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GORDON DEATH FOURTH MAJOR GOTHAM CRIME Rosenthal, Rothstein and King Murders Offer Striking Parallel. KILLED TO SEAL LIPS Five Went to Chair After Informer Was Slain to Halt ‘Squawking.’ BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Pmt Staff Correepondent NEW YORK. March 10.—Wages of Broadway sin have Increased amazingly since the days of 1912 when Police Lieutenant Charles Becker ordered the assassination of Herman Rosenthal because he threatened to squeal about Becker’s $50,000-a-year graft In the Tenderloin. Nineteen years—bringing up to 1931, when Vivian Gordon was strangled as she was about to disclose her part In the S2O 000,000 annual crime business of New York’s night club belt—hate seen the mushrooming of prohibition evasion, of bootlegging, narcotic peddling, gambling and racketeering. But, though the price may be higher, the methods, varied by gun or rope, remain the same. New York has seen three previous major crimes that have rocked police departments, shaken administrations, and brought “reform waves” surging through municipal politics, in the past twenty years. Rosenthal Slain In 1912 Details of these crimino political events have a parallel. In the parallel, amateur detectives profess to find clews to the murderers of Vivian Gordon, night life racketeer, extortioner, protege of an organized rice ring, whose body was found, nearly two weeks ago, in a lonely spot in the Bronx, strangled. Herman Rosenthal was shot to death outside the Metropole on July 16, 1912. He had gone about town threatening to expose the graft attached to Lieutenant Becker’s administration of the Tenderloin, and the lieutenant's partnership with gamblers, bawdy housekeepers and purveyors of Illicit entertainment. It was shown that he had been “put on the spot’’ on the orders of Becker, and that Gyp the Blood, Lefty Louie, Dago Prank and Whltey Lewis were the gunmen. Five Go to Chair

The public revelled In the morbid disclosures of the tleup between rice and police. Becker and the four gunmen went to the chair at Sing Sing and District Attorney Charles S. Whitman went to the Governor’s chair at Albany. But not before “Big Jack” Zellg, a witness for the prosecution, had been found dead of a bullet, one morning before the trial. The “reform wave” swept John Purroy Mltchel, fusionist, into city hail. On Nov. 4, 1928, Arnold Rothstein, dope king, gambler, receiver of stolen bond; fence, crook and millionaire, was shot In the vicinity—or within—the Park Central hotel. Joab Ban ton was the district attorney. Federal officials, peeping at Rothstein's papers, uncovered a narcotic ring that reached from coast to coast. Mr. Banton—and for this he was criticised severely—failed to find any clews In the Rothstein papers, and gave them back to attorneys. Whalen on Job Mayor Walker removed Police Commissioner Joseph Warren and appointed the dapper Grover A. Whalen in his place. Whalen discharged the head of the detective bureau and the chief of the homicide squad. George McManus, a gambler, was tried for the murder, and acquitted. District Attorney Banton went out, and District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain went in, promising to clear up the Rothstein murder in two weeks. r rhe murder remains on the books today, unsolved. The Dot King murder, in 1933, provided a setting similar to that of Vivian Gordon. Dot King, a broadway butterfly, was under the power of a number of sinister characters, who tried to use her as a means of blackmailing a wealthy admirer— Later Identified aa a Princeton man, son-in-law of Edward T. Stotesbury, who was a partner of J. P. Morgan. Girl Found Dead The girl was found dead, chloroformed, in her rooms at the Great Northern hotel. Her “protector” had left her, he said, several hours before. Police investigations came to nothing—save to expose another relationship between the girl and the late Draper M. Daugherty, son of the former Harding cabinet olllcer. Finally, there is Vivian Gordon. On a Friday she went before the Seabury crime investigation commission, tc testify to a “frameup." On the following Thursday morning her body was found, a clothesline knotted around her neck. Today the “reform wave” once more sweeps New York, and it Is District Attorney Crain who hi under fire. His office now Is subject to an official Investigation, ordered by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. ARSON PLOT ALLEGED Four Washington Men Arrested After House Burns. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Ind., March 10. —William Beck, insurance agent and real estate dealer, is at liberty under $3,500 bond pending trial in Daviess circuit court on a charge of conspiring to commit arson. Harty Billings, Burley Ballard and Joe Grove are charged with being accomplices of Evart. Authorities charge that Beck employed Billings to set fire to a residence Beck owned, and that In turn Billings employed Ballard and Groves.

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CONTINUED BATTLE FOR RIGHT PLEDGED BY SENATOR NORRIS

A now departure in American pout leal history may he In the making. A movement of tremendono significance to the futnre control of Comrress and the t9S* presidential election Itself may be launched at the progressive conference In Washington Wednesday and Thursday. Here la an exclusive rimed article—written especially for NBA Service and The Times. Senator Oeorre W. Norris of Nebraska. chairman of the conference, toll*, of Its alma. BY SENATOR GEORGE W. NORRIS Chairman of the Frosrsnslve Conference (Copyright, 1931, NBA Service, Inc.) WASHINGTON, March 10.—At one of the most critical periods in American history, a bi-parttean group of progressives has called a national conference here for Wednesday to discuss and formulate a program for meeting five of the most vital problems affecting the welfare and happiness of our people. This conference, designed to bring the most able experts in the country to meet with members of congress and public officials inspired by nonpartisort considerations as well as to stimulate public interest, wa3 called to consider: 1. Unemployment and industrial stabilization. 2. Public utilities. 3. Agriculture. 4. Tariff. / 5. Return to representative government. We hope to find a definite legislative solution, constructive in every respect, to the problems picsented In those wide fields. Some of us thought we had various remedial measures in the congress Just expired. Nearly all that might be considered Important were killed off by the Republican administration and its completely controlled house of representatives.

In the next congress the house will hope to attract sufficient support from members in both parties and enough to be able to meet the responsibilities of a situation which finds this nation stricken by unemployment, economic depression, drought and agricultural distress.

No Help for Jobless

Let me discuss briefly the five points on our agenda: Along with an utter lack of program for handling our unprecedented unemployment and for putting business on a basis where it might guard better against periodic slumps, we have had from the administration one misleading statement after another —statements from the President himself which were contradicted by the very experts whom he had called into consultation regarding unemployment. The President, in his message to congress, presented an estimate of 3,500,000 unemployed. That, contrasted with the estimate of Colonel Arthur Woods, head of his unemployment committee, of between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000. Woods’ statement also was shown to be an underestimate in a review of conditions in 303 cities, made by Senator La Follette and Senator Walsh of Massachusetts. Private Greed Triumphs That survey and the survey made for the government by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Indicated that the number of unemployed has been running between six and seven millions. The administration has done nothing of consequence to alleviate that terrible condition and has suggested nothing that might meet the future crying needs of both the workers and business Itself. It is our purpose to propose and fight for such measures. We have known for a long time that the administration had thrown In Its lot with the public utilities, giving its blessing to high rates for electricity, extortionate profits and monopolistic control. The President’s veto of the compromise Muscle Shoals bill has placed the administration irrevocably on the side of private greed. Farmer Gets No Aid But the power trust has won a great victory through its influence with the administration, that victory represents only the latest phase of a long, hard fight. The Muscle Shoals bill will be Introduced promptly again at the next congress, and we should be able to pass it over the veto of the President by a two-thirds vote in both houses. Nowhere has the blighting effect of the administration's Indifference and failure to act been more obvious than our millions of farms. Prices of agricultural products have declined to the lowest points in recent history and the hope that ti* administration’s .Hum board

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scheme might be of some conceivable aid to agriculture has proved an empty dream. Meanwhile, an unprecedented drought has struck many portions of cur agricultural regions, rendering the plight of hundreds of thousands of farmers more desperate than ever and falling to obtain anything but most grudging relief from the administration.

Tariff fight Promised

The progressives consistently have fought for an adequate system of farm relief, as well as for sympathetic federal aid on the farms and In the cities during periods of great human suffering. They will continue to wage this fight. The high rates of the Grundy tariff bill have had all the dire effects predicted during the debat; on the Hawley-Smoot bill.. Retaliation by foreign countries was im - mediate and unemployment has increased as our exports have slumped because of our own folly. The progressives demand a scientific tariff policy and scientific reduction of the rates which are destroying our prosperity, with first attention given to those rates which make this country pay tribute on products under monopolistic control.

Fight on Lame Ducks

The progressive insistence that the lame duck amendment set no limit on duration of the second session of congress can be understood best by a glance at the past session. With the aid of members whom the people retired from office at the last election and an administrationcontrolled house, it was possible to block measures for our social and economic welfare in the Jam that is always found at the end of a short session. The lame duck amendment again will be introduced and without doubt pushed to a successful result. It is a measure indorsed by all progressives. Nagging Alleged By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 10.—Mrs. Clara C Bradley alleges she was nagged throughout the twenty-two years she lived with Joseph Bradley, in a divorce suit which asks SI,OOO alimony and custody of two children.

ENGLISH ‘SCHROEDER’ DIES ON GALLOWS FOR TORCH DEATH

Bedford prison, Bedford, England, March 10.— Alfred Arthur Rouse, dapper and handsome 36-year-old traveling salesman and biganJst, whose tangled love affairs held the attention of England for many days, was hanged today for the murder of an unknown man. The story of the crime of which Rouse was convicted was more lurid than a dime novel thriller. On the night of Nov. 5, 1930,

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STATE BUDGET i ADOPTED WITH SCANT CUTTING Total of $75,900,000 Only $92,000 Below That Originally Set. BILL SERVES AS CLUB ! House Forces Senate Action With Reapportionment in Background. Used as a club by the Indiana house of representatives to compel action by the Republican senate on congressional reapportionment, the biennial appropriation bill finally was passed by both houses In the early hours today with the total governmental appropirations for the next two years fixed at $75,938823.97. The appropriation bill in its present form represents a reduction of only $92,060 agreed upon by the conference committee of both houses and makes the Governor’s emergency contingent fund bear the brunt of what slashing was accomplished. The fund was fixed at $125,000 a year for two years and represents a reduction of $150,000 for the two years. Another item in the bill to feel the paring knife was the deep waterways commission whose appropriation was reduced by the conference committee from $12,000 a year to $2,000. Other decreases from figures reached by the senate included: Employment commission operating expense, SIB,OOO to $14,000 annually; board of charities personal service, $32,000 to $30,000 annually; Spanish American veterans, $1,500 to SI,OOO annually; publication of automobile lists, $20,000 to $15,000 annually. Only Increase was $940 for the state appellate court. As it passed the house, the appropriation bill total was fixed at $75,685,491, a reduction of $421,739 from the budget committee’s figures. The senate passed the bill at $76,030,883.97.

NANCY BOWEN, ‘WITCH KILLER,’ PLEADS GUILTY Aged Seneca Indian Woman Faces Possible 20-Year Term. Bp United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., March 10.— Nancy Bowen, aged Seneca Indian woman, who admitted that she killed Mrs. Clothide Marshand because she believed the white woman was a witch, pleaded guilty in Erie county court today to charge of first degree manslaughter. The charge carries a maximum sentence of twenty years imprisonment, but the term is at the discretion of the sentencing Judge. KILLS BROTHER WITH 100-YEAR-OLD PISTOL Shooting Was Climax of Family Quarrel, Police Say. By United Press TOLEDO, March 10.—A confession was claimed by police today in the killing of Julius Mellard, 43, who was shot to death by the discharge of a 100-year-old Derringer pistol. Police declared the victim’s brother, Carl Joseph Mellard, 37, admitted the shooting as a climax to a family quarrel. He produced a Derringer pistol more than 100 years old, as the weapon he had used. HOLDUP PROVES FATAL Mrs. Charles R. Ayres Dead; Excitement Brought Paralysis. Last rites for Mrs. Charles R. Ayers, 31 West Twenty-third street, who died after suffering a paralytic stroke a week ago during a drug store holdup and gun battle, were held Monday. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Mrs. Ayres was stricken as result of excitement over attempted holdup of a drug store in the apartment building in which she lived, in which two Negroes were captured after a gun battle with police. FOURTH JUDGE SOUGHT Appointment by Governor Required In Gary Case. By Times Special . GARY, Ind., March 10.—Governor Harry G. Leslie will be asked to appoint a special Judge to sit in Gary superior court to rule on a motion for anew trial filed by Paul Glaser, former attorney, who seeks final citizenship papers. Granting of papers has been opposed because Glaser is under sentence to two to fourteen years in the Indiana state prison on an election fraud conviction. Harry Long, third Judge to be connected with the case, has refused to serve longer, necessitating appointment of a successor by the Governor. Doctor Arrested By Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., March 10.—Dr. Franklin B. Ladd is awaiting trial on a charge of performing an illegal operation on Mrs. Mildred Parisot, 23, who died Feb. 28.

the salesman and “a tramp I picked up," as he testified at his trial, were driving in Rouse’s car on a lonely lane in Northampton. It was “Guy Fawkes" or “bonfire night,” a yearly night of celebration. Two revelers returning from a dance saw the car ablaze, a man walking hurriedly away freon it with his grip in hand, and, on approaching closer the pair saw

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LESLIE SIGNS FIGHTMEASURE Bill Provides for 3-Man Boxing Commission. Fight fans will see twelve-round fights to a decision while the state collects approximately SIOO,OOO revenues annually, it Is claimed, under provisions of the boxing commission bill approved lab; Monday by Governor Harry G. lieslie. A score of applicants already have filed their names with the Governor for places on the three-man commission to have full charge of boxing and wrestling matches in the state. The commission will name an attorney and secretary, each to recieve $3,000 a year. Ten per cent of the gross receipts of matches will go into tlje state treasury. Commissioners and the five deputies they are to name will receive $lO for each day actually employed in their duties. Two Judges and a referee will be named for each bout. They will receive sls, also on a per diem basis. OIL 6ROIIF WTS Product Cut, Price Boost Among Suggestions.

By Times Special TEXARKANA, Tex., March 10.— Twenty recommendations made by the states oil advisory committee designed to lift the industry out of its present dilemma today were on the way to the Governors of the states affected. Principal recommendations of the committee were: Continued and more drastic probation, stopping over-development, increase in crude prices, limiting imports and conservation of oil resources. The states advisory committee, composed of one appointee from each of the seven largest oil producing states, recommended that it operate as a permanent organization to settle difficulties. It also delegated itself wide authority in matters of production volume, crude prices, transportation and conservation. CLEANERS’ WAR ENDS Trace Declared at South Bend After Drastic Price Catting. SOUTH BEND, Ind., March 10.— Politics and the weather faded as topics of conversation in South Bend homes following announcement that cleaners and dyers had reached a truce after months of hostility. During the strife, housewives cheered as prices fell. Just before the rivals met to smoke the pipe of peace, prices had been cut 50 per cent.

the charred body of Rouse’s companion. Scotland yard was called in and Rouse was arrested. m • • QHREWD criminal investigators said the “Don Juan" salesman could have escaped the gallows if he had timed his crime two minutes later, when the lane would have been deserted for hours. The evidence in his trial entire-

Reapportionment of Indiana, as set out in a bill agreed upon by, the senate and the house, will create the districts as shown above for Indiana’s future representation in the house at Washington, D. C. Five districts normally are Republican and four Democratic, with three others doubtful, political experts declare. District conceded to the Republican party are: First, Second, Fifth, Sixth and Tenth. Democratic districts are: Seventh Eighth, Ninth and Twelfth. Doubtful districts are: Third, Fourth and Eleventh. Eagles Will Renew Fight for Pensions By Times Special NOBLESVTLLE, Ind., March 10. —E. E. Cloe of this city, former Judge of Hamilton circuit court and secretary of the Indiana aerie, Fratema’ Order of Eagles, which sponsored the old age pension measure that Governor Leslie vetoed, says the organization is not discouraged. “We are making progress,” he declared. “Two years ago the bill did not get by both houses. This year the house and senate passed it, but it was killed by the Governor’s veto. Perhaps two years hence we can have both houses to pass it again and maybe the next Governor, whoever he may be, will approve It. Cloe said there are 35,000 Eagles in Indiana who are sponsoring this measure. An assessment of 5 cents per member each year has been paid by the membership for some time to create a fund to carry on the fight. “The assessment will be continued until we are successful,” Cloe concluded. “We Intend to go right ahead with our plans and the people will hear from us at the next session of the legislature.” 2 HOLDUPS, FIRE SET BY THIEF ARE REPORTED Bandits Pose as Deputies to Rob Man of Car, Money. William Campbell, 3318 North Emerson avenue, was robbed of $22 and his automobile by two bandits posing as deputy sheriffs, who forced him to the curb in the 4800 block on English avenue, Monday night. Two armed Negroes who boarded a Northwestern avenue street car at Twenty-seventh and Annette street, Monday night, robbed Philip Bird, 136 West Twenty-first street, motorman of sls, police were told. Home of W. P. Haley, 2227 Brookside parkway, was damaged S4OO by fire set by a burglar who ransacked the house during absence of the family Monday night, according to police reports.

ly was circumstantial, the crown convincing the Jury that Rouse deliberately killed his passenger then set fire to the automobile so he would be mistaken as the dead man and could start life anew under a different name. The Jury deliberated only twenty minutes and, for the first time in 145 years in England, found a prisoner guilty of the murder of an unknown man.

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HURLS BRIBE OFFEfUHARGE Rowley Asserts $2,500 Is 'Balt' to Legislator. Charge that Representative Delph L. McKesson (Marshall), Democratic floor leader in the house, had been offered a bribe by a certain group of tile manufacturers to introduce a bill supposed to codify the Indiana drainage laws was made from the floor of the senate during debate Monday night. The bill, which was Introduced in the house but not by McKesson, failed a constitutional majority and didn’t pass the senate during the final session. The bribe offer charge was made by Senator Earl Rowley (Rep., La Porte and Stark), who fought the bill to its defeat. Chief advocate for passage in the senate was Senator Lee J. Hartzell (Rep., Allen and Noble), Republican floor leader. Later Rowley told newspaper men that the offer to McKesson was $2,500. Two other bitterly contested bills got by in the senate. Both were fought and backed by hard-work-ing lobbyists. One raises the reserve requirements of reciprocal Insurance companies and the other permits fanners to vaccinate their own live stock without supervision of the live stock sanitary board. Boy DIES FROM KICK Death Follows Paralysis After Four Years. By United Press DETROIT, March 10.—Nearly four years ago, Teddy Garner, then 13, went searching for his football which had rolled from the sandlot among some packing cases at the rear of a gasoline station. The attendant ordered him away and kicked him as he stooped to retrieve the pigskin. From the effects of that kick, Teddy is dead today. Teddy was able to walk home, but collapsed there, and never used his legs again. Police are trying to' locate the attendant, although Teddy’s father has been unable to find him during the last four yean. Bond Set at $46,000 LAGRANGE, Ind., March 10.— Roy McDonald, held on a charge of murdering his brother-in-law, Jason Swihart, won an empty victory in Lagrange circuit court here when his petition to be admitted to bail was granted by Judge Clyde C. Carlin, but bond was set at $40,000, which it is said McDonald can not provide. His trial is set for April 27.

THE verdict precipitated a storm of criticism, some newspapers quoting prominent lawyers pointing out the disagreement of technical experts at the trial and the alleged “weakness” of the crown’s case. The trial was sensational. Crowds of women fought for admittance to the courtroom and on the day of the verdict hundreds gathered outisde where they waited in a snow storm for word of Rouse’s fate.

APPORTIONING BILL PASSES; 12 DISTRICTS State at Last Is Remapped for Congressional elections. LESLIE SURE TO SIGN Measure Put Over After Bitter Battle, Charges of Double-Crossing. Out of a welter of confusion, charges of “double-crossing,’’ political bargainings and bickerings, punctuated with messages from Governor Harry G. Leslie, through his mentor, Henry Marshall, there was born early today anew congressional apportionment for Indiana. Four members of the Joint conference committee shoulder the responsibility, but the real parents were said to be R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman; Congressman Fred Purnell of Attica, and Marshall. The bill cutting the present thirteen Indiana districts into twelve awaits the certain signature of Leslie. • Two Bills Entwined Fate of the bill which would set up five Republican, four Dem.;>cratiE and three doubtful districts was entwined with that of the $76,000,000 appropriation bill. For wliile the house was endeavoring to force the reapportionment bill through the senate, that chamber refused to act on it unless the appropriation bill came over. Concurrence of the house in the report of the conference committee came at approximately 3:30 a. m., yet it was 6:30 this morning before Lieutenant-Governor Edgar D. Bush relented and permitted senators who were absent, at his request, to be brought into the senate chamber and thus obtain the necessary thirty-four for a quorum. At one time the senate, under leadership of Senator A. Perkins (Dem., St. Joseph), by a voice vote, declared a rump session and elected Senator Jesse E. Wade (Dem., Posey, Vanderburg and Warrick) as chairman pro-tem. But Bush proved that the man who wields the gavel rules the senate and did not leave the rostrum.

Vigo County Protests The redif/rictlng plan was adopted by the house over the objection of the Vigo county delegation, which protested against the Inclusion of the strong Republican Warren county in the new lineup. Thev claimed this would make the new Sixth district 8,000 Republican. But Purnell wanted that county, which lies across the river from his home, included as a source of strength, and Peters wanted the Democratic Adams and Wells counties shoved up into the same district with Ft. Wayne, and so Vigo county lost. So bitter yas the fight that Marshall, fearing there would be no reapportionment bill, made trip after trip to the conference room to say tha the new Second district would be glad to have Warren county. Although the Democrats were willing to let it go there, Purnell wa3 not, and he w’on. But, aa the situation exists, Purnell and the recently elected Democratic congressman, Cortland Gillen, are in the same district and probably will fight it out in 1932. Marion County Cot Marion county is cut north and south under the new plan. All Marion county In Lawrence, Warren, Franidin, and Perry townships and the llrst, Ninth, and Tenth wards of Center township and the part of Center township east and south of the above wards and Madison and Hancock counties will form the Eleventh district, which will be of doubtful allegiance. The newly aligned Eleventh district contains two congressmen, Albert Vestal (Rep,), and W. H. Larabee (Dem.). The remaining section of Marion county, which is what is left of Center township, together with Washington, Pike, Wayne, and Decatur townships, will form the Twelfth district, in which resides Louis Ludlow (Dem.) Incumbent congressman. It is fondly hoped by Democrats that this district will be lined up in its ranks.

The New Lineup The districts are: FIRST DISTRICT (Rep.)—Lalce. SECOND (Rep.)—Newton, Benton, Jasper, White, Tippecanoe, Carroll, Cass, Pulaski, Stark, Marshall, Fulton, Porter and Kosciusko. THIRD (Doubtful)—La Porter, St. Joseph and Elkhart. FOURTH (Douotful) —Lagrante, Steuben, Noble, l>eKalb, Whitley, Allen, Wells and Adams. FIFTH (Rep.)—Wabash, Huntington, Miami, Grant and Blackford, Howard, Tipton', Clinton and Jay. SIXTH (Rep.)—Warren, Fountain, Vermillion, Parke, Vigo, Putnam, Montgomery, .Boone, Hendricks and Hamilton. SEVENTH (Dem.) Sullivan. Knox, Clay, Greene, Daviess, Martin, Owen, Morgan, Monroe, Gibson and Johnson. EIGHTH (Dem.)—Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Pike, Dubois, Spencer, Perry,. Crawfbrd, Harrison and Floyd. NINTH (Dem.)—Lawrence, Orange, Brown, Jackson, Washington, Bartholomew, Jennings, Soott, Clark, Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Dearborn, Franklin and Ripley. TENTH (Rep.)—Shelby, Delaware, Henry, Rush, Decatur, Randolph, Wayne, Fayette and Union. ELEVENTH (Doubtful)—Madison, Hancock and that part of Marlon county in Lawrence, Warren, Franklin and Perry townships and the First, Ninth and Tenth wards of Center ‘township and the unincorporated part of Center township east of south of the First, Ninth and Tenth wards. TWELFTH (Dem.> The remainder of Center township and Washington. Pike, Wayne and Decatur townships in Marlon counts