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stjtetraffic Ifllis MOUNT Accident B« United Press ~ traffic death toll t**f ■“ “’I ‘J’, »" d MTe “ m r" . were marked up today “. Salt <>f « varWy ° f ,CC ‘’ L ' ol then, chlldrem , " Parri* W. «" d his b,oth ‘ S l«’ th d|pd *“ ““ Ind ? t ' E 'r. hoapiial ol suf ‘ 40 near Stilesville £ ' Immobile in which , riding with their parJ and another brother rideEj/ pit* Han iaon soldiers ’ j ' woman companion were 121 when the ear in which < t, were riding erasheel into the *r of the Parris machine after , . w the bridge- I Kenneth Bennett, age 9, was jiled near his Mishawaka home , A > was struck from the rear , , truck as he was walking on ~ ’highway with his brother. ' ] tt Bloomington. Max Durnal, j ( south old son of Mr. and Mrs., A Durnal of Martinsville, I ( u fatally injured when the , gmiy automobile stalled on a j iflroad crossing and was struck ( ha freight train I i Me Lewis, age 9. was crushed ( h death when he rode his bicycle h lo the side of a truck and fell , ieaeeth the rear wheels. The driver. Royal Butler of Van (wren. w»s not held. John Degroote, four years old, hi; from a hay rack on which he ' ns riding with his father and ’ ns instantly killed as he landed 1 m U bead on the concrete pave- 1 Sear Logansport James Jami- - Si. d year old worker in a CCC ' ■up at Medaryville and a world 1 nr veteran, was killed outright • she was struck by an automo- 1 tie driven by Herman Suffman ‘ f LaPorte as he was walking 1 long road 43. < Near Elkhart a holiday week- t tt in Chicago meant a near < ngedy for a Detroit family when 1 Inald McMillan, age 5, fell out 1 I its Cither's automobile which t ns travelling 40 miles an hour 1 tt suffered a severe brain con- I

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cuss ion An Indiana man, Clarence O. ! Smith of Gary, was killed near Waterloo, la., last night when he was struck by an automobile driven by a farmhand o . SEN. TYDINGS ■ ■. ■" I (CONTINUED FHOM FAGB ONE) " 1 ' — 1 - ■ ■ i Carolina against Sen. Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith. He was attempting there — and the same strategy may prevail in Maryland to educate the electorate on the; issue of liberalism versus conservatism- which he intends shall be; paramount in the 1940 presidential campaign. Although South Carolina damaged Roosevelt political prestige and a reverse in Maryland would do further damage, there are many persons who believe Mr. Roosevelt has adopted sound strategy in tak-1 ing the offensive on a showdown with conservative Democrats. It would have come soon, in any event. The forecast of Tydings' reuomination is based primarly on two factord of weakness in Lewis' cam1. The enthusiasm and indlvidpaign: ual brilliance of many of his addresses have not offset lack of a hard-hitting, state-wide organize-; tian. 2. Rural Maryland antipathy to; the committee for industrial organization. Renomination of Tydiugs would maintain the unbroken series of triumphs of those Democratic senators who opposed judiciary reor-i sfantzation last year. Terms of nine of those men expired this year. Five of them, so far, have come up for renomination and each has won easily. The latest I recruit to the happy company is | Sen. Pat McCarran, D., Nev., renominated yesterday over two. avowed new dealers. The president did not call for McCarran's defeat nor did he en-' dorse either of his opponents when he travelled through Nevada in July. Sens. Frederick Van Nuys. D., Ind., Bennett Clark, D., Mo.,i and Guy M. Gillette. D., la., like-1 wise were renominated without open White House opposition al-' though the state machine attempt-i ed to bear Van Nuys and some of i Mr. Roosevelt's closest, associates fired some ineffective salvos at Gillette. The first real test came last week in South Carolina when . Smith, another of the ati-judiciairy

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bill brigade, was renominated do spite direct White House opposition. EDI ( A VION DAY (CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE) Ils course record by tour seconda. His time was 1.56%. missing by % of a second his world record. It was the fastest mile run by a trotter or pacer this year. The big grey was driven by Sep Palm, who had sharpened him for the record attempt by a slow mil* earlier in the afternoon. While several thousand spectators r waiter! the exhibition, ' Hanover the Great, coming under the finish wire in the first heat of the governor’s trot, slowed perceptibly, stumbled and fell dead. He was owned by E. J. Baker of St. Charles. Hl., and driven by Palin. Horsemen bo lieved death was caused by the heat. The eight year old gelding won bis race at the Illinois state fair lu 2:03%. and was considered one of Palin's best trotting prospects. Winner of the team weight pulling contest was a pair of horses from Cedar Dell Farms, Plano, 111., the team broke a heavy wire cable in the dynamometer on the first try but later pulled 3.600 pounds 22 feet six inches iu nine seconds for first place. A long parade ot boys and girls who have won places in high school competitious during the year was to be one of today's features. More than 2.200 musicians in 23 bands will lead the parade. Others participating will be Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Lieut.-Gov Henry F. Schricker, and fair officials. WITNESS TELLS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) phoned for additional funds three times, once talking to Hines himself. These calls brought $5,000 bringing the total to $9,000, and he had William R. Mclntosh, treasurer of the campaign fund, handle the details of obtaining a final $2,000. Dewey asked Sobel what amount of money on the official report of Dodge expenditures was recorded "as coming from people from whom hi fact it did not come.” Stryker objected and counsel conferred at the bench After the conference Dewey said "that’s ail” and defense coun-

DANIEL DODGE I BODY IS FOUND Body Os Heir To Dodge ' Motor Car Millions Found In Georgian Bay Little Current, Ont., Sept. 7. — (U.R> The body of Daniel Dodge, 21-year-old heir to the Dodge motor car millions, was found floating in the north channel of Georgian Bay today by Wesley Ryder, a fisherman. Dodge fell or jumped from a speedboat on Aug. 15 while he was being taken tq a hospital. He had been injured tn a dynamite explosion at his estate near here. The body was reported to be in . "fairly good” condition and defl-) nltely identified. Ryder, fishing from his tug. noticed the boady floating just below ' the surface. He brought it here: in hi* boat. Simon Lake, Bridgeport, Conn., inventor, was preparing to have his electrically-controlled submarine towed to the spot where Dodge j disappeared. The submarine was | shipped here” last week to search for the body. The body was found within a few yards of the place Dodge disap-; peared. Dodge was on his honeymoon with his bride of two weeks, Lor-' een MacDonald Dodge, former Gore Bay tleephone operator and daugh-1 ter of a fishing tug captain. He and three employes were in- 1 jured in the dynamite blast. Dodge ■ seriously. Hia left arm was mangled and he suffeffred head wounds.; He had been experimenting in the garage of his "summer cottage to see if some old dynamite would explode. Th blast wrecked the garage. Mrs. Dodge, aided by employes, placed her busband lit his speedboat and set out for Little Current 1 across the north channel. o AGREEMENT ON (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) per cent of capacity. This included about 27.000 employes at the base rate, and board officials estimated that their wage information covered more than 90 per cent of the industry. It was learned that board officials had estimated that two-thirds of the 27,000 workers at the base rate received 61% cents per hour, but that they were considering geographical differentials which have ' long existed in the industry. The Walsh-Healey law. in additio nto requiring government supI pliers to pay prevailing minimum wage rates, also calls for a 40-hour week, outlaws child and convict; labor, and provides for certain minimum working conditions. o BOARD STUDIES j (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) iby the state tax board. The state I 1 and the federal government will i pay for the construction of the ' I roads and bridges and the state 1 ' will maintain them. The commissioners appeared ( I before the council Tuesday seeking the restoration in the budget : of the $20,000 or $25,000 appro- | priation for materials for WPA labor in 1939, after they had been Informed that without the appropriation. it will be impossible to hire WPA for county purposes next year. Propose Home Tne proposed addition to the | Adams county memorial hospital of a nurses home, probably will have no effect on the 1939 budget i as it is proposed to pay the county's <hare of the $60,000 building; by a bond issue. The first of | 1 these bonds probably would not require an appropriation to retire I I them until the setting of the levy next year. It will probably reI quire 15 or 20 years to retire j them The council will be called • to act on this addition at a spe- ■ ' sei Lloyd P Stryker waived cross-1 examination. Sobel was the state's 42nd witness. Dewey said he had only a ) few more to call and would conI elude today. The next witness, Dewey Indi I gated, was out of the city and enroute her*. It was reported on good authority that Dewey planned to present i "sovif accountants’’ this after-1 noon, possibly Milton Bernard. Bernard was employed by the , gang to prepare income tax re | i turns for the leaders and, accord • | ing to the state, he provided a: check for $590 with which to | I make ouo of Hines' salary payments. , In the early part of today e | session. Stryker further cross-' examined Marry Sehoeuhaus. | bookkeeper for the Schultz lot-1 tery combination. He developed, some discrepancies between, Schoenhaus’ testimony iu this I trial and before the grand jury. l Schoenhaus Insisted that lie and other gang witnesses had not arranged a story to "frame” Hines, ; but be admitted Ue bad read the; others' testimony before he was, I called to the stand. >

A Man Must Eat -2 ...a- * Campaignin,* for th* Dtmocratic senatorial primary nomination In a heated race with administrationbacked Representative David J. Lewis, Senator Millard E Tydings of Maryland, above, is kept so busy he has to eat his lunch at headquarters. Tydings is one of those marked on the president’s "purge” list The Maryland primary is Sept 12. cia! meeting Friday. The other cuts the council can make this year will be in the various departments of the general fund, and the county welfare fund. Due to the fact that no levy was requested by the county auditor for the highway budget, reductions in this department would not affect the 1939 levy. Expenses from this department come from the returns from the state, of ihe gasoline tax collections. ; It was authoritatively learned this ' afternoon that the council has made ; some cute in the budget included iu the general fund county budget.) These will lower the tax rates a few' cents it is expected. This afternoon the council began its consideration of the public wel- . fare and the county highway de- ! partment budgets. o STATE MAYORS MEET AT GARY Annual Indiana Municipal League Meeting Opens Today Gary, Ind.. Sept. 7 — (U.R) ) Mayors of Indiana cities convened here today for the 39th annual meeting of the Indiana municipal ! league to discuss a welter of local governmental problems and hear i an imposing list of speakers. A brief business session will signalize the convention's opening 'this afternoon after which the ) city officials will tour the main: moth Carnegie-Illinois steel plant. State Senator William Jenner, Republican minority leader in the upper house of the legislature, will speak on “What we mean by ’ good local government” at the dinner meeting tonight. Principal speakers at the daylong business session tomorrow ! will include John K. Jennings. I Indiana's WPA administrator; ) Mayor Joseph Kimmel of Vincen- . ties; Mayor Sidney Baker of New- ' castle: Clarence E Manion, Hoos- ! ter director of the national emer- , gency council, and Earl McCurdy, ■ state representative from- La- | Porte. James E. Deery, former corporation counsel of Indianapolis, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet tomorrow night. Friday morning the municipal ' league will elect new- officers. Mayor Alben Smith of LaPorte i and Mayor Sidney Baker of NewI castle are candidates to succeed Mayor William N. Teal of Lafayette as president. The conveution will close Friday afternoon at a closed session at which the league will consider the program it will sponsor at the 1939 session of the legisla- ) ture. *o — Indianapolis Police Raid Gambling Joints Indianapolis, Sept 7. — KU.R) (Copying the technique of Chicago 1 authorities, Indianapolis police late (yesterday raided two downtown ! gambling hoqses. arrested 31 per- ' oons and confiscated eight truck , loads of gauibllug equipment and I furniture. Six women were held for ques- ' tioning but no charges were tiled against them. Chief Michael Morrissey ordered the raids and instructed bis vice squads to "take everything and leave only the bare walls and tele--1 pho»es ” The police did just that and jerked all wites loose in addiI tion.

NAVY BOMBERS ON LONG TRIP 17 U. S. Navy Patrol Bombers On Mass Flight To Hawaii San Diego. Cal.. Sept. 7.—(U.R>~Seventeen twin-motored navy patrol bombers carrying 119 officer* and men were reported "on course” today on a 2,570 mile mass "Eight from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Flight Commander Aaron P. Storrs radioed the squadron s position at 2 a. m. PST (4 a. m. CST) as 1,649 miles west of San Diego at latitude 25 38; longitude 147.20. A brisk tail wind enabled them to cover 310 miles in two hours, the message said. Less than 10 hours after its takeoff at 1:57 p. m. PST yesterday, the squadron passed the half-way point in its flight to the islands Os the five patrol ships stationed at intervals along the line of flight, three, the U. S. S. Simpson, Craven and Wriight reported the 17 planes had passed overhead during the night in perfect formation. The other navy ships, the U. S. S. Sicard and Litchfield, lay farther along the projected route at 500-mile intervals to give aid to any plane forced down in midPacific. Their searchlights were focused toward the sgy to give aid to the fliers. Q GREAT POWERS PUT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) study of the Czechoslovak government's new proposals because of further incidents involving Sadetens. Henlein leaders said the incidents included the death of a Sudeten German party member, | Alfred Kloll. who had been accused of spying. Another incident cited was the : complaint of two leading Sudeten I deputies. Fritz Koellner and Karl

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SYNOPSIS In Shanghai, Captain Hugh North, D.C.I. (Department of Criminal Investigation) has been assigned to watch for the arrival of Major Luther Adams, a deserter from the United States Army. Adams helped discover a process to lighten steel 60 •« yet have it retain its original strength. It is believed he plans to sell the formula abroad and, therefore, must be apprehended at any cost. At the Cercle Sportif Francais. North receives a message from Guy Huntingdon, Chief of the Shanghai Municipal Police, that an American committed suicide at the Mandarin House. In the victim’s pocket was a note addressed to Luther Adams. As Nirth leaves to investigate, a beautiful woman approaches and asks for a word with him. The lady, obviously distressed, says she is Marya Gallian, just arrived in Shanghai with her fiance, Philip King. King has disappeared and Marya asks North’s aid in locating him, offering the detective ten thousand pounds for his services. She promises to b« perfectly frank with one exception - she cannot divulge why she and King came to Shanghai. His suspicions aroused. North decides to let the American suicide wait and go with Marya. He is surprised when her ricksha stop* at the Mandarin House where he was suposed to go in the first place. "Chanchol Makee stop I” he had heard her call to the coolie. Yet she said she had never been to China before! King's room is No. 1311. Knowing the police would be waiting for him inside and not wishing Marya to know anything until he got his bearings, North asks her to wait in the lounge. The assistant manager approaches North and directs him to the police in room 1311! Philip King had hanged himself! North is confused. He had thought the victim was Luther Adams. Evidently there was some connection between Merrs. Adams and King. Although passport and papers purport to show the dead man was Philip King, the buckle of his belt has the initials “L.A.” on it, and a checkbook on the dresser belongs to Luther Adams. Major Kilgour of the British Intelligence does not believ* the man is King. CHAPTER VI “And what do you say. Chao Ku?” “If insect may venture speech in presence of lion, I would offer those not even dead man's own clothes." North chuckled. ‘‘l suppose that’s what the hat told you?” The little Chinese bowed solemnly. “Quite right. In lining of hat marked P. K., I find black hair and no odor of mosa rose. Most surprising; late lamented here has sandy red hair smelling like garden after spring rain.” “Anything else?” “Yes. Among cushions of couch I find this—” He held up nothing more nor less than a folding twofoot rule of the sort generally used by plumbers and carpenters. It was brand new. In silence the man from G-2 studied this new bit of evidence. “Go on, please.” “Fingtr* of lata '.slanted ara yallow from use of tobacco, but no trace

May, who charged that police at i Maehrisch Ostrau had threatened i to beat them and intimidated a crowd of Sudeten Germans who turned out to welcome them to the town. The deputies, hi a telegram to ■ tho Czeclioalovair interior ministry, demanded severe punishment ot t lie policemen. They said they went to Maeh-rlsch-Ostrau to discuaa minority affairs with the authorities. Mounted police, they declared, charged the Sudeten welcoming crowd and threatened to whip the deputies and the crowd. Another cause ot tension was a CflMh government complaint that six German planes, five of them military, had flown over Czech territory. Five military planes flew over the frontier today, the government charged, maneuvering over southern Bohemia. Another German plane flew over southern Bohemia on Monday, it was alleged. Reviews Laborers Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 7 — (U.R>- Adolf Hitler, central figure in the European political crisis, gave Europe's diplomats a display of Germany's man power today as he considered his policy in the Czechoslovak minority dispute. Thirty thousand men of the labor corps—the men behind the army — and 2,009 women of the labor corps paraded before Hitler on the great zeppelin field. Diplomats realized that these men were a first reserve for the 1,000,000 or more soldiers now ou maneuvers. The men of the labor service carried heavy shovels in the parade. Officials denied that these men, considered to serve six months or more in the labor corps as a preliminary to two years of army service, were equipped with rifles. Three newspaper correspondents saw a truck caravan Saturday, containing more than 200 labor service men armed with rifles pass through the street here. The labor service parade and drill, a four hour show, was the main event of the day at the Nazi party annual congress. Behind the scenes, Hitler was conferring with Konrad Henlein,

of weed is in coat pockets.” Inspector Chao blinked rapidly. "After these insignificant deductions will Tajrm finish incomplete picture?” Officer Pebble manufactured a hoarse laugh. "Go ahead, Capt’n. You can’t disappoint the Chink. Tell him this guy didn't even commit suicide.” Grim amusement played about North’s mouth. “Clever of you to notice it, too.” “Notice what?” “That the fellow couldn’t have committed suicide.” "Oh, I say,” Kilgour broke in. “You’re not going to ask us to believe that someone broke in here and hanged him?” “Hardly. But please look at the towel basket from which the dead man is supposed to have stepped when he hanged himself.” “What's wrong with it?” Officer Pebble rumbled. “As towel basket, very fine.” Puffing gently, Chao Ku offered a basket of metal lattice work. “Said receptacle, however, much too frail to support weight of late lamented. Please observe, esteemed collaborator Pebble.” The S. M. P. detective upended the basket then placed a foot upon its bottom. At the first pressure the white enamelled receptical buckled. Officer Pebble turned a delicate shade of magenta but clung to his opinion. “Well, maybe you're right, but King could have stood on the edge of the bathtub and kicked the towel basket over in his struggles.” After briefly considering the point, North nodded. “That's entirely possible, Mr. Pebble, even if an overturned basket doesn't generally l*nd completely upside down. The use of this chain, however, to me is quite conclusive.” He indicated the shower bath curtain chain. “Ah, yes, the chain. What about it?” Major Kilgour demanded. "Captain North’s going to tell us it wasn't strong enough to support the body,” Pebble’s tone was bitter. “Your error, Officer Pebble, it’s a fine strong chain. But a person attempting suicide almost never uses wire or a chain, or anything that’s likely to injure his skin. A curious quirk of human nature, isn’t it, Inspector Chao?” “Tajen’s words are reflection and substance of truth. In this insignificant person’s experience, he has observed many cases of self-destruc-tion, but never osce did suicide cut thread of life with object harsh to skin.” Kilgour laughed a little shamefacedly. “I should have remembered that. Os course you’re right. Gives one to wonder who staged this pretty little scene, eh what? By the bye, here's the letter we found on him—envelope, I should say, since there’s nothing in it.” The envelope proved to be sddressed to Major Luther Adams and had been postmarked in New York months earlier. Beyond that it told North nothing at all. “Well, Hugh—who do you think he is? Adams or King?” “Why guess when there’s someone downstairs who knows Luther Adams?” Chao Ku blinked, and Pebble opeaaa ins mouth sua forgot to clow it

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leader ot th* German minority in Cwchoslovakia, and with his own advisers as to his course iu the ißiuorliy crisis Q Youth Wounded In Watermelon Patch Elkhart, Ind., Sept. 7. — KU.R) • Irvin Bunch. 12, who received more than 100 pellets from a shotgun charge iu his back when a gardener fired on Bunch and several companions when he found them in bis watermelon patch Saturday, is Improving in a hospital here, his physician said today. None ot the slugs will be removed from Bunch'* body unless infection develops. Nathan Webb. 70, who said ho Intended to fire over the boys’ heads is at liberty on bond. - "O' 1 *'""" Chicago Continues Drive On “Joints" Chicago Sept. 7 —<UP) —The number of handbooks raided by state's attorney Thomas J. Cortney’s axe squads stood at 62 today as the “hatchetmen’’ entered the fourth week of their anti-gambling drive. Courtney’s men yesterday enjoyed the biggest kill since the “large" siarted August 17. After a week-end lull, they came back to chop up nine establishments. Among those arrested were two men who said that on the suggestion of their “boss" they opened up in new quarters after their other place was raided last week. o New State Officer Is Assigned Here State Policeman John Webster, of Dunkirk, one of the new men from the last < ‘ass who joined the state police department, has been temporally assigned to this section, aiding Officer Earl Warnock, ot Portland. Officer Truman Bierie, ot Bluffton, regular patrolman iu this vicinity is vacationing. 500 Sheets Yellow Second Sheets, 35c. Decatur Democrat Company. ts

"Someone who knows Luther Adams?” Kilgour’s sharp query removed any doubts North entertained about the Englishman's true concern in this affair. “Why, how—?” “Tell you later. Officer Pebble, would you go down to the ladies’ drawing room and fetch a young woman you'll find waiting there?” “How’ll I know her?” “She’s blonde and is wearing a jade green evening gown. Her name is Marya Gallian. Don’t tell her anything about all this.” “Gallian?” Kilgour blinked, but he said nothing. "All right, Captain, I’ll get her.” Th* British agent cast his companion a sharp look. “Where’d you meet this Gallian woman?” “At the Cercle Sportif. She came up to me and asked me to help her find Philip King. That’s all I know.” The British Intelligence man looked a trifle incredulous. “Come now, Hugh—” “Honestly, I never saw her before; to me she’s a complete enigma. And while we’re on the subject, didn’t you recognize her name?” “I did,” Kilgour admitted slowly. “Our people and the Dieuxieme Bureau have had an eye on her for a long while.” “Um. What is she—a baladeuse?" “Not at present. Last I heard she'd given up free-lance espionage.” A ghost of a grin crept over the Englishman’s wide mouth. “I say, Hugh, even if they didn’t tell you,G-2 must have known she's been recently working as a clerk in your War Department.” North vented a brief AngloSaxon expletive, and a surge of color emphasized the whiteness of his dinner coat collar. It was, he had found, infinitely annoying to discover such quaint bits of information in the possession of alien Intelligence agents. Light-weight steel—it seemed vain to hope that the secret could be kept. “Then la Gallian has become a uiouton?" (A secret agent who collects data on military and industrial preparedness.) “Precisely, a mouton." Kilgour’s shiny red forehead became furrowed. “You’ve no idea of what brought her to Shanghai?” “I venture Sir Guy has been finding that out,” North predicted with a hollow laugh. “Well, Chao Ku?” “Events begin to move with speed of dog troubled with fire-crackers,” he remarked. “Examination of neck reveals late lamented was garroted from behind in most accomplished manner. His clothes were changed then his body was hanged. I think very soon conies one big surprise for all of us.” “Shouldn’t wonder,” sighed the British agent. “Lend a hand. Inspector Chao, and we’ll cover the blighter; he's scarcely ornamental. Well, Hugh, it looks as if you’re the one to break the bad news.” _ “I’m afraid so. But stand by, as I’ll bring her in here directly. Be a good lad, Bruce, and watch the proceedings through the bathroom door. I don’t want her more selfconscious than I can help. Chao Ku, you'd better stand yonder among the shadows.” (To Be Continued) OowrisM to ». v»a Wrei ttoja DUULbuia* to XUs Future. Uft.