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Rapid Rise Noted In Temperatures The parade of changing weather continued today despite a marked rtoe In temperatures here, ice and sleet on Friday changed to fog and rain thia morning with a 31 degree : rise in the temperature within 24 hours. Friday morning at 8 o’clock, a reading of 18 above was observed. At the same hour this morning it was 52. — 0 . LAD TELLS OF KILLING MOTHER Chicago Lad Os IB ReEnacts Fatal Stabbing Os Mother Chicago, Mar. 5. — <U.R> — The father of Theodore (Teddy) Danielsen, Jr., a slim, blond boy of 16, said today he would “stand by’’ his ' son after hearing the youth describe. in a heart-to-heart talk, how he killed his crippled mother with a butcher knife because she slapped him for playing truant from high school. The boy. an accomplished pianist. schooled in the works of the masters, wept hysterically as he told the story, but regained his I composure when consoled by his father, Theodore, Sr., a salesman. “I’m still your friend.” the father said. “Keep your chin up. You’re all I have left." The boy was taken to jail last night after talking with his father for 20 minutes. Police had planned to re-enact the slaying, but ordered a postponement pending completion of an inquest. The boy probably will be held to the grand jury. He stabbed his mother to death Thursday as she stood beside her kitchen table making a cherry pie. Then he fed his dog, took his dog, took his mother’s jewelry to pawn, and fled. Police arrested him less than 20 hours after the killing, in a lodging house. Ha was defiant at first, then broke down. "I went home about the time school was out." he said. "I practiced on the piano then played with my dog. I got tfrM Os nrsenctrtg ' Mother made me play two hours a day. I like It but not that | much." Mrs. Danielsen, police learned,' ; also was a gifted pianist, and had hoped that some day her son would be a great musician. “I was worried about staying i out of school," the boy continued. “I hadn’t attended since Feb. 1 ■ and decided to confess to my mother. “I began to tell her and she stopped making the pie. She shook me. She slapped me and scratched my face. "She was going to hit me again. I saw the knife on the table, picked it up and pushed it into her throat. “The last thing she said was. ’oh.’ Then she fell over.” tie said he withdrew the knife. : washed it and wiped it with a ' towel to erase fingerprints. He j felt his mother’s body and it was still warm. He stabbed her again : in the neck and left the knife I there. The dog in the basement was ' ; barking so he fed him, then went ' to his room and packed his suitcases. The elder Danielsen at first re- • fused to believe his son’s guilt. J “It’s inconceivable." he said, “I won’t believe it until I hear (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o_— ESCAPES DEATH HERE IN FALL i Young Transient Slightly Injured In Fall From Train , A young transient narrowly es- , caped serious injury and possible death late Friday afternoon when he was thrown from a fast moving Nickel Plate freight train. The Itinerant, James Mooney. 21. fell asleep while riding on an oil car of a freighter. When the freighter was switching here it i threw him Iff. Mooney was found unconscious. I lying alongside the tracks. When , he was discovered by section workI ers, Officer Ed Miller was called I and he was brought to a local. physician's office. Other than minor bruises, cuts, shock and exposure, he suffered no ill effects from the experience. : He stated that he was enroute home to Toledo, Ohio from California. After being fed and treated, he was permitted to continue on his way home.

ADAMS COUNTY I AMONG 30 HIGH Ranks Among Highest In Number Os Farms Now Electrified Adams county Is listed among . the 30 high counties in the state ; for electrified farm residences, acj cording to a tabulation of the town- | ship assessors’ reports for the I state. Os 2.150 farms, a total of 635 are | | electrified In Adams county, or 28.5 i percent. Os the state's 200,835 : farms, a total of 41.991 are electrl-' , fied or 20.9 percent. The tabulation of electrified farms In near-by counties is: Alien. I 4.148 farms. 1.310 electrified. 31 6 ; percent; Blackford, 1,089 farms, |371 electrified, 34.1 percent; Dekalb. 2,360 farms, 629 electrified. 26.7 percent. Delaware. 2.874 farms, 1,466 electrified, 51 percent; Huntington, : 2.461 farms. 389 electrified. 15.8 percent; Jay, 2.463 farms. 414 electrified. 8.4 percent: Kosciusko. 3.370 farms, 620 electrified, 18.4 i percent. Marion. 2.964 farms, 1.679 electrified. 56 6 percent; Randolph, i 3.188 farms, 456 electrified. 14.3 i percent; Steuben, 1.703 farms, 214 electrified. 12 6 percent; Tippe-' canoe. 2.381 farms, 531 electrified. 1 22.3 percent. Wabash. 2,427 farms. 252 electri-1 fied. 10 4 percent; Wells. 2.487 farms. 942 electrified. 37 9 percent; | Whitley. 2,173 farms. 300 electri (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) O British Cabinet Change Is Rumored Jerusalem. Mar. 5 —ittJ.PJl- Fortyfive Arabs and one British private were killed when the British border regiment battled 500 Arabs at an Arab village near Jenin in North Palestine yesterday, according to news which filtered today through the British military cordon which has surrounded Jenin. The wounded included a British second lieutenant, a corporal and a private. Fourteen Arabs who, were captured carried the most ' modern rflfes and larg* quantities I of ammunition. o BAND CONCERT PROGRAM GIVEN Decatur School Bands 1 o Present Concert Sunday Afternoon The complete program for the ! concert to be presented by the Decatur school bands at the Catholic high school auditorium Sunday. ■ was announced today. The concert will be presented at 3:45 o’clock under the direction of j Albert Sellemeyer, with Patsy as drum major. Admission will be 10 cents for ' children and 20 cents for adults. Following is the program; Decatur Boys’ Band March—Our Favorite Jewell Sabbath Mom— Voluntary Jewell | Overture—Recreation Wells Decatur Girls’ Band [ March—Our Director Bigelow | Gipsiana Themes from | 1 Hungary Grand March Democracy LaKf Decatur High School Band March—His Honor Fillmore Overture Dynamic Hun Cinderella Overture Rosn Kranz Dectaur Combined Band March Normal Ben " Overture Ambition Ben " et ‘ March Military Escort Hurt Star Spangled Banner Smith Specialities Trumpet Quartette .... Perfect Day The Misses Zula Porter, Annis Mare Merryman. Maxine Hilton, and Pauline Light. Saxanhone Accordion Septette — Hawaiian March Kahola-Hono.ulu The Misses Betty Fuhrman, Kathleen Fryback, Patsy McConnell. Anna Brandyberry. Marilyn Bonifas. Alice Yost, and Marjorie Miller. Zula Porter, directress I Oboe Solo Miss Betty Fuhrman, German Band Selection Robert Gentis. Ralph Scott, Gerald Light, Richard Buckley, and John Gerber. ———o—temperature readings democrat thermometer to 8:00 a. m. ™ 10:00 a. 11:00 a. "■ BZ WEATHER Cloudy and colder tonight; Sunday generally fair and colder. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 5, 1938.

Kalvers Guest of Boh Burns ... M M| .’7 ;. MHHtEmg 1 While visiting the Paramount studio during their recent trip to Hollywood, MY. and Mrs. I. A. Kalver were photographed with Bob I Burns, famous movie star. The above picture was taken on the set of i ' “Tropic Holiday," Mr. Burns' latest picture in which he will be seen with Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland. Mr. and Mrs. Kalver enjoyed interesting talks with numerous other movie stars.

JACKSONTAIKS TO DEMOCRATS Sam Jackson Speaks To Youns Democrats Os Nebraska i Omaha. Neb., Mar. s.—<U.R> —Samuvl D. Jackson, Fort Wayne, Ind.. a convennbtf of yonhg Democrats last night that if the Repul)- 1 llcans win majorities in the 1938 and 1940 elections they will regard it as a mandate to return to “the old form of government" prevailing before 1932. “They would not stop when they upset the Roosevelt program," he said. “They would uproot every vestige of improvenient for the average man that interferes with : the sacred rights of organized powler and privilege.” Jackson, who is opposing Sen. Frederick VanNuys. anti-new dealer, for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Indiana, said more is “at stake" than a political party or the fate of the president. “Men and parties come and go but principles of humanity are eternal,” he said. “Greed and prvilege are weakened, but not yet destroyed." He praised former Indiana Gov. Paul V. McNutt, prominently mentioned as a leading presidential candidate in 1940. as the man “I am sure the people will call upon to fill even higher positions of public trust and authority." British Soldier, 45 Arabs Die In Action ; London. March S—(UP5 —(UP) —Usually reliable sources said today that a cabinet reshuffle was impending, as part of which Leslie Hore-Belis-ha, dynamo of the cabinet, would be transferred from his present post as war minister to the air ministry. i

LENTEN MEDITATION (Homer Judson Aspy) (First Baptist Church) “The Message of God’s Love” "God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us. because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might have life through Him.”—l John 4:8-9. When our Lord Jesus Christ walked on this earth He left no stone i unturned to bring sinful men near and the saints nearer to His Father. I All of Christ's teaching. His life, and death, and resurrection, and 1 ascension may be summed up In this one great truth. His message for men: "God is, and God is love, and God loves you.” There were times of unrest and concern then as well as now. i The remedy for social and economic ills as well as the ned of the soul i has always been the same with God. When His followers looked dovji in discouragement —esus directed their attention U> the lillies of the field and noted God’s care for them When they were disheartened He told them to look up. and looking up they beheld the birds of the air and remembered God's concern for them. God is a ! God of love and He loves you. During the Lenten season we seek to come closer to God. In II Chronicles 7:14 He tells us His solution for all our problems and invokes us to “seek my face.” Jesus declared He and the Father are i One and that those who beheld the Fathr could do so only by knowing the Son. Christ is the revelation of God. He also tells us if we desire to know Him we may do so through the understanding of His Word His Word is our Bible. Surely God knows whereof He speaks. If our hearts are to be made glad and our problems to be solved we can do no better than to set aside some time each day during this season for the reading of and the meditation on Christ, the Word, who came that we might have life through Him.

Scientists Announce New Discovery Today Baltimore. March S—(UP5 —(UP) —Two Johns Hopkins university scientists today placed before the medical world, a new hormone, a sex fluid so powerful they said that it par- j i tially restored youthful characteri istics to 17 men of advanced age inIto whose bodies it was injected. I Two faculty members described the discovery to a group of Baltimore . scientists. HERD CURTIS' MOTHER DIES — Mother Os Former Decatur Coach Dies Friday At Coatesville Mrs. Gertrude A. Curtis. 63. mother of Herb L. Curtis, former athletic director of the Dectaur; high school, died Friday at her home in Coatesville. 30 miles southwest of Indianapolis in Hendricks county. Herb Curtis is now principal of the Southport high school, near Indianapolis. Other survivors are the husband, George W. Curtis; Glenn Curtis, principal and coach of the Martinsville high school; four daughters and two other sons. D. L. Curtis of Indianapolis and Hugh Curtis of near Crown Center. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at Crown Center. Burial will be made at Stilesville. AFL Labor Group To Meet Monday Night A meeting of the AFL labor group will be held Monday evening at 7 o'clock at the Decatur high school building. All membere are urged to attend.

IVA CHAIRMAN ASSAILED BY SEN. NORRIS Chairman Arthur E. Morgan Accused Os Hindering Policies Washington. March 5 — (U.R) — Sen. George W. Norris, 1., Neb., ! “father" of the Tennessee Valley j authority and a supporter of most new deal policies, accused TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan today of “hindering” the agency’s program. Norris suggested that Mor- i gan resign. Norris cast his lot in the TVA ■ directors’ “feud" with majority members David E. Lllienthal and Harcourt A. Morgan, by bitterly denouncing the chairman as a I “bad boy who won't play because i he has not had his own way." Pointing out that there had been internal disagreement in the TVA since the reappointment of Lilienthal in 1936, Norris said: “Previous to that time every de-: ! cision of the board was unanimous. Chairman Morgan threatened to resign if Mr. Lllienthal was reappointed. Unfortunately, he i has not resigned. “A fair investigation will show I that the only hindrance that the TVA has had is its chairman.” Norris' attack followed President ■ : Roosevelt's authorization for pubi lication of a statement by the majority TVA members assailing ! the chairman as pursuing a policy ' i of "rule or ruin.” Lllienthal and H. A. Morgan suggested that Chairman Morgan I quit because they no longer could i work with him. President Roosevelt released the I statement without comment. But | it was the first time that he had taken public cognizance of the in- | tradirectorate TVA fight. These circumstances, combined. with Norris’ support of the majority directors, led observers to interpret the president's move as an j unvoiced request that Chairman I Morgan resign. Norris continued his fight for an I investigation of the TVA by the : federal trade commission rather j than by congress. He charged that i Sens. H. Styles Bridges, R . N.H.. 1 and William H. King, D.. Utah, were "enemies of the TVA" and had proposed a congressional investigation to enable Chairman Morgan to “throw dirt on the i i TVA.” | Norris' resolution for the F. T. C. I investigation already has been reported favorably by the agriculture I committee. Yesterday he asked to I have the Bridges-King resolution tabled until after consideration of the Norris resolution. Norris charged that he believed the "principal object” of the; Bridges-King resolution was to in-; fluence the consideration of the 1 senate-house conference committee on the independent offices appropriation bill in connection with a $2,750,000 item for continuation of construction of TVA's Gilbertsville dam. “Without that dam,” Norris said. ’ “the other dams will be to a great extent useless so tar as navigation is concerned.” Girl Scouts Will Hold Pastry Sale : The Girl Scouts of troop three will hold a pastry sa’e at the Schafer store next Saturday. March 12, it wae announced today. — o APPELMAN FOR CITY COUNCIL Andrew Appelman To Be Candidate For Renomination Here Andrew Appelman. well known j restaurant proprietor, announced | today that he would be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for city councilman from the third councilmanic district. Mr. Appelman is serving his first term on the council. He was elected four years ago and his term will expire December 31, 1938. . Mr. Appelman is a member of the board of public works and safety, which is composed of city attorney John L. DeVoss and Mayor A. R. Holthouse. He is also a member of several of the council committees and has taken a deep interest in the operation of the city government. I The candidate lives on South Sixth street and is the proprietor of the West End restaurant. Three candidates have now announced for the council on the Democrat ticket. They are Geofge Stults from the second district and Ed Keller from the fourth district.

New Rain Threat Adds Discomfort To Flooded Area

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER HELD Union Service Marks Observance Os World Day Os Prayer Here The annual union observance of; ' the World Day of Prayer, sponsored by the cooperating missionary organizations of Decatur, was held | at the Methodist Episcopal church I ; Friday afternoon with a good | crowd in attendance. Mrs. C. E. Bell, president of the organization, was in charge of the I meeting presenting, the theme of the program, “The Church. A World Fellowship.” N’rs. C. M. Prugh gave "The Churches’ Charter of Fellowship” and Mrs. Glen . Marshall, “Fellowship in Prayer ■ and Service.” This was followed , with a season of intercessory prayer, with several participating. 1 The presentation of missionary projects was effectively given, with Mrs. R. W. Graham representing Union Christian colleges; Mrs. James Weber. Indian work; Mrs. j George Walton, Christian liter- : ature; Mrs. J. E. Anderson, Migrant work. Mrs. Carrie Haubold presided at the organ and Mrs. Walter Krick led in the congregational singing. Special music was furnished by 1 each of the following ‘ churches: Eighth Street U. 8., First Evangelical, Church of the Nazarene and j the Methodist Episcopal church. Ushers included the Mesdames Amos Yoder. Delton Passwater, Wilson Beery and E. W. Johnsox At the close of the meeting. Mrs. Bell introduced the new officers for 1939: Mrs. John R. Parrish, president. and Mrs. Clarence Strickler, secretary-treasurer. I o — SIX FILE FOR NOMINATIONS '— I I Six Additional Candidates File Declarations This Morning Six additional persons thie morning filed their declarations of can- , didacy for the May 3 primary with ( ; county clerk G. Remy Blerly. Other candidates are expected to , fiJe later this morning and this afternoon. i The new Democratic candidates are: John W. Tyndall, candidate for county auditor. Ed. F. Berling, candidate for mayor of Decatur. Mrs. Alice Christen, candidate for city clerlk-treasurer of Decatur. Lawrence Beckmeyer, candidate for committeeman of East Root. Marshall G. Reynolds, candidate . for committeeman of French township. Theodore Becker, candidate for ( trustee of Washington township. , O— I Austrian Students Riot Again Today Vienna. March s—<U.R>— Authorities closed Vienna University today | I after serious clashes between Nazi I and combined Catholic and father- i , land front students. i Students defied police who sep- > arated them and continued demonstrations — the police forming a , buffer. i The disorder began when Catho- | lie students paraded the university , corridors, greeting each other with ’ cries of “hail Austria” and singing ; anti-Nazi songs. Nazis began parj ades of their own, shouting "hail ; Hitler.” Russian Diplomat Testifies At Trial Moscow, Mar. 5. —,(U.R) — Chris- i ’ tian Rakovsky, for years Russia’s ace diplomat, asserted today at the mass trial of 21 Bolshevik leaders for treason, that Great Britain accepted him as Russian ambassador only after hearing that he was associated with Leon Trotsky. Asserting that Trotsky was a | British agent, Rakovsky said that he himself, after being shown a forged letter which constituted a threat to him, was taken to a dinner at a London restaurant to meet the chief of the Russian sec- ; tion of the British intelligence ser- , vice in 1924, a year after his ap- , pointment as ambassador.

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Looting And Isolation Reported Today From Dozen Communities In California. WATERS RECEDE Los Angeles, Mar. 5. — <U.R> — Looting and isolation, consequent .to a devastating flood, were reported today from a dozen communities in southern California. I The toll was estimated at 126 dead, 100 missing, and $25,000,000 in property damage. Rescuers continued to dig bodies form the muck and debris as the flood waters receded. People here were terrorized for a tiirte last night when thunder boomed across San Bernardion mountain and rain began to fall 'again. A thousand persons who had returned to their half-flooded homes, fled back to the municipal auditorium where they had been refugees for two days and nights. Reports of a new storm discouraged the 3,000.000 persons in the vast flood-stricken area, where almost a foot of water fell in six days, but the weather bureau her® broadcast reassuring reports that the storm was local. One of the most desolate areas today was San Bernardino, a city in the foothills 60 miles east of here, where 30 persons were drowned. many were missing and - hundreds were still stranded. “Rowboat pirates," mostly boys, were paddling about in small boats leisurely looting homes in the Santa Monica area from which the residents had fled. Police had orders to shoot looters on sight, but none had been reported killed although five suspected looters were under arrest. Citizens formed vigilante groups in some places to deal with looters. Flood waters, which swept down from the mountains across the great natural basin about Los Angeles, were passing out to the ' ocean, leaving a ravaged area of ! 30,000 square miles. It was the I worst flood disaster in the history of southern California. There were 'more than 100 towns in the stricken area, and metropolitan Los Angeles was hard hit, the loss there being 13 dead and $3,000,000 damage to streets and bridges. The draining water continued to create new perils. At Claremont, Calif., today, a form of martial law was in force while 400 men worked on the levees trying to stem the flow of water near the mouth of San Antonio canyon. The Red Cross ordered 300 blankets dropped from an airplane to the San Antonio canyon refugees. The list of reported dead today was, by towns: Los Angeles, 13; Riverside. 15; Long Beach, 4; North HollywoodVanNuys area, 9; Ontario, 4; Glendale, 2; Santa Ana, 2; Anaheim —Atwood area, 17; San Juan Capistrano. 2; Fullertown — Placentia area, 7; Lake Arrowhead, 2; Maywood. 1; Redland®, 2; San Bernaidino. 30; Barstow — Victorville area. 3; Wildoowd, 6; Ventura, 4; Camp Baldy, 3. The fate of 500 persons isolated in the mountain communities still was uncertain. There still was one “blind spot" in the picture —the Barstow-Victor-ville area. One telegram came through, saying three were dead and 30 missing there. Since then there was no word. Camp Baldy, a mountain resort, also was hard hit. Between 200 and 300 persons were stranded there with food for only three more day. Rehabilitation had begun in Los Angeles. Power was restored throughout the city today. Some of the eastern parts of the city had been without electrical service for days. Railroad companies planned to send trains into Los Angeles today from San Francisco. Telegraph comtnunictaion was reopened to the east and the airlines were sending planes in and out of the city. But engineers said it would take a year to remove all the scars of the flood. Twenty-five bridges must be rebuilt in this area. o —— Howard Manlier To Seek Re-Nomination Howard Manlier incumbent trustee of Union township, today announced that he would be a candidate for renomination to the office on the Democratic ticket in the approaching May primary.