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TRUSTEE RACES HOLD INTEREST Interesting Races In Prospect For Township Trustee Nominations Races for township trustees in the Muy primary will attract their I .share of interest, with several heat-: led contests assured, a survey of i the hat of candidates who have, tiled in the county clerk's offices disclosed today. With nine days left for candidates to Ble. a check this morning i disclosed that there are 30 aspir-1 ants for the 12 trustee post?. Os 1 this number. 24 are Democrats and ! six Republicans. Several others j are expected to announce, but have not tiled. In Washington township three Democrats, Charles E. Marchand. B. F. Brehter and T. E. Becker will seek the nomination of their party, while incumbent John M. Doan is unopposed for the Republican nomination. In St. Mary's township. Ben Me-1 Cullough, incumbent and Otis E. iShifferly are seeking the Republi-1 can nomination, while Harvey J. Sells and Groce Tope are the: Democratic candidates. Ben F. Tickle and J. Frank Merriman are Democratic candidates for Blue Creek township trustee, while William Patterson is unop- j posed for the Republican votes. The Kirkland township trustee race looms brightly with 11. H High, incumbent; Franklin H. Fruechfe and Earl Martin all striving for the Democratic nomination, with no Republicans announced. Charles Kizer. John H. Duff anil Eli Dubach have filed for the Hartford township Democratic nomination. with August F. Baker unopposed for the Repuldjcans. In Union, Howard Mauller and Gerhard Reinking have filed candidacies for the trustee's office. In Wabash Jesse C. Mann, incuni i bent and El Stahley have filed. In French the Democratic nomination race lies between Bert Seesenguth and Loren Heller. There are no Repabllcan candidates filed to date for these offices. Ed Zwick, Demo- 1 erat. is the only trustee candidate Ito date in Preble township. In Monroe, incumbent Edwin i Giiliom, will have two opponents, j C. W. R. Schwartz and A. Clayton Smith, for the Democratic nomin ations with no Republicans filed as yet. In Jefferson, the Rev. Frank I (CONTINUED ON PaOE SIX) ONE-ACT PLAY CASTS LISTED Rural High Schools To Present Plays Thursday, Friday Nights Casts for several of the one-act i plays to be presented by the rural high schools of Adams county on Thursday and Friday nights at the Kirkland and Geneva high schools were announced today. Kirkland, Pleasant Mills, Monmouth and Monroe will present one-act plays Thursday night at Kirkland, while Geneva, Jefferson and Hartford will stage theirs at Geneva. On Friday night the schools will reserve, with those; from the north half going to Geneva and those from the south coming to Kirkland. Admission will be 10 cents. ‘‘Henry's Mail Order Wife.” will Ibe given by the following Pleasant Mills students: Glenn ('dark. Gene Neadstine, Harold Bailey, Margaret Shell, Maxine Noll, Russell Watkins. "The Opening of the Door" will be given by the following Monroe students: Erma Sprung^r. Juanita Parrish, Virginia Schwartz. Ralph Hannie, Alvin Nussbaum, Arvada Mazelin, Robert Monnier. “Keeping Kitty's Date” will be | given by the following Jafferson ! students: Rita Welsch. Elsie Habegger, Mary Yaney, Mabie Wolf. I Don Cline, Charles Brandstetter. I Cecil Bollenbacher, Edith Myers. “In Doubt About Daisy” will be i given by the following Geneva cast: Marilyn Angsburger, Weldon ■ Lehman, Louise Smith. Norman i (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) —-e Bulletin New Rochelle, Ny., March 23 —(UP) —Two young men were arrested here today and accused of extrotion in connection with the kidnaping of 12-year-old Peter Levine. The youths, handcuffed to each other, were taker, to police headquarters in the custody of E. E. Conroy, federal bureau of i investigation agent in charge of I the kidnaping investigation. '

Crisis Between Poland, Lithuania Still Acute • > [ View of Vilnal > - : W< -. . . ‘ " * lyig - W» Gen. Stasys Diriimntirs/W a 4. t I A: . JUbmb B Lithuanian troops]-- -- - ' (iff?

Despite the fact that Lithuania capitulated to Poland's ultimatum demanding resumption of diplomatic relation.) between countries and surrender of any claim to Vilna. which Poland seized from Lithuania in 192 t». the situation still remains acute. Polish troops are massed at the border near Vilna. Feeling runs high in Lithuania because of indignation over the humiliation suffered from being forced to bow to Poland's demands and the government is

DEATH CLAIMS LETTIE DEATH Mrs. Clifford Death Dies This Morning At Home In Bobo Mrs. Lettie May Death, 71 widow of the late Clifford Death, died this morning at 5:45 o’clock at her home in Bobo. Her death was attributed to heart trouble. ' The deceased was born in Hani cock county, Ohio, the daughter of [ Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kirkland, on October 15. 1866. She had lived in ami ;near Bobo about 50 years. She was a member of the Bobo M. E. church. Surviving are the following child ten: Clyde Death. Perrysburg. Ohio; Floyd, of 811 Monros street, Decatur; Clinton, of Bobo; Mrs. Ada Everett -of Pleasant Mills; Hubert of Akron. Ohio; Mrs. Onpha James of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Eva Calloway of Fort Wayne; Daniel, Jack, Clifford and Dale, at home, i Two brothers, Frank Kirkland of Ministers. Ohio and William Kirkland of Van Wert county, Ohio and one sister, Mrs. Sadie Mlnich of \ an Wert county, also survive. Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the Floyd Death home in this city and at 2 o'clock at the Bobo M. E church. Burial will be made in the Mt. Tabor cemetery. The body will be removed from the Gillig & Doan funeral home this 'evening to the Floyd Death residence, where it may be viewed until t ine so rthe funeral. DISTRICT MEET HERE MARCH 27 Women Os Moose To Hold District Meeting Here Sunday Plans have been completed for the district meeting of the Women of the Mooee, to be held at the Decatur Moose home Sunday, March 27. Chapters from Bluffton, Wabash Marion. Fort Wayne, Auburn, Angola and Huntington will be represented at the meeting, with the Decatur organization acting as host. Installation of officers will bo held at the afternoon session. Mrs. iJessie Dick of Fort Wayne will be [installed as senior regent; Mrs. ' Pauline Stergion of Huntington as district recorder. The outgoing officers are Mrs. Robert August of Decatur, present senior regent and Mrs. Dessie Klutz of Fort Wayne, i ilncumbent district recorder. Ten candidates will be given initiatory work under supervision of Ithe local drill team. Several candi- [ dates are also expected from other 1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 23, 1938.

Four Candidates File Declarations The candidates who filed their declarations today in the county cderk'e office were: Everet Banter, i Democratic candidate for county ;' cbuncilman-at-large Glen Baumgartner, candidate for t Republican precinct committeeman, South Preble. Preston L. Pyle, candidate for Republican precinct committeeman, North Hartford. Noah A. Pusey. candidate for Republican precinct Committeeman, South Hartford. SONS OF LEGION ORGANIZED HERE Twenty-One Sons Os Legionnaires Join Local Organization Twenty-one sons of Legionnaires have signed as charter members of the Sons of legion organization of Adams post number 43 of the Amt rlcan Legion, it was announced here today. Sons of any member of the American Legion are eligible to join ; ihe organization, with no age limit set. Grover Turner of post number 47 of Fort Wayne, attended the organization meeting here Monday night, and delivered an instructive talk on the alms and purposes of the i Sons of Legion organization. The committee in charge of the ’ local organization consists of Ollie iSchnepp, Albert Miller. Joheph Me Connell and Charles Langston. Frigie bars and popcorn were served during the evening. The next meeting of the organization will be bold at the Legion home Wednes- , day, April 13.

LENTEN MEDITATION (Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham) (Methodist Episcopal Church) THE FACT OF TEMPTATION Mt. 4:1, “Then was Jesus lead up of the spirit unto the wilderness to be tempted of the dewil.” The season of Lent brings Its challenge for a quickening of ones religious life. It calls us to make a more complete stmender of our ' life to God to make definite sacrifices and apply strii-ter discipline to our lives. As one puts forth an effort in this direction, he must also reckon with the fact that there is a pioportionate increase in temptations. One is tempted not to be so concerned, tempted to do things which he knows are in contradiction to his resolution to keep Lent as a special time of consecration and sacrifice, and tempted to do that which he knows to be sinful. We are not alone in this experience for we read in our Bible, Matthew 4, that our Lord Jesus was also tempted. Temptation was a factor within His experience. In His experience we can also learn that temptation can be withstood, that we need not be over- ' come, but rather by His power we can overcome the temptations of this world. The secret of the power of Jesus to withdraw temptation lies in the fact that He was lead of the Spirit. His lite was a God guided life When our lives are completely under the guidance of the Holy Spirit they too will be able to withstand temptation.

' in a precarious state, two members of the cabinet I having resigned. Key man in the picture, should , hostilities break out, would be Gen. Stasys Dirmantas, Lithuanian minister of defense. Some foresee the eventual annexation of Lithuania by Poland because the latter looks covetously to the Baltic seacoast of her small neighbor, realizing that Germany may soon annex Polish corridor, only outlet to the sea now possessed by Poland.

i BUTLER TRIAL | NEXT MONDAY I Local Case Scheduled To Be Tried At Portland Next Week i i T-he trial of J. E'larl Butler, local , mail carrier, charged with sodomy, < is scheduled to be heard before a jury in the Jay circuit court at Portland next Monday. March 28. Butler was arrested in this city i late last year for the offense, alleged to have been perpetrated on local young men. He was released on bond from the local jail. There has been some speculation i a« to whether or not the case would again be postponed, since two defense attorneys were seeding a pub- ‘ lie office from Allen county in the May primary, in adition to handling their customary attorney's duties. Local attorneys, interested in the case, have been informed by th° Jay court that they will be notified ’ Saturday as to whether the case .will be tried on schedule. Arthur E. Voglewede. of this city, ■ i will carry the prosecution aided by 1 • Robert Smith, Jay county prosecui tor. Attorney D. Burdette Cueter of 'l this city; R. C. Parrish, David ■ ( Smith and Sam Jackson, all of Fort | Wayne, and Attorney Skinner of j Portland comprise the defense (CONTINURD ON PAGE THREE) Decatur Lions To Entertain Ladies I Ladies night will be observed I next Tuesday in the regular weefcly meeting of the Lione club at the II Rice hotel, it was decided last night j ; I by the members. A trio of Hawalin i i Musicians entertained the members •I in a program during last night’s ■ meeting.

TICKET SALES FOR C. C. MEET REPORTED 0000 Annual Chamber Os Commerce Banquet To Be Held Here Mar. 31 Persons planning to attend the annual banquet of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, which will be held at the Knights of Pythias home Thursday. March 31, are urged to purchase tickets as soon as possible, as no more than 200 can be accommodated The tickets, priced at 50 cents, may be secured from any of the solicitors now conducting the ' organization's annual membership 1 drive. Membership fee for the j coming year has been unchanged i from the previous price of $2.50. The C. C banquet will be served | by the PythTan Sisters promptly at 6:30 o'clock. L. A. Hawkins, Chicago, of the advertising department of the Int- ’ ernational Harvester company, will deliver the principal address at the ■ banquet. He replaces Ralph ' Haines, advertising director for 1 the company, who will be unable to attend. Mr. Hawkins will be accompan- ■ ied to Decatur by E. O. Kuntz, I manager of the Fort Wayne branch of the company. John L. DeVoss, president of the. Chamber of Commerce, will preside at the banquet. Special music and other entertainment is being planned for the banquet, and details will be ani nounced next week. Attendance at the banquet will | not be limited strictly to C. of C. . members, and all Decatur persons interested, both men and women, I . are cordially invited to attend. Rev. Father Dapp Delivers Sermon The Rev. Father J. Dapp, pastor of St. Jude's church. Fort Wayne, delivered an instructive discourse on "Sins of thought,” at St. Mary's Catholic church last evening. It was ’ the fourth of the series of Lenten sermons given this season. “Sins of thought are sometime | I more offensive to God and danger- j ous than sins of action”, the speaker said. The litany was recited by Father I Alvin, followed by benediction by Rev. Father Joseph Seimetz. EMMA MILLER DIESTUESDAY • Mrs. John Miller Dies Tuesday A.fter An Extended Illness Mrs. Emma Reppert Miller, 68. of one mile north of Preble, died in the Adams county memorial hospital, Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 o'clock. She had been ill since ‘ four years ago last July and originally suffered a stroke. She was born in Preble township. August 1, 1869. the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Reppert. She was married to John Miller,. December 3, 1888. He survives. She was a member of the Salem | Reformed church. Surviving besides the husband are the following children, Alfred at home; Mrs. A. V. Yost. Decatur; Otto V., Van Wert, Ohio; Hubert, Van Wert; Edwin, Van Wert; . Mrs. B. M. Schultz, Cleveland. O.; Mrs. T. F. Durflinger, Port Huron, Michigan. One son and four grand- | chidren are deceased. A brother, ' Albert Reppert, of Decatur R. R-, I survives, and one brother is de-. ceased. Funeral services will be held at i ithe home Friday afternoon at l:30| I o'clock and at the church at 2 i o’clock. The Rev. David Grether, pastor of the church, will officiate. Burial is to be made in the church cemetery. The body may be viewed at the Zwick funeral home from 7 o’clock this evening until Friday morning at 11 o’clock, when it will be taken to the home in Preble township where it may be viewed until the time of the funeral, Friday afternoon. Guy Patrick Rites ” Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon at Findlay, Ohio, for Guy PatfTFS;, 54, former Willshire, Ohio, resident, well known in this community, w-ho died there Monday. Death was caused by carcinoma. The deceased was born in Willshire, the son of Lyman and Cynthia Patrick. Surviving are tho widow and a son, Wayne at home.

Musso/inz TeZZs Italians Nation Is Ready For Peace

F.D.R. URGES SOUTH TO LIFT WAGE STANDARD Roosevelt Attacks Fascism. Communism In Speech Today Gainesville, Ga. March 23 —President Roosevelt today called upon the south to lift its wage standards and demanded the end of fuedalism which he characterized as little dis- . ferent from fascism. The Preeident, employing lan- ' guage of unusual bluntness, linked wage and living standards of the south with what he characterized as “feudualism.” his address —first ' major public utterance in nearly [ three months —-was regarded as an appeal for southern support of wages and hours legislation which j hae been blocked in congress by southern opposition. The president extemporaneously broadened his attack on fascism and stated that he was equally opposed to communism. After declari ing that feudalism Is akin to fascism he interpolated: "1 am opposed to fascism as I am I opposed to communism.” “Georgia and the lower south ! may just as well face facts,” the President told an assemblage estimated at 50,000 persons, gathered to [celebrate rebuilding of this city I which was devastated by a torndo two years ago.. "On the present scale of wages and therefore on the present scale of buying power, the south cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful industries.” said the 'President, declaring that the advantages of better buying power will I not come “if we believe in our | hearts that the feudal system is i still the beet system.” He declared that “there is little I difference between the feudal sys- ' tern and the fascist system.” “If you believe in the one” ho declared, “your lean to the other.” He declared the “overwhelming majority" of Georgians opposed feudalism and that believers in the feudal system were going to be votled out of public office. Mr. Roosevelt called for highe.'•sages in the south to provide adej quate purchasing power, abolition lof "special privilege" and “partici- < pation in prosperity by the people at the bottom of the ladder.” The speech was broadcast locally. To a congress that has not been enthusiastic about passing his legislative program, there was a warning that he has not given up .the fight for social and economic lieforms. He denounced those legislators who vote against legislation • for better social and economic conJconditions and then ‘‘fail utterly to ofter a better method of their own.” “Today, national progress and naj tional prosperity are being held j back chiefly because of the selfish--1 ues« on the part of a few,” he said. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o FISH FRY HERE FRIDAY NIGHT Conservation Clubs To Mark National Conservation Week Arrangements are being made to feed more than 200 persons at the Knights of Pythias home Friday night from 5:30 to 7:30 o'clock, when a fish supper and special program will be presented in commemoration of national conservation week. The fish are to be salt water speckled trout, and are being shipped here direct from the Gulf of I Mexico. Members of the conservation clubs, their families and others as well as members of Knights of Pythias lodges in this area are expected to attend. Immediately following the supper, there will be a special program, which will include a 15minute talk by French Quinn on conservation. Carl Schinnerer, one of the contractors for the new Decatur school house, is to present an hour’s , showing of his amateur movie (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX),

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However, Rome’s Fascist Newspapers Warn France Against Giving Aid To Loyalist Spain. POPE PROTESTS By Joe Alex Morris, (UP Staff Correspondent) The world’s dictatorial powers moved today toward peaceful legalization of their vast territorial and economic gains. From the balcony of Rome’s Venezia palace, Premier Benito Mussolini shouted to a cheerng crowd that Italy was “ready for peace but if necessary will fight.” Fascist newspapers warned France not to aid the battered Spanish loyalist regime lest she force Italy to go to war. In the crowded Warsaw senate chamber, Polish Foreign Minister Josef Beck declared that the “road is open” to good relations with ; Lithuania on the war-menaced eastern frontier of Europe. An agreement between Japan and Great Britain recognizing Japanese dominace over conquered North China but protecting the vast British commercial interests in the south was forecast at important Shanghai conferences. London newspapers reported unofficially that international protests against the bombing of Barcelona by Spanish nationalists — , supported by Germany and Italy—had led Gen. Francisco Franco to , disclaim responsibility and act to . prevent future bombardments. At , the same ime. Pope Pius vigorously protested the bombings. . Significance of these develop- > ments from world war fronts hingt ed on the fact that in the British . house of commons tomorrow Prime . Minister Neville Chamberlain will . make a momentous declaration on I foreign policy. The British cabinet, concluding i a two-day session, approved a declaration in which Chamberlain will > decline to make any commitments . that would involve Great Britain in future troubles of central Eur1 (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) O DEATH CLAIMS CASPER LANG L Prominent Decatur Man j Dies At His Home This Afternoon i Casper N. Lang, 83, one of the 1 best known of the older residents ’ of Decatur, died this afternoon at : 1 o’clock at his home on North • Fifth street of heart disease. He 1 had been in poor health for about ■ a year and had had a number of > heart attacks. ’ Mr Lang entered the dry goods - business as a clerk when he came 1 to Decatur in 1877, and three years ■ later formed a partnership with . John Eiting, as Eiting and Lang, ’ For many years before his retirement he was an electrician. He had been retired from the last year. He was born in Minster. Ohio, August 9, 1854, the son of Bernard ■ and Clara Lang. His family moved several times before he came to Decatur. His marriage to Elizabeth Eiting took place. August 30, 1881. She > died here August 4, 1935, when struck by an automobile. Surviving are four children, Louetta, at home; Mrs. Ernest Bailey, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Will 0 Kortenber, of New Haven and Ben ' Lang, of North First street. One child is deceased. There are three ■’ brothers, Charles, of Decatur; Joe ' of Covington, Kentucky, and Theol' dore, of San Francisco. Two brothl' ers and two sisters are deceased. He was a member of the St. r Mary's Catholic church. ” Funeral services will be held at f the St. Mary's Catholic church Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, a s (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) ' o — TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER >- 8:00 a.tn 61 2:00 p.m 51 ’’ 10:00a.m 61 3:00 p.m 49 n Noon .....61 WEATHER Cloudy and colder, rain ex--8 treme southeast tonight; gen2 erally fair Thursday, colder extreme southeast portion.