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WM. F. BU SICK DIES SUDDENLY Allen County Farmer Is Victim Os Heart Attack Monday A heart attack was fatal to William F. Busick. 73, at 6:15 o’clock Monday evening at his home in Madison township. Allen county. ■ Although he had been ill since January 17, his condition was not, believed serious, and death came suddenly. Mr. Bussick was a native of Root township, Adams county, and was the son of Fred and Sophie Kuklehan. He was born December 5. 1864. He had lived in Allen county for the last 41 years and was a member of the St. Peter's Luth eran church. He was married May 5. 1895, tl Louise Repers. wh o survives. There are two surviving children at home. Norma and Edwin, a son. Walter, and a daughter, Mrs. Raymond Kimherlin, both of Allen county. Three brothers. Gust. Ed and Theodore reside in Adams county. A brother, Henry, lives in Dowagiac, Michigan. Among the two deceased sisters and two brothers were Mrs. Ernest Feulll ing. who died in 1932, and Freder- ■ ick. who died in 1931. There are ' four surviving grandchildren. Funeral services are to be held (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) URGES CHANGE FOR TAX BILL Treasury Undersecretary Testifies Before Committee Washington. March 22 — (U.R) Undersecretary of Treasury Roswell Magill today indicated that revision of the undistributed pro- ; fits and capital gains taxes under consideration by the senate finance: committee could be effected with a net gain of $40,500,000 in federal revenue. Magill, testifying before the com-, mittee on the treasury's attitude to proposed tax revision, presented schedules showing revenue-produc-ing potentialities of the revised levies Chairman Pat Harrison, D . Miss., has proposed elimination of the undistributed profits tax and substitut lon of a flat 15 per cent levy on capital gains for present provisions of the $5,330,000,000 revenue bill. Magill's schedules showed that substitution of a flat 15 per cent rate on capital gains would cut federal revenue. But replacement of the house-approved undistributed profits tax by a flat 19 per cent; levy of corporate profits would ICONTINUEJJ ON I’AGE FIVE),

VAN NOYS HITS AT OPPOSITION FROM LEADERS Sen. Van Nuys Announces Candidacy As An Independent Indianapolis, March 22 — <U.R) — IT. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, jovial but embattled, pledged to ' day his independent candidacy for re election in November to | expose the “statehouse machine". whose "dictatorship is worse than I Hitler or Mussolini." Sitting In liis shirt sleeves in his I modest hotel suite —a chair col-1 I lapsed under one reporter — Van Nuys read a 600 word statement which iiad been mailed to each of Indiana's 450 daily and weekly newspapers. The gist of this was l a defense of his Integrity as a Democrat and an assault upon the regular Democratic organization headed l>y Gov. M. Clifford Town- ; send. Then verbally he lashed out as follows: 1. That he knows more than one city in Indiana in which "a corporation had been organized in the statehouse holding a port-of-entry, beer permit, and 50 per cent of the stock given free to the mayor, : I chief of police, prosecutor, judge I of the criminal court, sheriff and city attorney The only consideration was that they deliver intact their delegation to the state con j vention to whoever Clift Townsend named for senator.” 2. This, he said, had happened I in fyur other cities and that he purposes to cite "names, dates and amounts" of the profits on which these political stockholders "waxed fat with dividends” during the last I eight months. 3. Some of his own appointees have betrayed him and “gone on the auction block" Xo the state-1 house organization. 4 He “never made a dime out • of a lifetime of politics and wants to restore control of the Democratic party to the rank and file | iusleud ui the grafters and racke-1 j teers.” 5. He will not fight for dele(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) MRS. J AQUA IS CLUB SPEAKER Winchester Lady Speaks At Joint Meeting Os Women Here “Why Federate” was the subject of Mrs. George Jaqua. of Winchester. hi her address to approximately 250 women in the joint meeting of the Woman's club and I Adams county federation of clubs, at the Masonic home last night. "Our women’s club offer a medium through which we can be allied with the art of living," the speaker stated. "We should relate our club programs to life and interests In our community. The aim of club work is the creation and formation of public opinion.” Using the value of federation to ! the club and the individual club woman, the speaker urged the I continual cooperation of the or-; Iganization in conservation, crime, ‘ prevention, cancer control and othler civic enterprises. A banquet was served earlier in the evening, preceding the address and business session. Clubs represented at the meeting were, in i addition to the Womans’ club, the Shakespeare club, Garden club, home economics club. Two hundred and fifty active i members, including 28 departmentjal chairmen, were present. In listing the activities of the club it was learned that they had given a fine larts festival, a silver tea for the foundation fund, contributed to student loan fund, and will assist in the prison library week, in ad--1 dition to sponsoring a joint meeting of all service clubs next month. Two More Candidates File Declarations Candidates who filed today in the office of the county clerk were: Walter H. Gilliom. Democratic candidate for county surveyor; Edward F. Jaberg, candidate for Democratic precinct committeeman, Decatur 3-A. — Berne Native Resigns From Tipton Position Mrs. Gladys Schindler Chrisman, supervisor of music in the Tipton ; public schools, has resigned from her position because of illness and returned to her home in Berne.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 22, 1938.

Rat Exterminator Reported In Lima Dr. 11. E. Daniels received word from the Chicago better business bureau today, stating that the same titan who "high-pressured" sales of ■i rat-exterminator here, haa been at work In Lima, Ohio. The report stated that the man collected S2OO for $25 wrrth of : '■ ork. As secretary of the city board ,of health, Dr. Daniels Issued a warning to local citizens sometime logo about the methods employed by | the salesman. OPPOSITION IN SEVERAL RAGES Interesting Battles Loom In Democratic Primary Election With little more than five weeks I remaining before the May primary election, a survey of the list of canI didates today in the offices of the , county clerk reveals interesting contests in several battles for i I county offices. Heading the list is the race for i the Democratic nomination for judge of the Adams circuit court position left vacant by Judge Hu- : her M. DeVoss, an appellate court post seeker. In this race Hubert R. McClenehan, J. Fred Fruchte and Nathan C. Nelson, all of Decatur, have announced on the Democratic ticket, with no oppos ituation named as yet on the Re- . publican side. The contest for county sheriff also looms brightly as an Interesting race with Hurl Johnson, fortnI er state policeman. George Strickj ler, of near Monroe. Ed I’. Miller. Decatur policeman, and Dent O. | Baltzell, well known farmer, hav- ! ing filed their declarations. The | latter two followed closely on the heels of Sheriff Dallas Brown four ' years ago in the order named. The race for county clerk remains a two-way proposition to date with the incumbent. G. Remy Bierly and Clyde Troutner, St Mary's township school teacher, as the two Democratic candidates, i No one has announced as an as--1 pirant on the Republican side for [either of these offices. John H. Tyndall and Victor Eicher are the two who have announced on the Democratic ticket for county auditor. Mr. Tyndall is the incumbent. The race for county treasurer developed for the first time this week when Losier Eckrote of Linn I I Grove announced. John W. Blakey i I was the first to announce. The county assessor's race has : become a three-sided affair with i Ernest Worthman. incumbent; August Schlic kman and Eugene Runyon having tossed in their hats. Two Unopposed J. Jerome Yager,- Republican of Berne, is to date without opposition in his candidacy for county coroner. No Democrats have announced for the post. Robert Zwlck. the incumbent, decided against seeking another term. Walter H. Gilliom. Democratic incumbent of Berne, is also without opposition to date in his candidacy (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Alley Approach Is Being Built An alley approach is being built on Gloss street north of the Costello property. When the new cement sidewalk was constructed last year, the alley intersection was not built and Engineer Ralph Roop yesterday ordered the improvement made. The approach will be brought up to the level of the walk.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. J. J. Seimetz) (St. Mary's Catholic Church) ARE YOU ANOTHER PILATE? As Pilate, that first Good Friday morning, walked out upon the balcony of the Antonia, the palace fortress occupied by the Roman governor, little did he dream that he would play the craven part in the world's greatest drama of hate. He was master here, but for fear of Caesar and to please the people he forgot honor, and justice, and right. Rather than jeopardize personal interests he sought to temporize and compromise. But hate, victorious hate, , sensed his weakness and made him give way step by step until he too was guilty of shedding the blood of the God man. And down through the centuries has come the undying declaration, "He suffered under Pontius Pilate.” There are Pilates today who temporize when faced with evil, and instead of crushing it in the beginning are themselves crushed by it. Pilates who. out of human respect, compromise with the fashions and the customs of today that oftentimes mean the loss of the stainless delicacy of untainted virtue, and the lowering of the standards for the conduct of life. Pilates, whose selfish meanness and arrogant self-centerdness disregards all principles of honor, and right, and justice lest personal interests be jeopardized. Pilates who are ready to place material advantages ahead of the claims of duty and the rights of God. Are you another Pilate? If so, then your evil deeds have helped to swell the roar of hate against the Saviour and bring about the triumph of wrong against Christ. Pilate was for Pilate and lost. Do you want to be another Pilate? If not, then say with the Psalmist, "Better one day in thy courts above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.”

ILLINOIS HOLDS FIRST PRIMARY Primary April 12; Lewis’ Strength To Be Tested In Pennsylvania Washington, March 22 — (U.R) — I John L. Lewis' campaign to test committee for industrial organization political strength in Pennsylvania over shadows early stages of the 1938 primary election season which will begin three weeks from | today in Illinois. The April 12 Illinois primary will be notable principally for its contest between Gov. Henry Hor--1 net 's down-state Democratic orga-' nization and the Cook county forces 1 led by Mayor Edward J. Kelly and Patrick A. Nash of Chicago. Horner supports Rep Scott Lucas, I)., 111, for nomination to the senate, seat new held by Sen. William H. Dieterich, a Democrat who appears to have been deserted by powerful ; former friends, including President . Roosevelt Dieterich is out of the race. The Kelly-Nash machine which put him in the senate In 1932 would replace; l him now with U. S. DDistrict Attorney Michael L. Igoe. Primaries in South Dakota. Ala-; bama. and Indiana on May 3 follow Illinois. Pennsylvania and NewJersey on May 17 and Orgeon, May 20. complete the list for that month Advance reports from Indiana are that the state Democratic organization will make good on its threat to exile Sen. Frederick Van Nuys, D. Ind., who opposed Mr. Roosevelt's judiciary reorganization bill. Van Nuys further offended organization Hoosier Democrats by coolness toward former Gov. Paul V. McNutt’s 1940 presidential ambitions. The men who hope to nominate McNutt for president at the Democratic national convention in 1940 have picked Sam Jackson. a Fort Wayne lawyer, to succeed Van Nuys in the senate. Indiana will nominate by convention instead of primary. South Dakota and Alabama will nominate senatorial and gubernatorial candidates Gov. Leslie Jensen of South Dakota is a Republican. Sen. Herbert E. Hitchcock is a Democrat. The Alabama officials are Democ rats. Pennsylvania will nominate can(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) REGISTRATION CLERKS NAMED Two Additional Deputy Registration Clerks Appointed Two new Democratic deputy registration clerk's were announced . in the offices of Oountj,- Clerk G. Remy Bierly. They are: Mary Margaret Keller for Decatur 2A and Mrs. Catherine Kurber for Decatur 18. ! The county clerk urged today | that all persons expecting to vote and who are required first to regis- ; ter, to contact their respective prej cinct registration clerks or call at person in the county clerk's office. There is no cost to the person registering. Meanwhile a few applications for ; absent voters’ ballots have been received in the clerk’s office. Persons gone at present, expecting to be away at election time or who have relatives out of the precinct, are urged to secure the application blanks. While April 2 fe the first day to file, some time is required in making the necessary steps to receive the ballot.

1.11. TRUSTEES SELECT WELLS AS PRESIDENT Dr. Herman B. Wells Is Unanimous Choice For College President Bloomlngtoh. Ind.. March 22 - (U.R) Dr. Herman B. Wells, dean I of the Indiana school of business' administration, today was chosen president of Indiana University by unanimous vote of the board of , trustees. Since the resignation of Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president emeritus. effective last July 1. Wells has 1 been acting president. He now becomes the 11th president in the; 1 university’s history and the young- ; est president of any state univerI sity in the nation. Wells is 36 I years old and is not married. Notified of his formal selection. ‘ President Wells said in a press conference: "1 have a deep sense ;of the great responsibility Which the position carries. But I like-. wise appreciate the vast opportunity which it offers for service to my ; beloved alma mater and to the peoI pie of Indiana.” Wells acknowledged the fine co- , operation he has received as acting I president and added that no plann-1 i ed program for the university has been adopted, but later a definite | one would be determined in time j for the fall semester. Judge Ora L. Wildermuth of Gary, president of the trustees,, said that Wells was the "best man that the trustees could find” for, 1 the presidency. J "He did not try to make himself indispensable while acting as pres- ; ident. but co-operated in every i way.” Wildermuth asserted. ' President Emeritus Bryan said : that the "selection of Dean Wells I 'gives me great satisfaction.” "Since the decision was made a ! ' member of the board of trustees I has said to me that after inter-1 views with more than 20 persons east and west who were recom- ! | mended by eminent advisors, they ! found Wells the peer of them all I 1 trust the wisdom of that judg- | ment. It will be a great pleasure ;; to me to join with all the members and friends of the university in I hearty support of President Wells in the great work to which he has I been called ” Wells will leave tomorrow so I Washington and New York to con- ; tinue his survey for faculty re-1 placements which he has been . making for the past six weeks. .! The selection of Wells by no means is a surprise. The board of trustees, several of its members j I openly declared several months l ago. became impressed with Wells’ abilities during his temporary administration of the university’s i affairs. The only cause for delay in his ; ’ appointment was the desire of a majority of the trustees to offer the : position to former Gov. Paul V McNutt, present Philippine Island commissioner, but who were handicapped by not knowing his atti- . i tude toward accepting the posi tion. When McNutt visited the United (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) O PARK STREET IS IMPROVED Park Street Being Improved, Will Provide Parking Space Ample and convenient parking space will be provided at the city swimming pool on Park street, through the remodeling and widen--1 ing of the street, which is now under way. A WPA works program is being; carried out on the street. A curb has been built on the south side of the street and the street itself will be widened and extended over to the curb. This space will permit parking of automobiles along the street, from Third to Fifth streets and bathers going to the i pool will not find ally difficulty in parking their cars close to the pool. The city is improving and widening the street. The WPA crew ; is' under the supervision of Wen- i dell Macklin, while Noah Sheets | is supervisor of the concrete crew. Civil works commissioner Ralph Roop, is looking after the job for the city. Property owners on the north side of the street have indicated | that they would like to build a curb ; along their property and if this is completed, the block of Park street will be a modern and convenient thoroughfare.

Great Britain And France Take Lead In Europe Crisis

Protected fK I LB Prince Max Hohenberg, son of ; Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose murder at Sarajevo in June, 1914, precipitated the World War, is re- ' ported under “protective custody" in Vienna by Nazi authorities.

TVA CHAIRMAN I WON'T RESIGN Congressional Probe Os TVA Appears To Be Certain Washington, March 22—(UP) — Congressional investigation of the Tennessee valley authority appearI ed certain today despite the probability that President Roosevelt would I dismiss or suspend its chairman. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan. Senator majority leader Aiben W. i Barkley, I)., Ky., said it was "genI erally understood'' that some in- ■ uiry would be undertaken. Speaker I William B. Ban'khead asserted that I the president was making no effort to avoid an investigation. Agreement on the exact form of investigation has not been reached, i but it was indicated action would be ' taken regardless of the move Mr. Roosevelt makes today when his latest ultimatum expires. Yesterday he ordered Dr. Morgan : to withdraw his charges against his co-directors, ,Harcourt A. Morgan and David E. Lilienthal, or resign. If he fails to do one of the I other by 1:30 p. m. today, the president said, he will be dismissed or suspended. Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan conferred with White House secretary Marvin H. Mclntyre at midmorning today but declined to reI veal the nature of their discussion Dr. Morgan defied the ultimatum. He said that he did not intend to resign and challenged Lite Prettid- ; ent's power to remove him. Asserting that he intended to retract nothing, he said: "Summed up, my attitude is that I do not choose to run away.” Sen. George W. Norris, Ind., Neb., •‘Father” of the TVA, reiterated his ( belief that Dr. Morgan should re- ■ sign. If he refuses he should be rei moved rather than suspended, Nor- | ris said, least suspension delay ap- : pointment of a successor. Barkley favors boardening any investigation of the situation to include power companies in their re- ■ lation to the TVA—any attempts they may have made to oppose the I agency. Whatever move Mr. Roosevelt I makes today, it was certain to re- | vlve a bitter controversy in congress over the New Deal’s vast power and regional planning project. The sued among TVA diri ectors, which rumbled privately for : more than two years and broke inI to public notice a month ago, ap(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o Thermometers Show Steady Rise Today Citizens of the city continued today to revel in unusually warm ’ temperatures for the month of March. Thermometers meanwhile began a steady climb to set further records for warm temperatures during the new year. This morning at 8 o’clock the Democrat thermometer read 64 degrees above moved up to 76 at noon and by 2 o’clock reached St).

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Take Lead In Efforts To Delay Further Trouble In Europe;Hasten Pace Os Armaments. RESENT ULTIMATUM Kaunas. Lithuania, March 22— (Uf>) — The military commander of Kaunas issued regulations today equivalent to a state of siege. The regulations were motivated by “the seriousness of the situation, which requires absolute quiet.” They impose a 9 p. m. curfew and provide fines or imprisonment for violations. Resistance will be punished by court martial. By Joe Alex Morris (Uniled Press Staff Correspondent) Democratic governors worked against time today to underwrite a guarantee of the future peace of Europe. With the international war fever down a few degrees. Great Britain and France took the lead in drastic efforts to delay as long as possible the explosion of danger-pack-ed Nazi-Fascist expansion in central Europe and the Mediterranean. In familiar American terms, their formula was to “speak softly but carry a big stick.” Two developments emphasized the trend: First, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain summoned the British cabinet into emergency session in | London to approve a new approach in foreign policy, with emphasis I! on compromise and friendly relations with the dictatorial powers. . Efforts were expected to speed friendly negotiations for a British treaty with Italy —a treaty that may weaken the partnership of Fascists and Nazis —and to encourage peaceful settlement of Germany’s threat against Czechoslo- ! vakia and other middle European nations. Broadly, the object was to grant a part of the demands of 1 the dictators and win in return ■ promises that would lessen danger of a war explosion. Second, both Britain and France strained to increase the pace of rearmament to put force behind ’ i their diplomatic maneuvers. The French chamber of deputies considered a bill for a vast mobilization of military, industrial and financial resources in event of war. In this trend, the United States was a distant but not unharmonious factor. 1 With President Roosevelt's bil-lion-dollar naval expansion bill approved by the house, the experts of the army. navy, marine and re- ■ serve corps of the United States were summoned to meet in Wash1 ington next week to work out plans for mobilization of up to 2,000,000 fighting men in event of war. The brunt of stabilizing Euroi pean war threats rested for the ■ moment on Britain's effort to crack ■ the Berlin-Rome axis -the diplo- ■ matic natne for a close working agreement between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini by which i they hope to further their ambi- ■ tions for territorial and political expansion. Chamberlain has sought to weaken the ties between the Nazi-Fas-cist powers by cooperating with them separately to achieve a peaceful settlement of their de- ; tnands. Thus, it was believed in London . that the treaty negotiations would . quickly achieve an agreement by (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FIRE DESTROYS HOUSE ON FARM Union Township Farm Residence Reported • Totally Destroyed . The residence on the Mary Weber . farm in Union township was reiporfr • ed to have been completely destroyed by fire at an early hour thia morning. The report stated that fire of unknown origin burned the framo g structure to the foundation. Personal property was said to have been ■ destroyed in the conflagration. i The personal property was owned t by the tenants on the farm, whoso 3 names were not learned. The farm • is located about 11 miles northeast -of the city. A local firm who had an interest s in the real estate was notified of - the loss by the owner. The personal i property was not covered by insurance, according to the report.