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PAULV.McNUTT BACK IN STATE Plans Series Os Conferences Before Return To Philippines Indianapolis, Mar. 17. —>U.R» Paul V. McNutt, Philippine commissioner, suddenly Chang ed his plans today and will fly to San Francisco tonight, taking the China Clipper to Manila tomorrow because of the serious illness of Mrs. McNutt. Indianapolis. ilnd. March 17 — 1 iUP) Former Gov. Paul V. McNutt arrived in Indianapolis today i for a final series of political conI Terences before leaving early next week for the Philippine Islands. The high commissioner indicated he had decided not to accept the i [-residency of Indiana university. “My immediate plans are very I uncertain." he said, since he was informed the Manila Clipper which originally was scheduled to leave ; Alameda next Wednesday has had . its take-off postponed for three o; : four days. McNutt planned to hold a conference with Indianapolis newspapermen about noon. His four conferences with President Roosevelt in Washington were ; highly satisfactory.” McNutt said. He refused to comment further or the presidential meetings. “I think you probably have writ ten enough or read enough about i the party for me in Washington. It was quite an affair. "Our chief interest in Washing;on. However, was in Philippine affairs. I talked with the President about these. “There seems to be very little u u w to sa.y about way ui my trip since the story seems to have been prety well written over by this time.” The commissioner plans to go to Martinsville tonight to visit his parents, former appellate judge and Mrs. John C. McNutt. He will confer with -Indiana Democratic lead-, ers in Indianapolis. Bloomington and French lick. tost night, the former governor addressed the economic club of Chi- - cago. He left Chicago last night at 11:45 P. M. He said he would go to Martinsville tonight to visit hie father, formed Judge John C. Me- j Nutt of the Indiana appella’e court. He also will visit Bloomington and French Lick where he will confer with Thomas Taggart, former Democratic national committeeman and Southern Indiana Political leader. McNutt spoke before the economic club of Chicago last night, reiterating his stand, made in Washington Monday that political independence for the Islands should (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) o — Plan Dedication Os Remodeled Church Formal dedication of the newly remodeled Monroe M. E. church will be held Easter Sunday. April 17, it was announced today by the Rev. E. 8. Morford, church pastor. No service will be held in the church until that date. LOWELL SMITH TALKS TH CLUB School Teacher Speaks To Professional Women Wednesday Lowell Smith, Decatur school teacher, gave a very interesting talk to the members of the Business and Professional Woman's club last evening at the Rice hotel, on "What we buy and sell in the United States.” “He also told of the publicity or advertising and research of several of the leading industries in this country and how they had progressed. Fern Bierly was chairman of the program committee. It was decided that the club would meet with the county federation club and Woman's club April 26 and hear Thurman A. Gottschalk, administrator of the state welfare department, who will give the main address

LOCAL GROCERY BADLY DAMAGED BY FIRE TODAY Hite Grocery Is Badly Damaged By Fire Early This Morning The city's first serious fire of the new year, early this morning practically gutted the front end of the S. E. Hite grocery store on Winchester street. The fire was first discovered about 5'45 o'clock this morning by a bread company truck driver, who made a morning call at the Bonifus restaurant across the ; street. The fire department was immediately notified, and kept the conflagration from spreading to the rear of the store. Smoke and intense heat caused considerable damage to groceries and other stock in the rear of the building. The stock on the north side of the front of the store was almost completely destroyed. This included candy, crackers and grocery items. Fire Chief Charles Robenold stated that the fire undoubtedly started under a counter in the front of the store on the north side. The charred counter and other evidence led firemen to believe that the conflagration smouldered for hours before breaking into open flames. Sam Hite, store proprietor, statI ed that no matches were stored under the counter. Since Chief Robenold stated that no electric wiring i is near the counter, an exact cause of the first could not be stated. Firemen said that when they first entered the front of the build ing the heat was intensive, leading them to believe that the fire had smouldered for some time, but had not flamed due to lank of air in I the tightly closed building. Mr. Hite, who with his son, 'Charles, and employes of the store were notified, stated that the loss was covered by insurance. He also stated that business would have to be suspended for some time until, the deauoied and charred merchandise could be moved out and the remainder of the contents as(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) LEGION PLANS MEET TONIGHT Adams Post And Auxiliary To Mark 19th Anniversary Date Plans have been completed for the luncheon and meeting to be held tonight at the local Legion home in observance of the 19th anniversary of the founding of the American Legion in Paris. Members of Adams Post No. 43. their wives, the Legion auxiliary and their husbands, have been invited to attend. The luncheon will be in the form of a carry-in supper. The auxiliary will furnish meat and rolls for the luncheon and each lady is asked to bring a covered dish. In addition to the luncheon, a short program will be held, with several members of the local post and past commander delivering short addresses. All members of both organizations are urged to attend. o Expect Large Crowd At Masonic Party All arrangements have been completed to entertain a large crowd at the Masonic home Friday night. ! when members of the Eastern Star I ’and Masonic lodges stage their < party. All members of the two organizations and their families are Invited 'to attend. The party will start at !6:30 with a luncheon and be followed by a card party. A dane will complete the evenI Lug's entertainment. All students of the two Decatur high schools have ' been extended an invitation to attend the dance, which opens at I 9 m. J -o Decatur Men Hear Howard Wisehaupt ! E. W. Lankenau, C. C. Pumphrey, James Elberson and Dr. Fred Patterson were in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, where they attended the lecture given by J. Howard Wisehaupt. Mr. Wisehaupt spoke at the city i auditorium and several thousand people attended. The talk was sponsored by the Ohio State Journal.

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LIST PROGRAM FOR CONCERT St. Benedict's Colored Choir To Present Concert Sunday — The complete program for the concert of "the St. Benedict’s colored choir, which will be presented I at the Decatur Catholic high school Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, was , announced today. The choir will appear here tor [ a repeat performance under the 1 auspices of tne Decatur Catholic youth organization. Tickets fori the affair are selling for 35 cents , Following is the program: Liturgica O Vos Otnnes —(Palestrina) Vittoria Gaudent in Coelis (Palestrina) Vittoria Hare Dies Hamma Oremus Pro Potifice.Singenberger (Curtain) Spirituals Steal Away to Jesus. Bye and Bye. Little David. Rise Shine Give God the Glory. Intermission Varia Music of Life Cain Gems from Robin Hood DeKoven 1 Echo Song O. Di Lasso 1 Sing the Lord Ye Voices All Haydn | Curtain Creation Richter t i Open Our Eyes McFarelane i Rosary Nevin I My Sun E. Di Capua | Hallelujah Handel j St. Mary’s River Level Is Rising With only three feet left to equal the high water mark of recent years the St. Mary's river, gradually j swelling from the heavy rains today ‘ moved further out of its banks. The reading this morning was 16.!3 feet Walter H. Gladfelter. river 'observer, reported. The reading Wednesday morning was 1.12 feet lower or 15.78 feet.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. C. M. Prugh) (Zion Reformed Church) “The Repentence Which God Requires” "Rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God."—Joel 2:13. In Biblical times the rending of one’s garments was a conventional mode of expressing self-contempt and chagrin King Josiah, when he heard the words of the Book of the Law. Job. upon receiving news of the tragedy which had befallen his household. Caiaphas, during the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin—these are familiar illustrations of the practice. A prophet of the Old Testament holds that what God looks for and requires is the rending of the heart. Not outward observance but Inward sorrow for sin, is the condition of the salvation which the New Testament offers. The only acceptable sacrifice, said the Psalmist, is a "broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart." One may go through all the motions of keeping Lent, and yet leave the heart unaffected and unchanged. The foregoing of some trifle every day does not insure that true repentance has set in. The world makes much of gross, carnal sin. and tends to minimize the Insidious sins of the spirit. Jesus, on the other hand, said that harlots and publicans go into the Kingdom of God ahead of the greedy, the unloving, and the hypocritical. "Presumptuous sins and "secret faults do not yield readily to superficial treatment, but require the skilled knife of the great Surgeon, who alone can restore the conditions of healthful living.

New Castle Man Is Beaten By Strikers New Castle, March 17 —(UP) — One man was severely beaten today as workmen at the Hoosier I Manufacturing plant went on strike, i reportedly because the company ' had broken its contract with the I CIO union with which the employes I are affiliated. Union leaders asserted the com- : pany has been importing veneer i from southern manufacturers and | claim that this throws New Castle i men out of work. The plant ntanu ifactures various kinds of wood proplucU. FIRST BRICKS LAID AT SCHOOL First Bricks Are Laid Wednesday At New School lluilding The first bricks in Decatur’s' i new junior-senior high school were ' laid Wednesday. In order to prevent a delay cans-' ed in the laying of footing by the , heavy rains and extremely wet , j grounds, workmen started laying ; | the bricks. The bricks were laid on an in- ' side wall at the northeastern side. 1 The inside walls will be started up | in brick from the footings, while i ! the outside walls will be concrete j I next to the footings. I Meanwhile excavation continues ' ! at a fast pace, with the huge crane ; I digger now at work in excavating | for the boiler room on the southI west side. The dirt is piled up in the south j ' center and will fill in under the ' gymnasium-auditorium, which will be a little above ground level in floor height. L. C. Annen. resident engineer, ! stated today that approximately two-thirds of the footing had been ' laid and that tire balance is ex pected to be placed within a short ' time, weather and ground condi-1 tio'n permitting.

SOVIET RUSSIA DETERMINED TO OBSERVE PACTS Russia To Stand By Its Treaties With Czechoslavakia By United Press The European situation: Moscow: Litvinov asks powers,' ' including United States, to confer on measures against aggressors, and promises Russia will stand by her treaty obligations to aid I Czechoslovakia if the latter is attacked. London: Revolt against govern-1 1 inent's “do nothing” spreads and possibility of a union cabinet of all parties Is forecast. Paris: Blum government's declaration to parliament sidesteps European crisis, saying merely I “above all, we must parry the > I perils of the foreign situation.” Berlin: Reichstag may be dissolved for election of a new chamber to include Austrian representation. Vienna: Von Wiesner, representative of Archduke Otto, joines, other prominent figures in “pro-, tective custody." Warsaw: Poland demands prompt settlement of border dispute with Lithuania. Austrian Suicide Vienna. March 17 — (LLP) —The wave of suicides caused by the advent of the Nazi regime continued today with the self-destruc-tion of two prominent Jewish physicians. Prof. Arnold Baumgartner and Prof. Bela Hurtz. Baumgartner was director and Hurtz a departmental head of the > Lainz hospital, largest municipal hospital in Vienna A high political functionary, Karl | Navratll, died of a heart attack when he was arrested in company I with Police Lt. Col. Heinrich Muell-1 | er. vice district Commander Her-1 bert Levikus and Erwin Hutterer. All are from the Vienna 12th district, where six months ago the Nazi Sub-leader Kluge committed suicide after having been arrested , for manufacturing swastikas. > The suicides were, accompanied ! by arrests of people in every walk of life. Baron Friedrich Ritter Von Wies- ■ ner. Austrian monarchist leader; and personal representative ot Archduke Otto Von Hapsburg. pretender to the throne, has been ‘ placed in protective custody, it 1 was understood today. Wiesner. 67. long a judge in the pre-war monarchial government. I served in the foreign office during I the world war and became leader' i of the monarchist cause after the ! war. In protective custody, his status 1 ■ is the same as that of Wilhelm! ' Miklas. last formally constituted ' i president of the Austrian republic. ' and Kurt Schuschnigg, who was forced to resign as chancellor ' when the nazis took power. Usually well-informed Nazi sources expressed belief that former Chancellor Schuschnigg would be detained in protective custody ' indefinitely and that he probably I would not be tried, at least, not in ' the immediate future. o "■ 11 Monroe Students Attending Trial Twenty-six members of»the senior class of the Monroe high school attended the morning session of the jury trial being heard in the Adams circuit court. The students .under the supervision of Walther Mehringer, instruc- . tor, attended as a part of their i instruction in government. —o DECATUR ELKS NAMEOFFICERS Burt Gage Is Re-Elected Exalted Ruler Os B. J’. 0. Elks Burt Gage, assistant superintendent of the Decatur works of the General Electric company, was reelected exalted ruler of the local chapt.br of the B. P. O. Elks, at the annual election of officers, held Wednesday night at the lodge home on North Second street. Other officers elected last night were: John L. DeVoss, esteemed leading knight; Walter Brunnegraff, esteemed loyal knight; Carl Baxter, esteemed lecturing knight; !•. i E. Beal, secretary; E. B. Adams, ! treasurer; H. A. Colchin, trustee for three years; Ben Knapke, tyler. These officers will be formally installed at the next meeting of the chapter, which will be held Wednesday night, April 13.

More Than 1,200 j Spaniards Killed By Rebel Planes

JURY SELECTED IN $3,000 SUIT Evidence Is Started In Damage Suit Venued From Allen County ■A jury was selected and evidence begun in the Adams circuit court today Ln a $3,000 damage suit, i brought by Sophia Diefenbach againet Garfield H. Eshelman, as Warner College of Beauty Culture,: Jian Ferrell, Inc. It was venued i here from Allen county. The complaint alleges the plaintiffaccepted an invitation of th" beauty college to take part in a 1 üblic demonstration of one of their new cosemetics. November 7, 1936. It continued, claiming that as the 1 result of the treatment she sustained burns on her face which drew I the muscles, impaired the sight ot one eye and permanently disfigurI ed her face. The answ-er filed alleged that the I plaintiff took the treatment without payment and assumed full responsibility. The 10 members of the regular panel, who were accepted, are Edith Yoder, Hartford township; H. Vernon Aurand, Decatur; William ; Biery, Hartford township; Otto 'Stuckey, Berne; Edward Reppert, Decatur; Clyde Harden. Union : township; Edna G. Deam, Root township; Edward L. Arnold. Kirkland township; Howard R. Sprunger, Berne; Fred Thieme Decatur. Two talismen were accepted and .are: George Flanders and Lawrence | Voglewede. both of Decatur. Peter Hess, a member of the regular pannel. was excused because of illness. Charlee Knapp, the 12th member of the regular panel was excused by i tne defense. Mrs. Diefenbach took the stand , and told a story similar to the comI plaint. NYA PROJECT SOUGHT HERE Decatur Seeks Project To Employ 26 Youths Under NYA Papers have been signed here for an NYA project, which will employ ! 26 youths, it was announced today. Con J. Sterling. Fort Wayne, dis- ' trict director of NYA activities, was in the city recently conferring with Mayor Arthur R. Holthouse I and Ralph E. Roop, civil works commissioner. The youths who secure employment under the project must be certified by the township trustee. The requirements state that the parents of the youth must either i be on WPA, on township relief or receive assistance from the depart--1 meat of public welfare. The youths [ must be IS to 25 years of age. The youths will assist in the | erection of street markers under i the supervision of the regular street employes and will build paths in the Homestead parkways. It is hoped that immediate apI proval will be received on the project for which an application has been filed in the sum of $l,lOO. J The cost to the city in materials j will amount to about S7OO. Railroad Planning Berne Signal Light ! I I Officials of the Pennsylvania rail- I I road are contemplating the erection ; jof signal lights at the Main and Water street crossing in Berne and I d spensing with the watchman, acI cording to reports from that town. James Davidson, present watch--1 man. is eligible for retirement on I April 1, hence the action. The cross- ’, ing is the site where five tnem- ' ' bers of the C. O. Miller family were ’ killed by a fast passenger train on ' Memorial Day, 1931. 1 ZL • MARRIED 33 YEARS Washington, Mar. 17.—<U.R>— ' President and Mrs. Roosevelt -' j today marked the 33rd anni- , versary of their wedding. It was on St. Patrick's Day l ; in 1905 that they were married | , ' in New York City. ? The President plans to talk by long distance telephone r sometime during the day to f Mrs. Roosevelt who is in CaliI fornia. ♦ ♦

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Nationalist Air Forces Subject Barcelona To Deadliest Bombing Os Spanish War. PANIC STRICKEN Barcelona, Mar. 17. —tSJ.R!-— The French consul at Vinaroz, a port of the Mediterranean coast south of here, was killed and the Czechoslovakian consulate was destroyed in a rebel air raid there today, according to reports received here. Barcelona. March 17—<U.R)~The nationalist air force in raid after raid today subjected Barcelona to the most deadly bombing of the entire Spanish war In an effort to hasten the collapse of the loyalist capital. The 12th attack in 14 hours occurred this afternoon and raised the casualties to an estimated 1,200 dead and 2,000 wounded. The city was thrown into panic again at 2 p. m. when squadrons of insurgent planes roared over on the 12th attack. Bombs dropped at short intervals along the main boulevards. Cases jammed by lunch hour crowds became carnel houses. It was estimated that 500 were killed and 1.000 gravely wounded In this raid alone. Hundreds ran screaming into the streets. One bomb hit a crowded railway station, injuring hundreds. As this correspondent sat at his ! desk telephoning London, the wall of the United Press office fell in. The desk was smothered by debris. Windows crashed down from the detonation of bombs in the nearby ' central squares, where the casualties were heavy. The planes flew over the central streets and dropped their loads. | The bombs made direct hits on at least four large buildings. Buses and street cars crashed and overturned in the streets. The streets were crowded with I panic-stricken people. Three of the heaviest bombs I lever want, to know dropped so i close that the windows shook for I minutes. The United Press office ! was badly wrecked. The adjoining wall of the Western Electric office collapsed. Leading hotels on the main boulevards were hit. This raid I came without warning. For the second time in ten hours Harold Peters of the United Press staff had his bed blown out from under him by the concussion of a bomb at the Hotel Ritz. He escaped injury. Colonel Stephen Fuqua, American military attache, was knocked out of his chair. People in the streets fled in terror, but they knew not where to find safety. Firemen rushed about to extinguish a score of fires that could be seen from the United Press office. Volunteer workers dug bodies from the debris. The bombs were the largest ever used In raids here. Two bombs struck one of the principal railway stations where 400 persons were gathered. One hundred were estimated killed and most of the others were injured. Throughout the night and day the air raid alarms had screamed their warnings, but Barcelona was (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) TWO SLIGHTLY HURT IN WRECK — Persons Slightly Injured As Autos Collide Wednesday Night Two persons were slightly hurt last night at 9:15 o’clock when cars driven by Ralph Harper, of 812 Bush street and E. S. Davies, ot Philadelphia,Pa., collided here. The accident,occurred at the intersection of Tmird street and Liberty Way. Harper was endeavoring to make a left turn on Liberty Way off Third while enroute south. Pearle Vanette, accompanying Harper, and Miss Fan Hammell, who was riding in the other car, were the two hurt. They were taken to the office of a local physician for treatment of their injuries. Both were only slightly hurt and suffered from shook, it was reported. Officers Adrian Coffee and Roy Chilcote investigated the accident and aided in directing traffic until the wreckage was cleared away.