Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 197, Decatur, Adams County, 20 August 1931 — Page 1

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OVERNMENT OF BRITAIN FACE CRISIS

Idams County Highway, General Tax Estimates Reduced

l-CENTCUT ■ADE IN EACH ■of tax units ■ t u ill Be Published Kday; 1932 Rates ■ Are Low er ■tION COST ■ j’IGIKED IN ■ lx>ar<l county comHners and die countyj ■v superinti lutein have K il| ( . estimates for next ■ ■expeti-c- ami the retluc- ■„ lhe iimitmt will make ■ible to cut the tax rate ■ fund live cents on the Kd dollars. . ■ figures -ill unit ted by Emis'i.iH'r~ public officials Kune His 'a' SuperintvnK.. : . k compiled ■ i,unity 1 •toniey Henry K r . The budget will he pub■reiluilion in funds to bq Hbv tax i’ ."ii cone ; in using H, „n '..inn H..1 reducing esti ■ Hain approH. rales for next year K. rates in effect this year E Rate Rate ■ 1931 1932 ■ G'neral .34 .29 Ky Repair .25 .20 ■County General Fund ■total of the county general ■ $142,925 <>f this amount 84.512. will lie raised by tax- ■ Credit tor $25,808 is takeu Brun.. dbi.iHi-d other than K taxation and by cutting ■r count.l s ,sli balance, the ■ fund raised by taxes is reKdiout {l'.i'oii Tlie 29 cent Keed on a net valuation of ■905. will prodine the $94. ■ The Highway Fund ■ highway repair fund totals ■c Os this amount only $65.■1 be raised by taxation. The ■ levy will produce the amount I. This year approximately ■ is raised by taxation for the ■fund. ■ddition to rtslucing its levy ■t year the highway depart■ill take care of bridge re- ■ II retofore an appropriation ■>u was included in the county--11 fund. This item has been ■ted and the highway depart■will do the bridge repair ■TINUED ON PAGE FIVE! Ln Members Will ■end Ineichen Funeral ■ral services for Frank Ineich-■n-va resident who committed • Wednesday by hanging hint ■ill be held Saturday morning Be clock, standard time, from Bth ran church gtt New Coryißurial will be tirade in the ■th' cemetery. The Masonic and members of Adams Post American Legion, of which eichen was a member, will charge of services. ICH SLAYERS 0 MARQUETTE

e Prisoners Under lv .v Guard Transfer‘ed From Jackson ’on, Mich., Aug. 20.—(U.R) — °r caravan of heavily-armed * left hf, re early today for state prison hearing the Ml torch slayers. prisoners—Fred Smith, Frank «'"l David Blackstone—are f'd to four consecutive life a minimum of 240 years nr the slaying and burning young couples near Willis, an - Three automobiles carle party. r guards kept secret the 'ey would travel, whether 11 transfer to other means '"Portatlon. and the achedul e or arrival. Prisoners’ transfer was ord /’ '. ai * htenaw county authaned to connect the trio r robberies and slaying.

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* 93-Year-Old Globe Trotter Visits Here ♦ ♦ Ninety three years old or perhaps it is ninety three years young for she is well and happy and full of vigor despite the years and as Andy says “On top of that" she is a regular globetrotter. Mrs. A. E. McGee originally of Woodston / xv Jersey and Richmond. Indiana now of Redlands California, where she makes her home with her daughter Mrs. Paul Saurs, is now visiting her son William McGee of Monroe street this city Mrs. McGee arrived in Decatur Tuesday from California traveling “all by her lonesome” and as she put it "It was as easy as easy, because everybody looks after | (continued ON page three) SCHOOL TERM ENDS FRIDAY Reppert School Plans Commencement Program For Friday A. M. The 25th commencement of the Reppert Auction .School will be held Friday morning at 10 o'clock at the Knights of Pythias Home, it was announced today. Col. Earl Gartin of Greensburg will deliver the commencement address on "As A Man Thinketh In His Heart So Is He." Col. Fieri Reppert, president of the school, will present the diplomas to 31 graduates, representing 18 states of the Union. Following the commencement exercises a banquet will be served by the ladies of the Pythian Sisters Lodge, and farewell talks will be given by the graduating auctioneer*. All instructors of the school, who are former graduates and who have made national reputations as auctioneers, will be present and many will give short talks. The 25th school term will close at noon Friday, and these in charge . consider the present term a sue- . cessful year. The next auction school will open in this city on December 28 and several enrollments have already ■ been received. Col. Reppert stated today. ■ 0 Cold Weather Strikes 1 Indianapolis, Aug. 20 — (UP) — Coats and slickers became the 1 vogue in wearing apparel today as rains sent the temperature to the lowest mark in many weeks. In Indianapolis the mercury dropped to 66 degrees. Continued unsettled weather and cool temperatures were forecast for tonight. 1 Rains varying from light showers to heavy storms were recorded in various sections of the state. In ! Evansville 1.12 inches of precipitation was recorded, and in Lafayette > 1.48 inches of rain fell. I O .1. I). Robertson Dies Chicago Aug. 20 —(UP)—Dr. John * Dill Robertson, 61 one time candiI date for mayor and prominent in municipal political and business circles, died early today at his sum mer home in Fontana, Wls., of he&rt disease. The wife he married six months , ago when she was his secretary and his son by a former marriage were at his bedside.

o , Arraignment Put Off r New York. Aug. 20. —(U.R) —Ruth Jayne Cranmer’* arraignment in connection with the mysterious shooting of State Senator Roy T. - Yates of New Jersey was postpon--1 ed for 24 hours once more today, r after the former cloak model had e tainted on the stand. Miss Cranmer was recommitted k to the women's prison, without bail. B o e BULLETIN s Washington Aug, 20 — (UP) — g Chairman Stone of the Federal I, Farm Board announced today he - had informed the Chinese government through the State Department e that the board was willing to di*r cuts a proposed sale to China of s $15,000,000 bushels of wheat on ereI- dlt. China inquired regarding wheat I purchases. The government hoped i to relieve Yangtze River Valley fao mine sufferers with American grain.

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POOR RELIEF PLANS START All Agencies Will Be Mobilized By Walter S. Gifford As Head Washington, Aug. 20.—(U.R) —The task of mobilizing all the nation's agencies to meet the winter unemployed problem rested today with Walter S. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The head of the threc-billion-dol-lar public utility system was named by ITesident Hoover as chairman of a new national organization. In a letter to Gifford. Mr. Hoover said: “It Is my desire that you use your own judgment as to the type of organization you set up and its ' methods of work.” The President said a nation-wide advisory committee would be appointed to assist Gifford. In New York Gifford responded to announcement of his appointment with assurance that the relief burden "will be wholeheartedly met." The formula which Gifford brings to his new work is: "if you have a difficult task, concentrate on It and it will be easy.” By application of that principle he finished a fouryear course at Harvard in three years and rose from a slo-a-week clerkship to presidency of the Tele- , phone company at the age of 40. He is now 46. Gifford has had experience too in relief work and semi-governmental activities. During the war he was director of the United States Council of National Defense. He is president of the charity organization so- , ciety of New York and had a prom (CONTINITED ON PACK t-TVE) ) ________________

U CHINA FLOODS INCREASING Yangtze River Swells Out Os Banks; Much Suffering Reported Shanghai, Aug. 20.—<U.R> —Flood* on the Yangtze river today assumed the proportions of a major world disaster. Indescribable conditions prevailed in Hankow, once prosperous city. Hundreds of people are dying of starvation daily and the famine hourly becoming more i acute. Women and children fight frantically for bits of refuse seen floating in the muddy, filthy waters in ' order to obtain bits of nourishment 1 Dogs, by the scores, roam the elevated grounds feeding on the unremoved human bodies. Conditions comparable to the suffering occasioned by the Tokio earthquake of 1923 existed over a vast area. i Hastily constructed refuge . camps are being built in the hills i above Wuchang and Hankow to , which a part of the sufferers will (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) o REV. E. I. BRAGG RESIGNS POST 1 Local Church of God Pastor To Lea,ve After September 6 Rev. E. L. Bragg, pastor of the I Church of God, located on Cleveland street has tendered his resigI nation to the local church it was . announced today. He will preach his farewell sermon Sunday eveniug, September 6. Rev. Bragg held the pastorate I here for the past year and previous • to that he conducted six successful - revivals for the local church. t The members of the church deepr ly regret parting with hint as he i has endeared himself not only to ■ the church membership but the entire community. t The officers of the church have I decided that the pulpit shall not - be occupied at present, but services i will be conducted by local church members.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 20, 1931.

Boys Entertain Crowd I Bill Johnson. 17 and David Johnson, 12, sons of Col, and Mrs. Guy Johnson of Columbus, Ohio and formerly of this city, presented a special entertainment Wednesday evening in connection with the auction sale given by students of the Reppert Auction School. The boys play a piano accordian and tenor banjo and sing many ' songs. They have gaine dfame as entertainers over the radio and have appeared in many shows. They will play at the Ohio State Fair at Columbus, Ohio in connection with j a sheep show. • The boys are quite talented and are known on the air as "Bill and Dave.” The younger member of the pair, Dave, has enrolled in the 1932 | * term of the Reppert Auction School. ‘ I DECATURMAN BUYS BUSINESS William Schumacher Is New Owner of Ft. Wayne Cigar, Billiard Room William "China” Schumacher, for 12 years employed at Lose Brothers Cigar store in this city tendered his resignation to that concern Wednesday night and today purchased a cigar and billiard business in Fort Wayne. Schumacher will take possession of his new property at 6 o’clock tonight. The new store is located at 1 2713 South Calhoun street and has a cigar counter, three billiard tallies, three card tables and soft drinks A lunch and short order counter . will be added at once Schumacher . said. He said that for the present time he would continue to reside in Decatur. He has lived here his entire life and for the last 12 years has engaged in the cigar and billiard room business. The new Schumacher store is . located in the vicinity of the South . Side high school.

Legionnaires To Meet A special meeting of Adams Post of the American Legion will be held Friday evening at the Legion hall, to complete arrangements for attending the funeral of Frank Ineichen, to be held Saturday morning. Plans will also be made to attend the state convention at Anderson, which opens Sunday. The Legion drum corps will also attend. Members are urged to attend. ■ o FLIERS'PLANE ON RESCUE SHIP I Lindberghs To Repair Motor Before Continuing Long Flight Tokio, Japan, Aug. 20. —<U.R) — Their disabled plane lashed to a Japanese rescue ship. Col. and ' Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh remain- ' ed fog-bound today off Ketoi Isle, in the Kurile Islands, a wireless dispatch to the Ochiishi station reported. The dispatch said that the plane’s anchor had been liiroken jn their forced landing and fight with i rough seas during the night. Motor trouble also developed, it was revealed. Repairs were to be made afte rthe waves, slipping dangerously at their trans-Pacific . plane, had subsided. Their departure was delayed until tomorrow at the earliest. The Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were taken aboard the Shimshiru Matu, where they are spending tonight. The ship anchored just off Ketoi Isle, to the west of the Is--1 land, awaiting clear weather. The Lindberghs, flying one of the ’ most dangerous legs of their 7,000 • mile trip” from Washington, D. C. > to Tokio, were forced down among 1 the islands as dusk fell yesterday. I (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) o — Plan Ice Cream Social > The St. Peter's Lutheran church will sponsor an ice cream social on ■ Sunday night. August 23, at the : church lawn. Dialogues and singing i and music hy the Hoosier Eagles i will be features of the evening. The public is invited to attend.

OIL FAMINE IS NEARING sWELLS REMAIN CLOSED Two Large Producing States Remain Idle In Oil Fields SEEK DOLLAR BARREL PRICE Oklahoma City, Aug. 20.— (U.R) Refiners and distributors in some of the most pro-• ductive oil fields in the world [ were faced today with a rapidly approaching oil famine as the Governors of Texas anti Oklahoma remained firm in their determination to keep all wells closed under martial law until t|?ude oil goes up to a dollar a barrel. Protests and pleas of the oil men thus far have failed to alter the stand of the militant governors, William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray of Oklahoma, and Boss Shaw Sterling of Texas. Reports from throughout the vast oil regions were that the refiners and distributors were seriously considering a drastic upward trend in prices to bring about reopening of the wells. The Magnolia Petroleum, a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New York, the fourth largest buyer in the mid-contin-ent, was reported ready to post the Sl-a-litrrel price. When approximately 900.000 barrels of oil held from the market each day by the shutdown, stores (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) — o LABOR EMPLOYE FACES PRISON Girl Refuses To Depfcrt From Kentucky Minning Area Harlan, Ky. Aug. 20.—(U.R)—An atfrative 23/year-oid woman face Inga 20-year (sentence on a charge of criminal Syndicalism told the United Press today: “1 will stay in Harlan County Jail all my life before I'll J>e scared out of the coal field trouble." She is Mrs. Jesse Wakefield, field representative of the International Labor Defense. She lias been in jail fol two weeks. “Because I gave food to families of miners in jail, distributed literature for their cause and made speeches in Harlan, I was arrested and placed in jail, under SIO,OOO bonds —persecuted to satisfy the coal operators. “I never have advocated crime in any speech nor have I distributed any literature which advocated crime. The Sheriff said he would drop the charges against me if I would leave the county, but 1 can not run away. “The first warning I had that (CONTINUED ON P-GE THREE)

EMPLOYMENT SHOWS DECLINE Unemployment Gains In Indiana During July, New Census Shows Indianapolis, Aug. 20. —(U.R)— Employment In general was on a decline in Indiana during July, according to the current issue of the Indiana Business Review, prepared b|v the Indiana University Bureau of Business Research. x Seasonal declines were noted 1n retail store employment, whereas farm employment was high the report said. Building industry employment continued light, due it was explained, to the slightly more than normal down curve in business to a point 66.6 per cent under theoretical normal. “The Indiana Index indicates that trade and industry in Indiana during July was on a new low level (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

State, National Aad International Nevia

May Deport Convict Indianapolis Aug. 20 — (UP) — Nick Sudovich, Lake County, reputed slayer and member of the Capone gang, may lie released from the Indiana state prison and deported August 28, the date of the next meeting of the prison board of trustees. Sudovich, serving a term of two to 21 years: was convicted on a charge of killing Uron Marovicb, alleged rival racketeer. Although Sudovich's minimum sentence will not expire until uextt November Warden Walter Daly said the thrutees would consider his case at the meeting next week. The announcement followed re- , ports that Sudovich, while on a 30- ; day parole, attended a farewell i party at w’hich Al Capone was host. FRANCE’S GOLD SHOWS BIG GAIN Total Is 55 Per Cent Os Other Currency Os Entire Nation PParis, Aug. 20.—(U.R>—The Bank of France weekly gold total was announced today as standing at 58,558,000,000 francs, an increase of approximately 1,500,000 francs since the last statement. The proportion of gold as compared with outstanding later currency was 55.43 per cent. By Ralph Heinzen, UP Staff CCorrespondent Paris, Aug. 20. —(U.R)—I rode today by trolley through streets 15 fathoms under Paris, paved with gold, a greater fortune than Croesus ever dreamed of. It was no dazzling sight, not half so brilliant as the degroation of a [modern palace devoted to the speaking films, yet within an arm's I reach of the trackless trolley stood I piled most of the nearly 59,000,000,-1 000 francs which represents the bullion stores of the Bank of France. The bars, most of them with I Bank of England seals, do not glitter, nor do they shine, but stand in neat steel cases like so many books in a library. This great supply of gold, second largest in all the world's hisH tory, is more carefully guaded by ' ingenious merchanical protections than is any reigning king. A regiment of safe blowers could never ICONTINI ED ON PAGE TWO) GROWERS ASK CROP HOLIDAY • Government Asked To Sponsor World-Wide Cotton Holiday New Orleans, Aug. 20—(U.R) — [ The United States Government will be asked to sponsor an International one-year holiday for the cotton fields of the world, it was revealed today as mass meetings in the cotton country discussed a oneyear holiday in this country.

The plan will be presented to the Secretary of State at Washington by a delegation to be selected following expected adoption of the plan for an American cotton holiday by a conference here Friday. The delegation will leave for Washington immediately after that conference. The international holiday plan was revealed today by Governor Huey P. Long, ot Louisiana, the “Potlikker” Governor who suggested that American growers produce no cotton in 1932 as a means of reducing the world’s ootton supply, (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) o Loan Co. Will Meet The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Provident Building and Loan company will be held Monday evening August 31. at the office of Lenhart. Heller and Schurger in the Lamon building. The meeting will be for the purpose of electing new directors, amending the by-laws und articles of association and transacting other business. Henry B. Heller Is secretary of the company.

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Psi lota Xi Sorority Postpones Cake Walk Due to conflicting dates, the Psi lota Xi sorority wishes to announce that the “cake walk”, originally planned for Saturday evening has been postponed to a later date. o CUBAN TROOPS FAIL TO GAIN Federal Planes Unable to Make Headway Against Rebel Leaders 1 Miami, Fla., Aug. 20. —(U.R)— Failure of Cuban Government Air Force planes to make headway ( against the Rebels in the island | I republic was reported in uncensored private advices reaching , here today. ( Two Air Force commanders were reported badly wounded in flying ' over Rebel troops in Oriente Province, eastern Cuba. Capt. La Borde, former Cuban Military At- [ tache at Paris, was believed dead, a victim of Rebel marksmen. Captain Terry also was reported severely wounded. Both officers landed their bul- ’ let-riddled airplanes safely at Cam- ) acuey field. 1 Private commercial companies in Cuba were said to be aiding the government, converting their planes into bombers. Rebels in the mountains were declared to be doing much damage to government planes which have returned after attacks with their wings and bodies perforated by rifle fire. Transport planes flying between the United States and Cuba received notice to fly from 8.000 to 10,000 feet above Oriente Prov(CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) UNDERSTANDING CHIEF PROBLEM Washington Man Gives Talk at K. of C. Conclave’s Last Meet French Lick, Aug. 20. —(U.R) — The most setious problem faced by the Catholic church is the lack of understanding of its religion Monsignor James H. Ryan, Washington. told the 49th Annual Convention of the Supreme Council of Knights of Columbus here. This prol’lem, said Monsignor Ryan, President of the Catholic UniverI sity of America, is the “greatest enigma of the Catholic Church today.” To offset the lack of understanding, Monsignor Ryan urged crea--1 tion of "a band of scholars to overcome the inferiority complex of which we are often accused.” He recalled that four Popes had regarded a Catholic university as one ! of the Church’s greatest needs in America. Seven directors were reelected, 1 viz.: John L. Redlin, Denver; John I F. O'Neil, Jersey City, N. J., Fran-

> cis F. Matthews, Omaha; Dr. - Claude E. Brown. London, Ontario; I John F. Swift, Boston; Michael J. . Healy, Topeka, Kans., and James , Donahue, Chicago. Action on resolutions, and dis- , cussion of internal controversial matters were to bring the convention to a close today. ’ oMann Funeral Friday ! Funeral services for Elijah A. r Mann, life long resident of this city > who died of paralysis at his home . Wednesday afternoon, will be held > Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at - the home, 1003 North Tenth street, , and at two o’clock at the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. B. H. Franklin, pastor, who has been enjoying his vacation will return for the services and wil lofficiate. Burial will be in the Decatur Cemetery. o ; Bulletin 1 Quantico. Va., Aug. 20—(UP) — Major General Smedley Butler ? who won 2 congressional medals of f honor as a fighting marine applied ; to the navy department for retirement effective October 1. Butler is . commandant of the marine barracks here. He plans to live in Newtown Square, Philadelphia, Pa.

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LABOR CABINET FAILS TO SOLVE GRAVEPROBLEM Financial Crisis Feared Unless Satisfatory Plan Is Worked Out SNOWDEN MAY RESIGN POST By Keith Jones, UP Staff CorrespondentLondon, Aug. 20. — (U.R) — The labor government's efforts to solve Great Britain’s financial problems and balance the budget came close to failure today. Itwas feared unless a satisfactory plan could be worked out. a government crisis would result. Philip Snowden, chancellor of the exchequer, and financial genius of the socialists, was reported considering resigning if the government, as proposed changed, Britain’s traditional policy of free trade and imposes a 10 per cent tariff for revenue. The government presented its proposals to leaders of the conservaties and liberal parties. It was understood the two parties were not satisfied, feeling that not enough economies were proposed, but that instead, further taxation would result. In the afternoon. Premier J. Ramsay MacDonald and Snowden faced one of the most important decisions of their careers when they went to transport house to meet the representatives of the trades union congress and the national executive of the labor party on whose support everything impends. Snowden, who is ceronic invalid, entered supported on his wife's arm. The meeting lasted an hour and 15 minutes. After it was over MacDonald said to the press: "It is impossible to make a stateI ment at present.” -o Winkler Is Claimed By Nebraska Authorities Lansing Mich., 0 —(UP) — Gus Winkler, an associate of Fred (Killer) Burke, will be turned over to Nebraska authorities to face a charge of participating in a $2,800.000 robbery of the National Bank of Lincoln. Governor Wilbur M. Hrucken announced today. 0 __ _ Wolves Bother County Valparaiso, Aug. 20 —(UP) —James Silver. Washington, of the U. S. biological survey, will aid Porter County farmers next week in their fight against wolves and coyotes, which have causes heavy damage to livestock, it was announced today. ; o , Bulletin Washington Ai.g. 20—(UP) —The Danish steamship Frederik Sborg reported to the navy department today that it had been bombed and machine gunned by Cuban airplanes ’ while entering the harbor at Antilia, 1 Cuba.

TAX PAYERS I ; ELECT BLAKEY Union Township Members Hold Election Os Group Officers ’ John Blakey of Union township > was elected president of the Tax I payers Association of Union townt ship, Adams County, at an organi- . zation meeting held in the Kore • schoolhouse. Wednesday evening. . Other officers elected were Dallas • Spuller, vice-president, and Leslie r E. Omerod, secretary-treasurer. Committees appointed fqr the . year includes Membership committee. Simon Bleeke. William E. Bleeke, Martin Kruckeberg. Walter Bleeke and Erich Bleeke; Legislative committee. Arthur Blakey, L. r E. Omerod. and William Noll, f The Union township Taxpayers i association is affiliated with the ■ State Taxpayers association, and s many Union township farmers are b membets of the organization. The i next meeting will be held September 9 at the Kore schoolhouse.