Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1931 — Page 1

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RASTIC TAX ACTION IS

■LON TEXT EKS FOR RISE In all taxes ■oration. Personal In■ne Taxes Would fl Be Increased ■;ET GOES E TO CONGRESS ■hllillljoil. l)<-e ? 9. (U.R) ■u'<-i»'s.il to raise almost a year in a<l<litaxes bv reenacting ■xiniate'v the 1921 in- ■ revenue act for a twowas laid before b\ President Hoovhis budget message said this action is to maintain public conand the financial integrity ■ federal government. K&.hil.l provide that the tax definitely terminate July specifying details. Mr. said the 1924 law should with such changes .is appropriate in the light conditions. to the 1924 law would increase federal taxes I to bottom, with the heavon wealthy groups, but down to include thous-' ■f small income earners not r vive numerous stamp, taxes such as the 1924 ■vied on automobiles, jewel ■rrtaiii amusement places. ■ transactions and legal pa■ould raise the minimum In-' ■ax rate from 1% pqr cent to ' bent. Exemptions would be , kl from $1,500 to SI,OOO on i persons and from $3,500 to I ion married persons. The : mm surtax rate would be inti from 20 per cent on in-1 : of more than SIOO,OOO to al f to per cent on incomes of than $500,000. I cannot maintain public' ence nor stability of thei I government without undersome temporary tax inb.” President Hoover said budget message. “The plan ! proximately reenacting the ie ait of 1924 has the great age that the government is ed by experience with simi islation in for Its systematic eonomieal collection. Thej TINUED ON PAGE FIVE) —o HE CUT PLAN IS DISCUSSED Employes Represent* ves To Decide On Reduction Vote (ago. Dec. 9. (U.R)—Twenty-j ia h rs vested with the power I Kono union railway employes o a smoke-hazy room in the I ir House today to decide i er the railroads' proposal of Intary lu per cent wage cut; pcnif to a vote. their decision may depend er some $250,000,000 is clipfatly from the payrolls of the "ho piloted the locomotives be rail network of the nation, I the coal that drives them, he coaches and cabooses they repair them in the shops and the spikes that hold their I then In whose hands the detests are big men, their still carrying the tan of outlabor, for the most part. A Whose lives apparently have largely spent in union meet tod on convention platforms, TINUED ON PAGE TWO) O _ -udder Speaks Here Scudder, superintendent of ■ittntlngton city schools, gave Is’esting talk before the teachf the Decatur Schools at the ar monthly meeting, held tlay evening. He told of his ex bees and gave a report of the II Boys’ conference held at Ot- * anada, last June, p next teacher's meeting will W January 19, 1932.

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Pood Fellows Club * | The Delta which is again sponsoring the Go-id Fellow Club for the benefit of poor and unfortunate children, make an appeal to the p-ople of this city I who will have an enjoyable ChrM- | mas to share what they have with I the leas fortunate. Any amount may be donated, and the money boxas have been placed! at the Lose Restaurant, the Old i Adams County Bank, and the Dem-I ocrat of.ice. Contributions to date includePrevious total $56.13 I Mrs. Philip Carper jno j Friend r ,> _ , .50 Friend j ' r<ltal |57.M OREDGE CASE i ! IS RE-OPENED Local Attorneys Called to Court Today Instead of Thursday • There seems to have been a mis-1 I understanding about the time of li eopening the Wabash l iver trial. I | It was thought by local attorneys j j and officials that the case would I l not come up until tomorrow morn- | ing but Judge Kister and others in- | terested had the idea that court would reconvene this morning and ' it did. As a result of the mixup there was no heat at the K. of P. home j 'and this morning’s hearing was con-' i ducted, in the court room at the ' court house. Judge Kister was on the bench land Todd Whipple f Muncie rep-1 i resented the petitioners, examining 1 the only witness called. Homer) | Teeter, former surveyor of Jay I | county. Attorneys C. J. Lutz and, I H. B. Heller represented the re-! | monstratois. The session this mornI ing lasted only an hour or two. Lions Meet At Monroe The local Lions Club met in the I Monroe High School building Tues-) I day night for the regular meeting I of the organization. The ladies of i i the Monroe Methodist Episcopal | j church served the banquet, follow-! ■ ing which a musical program was ' ! presented. The Misses Dolores Longenberj ger and Helen Mitchell played a i piano duet and then sang a vocal I i duet. Miss Mitchell als > played a | violin selection, and Miss Jeanette Rich entertained with a selection j on the piano. A musical number on the bar-1 monica was played by Miss Roma-i nla Hanni. The program was in the I charge of Dr. Burt Mangold. .— _ 0 Choir To Sing Here The Vestic choir of th? Mount I Olivet Baptist Church of Fart Wayne will be at the First Baptist ' Church here next Sunday evening.; December 13, at .7 o’clock. This is the second visit of tlie ■ choir to Decatur, and those who heard it on its first appearance here, will anticipate the privilege of hearing the choir again. The public is cordially Invited to attend the progi am. o —- RITCHIE RAPS INTERFERENCE Says Meddling In Private Affairs by Government Should Stop Chicago, Dec. 9.—(U.R)—Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, democratic presidential possibility, today was committed to fight further' invasion by the government into private business enterprise. “I believe that botli economically and politically," the Governor tol d 1,500 Illinois Manufacturers’ Association members, "the sound objective is to oppose the invasion of government into private business and to put more faith in intelligent cooperation between the two." Ritchie cited the federal farm board as an “unhappy" though wellintended example of government interference. "What a pity," he said, “that it has taken a panic to show us that you cannot fit the farmer up by (CONTINUED CN PAGE SIX)

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INTERNATIONAL I BANKING PROBE BEING SOUGHT — Sen. Johnson Offers Resolution For Probe of Moratorium IS SURPRISE TO COLLEAGUES Washington, Dee. 9. (U.R) Ihe Hoover moratorium : dispute broke out in the seil- ; ate today with introduction bv Senator Johnson, Bepub- ! lican, California, of a resolution which would authorize ;an investigation of intrenational banking operation in the United States. Tlie resolution took some Re-! publican leaders by surprise. It , immediately indicated division in j tlie party on the moratorium proposition. Johnson said lie wanted quick action on the resolution because it is “essential to legisla-. tion soon to come before us." He meant the Hoover moratorium . proposal. Johnson hopes that with the investigation pending lie can persuade tlie senate to delay action on the moratorium. Delay would be tantamount to rejection because the Hoover plan must be in effect by December 15 to relieve | (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) Health Station Will Be Held Here Friday The Adams County Baby Health | Station will be held in the Decatur Public Library, Friday, December i 11 from 9 o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon. The station is conducted for the purpose of giving complete physical examinations to children under two years of age. Dr. Dorothy Teal and Miss Nancy Gibbs of the State ' Board of iHealth will be here and I | examine the children, also will give I | information on diedt or clothing, or ! any problems the mothers may j I have. The main purpose of the station | as stated in the slogan, is to “keep i well babies well.” All mothers of children under two i years of age in Adams County are , urged to bring their child.en to tlie I station to receive examinations. It I is especially hoped by those interj ested in the project, that mothers of children who have already been I examined at the station, will return i them to check up on their progress , and development. LOCAL YOUNG | MAN HONORED David Cramer Elected Business Manager of College Publication Indianapolis. Dec. 9 — David S. Cramer, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Cramer, of R. R. 3, Decatur. Ims been elected business manager of the 1932 Oracle, Indiana Central Collgee annual, published | by the Junior class. Mr. Cramer was elected from the junior class to this responsible I position. He is in charge of all business matters in regard to the publication. Cramer besides being connected with the Oracle staff, is assistant business manager of the Reflector, the schools bi-weekly newspaper. He is a member of the College Booster club, the Science club, Philomusea Literary society, and an apprentice in Alpha Psi Omega, the collegiate dramatic I society. Cramer Is a junior in the college and is persuing a B. S. degree. He expects to be graduated a year from this next June. o Health Bond Is Sold The Moose Lodge purchased a $5.00 health bdnd from the Adams

County Tuberculosis Association today, W. Guy Brown, secretary, announced.

tCNBISTAAAS . Z I GREETINGS i

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, December 9, 1931.

Powers on Way to Trial

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While his guards smiled broadly and joshed the camera-man, Harry Powers (left), West Virginia Bluebeard, maintained his stolid mask that, shewed neither curicsity nor fear, as, manacled, lie was led to theater in Clarksburg. W. Va„ where he is on trial for the murder of one of his five victims.

MASONS ELECT DAN H. TYNDALL All Officers of Local Lodge Are Re-elected For Next Year Dan H. Tyndall, was re-elected Master of the local Masonic lodge at the annual election of officer:; held at the Masonic hall Tuesday night. Mr. Tyndall was elected the first time as Master a year ago and will start his second year's term January 1. All other officers of the lodge were re-elected for another year with tlie exception of Dan Sprang, trustee, who was re-elected for a three-year term. Officers are: Robert Helm, senior warden; Floyd .Acker, junior warden; E. B. Adams, secretary; A. I). Suttles, treasurer. Other officers are appointed by the Master. Installation services for the officers will be held December 29, Mr. Tyndall announced today. SALARY GUTS ARE PROPOSED Bill In Congress at Present Would Cut Ali Employes’ Salaries Washington, Dec. 9—(U.R) — Ten per cent reduction in salaries of government employes is asked in a bill introduced by Rep. Robert F. Rich, Repn., Pa. Rich is a wealthy manufacturer, and a director in many banks and business concerns. He holds government employes have been a "favored class thus far" in escaping the depression. His bill would exempt from the salary cut all government servants appointed or elected for definite terms. This would include the president, members of congress and federal judges. Despite the exemption clause, Rich said he hoped the measure would be made to apply to every govern(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

Eighteen Rotarians (io To Bluffton For Meet Eighteen members of the Decatur Rotary chin attended the joint meeting of the Bluffton and Hartford City Rotary Clubs at Bluffton last evening. A dinner was served at the Bliss Hotel. John Beeson of Crawfordsville, district governor of Indiana Rotary, was the guest of honor and gave a short address at the meeting. Charles Poppe, Fort Wayne, group representative, also attended the meeting. GERMANY HAS PRICE FIXER Mass Meetings Banned as Drastic Laws Are Placed In Effect Berlin, Dee. 9. (U.R) Mass meetings were banned in Germany from today to Jan. 3 to avoid violence and possible bloodshed resulting from the latest and most drastic of the government’s emergency decrees. • The decree, tlie fourtli issued by President Paul von Hindenburg, affected the country's social and economic life to a greater extent than the three previous emergency measures. It lowered prices, wages, rents, and interest rates; it created a "price dictator;" it established a heavy levy against property of Germans who left the country to dodge taxes; and it warned Fascists (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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ROAD CREDITS FOR NEXT YEAR AREANNOUNCEDi Building Credits Total $267,637.26 For Twelve Townships INCREASES OVER 1931 Credits of $267,637.26 for road improvements in the 12 townships in Adams county tire available in 1932. according to the table prepared by County Auditor Albert Harlow. I'liis total exceeds the 1931 credit in the 12 townships. The credit available this vear was $201,1()7.9t>, but only a small part of that amount was expended on road improvements. The total road bond debt in the county on January 1, 1932, will be $513,661.90. Payments during the next year total $119,426.67. The credits available do not mean that road improvements to that amount will be made dining the year, the figure being the maximum which tlie townships could be bonded for. The law fixes the limit at two per cent of the valuation, previous bond indebtedness being deducted. Everyone of the 12 townships have a credit for next year. Jefferson township, with $4,684.93 has the smallest credit and Washington towpship with $59,808.33 has tiie largest. As the state board of tax commissioners have turned down a number of proposed bond issues this year, it is likely that the same attitude will be taken next year, j in view of the popular demand for: reduced taxes. The table showing the bonded debt, the amount to he paid, the | two per cent limit and the net | availaUle credit in the 12 town(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR) FARM BUREAU , IN CONVENTION) Leaders Study Policy For Association to Follow In Congress Chicago, Dec. 9 —(UP) —With the plea of secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde to stand by the federal farm board fresh in mind, the American farm bureau federation convention prepared today to vote i on the federation's policy in congress this winter. Chief among the resolutions to be passed on was the demand for the agriculture marketing act to include the equalization fee “or some other method whereby the cost of controlling crop surpluses would be borne by each unit of the commodity benefited." This resolution represented a compromise agreement among the fedeiation, the National Grange and and the Farmer’s union, each of (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) POWERS'TRIAL NEARS FINISH Mail Order Romeo On Trial For One of Five Alleged Murders Clarksburg, W. Va„ Dec. 9—(U.R) —The state today completed its case against Harry F. Powers, matrimonial agent accused' of luring Mrs. Dorothy Lemke to his concrete garage in Quiet Dell and killing her. Judge John C. Southern then Issued Instructions to the jury that they must consider only such evidence as related to Mrs. Dorothy Lemke, for whose slaying Powers is on trial and that they must ignore all evidence relating to-tlie family of Mrs. Asta Eicher! find her three children, whose 1 bodies were dug up witii that of Mrs. Lemke. Powers Is indicted for the mur(CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)

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SETS RECORD Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 9.— \ (U.R) Tlie contest of the two I j former wives of Robert Russell. ) ' Cedar Lake resort proprietor, i became a neck-and-neck affair j once more today. I | Mrs. Ollie Russell had an un- ' j disputed lead of one marriage [ ’ and one divorce until yester- ' day. Mrs. Mae Russell pulled | into the running again, however, when she and Russell ob- ! | tained their third license to I wed. I | Russell has now been married ' I | to Ollie three times, and divorc- | ed an equal number. His li- | cense to marry Mae a third j time brings in the latest epi- i | sode in his matrimonial ven- , tures with the two women Russell is 70 years old and | Mae is 54. ENTRIES BEGIN ARRIVING FOR BIG CORN SHOW Court House Corridor to House Annual Exhibit This Week CONTEST IS BIG FEATURE Entries in the Adams County Corn show were being made this afternoon and by 9 o'clock this evening it expected that all classes will be filled. The show is being held in the corridor of the Court House ■ There are four classes in I which farmers of Atlants county may enter corn samples. I They are Class A, 10 ear sample of early yellow corn; class B. 10 ear sample late yellow corn; class C, single ear yellow corn; class D, single ear late yellow corn. A corn shelling contest for men and boys is also arranged for Saturday evening and entries were also being made today for I that event. The early entries this afternoon ! in class A follow: Henry Dehner, | Jr., G. R. Bierly, G. R. Bierly, Jr., | Lawrence Heiman, Edward Heiman, John Heiman. Lewis Yake, Henry Aesehliman. Class B: Sol Mosser, Jr., Ardon Mosser, R. Weiland, Wilson Weiland. Fred Marbach, Lewis Yake, K'OV r vr’Pii ON D AOE TWO> o SANTA CLAUS BUSIEST TOWN Many Volunteer to Aid Postmaster at Indiana Village During Rush Santa Claus, Ind., Dec. 9 —(U.R) — A nation with a soft spot in its I heart for childrens' belief in Santa Claus responded to Saint Nicholas' plea for help today. Stirred by the request sent out through the United Press by Postmaster James F. Martin, the world’s “semi" official Santa | Claus, persons from states as far) east as the Atlantic ocean wrote Martin offering to assist in answerI ing childrens' letters. Tlie unselfish plea of the 6-year old boy who asked Santa for a ! doll for his baby sister “who never had one” brought numerous replies. One little girl in Bluffton. Ind., wrote to say that she had a doll, and would be glad to send it to the unfortunate sister. The spirit of motherhood showed through most of the letters. (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) BULLETIN -- Mrs. Mary Droege, wife of the late William Droege, died at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon at her home in Root township, 4 miles north of this city on state road 27. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lillian Schroeder of Allen county; Mrs. Olga Schmitt of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Frieda Auman of Adams county; Della, at home, and a son, Theodore, at home.

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HIGH INCOME TAX PROPOSED FOR FEW YEARS Administration Asks Cooperation In Effort To Whip Debt SUMMARY IS MADE PUBLIC By Raymond Clipper, UP. Staff Correspondent Washington, Dec. 9.—<U.R)— The administration laid before congress today the most rigorous peace-time tax increase program in history. Practically no one, rich or poor, would escape. President Hoover and Secretary of Treasury Mellon joined fervently in an appeal to the country to face this additional burden courageously, as a necessary sacrifice, imposed by the depression. The administration plan calls for doubling the number of incometaxpayers. It would levy special taxes on checks, telephone halls, telegraph messages, automobiles. radios, amusements down to tlie humblest motion picture show, and higher rates on postage, cigarettes and corporations. The administration hopes to raise $920,000,000 a year by new taxes. it proposed to begin them January 1 If possible and end them July 1, 1934. 1 Secretary Mellon forecast business improvement for 1932, but emphasized that depression meantime is causing the government to run behind billions of dollar; making emergency measures necessary. “We cannot maintain public confidence nor stability in tlie federal government without undertaking some temporary tax increases." said President Hoover in ills bud(CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE) q John Felty Injured John Felty, county assessor suffered an arm injury when the auto in which he was driving was struck by an automobile diiven by Dan Roop at the Intel section of the old and new state road 27 two miles soutli of Decatur Monday evening. The automobiles both wer? damaged. but Mr. Felty was the. only one to receive injuries. The'injuries, however, were regarded as slight. o — Dairy Inspector Here A representative of the milk and dairy inspection department of tlie state board of health visited in Adams county Tuesday. Dr. J. M. Miller, city and county health official announced today. Tlie Inspector told dairy operators of new rulings and requirements and gave them 30 days to meet the new requirements. An inspector will return in the next month to see tliat the improvements recommended are made, Dr. Miller said. Dr. Miller also urged all dairymen who have not received orders to communicate witii him at once. U. S. LEGATION WARNS JAPAN Continued Cut- off Os Radio Station Causes Warning Issuance Mukden, Manchuria, Dec. 9 — (UP)—The United States legation elite: ed another protest today with the Japanese military autorities against continued closing of the Mukden radio station. The protest, made critically at Peiping, pointed out tliat the station was constructed by Chang Hsueh-Liang. Mam h ian military dictator, In co-operation with the radio corporation of America anil provided the only direct communication with San Francisco. It has been assured by the Japanese foreign office, also tlie Japanese delegation to the league of Nations that the station would be reopened but it has been closed now for three months with no prosjux-t (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOUR)