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Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday Ministers of the Decatur ministerial association will meet in regular session next Monday morning at u .to at the Reformed manse. The program for the union Good Friday services wIV be planned. A report of the leadershp training school will be given. All ministers are requested to he present. NAVAL POLICf OF NATIONTO GUARD COUNTRY President Personally Recommends Strong Naval Policy Washington. Mar. 4 (UP)—President Roosevelt personally recommended that the pending billiondollar naval bill declare it the policy of the United States “to protect our commerce and citizens abroad." it was learned today. Chairman Carl Vinson. D. Ga resisted strong efforts in his house naval affairs committee to modify the language, it was disclosed, by telling members that the words were the president's own. The statement is contained in the “policy amendment" voted into the $1,113,546,000 authorization measure wfia-li was reported favorably yesterday. It was learned that some of the firmest supporters of the new deal and a bigger navy protested that the language would be construed by isolationists as an affirmation or an extension of President Roosevelt's Chicago address of Oct. 5. in which he cited the principle of quarantine against “an epidemic of world lawlessness." The policy amendment, as changed slightly in committee .from the language originally offered by Vinson. said in part: "It is declared to be the fundamental naval policy of the Unit'd COffT'NUED OX PAGE THREE* FORMER LOCAL RESILIENT DIES Mrs. Rachael Blackburn Dies Thursday At Home Os Daughter Mrs. Rachael Dutcher Blackburn, 94. widow of the late William Blackburn and for many years a resident here, died at 5:20 Thursday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Richard Burrell at Rochester, where she had made her home the past seven years. Death was due to infirmities ot old age. She was in usual health until last Saturday, when she became ill and her decline continued until death relieved her. Mrs. Blackburn was a well known and widely beloved lady. She was born in Ohio but came here when a young girl and lived here until she went to Rochester. Her husband was for many years the driver of a stage coach between Decatur and Fort Wayne, and later served several terms as township assessor. He died in 1923. Surviving relatives include, one son. Page, of thfs city and two daughters. Mrs. Carrie Gwinner of Dodge City, Kansas and Mrs. Burrell. Short funeral services will be held from the Burrell home in Rochester Sunday and at 1:30 Sunday afternoon from the Presbyte: (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) File Divorce Suit In Circuit Court Charging that the defendant cursed her and refused to work and pro vide for her. Cecil Reinhart filed suit for divorce from Emil Reinhart in Adams circuit court Thursday. They were married in October 1916. — Fort Wayne Woman Undergoes Operation Mrs. James Brown of Columbia Avenue. Fort Wayne, underwent a major operation at the Adams coun ty memorial hospital Thursday. Her condition was reported as being good this morning. ' □ — Lewis Smith Heads College Fraternity Word has been received that Lewis Smith, freshman at Indiana University, has been chosen fresh man president of his fraternity, Delta Upsi'on. He ta the son of Mr. jaud Mrs. Fred R. Smith.

Landslide Crushes Houses in California Flood

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BIERLY FILES ; AS CANDIDATE t 1 County Clerk Is First To File Declaration For Nomination 1 G. Remy Bierly. incumbent county clerk, was the first candidate to j file a declaration and petition for . nomination at the May primary on May 3. Mr. Bierly filed this morning ’ on the opening day for filing. He is 1 seeking renomination on the Democratic ticket, Mr. Bier'y, before assuming the office of county -clerk, resided in Hartford township on a faun. He also served as principal of the . Poling school for many years. He ’ assumed the office on January 1, ) 1935. On assuming the office, he moved with his family to this city to be I m-are: and more efficient!,, handle the duties of the office. Thirty days are allotted for candidates to file for the petition. April 2 being the final day. Petitions are II to be filed with the declaration. Others File '■ By late this afternoon six Demos' crats and one Republican had filed declarations of candidacy for ■’ public offlc. 1 The Democrats: Ed P. Miller, candidate for sher--1 iff. 1 August Schlickman, candidate for assessor. I John H. Duff, candidate for trustee, Hartford township. II Ernest Worthman, candidate for s assessor. 1 George Strickler, candidate for 1 sheriff. '■ Victor H. Eicher, candidate for , (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TAX DUPLICATES ' FOR CITY READY p it Duplicates Are Available For Payment Os Spring Taxes Tax duplicates for the city of Decatur will be available at the counf ty treasurer's office Saturday, March 5. it was announced today ,_ by Treasurer Jeff Liechty. Duplicates may be had by calling 1 or writing to the office to learn the amounts. All duplicates for the townships, ' Berne. Geneva and Monroe corporations are available and have been for some time. Residents are asked not to phone to learn amount of taxee but to cal! 1 at the office in person or write for information. a May 2 will ibe the final day for a payment of the spring installment i- of taxes. r ® K C. Os C. Directors Meet Monday Night The board of directors of the DeV catur Chamber of Commerce will meet at the office of the president, t John b. DeVose. Monday evening at a 7:30 o'clock. Final plans will be i- made for the annual membership r, drive, opening Tuesday morning, ■’ and all directors are urged to be I present at Mondays meeting.

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Decatur. Indiana, Friday, March 1, 1938.

Return From V isit In Phoenix, Arizona Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols have returned from a two months’ visit in Phoenix. Arizona. They were accompanied by Mrs. Nicholas' brother. I,eo J. Miller of Fort Wayne and were the guests of Mrs. Miller and sons, who are spending the winter in Arizona, returning to Fort Wayne in June. While in the west. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols spent a wee!: in Lo: Angelee and several days at Redlands, visiting with Jake Meyers and family. former Decatur residents. They left Phoenix Monday and arrived in Decautr Thursday evening. They reported a fine trip home. POUR FOOTINGS ATNEWSCHOO'. First Os Concrete Footings Are Poured At New Building The first of the concrete footings for the new $245,0J0 junior Decatur high school building were poured yesterday. Pouring of the footings for the new structure was de'ayed today, however, because of the extreme cold weather prevailing. Carl Sehinnerer, of Schinnerer &- Treumper, general contractors for the new building, estimated this morning that 10 days would he required for the pouring of the footings. weather permitting. Meanwhile excavation work continued at a fast pace, with the huge crane digger working daily to re-' move the tons of dirt to form the school basement. Mr. Schinnerer stated that pouring work will follow immediately behind the crane, now on the last lap of excavating at she east section of the ground. He stated that about 10 days will i be required for the excavating if the weather is not too inclement to prohibit working. All plans have been perfected and i work is expected to progress rapid(OONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT)

LENTEN MEDITATION (George O. Walton) (Presbyterian Church) . < “IF” "If we walk In the light as He Is in the light. we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sins " —1 John 1:7. 1 i Eternal destinies are forged bv the little word “if” It snnlls the i difference between saint and sinner It is a word which hounds ns to our dvlng dav It is an irresistable mirror everlastingly reflecting the ( man we want to be. the good we are going to do. the new start we are going to make. It is a word that stabs. There is nothing flaccid or snfneless about it. It will not nass for a wish or a dream. It is a word which can become an active and virile force in shaking ourselves from lethargy and self-complacency As such it belongs to the Lenten season * A grave mistake is made when we separate the last word of the text from the first. The blood of Jesus Christ does cleanse ns from all sin but that is not all. It cleanses if—lF we walk in the light. It . . it not something done once and for all but a continuing process made - possible by an active response of the individual. It is not merely believing something, it is being and doing something. Therein lies our great need. Our faith must have some vital active outlet If we are communicant servants of the church of Jesus Christ we must be active in service We testify to a miserable Indictment of the estimate of our own personality when we flippantly tell the world we go to church on Easter or Christmas. No man can look as Calvary and joke about ' ! his obligation to the institution which the cross made possible. ' i Yes this cleansing life if ours—if. If we are big enough to receive . It jeans revealed that life, lived that life, gave that life and In giving it called it forth in others. Live it we must by the redeeming grace i of God. 1

Ithe dwellings to collapse. A boy was killed in the < landslide that crushed the house pictured here ■ perched precariously on a hillside.

i DEATH CLAIMS ( MRS.TINKHAM I Mrs. Flora Tinkham Dies Thursday Night After Long Illness < Mrs. Flora Myrt’e Tinkham. 53, ■ life-long resident of the county and widow of the late Orville Tinkham. ( died last night at 9 o'clock at her home. Death was caused by carcinoma following an illness ot nearly two years duratioif She had been bedfast for 20 weeks. The deceased was born in Blue Creek township March 11, l£S4 the daughter of Aaron and Eliza Wil-liams-Lautzenheiser. She was a member of the Sa'em M. E. church ,i. ’ of the Gleaners. 1 Surviving, besides a foster son. Earl, are the following brothers and sisters: Mrs. Sadie Tinkham. Willshire. Ohio; Mrs. Emma Teagarden Winchester; Frank Lautzenheiser, Washington township; Roy Blue Creek township and Clinton, Willi shire. The husband was killed two years I ago in an auto accident near Monroe. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’c'ock at the home and at 2 o'clock at the Salem , M. E. church, with the Rev. Vernon Riley, assisted by the Rev. James . Barr, officiating. Burial will lie , made in the Tricker cemetery, near Salem. The body will be returned to the home, one mile south and one-quar-ter mile west of Salem, this evening from the S. E. Black funeral home . and may be viewed there until time i , for the funeral. o Two Trucks Collide Here This Morning 1 A Kocher Lumber Co., coal truck. Frank Klfngepeel. driver, backing ' out of the alley east of the license bureau office, struck a Decatur ' laundry truck. Fred Staub driver, this morning at 11 o’clock. The laun--1 dry truck was damaged, one headlight being brdken and one fender mashed flat. No one was injured.

Dwindling Food Supplies Add To Suffering In California Flood Area; Fear 200 Dead

KIDNAPED LAD’S PARENTS READY TO PAY RANSOM Murray Levine Ready To Pay Ransom For Son’s Return New Rochelle. N. V. March 4 — (UP) — Murray Levine, prosperous attorney, waited anxiously today , for the kidnapers of his 12-year-old son. Peter, to respond to his appeal to surrender the handsome blueeyed boy and collect their ransom | reputedly $60,000. "1 am ready,” the distraught father said. "The way is open. Police and G-men left a clear I channel to the Levine home and Levine reassured the abductore that "the police and fedeial authorities are not interfering and will not interfer.” Levine issued his appeal, his sec- I ond since Peter disappeared eight days ago on his way home from school, through newspapers late yesterday and repeated it in two radio broadcasts last night. Last evening a black sedan bearing New Jersey license plates stopped in front of the wood-and stucco Levine home, and a man stepped out. The door of the house was opened before he rang the bell, and he was admitted promptly. Soonafterward, he came out accompanied by a woman and a young girl, and sped away. The woman was believed to be Peter’s mother, Mrs. Minnie Levine, and the girl his sister. Helen, 10. The license plates led to identifikCQNTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o DEATH CLAIMS MRS. BORMANN Mrs. Margaret Bormann Dies This Morning At Home Os Son Mrs. Margaret Bormann, 68, a resident of the city for more than two years, died this morning at 4 o'clock at the home of a son, Vincent Bormann. Death resulted from complications. The deceased was born in lowa August 10, 1869. the daughter of Paul and Cynthia Eng.'er. Iler husband. Mathias Bormann, preceded her in death 15 years ago. About two and one-half years ago, she moved to this city to make her home with her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Bormann. She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Clinton, lowa, of the Rosary Sodality there and of the St. Mary's society of this city. Surviving besides the eon, are two brothers, John and Jacob Engler, both of Clinton. A son and two brothers are deceased. A granddaughter. Barbara Kay Bormann, (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) Continue Search For Missing Liner Fresno. Calif., March 4—(UP)—A fleet of 60 planes was organized today to search for a transcontinental and western air liner which disappeared in the vicinity of snowcapped castle pealk, 60 miles east of here, Tuesday night with nine persons aboard. Six searching planes flew over the area yesterday, and 400 ground searchers fought through heavy snow flrriee and biting winds without finding a trace of the liner. Local airmen feared that it had crashed on a mountainside, possibly during a snowstorm, and that the six passengers and three members of theVrew were dead. TEMPERATURE readings DEM<M”RAT THERMOMETER 8:00 a m 18 2:00 p.m 26 I 10 00 a.m 21 3:00 p.m 29 Noon 22 WEATHER Snow north, rain or snow south portion tonight; Saturday rain south, rain or snow north portion; rising temperature tonight and Saturday.

HALL TALKS TO ' DECATUR ROTARY Central Sugar Company Head Speaks To Club On Cooperation — “An intelligent political administration ranks at the top of the factors, which make industries accept invitations to move Into communities," Roy Hall, of Fort ' Wayne, president of the Central Sugar company, and executive I vice-president of the Central Soya | | company and the McMillen Feed Mills, told Rotarians Thursday ? night in a talk on "The Relation of Industry to the Community.' , Five primary relations of the] community to business were given i by Mr. Hall in an analysis of why industries select certain communities to set up their factors. First, he said, that industry must ■ consider the political administrai tion of the community and added, ! "we have an administration which is business-like and which we can be proud of in Decatur." Second, he listed the suitability of the locality to the kind of business to be operated, and cited the example of a Milwaukee factory which moved into a rural district with the result that its employes became disatisfied and cost the firm hundreds of thousands of dollars because they could not become accustomed to rural life. Third, he listed available labor, saying that in America approximately $12,000 is invested in machinery and equipment for every man employed. High type of American labor and the high pay is due to this investment, he said. Wages are low in China, where the average investment per mau i is only $lO. Fourth, he named churches, schools and social environments which he said reflect Ln th" profit and loss columns. Good environments are necessary to keep the workers and their families happy Fifth, he gave community spirit as displayed by Chambers of Commerce, service clubs and civic movements. He said that idle ) time was one of the problems of : the country today and that cooperative effort by the good of the : community was ot an advantage to a factory. Mr. Hall then gave the factors determining the desirability of an ' industry to a community. First, he said, business owes it to the community to be properly financed and not operated on a shoe string. Second, he said, the management must be responsible to the community for more than the pay rolls. It must show an interest in the employes and encourage morality in them. Third, the management owes encouragement to the employes to be more than inhabitants of the community. They should be home own- , ers and real citizens, he said Fourth, he said, the standard of production should be high that competition might not eliminate the industry from the community. )< (NTINUED ON PAG E FIVE) BAND CONCERT HERE SUNDAY Decatur School Bands r l o Present Hour’s ( oncert Here Sunday An innovation in band presentations will be held at the Decatur Catholic high school auditorium Sunday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock. The Decatur school bands, under the direction of Albert Sellemeyer, will present an hour concert of varied presentations and specialties, i An approximately 15-minute convert wi'l be given by the boy s band, ithe girls band, the Decatu- high school band and the combined . bands. Specialties between concerts will include a trumpet quartet, an oboe solo, an accordion-saxaphone sextet and a German band. Tickets • are selling for 10 cents to school children and 20 cents to adults. Proceeds from the affair will be divided equally between the public and Catholic schools. The complete program for the concert is to be announced Saturday. i

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10,000 Persons Homeless As Result Os Rainstorm And Landslides; Heavy Property Damage. SUPPLIES LOW Los Angeles. Mar. 4 — (U.R) — Dwindling food supplies added to the Buffering today in water-soaked southern California as officials estimated the death toll of the rec- . ord-breaking rainstorm and flood would reach or exceed 200. Eighty-seven persons were known dead. One hundred fifty persons were reported missing and believed !dead. Property damage was estimated at $25,000,000. Ten thousand persons were homeless. Many communities still were isolated and without communication facilities. Looting of abandoned homes was widespread. Six men were arrested for looting Sheriff Eugene W Biscauluz of Los Angeles county issued orders to bring in looters “alive if possible —but bring them in.” All rail transportation was halted by land°lides and washed out bridges and roadbeds Los Angeles received its first mail in two days. A coast guard cutter brought it from San Diego. A large part of the 3.000.000 population in the flood districts still was cut eff from communication with the outside world. San Bernardino. Riverside, Santa Ana, Anaheim — all prosperous citrus producing areas —were isolated and without communication. Camp Baldy, Palm Springs. Victorville and San Bernardino wore only a few of the communities where food supplies were running low. The 39,000 persons in San Bernardino were without gas, the electric supply was spasmodic and (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) 0 ICE AND SLEET SLOW TRAFFIC Streets. Sidewalks Dangerously Slinnnry As Result Os Sleet Mother Nature unleashed one of her most inclement elements on the city and community today to make driving the most hazardous of the seaspn. Cautious drivers, ears and noses : tinted red from the brisk wind, leaned out open windows in an effort to see the road and pavement as the sleet quickly froze on windows and windshields. i Defrosting shields, defrosting fan*, heaters, and a number of ingenious methods were employed, along with the usual razor blade and knife in an effort to remove the ice from windshields to insure even the minimum amount of vision. Meanwhile, near noon the sleet and ice continued falling, to coat pavements and streets with a glassy coating that defied the best efforts of competent drivers. The pedestrian, too, suffered from i the ice. as rubbers, overshoes and boots were quickly hauled out of storage in an effort to afford a se- | cure footing on the slippery walks. The patter of the falling sleet mingled with the crushing of pe destrians’ steps as downtown traffic slowed to almost a complete halt. Late this afternoon local police =tated that no wreaks had occurred despite the condition of the pavements and the poor vision resulting from the sleet. This fact they attributed to the extra caution exercised bv all drivers, due to the conai»tons existing. Meanwhile temperatures remained below the freezing mark. A recording of 22 above was observed at noon. o — Plans F°v T onion Revival Services Lenten revival services will open at the Mt. Pleasant M. E. church Sunday evening and continue each evening of the week until Saturday. The public is invited to attend I these services.