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Heads Legion B • * Hay Townaley. of Danville, wad 1 ••Iwted commander of the Indiana department of the American la* it ion «t the annual alate conven tion. held thia week at ninoniing i ton. HIGHER TAXES IN TOWNSHIP Washington Township 1940 Budget Reveals Heavy Increase Property owner* In Decatnr are i faced with a 3Vcent increaae in tax rate* and property owner* out*lde of Decatar bul In Waahtiiat.m lownnhlp will have a rate increnio' of <5 cent* by virtue of the Wa*hington lownahlp buditel estimate* a* prepared by townaMp truate.' John M Doan and comity auditoi | Victor Kicher Tht* does not include the county. state and city la* rate* The part of the township budget previously prepared by county auditor Kleber Include* the p.a>r relief and township road lumd lev ie*. The county auditor must set up sufficient fund* to make ad«payment* on these and they are carried In thv county budget. The remainder us the budget was prepared by the tiuslee and was announced today The part of the propoaed levies, in *hich Decatur participate* la: IMt 1»W Township revenue .. OS 04 Road bonds ....... .. ,»S .11 Piair'relief ............ S 2 <4 i Total .«4 ,7s Property owner* of Washington township outside of Decatur par-| tklpate in the entire budget, which contains the additional 1 Item* of *chool and library funds The proposed budget for the entire Washington township. e*du •Ive of county and state levies I* ' l»3» DUO Township revenue .. .OS .04 Road bonds ....... .. .09 11 ‘ Poor relief ............ 18 «4 > i Tuition .... .00 8b Special *ch<a»l ......... .80 So Library ... .03 03 Total* .«? 11.181 The poor relief budget haa already been announced by county 1 auditor Victor Kicher. a consultation of county official*, at <4 .cent*, double the existing rate. | liecauae of the present deficiency which ha* necessitated a aerious * drain ou county revenue, from i which fund the township hue lieen I borrowing. Th- county officials faced the alternative of a bond issue, which they felt woUid cost (OONTIMUCD ON PAOV PtVßi ' GIVEN FINE AS I DRUNK DRIVER JttM Carpenter Fined By Judge, License Is Suspended Je*«e Carpenter was lined 116 md coats by Judge J Fred Fruchte ! late Tuesday after he had entered 1 Tina of guilty to a charge of driving while under the Influence of in intoxicating liquor. Carpenter pleaded guilty to the charge Monday when arrmgned bef're Judge Frucbto and was re manded to jail while hl* punishment 'vas taken under advisement. Judge Fruchte also ordrred Ca'pcptvter's driver's license suspended far a period of six months and proh'blted Carpenter from driving dur. lag that period. Carpenter was arreated aarly Sunday morning by officer Russell Prior of the Indiana state police force. The arrest was made on Fourth street and Carpenter was lodged in jaff, pending his arraigni ment. He was ordered to the jail utM I I the fine and costs were paid.

NAZIS CHARGE POLES FIRE ON GERMAN PLANES Assert Three Planes Fired On By Anti-Aircraft Batteries Ib rlln. Aug 33 <U.R> Nuxi* charg.-d tonight that three German airplanes had lieen fired on by Pollidi anti-aircraft batteries. The shootings, reported by the official new* agency, DNB. said that the three- airplane* wt-tc fiaaI senger craft and that one <>f the in . narrowly escaped destruetl.ui. The third plane was a tri motoreel l.ufthansi D-AHIIF with a crew .of three and 1* passengers, tn-1 eluding four children, the agency j said It was fired on by Polish batteries and a Polish warship 14 mile* from the Baltic cout. the I , dispatch reporte-d. The- plane was tn regular service 1 from Dmislg to Berlin and flying at about I.MO feet The Incident was re-ported In the midst ot a powerful anti Poll*h outburst In the Nail preaa. The agency previously reported a passenger plane en route from Berlin to Daniig was fired on by Poles. The dispatch. carrle*d by the DNB agency, from Dantig, said that the plane was en route from Tempelhof airdrome at Berlin io Dantig and Koenigsberg In East Prussia, when Polish batteries Inside Polish territory bul near the Danzig frontier opened fire. The shooting, similar to several such reported Incidents recently, was lal 3:BN p in The dispatch said that the pilot *aw the Polish shell explode near his plane, the Von Blerliersterln. which left Tempelhof at noon. Karlier It had been reported a junker* plane had le-en fired on but not hit by Polish anti-aircraft batteries outside of Polish territorial water* DROP PROPOSED IN BERNE RATE 1910 Budget For Town Os Berne Provides 17-Cent Slash Taxpayer* of the town ot Bern? * ire to be given one of the !• w drops |in tax rates In tbe county next year, according to Henry B Heller, attorney of the town, who said today the trustees of the town. C. D Hal--1 slger. Henry Winteregg and Paul Felber, have prepared a propoaed budget calling for a 46-cent rate. It-cent* below the <3-cen*. rale n t effect this year. In view of the foct that budget*, :i* subtnlued by • governnu ntal un- . its. can only be cut and can not be Increased, this guarantee.! a final . levy of at least 17 cents oelow thj ?re*eut one. This budget haa been prepared to | include, for the first thne. payments of principal and Interest on the new school The wlaMil city of Berne, which also is to begin making payments on principal and Interest next y--»r on the new school. |* to ask for only a 10-cent increase. This mean* that tagpayer* of Berne may enjoy the new school and at the same time enjoy at least a seven , c-nt reduction In the total of school tud civil tax rates. The imyinent to be malt by the j civil city of Herne next year for th* i new school la to total f3.«50. of 1 which M.200 will apply to principal and 81.060 to Interest. * Several economies have been eftected In the expenses of operating I the town In the proposed budge*. Sonve reduction Is to be made in ; the balance carried over. The town has I’ompleted the payment of the Berne water plant thia year. Th<a plats w-aa originally purenised by ' the town on a contract basis, and annual purchase payments were made. In addition the town had a l-aiance In the street department. 1 which Is being transferred to the ! general fund. 1 The budget neut year will not ru*j quire a tax levy for the street department. The Ifecent tax rate, heart! on the valtmtlon of 81.801.249 will bring in ■ 1840(1. ——■ , *. —, Failure To Provide Charge Filed Here I Earl Didr, 36. of Wells county ' wss reutrned here Tuesday by Sheri iff Ed Miller to await arraignment i on charges of failure to provide. Dick's wife is a tesident of Jes--5 f*>r«on township. Adami* county. He I Is to be arraigned In circuit couit i to answer to the charge.

Decatur, Indiana. Wednesday, Aurunt 23, 1939.

Speakers At Teachers Institute MA 1 ' A k L ui Dr. Clyde Wildman Dr Karl Bolander Dr. Clyde Wildman. pr«-*ldenf of the D--Pauw university. Greencastle. and Dr Karl Bolatider. of the Columbus Art Center. Columbus. Ohio, will lie the speakers at the Adam* <<>unty lea<h<-r* in*tllutv. which will be held in thl* city August 30 and 31.

MUNCIE STRIKE CALL IS ISSUED 2,300 Workers In Warner Gear Company Plants On Strike Muncie. Ind.. Aug. 18.—flJJO—Of- i Helals of the Borg-Warner Corpor- ■ atlon today considered an ultimat- | um by the Vnited Automobile ' Workers (CIO I union to call strikes in all corporation subsidiaries unless an agreement is reach- 1 ed regarding three Warner Gear j Co planta here where 8,300 workera already are on st ike. Picket lines were formed late I yesterday as Ed Hall. Internation- j al union organiser, issued a strike | call to the worker* in the local j plant*, virtually all of whom, he ' said, were union members The , cal was issued after breakdown of contract negotiations earlier. The plants had been shut down , j for two week*, shice the expiration I ' of the old contract. In a voluntary | I holiday pending the outcome of , octnarct dis< u*aion« I Chief obstacle to an agreement t ' was a union demand for a lateral Increase In wage* of non-prmluc-tlon worker* plant employes not actually engaged in the production line—spokesmen for the union in- ' affect approximately 470 men who dicated. The wage Increaae would I operate trucks In the plant or who handle finished products, they ■aid. Company representatives said , that other union demand* had been met during the previous talks. Companies which would be affected If the threatened general strike were call<-d would he tbe ' Borg-Beck Co.. Chicago: Norge ' Manufacturing Co.. Detroit Gear Co., Long Manufacturing Co. and ' the Detroit Vapor Co. all of De-1 trolt: Ingersoll Steel Co., of Chicago and Newcastle. Ind.: Machine 1 Vnlversal Co., of Rockford. III.: ' Calumet Steel Co., of ChicMS Height*, III.; Morse Chain Co., of ' Ithaca. N Y.; Marvel-S< hebler Co.. 1 of Flint. Mich.; Warner Automotive Part* Co., of Auburn. Ind : . and the Muncie Foundry Co., of Muncie, tn addition to the three (CONTINURD ON PAGH FIVKI BOARD MEMBER TO COME HERE j ’ State Tax Board Member To Be At Valuation Hearing Here Marshall Williams, a member of i the state tax b<»ard. will be the repi resentatlve of tbe l>oard at the hear- - I ig. scheduled to bo hold !i«re for i the public on Rpt< mber 7. It wnsi - '.earned today. I The meeting tot th he held by tht . state tax board for the purpose of i I'ieeusslng the cut of 8182.000 in the , valuation of public utilities, niadt , by the board Ernest Worthmsn. county asses- . nor. today received a communlca- . tion from Mr. Williams stating that he and possibly an engineer of th* , hoard would l>e here for tbe meet- ! Ing. The hearing was granted by the state tax board after a group of public officials and Interested pereons appeared before tbe 'ward In Indianapolis to protest against th* reduction. . ’ The meeting will start at 7:30 o'- ■ clock on the date set and will be held In the county courthouse. A!l taxpayers and Interested person* • have been urged to attend. ’ Mr. Worthntan and other official* will act s* spokesmen for lhe local I group . I f

CIO Wins Another Vote Test Over AFL Detroit. Aug. 23.— (U.» — The I United Automobile Worker* union i (CIO! today held lt« eerond vic- ( ’ tory in two tests of strength with the rival American F-tl-’ratlon of i l-alxir A national labor relations board | --lection at the Motor Products cor- ! poration plant gave the VAW-CIO : 2.033 votes, the I’AW-AFL 180. and I mo voted for no union representation. In an NLRB poll last week the I’AW-l'lO won the right to repre ' sent employes of the Packard MotI or Car company by a margin of 4 I to 1. STATES KIDNAP I STORTAHOAX Illinois Sheriff Brands Hoosier’s Kidnap Story A Hoax i Chicago Aug 23 <U.R> Investl1 gation of the story of Harry S Fisher. 63. Indiana metal refiner, that he was lob Lied Monday nigh* of lio.tmo In cash by two m-n an I a drug* ! axed blonde near B-dvl <lere. HI., turned to Chicago today Sheriff Perry Bennett of it-one county t Belvidere) planned to visit Chicago with Fisher today to investigate, the sheriff said, "a new angle." • | He had held Fisher In the Wla nebago county jail at Rockford, j 111., since early Tue*day bul rt leased him late last night when Fisher promised to come to Chicago and submit to further que* Honing Bennett said Ike would hold Fisher's automobile for thpresent. Fisher la president of the Fish er Metal Refining company of Valparaiso. Ind. He hsd told Bennett i that the men and woman had lured him Into Illinois on the pretensof selling him two carloads of scrap brass and copper for* IIU.-hmi cash He met them at Rockford he said, and they held him up neeri Helvldeie where the metal wa-i , suppose!! to In- He said they fled i aftar tjte holdup and left him ! stranded on a highway two mll-.r I east of Belvidere. I Bennett went to Valparaiso yes- , terdsy after announcing he hid found ' discrepancies" In Flsli-t'a*' , story. When he returned to Bel vldere last night he suld h-> had j learned that Fisher had withdrawn ’ 87.000 from th-* Valparaiso State I bank early Monday and had oh- ’ . (CONTtNUBD ON PAOB TH II KE) 0 Lafayette Man Takes Own Life — Lafayette, Ind. Aug. 23. <U.R> | The body of Fitch Davidson. 42. I greenskwep- r at a public golf 1 course in West Lafayette, was found this morning Officials said he committed suicide last night by shooting himself In the head with I a 410 caliber shotgun. Davidson had been brooding over the death of his brother. Bryan | Davidson, a postal clerk who murdered his wife and killed himself bore June 16. a fellow worker suld. Raymond Willis Not Candidate For Governor Angola. Ind.. Aug 23. — (U.R) — Raymond E Willis, local publisher and Republican senatorial candidate In 1938 denied yesterday he would ever run for governor. *'l am not now a candidate for governor, or at any future time." ' he said. He did say. however, that he would again he a Republican candlj date for U. S. senator in 1940.

— • • TV %'WSt»O4 Europe Prepares For War As Hitler Rebuffs Warning From Britain On Attacking Poland

FEDERAL JURY URGES STRICTER GAMBLING LAWS Refuses To Return In* dirtments Under Anti* trust Laws Chicago. Aug. 33 —(UP>—A federal grand jury Investigating alleged monopoly In distribution ot horse race Informal ion to "book les” recognised the business as an Illegal practice today, recommended prohibitive legislation, but declined to return Indictments under the Bherntl antitrust law*. The jury return! d a perjury indictment against M L. A.menberg. i'bltadelphla publisher, and three asiociate*. in connection with it* investigation which centered on Antienberg's various racing Wormst!o i service*. Tliosse indicted were ac*u*ed of < vnspirocy to »td»orn perjury in the testimony of Clarence J. Ferguson, member of the Philadelphia police department's vice and gambling squad for 30 years, when he appea*- - d before the monopoly grand jury MM month. • Indicted with Anneniberg wete Louis Simon. Milwaukee and Phils-t-Alphia. Patrick J. Burns, employe of Annenlterg's nation wide new* service, and Domlueck D. "Jack" Lynch. Pliiladelphia night club own* er. Recognition of offtrack horse i*ce betting and dissemination ot racing inf-nniwtion a* an illegtl practice was recognized by tbe jury ; iii a present meat to Federal Judge William T. Holly. The presentment, legally defined as "notice taken by a grand Jury 1 if an offense or unlawful state of .(fair* from their own knowtedffe or observation, without any bill ;of indictment laid before them.? named specifically Ant -nl-err. James M. Rtgen. Sr., general manager of Nationwide, and the Cec* lia company, top holding company f--r Annenberg'a bu«lue«s intereatj. Tracing briefly the m inner l.t which "i«x>kte" operation and dietrHnilion of track information art 'inter-dependent, the jury recognized •he practice of certain monopollsi He practices but declined to Indict beenuse "the Sherman anti-trust a*t la not designed to cover illegal actl- , vlties." instead the grand jury recommedeJ: I. Stricter enforcement of local gambling law* over the entire country. 2 Revocation ot the charters of Nationwide new* service and Ps subsidiaries in all state* in which they are incorporated. 3. That congress pas* new legl«- . !Mion prohibiting use of interstate wire* in the matinur employed by Nxthmwkie and It* subsidiaries. "Tin- wire servic* mompoly ant accessory of Illegal liandb >ok* cannot effectively be controlled or re«’.listed by enforernnent of our pro*eACUNTINURD ON PAIJR~HIX ~ BAKER FUNERAL RITESTHURSDAT Franklin Baker Services To Be Held Thursday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 o'clock tCSTi for Franklin Baker. 80. of near Ohio <*lty. Ohio, who died early Tues day morning at the Adams county memorial hospital here. The deceased was a native ot Shelby county, Ohio, moving to Liberty township In Ohio 16 years ago. He died at the local inslilil tion following an appendectomy Siirvlvlng are th« widow, three ichildren; Huth and Vernon at home and Mrs. Lawrence Schnadt. Ohio City: three brothers. Edward. Emery and James, all of Shelby coun* ty. and u sister. Mrs Ethel Ixnnits, also of Shelby county. Service* will be held at the Mt. Zion church with the Rev. Walter' Marks officiating Burial will be made in the Blue Creek cemetery near Haviland. Ohio. Th- body was taken Io the Ditrick fuheral home ut Grover Hill, Ohio, I

COOPERATE IN DISASTER AID All Resources Os WPA In State Available In Event Os Disaster Indianapolis. Aug 23 <U.R) Gov. M Clifford Townsend today announced he has signed a "disaster insurance" agreement with federal officials which "would make the entire resource* of WPA in Indiana available If disaster strikes." The governor signed a* sponsor of a 8!.600.000 WPA emergency disaster program which would release 60.1HM1 WPA •workers for fasten! use fa case of flood, storm, fire, earthquake or drought. This aid will lie available until June 30. 1940. "I consider thl* a fine insurance policy against disaster." Townsend said “And. just like an insurance policy. I hope that we will never have to use it." I'lidet the agreement, the gov ernor explained that he and John K Jennings state WPA administrator, would prepare an estimate of the men and funds needed and ask federal officials fa Washington for approval It was understood that thl* would lie granted without delay "The WPA would provld-* men and maierLal* up to an expense of 81.5iHi.iMin for any necessary temporary measure* required to aid th-- community until normal ac(CONTINUKD ON PAOK FIVE) FIGHT FREEDOM. TO STEPHENSON State To Combat Ex*Klan Head’d Hearing At Noblesville Noblesville. Ind. Aug. 23 - (U.R) Newspapermen and .Noblesville residents will fa- call-d to testify Oct. 4 at a hearing on a motion for a new trial for D. C. Stephenson. former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon who is servfag a life sentence In prison for the murder of Madge Oherhnlzer of Indianapolis, attorney general's deputies said here late yesterday. James K Northam and Walter Lewis, from the attorney-general's office, said that It Judge Cassius M Gentry permit* the hearing on the merits of Stephenson's petition, they will summon witnesses to offer testimony to combat It. Stephenson alleges that he was prevented from testifying at his trial in 1925 by fear* of mob violence after he received threats against his life. The former klan and political leader is expected to Im- brought from Michigan City state prison to tell hl* story to the court. Northam and la-wi« said that In rebuttal they will cull newspapermen who covered the six weeks i trial and residents of Noblesville 'CI»NTINIFED ON PAGE TIIHEkT Bolivian President Accidentally Killed LaPax. Bolivia. Aug 23 -(UJft — l President general German Busch died today of what doctors suld wns an accidentally inflicted bul let wound. Details of the shooting were not revealed In the official stat-ment. Doctors said lhe w*und was selfinflicted. In accordance w.tli a derision of the cabinet and military hadera. General Carlos Qiilntiuilll.i. commander-in-chief of the a my became provisional presidin' Local Legion Post Honored At Meeting Adams Posit. 43. of this city, w-a* .iccorded ninth place fa honorable mention of acllvtltles during the American Legion convention a’. Bloomington, according to word received here today. The post also took part In the parade and with the other posts of • this district led the long line of inarch through the capital city earlier In the week. Pictures of parade leaders, Including several members of the local 'tost, appeared In lhe Indianapolis . newspapers.

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Hitler Cold-Shoulders A Personal Warning From Britain Os Intentions To Aid Poland. SHOWDOWN NEAR By Wallace Carroll tl'niled Press staff correspondent > larndon, Aug, 23— (U.PJ Groat Britain prepared hastily for the worst tonight after 'Adolf Hitler had cold-shouldered a laat minute personal warning that a Naxi attack on Poland would mean war. Climaxing the long "war of nerves" between lhe totalitarian powers and the European security front, developments thrust the big powers toward a showdown with machine-gun rapidity. They Included: A visit by British ambasaador Sir Neville Henderson to Berchtesgaden to deliver to Hitler |>ersonally tke British warning that, while they hoped the Polish quarrel could be settled peaceably, any use of force would be rcaL-ted to the “uttermost'* because Prltain and France would stand by th<-|r pledges. In reply. It was announced officially by the DN.B agency. Hiller left no doubt fa Henderson's mind that the British government could not cause Germany to renounce "the pursuance of her national vital interoata* fa this case, the return of Dantig and presumably also the return of other former German territory fa order to wipe nut the stigma of the Versailles treaty and give the Reich “living room " The result ot the brief Henderson talk with Hitler spurred the British government to immediata action. l.ocal authorities of lemdon and all other towns were ord-red to I make full arrangements for "blackouts” of all lights tonight and every other night as precaution for any emergency The board of trade prohlbitet except under license the export of raw materials which might lie used as war materials--a move intended to ent off Kiti h supplies from Germany Soviet premier Viaiheslav M.il.e tor wa* reported reliably tonight to have advised Great Britain and France that Soviet Russia was willing to continue negotmtlotis for a three power mutual aid pact. It was understood that Molotov's viewpoint was conveyed t«» the British ambassador Sir Wm. Seeds, and to the French ambassador prior to lhe arrival ot Niixi foreign minister Von Ribbentrop In Moscow where he dlMUssed conclusion of a German Soviet non-aggresslon treaty. Molotov wa* said to have told the ambassadors that theie was no reason why the throe-powered pact should not continue becauiw* both the mutual aid treaty and the non-aggreaston pact wlm Germany -if concluded would he us a defensive nature Therefore, he pointed out. they would not be fa conflict. Hitter Refuses Berlin. Aug 23 <U.R> Adolf HPler today informed Great Britain , that Ita warning against forcible solution of the Polish quarnl ‘ would not cause Germany to retCONTINVED ON PAGE HIX) CHAFFEE TALKS TO LIONS CLUB New York Auctioneer Speaks To Decatur Lions Cluh Tuesday Col Quentin Chaffee, of Waverlv. New York, an Inntructor In the Fr*4 tleppert School, of Aiwtluneeriug, was the chief speaker at the weaklv* meeting of the Decatur Lions club, held laat night at the Rica hotel. Col. Chaffee, a graduate of th«t school, discussed the .-lu’-tfon pro--1 fesslon and business conditions lit ' general. ■ WF. Beery was In charge of the program and Introduced tba speak* ■ er. The address was wall received hy the members of the dub. Roy • Price, as president of the dub. pref sided over the tnetdlng. r The meeting next week will bo •i held at HanM-Nuttman park with tbe club entertaining tbe members -of the Lion junior league twill team. I Gerald ZltMnerman WPA count/ i recreation director, will appear I the program.