepstakes. oDEATH CIAIMS ANNIE CARLISLE Former Decatur Resident Dies Friday At Cincinnati Miss Annie R. Carlisle, 71, died at the home of her sister, Mrs W. E. Mayer of Cincinnati, Ohio, at 8 o’clock Friday evening. Pea'ii was I caused by complications after an : Illness of five weeks. Miss Carlisle resided in Decatur with her father and sister for a I number of years and later made her : home with Mr. and Mrs. George I Flanders. She was well known and well liked in this community, where she had a host of friends. | The deceased was born near Glasgow, Scotland, coming to this country with her parents when a small chi'd. She lived in Cincinnati and Decatur her entire ’ife. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Mayer of Cincinnati and Mrs. Ceorge Flanders of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at the Mayer home Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock with burial in the Spring Grove cemetery in Cincinnati. Mrs. Flanders and daughter, Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain, left this morning tor Cincinnati.

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Libel action for $150,000 has been taken by the E. i ' I duPotit de Nemmirs & Co., munitions makers i of Wilmington. Del . against the author and pub- l Usher of the new book, “America's 60 Families". The author is Ferdinand Lundberg, the publisher. Vanguard Press. A complaint specifying passages | in the book to which the company objects was to I Ibe filed. The “big three" of the dnPonts are pic- j Hired. They ate Irenee, left, vice chairman of tne

LOYAL FORCES CAPTURECITY ■ — Nationalist Commander Surrenders To Loyals At Turuel I Madrid. Jan 8 (U.R) — A few scattered but desperate national-! | ists held out in isolated buildings at Teruel today, challenging to the end the loyalists in control of the city. They were the remnants of the nationalist garrison which elected to remain when the loyalists entered the city December 2! They* had retreated fighting from house to house. Now. on their last legs, they were without food or water and the loyalists hoped to kill or capture them quickly. Between 2,000 and 2.200 persons, comprising the principal portion of the nationalist garrison along with women, children and aged , men. surrendered last night, with Lieut. Col. Francisco Rey D’ Arcourt, the 64 year old garrison commander. Early in the siege Col. Rey D'Arcourt sent out word to the nationalist high command that he wanted to die a hero's death. But the decision he made last night de-' tracted nothing from his name. For 17 days, the last few without food or water, he and his men, with women and children, had re- ’ treated from room to room of a group of buildings in the center of the city. Then they were driven ' down into the honeycomb of cellars beneath. „ In total darkness, with the groans of wounded men, the wails of hungry children and the sobs of women in their ears day and night. Rey D’Arcourt and his men fought on. They had hoped that the nationalists would relieve them by storming the city, but the loyalists i were holding back the relief army. Yesterday Col. Rey D’Arcourt was faced with the choice of | dooming the women, children and old men to a horrible death from starvation and lack of water or 1 seeking terms of the loyalists. He managed to effect telephonic contact with Gen. Vicente Rojo ; and Gen. Juan Sarabia, the two 1 ranking loyalist officers, through the Spanish Red Cross. The evacuation began in midafternoon. It_ took more than two hours to get all out and there was little jniHV’.ry activity all after-: | noon. Today the prisoners and the civilians were being cared for, in hospitals and homes. It was 1 planned to send all women and children to Valencia, the principal refugee center, on the east coast. Surgeons found that many of the nationalist prisoners had been wounded. All were suffering from hunger, cold and general privation. The government hoped that (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) Second Operation For Monroe Pupil Robert Gage, 12-year old Monroe school sutdent, who sustained a fractured arm in October when he fell to the ground after tripping on a piece of wire, was taken to the I ,S,t. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne : this morning, where a second operation was performed on the injur- } ed member.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 8, 1938.

Plead Insanity For Murder Os Wife i Columbus, Ind., Jan. 8. — (U.R> -j ; Evidence today in the murder trial ; of Standley Howard. 29, that he i has been in an "unconscious" men-! tai condition that indicates insanity ever since he allegedly murd- ; ered his wife. Mary, last Nov. 4 by crushing her head with a piece ' ' of stove wood and then choking her. | Prosecutor William Bowman has told the jury he will demand the electric chair for Howard. Defense attorneys intend to prove that Howard was insane : when he allegedly attacked and killed his wife the day after she had filed suit for divorce. They contend that he lias shown no re- ‘ morse or emotion of any kind since the crime and is in an abnormal condition. NEW OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED Spanish - American War Veterans Install New Officers Newly elected officers of B Company, 160th Indiana regiment of the Spanish-American War veterans were installed last night at the local Legion home in appropriate ceremonies. Harry Reed was installed as commander. Other officers are Orval Brentlinger, vice-command-er; Charles Kitson. adjutant and William Noll, quartermaster. Following the ceremonies, 'the veterans and their wives were taken to People’s restaurant for an oyster supper. Those who attended: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed. Mr. and Mrs. \\ . H. Foughty. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Hess, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brothers. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Brodbeck. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hahnert. Mr. and Mrs. William Noll. Mr. and Mrs. Alec Tanvas, Orval Brentlinger. Charles Kitson. Frank Peterson. George Myers. Jesse B. Roop, and Mrs. Ralph E. Roop. The auxiliary also held a short meeting before the luncheon. The committee for the next meeting of the auxiliary, as named last night: Mrs. Charles Omlor, Mrs. William Noll, Mrs. Alec Tanvas and Mrs. Ralph Roop. o Judge Treanor To Take Oath Tuesday Indianapolis. Jan. S—<U.R' —Judge Walter E. Treanor, who resigned from the Indiana supreme court recently, will be sworn in as a judge of the U. S. circuit court of appeals in Chicago Tuesday morning, according to word received at the office of Judge Robert C. Baltzell. o- * TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a. m 10 10:00 a. m 11 11:00 a. m 1° WEATHER Fair tonight and Sundays somewhat colder northeast portion tonight, not so cold west and south portion Sunday afternoon

I board of the H. 1. duPont de Nemours & Co ; Lam- | mot. center, president of the company and chair- : man of the board of General Motors corporation. ' and Pierre S.. chairman of the board of the de Nemours A- Co. The liook asserts that the “United | States is owned and dominated today by a hierI archy of its 60 richest families, buttressed by more j than 90 families of less worth." The duPont fami ily Is ranked eighth on the list of 60 mentioned.

JAMES MURPHY IS CHAIRMAN I Heads Telegram Committee For Birthday Ball January 29 I James Murphy, manager of the Western Union Telegraph office I here, today was named as chair- ' man of the telegram committee for the Birthday Ball for the President; to be held here Saturday. January 29. The appointment was announced by John L. DeVoss, chairman of the airair this year. Telegrams of congratulation will again be sent to President Roosevelt on his birthday. Sunday. January 30. as in former years. The telegrams will be signed by millions of United States residents on or before the Birthday Ball. The Western Union Telegraph company has announced it will again transmit the signatures free iof charge. A fee of 25 cents per name, to be collected for the telegraph company, will be returned after the party to the committees. As with other proceeds of the affair, 70 percent will be returned to the community from which it was collected and 30 percent sent to the national committee for research work. This has always been one of the chief sources of revenue from the Decatur committees, due to the fact that there is no overhead in the collection of the signatures. Mr. DeVoss is now selecting 1 other members for the Birthday Ball committees. Committee chairmen, whose appointments have been announced, will meet at Mr. DeVoss’ office Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock | to make preliminary arrangements for the Birthday Ball. LOCAL MAN IS HUNT IN WRECK Rollie Richards Escapes Serious Injury Friday Night ißollie Richards, 32, 721 Elm street was painfuly but not seriously injured last night when the car he was driving crashed into a parked auto. The accident occurred about 11:10 o’clock last night, as Richards was enroute south on Fifth street. His car struck a parked car and then careened into an ornamental lamp post. The post was bowled over and the parked car damaged. The Richards auto was badly damaged. Richards was taken to the Adams county hospital where his condition was reported as satisfactory this morning. He sustained bru'ses and lacerations about the face and knees. The parked car is owned by Paul J. Carns, of Fifth street, in front of whose home it was parked. Officers Roy Chilcote and Adrian Coffee investigated the accident. Richards figured in an accident several months ago, when he lost . control of his car, while crossing the Nickel Plate tracks on Winchester, the car turning over and j rolling into Memorial park.

JOHN HIRSCHEY IS ACQUITTED IN RAPE CASE Adams County Farmer Is Acquitted By Jury Friday Night Only two ballots were required ,by a jury lit the Adams circuit ' court to find John Hlrschey not ; guilty of the rape of his nine-year-1 old niece. The decision was re- • turned by the jufy at 7 o'clock Friday evening, two hours and 40 minutes after the case had been given the jury. The crowd of spectators, the ' largest since the first trial of Joe Everett for murder, remained in ! the court room until the verdict ! was rendered and applauded the decision loudly. Standing room was at a premium during the case, i which opened in the Adams circuit I court Monday i -Charges and counter charges were hurled by the attorneys in the closing arguments before the jury Friday afternoon and eveningProsecuting Attorney Arthur E. Voglewede asked that “this sexual maniac” be imprisoned for the rest of his life. Defense attorneys, I Edmond A. Bosse and Hubert McClenahan, suggested that the, ! “wrong man" was being tried and shouted “blackmail" at the father of the girl, who, they said, had concocted the story to collect SSOO from Hirschey. The alleged victim of the attack by her 42-year-ohl uncle remained in the court room throughout the trial, unaware of the furore she was raising. She smiled brightly; at oftters In the court room and laughed when defense attorneys charged she was precocious sexually or she would have not have answered so quickly the questions put to her concerning her alleged attack. The state suggested that she could never be a normal child because of her alleged attack. John Hirschey, the 42-year-old defendant remained throughout the trial, impassive and unsmiling. He testified on the stand that he i could not hear what was being said about him. The state accused him of having all the characteristics of a sexual maniac. Many of the spectators after the trial crowned around him to congratulate him. o ARRAIGN TWO BEFORE JUDGE Dick Morningstar, Herschel Johnson Returned To Jail Two men were arraigned before ■ Judge Huber M. DeVoss in Adams circuit court this morning and returned to jail to await the decision i of the court. Die* Morningstar, of Geneva, who ie under a suspended sentence, was brought up to answer a charge of violating his parole. Morningstar, i under a sentence of 2-14 years for forgery, was arrested because he failed to report to the parole officer. He stated that he was ‘“identified , in a Portland job, of which he was ' innocent, and became scared so he left the state." When he returned he was apprehended by Sheriff Dal- ' las Brpwn and deputies. Herschel Johnson, of Monroe, also was returned to jail to await sentence, ajter the court heard the complaining witnesses in the c-harge of assault and battery, placed against him by ’nis sister and brother-in-law, John and Juajiita Killian. The complaining couple, tearfully asked the court to be len- i (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 Receive Word Os Fritzinger Death Word was received here Satur-1 day by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fritzinger of the death of their uncle, Ed Fritzinger of Parryville. Pa. Mr. Fritzinger died suddenly Wednesday morning. The deceased was w’ell known in this community having visited here many times. He was a brother of the late Oscar and Erastus Fritzinger. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at the home of a son in Parryville. o——— Aged Muncie Woman Killed In Collision Muncie, Ind., Jan. B—<U.P>-Mrs. ! Alice May Bowe, 64, Muncie, was killed and her husband, Martin Bowe, and Harry Berry of Columbus, O„ were injured late yesterday in a head-on automobile colI lision near Zanesville, Ohio.

GIRL’S KILLING THOUGHT ERROR Slaying Os 16-Year-Old Girl Error Os Robbery (Jang South Bend, Jan. 8.- RJ.PJ—The "motiveless" murder of Melba Moore, 16, vivacious high school student slain three months ago while parked on a lonely lover’s lane with two boys, was explained to police today as the "error" of a midwest auto theft ring. Investigators accepted the story, told by Mrs. Cecil Hawkins. 26. and arrested laiwrence McCarty. 31. a paroled convict. He was being questioned. "It appears," said Sheriff William J. Hosinski, “that a member of the ring shot the wrong person during a revenge killing. Mrs. Hawkins said it was an errorThey meant to kill her.” He said her story tallied with police knowledge of the crime. Miss Moore, pupil at a Granger. Ind., school, was shot to death Get. 12 by a quick-trigger motorist. The girl's escorts. Adolph Stopper. 20. her sweetheart, and Charles Wai-: ton. 17, said they got out of their car to offer assistance to the mot-1 orist, who appeared to be in I trouble. Suddenly, they said, the man leaned out of his car. fired . six shots and fled. The girl was wounded fatally. From that time, police conduct- ! ed an investigation that revealed the case as <*‘e of the midwest's I strangest murder mysteries. Stop- ' per and Walton were released after convincing authorities that they knew nothing of the crime—and. ' even had not known the girl was fatally wounded until they drove her to her home. The case developed fictional aspects when police arrested and questioned Dr. Douglas Owen, criminologist and psychiatrist, educated in Vienna and operator of a private crime | laboratory. He was exonerated after several days of investigation. McCarthy, sought for some time, was arrested at Mishawaka. Ind., yesterday while making a delivery of illicit alcohol, Hosinsik said. The hunt for him was started as : a result of information given by Mrs. Hawkins, his former landlady, to a grand jury investigating auto thefts. She said she discovered several months ago that men were using i her barn in which to hide stolen cars. McCarty was the leader, she said, and from the time of her dis--1 covery, held her a virtual prisoner in her home. The day of the slaying, she said. : the gang released her to visit relatives in Eau Claire, Mich. They outlined, however, a detailed route on which she was to return home —the same on which Miss Moore was slain. __ ] “I didn’t come back that way," Mrs. Hawkins told Hosinski. “I'm sure the gang wanted to put me on the spot so they could continue 1 their operations unhampered. They: often threatened me. I know they thought 1 was the girl " o Patch Os Oil, Broken Life Preserver Found San Diego, Cal., Jan. B—(UP)— A large patch of oil and a broken life preserver were found floating on the ocean today in the area where a navy bomber disappeared Wednesday with seven men aboard. | The coast guard reported that the I oil resembles that from an aeroi plane crank case but a check from I navy disclosed that the life preserver did not come from the bomber. o LENHART RITES THIS AFTERNOON Bar Association Passes Resolution Os Respect Today ! (At a called meeting of the Adams ! county bar association this morn--1 Ing, a resolution of respect was approved tor E. Burt Lenhart, secrei tary of the organization for the ’ last 10 or 15 years. The meeting was called by former Judge James T. Merryman. Members of the committee to draw up the resolution were Henry |B. Heller, H. R. MeClenahan and Ferd L. Litterer. This afternoon, the bar association will attend the funeral services I in a body and six of the members wi’l act as ipall bearers. The services are not private and friends have been Invited to attend. They will be held at 2 o’clock in the home on West Monroe street. Members of the Knights of Pythias lodge will meet at the lodge home at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon • and then go in a body to the Len- ■ hart home, where they will present | ritualistic services.

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60,000 AUTO WORKERS RACK TO JOBS SOON Return To Work Next Week; Figure Expected To Increase Detroit, Jan. 8 <U.R>—More than 60.00 U employes of auto plants will | return to their jobs next week, officials of two major manufacturers disclosed today, and there were indications that the figure would be increased to lOO.OOtI within n few weeks. Approximately 55.000 persons who were working in Chrysler corporation before the plants were closed Dec. 23 will return to their jobs next Tuesday, corporation officials announced At the Hudson Motor Car Co., where a new low priced car will go into production soon. 6.000 men will be employed before the end of next week. Many of the 35.000 at the Ford Motor Co. River Rogue plant, laid j off before Christmas, will be rehired as soon as business conditions permit, according to Harry Bennett, head of the Ford personnel department. The return of 55.000 Chrysler workers, officials explained, will not affect the 20,000 men laid off during November and December. Plant operations will include a 24 hour week with the hours increasing as business conditions improve, officials said. No Structural Faults Found In Apartments Washington, Jan. B.—(U.R> —Administrator Nathan Straus of the U. S. housing authority released a report today showing that inde- ‘ pendent investigators found “no structural faults" in the $3,207,000 I Lockefleld Garden apartments at Indianapolis. ■ I Before the negro tenants could move into the low-rent housing project cracks appeared in the walls and ceilings. Straus called upon two New York building con- ■ struction experts to send invest!1 gators to Indianapolis. The report of Joseph N. Barr, of Barr and Lane, Inc., and Percy S. Vermilya, of Marc Eldlitz & Son, Inc., said that ’be defects were “not serious.” The investigators said that they would not hesitate about taking over the dwellings for ocj cupancy at once. REGISTER FOR WORK ON JOB — Local Men Are Registered For Jobs On New Building Registration of workmen for the building of the new junior-senior High school opened this morning at the council chambers of the city hall building. Scores of local men registered at the bureau this morning, with two representatives of the Indiana state employment service in charge | of registration. All workmen, who registered, were required to display their soI cial security cards. Carl Schinnerer. of Schinnerer and Truemper, who were awarded the genera! contract for the building of the new school, stated that as much local help will be employed as possible. Local workmen are expected to form their own unions, since Schinnerer and Truemper operate as union contractors in other citiesThe wage scale for the various (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Arraign Kidnaper At Richmond Today Richmond, Ind., Jan. B.— (U.PJ — William C. Marcum, 30-year-oid unemployed Newcastle carpenter, will be arraigned before Circuit Judge G. H. Hoelscher today and formally charged with the Christmas Eve kidnaping of John Bryan, 3-year-old son of J. L- Bryan cashier of the Centerville, Ind., State bank. The crime is punishable in Indiana by death in the electric chair or. life imprisonment. However since the boy was released unharmed and the $3,800 ransom asked not collected, the state is expected to ask only the prison term as a penalty. Harry C. Walters, 52, of Muncie, who admitted having a part in the kidnaping attempt, died in Reid Memorial hospital Wednesday after he tried to commit suicide' by , diving from a balcony in the couni ty jail.