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Continue Search For Missing Man 1 Hartford City, End. April 22 — (UH)- -Authorities continued their search today for Merrill Hendricks, i 25. Montpelier, Ind., non of BlackI ford County sheriff Omer Hendricks who disappeared late Tuesday while driving a montpelier bakery truck. Officials found his abandoned , trut'k at Marion. He was reported , to have been seen at that city Wednesday. o COLLEGE HEAD SPEAKER HERE President Ralph Tirey Os Terre Haute Teachers Speaks Here Most of the many problems which must be solved in our economic system today are largely human problems. President Ralph N. Tirey of Indiana State Teachers ' college told members of the Ro- | tary club at a dinner meeting held Thursday evening in the Rice hotel. “If we can get the human relaI tions worked out. the material factors are likely to fall in line immediately,” President Tirey said, i “You find the successful merchant doing those things which cause his customers to want to come back i to his store.” President Tirey said that under | present conditions it takes more than merely a good product to 5 achieve business success, and that j businessmen should concentrate on : rendering service hi their meri chandising. The successful bus--1 inessman concentrates on service as an objective, and the making of money follows in due course, he said. The human element in business is not a new thing. President Tirey sair in contending that it always has been a big factor. He used the building of the Panama Canal as an example, showing tha the French possessed the machinery, engineers the money, but the canal I could not be const ucted until the United States took over the task and General Gorgas solved the health difflcnltfes. which essentialI ly constituted a human factor. President Tirey cited the example of he Nash Tailoring company as an example of the success of recognizing the human elemen in relationships between employi ers and employees. He concluded I by saying that the old maxim, “the buyer must beware,” now must be modified to include the seller as well as the buyer for unless both recognize the importance of cooperation and understanding both mus loose. I W. Gtuy Brown was chairman of the program. The club will not meet next Thursday, but will at- ■ tend the joint meeting at the ' Country club, when Thurman A. ' Gottschalk will be the principal ' speaker. Speaks To Students Thursday afternoon President Tirey addressed a high school convocation on the subject, “Making ! the Most of Life." He told his young listeners that they should concentrate on “doing what they can, with what hey have, where (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) LIST PROGRAM OF EXERCISES Kirkland Baccalaureate Services To Be Held Sunday Night Baccalaureate exercises for the Kirkland high school will be held Sunday evening at 8 o’clock. The program for the exercises I will be: "Melody in F” —Rubinstein—Mrs. ■ Shrsam. "March Romaine” —Gounod —Mrs, Ehrsam. “Night in June” — Offer.back — I Girls glee club. Invocation--Rev. Moore. I “To A Wild Rose”—MacDowell— I Mixed chorus. Address —Rev. Weller. “Indian Down" — Zamecnidk Girls glee club. Benediction—Rev. Moore. The seniors are: Many Diehl, Ardea Byerly. Harold Shady, Dorothy Adler, Evelyn Troxel, Vera Wulli- : man. Georgia Yaney, Henry Marshall. Glen Griffiths, Stanley Arnold ■Merle Frauhlger, Eleanor Hlrschey, i Marjorie Dilling, Carl Baumbartner, Donald Seeeenguth. Helen Lonman and Virginia Zimmerman , The class colors are blue and silver, the class flower, lhe Talisman rose and the class motto. "Succeed. , we caji, we must,” i

.LEVINE EXTORT PLOT REVEALED AFTER ARREST ] Man Arrested In Chicago In Effort To “Chisel” On Kidnaping Chicago, April 22 -((J.R)- Charles Edmund laivendar, 33-year-old un-1 i employed musician, today described > to federal bureau of investigation • agents his efforts to “chisel In" on ■ the kidnaping of Peter lovine, of , New Rochelle, N. Y.. with a $30,000 ■ ransom demand. Lavendar. according to D. M. Ladd, chief of the Chicago field I office of the F B. 1., asserted he knew nothing of the actual kidnapI ing of the Levine child. “He was a chiseler in the case, seeking easy money,” Ladd said. Lavendar was arrested on a ’ 1 street in the Chicago loop late yesterday while attempting to collect 1 $30,000 he demanded on promises ' of restoring the missing child to his parents. The "contract” was an F. B. I. ’ trap. Lavendar arranged the meeting ■ in two letters of instructions. The ■ first, airmailed to Murray Levine, I father of the kidnaped child, was : I postmarked from Chicago April 14. Levine submitted the letter to ' federal agents who instructed him • to designate a Chicago agent. Le- > vine, Ladd said, then instructed : Lavendar to send specific instruci tions to the address he designated -1 in Chicago. The second letter, -' arranging the loop meeting, was < j received in Chicago yesterday. ; Dressed in a good suit, and walking slowly along a loop street, Lav-1 endar made the contact He was i met by a federal agent who extended a “dummy” package, supposedly ' II containing the funds requested. I As Lavendar accepted the pack-1 [ ’ age he was placed under arrest ’ > He offered no resistance and read ily confessed writing the extortion I notes. Ladd said. . Ladd said Lavendar was divorc- . ed. He was born in Missouri and ‘ lived for several years in Berkeley. . i CfrHf la California, Ladd said, Lavendar was arrested for manslaughter. He was held at F. B. I offices pending arraignment on charges J of violating the federal extortion statute. I ——< o SOCIETYWILL PRESENT PLAY First Evangelical Church Society To Present Play Sunday 1 The W. M. S. of the First Evangelical church will present a play, "The Lord’s Acre,’ Sunday eve- ■ ning at 7:30 o'clock. The emphas- : is will be, “the courage of consei crated giving.” I The complete program follows: Opening Meditation — Mrs. Mae ■ Johnson, president of W. M. S. Hymn. “For Christ and the Church.” Scripure lesson, selected. Prayer by the minister. Vocal duet. Mrs. C. L. Weber ' and Mrs. Frank Butler. »' Hymn. “O Scatter Seeds for Lov1' " Reading, "Paul’s Fellow Workers,” Mrs. Mae Johnson. , Message, the minister. Meditation hymn, “To the Work Play, “The Lord s Acre.” Sharacters: Carl Hoskins, a farmer — Billie Joe Spahr. Martha Hoskins, his wife—Mrs. ■ Amos Ketchum. Ted Hoskins, their son—Robert ’ Schnitz. Betty Hoskins, their daughter Roberta Coffelt. Clara Green, a neighbor — Mrs. Henry Adler. Closing moments. Benediction. Organ postlude, selected. The membership of the church Is urged to be present and all friends of the church are Invited to the service. — —O Another Set Os Twins Reported The statement in Thursday s ’ issue of the Daily Democrat that ’ the twins born to Mr. and Mrs. j William Davis were the first of the year for Adams county, today; brought out another claimant to the distinction. It was revealed that twins were born January 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Sheets, of route one at the Sheets home. The births were i not reported until touay.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 22, 1938.

Gold Rush in Modern Style 1 ? If ; i ; L? S tr A .. djM Applying for loans This 1938 version of the gold rush was staged in New York as small business men sought loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corpora-1 tlon. Applications range from SI,OOO to $5,000 on the average.

NEW SUGAR ACT IS EXPLAINED Procedure For Listing Sugar Beet Acreages, Yields Outlined Leon Bailey, member of the Indiana state conservation commit- ! tee. and Clarence Oviatt, reprei .tentative of the sugar section, met in Decatur yesterday with repre--1 sentatives of the soil conservation | committees of Randolph. Jay. ; Wells. Huntington. Allen, BlackI ford. Dekalb. Whitley. Lake. MarI shall and Adams counties to outi line the procedure for listing 1937 | sugar beet acreages and yields, preparatory to working out normal yields and typing application forms for payment as provided for under the 1937 sugar act. The requirements for earning sugar payments are separate and distinct from those under which farmers may earn soil conservation payments. Mr. Bailey stated that this area was indeed fortunate in having a crop for which no overproduction exists and for which parity price is provided He was pleased to learn of the interest that was taken in the sugar beet crop. In commenting on the new soil conservation program he stated that it was highly desirable that farmers give very serious consideration to their allotments, as 45 per cent of the 1937 corn crop was still in cribs on farms and that the present indications for wheat are that we are likely to have a bumper crop, a crop far in excess of our marketing needs. With prospects for huge supplies of feed stuffs and lesser numbers of livestock to consume these feed stuffs, it is quite likely that prices will be considerably lower unless farmers adhere close(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Assessors To Meet Saturday Afternoon Trustees, assessors and deputy assessors will meet Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock in the offices of County Assessor Ernest Worthman.

Residents Os Illinois City Have Own Plan For Recovery

Danville. 111., April 22—(UP)— Business men of Danville, a city of 36.000 population, decided today to fight their own way out of the recession with a five-year program they believe would change the entire national picture it generally adopted in small cities. They organized the Danville development corporation in a determined effort to lick industrial depression and bring prosperity back to Danville. ' George Musebeck, shoe manufacturer and head of the corporation, disclosed that the project was promulgated at a meeting of a dozen business leaders three months ago, ibut kept quiet purposely "until everything worked out as planned." “Everybody was looking to Washington for an answer to our economic troubles,” Musebeck explained !to the United Press. “We decided : that maybe we ought to wake up and find the answer ourselves at I home.” Danville’s answer, Musebeck believes, is the five-year program under which at least five factory units will be erected each year for the

Rothschild Family Property Seized Vienna, April 22—(UP)—Several properties of the immensely weal*! thy Rothschild family in Austria have been incorporated in the property of the greater Germany government, it was announced today. The announcement was made in ’ the official Gazette in the form of a communication to Dr. Altons von Rothchild. It said that the decision on “incorporation" was reached. April 12 by the district court at the town of gaming upon demand of the Gestapo, the German secret political police. VARIETY SHOW HERE TONIGHT Recreational Program To Present Splendid Show Tonight The general public today was extended a cordial invitation to at- ! tend the variety show at the Catho lie school auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock, sponsored by Decatur's new recreational program. The program will be entirely free, with no admission charge of any kind. A concert by the Fort Wayne Federal music band will be a sea--1 ture of tonight's program, starting promptly at 8 o’clock. This band has established a splendid reputaj tlon in music circles in this section of the state. Dale Stopher, also of Fort Wayne for many years an outstanding magician on the professional stage, will present one of the leading numbers of the program. Mr. Stopher will be accompanied iby his own crew of men and an elaborate performance of magic and illusion will ; be presented. An added feature on tonight’s program will be the appearance of j Joe Trimm, Fort Wayne, who will ■ present several yodels. The balance of the program will be rounded out with talent from (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO)

• next five years. Units will be mado ] ' availabl to small industries and will | require no initial investment. They | will be sold on a “pay-as-you-rent plan.” “The plan is no longer a dream," Musebeck said. “It is a reality, we ; already have sold our first new unit i to the Grogan Photo service of Chi-1 cago. They will be in full operation | next week. And we have three live prospects for there other units under consideration.” “There is no reason so rhaving a depression with 28 to 30 billions in savings accounts in banks and 70 billions in cash in banks. It’s a question of selling! and distribution.” Musbeck said the crux of the idea advanced by the corporation is assistance, particularly from bankers. “I don’t know how the idea would work out in a large city. But in cities the size of Danville there is a more intimate and personal relation between business firms and banks. Under our plan, these firms would present monthly operating (CONTINUED~ON PAGE FOUR)

NAVAL DEFENSE PLAN BRINGING DP OPPOSITION Misconceptions Seen In Conflict Over Defense Policies By Joe Alex Morris (United Press Staff Correspondent) A great deal more than reaches the headlines is behind today's senate conflict over President ’ Roosevelt's billion-dollar naval pro-1 gram. From the point of view of administrative officials, significant misconceptions have arisen in regard to United States defense requirements. One such misconeeptioa was hinted at by Secretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson’s letter to Sen. Homer T. Bone. D. Wash., opposing Bone's proposal to limit the area of peace time naval operations. Two factors not mentioned in ' Swanson's letter lay behind the 1 administration’s opposition to ] Bone's proposal that a theoretical line be drawn from the Aleutian Islands to Midway Island in the Pacific, to the Panama Canal and thence to the Virgin Islands and northward to Maine —a line beyond which the navy would not go ex- : cept in war time. First, that line — which has i sometimes been mentioned by naval officials but is not an important factor in naval operations — is con- - sidered by naval strategists not as , a defensive zone in event of an ' attack on the United States but j as a “last ditch” sea sector. The key to naval defense of | ' America, they argue, rests on meet-1 ing an enemy fleet as far at sea as possible and the line drawn by I Bone would represent an area that, I if penetrated by an enemy fleet, ! would open the United States to [ direct attack by aerial bombard- ! ment. As an example, an enemy in possession of Hawaii — although 2,000 miles away—would be in a position to strike directly at the west coast as demonstrated by the routine movement of planes at present across the eastern Pacific. In other words, the line drawn by Bone would not be a defense line in the view of naval experts but j would mark an area to be defended at all costs and as a last resort. A second factor involving United States foreign policy would be possible isolated action to uphold the Monroe doctrine of which President Roosevelt firmly reminded possible aggressors recently. Recently, congressional critics of the naval program have assailed the administration on suspicion that a secret policy of aggression is contemplated. Their argument has been based on the theory that the present navy is sufficient for defense of United States coast lines and that any additions must necessarily be for aggression. The navy department has taken j the position that it has no part in i the debate other than to answer I questions, but it was pointed out I that only by taking the aggressive 1 in event of war could America’s | "(CONTINUBD ON PAGE THREE) GENEVA FIRST COMMENCEMENT First Os Rural School Commencement Exercises Saturday Night The first of the seven rural high school commencement exercises will be held Saturday night at the Geneva high school auditorium, I where the memibers of the senior class will receive their diplomas. Monmouth commencement exercises will be held Saturday at the Geneva high school auditorium, where the members of the senior class will receive their diplomas Monmouth commencement exercises will be held on Monday night, April 25. The exercises will continue each night for the balance of the week in the following order. Pleasant Mills, Tuesday; Jefferson. Wednesday; Hartford, Thursday; Kidkland. Friday and Monroe, Saturdayj R. Stanleiy Hendricks, of Huntingburg. well known speaker and lecturer, will deliver the commencement address at each of the exercises. The first of the baccalaureate services was held last Sunday at Geneva, with the rest of the baccalaureate services at the respective schools or community churches next Sunday night. The school terms of rural schools will be concluded next week.

Speed Machinery To Launch Drive To Aid Business

MORE INTEREST | IN PRIMARIES Interest Increasing As Primary Election Date Is Nearing On the eve of the last full week before the primary election, Tuesday, May 3, candidates for public office today began to wind up their campaigns in a final effort to secure the coveted nominations. An increase in newspaper political advertising, the first serious house-to-house canvassing and several other noticeable campaign methods began to forecast the i nearness of the primary. Mother nature has displayed a leniency for the office-seekers, who are starting last minute campaign windups, bestowing sunshine and warm weather on the city and county, enabling the candidates to make better time under more favorable conditions in canvassing. Despite the nearness of the election, only 10 days away, an unusual quiet due to lack of enthusiasm has been noted, according to the general concensus of opinion — | this despite the prospects of sever-j ! al heated races on the Democratic i ticket. Old-timers predict that the lull l is only “the quiet before the ! storm." and that during the last week the hubbub of vote-soliciting office-seekers will reach a new height. Meanwhile election commissioners, county chairmen, party workers, candidates and interested persons continue preparations for the primary. Printing of the ballots at the Daily Democrat printing rooms, under the supervison of the election commissioners. W. P. Robin- j son. Homer D. Lower and G. Remy j Bierly, continues at a fast pace. Sample ballots have been printed j and placed at the county clerk s I office in the courthouse and are (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) O PLAN MEMORIAL AT MOOSE HOME Mayor A.R.Holthouse l<> Speak At Moose Memorial Service May 1 Plans for the annual Memorial Day cervices to be held at the 10-1 cal Moose lodge home on Sunday afternoon May 1, are nearly completed. J. M. Breiner, program chairman, announced today. Arthur R. Holthouse, mayor of Decatur, will deliver the memorial address in honoring departed memibers of the order. Gerald Cole, new-ly-elected dictator, will preside at the rites. The local order is also planning to commemorate the silver anniversary of Mooseheart, which will be 25 years old In July of this year. This year is also the golden anniversary of the order, founded in 1888. Mooseheart, the home for widows (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o I Pleasant Mills Alumni Banquet The annual Pleasant Mills alumni banquet will ibe held Saturday night at 8 o’clock at the local Masonic . home. All alumni of the school are invited to attend. — —o Wells County Starts Condemnation Suits County commissioners of Wells ! county have started condemnation suite against land-owners, who refuse to release right-of-ways along the Six Mile road, southeast of Bluffton, which runs to the AdamsWells county line. The commissionera are seeking to widen the road from 40 to 60 feet. —o Extinguishes Blaze With Buckets Os Water Chris C. Hirschy, 83-vear-old • Berne resident, extinguished a tire i at his Berne home Wednesday : i night by throwing buckets of water | on the blaze. The fire started from i an overheated iron. Little damage resulted.

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Government Agencies At Work To Hasten Drive Against Recession As Unemployment Mounts 50,000 LAID OFF Washington, April 22 — (U.R) — Government administrative agencies today accelerated machinery to translate President Roosevelt's $4,512,000,000 recovery program into action, spurred by a department of labor report that 50,000 workers lost their jobs last month. While congress took a holiday, delaying work on legislative aspects of the drive until next week, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins estimated that 50,000 additional workers were laid off during March. March, she said, was the sixth month of the unemployment spiral which President Roosevelt hopes to turn upward by his new lendingspending drive. Although no congressional action was possible before next week, other agencies of the government were at work on the broad attack on depression. The treasury made plans to spill $1,400,000,000 in gold into credit channels at the rate of $50,000,000 a week. Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins, awaiting action of a house sub-committee on Mr. Roosevelt’s request for $1,250,000.000 to finance relief rolls until next Feb. 1. drafted new plans to be effectuated the moment congress acts. Public Work Administrator Harold L. Ickes sent his aides into action to prepare a new program of building projects, contingent on congressional approval of the sl,000,000,000 requested by the president for his agency. Miss Perkins said that usually employment showed a seasonal ini crease of from 200,000 to- 300,000 ! in March. She estimated that employment last month was 2,450,000 less than in March, 1937. The “only optimistic note" in the monthly employment report she said, was the fact that weekly factory payrolls showed a gain of $200,000. She attributed this to factories working longer schedules as employment in manufacturing industries decreased contra-season-ally. In March, she said, about 40,000 j factory workers were laid off. She said that class one railroads , laid off nearly 12.000 men in March and the bituminous coal mines cut off 11,000 workers. Effectively immediately, the treasury will release the gold at the rate of $50,000,000 a week. The plan will reduce the public debt at that rate as well as the government’s interest costs. The plan provides for redemption of one of the two $50,000,000 short terra bill issues matering weekly during the next eight weeks. The remaining $50,000,000 weekly maturity will be “rolled over,” that is replaced by a similar type of issue. Congress adjourned until Monday, but there were increasing reports of a drive to earmark the relief and public works funds that the president requested for his $4,512,000,000 spending-lending drive (CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN) o NAME SPEAKERS FOR EXERCISES Hartford And Jefferson Senior Speakers Are Named Valedictorians and salufatoriana of the Hartford and Jefferson high school graduating classes have been announced. Rose Marie Romey is the valedictorian of the Hartford class, and Lorene Steiner is salutatorian. The commencement will be held Thursday night at the school. Iva Corey is the valedictorian ot the Jefferson clase and Matjorie Boze is salutatorian. The commencement there will be hell Wednesday evening at the school. All four of the students made high scholastic averages during their four years in high school, which rated the honors for them. Both of the baccalaureate services will be held at the respective schools next Sundaiy night. The I Rev. George Holeton ot Linn Grove | will deliver the Hartford sermon.